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Politicians

Abraham Lincoln

• The Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress
• Basler, Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, 9 vols.
• The Papers of Abraham Lincoln
• The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln
• Mr. Lincoln’s Virtual Library at the Library of Congress
• Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana
• The Lincoln Archives
• Lincoln Assassination Sermons
• Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
• Remembering Lincoln (Ford's Theatre)
• Lincoln Documents at the National Archives (PAL)
• Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Finding Aids
• The World Mourns for Abraham Lincoln (1865)
• Lincoln Sheet Music Collection
• Louise and Barry Taper Collection
• Noyes W. Miner, "Personal Recollections of Lincoln"
• Lincoln Collection, Fort Wayne, Indiana 
• Herndon-Weik Collection (Library of Congress)
• The Lincoln Log (formerly Lincoln Day-by-Day)

Northern Politicians

• Gideon Welles Papers
• Edwin M. Stanton Papers
• Salmon P. Chase Papers
• Thaddeus Stevens Papers
• Frederick Douglass Papers
• Elihu B. Washburne Papers
• Joseph Holt Papers
• David Davis Family Papers
• Indiana Governor Oliver P. Morton Telegraph Books
• Illinois Governor Richard Yates Papers (Wabash College)
• Yates Family Papers (Wabash College)
• Letters and Papers of Mrs. Cordelia Harvey (wife of governor of Wisconsin)
• Papers of the Governors of Kentucky
• James Buchanan Resource Center
• Ezra Cornell Papers (New York State Legislator)
• Gerrit Smith Broadside Collection
• Lucy Webb Hayes Civil War Correspondence (Letters to husband, Rutherford B. Hayes)
• Ladies Union League of Madison, Wisc., Papers (Wisconsin)
• Foreign Relations of the United States (1861-1960)

Southern Politicians

• Confederate States of America Records (Library of Congress)
• Judge James W. M. Harris Papers (Vicksburg, Miss., and Richmond, Va.)
• John Janney Collection (president of Virginia Secession Convention in 1861)
• Papers of Jefferson Davis
• Call and Brevard Family Papers (Florida)
• Alexander H. Stephens Papers (Library of Congress)

Miscellaneous

• HarpWeek
• Provost Marshal Papers Index
• Provost Marshal Prison Roles
• Provost Marshal Papers, Two or More Civilians
• Freedmen's Bureau Records

• Getting Out the Message: National Campaign Materials, 1840-1860
• Wright American Fiction database

City Directories

Baltimore City Directories (1796-1946)

Boston City Directories (1789-1969)

Brooklyn City Directories (1856-1967)

Columbia (SC) City Directories (1859-1912)

Nashville City Directories (1853-1924)

New Orleans City Directories (1805-1971)

New York City and Brooklyn Directories (1746-1946)

Philadelphia City Directory (1860)

Washington, D.C. City Directories (1860-1909)

Maps

The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes

Mapping Occupation of the Reconstruction South

Writings by Civilians

John Bigelow Papers (New York Public Library)

Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft (Washington, D.C.)

Frederick Douglass Papers (Library of Congress)

Samuel F. B. Morse Papers (Library of Congress

George F. Doyle Scrapbook (Charleston, Mass.)

Diaries of Iowa Children

Clara Barton Papers (Library of Congress)

Lewis H. Machen Family Papers (Macon, Georgia)

Letters from Henry O. Nightingale (Washington, D.C.) to Miss Gertrude Taylor (Orange, N.J.)

Diary of Addie Trip, 1864 (working class woman in Wisconsin)

Diary of Emilie Quiner, 1861-1863 (student, teacher, and nurse from Wisconsin)

Rose O’Neal Greenhow Papers (Confederate spy in Washington, D.C.)

Alice Williamson Diary (school girl in Tennessee)

Sarah Thompson Papers (Tennessee Unionist)

Letter of Sallie Seeper Scott (1865) (love letter from Virginia)

Mary Custis Lee to Union General Sanford (1861) (Virginia)

Diary of Anne Fannie Gorham (Georgia)

Addie Brown Letter (John Hunt Morgan's Raid in Ohio)

Emilie Davis Diaries (Penn State; free black woman in Philadelphia)

Emilie Davis Diaries (Villanova University)

African American Women Writers of the 19th century

Civil War Surgery Manuals

Freeman Barrows Collection (Missouri)

Rev. Samuel Tupper Diary (U.S. Sanitary Commission)

Letters Received by Edgar R. Knapp (New Yorker at U.S. Military Hospital at Annapolis, Maryland)

Southern Baptist Convention Annuals (1845-2010)

Walt Whitman Archive

Jewish-American History Foundation

Austin-Twyman Correspondence (1861-1864)

Anna Eliza Carolina Partin Memoir (Petersburg)

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