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Filed under: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865

Abraham Lincoln and the Union: A Chronicle of the Embattled North, by Nathaniel W. Stephenson (Gutenberg text)
Address by W. E. Poulson, Camp 8 U. C. V., to the Chicago Chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy (1906), by W. E. Poulson (multiple formats at archive.org)
Gettysburg Address, by Abraham Lincoln (multiple editions)
Address Delivered by Miss Mildred Lewis Rutherford, Historian General, United Daughters of the Confederacy: Wrongs of History Righted (1914), by Mildred Lewis Rutherford (multiple formats at archive.org)
The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'65, by Horace Greeley (page images at MOA)
America's Caesar (online edition), by Greg Loren Durand (HTML at americasceasar.com)
The Battle-Pieces of Herman Melville (New York et al.: T. Yoseloff, c1963), by Herman Melville, ed. by Hennig Cohen (page images at HathiTrust)
Catholics and the Civil War: Essays (Milwaukee, 1945), by Benjamin J. Blied, contrib. by Peter Leo Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
A Complete History of the Great Rebellion, or, The Civil War in the United States, 1861-1865 (New York: Hurst and o., c1866), by James Moore (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Conflict of Truth: A Sermon Preached in the First Presbyterian Church, Camden, N.J. April 30, 1865 (Camden, NJ.: S. Chew, 1865), by V. D. Reed (HTML and page images at Emory)
The Correspondence Between the Commissioners of the State of So. Ca. to the Government at Washington and the President of the United States Together with the Statement of Messrs. Miles and Keitt (Charleston, SC: Evans and Cogswell, 1861), by South Carolina Convention (1860-1862)
- HTML and TEI at UNC
- multiple formats at archive.org
Dixie (1903), by United Daughters of the Confederacy Dixie Chapter No. 395 (multiple formats at archive.org)
Facts and Falsehoods Concerning the War on the South, 1861-1865 (by "George Edmonds"; Memphis: A. R. Taylor and Co., c1904), by Elizabeth Avery Meriwether
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Free Masonry and the War (Richmond: Chas. H. Wynne, 1865), by Freemasons Grand Lodge of Virginia (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863), by Henry Ward Beecher (page images at MOA)
The Heritage of the Civil War (New York: Workers Age Publishing Assocation, ca. 1932), by Will Herberg (PDF with rotated pages at archive.org)
Heroism of the Rank and File: Eulogy, Pronounced at the Memorial Service of Post Sumner, no. 24, and Post Winthrop, no. 28, G.A.R., May 31, 1868, in Commemoration of the Union Soldiers Slain in the War for Our Union, by A. J. H. Duganne (multiple formats at archive.org)
History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917), by James Ford Rhodes (HTML at Bartleby)
The History of the Civil War in the United States: Its Cause, Origin, Progress and Conclusion (Jones Brothers, Zeigler, McCurdy and Co. edition, 1865), by Samuel M. Smucker and L. P. Brockett (page images at MOA)
History of the Great Rebellion, by Thomas Prentice Kettell (page images at MOA)
Karl Marx and the Civil War; A Rejuvenation of Has-Beens; The Completeness of the Sweep (People's pocket series #162; Girard, KS: Appeal to Reason, ca. 1921), by Hermann Schlüter and Henry M. Tichenor (multiple formats at archive.org)
Life on the Old Plantation in Ante-Bellum Days, or, A Story Based on Facts (1911), by I. E. Lowery (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, by William T. Sherman (Gutenberg text)
Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, by Jacob D. Cox
- volume 1: Gutenberg text
- volume 2: Gutenberg text
National Sermons: Sermons, Speeches and Letters on Slavery and Its War, by Gilbert Haven (page images at MOA)
Our Triumph and Our New Duties, by Cortlandt Parker (page images at MOA)
The Photographic History of the Civil War, in Ten Volumes (New York: The Review of Reviews Co., 1911), ed. by Francis Trevelyan Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
The Rebellion in the United States, or, The War of 1861: Being a Complete History of Its Rise and Progress, Commencing with the Presidential Election (2 volumes, possibly from slightly different editions; 1862-63), by Jennett Blakeslee Frost (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
The Record of Hon. C. L. Vallandigham on Abolition, the Union, and the Civil War (Cincinnati: J. Walter and Co., 1863), by Clement L. Vallandigham (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (2 volumes; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1881), by Jefferson Davis
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
Sermons on Recent National Victories, and the National Sorrow, by Edward Payson Powell (page images at MOA)
Sermons on Slavery and the Civil War (page images at MOA)
A Short History of the Confederate States of America (New York: Belford Co., 1890), by Jefferson Davis (multiple formats at archive.org)
Speech of Hon. George A. Gordon, of Chatham, on the Constitutionality of the Conscription Laws, Passed by the Congress of the Confederate States, by George Anderson Gordon (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Speech of Hon. William A. Graham, of Orange, In the Convention of North-Carolina, Dec. 7th, 1861, on the Ordinance Concerning Test Oaths and Sedition, by William A. Graham (HTML and TEI at UNC)
The Spirit of the South Towards Northern Freemen and Soldiers Defending the American Flag Against Traitors of the Deepest Dye, by William Lloyd Garrison (page images at MOA)
The Uprising of a Great People: The United States in 1861; To Which is Added, A Word of Peace on the Difference Between England and the United States (new American edition from the author's revised edition, 1862), by Agénor Gasparin, trans. by Mary L. Booth (Gutenberg text)

