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Robert Dreyer, a Florida resident drowned on his 89th birthday after he crashed his car into a fire hydrant and was then swallowed by the sinkhole created by the broken water line which had fed the hydrant on this day in 2017. 

J. Edgar Hoover was appointed first Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on this day in 1924, and remained so until his death in 1972.

Marvel Comics published the first issue of The Incredible Hulk on this day in 1962.

Sony introduced the Betamax videocassette recorder on this day in 1975.

One World Trade Center became the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere on this day in 2013.

John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin of Abraham Lincoln was born on this day in 1838.

Arguably the greatest dancer who ever lived, Fred Astaire, was born on this day in 1899.

Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious was born on this day in 1957.

Confederate General Stonewall Jackson died on this day in 1863, 8 days after being shot.

Serial killer John Wayne Gacy was executed on this day in 1994.

American race car driver and designer Carroll Shelby died on this day in 2012.

The horror movie classic Friday the 13th was released on this day in 1980.

Scottish musician, songwriter and record producer Donovan was born on this day in 1946.

The movie Twister, starring Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton and Jami Gertz was released on this day in 1996.

Mommie Dearest, Joan Crawford died on this day in 1977.

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The Civil War on This Day in History

 

This day in history: The American Civil War began on this day (April 12) in 1961 when Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Harbor.

There is a debate as to whether the Civil War was about slavery, or the rights of the states to secede. I lean toward the latter because of the attitudes of the soldiers in the North. You see, the average white Northerner had about the same attitude toward blacks as did the average white Southerner. Alexis de Tocqueville actually believed that racism was actually worse in the Northern states than it was in the South.  

When Lincoln introduced the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, soldiers in the North felt that they were duped. Civil War author James McPherson wrote that “They professed to feel betrayed. They were willing to risk their lives for the Union, they said, but not for black freedom.”

McPherson writes of a “backlash of anti-emancipation sentiment” in the Federal army and quotes various officers as saying things like, “If emancipation is to be the policy of this war...I do not care how quick the country goes to pot.” A Massachusetts sergeant wrote in a letter that “if anyone thinks that this army is fighting to free the [black man]...they are terribly mistaken.” Another officer declared that “I don't want to fire another shot for the [black man] and I wish that all the abolitionists were in hell...I do not fight or want to fight for Lincoln's...proclamation one day longer.”

With these negative feelings towards blacks at the time in the Northern states, I find it hard to believe that the people there were willing to give up their lives to emancipate them.

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The Gettysburg Address on This Day in History

 

This Day in History: The Gettysburg Address was delivered by Abraham Lincoln on this day in 1863.  

It is as follows:

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Decades later, H.L. Mencken offered a sharp criticism to Lincoln's address: "The Gettysburg speech is at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history. It is eloquence brought to a pellucid and almost child-like perfection—the highest emotion reduced to one graceful and irresistible gesture. Nothing else precisely like it is to be found in the whole range of oratory. Lincoln himself never even remotely approached it. It is genuinely stupendous.

But let us not forget that it is oratory, not logic; beauty, not sense. Think of the argument in it! Put it into the cold words of everyday! The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination — 'that government of the people, by the people, for the people,' should not perish from the earth. It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in that battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves. What was the practical effect of the battle of Gettysburg? What else than the destruction of the old sovereignty of the States, i.e., of the people of the States? The Confederates went into battle an absolutely free people; they came out with their freedom subject to the supervision and vote of the rest of the country—and for nearly twenty years that vote was so effective that they enjoyed scarcely any freedom at all. Am I the first American to note the fundamental nonsensicality of the Gettysburg address? If so, I plead my aesthetic joy in it in amelioration of the sacrilege."

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The Superstitious Abraham Lincoln on This Day in History

 

This Day in History: Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States on this day in 1860.

Did you know that both President and Mrs. Lincoln were superstitious.

From William Eleazar Barton 1920:

They believed in dreams and signs, he more in dreams and she more in signs. When Mrs. Lincoln was away from him for a little time, visiting in Philadelphia in 1863, and Tad with her, Lincoln thought it sufficiently important to telegraph, lest the mail should be too slow, and sent her this message:

"Executive Mansion,
"Washington, June 9, 1863.
"Mrs. Lincoln,
   "Philadelphia, Pa.
"Think you better put Tad's pistol away. I had an ugly dream about him. "A. Lincoln"
—Quoted in facsimile in Harper's Magazine for February, 1897; Lincoln's Home Life in the White House, by Leslie J. Perry.

