The Civil War in America
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Distribution of Slavery in the Southern States (001.00.00)

Distribution of Slavery in the Southern States
Edwin Hergesheimer. Map Showing the Distribution of the Slave Population of the Southern States of the United States Compiled from the Census of 1860. Washington: Henry S. Graham 1861. Printed map. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (001.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0013200]

Torn Asunder (002.00.00)

Torn Asunder
Unattributed. [Dividing the] National [Map], 1860. Lithograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (002.00.00)
[Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-33122]

Union is Dissolved! (003.00.00)

Union is Dissolved!
Charleston Mercury Extra, December 20, 1860 . . . Union Dissolved! Broadside. John G. Nicolay Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (003.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0003]

An Anxious Christmas Eve (004.00.00)

An Anxious Christmas Eve
Benjamin Tucker Tanner (1835–1923). Diary entry, December 24, 1860. Carter G. Woodson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (004.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0004]

Benjamin Tucker Tanner (1835–1923). Diary entries, November 23–24, 1860. Carter G. Woodson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (004.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0004p2]

Benjamin Tucker Tanner (1835–1923). Diary entries, December 20–21, 1860. Carter G. Woodson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (004.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0004p1]

Lincoln's First Inaugural Address (013.00.00)

Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
Abraham Lincoln. First Inaugural Address (final version), March 4, 1861. Printed manuscript with holographic emendations in Lincoln’s hand. Abraham Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (013.00.00)
[Digital ID# al0101_04]

Anthony Berger, photographer. Abraham Lincoln. Albumen silver print of an engraving, 1864. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (012.00.00)
[Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-24007]

Brady National Photographic Art Gallery. Hannibal Hamlin. Carte-de-visite photographs, ca. 1861–1865, from a photograph album assembled by Lincoln’s secretary John Hay. James Wadsworth Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (011.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0011]

"I Do Solemnly Swear" (005.01.00)

"I Do Solemnly Swear"
Holy Bible. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1853. Alfred Whital Stern Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (005.01.00)
[Digital ID# al0102_01, al0102_02]

President and Vice President of the Confederate States of America (005.00.00)

President and Vice President of the Confederate States of America
Brady National Photographic Art Gallery. Jefferson Davis (1808–1889) and Alexander H. Stephens (1812–1883). Carte-de-visite photographs, ca. 1861–1865, from a photograph album assembled by Lincoln’s secretary John Hay. James Wadsworth Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (005.00.00, 006.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0005]

Strobridge & Co. The Starting Point of the Great War Between the States, 1878. Chromolithograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (007.00.00)
[Digital ID# LC-DIG-pga-02817]

Seal of the Confederate States of America (009.00.00)

Seal of the Confederate States of America
Wax impression of the Great Seal of the Confederate States of America, postwar impression. John T. Pickett Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (009.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0009]

Point of No Return (008.01.00)

Point of No Return
Acts and Resolutions of the First Session of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States. Montgomery, Alabama: Barrett, Wimbish & Co., 1861. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (008.01.00)
[Digital ID# cw0008_01]

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