Filed under: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans

A Narrative of the Negro (1912), by Leila Amos Pendleton (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
The Negro in the American Rebellion: His Heroism and his Fidelity, by William Wells Brown (page images at MOA)
Old Plantation Days (1902), by William Mallory (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
Reminiscences of My Life in Camp With the 33d United States Colored Troops, Late 1st S.C. Volunteers, by Susie King Taylor (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
Two Diaries from Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February-May, 1865, by Susan R. Jervey and Charlotte St. J. Ravenel (HTML and TEI at UNC)

Filed under: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Almanacs

The Confederate States Almanac for the Year of Our Lord 1862 (Nashville: Southern Methodist Publishing House, 1862), ed. by Thomas O. Summers (HTML and TEI at UNC)

Filed under: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Anecdotes

History of the Life of Rev. Wm. Mack Lee, Body Servant of General Robert E. Lee, by William Mack Lee (HTML and TEI at UNC)
"Our Women in the War": The Lives They Lived; the Deaths They Died: From The Weekly News and Courier, Charleston, S. C. (1885) (PDF at Case Western)
The Pictorial Book of Anecdotes and Incidents of the War of the Rebellion, by Richard Miller Devens (page images at MOA)
The Soldier's Bible, by William W. Crumly (HTML and TEI at UNC)
War-Time Sketches, Historical and Otherwise, by Adelaide Stuary Dimitry (HTML and TEI at UNC)

Filed under: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Art and the war

Historical Sketch Explanatory of Memorial or Certificate of Membership in the U.C.V.'s (ca. 1897), by United Confederate Veterans (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Battlefields

The South: A Tour of Its Battle-Fields and Ruined Cities, a Journey Through the Desolated States, and Talks With the People, by J. T. Trowbridge (page images at MOA)

Filed under: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography

Captains of the Civil War: A Chronicle of the Blue and Gray, by William Charles Henry Wood (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Men of Our Day (Philadelphia et al.: Ziegler and McCurdy, c1872), by L. P. Brockett (multiple formats at archive.org)
Men of Our Day (from the 1872 edition; preface and other supplementary material omitted), by L. P. Brockett (HTML with commentary at all-biographies.com)
Men of our Times: or, Leading Patriots of the Day (Hartford: Hartford Pub. Co; et al., 1868), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
Woman's Work in the Civil War: A Record of Heroism, Patriotism and Patience, by L. P. Brockett and Mary C. Vaughan (page images at MOA)
Women of the War: Their Heroism and Self-Sacrifice, by Frank Moore (page images at MOA)

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