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Prologue
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
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!
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
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
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"
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
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
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
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]
April 1861–April 1862
Fort Sumter Falls
George T. Perry. Part of Charleston Harbor, Embracing Forts Moultrie, Sumter, Johnson, and Castle Pinckney, also Sullivan, James & Morris Islands. . . . Philadelphia: P.S. Duval & Son, ca. 1861. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (015.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0374000]
Alma Pelot, photographer. Confederate flag Flying [Interior view of Fort Sumter after the evacuation of Major Anderson], April 16, 1861. Albumen silver print. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (016.00.00)
[Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-32284]
And the War Came…
James Chesnut (1815–1885) and Stephen D. Lee (1833–1908) to Robert Anderson (1805–1871), April 12, 1861. Robert Anderson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (014.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0014]
To Secede or Not to Secede
Robert E. Lee (1807–1870) to Roger Jones, April 20, 1861. Custis-Lee Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (017.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0017, cw0017p1]
Call to Arms
Fourth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers. . . . Concord, New Hampshire: Fogg, Hadley & Co., 1861. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (018.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0018]
Unatrributed. [Unidentified young soldier in 5th New Hampshire Infantry uniform.] Sixth-plate ambrotype, between 1861–1865. Promised gift of the Liljenquist Family, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (019.00.00)
[Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-31304]
An Armchair Tactician
George Douglas Brewerton (1820–1901). The Automaton Regiment, or, Infantry Soldier’s Practical Instructor. New York: D. Van Nostrand, [1863]. Marian S. Carson Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (021.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0021]
Tedium of Camp Life
Orders No. 4, Headquarters 11th Regiment. . . . Broadside, 1861. Marian S. Carson Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (020.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0020]
Defense of Hearth and Home
Freemen! Of Tennessee! Morristown, Tennessee: Neal & Roberts, 1861. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (022.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0022]
60th Tennessee Infantryman
Unattributed. Sergeant James Bishop White of Company B, 60th Tennessee Infantry Regiment. Sixth-plate ambrotype, between 1861 and 1865. Promised gift of the Liljenquist Family, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (023.00.00)
[Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-32092]
Identifying Union and Confederate Supporters
F. F. Mead, Lt. Co. I, 16th New York Volunteers. [Map of part of Fairfax County, Virginia, south of the city of Alexandria and the Orange and Alexandria Railroad], August 30, 1861. Colored manuscript map. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (216.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0536400]
The Anaconda Plan
J.B. Elliott. Scott’s Great Snake. Cincinnati: 1861. Printed color map. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (025.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0011000]
“When I wish to catch rats, I first stop their holes— Gen’l Scott.” Wood engraving on gold wove paper envelope, ca. 1861. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (026.00.00)
[Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-33123]
Fortress Monroe
“Stampede among the Negroes in Virginia—Their Arrival at Fortress Monroe from Sketches by Our Special Artist in Fortress Monroe,” in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, June 8, 1861. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (028.00.00)
[Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-33130]
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