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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
Major General Ambrose E. Burnside
Gen’l. Burnside, ca. 1861. Carte-de-visite photograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (162)
Digital ID # ppmsca-19392
Hooker Appointed Commander
Abraham Lincoln to General Joseph Hooker, January 26, 1863. Holograph letter. Alfred Whital Stern Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (166)
Digital ID # al0166
Major General Joseph Hooker
Major General Joseph Hooker. Carte-de-visite photograph, between 1861 and 1865. Civil War Photograph Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (165)
Digital ID # cph-3c11519
The Army of the Potomac
Edwin Forbes. President Lincoln Reviewing the Army of the Potomac on Monday, April 6, 1863. Graphite drawing. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (168)
Digital ID # ppmsca-19523
Lincoln Redirects Hooker’s Strategy
Abraham Lincoln to General Joseph Hooker, [April 6, 1863]. Holograph letter. Robert Todd Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (167)
Digital ID # al0167
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