Contents:
Frederick Douglass: What shall be done with the slaves if emancipated?, January 1862
John Boston to Elizabeth Boston, January 12, 1862
Salmon P. Chase: Journal, January 6, 1862
Abraham Lincoln to Don Carlos Buell and Henry W. Halleck, January 13, 1862
Abraham Lincoln: President's General War Order No. I, January 27, 1862; President's Special War Order No. I, January 31, 1862
George B. McClellan to Edwin M. Stanton, February 3, 1862
Julia Ward Howe: The Battle hymn of the republic, February 1862; from Reminiscences, 1819-1899
The New York Times: An important arrest, February 11, 1862; The Ball's Bluff disaster---Gen. McClellan and Gen. Stone, April 12, 1863
Lew Wallace: from An autobiography
John Kennerly Farris to Mary Farris, October 31, 1862
Henry Walke: The western flotilla at Fort Donelson, Island Number Ten, Fort Pillow and Memphis
Braxton Bragg to Judah P. Benjamin, February 15, 1862
John B. Jones: Diary, February 8-28, 1862
Jefferson Davis: Message to the Confederate Congress, February 25, 1862
George E. Stephens to the Weekly Anglo-African, March 2, 1862
Orpheus C. Kerr: from The Orpheus C. Kerr papers
Dabney H. Maury: Recollections of the Elkhorn campaign
Abraham Lincoln: Message to Congress on compensated emancipation, March 6, 1862; Abraham Lincoln to James A. McDougall, March 14, 1862
Catesby ap Roger Jones: from "Services of the 'Virginia' (Merrimac)"
Nathaniel Hawthorne: from "Chiefly about war-matters"
George B. McClellan to the Army of the Potomac, March 14, 1862, and to Samuel L. M. Barlow, March 16, 1862
Charles Francis Adams to Charles Francis Adams Jr., April 4, 1862
Emily Dickinson to Louise and Frances Norcross, late March 1862
Frederick Douglass: The war and how to end it, March 25, 1862
Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan, April 9, 1862
Ulysses S. Grant to Commanding Officer, Advance Forces, April 6, 1862; to Julia Dent Grant, April 8, 1862; to Nathaniel H. McLean, April 9, 1862; to Jesse Root Grant, April 26, 1862; and to Elihu B. Washburne, May 14, 1862
William T. Sherman to Ellen Ewing Sherman, April 11, 1862
George W. Dawson to Laura Amanda Dawson, April 26, 1862
Herman Melville: Shiloh, April 1862
Confederate conscription acts, April 16 and 21, 1862
Abraham Lincoln: Message to Congress, April 16, 1862
John Russell Bartlett: the "Brooklyn" at the passage of forts
George Hamilton Perkins to Susan G. Perkins, April 27, 1862
Charles S. Wainwright: Diary, May 5, 1862
John B. Jones: Diary, May 14-19, 1862
Garland H. White to Edwin M. Stanton, May 7, 1862
Abraham Lincoln: Proclamation revoking General Hunter's emancipation order, May 19, 1862
Richard Taylor: from Destruction and reconstruction
Elizabeth Blair Lee to Samuel Phillips Lee, May 26, 1862
Thoma O. Moore: To the people of Louisiana, May 24, 1862
Lord Palmerston to Charles Francis Adams, June 11, 1862; Benjamin Moran: Journal, June 25, 1862
Henry Ropes to William Ropes, June 3-4, 1862
Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, June 5, 1862
David Hunter to Edwin M. Stanton, June 23, 1862
Kate Stone: Journal, June 29-July 5, 1862
Edward Porter Alexander: from Fighting for the Confederacy
Charles A. Page: from Letters of a war correspondent
George B. McClellan to Edwin M. Stanton, June 28, 1862
Abraham Lincoln to William H. Seward, June 28, 1862
Charles B. Haydon: Journal, June 25-July 1, 1862
Asa D. Smith: Narrative of the Seven Days' battles
Judith W. McGuire: Diary, June 27-30, 1862
Sallie Brock: from Richmond during the war
Sara Agnes Pryor: from Reminiscences of peace and war
Whitelaw Reid: General Hunter's negro soldiers, July 6, 1862
George B. McClellan to Abraham Lincoln, July 7, 1862
Thomas H. Dudley and J. Price Edwards: an exchange, July 9, 10, and 16, 1862
Abraham Lincoln: appeal to border state representatives for compensated emancipation, July 12, 1862
Second Confiscation Act, July 17, 1862
John Pope: Address to the Army of Virginia, July 14, 1862
John Pope: General Orders Nos. 5, 7, 11, July 18, 20, and 23, 1862 - Fitz John Porter to Joseph C. G. Kennedy, July 17, 1862
August Belmont to Thurlow Weed, July 20, 1862
Salmon P. Chase to Richard C. Parsons, July 20, 1862
Salmon P. Chase: Journal, July 22, 1862
Abraham Lincoln: first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation, July 22, 1862
Francis B. Carpenter: from Six months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln to Cuthbert Bullitt, July 28, 1862
Henry W. Halleck to George B. McClellan, August 6, 1862
Confederate War Department: General Orders No. 60, August 21,1862
Abraham Lincoln: Address on colonization, August 14, 1862
Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862
William T. Sherman to Thomas Hunton, August 24, 1862