In Lamon's book of Recollections, published in 1895, a very different book from his Life of Lincoln, he devotes an entire chapter to Lincoln's dreams and presentiments. He relates the story of the dream which Lincoln had not long before his assassination wherein he saw the East Room of the White House containing a catafalque with the body of an assassinated man lying upon it. Lincoln tried to remove himself from the shadow of this dream by recalling a story of life in Indiana, but could not shake off the gloom of it. Lamon says:

"He was no dabbler in divination, astrology, horoscopy, prophecy, ghostly lore, or witcheries of any sort. . . . The moving power of dreams and visions of an extraordinary character he ascribed, as did the Patriarchs of old, to the Almighty Intelligence that governs the universe, their processes conforming strictly to natural laws."—Recollections, p. 120.

In his Life of Lincoln, Lamon tells the story of the dream which Lincoln had late in the year 1860, when resting upon a lounge in his chamber he saw his figure reflected in a mirror opposite with two images, one of them a little paler than the other. It worried Lincoln, and he told his wife about it. She thought it was "a sign that Lincoln was to be elected for a second term and that the paleness of one of the faces indicated that he would not see life through the last term" (p. 477).

As this optical illusion has been so often printed, and has seemed so weirdly prophetic of the event which followed, it may be well to quote an explanation of the incident from an address by Dr. Erastus Eugene Holt, of Portland, Maine:

"As he lay there upon the couch, every muscle became relaxed as never before. ... In this relaxed condition, in a pensive mood and in an effort to recuperate the energies of a wearied mind, his eyes fell upon the mirror in which he could see himself at full length, reclining upon the couch. All the muscles that direct, control, and keep the two eyes together were relaxed; the eyes were allowed to separate, and each eye saw a separate and distinct image by itself. The relaxation was so complete, for the time being, that the two eyes were not brought together, as is usual by the action of converging muscles, hence the counterfeit presentiment of himself. He would have seen two images of anything else had he looked for them, but he was so startled by the ghostly appearance that he felt 'a little pang as though something uncomfortable had happened,' and obtained but little rest. What a solace to his wearied mind it would have been if someone could have explained this illusion upon rational grounds!" —Address at Portland, Maine, February 12, 1901, reprinted by William Abbatt, Tarrytown, N. Y., 1916.

Other incidents which relate to Mr. Lincoln's faith in dreams, including one that is said to have occurred on the night preceding his assassination, are well known, and need not be repeated here in detail.

It is not worth while to seek to evade or minimize the element of superstition in Lincoln's life, nor to ask to explain away any part of it. Dr. Johnson admits it in general terms, but makes little of concrete instances:

"The claim that there was more or less of superstition in his nature, and that he was greatly affected by his dreams, is not to be disputed. Many devout Christians today are equally superstitious, and, also, are greatly affected by their dreams. Lincoln grew in an atmosphere saturated with all kinds of superstitious beliefs. It is not strange that some of it should cling to him all his life, just as it was with Garfield, Blaine, and others.

"In 1831, then a young man of twenty-two, Lincoln made his second trip to New Orleans. It was then that he visited a Voodoo fortune teller, that is so important in the eyes of certain people. This, doubtless, was out of mere curiosity, for it was his second visit to a city. This no more indicates a belief in 'spiritualism' than does the fact that a few days before he started on this trip he attended an exhibition given by a traveling juggler, and allowed the magician to cook eggs in his low-crowned, broad-rimmed hat."—Lincoln the Christian, p. 29.

I do not agree with this. Superstition was inherent in the life of the backwoods, and Lincoln had his full share of it. Superstition is very tenacious, and people who think that they have outgrown it nearly all possess it. "I was always superstitious," wrote Lincoln to Joshua F. Speed on July 4, 1842. He never ceased to be superstitious.

