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The following historic documents of and about the Confederacy are available for your perusal. |
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Read the headlines of the Boston paper, April 13, 1861.
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Read the original 13th Amendment, proof that Mr. Lincoln's War was not fought over slavery.
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Andersonville. Read this excellent historical essay about Andersonville, and discover the little-known
fact that there were two sides to this story.
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Read an excellent article about the eight significant changes from the U.S.Constitution to the C.S. version.
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The Declaration of Independence (1776) (drafted by Thomas Jefferson of Virginia) noted that nature's
laws permit a people to declare independence from a corrupt government and went on to specify the corrupt
actions of England that had led the United States of America to declare their independence.
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Read the U.S. Constitution. Find out what all the fuss was about!
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Read the 26 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
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Read an analysis of Texas vs. White In this court case, the Supreme Court,
bothering itself little with such trivia as facts, declared secession to be illegal.
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Read Robert E. Lee's General Order #9 issued to the Army of Northern Virginia after
their surrender at Appomatox.
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Read Cleburne's Memorial. This eloquent document was a proposal put forth on January 2, 1864 by
Major-General Patrick R. Cleburne to enlist 300,000 slaves in the Southern Army in exchange for their freedom.
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Read an extremely harsh letter from General D.H. Hill to Union General
Samuel Foster. Warning: Those fiercely proud of their Yankee heritage, Yankee blood, or anything Yankee should not Click Here!
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Read a Letter written by a former Confederate POW to the New York
Times, and their surprising reply!
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Read The Trial of Henry Wirz, by James Dark. An account of the
judicial proceeding in which the Commandant of Andersonville Prison was sentenced to death.
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Read a statement made to Congress in 1893 by Rep. James T. Harris, a
former slave, on the subject of building monuments to Confederate soldiers.
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