NUCMC and the Documentary Heritage of the Civil War

This Web presentation is part of a five year/five part effort to highlight program cataloging of the last quarter century, along with related visual content, in observance of the sesquicentennial of the Civil War.

Part 1, 2011 ("A Southern Confederacy will be Formed!") is presented below. Succeeding years will feature personal narratives of members of the Union and Confederate armed forces (2012); the sesquicentennial of the Emancipation Proclamation and the African American experience from slavery to the end of the war (2013); the home front, women in the war, the role of charitable organizations, economic aspects of the war, and patriotic societies (2014); and the sesquicentennial of the death of Abraham Lincoln, Reconstruction, Confederate exiles, war monuments and the rise of veterans’ organizations (2015).

Part 1 (2011: "A Southern Confederacy will be Formed!")

The election of Abraham Lincoln, the secession crisis, the outbreak of hostilities, mobilizing for war, and foreign public opinion.

• John Tyler letter, February 12, 1820 (Historical Society of Washington, DC)
• Christopher G. Memminger letter, February 7, 1833 (South Carolina Historical Society, Charleston, SC)
• John Greenleaf Whittier papers, 1781-1922 (Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA)
• Republican Rail Splitters of Portland minutes, August-October 1860 (Maine Historical Society, Portland, ME)
• J. William Glaston letter, November 8, 1860 (Pearce Civil War Collection, Navarro College, Corsicana, TX)
• Abraham Lincoln letter, March 16, 1861 (Arkansas History Commission, Little Rock, AR)
• Roger Q. Mills letter, March 24, 1861 (Pearce Civil War Collection, Navarro College, Corsicana, TX)
• John Allen letter, April 14, 1861 (McLean County Museum of History, Bloomington, IL)
• Civil War letter of Mary Hite, April 12, 1861 (Pearce Civil War Collection, Navarro College, Corsicana, TX)
• Lucy Webb Hayes letter, April 15, [1861] (Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, Fremont, OH)
• Marie Ester Brandt diary entry, Monday, April 15, [1861] (Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN)
• John Milton letter book and correspondence, 1861-1863 (Florida Historical Society, Cocoa, FL)
• T. Jeff Jobe diary, May 25- August 6, 1861 (Arkansas History Commission, Little Rock, AK)
• Uriah Hunt Painter papers, 1837-1900 (Chester County Historical Society, West Chester, PA)
• Logbook of the ship Rebecca Sims, November 20, 1861-January 2, 1862 (New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, MA)
• Robert Gween letter, January 17, 1862 (Pearce Civil War Collection, Navarro College, Corsicana, TX)
• George Richards sermon, September 14, 1862 (Litchfield Historical Society, Litchfield, CT)
• Alexander Hamilton McNeill papers, 1855-1865 (North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC)
• Richard Cobden letter, March 25, 1863 (Pearce Civil War Collection, Navarro College, Corsicana, TX)
• William Rollinson Whittingham letter, July 4, 1863 (Archives of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, Baltimore, MD)
• Charles Kuhn Prioleau correspondence, 1860-1865 (South Carolina Historical Society, Charleston, SC)

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