CIVIL WAR DOCUMENTS

Original documents put flesh on the bare bones of history, showing the confusion and human detail of great events better than any modern account. Here you will find links to official orders and reports, soldiers' and civilians' diaries, and literary accounts of battles. Eliza Frances Andrews: The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl Dolly Lunt Burge: Her Diary Charles C. Coffin: Four Years of Fighting William Faulkner: Intruder in the Dust U.S. Grant: Letters to W.T. Sherman, Spring 1864 F.Y. Hedley: Marching Through Georgia R.E. Lee: Letter of Resignation to Jefferson Davis J.S. Pennell: The History of Rome Hanks George E. Pickett: Reflections on the Charge at Gettysburg Elisha Rice Reed: "General Lee at Gettysburg" W.T. Sherman: His Wartime Journal W.T. Sherman: Official Orders to His Army, 1864