Edward L. Ayers - Americas War: Talking about the Civil War and Emancipation on their 150th Anniversaries

americas war

americas war

Talking About the
Civil War and
Emancipation
on Their
150th
Anniversaries

Edited by

Edward L. Ayers

Co-published by the
American Library Association
and the
National Endowment for the Humanities

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ISBNs: 978-0-8389-9308-8 (print); 978-0-8389-9309-5 (PDF); 978-0-8389-9310-1 (Mobi); 978-0-8389-9311-8 (Kindle); 978-0-8389-9312-5 (ePub)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Americas war : talking about the Civil War and emancipation on their 150th anniversaries / edited by Edward L. Ayers.

p.cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-0-8389-9308-8 (pbk. : alk. paper)ISBN 978-0-8389-9309-5 (pdf)
ISBN 978-0-8389-9312-5 (epub)ISBN 978-0-8389-9310-1 (mobi)
ISBN 978-0-8389-9311-8 (kindle)

1. United StatesHistoryCivil War, 18611865Sources. 2. SlavesEmancipationUnited States--Sources. I. Ayers, Edward L., 1953

E464.A45 2011

973.7dc23 2011021388

Cover image: Feeding the Squirrel Rifles, courtesy of the Becker Collection.
Book design by Karen Sheets de Gracia in Chapparal and Shannon.

contents

Keith Michael Fiels, Executive Director, American Library Association

Jim Leach, Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities

Edward L. Ayers, President, University of Richmond

Journal kept at the hospital, Georgetown, D.C.

What To the Slave is the Fourth of July?

A Plea for Captain John Brown

First Inaugural Address

Cornerstone Speech

Speech for Secession of Virginia

Speech for Virginia Remaining in the Union

Excerpt fromReading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters

The Private History of a Campaign That Failed

Excerpts fromSarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary of a Southern Woman

What I Saw of Shiloh

Excerpt fromPersonal Memoirs of U.S. Grant

Excerpt fromShiloh: A Novel

Shiloh

Speech to the Army of the Mississippi

Excerpt fromThis Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

The Net Result of the Campaign was in Our Favor: Confederate Reaction to the Maryland Campaign

Address on Colonization to a Deputation of Negroes

Memorys of the Past

Emancipation Proclamation

Men of Color, To Arms!

Letters to James C. Conkling and Albert G. Hodges

Gettysburg Address

24. JAMES S. BRISBIN, October 20, 1864 AND
THOMAS J. MORGAN, November 23, 1864
Reports on U.S. Colored Cavalry in Virginia

Petition to the Union Convention of Tennessee Assembled in the Capitol at Nashville

Excerpt fromJubilee

Excerpt fromBeen in the Storm So Long

Second Inaugural Address

Judith Bookbinder, Co-Director, The Becker Collection, Boston College

Dedication of a Monument to the Memory of the Heroes of the New Hampshire Regiment Killed in the Battle of Winchester

The United States General Hospital at Georgetown, D.C., Formerly the Union Hotel

Squirrel Rifles: Sketch at the Depot in Xenia, Ohio

Battle of Pittsburgh Landing, Shiloh, Tennessee: Centre, Sunday Morning

Citizen volunteers assisting wounded in the field of battle

Colored Troops Under General Wild Liberating Slaves in North Carolina