Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865

Abraham Lincoln

March 4, 1861 to April 15, 1865

Year	Date	Document Title
1861	March 4, 1861	Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address
	March 11, 1861	Constitution of the Confederate States of America
	March 12, 1861	Davis’ Message to Congress (Indian Affairs)
	March 15, 1861	Memorandum on Forsyth and Crawford
	March 30, 1861	Address to the People of Texas
	April 1, 1861	Seward’s Plan to Avert Civil War {excerpt}
	April 12, 1861	Davis’ Proclamation for Congress to Convene
	April 13, 1861	The Southern Spy’s First Letter to President Lincoln
	April 15, 1861	Lincoln's Proclamation for 75,000 Federal Troops
	April 17, 1861	Davis’ Proclamation of the Beginning of Hostilities
	April 17, 1861	Lincoln’s Blockade Proclamation
	April 19, 1861	Davis’ Proclamation (Relations with Virginia)
	April 19, 1861	Lincoln’s Proclamation Declaring the Beginning of Hostilities
	April 20, 1861	Lee's Resignation from the U.S. Army
	April 29, 1861	Davis’ Message to Congress of the Ratification of the CSA Constitution
	May 6, 1861	Arkansas’ Secession Ordinance
	May 20, 1861	North Carolina’s Secession Ordinance
	May 21, 1861	Law Relative to Prisoners of War
	May 23, 1861	Virginia’s Secession Ordinance
	June 1, 1861	Davis’ Speech at Richmond
	June 8, 1861	Tennessee’s Secession Ordinance
	July 1861	The Crittenden & Johnson Resolutions on the Objects of the War
	1861	Battle Hymn of the Republic
	1861	Dixie
	1861	Ex Parte Merryman
	July 2, 1861	Lincoln’s Suspension of Habeas Corpus
	July 5, 1861	Lincoln’s Message to Congress
	July 13, 1861	Law Providing Payment of the Militia
	July 17, 1861	Law Authorizing a National Loan
	July 18, 1861	Law Altering the Navy Ration
	July 22, 1861	Law Authorizing the Employment of Volunteers
	July 27, 1861	Law Providing Payment of the Baltimore Police
	July 27, 1861	Law Authorizing Payment to Governors Aiding to Suppress Present Insurrection
	July 29, 1861	Law Providing for the Suppression of Rebellion
	July 29, 1861	Law Increasing the Present Military Establishment
	July 30, 1861	Butler’s Report to the Secretary of War {excerpt}
	July 31, 1861	Law Appropriating Transportation of Arms
	July 31, 1861	Law Defining & Punishing Certain Conspiracies
	August 3, 1861	Law Constructing Armored Ships
	August 3, 1861	Law Better Organizing the Military Establishment
	August 5, 1861	Law Providing Increased Revenue
	August 6, 1861	Law Relative to Appeals to the Supreme Court
	August 6, 1861	Law Punishing Crimes against the U.S.
	August 6, 1861	Law Requiring an Oath of Allegiance
	August 12, 1861	Lincoln Proclaims the Last Thursday in September as a Day of Humiliation, Prayer & Fasting
	August 30, 1861	Frémont’s Proclamation on Slaves
	September 11, 1861	Lincoln’s Message to Frémont
	October 31, 1861	Missouri’s Secession Declaration
	November 18, 1861	Davis’ Message to Congress of the Confederate States
	November 20, 1861	Kentucky’s Secession Resolution
	December 3, 1861	Lincoln’s First Annual Message to Congress
1862	January 27, 1862	Lincoln’s Order to McClellen
	February 11, 1862	Sumner’s Resolutions on the Theory of Secession & Reconstruction {excerpt}
	February 22, 1862	Davis’ Second Inaugural Address
	March 3, 1862	Seward’s Letter to Mr. Adams {excerpt}
	March 6, 1862	Lincoln’s Message to Congress
	March 11, 1862	Lincoln’s Removal of McClellan
	March 13, 1862	Law Making Additional Article of War
	April 7, 1862	Treaty between the U.S. & Great Britain for Suppression of the Slave Trade
	April 10, 1862	Joint Resolution Affording Pecuniary Aid to States Gradually Abolishment of Slavery
	April 16, 1862	Lincoln’s Letter to Congress about Law Emancipating Slaves in the District of Columbia
	April 16, 1862	Law Releasing Certain Persons in the District of Columbia
