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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
The Presidency
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Lincoln as Commander in Chief
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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
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