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November 1863–April 14, 1865
Desperate Measures
[C.S.A.] Senate Bill No. 190. “A Bill to Provide for Raising Two Hundred Thousand Negro Troops,” February 10, 1865. Confederate States of America Collection, Law Library, Library of Congress (184.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0184]
Unconditional Surrender
The True Peace Commissioners. New York: Currier & Ives, 1864. Alfred Whital Stern Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (182.00.00)
[Digital ID# cph-3b38537]
[C.S.A.] House of Representatives. Joint Resolutions Expressing the Sense of Congress on the Subject of the Late Peace Commission, February 20, 1865. Confederate States of America Collection, Law Library, Library of Congress (185.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0185]
The Desperate Finale
Jefferson Davis (1808–1889). Address of the President. To the People of the Confederate States of America. Danville, Virginia, 1865. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (191.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0191]
Petersburg
David Knox, photographer. Mortar Dictator in Front of Petersburg, October 1864. Albumen silver print. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (188.00.00)
[Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-32420]
President Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865). Inaugural Address, March 1865. Pasted-up typeset reading copy. Abraham Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (190.00.00)
[Digital ID# al0206_05]
Appomattox Court House
Unattributed. Memoranda. April 8, 1865. 10 o’clock A.M. Clover Hill (Appomattox Court House), Virginia, 1865. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (193.00.00)
[Digital ID# g3884a-cw0525000]
"I Bid You an Affectionate Farewell"
General Lee’s Farewell Address. Petersburg, Virginia: Ege’s Print., [1865]. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (194.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0194]
The Fall of Richmond
Andrew J. Russell (1829–1902). [Ruins on Carey Street, Richmond, Virginia, showing two women dressed in black approaching a shell of a four-story building gutted by fire], April 1865. Albumen silver print. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (189.00.00)
[Digital ID# cph-3g04593]
Unattributed. Ruins on Carey Street, Richmond, Virginia, April 1865 [printed later]. Albumen silver print. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (189.00.00)
[Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-33070]
Hoisting the U.S. Flag at Fort Sumter
3rd New Hampshire Regiment. “Star-Spangled Banner” for 1st E flat cornet and closed manuscript part book. Music Division, Library of Congress (195.00.00, 195.01.00)
[Digital ID# cw0195, cw0195_01]
[The ceremony at Fort Sumter during which General Robert Anderson raised the flag he had been forced to take down exactly four years before], April 14, 1865. Reproduction from glass plate negative. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (196.00.00)
[Digital ID# cwpb-02464]
Artifacts of Assassination
Lincoln realia, 1865. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (198.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0198b]
Eyewitness to Lincoln's Assassination
James Suydam Knox (1840–1892) to Rev. J. P. Knox, April 15, 1865. Abraham Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (197.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0197, cw0197p1, cw0197p2, cw0197p3]
Feeding the Public Hysteria
Dion Hasco. J. Wilkes Booth, The Assassinator of President Lincoln. New York: T. R. Dawley, 1865. Alfred Whital Stern Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (215.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0215]
Epilogue
Flight and Capture of Jefferson Davis
F. Welcker. Jeff’s Last Skedaddle Off to the Last Ditch, 1865. Lithograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (201.00.00)
[Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-33128]
Davis in Drag
Varina Davis (1826–1906) to Montgomery Blair (1813–1883), June 6, 1865. Blair Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (202.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0202, cw0202p1, cw0202p2]
The End
Edmund Ruffin (1794–1865). Diary entry, June 18, 1865. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (205.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0205p1]
Frederick Douglass on the Meaning of the War
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895). Address at the Graves of the Unknown Dead at Arlington, Virginia, May 30, 1871. Frederick Douglass Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (211.00.00, 211.00.01)
[Digital ID# cw0211, cw0211p1]
Left-Handed Penmanship Contest
Exhibition—Left Handed Penmanship, 1866. Pamphlet. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (206.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0206, cw0206p1, cw0206p2]
John Chase, Company B, 3rd Maine Volunteers. Left-handed penmanship entry and photograph, submitted December 1865. William Oland Bourne Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (207.00.00, 208.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0208, cw0208p1, cw0207]
A Soldier's Advocate
Clara Barton (1821–1912). Roll of Missing Men. No. 1. Washington, D.C.: 1865. Rare Book Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (204.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0204]
Veterans' Associations
Co. B, 53rd Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Ribbon, n.d. Silas W. Browning Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (209.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0209]
Winchester Camp No. 4. Ribbon, n.d. Jubal Anderson Early Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (210.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0210]
A Civil War "Movie"
The Myriopticon, A Historical Panorama of the Rebellion. Springfield, Massachusetts: Milton Bradley Company, [before 1890]. Alfred Whital Stern Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (212.00.00)
[Digital ID# cw0212]
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