Topic
War & the Civil War
Ingersoll's reflections on his Civil War service, the Union cause, Reconstruction, and the soldiers' sacrifice.
| Work | Volume | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Address to the 86th Illinois Regiment Peoria, Illinois, 1866. | Vol. 9 | 1866 |
| An Address to the Colored People Galesburg, Illinois, 1867. | Vol. 9 | 1867 |
| Speech at Indianapolis (1868) Attorney-General of Illinois, Rink, Indianapolis. | Vol. 9 | 1868 |
| Heretics and Heresies Liberty, a Word without which all other Words are Vain | Vol. 1 | 1874 |
| About Farming in Illinois To Plow is to Pray — to Plant is to Prophesy, and the Harvest Answers and Fulfills. | Vol. 1 | 1877 |
| My Reviewers Reviewed A reply to the clergymen of San Francisco. | Vol. 7 | 1877 |
| Hard Times and the Way Out Boston, October 20, 1878. | Vol. 9 | 1878 |
| Robert Burns The peasant poet of Scotland. | Vol. 3 | 1878 |
| The Grant Banquet Twelfth toast, Chicago, November 13, 1879. | Vol. 12 | 1879 |
| Brooklyn Speech Brooklyn Academy of Music, introduced by Henry Ward Beecher. | Vol. 9 | 1880 |
| Interview on Chief Justice Comegys On the Delaware blasphemy indictment. | Vol. 7 | 1881 |
| Address on the Civil Rights Act Lincoln Hall, Washington, October 22, 1883. | Vol. 11 | 1883 |
| Which Way? The natural and the supernatural. | Vol. 3 | 1884 |
| Reunion Address Elmwood Reunion of Six Regiments. | Vol. 9 | 1887 |
| A Tribute to Henry Ward Beecher Memorial tribute to the great American preacher. | Vol. 12 | 1887 |
| Decoration Day Address Metropolitan Opera House, New York. | Vol. 9 | 1888 |
| The Ingersoll–Gladstone Controversy Colonel Ingersoll on Christianity. | Vol. 6 | 1888 |
| Rome or Reason A reply to Cardinal Manning. | Vol. 6 | 1888 |
| General Grant's Birthday Dinner Tribute to Ulysses S. Grant. | Vol. 12 | 1890 |
| The Frank B. Carpenter Dinner Tribute to the painter Frank B. Carpenter. | Vol. 12 | 1892 |
| The Agnostic Christmas On keeping Christmas without the supernatural. | Vol. 11 | 1892 |
| Western Society of the Army of the Potomac Banquet Civil War veterans reunion. | Vol. 12 | 1892 |
| Sumter's Gun On the Civil War and its consequences. | Vol. 11 | 1893 |
| A Reply to Rev. John Hall and Warner Van Norden On hungry cloakmakers and the Christianity of capital. | Vol. 7 | 1894 |
| Abraham Lincoln The grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. | Vol. 3 | 1894 |
| The Religious Belief of Abraham Lincoln Letter to Mr. Seip, New York, May 28, 1896. | Vol. 12 | 1896 |
| The Truth Through millions of ages man slowly developed his brain. | Vol. 4 | 1897 |
| Our New Possessions On Cuba, the Philippines, and the territorial gains of 1898. | Vol. 12 | 1898 |
| Spain and the Spaniards On the Spanish-American War. | Vol. 12 | 1898 |
| Superstition To believe in spite of evidence or without evidence. | Vol. 4 | 1898 |
| A Look Backward and a Prophecy Ingersoll's last essay. | Vol. 11 | 1899 |