Texts Related to the Civil War From the Modern English Collection at the Electronic Text Center

Anonymous

  Contract for indenture of Susan, a girl of five years August 19, 1865

Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900

 The Red Badge of Courage 1895

Davis, Jefferson

 Inaugural Address 1861

Dixon, Thomas

  The Leopard's Spots 1902

Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895

 Reconstruction 1866

Harrison, C. C.

 A Virginia Girl in the First Year of the War. 1885

Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943

 The Romance of the Civil War 1903

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

 Negro Spirituals

 Pay of Colored Troops 1864 December 8

Lincoln, Abraham

 Letter to the Secretary of War (August 18, 1862) 1862

 The Gettysburg Address 1922

 First Inaugural Address 1922

Page, Thomas Nelson

 Marse Chan; A Tale of Old Virginia 1881

Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906

  Abraham Lincoln : an essay 1891

Villard, Oswald Garrison

 The Negro in the Regular Army 1903

Washington, Booker T.

 Heroes in Black Skins September 1903

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892

 Complete Prose Works (1892) 1855-1892

 Leaves of Grass (1891-1892) 1855-1892

 Memoranda During the War 1875-1876