Resources

Secession Winter

Pro-Union Voices on the Secession Crisis

Political speeches

• “Douglas and Disunion” (re-print of Candidate Stephen A. Douglas’ remarks against secession if Lincoln elected)
• “Mr. Lincoln’s Views on Slavery” (re-print of Lincoln-Douglas debate passages dealing with slavery)

Newspaper article

• Dissolution and its Consequences “The Inexorable Logic of Events”, Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec. 22, 1860, pg. 4
• "The Past and Present Great Republics of the World- the Secession Movement- Lessons of History" (newspaper article from New York, 1861)
• A Genuine Union Speech, Milwaukee Sentinel, Jan. 6, 1861, pg. 2

Pro-Secession Voices

Political speeches

• Inaugural Address of Governor Pickens in South Carolina (newspaper article, 1860)

Newspaper articles

• The Southern Confederacy: No Temporizing, Georgia Weekly Telegraph, Feb. 7, 1861, pg. 3

Acts of Government

• Buchanan's State of the Union Address (1860)
• South Carolina Declaration of Secession

Women

• Woman's Work in the Civil War (book excerpt, 1867)
• Six Months Among the Secessionists (book excerpt, 1862)
• The Boys in Blue, or, Heroes of the "Rank and File" (book excerpt, 1867)

Life of the Soldier

• Rules for Preserving the Health of the Soldier (government doc, 1861)