While superstition had its part in the life and thought of Lincoln, it was not the most outstanding fact in his thinking or his character. For the most part his thinking was rational and well ordered, but it had in it many elements and some strange survivals—strange until we recognize the many moods of the man and the various conditions of his life and thought in which from time to time he lived.

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Assassination of Lincoln - a History of the Great Conspiracy by T.M. Harris 1892

John Wilkes Booth; Escape and Wanderings until final ending of the trail by suicide at Enid, Oklahoma, January 12, 1903 by WP Campbell 1922

Trial of the Conspirators for the Assassination of President Lincoln by John A Bingham 1865

McKinley, Garfield, Lincoln - their lives-their deeds-their deaths, with a record of notable assassinations and a history of anarchy by William Dixon Bancroft 1901

Trial of the assassins and conspirators for the murder of Abraham Lincoln 1865

The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt by David Miller Dewitt 1895

American Bastile - a History of the arbitrary arrests and imprisonment of American citizens on account of their political opinions during the late Civil War together with a full report of the illegal trial and execution of Mrs. Mary E. Surratt by a military commission, and a review of the testimony showing her entire innocence by John A Marshall 1884

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and its Expiation by David Miller Dewitt 1909

Famous Assassinations of history from Philip of Macedon, 336 B. C., to Alexander of Servia, A. D. 1903 by Francis Johnson 1903

Some Incidents in the Trial of President Lincoln's Assassins - The Controversy between President Johnson and Judge Holt by Henry L Burnett 1891

Rome's Responsibility for the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by TM Harris 1897

Romanism and the republic by Isaac J Lansing 1889
(They claim the right to murder all rulers whom they consider apostates; and has it ever been brought to your attention (I speak of it as a curiosity only), that every person who had anything to do with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln was a Roman Catholic? — that John Wilkes Booth was a Roman Catholic; Payne and Atseroth, also Dr. Nudd, who dressed his leg; Garrett, in whose premises he was killed; also, that Harold was a Roman Catholic; Mrs. Suratt and her son were Roman Catholics; their house was the head-quarters
for Roman Catholics and for the Jesuit priests.)

The Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth - The first true account of Lincoln's assassination containing a complete confession by Booth many years after the crime by Finis L Bates 1907

The Assassination and History of the Conspiracy - a complete digest of the whole affair by James R Hawley 1865

The Flight of J. Wilkes Booth by Paul DeVere 1880

The death of Lincoln  - the Story of Booth's Plot, his deed and the penalty by Clara E Laughlin 1909

The Assassination of Lincoln by EW Coggeshall 1920

The Terrible tragedy at Washington - Assassination of President Lincoln. Last hours and death-bed scenes of the President 1865

The Story of a Crime by Richard Collum 1889

Death of Abraham Lincoln by ES Jordan 1865

The death of President Lincoln by WT Wilson 1910

Glimpses of History by George M Towle 1866

Oration on the death of Abraham Lincoln by William Binney 1865

Eulogy on the death of Abraham Lincoln by George S Boutwell 1865

Trial of John H. Surratt in the Criminal Court for the District of Columbia, Volume 1 1867

Trial of John H. Surratt in the Criminal Court for the District of Columbia, Volume 2 1867

Complete life of William McKinley and story of his assassination by Marshall Everett 1901 (has a chapter on notable assassinations)

Lessons of the hour. A discourse on the assassination of President Garfield by Edward S Atwood 1881

The Life and Public Services of James A. Garfield including full and accurate details of his eventful administration, assassination, last hours, death, etc by Emma E Brown 1881

Our Martyr Presidents - Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley by John Coulter 1901

The Life and Death of James A. Garfield by John Start Ogilvie 1881

The Great Guiteau Trial: with life of the cowardly assassin 1882

An Historic Memento of the Nation's Loss - the true story of the assassination of President McKinley by Richard H Barry 1901

The trial, execution, autopsy and mental status of Leon F. Czolgosz,  alias Fred Nieman, the assassin of President McKinley by Carlos F MacDonald 1901

Our Martyred President by Phebe Hanaford 1865

Our Martyred President as a Man  - memorial life of William McKinley ... together with a full history of anarchy and its infamous deeds by George W Townsend 1901

Assassination of Lincoln by Charles P Chiniquy 1886 (Anti-Catholic)

