Office of the Historian

Abraham Lincoln Administration (1861–1865)

Note : The volumes listed below contain at least one document from the period of this presidential administration; view and search within the available documents. The Foreign Relations series was organized by year for the volumes covering 1861–1951, triennially for 1952–1963, and by presidential administration for 1964 onward—with some exceptions.

    1861

    1. At the Commencement of the Second Session of the Thirty-seventh Congress (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)

    1862

    1. Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Third Session Thirty-seventh Congress (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)

    1863

    1. Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part I (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    2. Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part II (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)

    1864

    1. Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part I (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    2. Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part II (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    3. Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part III (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    4. Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part IV (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)

    1865

    1. Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth Congress, Part I (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    2. Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth Congress, Part II (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    3. Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth Congress, Part III (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    4. Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Appendix to Diplomatic Correspondence of 1865, The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Late President of the United States of America and the Attempted Assassination of William H. Seward, Secretary of State, and Frederick W. Seward, Assistant Secretary, On the evening of the 14th of April, 1865: Expressions of Condolence and Sympathy Inspired by These Events, Part IV (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)

    1866

    1. Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Thirty-ninth Congress, Part I (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    2. Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Thirty-ninth Congress, Part II (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)

    1867

    1. Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Fortieth Congress, Part I (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)

    1872

    1. Papers Relating to the Treaty of Washington, Part II, Volume I (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    2. Papers Relating to the Treaty of Washington, Part II, Volume II (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    3. Papers Relating to the Treaty of Washington, Part II, Volume V (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)

    1873

    1. General Correspondence; and Papers Relating to Naturalization and Expatriation, Part I, Volume II (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    2. Papers Relating to the American and British Joint Claims Commission, Part II, Volume III (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)

    1879

    1. Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 1, 1879 (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)

    1894

    1. Affairs in Hawaii, Appendix II (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)