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Election to Inauguration
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Distribution of Slavery in the Southern States
PDF (3.08MB)
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PDF (1.5MB)
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PDF (3.91MB)
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PDF (3.91MB)
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President and Vice President of the Confederate States of America
PDF (3.91MB)
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President and Vice President of the Confederate States of America
PDF (8.11MB)
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Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
PDF (789KB)
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PDF (3.91MB)
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President and Vice President of the Confederate States of America
PDF (3.91MB)
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The first flag of independence raised in the South, by the citizens of Savannah, Ga. November 8th, 1860
PDF (1.5MB)
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The Palmetto State Song
PDF (3.91MB)
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The dis-united states
PDF (1.5MB)
Ft. Sumter and the War Begins
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PDF (5MB)
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PDF (6.7MB)
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Hoisting the U.S. Flag at Fort Sumter
PDF (6.7MB)
Maps
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Distribution of Slavery in the Southern States
PDF (3.08MB)
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PDF (992KB)
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Forts Around Washington DC
PDF (4.89MB)
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PDF (2.73MB)
Technology - Mr. Lincoln's High Tech War
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PDF (7.37MB)
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Left-Handed Penmanship Contest
PDF (7.37MB)
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Lee's "Lost Orders" and McClellan's Wasted Opportunity
PDF (7.37MB)
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PDF (7.78MB)
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Lloyd's American railroad map, showing the whole seat of the war.
PDF (7.78MB)
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PDF (7.78MB)
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PDF (2.65MB)
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PDF (2.65MB)
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PDF (2.65MB)
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Telegram from balloon—Thaddeus S. C. Lowe to Abraham Lincoln
PDF (6.28MB)
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Fair Oaks, Virginia. Prof. Thaddeus S. Lowe replenishing balloon INTREPID from balloon CONSTITUTION
PDF (6.28MB)
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Professor Lowe's military balloon near Gaines Mill, Virginia
PDF (6.28MB)
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Prof. T. Lowe making a balloon ascension on a reconnoitering expedition to Vienna, Va.
PDF (6.28MB)
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Professor Lowe in his balloon
PDF (6.28MB)
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Professor Lowe's military balloon near Gaines Mill, Virginia
PDF (6.28MB)
Money
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PDF (6.3MB)
Emancipation
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First Draft of the Emancipation Proclamation
PDF (269 KB)
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Emancipation Proclamation (preliminary version)
PDF (830 KB)
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Photograph copy of President Abraham Lincoln's draft of the final Emancipation Proclamation
PDF (793 KB)
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Letter in which Lincoln explains choices
PDF (463 KB)
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Emancipation Proclamation; January 1, 1863 (external link)
PDF (38 KB)
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The first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before the cabinet
PDF (737 KB)
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Abraham Lincoln and his Emancipation Proclamation
PDF (230 KB)
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President Lincoln, writing the Proclamation of Freedom. January 1st, 1863
PDF (162 KB)
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PDF (146 KB)
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A Southern View
PDF (148 KB)
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An arrival in Camp—under the Proclamation of Emancipation
PDF (137 KB)
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PDF (11.51MB)
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A Member of the 54th Massachusetts
PDF (11.51MB)
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PDF (11.51MB)
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Union and Emancipation for a Common Cause
PDF (11.51MB)
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Forever Free
PDF (11.51MB)
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PDF (11.51MB)