HISTORY

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| The Amistad Case | Causes of the Civil War | Causes of the Civil War: Tarriffs and Taxes |

| The Confederate Constitution | Crisis at Fort Sumter |

| Crittiden Compromise | Dixie's Censored Subject: Black Slave Owners |

| Dred Scott Case | Fugitive Slave Act | Getting Out: Secession and Constitutional Law |

| House Divided.Com | The Impending Crisis | The Papers of Jefferson Davis |

| Jefferson Davis's Message to the CS Congress, 1861 |

| Jefferson Davis's Address on the Ratification of the Confederate Constitution |

| John Brown's Raid | Kansas-Nebraska Act | Lee's Farewell Address (General Orders No. 9) |

| Mason-Dixon Line | Missouri Compromise | Col. John Singleton Mosby |

| John Singleton Mosby Biography | John Singleton Mosby Museum | Nat Turner's Rebellion |

| North Georgia Before the Civil War | Opinions of Early Presidents on Slavery |

| Origins of the Civil War Conflict |

| Outline of American History: Sectional Conflict | Secession 1860-1861 |

| Secession Era Editorials Project | Slave Narratives |

| Slavery, Expansion, Politics: Causes of the Civil War |

| The Slave Trade | South Carolina Secession Debate | Texas and Secession |

| The First Wave of Secession |Tutorial: 1850's as an Incredibly Divided Union |

| Underground Railroad | Stand Watie, the forgotten General |

| What happened to slaves when their owners died? |

See also "Old Confederates" for more History

Confederate States Navy

| Blockade Vessells off Wakulla County |

| Charleston War for Southern Independence Naval Operations |

| Clothing, Pay, and Provisions of the Savannah River Squadron |

| Confederate States Navy Information | Listing of Confederate Ships | History of the CSS Hunley |

| CSS Hunley Web Site | The Ironclad Attack on Ft. Sumter, 1863 |

| The Loss of the Monitor, by a Survivor | Lt. Charles Read, CSN, Homepage |

| Major Types and Classes of Confederate ships | Maps and Schematics of Ironclads |

| Navies in the War for Southern Independence | History of the CSS Neuse |

| Official Records of the Confederate States Navy | Raising the Civil War Gunboats |

| Ships of the Confederate States Navy | Sinking of the USS Sultana | The Sultana Remembered |

Rebel Letters

| Letter of Harvey Black, 1863 | Letter of Daniel Blain 1864 | Letter of John H. Ervine 1861 |

| Garber Family Letters, 1861-1863 | Andrew Gatewood | Letter of J.C. Morris, 1863 |

| Letter of William Testerman, 1864 | Letter of Unknown Soldier, 1864 |

10/19/04