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Primary Source Set that Describes the era from 1860 to 1865


1860
Chicago Wide-Awake Republican Club to Abraham Lincoln, June 1, 1860 (Certificate of membership)	The rail candidate	Lincoln & Hamlin, Ward 5 Republican Ticket	Abraham Lincoln to George D. Prentice, Monday, October 29, 1860 (Lincoln will not issue a public statement to reassure the South)

Abraham Lincoln: A History. Lincoln's Nomination and Election	Abraham Lincoln elected president
1861
Abraham Lincoln, Monday, February 11, 1861 (Farewell Address)	Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, February 14, 1861 (Speech at Pittsburgh)	Lincoln's First Inaugural Address	First Inaugural Address, Second Printed Draft, with Line Numbers Added by William H. Seward

First Inauguration, March 4, 1861	Inauguration of President Lincoln at U. S. Capitol, March 4, 1861. Library of Congress.	Inauguration of Mr. Lincoln, 4 March 1861	Draft of Abraham Lincoln's instructions to Maj. Robert Anderson in command at Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina, 4 April 1861

Charleston, South Carolina. Interior view of Fort Sumter April 12 Firing on Fort Sumter, S.C., initiated the Civil War	Abraham Lincoln, May 1861 Draft Fragment, Message to Congress, July 4, 1861	Lincoln's Message to Congress	Abraham Lincoln, May-June 1861 Message to Congress, July 4, 1861, Second Printed Draft

Lincoln- "I'm sorry to have to drop you, Sambo, but this concern won't carry us both!"	Map showing the comparitive area of the Northern and Southern states east of the Rocky Mountains, 1861
1862
Antietam, Md. Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln, and Maj. Gen. John A. McClernand Antietam, Maryland, October 3, 1862.	The first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before the cabinet	Draft of the Emancipation Proclamation, by President Abraham Lincoln, July 22, 1862.	Emancipation Proclamation
1863
Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait 1863	The Gettysburg Address 1863, November 19	The Gettysburg address; reproduction of Lincoln's first draft of the Gettysburg address	The Gettysburg Address
1864
Why the South hopes for Lincoln's re-election. From the Richmond Enquirer of September 5, 1864.	The platforms. Baltimore. The National convention which assembled at Baltimore on the 7th of last June, and there nominated Abraham Lincoln for re-election as President, with Andrew Johnson as Vice-president	Abraham Lincoln to Montgomery Blair, Friday, September 23, 1864 Requests Blair's resignation	Letter from Abraham Lincoln to his Cabinet Members

Abraham Lincoln to William Dennison, et al., Monday, June 27, 1864 Acceptance of nomination	Abraham Lincoln to Committee from Baltimore Convention, June 9, 1864 Acceptance of the nomination for the presidency	Abraham Lincoln, November 10, 1864 Response to Serenade	Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left 1864

1865
Congress, Wednesday, February 01, 1865 (Joint Resolution Submitting 13th Amendment to the States; signed by Abraham Lincoln and Congress)	Second Inauguration, March 4, 1865	Lincoln's Second Inauguration, March 4, 1865	Crowd at Lincoln's second inauguration

Washington, District of Columbia. President's box at Ford's Theatre	Account of Lincoln's Assassination	The murderer of our late beloved President