Reminiscences and souvenirs of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by JE Buckingham 1894

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The Confiscation of Property during the Civil War by JG Randall 1913

The Horrors of Andersonville Rebel Prison by NP Chipman 1891

Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Volume 1 by Robert Underwood Johnson 1887

Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Volume 2 by Robert Underwood Johnson 1887

Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Volume 3 by Robert Underwood Johnson 1887

Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Volume 4 by Robert Underwood Johnson 1887

Washington and Lincoln - a Comparison, a Contrast and a Consequence by Cyrus T Brady 1904

The Woman in Battle - a narrative of the exploits, adventures, and travels of Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez, otherwise known as Lieutenant Harry J. Buford, Confederate States Army 1876

The Battles of the War for the Union by Precott Holmes 1897

The Life of Robert E. Lee for Boys and Girls by Joseph Hamilton 1917 ("As has been seen, Lee freed all the slaves he owned before the war began, and it is not unlikely that it was his influence that caused Mr. Custis to provide for the freeing of his own. Lee's feeling toward slavery is best shown in a letter written in 1856 in which he said 'In this enlightened age there are few, I believe, but will acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.'")

The Union Army - a History of Military Affairs in the Loyal States, 1861-65 Cyclopedia of battles, Volume 1 1908

The Union Army - a History of Military Affairs in the Loyal States, 1861-65 Cyclopedia of battles, Volume 2 1908

The Union Army - a History of Military Affairs in the Loyal States, 1861-65 Cyclopedia of battles, Volume 3 1908

The Union Army - a History of Military Affairs in the Loyal States, 1861-65 Cyclopedia of battles, Volume 4 1908

The Union Army - a History of Military Affairs in the Loyal States, 1861-65 Cyclopedia of battles, Volume 5 1908

The Union Army - a History of Military Affairs in the Loyal States, 1861-65 Cyclopedia of battles, Volume 6 1908

The Union Army - a History of Military Affairs in the Loyal States, 1861-65 Cyclopedia of battles, Volume 8 1908

Battles for the Union, comprising descriptions of many of the most stubbornly contested battles in the war of the great rebellion by Willard W Glazier 1875

The Twelve Decisive Battles of the War by William Swinton 1871

Campaigns of the American Civil War by Gustave J Fiebeger 1914

The Outbreak of Rebellion by John G Nicolay 1881

Fort Henry to Corinth by MF Force 1881

The Army Under Pope by John C Ropes 1882

A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion by George W Williams 1888

Statistical Record of the Armies of the United States by Frederick Phisterer 1883

Campaigns of 1862 and 1863 by Emil Schalk 1863

Grant's Campaign in Virginia, 1864 by Captain Vaughan-Sawyer 1908

A Critical History of the Late American War by Asa Mahan 1877

Lincoln's Suspension of Habeas Corpus as viewed by Congress by George Sellery 1907

My Days and Nights on the Battle-field by Charles C Coffin 1887

A Bird's-eye view of our civil war by Theodore A Dodge 1897

Following the Flag, 1861-1862 by Charles Coffin

American Catholics in the War by Michael Williams 1921

The Civil War by Campaigns by Eli G Foster 1899

A Narrative of the Campaign in the Valley of the Shenadoah in 1861 by Robert Patterson 1865

The Chancellorsville Campaign - Fredericksburg to Salem Church by Charles Richardson 1907

Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief by FV Greene 1909

General Sherman's official account of his great march through Georgia and the Carolinas 1865

Military Despotism! - Suspension of the Habeas Corpus! 1863

The Strategy of Robert E. Lee by John J Bowen 1914

Robert E. Lee, the Southerner by Thomas Nelson Page 1908

Address on the life and character of Gen. Robert E. Lee by Wade Hampton 1871

The Battle of Atlanta and other Campaigns by Grenville Dodge 1910

The Battle of Gettysburg by Franklin A Haskell 1910

The Antietam and Fredericksburg by Francis W Palfrey 1882

A True Vindication of the South by Thomas Norwood 1917 

The Stars and Stripes and other American Flags, including their Origin and History by Peleg Dennis Harrison 1914 (p.335)

