Lincoln, Abraham (Holzer, Harold ed.)
The Lincoln anthology: great writers on his life and legacy from 1860 to now
E457 .L56 2009
Lincoln, Abraham
Speeches and writings, 1832-1858: speeches, letters, and miscellaneous writings, the Lincoln-Douglas debates
E 457.92 1989
Lincoln, Abraham
Speeches and writings, 1859-1865: speeches, letters, and miscellaneous writings, presidential messages and proclamations
E 457.92 1989b
Calhoun, John C. and others. (Coit, Margaret L.)
John C. Calhoun
E340.C15 C62
Writings by John C. Calhoun and about him by his contemporaries.
Featherstonhaugh, George William
Excursion through the slave States, from Washington on the Potomac to the frontier of Mexico; with sketches of popular manners and geological notices
F213 .F27 1968
George William Featherstonhaugh (1780-1866)
Lowell, James Russell
Political essays
E415.7. L91
James Russell Lowell (1819 – 1891) was a diplomat, and editor, a professor, and a critic of literature and politics. Among other things, he was the first editor of the Atlantic Monthly when it was established in 1857, and helped Rutherford B. Hayes get elected president in 1876.
Olmsted, Frederick Law (Schlesinger, Arthur M. ed.)
The Cotton Kingdom; a traveller's observations on cotton and slavery in the American slave States.
F213 .O53 1953 [1861]
Polk, James K. (Nevins, Allan, ed.)
Polk; the diary of a president, 1845-1849, covering the Mexican War, the acquisition of Oregon, and the conquest of California and the Southwest
E416 .P77 1968
Beatty, John (Ford, Harvey S. ed.)
Memoirs of a volunteer, 1861-1863, by John Beatty
E601 .B36 1946
As an e-book: Memoirs of a volunteer
Cadwallader, Sylvanus (Thomas, Benjamin P. ed.)
Three years with Grant, as recalled by war correspondent Sylvanus Cadwallader
E470 .C14 1955
Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller (Ben Ames Williams, ed.)
A diary from Dixie
E487 .C52 1949 [1905]
Davis, Jefferson
The rise and fall of the Confederate Government
E487 .D263 1958 2 Vols.
Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was the president of the Confederacy during its entire history.
Fremantle, James Arthur Lyon (Lord, Walter ed.)
The Fremantle diary: being the journal of Lieutenant Colonel James Arthur Lyon Fremantle, Coldstream Guards, on his three months in the Southern States
E487 .F863 1954
Grant, Ulysses S.
Memoirs and selected letters: personal memoirs of U.S. Grant, selected letters 1839-1865
E 660 .G7562 1990
As an e-book in two volumes:
Volume 1
Volume 2
Kean, Robert Garlick Kean (Younger, Edward ed.)
Inside the Confederate Government; the diary of Robert Garlick Hill Kean, head of the Bureau of War
E487 .K4 1957
LeConte, Emma (Earl Schenck Miers Ed.)
When the world ended; diary
E577 .L4 1957
On the Web
Emma Florence LeConte (1847-1932) describes the last days of the Civil War, including an account of General Sherman's march through and burning of Columbia, South Carolina on February 18, 1865.
Lee, Robert E. (A. L. Long and Marcus J. Wright, eds.)
Memoirs of Robert E. Lee: his military and personal history...
E467.1.L4 L9 1887
Putnam, George Haven
A prisoner of war in Virginia 1864-5
E611 .P98 1912 [1910]
Sheridan, Philip Henry
Personal memoirs of P.H. Sheridan
Volume 1
Volume 2
Online 1999
Philip Henry Sheridan (1831-1888)
Sherman, William Tecumseh
Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman
E 467.1 .S55 A3 1990
As an e-book in two volumes:
Volume 1
Volume 2
Wainwright, Charles S. (Nevins, Allan ed.)
A diary of battle; the personal journals of Colonel Charles S. Wainwright, 1861-1865
E470 .W3 1962
Campbell, Robert, b. 1844 (George Skoch and Mark W. Perkins, eds.)
Lone Star Confederate: a gallant and good soldier of the 5th Texas Infantry
Online 2003
Hotze, Henry (Lonnie A. Burnett ed.)
Henry Hotze, Confederate propagandist: selected writings on revolution, recognition, and race
online 2008
Henry Hotze (1833-1887)
Keiley, Anthony M.
In vinculis: or, The prisoner of war. Being, the experience of a Rebel in two federal pens, interspersed with reminiscences of the late war; anecdotes of southern generals, etc. By a Virginia Confederate
Online 1866 [1865]
Anthony M. Keiley (1835-1905)
McClellan, William Cowan (John C. Carter, ed.)
Welcome the hour of conflict: William Cowan McClellan and the 9th Alabama
Online 2007
William Cowan McClellan (1839-1869)
Miller, George Knox (Richard M. McMurry, ed.)
An uncompromising secessionist: the Civil War of George Knox Miller, Eighth (Wade's) Confederate Cavalry
Online 2007
George Knox Miller (1836-1916)
Simpson, Richard Wright (Guy R. Everson and Edward H. Simpson, Jr. Eds.)
Far, far from home: the wartime letters of Dick and Tally Simpson, Third South Carolina Volunteers
Online 1994
Richard Wright Simpson (1840-1912)
Shenton, James P. Ed.
The Reconstruction; a documentary history of the South after the war: 1865-1877
E668 .S543 1963
Somers, Robert
The Southern States since the war, 1870-71
F216 .S69 1965
Robert Somers (1822-1891)
Ball, Charles
Fifty years in chains; or, The life of an American slave
E444 .B18 1971 [1859]
Douglass, Frederick
Autobiographies
E449.D749 1994b
Includes Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, My Bondage and My Freedom, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.
Garrison, William Lloyd (Nelson, Truman, ed.)
Documents of upheaval; selections from William Lloyd Garrison's the Liberator, 1831-1865
E449 .L68 1966
Garrison, William Lloyd
Selections from the writings and speeches
E449 .G22 1968 [1852]
Helper, Hinton Rowan
The Impending Crisis of the South
E449 .H4835
Published in 1857, Helper criticized the institution of slavery as a handicap to Southern economic development and industrialization.
McKitrick, Eric L. Ed.
Slavery defended: the views of the Old South
E449 .M16 1963
Excerpts from contemporary defenders of slavery, such as John C. Calhoun, George Fitzhugh, and Edmund Ruffin.
Paulding, James Kirke
Slavery in the United States
E449 .P33 1968 [1836]
Ruchames, Louis ed.
The abolitionists; a collection of their
writings
E449 .R88 1963
Slave Narratives
E444 .S56 2000
Includes narratives from Nat Turner, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and more.
Smith, James Lindsay
Autobiography of James L. Smith: including also, reminiscences of slave life, recollections of the war, education of freedmen, causes of the exodus, etc.
E444 .S65 1976 [1881]
Steward, Austin
Twenty-two years a slave, and forty years a free man
E444 .S845 1968 [c1856]
Originally published in 1856, Steward gives an account of his years as president of the Wilberforce Colony in Canada for free blacks. Steward died in 1860.
Ward, Samuel Ringgold
Autobiography of a fugitive Negro
E449 .W27 1968 [1855]
Washington, Booker T.
Up from slavery
E185.97.W3 1902 [c1900]
The autobiography of Booker T. Washington. The book accounts his life as a slave to his work establishing the well-know Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, a vocational training school for blacks and other minorities.
As an ebook: Up from Slavery
On the Web: Up from slavery