While the conflict over slavery was a factor in the Civil War, the abolition of slavery did not become a stated objective until President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which went into effect on January 1, 1863. Freeing the slaves held in the still Confederate controlled states, it is heralded as one of America's most significant documents. Likewise, The Gettysburg Address, delivered by Lincoln on November 19, 1863 in the aftermath of a Union victory at the Battle of Gettysburg, is considered one of the greatest speeches in American history.
Harvard Classics Volume 43 : American Historical Documents
Leif Ericsson, Golden Deer Classics, Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, John Cabot, Giovanni Caboto, King James I, William Bradford, Nathaniel Ward, Henry Vane, John Eliot, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingstone, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Henry Laurens, John Marshall, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Frank Aretas Haskell, R. E. Lee
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President's Inaugural Speeches: From Washington to Trump (1789-2017) : The Rise and Development of America Through the Ambitions and Platforms of Elected Presidents
Bill Clinton, Theodore Roosevelt, George Washington, Benjamin Harrison, Calvin Coolidge, William McKinley, James Madison, Grover Cleveland, Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, Thomas Jefferson, James Buchanan, Herbert Hoover, Barack Obama, John Adams, Martin Van Buren, John Quincy Adams, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, Harry S. Truman, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, William Henry Harrison, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Warren G. Harding, George W. Bush, Donald John Trump, Richard Milhous Nixon, William Howard Taft, Lyndon Baines Johnson, James A. Garfield, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Knox Polk
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Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition
Bill Clinton, Theodore Roosevelt, George Washington, Benjamin Harrison, Calvin Coolidge, William McKinley, James Madison, Grover Cleveland, Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, Thomas Jefferson, James Buchanan, Herbert Hoover, Barack Obama, John Adams, Martin Van Buren, John Quincy Adams, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, Harry S. Truman, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, William Henry Harrison, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Warren G. Harding, George W. Bush, Donald John Trump, Richard Milhous Nixon, William Howard Taft, Lyndon Baines Johnson, James A. Garfield, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Knox Polk
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The Memoirs of the Civil War Commanders : Voices of War: A Collection of Civil War Commanders' Memoirs
Raphael Semmes, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, William Sherman, Ulysses Grant
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President's Inaugural Speeches: From Washington to Trump (1789-2017) : The Rise and Development of America Through the Ambitions and Platforms of Elected Presidents
Bill Clinton, Theodore Roosevelt, George Washington, Benjamin Harrison, Calvin Coolidge, William McKinley, James Madison, Grover Cleveland, Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, Thomas Jefferson, James Buchanan, Herbert Hoover, Barack Obama, John Adams, Martin Van Buren, John Quincy Adams, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, Harry S. Truman, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, William Henry Harrison, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Warren G. Harding, George W. Bush, Donald John Trump, Richard Milhous Nixon, William Howard Taft, Lyndon Baines Johnson, James A. Garfield, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Knox Polk
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The Memoirs of the Civil War Commanders
Raphael Semmes, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, William Sherman, Ulysses Grant
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The Memoirs of the Civil War Commanders
Raphael Semmes, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, William Sherman, Ulysses Grant
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Inaugural Speeches: Complete Edition
Bill Clinton, Theodore Roosevelt, George Washington, Benjamin Harrison, Calvin Coolidge, William McKinley, James Madison, Grover Cleveland, Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, Thomas Jefferson, James Buchanan, Herbert Hoover, Barack Obama, John Adams, Martin Van Buren, John Quincy Adams, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, Harry S. Truman, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, William Henry Harrison, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Warren G. Harding, George W. Bush, Donald John Trump, Richard Milhous Nixon, William Howard Taft, Lyndon Baines Johnson, James A. Garfield, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Knox Polk
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The Collected Memoirs of the Civil War Leaders
Raphael Semmes, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, William Sherman, Ulysses Grant
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Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
Abraham Lincoln
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The Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln
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Lincoln Letters
Abraham Lincoln
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