Under the Stars and Bars by Mon Myrtle 1883

Under the Stars and Bars - a History of the Surry Light Artillery by BW Jones 1909

Under the Stars and Bars by Walter A Clark 1900

Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade by John O Casler 1906

Songs and Ballads of the Southern People by Frank Moore 1886

A List of the Union Soldiers buried at Andersonville by D Atwater 1890

Southern History of the Great Civil War by Edward F Pollard 1863

Union, a Story of the Great Rebellion by John R Musick 1894

The Lutheran Church and the Civil War by Charles William Heathcote 1919

Slavery and Four Years of War, Volume 1 by Joseph Keifer 1900

Slavery and Four Years of War, Volume 2 by Joseph Keifer 1900

Frauds and falsehoods of the Republican party by A Buck 1892

The Iron Furnace - Slavery and secession by John H Aughey 1863

The War Powers of the President by William Whiting 1862

The Boy's Book of Famous Warships by William Oliver Stevens 1916 (has a chapter on The Hunley, the first submarine, used during the Civil War)

The South vindicated from the charge of treason and rebellion by William Boggs 1881

Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War by Eugenia Potts 1909

Great Debates in American History: The Civil War by Marion M Miller 1913

The Church and the Rebellion by Robert L Stanton 1864

Adventures of an escaped Union prisoner from Andersonville by Thomas Howe 1886

The Annals of the War written by leading participants north and south 1879

Field, Fort and Fleet, being a series of brilliant and authentic sketches of the most notable battles of the late Civil War by M 1885

Military Miscellanies by James B Fry 1889

The Habeas Corpus and Martial Law by Robert Breck 1862

Sherman and his Campaigns - a Military Biography by Samuel M Bowman 1865

Grant and his Campaigns - a Military Biography by Henry Coppe 1866

The Soldier in our Civil War - a pictorial history of the conflict by Frank Leslie, Volume 1 1893

The Soldier in our Civil War - a pictorial history of the conflict by Frank Leslie, Volume 2 1893*

The Life, campaigns and battles of General Ulysses S. Grant 1868

A Short History of the War of Secession, 1861-1865 by Rossiter Johnson 1888

Northern Rebellion and Southern Secession by E.W.R. Ewing 1904

Secession, Coercion, and Civil War by JB Jones 

Coercion of the North 1860

The Tariff in Our Times by Ida Tarbell 1911

The Income Tax, a Study of the History, Theory and Practice of Income Taxation at home and abroad 1911 (taxes and tariffs played a huge part in the build up to the Civil War, and during it. )

The Causes of the American Civil War, Volume 1 by John L Motley 1861

The Causes of the American Civil War, Volume 2 by John L Motley 1861

The Sectional Struggle, an account of the troubles between the North and the South, from the earliest times to the close of the Civil War 1902 by Cicero W Harris (Tarrifs and Nullification)

Abraham Lincoln Protectionist by George B Curtiss 1916

The Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War, Volume 1 by Benson J Lossing 1874

The Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War, Volume 2 by Benson J Lossing 1874

The Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War, Volume 3 by Benson J Lossing 1874

Alphabetical List of Battles, 1754-1900 by NA Strait 1902

Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus 1861

The Horrors of Southern Prisons During the War of the Rebellion by William H Lightcap 1902

The Mississippi valley in the Civil War by John Fiske 1900

Muskets and Medicine by Charles B Johnson 1917

The Sword of Honor, a Story of the Civil War Volume 1 by, Hannibal Augustus Johnson 1906

The Sword of Honor, a Story of the Civil War Volume 2 by, Hannibal Augustus Johnson 1906

American Tariff Controversies in the Nineteenth Century, Volume 1 by Edward Stanwood 1903

American Tariff Controversies in the Nineteenth Century, Volume 2 by Edward Stanwood 1903 (my personal feeling as an Ebay seller is that, while it is nice to assign moral excuses for wars, be it slavery or freedom, in the end, it really comes down to money)

