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Perhaps the most defining moment of American history would be a war where friends and family were pitted against each other in deadly conflict to determine whether the Union should endure. Did states have the right to secede from the Union? Did the ideal of all men being “created equal” have meaning? Could a nation of free men and women also be a nation where men and women were considered property?
Follow the battles on sea and in the fields and in the towns of Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Missouri, Kansas, Mississippi, Georgia, North and South Carolina. Read the words of combatants. Understand from firsthand accounts the political wars raging throughout the halls of governments north and south.
From their journals, letters, articles, documents, orders, legislation, and more, discover the original voices of men and women of that time. Learn of their anxieties, beliefs, and how Americans could come to bring about more than 600,000 deaths – the deadliest war ever experienced by American fighting men.
Discover the real Lincoln, Jefferson, Lee, Grant, Jackson, Sherman, and common ordinary soldiers weighing in on what they saw, did, and experienced in this original source series by PowerThink Publishing, The Civil War, Volume 8.
Included Works:
Lincoln and Reconstruction by General John B. Gordon
Edward Baker's Reply to Breckenridge by Edward D. Baker
Lincoln's Inauguration by William H. Herndon
Secession as a Constitutional Right by Robert Toombs
Beauregard Reports the Fall of Fort Sumter by G. T. Beauregard
Grant Asks for a Commission in the Army by Ulysses S. Grant
The First Battle of Bull Run by Alexander H. Stephens and General Joseph E. Johnston
Bull Run as Seen Through Critical English Eyes by William Howard Russell
The Trent Affair by John Bigelow
Jefferson Davis' Farewell Address to the Senate by Jefferson Davis
Inaugural Address of Jefferson Davis by Jefferson Davis
Toombs on Resigning from the Senate by Toombs
Lincoln's Farewell Words in Springfield by Abraham Lincoln
The Siege and Capture of Fort Sumter by John Gray Foster
Lincoln and His Cabinet by Charles A. Dana
The Capture of Fort Donelson by Chicago Tribune
The Monitor and the Merrimac in Action by Charles Martin
The Battle of Shiloh by Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss
The Capture of New Orleans by David G. Farragut
The Peninsular Campaign by George B. McClellan
The Second Battle of Bull Run by Thomas Jonathan Jackson
Antietam by George B. McClellan
How the Emancipation Proclamation was Drafted by Francis C. Carpenter
Hooker Placed in Command of the Army of the Potomac by Abraham Lincoln
The Battle of Chancellorsville by Robert E. Lee
The Death of Stonewall Jackson by Mary Anna Jackson
Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg by La Salle Corbell Pickett
The Siege of Vicksburg by Ulysses S. Grant
The Battle of Chickamauga by George H. Thomas
Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge by George H. Thomas
The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 by Abraham Lincoln
The Battle of Gettysburg by Frank Aretas Haskell
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, 1863 by Abraham Lincoln
Proclamation of Amnesty by Abraham Lincoln
Lee and Grant in the Wilderness by Charles Anderson Dana
The Sinking of the "Alabama" by Captain Raphael Semmes
Sheridan's Ride from Winchester by Philip Henry Sheridan
Sherman's March to the Sea by General Sherman
Farragut in Mobile Bay by Admiral Farragut
Lincoln Reelected President by William H. Herndon
The Battle of Fredericksburg by Ambrose Everett Burnside
Lincoln's Letter to Mrs. Bixby, 1864 by Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865 by Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln's Last Words in Public by Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln's Presentiment on the Day of His Assassination by Charles Dickens
Assassination of Lincoln—Stanton's Official Announcement by Edwin Stanton
The Assassination of Lincoln by John George Nicolay and John Hay
The Death of Lincoln as Reported in the New York Tribune by New York Tribune
The Funeral of Lincoln by James G. Blaine
The Pursuit, Capture, Death and Burial of Booth by Ray Stannard Baker
Thomas Defeats Hood at Nashville by John Bell Hood
The Hampton Roads Conference by Alexander H. Stephens
The Evacuation and Fall of Richmond by Horace Greeley and Edward A. Pollard
The Last Stand of Lee's Army by John B. Gordon
The Surrender of Lee at Appomattox by Ulysses S. Grant
Davis's Flight from Richmond and Capture in Georgia by Jefferson Davis
The Disbanding of the Federal Army by James G. Blaine
Terms of Lee's Surrender at Appomattox by Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee
Lee's Farewell to His Army, 1865 by Robert E. Lee
General Grant Reviews Post-War Conditions in the South by Ulysses S. Grant
Robert E. Lee's Attitude After the War by Robert E. Lee
General Carl Schurz's Conclusion by Carl Schurz
Beecher's Speech in Liverpool by Beecher
The Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 1866 by Edward A. Pollard
Proclamation Declaring the Insurrection at an End by Andrew Johnson
Bonus: Includes a FREE download of the book in electronic format for use with your computer or Mobile device.
Reviews:
“This is pure history, without all the filters of contemporary interpretation. These books will be a welcome addition to the library of anyone who wants to better understand where America as come from--and where we should be now.”
-Jay A. Parry, author, The Real George Washington
My Father W. Cleon Skousen, author of The Five Thousand Year Leap, would call this must-have collection of original source documents nothing short of pure gold of the rarest kind. This resource would have spared him decades of clawing through untold stacks and volumes of materials during his research and writing years. He would have treasured these books for that very purpose, and joins me in highly recommending these volumes to scholars and casual readers alike; anyone looking for accurate answers to difficult questions about America, freedom, and our era of unprecedented prosperity.
-Paul Skousen, author, speaker, CIA analyst, and Reagan White House intelligence officer
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