DOCUMENTS
Diary Entries
Josiah Gorgas A Confederate Leader Contemplates War's End
Susan Sillers Darden Transitions From War: The Summer of 1865
Susan Sillers Darden Disorder and Distress: The Winter of 1865-1866
Susan Sillers Darden Politics -- Public and Private
Louisa A. H. Minor, "Troubled in mind about the servants"
Correspondence
George B. McClellan to Abraham Lincoln, 7 July 1862
James Longstreet to Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, 24 July 1863
Mrs. J. E. White to Irene ___, 13 May 1865
W. J. Robertson to Henry Taylor, 5 June 1865
Ann Falkener to Kemp P. Battle, 12 June 1865
J.W. Norwood to Kemp P Battle, 12 June 1865
Humphrey Dudley to Henry Taylor, 25 July 1865
Martha Ann Battle to Kemp P. Battle, 2 & 21 August 1865
Jourdon Anderson to My Old Master, 7 August 1865
Ann G. Thomas to Henry Taylor, 19 August 1865
James L. Alcorn to Amelia Alcorn, 26 August 1865
Judith P. W. Rives to William C. Rives, Jr., 28 September 1865
William Henry Redman to Emeline Redman, 5 November 1865
Robert W. Flournoy to Thaddeus Stevens, 20 November 1865
Judith P. W. Rives to William C. Rives, Jr., 15 January 1866
Thompson Powell to Thaddeus Stevens, 22 February 1866
Judith P. W. Rives to William C. Rives, Jr., 19 March 1867
E. Morris to Kemp P. Battle, 8 May 1867
Contracts and Agreements
The Indenture of Susan___, 19 August 1865
George Hannah's Contract with Freedmen, 30 December 1865
Speeches
Thaddeus Stevens Lancaster (Pa.) Speech, 6 September 1865
Mississippi Gov. Benjamin Humphreys's Message to the Legislature, Nov. 1865
Andrew Johnson, "Fellow Citizens of Cleveland," 3 September 1866
Andrew Johnson, "Fellow Citizens of Saint Louis," 8 September 1866
Henry W. Grady on "The New South", 21 December 1886
Henry W. Grady at the Boston Banquet, December 1889
Henry W. Grady before the Bay State Club, December 1889
Jubal Early, "The Campaigns of Gen. Robert E. Lee,"
Journalism and Memoir
James Longstreet's Account of the Campaign and Battle at Gettysburg
Greenville (Miss.) Times editorial, 15 March 1890
Party Platforms, Pronouncements, and Proposals
Revised and Amended Precept of the Ku Klux Klan, 1868
Instructions to Red Shirts in South Carolina, 1876
Congressional Investigations and Testimony
Legislation and Civil Decrees
The Emancipation Proclamation
Andrew Johnson, Amnesty Proclamation, 29 May 1865
Thirteenth Amendment
Andrew Johnson, Veto of the Freedmen's Bureau Bill, 19 February 1866
Fourteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
The Mississippi Plan of 1875
First Reconstruction Act, 2 March 1867
U. S. Supreme Court Decisions
Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
Williams v. State of Mississippi, 1898