The Photographic History of the Civil War, Volume 1 by Francil Miller 1911

The Photographic History of the Civil War, Volume 2 by Francil Miller 1911

The Photographic History of the Civil War, Volume 3 by Francil Miller 1911

The Photographic History of the Civil War, Volume 4 by Francil Miller 1911

The Photographic History of the Civil War, Volume 5 by Francil Miller 1911

The Photographic History of the Civil War, Volume 6 by Francil Miller 1911

The Photographic History of the Civil War, Volume 7 by Francil Miller 1911

The Photographic History of the Civil War, Volume 8 by Francil Miller 1911

The Photographic History of the Civil War, Volume 9 by Francil Miller 1911

The Photographic History of the Civil War, Volume 10 by Francil Miller 1911

The Copperhead by Harold Frederic 1893

Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War by David Porter 1885

Incidents of the Civil War in America by Frank Leslie 1862

The Kidnapping of President Lincoln and other war detective stories by Joel Harris 1909

THE GREAT TREASON PLOT of THE NORTH DURING THE WAR - Most Dangerous, Perfidious, Extensive and Startling Plot ever Devised - IMMINENT HIDDEN PERILS OF THE REPUBLIC - Astounding Developments Never Before Published by Winslow Ayer 1895

American Caricatures pertaining to the Civil War 1918

History of the Plots and Crimes of the Great Conspiracy to overthrow liberty in America by John Smith Dye 1866

Chronological and alphabetical record of the engagements of the great Civil War with the casualties on both sides and full and exhaustive statistics and tables of the army and navy, military prisons, national cemeteries by Charles Cooper 1904

Lincoln and Episodes of the Civil War by William Doster 1915

Facts and Falsehoods Concerning the War of the South by George Edmonds

The present attempt to dissolve the American union, a British aristocratic plot by S Morse 1862

Truth of the war conspiracy of 1861 Volume 1 by HW Johnstone 1921

Truth of the war conspiracy of 1861 Volume 2 by HW Johnstone 1921

History made Visible - United States history with synchronic charts, maps and statistical diagrams by Richard Croscup 1911

Crimes of the Civil War, and curse of the funding system by HC Dean 1868

The Murder of Abraham Lincoln planned and executed by Jesuit priests 1893

The Indians in the civil war by Annie Abel 1910

The Union Indian Brigade in the Civil War by W Britton 1922

First blows of the Civil War by James Pike 1879

Red Badge of Courage - an episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane 1896

The Little Regiment, and other stories of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane 1896

Pictures of War by Stephen Crane 1916

The Copperhead: or, The Secret Political History of our Civil War unveiled by F Hall 1902*
("Showing the falsity of New England; partisan history, how Abraham Lincoln came to be President, the secret working and conspiring of those in power; motive and purpose of prolonging the war for four years"}

Battles of the Civil War BY Thomas Vineyard 1914

Who goes there? The story of a spy in the civil war by BK Benson 1900

Soldier's Pocket Bible 1861

Political fallacies: an examination of the false assumptions, and refutation of the sophistical reasonings, which have brought on this Civil War by George Junkin 1863

The Real Lincoln by Charles Minor 1903

History of the American Civil War Volume 1 by John Draper 1868

History of the American Civil War Volume 2 by John Draper 1868

History of the American Civil War Volume 3 by John Draper 1868

Life of General Grant by Nelson Cross 1872

About Grant by John Swift 1880

Ulysses S. Grant by Louis Coolidge 1917

Scouts, spies, and heroes of the great Civil War by Capt Hazelton 1892

Our Rifles: Firearms in American History by Charles Sawyer 1920

Calendar of the civil war by RL Bridgman 1890

Southern Generals, who they are, and what they have done by William Snowv 1865

The Confederate Secession by William Lothian 1864

No Treason in Civil War Volume 1 by G Smith 1865

No Treason in Civil War Volume 2 by G Smith 1865

The Fighting Quakers - a true story of the war for our Union by AJH Duganne 1866

Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War Volume 1, 1909, by GFR Henderson

Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War Volume 2, 1909, by GFR Henderson

Lee and his Cause - The why and the how of the War between the States by John Deering 1907

The Life of Robert E Lee by Henry Shepherd 1906

Leading American soldiers by RM Johnston 1907

Heroines of the Rebellion, or Woman's Work in the Civil War - a record of heroism, patriotism and patience by LP Brockett 1867

