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Walt Whitman, from “Song of Myself,” Leaves of Grass, 1855 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402 Stephen Foster, from “Hard Times Come Again No More,” 1854 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402 Herman Melville, from Moby Dick, 1851 . . . . 403 Harriet Beecher Stowe, from Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1852 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .403 The Huntsville Advocate, April 6, 1849 . . . . .407 TOPIC 9 Ralph Waldo Emerson, from Ralph Waldo Emerson: His Life, Writings, and Philosophy, 1881 . . . . 410 Clara Barton, from The Life of Clara Barton, 1915 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .411 William Lloyd Garrison, from The Liberator, January 1, 1831 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417 David Walker, from David Walker’s Appeal, 1829 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417 African-American Social and Political Thought: 1850–1920, 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417 Sojourner Truth, from “Sojourner Truth, the Libyan Sibyl” . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418 Sojourner Truth, from “Ain’t I a Woman?” December 1851 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418 Roger B. Taney, from Dred Scott v. Sandford , 1857 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .425 Report on the Dred Scott Decision, from The New York Tribune, March 6, 1857 . . . . . . 425 Abraham Lincoln, from “First Joint Debate, at Ottawa, August 21, 1858” . . . . . . . . . .426 Abraham Lincoln, from “Sixth Joint Debate, at Quincy, October 13, 1858” . . . . . . . . . 426 Abraham Lincoln, from a letter to J. T. Hale, January 11, 1861 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428 Abraham Lincoln, from The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, 2003 . . . . .429 Abraham Lincoln, from his first Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861 . . . . . . . . . . .429 Abraham Lincoln, from Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches Letters, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings, 1894 . . 430 Ulysses S. Grant, from Life of Ulysses S. Grant, 1868 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .434 Abraham Lincoln, comment on signing the Emancipation Proclamation, from the National Archives and Records Administration . . . . 438 The Emancipation Proclamation, September 22, 1862 . . . . . . . . . . . .442 Ersatz in the Confederacy, 1952 . . . . . . . 446 Kate Cumming, from A Journal of Hospital Life in the Confederate Army of Tennessee From the Battle of Shiloh to the End of the War, 1866 . . 447

Constitution of the United States . . . . . . . 447 For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . 448 William Heyser, from Franklin County: Diary of William Heyser (1862–1863) . . . . . . . . .452 LeRoy Wiley Gresham, from Diaries, January 1, 1864–January 8, 1865 . . . . . . . . . . . 452 Sarah Edmonds, from The Female Spy of the Union Army: The Thrilling Adventures, Experience, and Escapes of a Woman, As Nurse, Spy, and Scout in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields, 1864 . 453 Mary Boykin Chesnut, from A Diary From Dixie, 1906 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .454 Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley, from Behind the Scenes, 1868 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455 William Baltimore, from Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews With Former Slaves . . . . . . . 456 Robert E. Lee, from Robert E. Lee, 1907 . . . . 457 Abraham Lincoln, from “Abe” Lincoln’s Anecdotes and Stories , 1908 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458 The Gettysburg Nobody Knows, 1997 . . . . .459 Robert E. Lee, from The Strategy of Robert E. Lee, 1914 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .459 Abraham Lincoln, from Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War, 1885 . . . . . . 460 Abraham Lincoln, from the Gettysburg Address, 1863 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460 Abraham Lincoln, from his second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865 . . . . . . . . . . 461 Ulysses S. Grant, from Washington News Letter: A Monthly Magazine, 1917 . . . . . . 461 Abraham Lincoln, from “First Joint Debate, at Ottawa, August 21, 1858” . . . . . . . . . .464 Abraham Lincoln, from a letter to Representative John Gilmer, December 15, 1860 . . . . . . 465 Abraham Lincoln, from a letter to Senator Orville H. Browning, September 22, 1861 . . 466 Abraham Lincoln, from a letter to Albert G. Hodges, April 4, 1864 . . . . . . . . . . . 467 Abraham Lincoln, from his second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865 . . . . . . . . . . 468 Walt Whitman, from “The Wound-Dresser,” 1865 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471 TOPIC 10 Walt Whitman, from “O Captain, My Captain!” 1865 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474 Henry Mars, from a letter to the secretary of war, May 14, 1866 . . . . . . . . . . . . 475 Andrew Johnson, from Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1988 . . . . . . . . 481

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