11/20/1860
Charleston (SC) Mercury, "Federal Troops in the South," November 20, 1860
12/16/1860
New York Herald, “Not a Bed of Roses,” December 16, 1860
12/25/1860
Bangor (ME) Whig and Courier, “Have We a Traitor at the Head,” December 25, 1860
12/31/1860
Lowell (MA) Citizen & News, “Fort Sumter,” December 31, 1860
01/03/1861
New York Times, “Honor to Major Anderson,” January 3, 1861
01/15/1861
New York Herald, “Ex-Secretary Floyd on the Crisis,” January 15, 1861
01/17/1861
Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “An Incident at Fort Sumter,” January 17, 1861
03/01/1861
New York Times, “From Fort Sumter,” March 1, 1861
03/11/1861
Winfield Scott to Abraham Lincoln, March 11, 1861
04/15/1861
Joseph Medill to Abraham Lincoln, April 15, 1861
04/19/1861
Charleston (SC) Mercury, “Henry Ward Beecher on War,” April 19, 1861
06/27/1861
Charleston (SC) Mercury, “Anniversaries of Independence,” June 27, 1861
12/11/1864
Entry by Samuel Elliot, December 11, 1864