| A | B |
|---|
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | The Snowstorm; Concord Hymn |
| Henry David Thoreau | Walden; Civil Disobedience |
| Bailey White | Gardening |
| Emily Saliers | Hammer and a Nail |
| Emily Dickinson | I heard a Fly Buzz; Because I could not stop for Death |
| Walt Whitman | Leaves of Grass; Song of Myself; I hear America Singing |
| Langston Hughes | I, Too |
| Angela de Hoyos | To Walt Whitman |
| Stephen Crane | An Episode of War |
| George Cooper, Stephen Foster | Willie Has Gone to War |
| Spiritual | Swing Low, Sweet Chariot; Go Down Moses |
| Frederick Douglas | My Bondage and My Freedom |
| Ambrose Bierce | An Occurrence at Owl Creek |
| Abraham Lincoln | The Gettysburg Address; Second Inaugral Address |
| Robert E. Lee | Letter to his Son |
| Stephen A. Stills | For What It's Worth |
| Mary Chesnut | Mary Chesnut's Civil War |
| Warren Lee Goss | Recollections of a Private |
| Randolph McKim | A Confederate Account of the Battle of Gettysburg |
| Stonewall Jackson | An Account of the Battle of Bull Run |
