A collection of poems, short stories, letters, books, and speeches about the American Civil War (1861-1865). Short Stories, Poems, Books, and Speeches & Documents. You may also enjoy our collection of Civil War Songs.
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
A Horseman in the Sky by Ambrose Bierce
Letter to Sarah Ballou by Sullivan Ballou
The Story of a Year by Henry James
A Man With Two Lives by Ambrose Bierce
The Affair at Coulter's Notch by Ambrose Bierce
The Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale
The Battle of Lookout Mountain by William Dean Howells
The Brothers by Louisa May Alcott
The Story of a Conscience by Ambrose Bierce
The Coup de Grace by Ambrose Bierce
Christmas Eve in War Times by Edward Payson Roe
The Burial of the Guns by Thomas Nelson Page
O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman
The Battle Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe
I Wish I Was in Dixie by Daniel Decatur Emmett
To Louisa May Alcott. By Her Father. written for Louisa May Alcott
Bless God, he went as soldiers by Emily Dickinson
Rebel Color-Bearers at Shiloh by Herman Melville
On the Slain At Chickamauga by Herman Melville
The Minstrel Boy by Thomas Moore
The Sleeping Sentinel by Francis De Haes Janvier
A Nameless Grave by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hush'd Be the Camps To-day by Walt Whitman
When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom'd by Walt Whitman
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant
A Narrative on the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom by Louis Hughes
Cooking by Troops, for Camp and Hospital by Florence Nightingale
The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
Second Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln by Abraham Lincoln
Sojourner Truth, The Libyan Sybil by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln
Reconstruction Amendments to the U.S. Constitution by U.S. Congress, Senate, and State Legislatures
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