01/01/1841
Abraham Lincoln to Andrew McCormick, January 1, 1841
06/16/1858
Boston (MA) Herald, “Illness of President Buchanan,” June 16, 1858
08/20/1858
Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Signs of Fright,” August 20, 1858
01/23/1859
New York Herald, “Forney on a Short Allowance,” January 23, 1859
04/28/1859
New York Times, “The President and His Visitors,” April 28, 1859
05/11/1859
New York Times, “When Did He Die?,” May 11, 1859
05/28/1859
(Concord) New Hampshire Statesman, “Expenses of the White House,” May 28, 1859
06/29/1859
New York Times, “Albany and Richmond,” June 29, 1859
09/09/1859
New York Times, “The Telegraph and the Presidency,” September 9, 1859
04/20/1860
Cleveland (OH) Herald, “Mr. Buchanan’s Letter,” April 20, 1860
05/09/1860
Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel, “The Coming Conventions,” May 9, 1860
05/23/1860
Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Lincoln as He Is,” May 23, 1860
06/12/1860
New York Herald, “Commencement of Republican Cabinet Making,” June 12, 1860
10/21/1860
New York Herald, “American Sensations During 1860,” October 21, 1860
11/18/1860
New York Herald, “Douglas on Lincoln,” November 18, 1860
11/28/1860
New York Herald, “The Meeting of Congress,” November 28, 1860
04/01/1861
Abraham Lincoln to William Seward, April 1, 1861
04/15/1861
Abraham Lincoln, Presidential Proclamation, April 15, 1861, Washington , DC
04/19/1861
Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation of a Blockade of the South, April 19, 1861
07/04/1861
Abraham Lincoln, Message to the Congress in Special Session, July 4, 1861
08/13/1861
Savannah (GA) News, “Abe Lincoln Assassinated!,” August 13, 1861
09/02/1861
Abraham Lincoln to John Frémont, September 2, 1861
11/07/1861
Abraham Lincoln to Lorenzo Thomas, November 7, 1861
12/03/1861
Abraham Lincoln, Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1861
12/05/1861
Memorandum by Alexander T. Galt, Canadian diplomat, describing interview with Abraham Lincoln, December 5, 1861
12/14/1861
Abraham Lincoln to Arnold Fischel, December 14, 1861
12/31/1861
Abraham Lincoln to David Hunter, December 31, 1861
01/13/1862
Abraham Lincoln to Don Carlos Buell, January 13, 1862
01/27/1862
Abraham Lincoln, General War Order No. 1, January 27, 1862
02/03/1862
Abraham Lincoln to the King of Siam, February 3, 1862
04/09/1862
Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan, April 9, 1862
04/10/1862
President Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation to the Nation
04/16/1862
President Abraham Lincoln, Signing statement for the Bill to Abolish Slavery in the District of Columbia
05/19/1862
Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation Revoking General Hunter's May 9, 1862 Order of Military Emancipation, May 19, 1862
07/22/1862
Abraham Lincoln, Emancipation Proclamation---First Draft, Washington, DC, July 22, 1862
07/26/1862
Abraham Lincoln to Reverdy Johnson, Washington, DC, July 26, 1862
07/28/1862
Abraham Lincoln to Cuthbert Bullitt, July 28, 1862
08/04/1862
Abraham Lincoln to Agenor-Etienne de Gasparin, August 4, 1862
08/09/1862
New York National Anti-Slavery Standard, "Speech of Rev. M.D. Conway," August 9, 1862
08/14/1862
Abraham Lincoln, Remarks on Colonization to African-American Leaders, August 14, 1862
08/22/1862
Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862
08/22/1862
Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley, Washington, DC, August 22, 1862
09/02/1862
