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The American War: Its Origin, Cause and Probable Results, Considered Specially With Regard to Slavery (Dunedin, NZ: J. Mackay, 1863), by Thomas Halliwell (PDF in Australia)
Chronicles of the Great Rebellion, From the Beginning of the Same Until the Fall of Vicksburg (14th edition; Cincinnati: C. F. Vent and Co., 1864), by Allen M. Scott
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
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)
No Party Now, But All for Our Country (Loyal Publication Society #16; New York: C.S. Westcott and Co. printers, 1863), by Francis Lieber
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Secession in Switzerland and in the United States Compared: Being the Annual Address, Delivered Oct. 20th, 1863, Before the Vermont State Historical Society, in the Hall of Representatives, Capitol, Montpelier (Catskill: J. Joesbury, printer, 1864), by J. Watts De Peyster
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
"The State of the Country": An Oration Delivered at Buffalo, July 4th, 1862, by Walter Clarke, D.D. (Buffalo: Breed, Butler and Co., 1862), by Walter Clarke
- multiple formats at archive.org
- 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 Co., c1866), by James Moore (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates (New York: E. B. Treat and Co.; et al., 1866), by Edward A. Pollard
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Chronicles of the Great Rebellion (26th edition; Cincinnati: C. F. Vent and Co.; Philadelphia: Zeigler, McCurdy and Co., 1868), by Allen M. Scott (multiple formats at archive.org)
Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War in the United States of America (3 volumes; Hartford: T. Belknap, 1868), by Benson J. Lossing
- Volume I (undated, possibly not from 1868): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
"To Restore Our Glorious Union": Portsmouth and the Civil War (exhibition catalog; Portsmouth, NH: Portsmouth Athenaeum, ca. 2000), by Richard G. Adams and John N. Ockerbloom (page images at Scribd)
Fire From Magnolia (c1952), by C. C. Pinckney (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The American War Considered Specially With Regard to Slavery, Part II (later followup to 1863 essay; Dunedin, NZ: G. Watson, 1865), by Thomas Halliwell (PDF in Australia)
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
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
- HTML at Emory
How a Free People Conduct a Long War: A Chapter from English History (Philadelphia: W. S. and A. Martien, 1863), by Charles J. Stillé
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
How to Prosecute and How to End the War: Speech of Maj.-Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, at the Academy of Music, Thursday Evening, April 2, 1863 (Tribune War Tracts #2; 1863), by Benjamin F. Butler
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
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 Trial of the Constitution (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott and Co.; London: Sampson Low, Son, and Co., 1862), by Sidney George Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
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)
Military Reminiscences of the Civil War (2 volumes; New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1900), by Jacob D. Cox
- Volume I (April 1861 - November 1863): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II (November 1863 - June 1865): multiple formats at archive.org
- both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
The Civil War and Reconstruction (Boston et al.: D. C. Heath and Co., c1937), by J. G. Randall (page images at HathiTrust)
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
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)
The Heritage of the Civil War (New York: Workers Age Publishing Association, ca. 1932), by Will Herberg
- PDF at flvc.org
- multiple formats at archive.org
Abraham Lincoln and the Abolition of Slavery in the United States (New York: H. M. Caldwell Co., c1879), by Charles Godfrey Leland (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
The History of The Confederate War, Its Causes and Its Conduct: A Narrative and Critical History (2 volumes; New York: Sturgis and Walton Co., 1910), by George Cary Eggleston
- Volume I: multiple formats at Indiana
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
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)
Ben Butler: The South Called Him Beast! (New York: Twayne Publishers, c1957), by Hans L. Trefousse (page images at HathiTrust)
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)
Abraham Lincoln and the Union: A Chronicle of the Embattled North, by Nathaniel W. Stephenson (Gutenberg text)
Address of General Julian S. Carr: "The Confederate Soldier", Reunion, Richmond, Va. , June 2, 1915, by Julian Shakespeare Carr (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)
History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917), by James Ford Rhodes (HTML at Bartleby)
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)
Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, by Jacob D. Cox
- volume 1: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
- volume 2: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
National Sermons: Sermons, Speeches and Letters on Slavery and Its War, by Gilbert Haven (page images at MOA)
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 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)
Memoirs of General William T. Sherman (second edition, 2 volumes; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1889), by William T. Sherman