John Lothrop Motley to William H. Seward, August 26, 1862
Harriet Jacobs to William Lloyd Garrison, September 5, 1862
Edward Porter Alexander: from Fighting for the Confederacy
Charles Francis Adams Jr. to Charles Francis Adams, August 27, 1862
John Hampden Chamberlayne to Martha Burwell Chamberlayne, September 6, 1862
John Pope to Henry W. Halleck, September 1, 1962
Clara Barton to John Shaver, September 4, 1862
Gideon Welles: Diary, August 31-September 1, 1862
John Hay: Diary, September 1, 1862
Edward Bates: Remonstrance and notes on Cabinet meeting, September 2, 1862
Salmon P. Chase: Journal, September 2, 1862
George B. McClellan to Mary Ellen McClellan, September 2, 1862
Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, September 3, 1862
George Templeton Strong: Diary, September 3-4, 1862
William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Freeman Lusk, September 6, 1862
Abraham Lincoln: Meditation on the divine will, c. early September 1862
Lord Palmerston and Lord Russell: An exchange, September 14, 17, and 23, 1862
Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, September 8, 1862
Lewis H. Steiner: Diary, September 5-6, 1862
James Richmond Boulware: Diary, September 4-14, 1862
Alpheus S. Williams to George B. McClellan, September 13, 1862; Robert E. Lee: Special Orders No. 191, September 9, 1862
George W. Smalley: Narrative of Antietam, September 17, 1862
Rufus R. Dawes: from Service with the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers
Alpheus S. Williams to Irene and Mary Williams, September 22, 1862
David L. Thompson: With Burnside at Antietam
Samuel W. Fiske to the Springfield Republican, September 20, 1862
Clifton Johnson: from Battleground adventures
Mary Bedinger Mitchell: A woman's recollections of Antietam
George B. McClellan to Mary Ellen McClellan, September 20, 1862
Ephraim Anderson: from Memoirs: historical and personal
Gideon Welles: Diary, September 22, 1862
Abraham Lincoln: Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, September 22, 1862; Proclamation suspending the writ of habeas corpus, September 24, 1862
L. A. Whitely to James Gordon Bennett, September 24,1862
George B. McClellan to William H. Aspinwall, September 26, 1862
Abraham Lincoln: Record of dismissal of John J. Key, September 26-27, 1862
Fitz John Porter to Manton Marble, September 30, 1862
Braxton Bragg: To the people of the Northwest, September 26, 1862
Ralph Waldo Emerson: The President's proclamation, September, 1862
Frederick Douglass: Emancipation proclaimed, October 1862
Debate in the Confederate Senate on retaliation for the Emancipation Proclamation, September 29 and October 1, 1862
The Times of London: Editorial on the Emancipation Proclamation, October 7, 1862
George B. McClellan to Abraham Lincoln, October 7, 1862
Oscar L. Jackson: from The Colonel's diary
Charles B. Labruzan: Journal, October 4, 1862
J. Montgomery Wright: Notes of a staff-officer at Perryville
Sam R. Watkins: from "Co. Aytch,"Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment
Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan, October 13, 1862
Lord Palmerston to Lord Russell, October 2 and 22, 1862
Charles Sumner to John Bright, October 28, 1862
Francis Preston Blair to Montgomery Blair, November 7, 1862
George G. Meade to Margaret Meade, November 8, 1862
Orville H. Browning: Diary, November 29, 1862
Abraham Lincoln: Annual message to Congress, December 1, 1862
Edward Porter Alexander: from Fighting for the Confederacy
Samuel W. Fiske to the Springfield Republican, December 15 and 17, 1862
Henry Livermore Abbott to Josiah Gardner Abbott, December 14, 1862, and to George B. Perry, December 17, 1862
Clifton Johnson: from Battleground adventures
Walt Whitman: from Specimen days
Louisa May Alcott: from Hospital sketches
Orville H. Browning: Diary, December 18, 1862
Gideon Welles: Diary, December 19-20, 1862
Harper's Weekly: The reverse at Fredericksburg, December 27, 1862
George Templeton Strong: Diary, December 27, 1862
Fitz John Porter to Samuel L. M. Barlow, December 29, 1862
Cyrus F. Boyd: Diary, December 22-25, 1862
Jefferson Davis: Address to the Mississippi Legislature, December 26, 1862
William T. Sherman to John Sherman, January 6, 1863
Samuel Sawyer, Pearl P. Ingalls, and Jacob G. Forman to Samuel R. Curtis, December 29, 1862
Ira S. Owens: from Greene County in the war
Lot D. Young: from Reminiscences of a soldier of the Orphan Brigade
Ambrose E. Burnside to Abraham Lincoln, January 1, 1863
Abraham Lincoln to Henry W. Halleck, January 1, 1863
Abraham Lincoln: Final Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863
Benjamin Rush Plumly to Abraham Lincoln, January 1, 1863
Abraham Lincoln to John A. McClernand, January 8, 1863