Abraham Lincoln, Mediation on the Divine Will, circa September 2, 1862
09/22/1862
Abraham Lincoln, Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, September 22, 1862
09/28/1862
Abraham Lincoln to Hannibal Hamlin, September 28, 1862
10/13/1862
Abraham Lincoln to George Brinton McClellan, October 13, 1862
11/02/1862
Mary Todd Lincoln to Abraham Lincoln, November 2, 1862
11/10/1862
Abraham Lincoln to Carl Schurz, November 10, 1862
11/21/1862
Abraham Lincoln to George Foster Shepley, November 21, 1862
12/01/1862
Abraham Lincoln, Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862
12/06/1862
Abraham Lincoln to Henry H. Sibley, December 6, 1862
12/23/1862
Abraham Lincoln to Fanny McCullough, December 23, 1862
01/01/1863
Abraham Lincoln, Emancipation Proclamation, Washington, DC, January 1, 1863
01/14/1863
Abraham Lincoln to John Dix, January 14, 1863
01/19/1863
Abraham Lincoln to the Workingmen of Manchester, England, January 19, 1863
01/26/1863
Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Hooker, Washington, DC, January 26, 1863
03/27/1863
Abraham Lincoln, Speech to Indians, March 27, 1863
04/17/1863
Joseph Hooker to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, April 17, 1863
05/26/1863
Abraham Lincoln to Isaac Newton Arnold, May 26, 1863
06/10/1863
Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Hooker, June 10, 1863
06/10/1863
Abraham Lincoln, Telegram to Joseph Hooker, June 10, 1863
06/16/1863
Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln, June 16, 1863
07/07/1863
Abraham Lincoln, Response to a Serenade, July 7, 1863
07/14/1863
Abraham Lincoln to George Gordon Meade, July 14, 1863
08/05/1863
Abraham Lincoln to Nathaniel Prentice Banks, August 5, 1863
08/07/1863
Abraham Lincoln to Horatio Seymour, August 7, 1863
08/17/1863
Abraham Lincoln to James Henry Hackett, August 17, 1863
09/02/1863
Abraham Lincoln to Salmon Portland Chase, September 2, 1863
09/11/1863
Abraham Lincoln to Andrew Johnson, September 11, 1863
09/21/1863
Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln, September 21, 1863
10/03/1863
Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation of Thanksgiving, October 3, 1863
11/02/1863
Abraham Lincoln to James Henry Hackett, November 2, 1863
11/19/1863
Gettysburg Address (Bliss Copy), November 19, 1863
11/20/1863
Edward Everett to Abraham Lincoln, November 20, 1863
12/08/1863
Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, December 8, 1863
12/08/1863
Abraham Lincoln, Annual Message to Congress, December 8, 1863
12/09/1863
George F. Shepley to Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday, December 09, 1862
02/04/1864
Abraham Lincoln to Edward Everett, February 4, 1864
03/13/1864
Abraham Lincoln to Michael Hahn, March 13, 1864
04/03/1864
Recollection by Orville Hickman Browning, April 3, 1864, Washington, D.C.
04/22/1864
Albert G. Hodges to Abraham Lincoln, April 22, 1864, Frankfort, Kentucky
04/28/1864
John M. Mackenzie to Abraham Lincoln, April 28, 1864, Paducah, Kentucky
06/09/1864
Abraham Lincoln, Reply to Delegation from the National Union League, June 9, 1864
08/08/1864
The Wade-Davis Manifesto, August 5, 1864
08/22/1864
Abraham Lincoln, Speech to the 166th Ohio Regiment, Washington, D.C., August 22, 1864
08/23/1864
Abraham Lincoln, Blind memorandum, Washington, DC, August 23, 1864
08/24/1864
Abraham Lincoln to Henry Jarvis Raymond, August 24, 1864, Washington, DC
11/10/1864
Abraham Lincoln, Response to a Serenade, November 10, 1864
11/11/1864
Diary Entry by John Hay, November 11, 1864, Washington, D.C.
