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)

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
   

 

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

       
   

 

1862

     

 

1863

     

 

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

Letter from Abraham Lincoln to his Cabinet Members

       


Abraham Lincoln to Committee from Baltimore Convention, June 9, 1864 Acceptance of the nomination for the presidency

       
1865      
       


Account of Lincoln's Assassination



The murderer of our late beloved President