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Bombardment of Fort Sumter
Currier & Ives. Bombardment of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor: 12th & 13th of April, 1861. [New York]: Currier & Ives, [1861?]. Hand-colored lithograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (118.01)
Digital ID # ppmsca-19520
Port Royal Band Book
“Hail to the Chief” from Port Royal Band Book, 1861–1865. Holograph part book. Music Division, Library of Congress (123)
Digital ID # al0123
Sketch of Charleston Harbor
W.A. Williams. Sketch of Charleston Harbor By W.A. Williams, Civil Engineer. Boston: L. Prang & Co., [186-?]. Lithograph map. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (119)
Digital ID # cw0385000
Lincoln’s Call to Arms
Abraham Lincoln. Proclamation by the president for calling up the militia, [April 15, 1861]. Holograph manuscript. Robert Todd Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (120)
Digital ID # al0120p1–al0120p2
Message to Congress, July 4, 1861
Abraham Lincoln. Message to Congress in Special Session, July 4, 1861. Holograph manuscript with pasted-on emendations. Robert Todd Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (121)
Digital ID # al0121p1a, al0121p1b, al0121p2-al0121p7
General Irvin McDowell and Staff
General Irvin McDowell and Staff, Arlington House, 1862. Albumen photograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (126)
Digital ID # ppmsca-19388
Bull Run Campaign
F. W. Bornemann. Lithograph Sketch of the Country Occupied by the Federal & Confederate Armies on the 18th & 21st July 1861. Richmond: W. Hargrave White, [ca. 1861]. Lithograph map. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (127)
Digital ID # cw0566000
“The Government is in Great Peril”
Thurlow Weed to Abraham Lincoln, August 18, 1861. Holograph letter. Abraham Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (125)
Digital ID # al0125, al0125_01–al0125_02
Battle Lampooned
“How They Went to Take Canada” from Punch, August 17, 1861. Bound volume. General Collections, Library of Congress (124)
Digital ID # al0124
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Battling Incompetence
General War Order No. 1
Abraham Lincoln. General War Order No. 1, January 27, 1862. Holograph manuscript. Robert Todd Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (133)
Digital ID # al0133, al0133p1
Peninsular Campaign in Virginia, 1862
J. Knowles Hare. Hare’s Map of the Vicinity of Richmond, and Peninsular Campaign in Virginia. . . . New York: 1862. Lithograph map. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (134)
Digital ID # cw0602000
“Distinct and Different Plans”
Abraham Lincoln to General George B. McClellan, February 3, 1862. Manuscript letter [copy in the hand of Secretary of War Stanton]. Robert Todd Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (135)
Digital ID # al0135
General George Brinton McClellan
Mathew. B. Brady. Gen’l. Geo. B. McClellan, 1861. Carte-de-visite photograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (130)
Digital ID # ppmsca-19389
Special Order No. 191
Robert E. Lee. Special Order No. 191, September 9, 1862. Holograph manuscript. George McClellan Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (143)
Digital ID # al0143, al0143p1
Walt Whitman’s Civil War Diary
Walt Whitman. Diary kept during the Civil War, 1862. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (147)
Digital ID # ww0024a
Lincoln on the Antietam Battlefield
Alexander Gardner. “President Lincoln of Battle-field of Antietam, October 3, 1862” from Gardner’s Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War, 1863. Albumen print. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (146)
Digital ID # ppmsca-12544
Battle of Antietam
Alexander Gardner. Antietam, Maryland, Confederate dead by a fence on the Hagerstown road, September 1862. Facsimile. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (145)
Digital ID # cwpb-01097
Lincoln Fires McClellan
Mary Lincoln to Abraham Lincoln, November 2, 1862. Holograph letter. Abraham Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (149)
Digital ID # al0149p1–al0149p4
Sketch of the Battle of Fredericksburg
William Willis Blackford. Sketch of the Battle of Fredericksburg, December 13th, 1862. Pen, ink, and pencil map mounted on cloth. Jedediah Hotchkiss Map Collection, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (164)
Digital ID # cwh00123
“Experience Enough to Know”
Abraham Lincoln to Fanny McCullough, December 23, 1862. Holograph letter. On loan from the Benjamin Shapell Family Manuscript Foundation (150)
Digital ID # al0150a, al0150b
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