The Civil War archive: the history of the Civil War in documents

  • Creator: edited by Henry Steele Commager ; revised and expanded by Erik Bruun.

The full story of the war is told by those who experienced it in this collection of documents from family records, private correspondence, public archives and other sources, arranged chronologically to provide a start-to-finish narrative of the war and its aftermath.

  • OCLC #: 43598988
  • ISBN #:
    • 1579121101
    • 9781579121105
  • Call #: E464.C45 2000
  • Physical Location: Pritzker Military Museum & Library — Staff Office-402 — E464 .C45 2000
  • Personal Collection:
    • The Norman Kuperman Military History Collection.
  • Publisher: New York : Black Dog & Leventhal : Distributed by Workman Pub. Co., ©2000.
  • Physical Description: 854 pages : maps ; 29 cm
  • General Notes:
    • Revised edition of: The Blue and the Gray. 1950.
    • Rev. ed. of: The Blue and the Gray. 1950.
  • Contents:
    • Preface / Erik Bruun --
    • Foreword / Douglas Southall Freeman --
    • Introduction / Henry Steele Commager --
    • Darkening Clouds --
    • Abraham Lincoln Is Nominated in the Wigwam / Murat Halstead --
    • "First Gallant South Carolina Nobly Made the Stand" --
    • South Carolina Ordinance of Secession --
    • South Carolina Declaration of Causes of Secession --
    • "She Has Left Us in Passion and Pride" / Oliver Wendell Holmes --
    • Lincoln Refuses to Compromise on Slavery / Abraham Lincoln --
    • Letter to E.B. Washburne --
    • Letter to James T. Hale --
    • Letter to W.H. Seward --
    • Mayor Fernando Wood Recommends the Secession of New York / Fernando Wood --
    • Lincoln Is Inaugurated --
    • Herndon Describes the Inauguration / William H. Herndon --
    • The Public Man Attends the Inauguration --
    • "We Are Not Enemies But Friends" / Abraham Lincoln --
    • Mr. Lincoln Hammers Out a Cabinet / Thurlow Weed --
    • Seward Tries to Take Charge of the Lincoln Administration --
    • Memorandum from Secretary Seward / W.H. Seward --
    • Reply to Secretary Seward's Memorandum / Abraham Lincoln --
    • The Confederacy Organizes at Montgomery / T.C. DeLeon --
    • Constitution of the Confederate States of America --
    • A War Clerk Describes Davis and His Cabinet / J.B. Jones --
    • Sam Houston Refuses to Go with His State / Sam Houston --
    • Inaugural Address of Jefferson Davis / Jefferson Davis --
    • The Conflict Precipitated --
    • Mrs. Chesnut Watches the Attack on Fort Sumter / Mary Boykin Chesnut --
    • Abner Doubleday Defends Fort Sumter / Abner Doubleday --
    • "The Heather Is on Fire."
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