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First announced to the public on Feb. 1, 1996; last updated on April 25, 2024.


The American Civil War is one of the most momentous and controversial periods in
American history. This site was founded with the intent of collecting copies of
or links to as many primary documents from the period of the secession crisis as
is reasonably possible, with the goal of shedding light on the causes of
secession, hence of the war.

Except where otherwise noted, I have used the entire document; some especially
long documents are offered in both a "short" and "full" version, and a couple of
documents that covered a wide range of topics (Buchanan's Fourth Message, for
example) are given only in excerpted form.  Almost all the documents have been
lightly edited for spelling/grammar errors, and slight deviations from modern
standards of presentation.


The links below will take you to an index page for the appropriate set of
documents. Some documents are now placed in more than one index set.

Document Categories: Other Links:
 * The Newest Additions to the Site
 * Party Platforms and Secession Documents
 * State and Local Resolutions and Correspondence
 * The Secession Commissioners
 * Compromise Proposals
 * Sermons and Other Religious Tracts
 * Pamphlets
 * Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln
   
 * Congressional Speeches and Commentary
 * Other Political Speeches and Correspondence
 * Editorial Commentary
 * Selected Quotes from the Period
 * Selected Statistics on Slavery
 * Postwar Commentary
 * Runaway Slave Notices
   

   
 * Instructions for Suggesting a Document.
   
 * Links to Related Sites of Interest
   
 * Suggestions for Further Reading.
   

   
 * Brief Chronology of the Secession Crisis.
   

   
 * About the publisher/author.
   

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Many friends have assisted in the construction of this web site, mostly by
providing me with text files for many of the documents. In particular I would
like to mention Chuck Ten Brink, Justin Sanders, Joe Hartley, Steve Miller,
Allen Sullivant and the (sadly) late Linda Teasley. Several documents originally
came from Lloyd Benson's site at Furman University. In addition, Allen
Sullivant, Brian Hampton, and especially Kathie Rankin have helped with HTML
tips and some of the graphics. Dave Smith provided some of the images. No, Dave
provided a lot of the images.

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As featured in History on the Web: Using and evaluating the Internet a book by
Prof. Andrew McMichael, formerly  of Western Kentucky University.

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I maintain two other Civil War sites:

   
 * Civil War Chronologies
   
 * Siege of Petersburg and Richmond
   

Send me your thoughts: jfepperson@gmail.com

Page author: James F. Epperson

Last updated: April 25, 2024



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