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Southern confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 136 (July 25, 1862)]

An article, "About Arming Negroes: The Policy of General Hunter and the Secretary of War" reports on the a debate in the House of Representatives regarding "negro soldiers", in which a Representative from Kentucky attacks Secretary of State Edwin M...

GLC05959.09.056

[Nine letters (from letterbook) written by General Gustavus Woodson Smith]

Written while Smith was commander of defenses at Richmond (expanded to become the Department of Virginia and North Carolina). Contains a dispatch from Smith to the officer in command of Fredericksburg, Virginia dated 21 November 1862, stating that...

GLC05469

to Edwin McMasters Stanton

Working draft of letter of Baily, a former U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, to the Secretary of War Stanton regarding President Andrew Johnson's reconstruction policies. Informs Stanton, Secretary of War that "the union party at this time is...

GLC05512

to: his wife.

Union victories in the west including the fall of Columbus and New Madrid. Also the capture of Fort Donelson and the abandonment of Bowling Green & Nashville. He complains that Stanton, McClellan and Buell have tried to take credit for his...

GLC05601.100

"At the deathbed of Abraham Lincoln"

One article entitled, "At the Deathbed of Abraham Lincoln," written by James Tanner and printed by the National Republic. Consists of an eye witness account related to Lincoln's assassination and his deathbed. Relays the chaos at the scene at Ford's...

GLC05603.03.04