06/20/1854
Richmond (VA) Dispatch, "The Northern Springs," June 20, 1854
03/18/1857
New York Times, “How a Gentleman is Appreciated by Proslavery Fanatics,” March 18, 1857
05/07/1857
New York Times, “A New Kink in the Southern Mind,” May 7, 1857
09/10/1857
Washington (DC) National Era, “Exemption of Slave Property,” September 10, 1857
10/12/1857
New York Times, “South Carolina Senator,” October 12, 1857
01/04/1858
New York Herald, "Kansas," January 4, 1858
01/27/1858
New York Herald, "The Approaching Conclusion of the Kansas Comedy," January 27, 1858
03/29/1858
Charleston (SC) Mercury, "The South Carolina College again Broken Up," March 29, 1858
12/16/1858
Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel, “Who are the Agitators?,” December 16, 1858
01/05/1859
Lowell (MA) Citizen & News, “Disunion,” January 5, 1859
02/14/1859
New York Times, “Admission of Oregon,” February 14, 1859
06/22/1859
Charleston (SC) Mercury, “Virginia Will Lead,” June 22, 1859
07/12/1859
Charleston (SC) Mercury, “The South Carolina Naturalization Law,” July 12, 1859
07/20/1859
New York Herald, “The Spoils,” July 20, 1858
07/26/1859
San Francisco (CA) Evening Bulletin, “If a Republican President?,” July 26, 1859
08/15/1859
Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “What is thought at the North of the New Ultimatum,” August 15, 1859
08/24/1859
Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune,“Census Revelations in South Carolina,” August 24, 1859
10/25/1859
Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, "Dissolution of the Union," October 25, 1859
10/25/1859
New Orleans (LA) Picayune, "The Harper's Ferry Affair," October 25, 1859
01/16/1860
Chicago (IL) Press & Tribune, “Nebraska,” January 16, 1860
02/22/1860
Raleigh (NC) Register, “How Firmly United the Democracy Are,” February 22, 1860
03/17/1860
Entry by Edward Bates, March 17, 1860
03/26/1860
William Wilkins to James Watson Webb, March 26, 1860
05/12/1860
Atchison (KS) Freedom’s Champion, “The Charleston Convention,” May 12, 1860
08/17/1860
Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “How the Field Looks,” August 17, 1860
10/05/1860
(Jackson) Mississippian, "The 'Coercion' Issue," October 5, 1860
10/12/1860
New York Herald, “What are the Southern States Going to Do?,” October 12, 1860
10/29/1860
Chicago (IL) Tribune, "The Union at the South," October 29, 1860
11/07/1860
New York Times, "The Administration and Disunion," November 7, 1860
11/10/1860
Chicago (IL) Tribune, "The Disunion Flurry," November 10, 1860
11/10/1860
William T. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, November 10, 1860
11/12/1860
Cleveland (OH) Herald, “A Traitor in Embryo,” November 12, 1860
11/13/1860
Chicago (IL) Tribune, "Secession and Finance," November 13, 1860
11/14/1860
Raleigh (NC) Standard, "Untitled," November 14, 1860
11/15/1860
Ripley (OH) Bee, “Southern Pranks,” November 15, 1860
11/16/1860
Chicago (IL) Tribune, "A Seceder's Opinion in 1851," November 16, 1860
11/19/1860
New York Herald, “The Disunion Question,” November 19, 1860
11/20/1860
New York Times, “A Secession Breakwater,” November 20, 1860
11/22/1860
August Belmont to Herschel Johnson, November 22, 1860
11/23/1860
William T. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, November 23, 1860
11/24/1860
New York Times, "Object of the South Carolina Convention," November 24, 1860
11/26/1860
Cleveland (OH) Herald, “Secession Cadets,” November 26, 1860
12/01/1860
Atchison (KS) Freedom’s Champion, “An Impossibility,” December 1, 1860
12/03/1860
Chicago (IL) Tribune, “A Good Precedent,” December 3, 1860
12/06/1860
August Belmont to William Sprague, December 6, 1860
12/15/1860
Bangor (ME) Whig and Courier, “What Will Texas Do?,” December 15, 1860
12/20/1860
New York Times, “A Sensible Proceeding,” December 20, 1860
12/25/1860
Bangor (ME) Whig and Courier, “Have We a Traitor at the Head,” December 25, 1860
12/25/1860
New York Times, "Secession is Anarchy," December 25, 1860
12/27/1860
Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “Character of the Secession Leaders,” December 27, 1860
12/27/1860
Charlestown (VA) Free Press, “The Clouds Lowering,” December 27, 1860
12/30/1860
New York Herald, “Is South Carolina Out of the Union?,” December 30, 1860
01/03/1861
Charlestown (VA) Free Press, “A Forgeone Conclusion,” January 3, 1861
01/05/1861
Charleston (SC) Mercury, “Pennsylvania Arming,” January 5, 1861
01/07/1861
Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “Secession Flag At Wilmington,” January 7, 1861
01/09/1861
Savannah (GA) News, “The Governor of Michigan Advocating Coercion,” January 9, 1861
01/14/1861
New York Times, “Disunion Leading the Way,” January 14, 1861
01/16/1861
New York Times, “Aid For Disunion,” January 16, 1861
01/19/1861
New York Times, “The Battle of Morris’ Island,” January 19, 1861
02/06/1861
Chicago (IL) Tribune, “The Next Step,” February 6, 1861
02/16/1861
Charleston (SC) Mercury, “Lincoln’s War Speech,” February 16, 1861
02/21/1861
Charleston (SC) Mercury, “Our New Colors,” February 21, 1861
03/04/1861
New York Times, “The Plot Against Mr. Lincoln’s Life,” March 4, 1861
03/14/1861
Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “Abolitionists and Secessionists,” March 14, 1861
04/16/1861
New York Herald, “The Present Administration Doing What The Last Should Have Done,” April 16, 1861
04/19/1861
Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation of a Blockade of the South, April 19, 1861
04/24/1861
New York Times, “How to End the War,” April 24, 1861
04/26/1861
New York Times, “Rushing to Ruin,” April 26, 1861
05/03/1861
Cleveland (OH) Herald, “The Peril of Kentucky,” May 3, 1861
05/10/1861
New York Times, “Not a War against the South,” May 10, 1861
05/19/1862
Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation Revoking General Hunter's May 9, 1862 Order of Military Emancipation, May 19, 1862
12/19/1865
Edward McPherson, Description of "An Act to Amend the Criminal Law of South Carolina," December 19, 1865
01/17/1866
General Daniel E. Sickles, General Order Number One, Headquarters, Department of South Carolina, January 17, 1866