- both volumes: Gutenberg text
- both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865 (Albany, NY: Albany Pub. Co., 1889), by William F. Fox (multiple formats at archive.org)
Address at the Dedication of The Monument to the Confederate Dead, University of Virginia, June 7, 1893 (Richmond, VA: Taylor and Taylor, printers, 1893), by Robert Stiles (page images at HathiTrust)
Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863), by Henry Ward Beecher (page images at MOA)
Northern Interests And Southern Independence: A Plea For United Action (Philadelphia: W. S. and A. Martien, 1863), by Charles J. Stillé
- 50-page edition (with slightly more text than in 49-page edition): page images at HathiTrust
- 49-page edition: multiple formats at archive.org
Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the Navy of the Confederate States, to January 1, 1863 (Richmond, VA: Macfarlane and Fergusson, 1862), by Confederate States of America Navy
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Slavery and the War: A Historical Essay (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1863), by Henry Darling
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
- page images at MOA
Speeches and Papers Relating to the Rebellion and the Overthrow of Slavery (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1867), by George S. Boutwell
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Who Was the Rebel, the Traitor: The Trans-Susquehanna Man or the Cis-Susquehanna Man? An Oration Delivered by the Rev. James Battle Avirett (ca. 1897), by James B. Avirett
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Dixie (1903), by United Daughters of the Confederacy Dixie Chapter No. 395 (multiple formats at archive.org)
Gettysburg Address, by Abraham Lincoln (multiple editions)
The Second Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1865 (Peoria, IL: E. J. Jacob, c1934), by Abraham Lincoln, ed. by M. L. Houser, illust. by Thomas Johnson
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
The Battle-Pieces of Herman Melville (New York et al.: T. Yoseloff, c1963), by Herman Melville, ed. by Hennig Cohen (page images at HathiTrust)
Lee and His Cause: or, The Why and the How of The War Between The States (New York and Washington: Neale Pub. Co., 1907), by John R. Deering
- illustrated HTML at Lee Family Digital Archive
- multiple formats at archive.org
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government ("abridged for the modern reader", with added preface; New York: Collier Books, 1961), by Jefferson Davis, contrib. by Earl Schenck Miers (page images at HathiTrust)
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
- Volume II: Gutenberg text
- both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865 (VFW Americanization Department pamphlet, ca. 1919), by Abraham Lincoln (multiple formats at archive.org)
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
Free Masonry and the War: Report of the Committee Under the Resolutions of 1862, Grand Lodge of Virginia in Reference to our Relations as Masonic Bodies and as Masons, in the North and South, Growing Out of the Manner in which the Present War has been Prosecuted (Richmond: Chas. H. Wynne, 1865), by Freemasons Grand Lodge of Virginia
- HTML and TEI at UNC
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
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)
Our Triumph and Our New Duties, by Cortlandt Parker (page images at MOA)
Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the Navy of the Confederate States, to January 1, 1864 (Richmond, VA: Macfarlane and Fergusson, printers, 1864), by Confederate States of America Navy
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
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)
U. D. C. Catechism of South Carolina Confederate History (revised and enlarged edition, 1923), by United Daughters of the Confederacy South Carolina Division
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
A Short History of the Confederate States of America (New York: Belford Co., 1890), by Jefferson Davis
- multiple formats at archive.org
- 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)
Officers in the Confederate States Navy, 1861-65 (office memoranda #8; Washington: GPO, 1898), by United States Naval War Records Office
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (United Daughters of the Confederacy memorial edition; 2 volumes; Richmond, VA: Garrett and Massie, ca. 1938), by Jefferson Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
Lincoln in the Telegraph Office: Recollections of the United States Military Telegraph Corps During the Civil War (New York: The Century Co., 1907), by David Homer Bates
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Gouverneur Kemble Warren: The Life and Letters of an American Soldier, 1830-1882 (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1932), by Emerson Gifford Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1912), by Jefferson Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
Jefferson Davis, President of the South (New York: Macmillan, 1923), by H. J. Eckenrode
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Confederate Hand-Book: A Compilation of Important Data and Other Interesting and Valuable Matter Relating to the War Between the States, 1861-1865 (New Orleans, c1900), ed. by Robert C. Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
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)
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)

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