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Soldiers fighting on the battlefield at Antietam

Unknown author; Kurz & Allison, Art Publishers, Chicago, U.S.A. / Restored by Michel Vuijlsteke [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

McClellan Report
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1: vol.19:Part 1, pp. 24-33.
Lee Report
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1:v.19:Part 1, pp. 141-153.
Burnside Report
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1:v.19:Part 1, pp. 416-422.
A.P. Hill Report
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1:v.19:Part 1, pp. 979-982.

Battle of Boonville, by Orlando Richardson. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

N. Lyons Report
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1:v.3, pp. 11-14.

Historical marker at the site of the Battle of Champion Hill, Mississippi

Ken Lund from Las Vegas, Nevada, USA [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Grant Report
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1:v.24:Part 1, pp. 44-59.
Pemberton Report (Pt.1)
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1:v.24:Part 1 pp. 249-295.
Pemberton Report (Pt. 2)
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1:v.24:Part 1, pp. 325-330.

Hooker Report
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1:v.25:Part 1, p. 170.
Slocum Report
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1:v.25:Part 1, pp. 669-673.
Lee Report
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1:v.25:Part 1, pp. 794-805.

"Battle of Chattanooga" by Thure de Thulstrup (1880).

Grant Report
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1:v.31:Part 2, pp. 27-37.
Bragg Report
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1:v.31:Part 2, pp. 664-667.

Grant Report (1 of 2)
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1:v.36:Part 1, pp. 10-12.
Grant Report (2 of 2)
(Grant summarizes some of the events of Cold Harbor in this later report as well)
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1:v.36:Part 1, pp. 21-22.
Meade Report
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1:v.36:Part 1, p. 194.
Lee Report
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1:v.36:Part 1, pp. 1032-1033.

Battle of the Crater explosion artistic rendering

Waud, Alfred. "Scene of the explosion Saturday July 30th" Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g10794

Burnside Report (Battle of the Crater)
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1:v.40, pp. 521-526.
Lee Report (Battle of the Crater)
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1:v.3, pp. 752-753.

Map of the First Battle of Bull Run

Map by Hal Jespersen, www.CWmaps.com [CC BY 3.0] via Wikimedia Commons.

McDowell Report
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1:v.2, pp. 316-325.
Beauregard Report
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1:v.2, pp. 484-504.

Image from page 342 of "The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes" (1911), via Flickr.

Burnside Report
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1: vol.31:Part 1, pp. 272-279.
Longstreet Report
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1: vol.31:Part 1, pp. 455-466.

Ruins of Fort Sumter, Library of Congress.

Anderson Report
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1: vol.1, pp. 12.
Beauregard Report
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1: vol.1, pp. 30-35.

Map of field works at battle field in Franklin, Tennessee
Field works at Franklin, Tenn., occupied by the 23d and 4th corps during engagement of Nov. 30th , Maj. Gen. J. M. Schofield, comdg . [S.l, 1864] Map. .

Schofield Report
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1:v.45:Part 1, pp. 339-347.
Hood Report
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1: vol.45:Part 1, pp. 652-662.

"Havoc," effects of a 32-pound shell from gun of Second Massachusetts Heavy Artillery. Confederate caisson and eight horses destroyed. Fredericksburg, May 3, 1863. Capt. Andrew J. Russell. Mathew Brady Collection. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Burnside Report
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1: vol.21, pp. 82-97.
Lee Report
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1: vol.21, pp. 546-556

Barlow's Knoll at Gettysburg [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Meade Report
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1: vol.27:Part 1, pp. 114-119.
Lee Report
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1: vol.27:Part II, pp. 313-325.

Oil painting of the sinking of the Monitor and the Merrimack

"The Monitor and Merrimac: The First Fight Between Ironclads" by Jo Davidson [Public Domain] via Wikipedia.

Buchanan Report
Official records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. ser.1:v.7, pp. 44-49.
S.D. Greene Report
Official records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. ser.1:v.7, p. 25.

Hand-drawn map of the battle of Kernstown

Sneden, Robert Knox [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Stonewall Jackson Report
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1: vol.12:Part 1, pp. 379-.384
N. Kimball Report
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1: vol.12:Part 1, pp. 360-361.

Painting of field hospital from Pickett's Charge

Hospital scene behind the lines of Pickett's Charge, Gettysburg, Pa. Boston Public Library CC BY via Flickr

James Longstreet Report
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1: vol.27:Part 1, pp. 357-363.
Winfield Scott Hancock Report
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1: vol.27:Part 1, pp. 367-377.

Historical marker commemorating the Battle of Rich Mountain
"Historical Marker", by Brian M. Powell [CC BY-SA 3.0] via Wikipedia.

McClellan Report
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1:v.2, pp. 202-208.
J. M. Heck Report
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1:v.2, pp. 254-259.

Nelson Report
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1:v.16:Part 1, pp. 908-909.
Smith Report
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1:v.24:Part 1, pp. 931-935.

Grant from West Point to Appomattox, by Thure de Thulsrup. [Public Domain] via Wikipedia.

Grant Report
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1: vol.10:Part 1, pp. 108-111.
Beauregard Report
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1: vol.10:Part 1, pp. 385-392.

Kurz & Alison, "Battle of Stone River." Library of Congress [Public domain]

Sketch of battle positions of armies in the Battle of the Wilderness
Jed. Hotchkiss [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Grant's Report
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1:v.36, Part 1, pp. 2-3.
Lee Report
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Ser.1:v.36, Part 1, pp. 1028.

Primary Sources

"Lot Abraham Diary 1864" by Abraham, Lot, Iowa Digital Library, University of Iowa Libraries is in the Public Domain.

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Oil painting of John Brown preaching

"Tragic Prelude," by John Steuart Curry. [Public domain] via Wikiart.

The great match at Baltimore, between the "Illinois Bantam" and the "Old Cock" of the white house, Currier & Ives. Boston Public LIbrary. [Public Domain] via FLickr.

Stenberg, "An Unnoted Factor in the Buchanan-Douglas Feud"
Stenberg, Richard R. "An Unnoted Factor in the Buchanan-Douglas Feud." Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1908-1984) 25, no. 4 (1933): 271-84. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40188819.

The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney, [Public Domain] Library of Congress, via picryl.

Composite photo of Lincoln and Douglas

William Marsh, Springfield, ILJulian Vannerson [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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