The Story of a Confederate boy in the Civil War by David Johnston 1914

Killed and died of wounds in the Union army during the Civil War by Jesse Hardesty 1915

Political history of secession to the beginning of the American Civil War dy Daniel Howe 1914

Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War by GW Cable 1898

The True History of the Civil War by Guy C Lee 1903

The Boy Spy by Joseph Kerbey 1889

Camp Fires of the Confederacy - A Volume of Humorous Anecdotes, Reminiscences, Deeds of Heroism by Benjamin La Bree 1898

The Civil War from a Southern Standpoint by Ann Snyder 1890

A Chinese soldier in the Civil War BY William Worner

The Naval History of the Civil War by David Porter 1886

Hungarians in the American civil war by Eugene Pivany 1913

The Southern War Poetry of the Civil War by Esther Ellinger 1918

The Irish In The Revolution And The Civil War by Dr JC O'Connell 1903

Letters from a Surgeon of the Civil War by John Perry 1906

The Confiscation of property during the Civil War JG Randall 1913

The Civil War and the Constitution Volume 1 by JW Burgess 1901

The Civil War and the Constitution Volume 2 by JW Burgess 1901

Mohawk Peter - Legends of the Adirondacks and Civil War memories by Henry Dorr 1921

The Right and the Wrong in our Civil War by Homer Sprague 1903

Progressive Taxation in theory and practice by Edwin Seligman 1908 (Congress enacted the nation's first income tax law during the Civil War)

Charleston during the civil war by TD Jervey 1915

The Southerners, a story of the Civil War by Cyrus Brady 1903

The Claybornes; a romance of the civil war by William Sage 1902

A Broken Sword - a tale of the Civil War by General Charles King 1905

Chasing an Iron Horse - A boy's adventures in the Civil War by Edward Robins 1902

Life and reminiscences of Jefferson Davis by John Daniel 1890

Studies of Assassination by Wirt Sikes 1891

Men and things I saw in Civil War days by James Rusling 1899

Essays on the Civil War and reconstruction and related topics by William Dunning 1898

Civil war and reconstruction in Alabama by Walter Fleming 1905

The Civil War and reconstruction in Florida by William Davis 1913

Destruction and Reconstruction - Personal experiences of the late war by Richard Taylor 1879

The Aftermath of the Civil War in Arkansas by Clayton Powell 1915

The Secret Service in the Late War - comprising the author's introduction to the leading men at Washington, with the origin and organization of the detective police, and a graphic history of his rich experiences, North and South by La Fayette Baker 1874

On the Wing of Occasions - being the authorized version of certain curious episodes of the late Civil War, including the hitherto suppressed narrative of the kidnapping of President Lincoln by Joel Chandler Harris 1900

The True Story of the Barons of the South or, The Rationale of the American conflict by EW Reynolds 1862

The Rejected Stone - Insurrection vs. Resurrection in America by MD Conway 1862

True stories of the War for the Union by LS Griswold 1893

In Defense of the Flag - a True War Story by David Stafford 1904

Jay Cooke, financier of the Civil War, Volume 1 by Ellis Oberholtzer 1907

Jay Cooke, financier of the Civil War, Volume 2 by Ellis Oberholtzer 1907

Social forces in American history by AM Simons 1912

Is Davis a traitor; or, Was secession a constitutional right previous to the war of 1861? by Albert Bledsoe 1866

The economic and political essays of the ante-bellum South by UB Phillips 1909

History of Socialism in the United States by By Morris Hillquit 1903

Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie by Abner Doubleday 1876

Within Fort Sumter by A Fletcher 1861

Major Robert Anderson and Fort Sumter by Eba Lawton 1911

The War for the Union from Fort Sumter to Atlanta by William Swinton 1864

The Flag Replaced on Sumter by William Arnold Spicer 1885

The Battle of Fort Sumter and first victory of the Southern troops 1861

The Political Conspiracies preceding the Rebellion - The true stories of Sumter and Pickens by Thomas M Anderson 1882

The Genesis of the Civil War (the Story of Sumter, 1860-1861) by Samuel W Crawford 1887

A Youth's History of the Rebellion by William Makepeace Thayer 1866

The Siege of Charleston by Samuel Jones 1911