Contents Publisher’s Note ....................................................................................................................................................................................vii Introduction............................................................................................................................................................................................ix Contributors .........................................................................................................................................................................................xii Maps....................................................................................................................................................................................................... xiii The Approaching Storm ............................................................................................................................1 Speeches for and against the Compromise of 1850......................................................................................................................... 3 Speech Against the Kansas-Nebraska Act by Abraham Lincoln at Peoria, IL, Oct. 16, 1854...............................................15 Dred Scott Decision, 1857....................................................................................................................................................................26 Abraham Lincoln's House Divided speech ..................................................................................................................................... 35 Lincoln-Douglas Debates, excerpts.................................................................................................................................................. 37 John Brown's Harpers Ferry Raid.....................................................................................................................................................44 Disunion: The Sectional Crisis ..............................................................................................................56 Cooper Union Address........................................................................................................................................................................65 Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address................................................................................................................................... 75 The Cornerstone of the Confederacy ............................................................................................................................................... 83 South Carolina convention.................................................................................................................................................................94 Jefferson Davis, Inaugural Address as president of Provisional Confederate Government.............................................. 103 The Politics of War .................................................................................................................................111 The Chicago Tribune: “Help from England” ......................................................................................................................................119 Special Message to Congress: Habeas Corpus............................................................................................................................. 129 Presidential Proclamations on Blockade and Commercial Trade No. 81, No. 82, and No. 86 ........................................... 131 Speech on the Trent Affair ..................................................................................................................................................................141 Habeas Corpus Suspension Act ...................................................................................................................................................... 152 General Orders No. 100: Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field....................... 162 Hard War............................................................................................................................................................................................... 171 Governor’s Message on the Suspension of Writ of Habeas Corpus to the General Assembly of North Carolina...............................173 President Abraham Lincoln’s Blind Memorandum .................................................................................................................... 182 Ex Parte Milligan .....................................................................................................................................................................................191 Jefferson Davis's address to Confederate Congress................................................................................................................... 200 Jefferson Davis, Inaugural Address as Elected President of Confederacy..............................................................................211 War Stories...............................................................................................................................................227 General Burnside’s Army and the Roanoke Island Freedmen’s Colony ................................................................................238 Captain Richard W. Burt on the Battle of Vicksburg................................................................................................................247 On Blockade Duty: Letters from a Lieutenant on the USS Gettysburg................................................................................ 249 “The Most Terrible Sight I Ever Saw”............................................................................................................................................259 Henry Sheperd's "Narrative of Prison Life"...................................................................................................................................278 The Home Front ......................................................................................................................................296 “Luxuries Have Been Given Up Long Ago”..................................................................................................................................305 The Military Hospitals in Washington.........................................................................................................................................307 “The Shadows Are Darkening . Jackson Is Certainly Dead” .................................................................................................316 The Draft Riots....................................................................................................................................................................................327 “There Has Been a Great Deal of Sickness in My Neighborhood” .......................................................................................... 337 Gettysburg Address ..........................................................................................................................................................................349 Reception to the Enlistment of Black Soldiers............................................................................................................................358 Abraham Lincoln’s Last Public Address........................................................................................................................................367 Walt Whitman: Military Hospitals ............................................................................................................................................... 375 Samuel Wilkeson: Details on Gettysburg.....................................................................................................................................384 Katherine Prescott Wormeley: Letters from Transport Nurse................................................................................................393 Eliza Andrews: Shattered Remains of Lee's Army..................................................................................................................... 402 Kate Stone: Conquered, Submission, Subjugation ......................................................................................................................411 The Destruction of Slavery .................................................................................................................. 420 The Confiscation Acts ...................................................................................................................................................................... 429 Treaty between the United States and Great Britain for the Suppression of the Slave Trade (Lyons-Seward Treaty of 1862) .......................................................................................................................................................438 The Emancipation Proclamation.....................................................................................................................................................447 War Department General Order 143..............................................................................................................................................456 General Sherman Interviews the Freedmen