	April 21, 1862	Law Establishing a Branch Mint in Denver
	April 26, 1862	Anti-Coolie Act of 1862 {extract}
	May 15, 1862	Law Establishing the Agriculture Department
	May 19, 1862	Lincoln’s Proclamation on Freeing the Slaves in South Carolina, Georgia, & Florida
	May 20, 1862	Law Securing Homestead to Settlers
	May 21, 1862	Law Providing Education of Colored Children in D.C.
	May 26, 1862	Lincoln’s Letter Congress on State of War
	June 7, 1862	Law Collecting Direct Taxes in Insurrectionary Districts
	June 19, 1862	Law Securing Freedom within the Territories
	July 1, 1862	Law Punishing & Preventing Polygamy
	July 1, 1862	Law Constructing of a Railroad & Telegraph from Missouri River to Pacific Ocean
	July 2, 1862	The Morrill Act
	July 2, 1862	Law Donating Public Lands to provide Colleges of Agriculture
	July 7, 1862	McClellan’s Letter to President Lincoln {excerpt}
	July 11, 1862	Law Carrying into Effect a Treaty with her Britannic Majesty, suppression of Slave-Trade
	July 11, 1862	Law Concerning Lands granted to Iowa
	July 11, 1862	Resolution Thanking Officers and Men in the Monitor
	July 12, 1862	Law Amending Act Constructing a Railroad and Telegraph Line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean
	July 12, 1862	Law Supplementing the Statute Releasing Certain Persons in D.C.
	July 14, 1862	Pope’s Address to the Army of Virginia {excerpt}
	July 14, 1862	Law Extending the limits of Nevada
	July 14, 1862	Law Granting Pensions
	July 17, 1862	Law Suppressing Insurrection, Punish Treason & Confiscate Rebel Property
	July 17, 1862	Law Authorizing Payments in Stamps
	July 17, 1862	Law Amending Acts Prohibiting the Slave Trade
	July 25, 1862	Lincoln’s Message on the Death of President Van Buren
	August 19, 1862	Greeley’s “The Prayer of Twenty Millions” {excerpt}
	September 22, 1862	Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation
	November 5, 1862	Lincoln’s Removal of McClellan
	December 1, 1862	Lincoln’s Second Annual Message to Congress
	December, 9, 1862	Gordon’s Speech on the Constitutionality of the Conscription Laws
	December 31, 1862	Address to President Lincoln by the Working-Men of Manchester, England
	December 31, 1862	Law Admitting West Virginia into the Union
1863	January 1, 1863	Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation in Force
	January 7, 1863	Resolution of Illinois State Legislature
	January 13, 1863	Resolutions Endorsing the Recent Proclamation and Order of the President on the Subject of Retaliation
	January 19, 1863	Lincoln’s Reply to the Working-Men of Manchester, England
	January 26, 1863	Lincoln’s Letter to General Hooker
	February 24, 1863	Law Providing Temporary Government for the Territory of Arizona
	February 25, 1863	Law Providing a National Currency
	February 28, 1863	Lincoln’s Proclamation for a Special Session of the Senate
	March 3, 1863	Resolutions Against Foreign Mediation {excerpt}
	March 3, 1863	Law Amending Promotion of Useful Arts
	March 3, 1863	Law Incorporating Education of Colored Youth in D.C.
	March 3, 1863	Law Incorporating the National Academy of Sciences
	March 3, 1863	Law to Provide Temporary Government for Idaho
	March 3, 1863	Law Amending Providing for the Care and Preservation of the Works in D.C.
	March 3, 1863	Law Establishing the Gauge of Railroad
	March 3, 1863	Law Relating to Habeas Corpus
	March 10, 1863	Protest of the New Jersey Soldiers {excerpt}
	March 12, 1863	Law Collecting Abandoned Property
	March 18, 1863	New Jersey Peace Resolutions {excerpt}
	April 4, 1863	Bill for Holding Elections for Representatives
	April 20, 1863	Lincoln’s Proclamation Admitting West Virginia into the Union
	April 24, 1863	Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field
	1863	“Life Without Principle”
	July 5, 1863	Lee’s Letter to Jefferson Davis