Drawing depicting scene at 1860 Republican Convention at Wigwam in Chicago Image: Library of Congress
1860 election cartoon Image: Library of Congress
Lincoln and Hamlin 1860 Republican campaign banner Image: National Park Service, Lincoln Home National Historic Site
Broadside reporting secession of South Carolina in December 1860 Image: Library of Congress
Photograph of Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln in March 1861 Image: Library of Congress
Lithograph by Currier & Ives depicting interior of Fort Sumter during its bombardment on April 12, 1861. Image: Library of Congress
Letter of Robert E. Lee dated April 20, 1861 resigning his commission as colonel of First Cavalry of U.S. Army. Image: National Archives
Photograph of dead Confederate soldiers at Second Battle of Fredericksburg May 1863. Image: Wikipedia
Photograph of dead Union soldiers killed at Battle of Gettysburg July 1863 Image: National Archives
Handwritten manuscript of Gettysburg Address November 1863 Image: Library of Congress
Broadside for National Union Ticket in November 1864 presidential election. Image: Library of Congress
Handwritten draft of end of Lincoln's second Inaugural Address March 1865 Image: Library of Congress
"The Fall of Richmond, Virginia, on the Night of April 2nd 1865," lithograph by Currier & Ives. Image: Library of Congress
Wanted poster seeking John Wilkes Booth and other conspirators in assassination of Lincoln and attack on Secretary of State Seward. Image: National Archives
Photograph of hanging on July 7, 1865 of Mary E. Surratt, Lewis T. Powell, David E. Herold, and George A. Atzerodt convicted of conspiracy with John Wilkes Booth in assassination of Abraham Lincoln and attack on Secretary of State William Seward Image: National Archives