Northern and Southern Homefronts/Politics

Domestic Matters

• Conscription: CSA April 16, 1862, April 27, 1862, Feb. 1864. United States: Enrollment Act, March 3, 1863.

• New York City Draft Riots

• Copperheads/Vallandigham

• War Democrats/Peace Democrats

• States Rights in the Confederacy

• No-Party Politics

Domestic Matters

• United States Sanitary Commission

• Dorothea Dix

• Clara Barton

• Chimborazo Hospital

• Kate Cummings

Blueprint for Modern America

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Homestead Act

• Morrill Act

Wartime Reconstruction

• Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction

• Wade Davis Bill

1864 Presidential Election

• Pomeroy Letter

• Salmon Portland Chase

• 1864 Election