11/21/1864
Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. Lydia Bixby, November 21, 1864
12/06/1864
Abraham Lincoln, Annual Message to Congress, December 6, 1864
12/26/1864
Abraham Lincoln to William T. Sherman, December 26, 1864
01/19/1865
Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant, Washington, DC, January 19, 1865
03/04/1865
Recollection by Frederick Douglass, Inauguration of President Lincoln, March 4,1865, Washington, D.C.
03/15/1865
Abraham Lincoln to Thurlow Weed, March 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.
03/15/1865
Abraham Lincoln to Thurlow Weed, March 15, 1865
04/13/1865
"The President's Speech - The Question of Reconstruction," New York Times, April 13, 1865
04/24/1865
John Curtiss Underwood, Statement on behalf of Southern Refugees to President Andrew Johnson, Washington, D.C.
04/29/1865
Andrew Johnson, Proclamation, Removal of Trade Restrictions in Occupied Southern States, Washington, D.C.
05/02/1865
Andrew Johnson, Proclamation, Reward for the Conspirators, Washington, D.C.
05/29/1865
Andrew Johnson, Amnesty Proclamation, Washington D.C., May 29, 1865
05/29/1865
Andrew Johnson, Proclamation of Reconstruction of North Carolina, Washington, D.C.
06/21/1865
Andrew Johnson, "Proclamation naming Lewis E. Parsons, Jr. provisional governor of Alabama," June 21, 1865, Washington, D.C.
07/03/1865
Andrew Johnson to David Wills, July 3, 1865
10/28/1865
Andrew Johnson to James Johnson, October 28, 1865, Washington, D.C.
10/30/1865
Georgia State Convention, "Plea for the release and pardon of Jefferson Davis..." Milledgeville, Georgia, October 30, 1865
11/11/1865
Lafayette Curry Baker to Andrew Johnson, November 11, 1865, Washington, D.C.
12/18/1865
Andrew Johnson, "Message to Congress respecting the condition of affairs in the Southern States," December 18, 1865
02/07/1866
Frederick Douglass, et al, to Andrew Johnson, February 7, 1866
02/07/1866
Transcript, Meeting between President Andrew Johnson and a Delegation of African-Americans, White House, February 7, 1866
02/08/1866
Benjamin Brown French to Andrew Johnson, February 8, 1866
02/08/1866
Joseph S. Ingraham to Andrew Johnson, Bangor, Maine, February 8, 1866
02/10/1866
Andrew Johnson, Speech to visiting delegation of the Virginia Legislature, the White House, Washington, D.C., February 10, 1866
02/14/1866
John H. Brinton to Andrew Johnson, West Chester, Pennsylvania, February 14, 1866
02/15/1866
Charles Jones Jenkins to Andrew Johnson, Milledgeville, Georgia, February 15, 1866
02/19/1866
Andrew Johnson, Freedmen's Bureau Bill veto message, February 19, 1866
02/20/1866
Jeremiah Sullivan Black to Andrew Johnson, Washington, D.C., February 20, 1866
02/22/1866
Andrew Johnson, Speech before Washington's Birthday Meeting, Washington, D.C., February 22, 1866
03/02/1866
"Mrs. Swisshelm Guillotined," Chicago Tribune, March 2, 1866
03/27/1866
Andrew Johnson, Civil Rights Bill Veto Message, March 27, 1866
03/28/1866
"President Johnson and His Enemies," Daily Union and American (Nashville, TN), March 28, 1866
04/02/1866
Andrew Johnson, Proclamation announcing that the Rebellion has ended, April 2, 1866
04/21/1866
Edmund Cooper to Governor Jonathan Worth, Washington DC, April 21, 1866
08/04/1866
Andrew Johnson to Philip H. Sheridan, Washington, DC, August 4, 1866.
08/06/1866
Philip H. Sheridan to Andrew Johnson, New Orleans, Louisiana, August 6, 1866.
08/20/1866
Andrew Johnson, Proclamation Declaring the Insurrection at an End in Texas, and Civil Authority existing throughout the whole of the United States, August 20, 1866, Washington, D.C.