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Battle Report of 20th Corps Brigade [Atlanta campaign]
1864/05/22
Coburn, John, fl. 1864
Battle Report of 20th Corps Brigade leader to John Speed during Atlanta Campaign.
GLC07580
[Tintype of Albert D.J. Cashier]
1864 ca.
Cashier, a private in Co. G of 95th Ill. Volunteers, was trans soldier born with the name Jennie Hodgers. Seated 3/4 length tintype portrait with fellow soldier.
GLC07587
Reading the Emancipation Proclamation
1864
Stebbins, Lucius, fl. 1864
One lithograph dated 1864. Depicts black family gathered around a soldier reading a newspaper. The family all look to the soldier in varying stated of shock and hope as he reads the emancipation proclamation. Present are eleven people including a...
GLC07595
To: Barton Bates.
1863/01/15
Bates, Edward, 1793-1869
Lincoln's mismanagement of war and weak leadership.
GLC07939
Order.
1864/02/16
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Punishment of deserter William J. Chandler of Penn. Vols. on Executive Mansion stationary.
GLC07942
To: Abraham Lincoln.
1864/04/12 ca.
Powell, Governor L., fl. 1864
Kentucky Governor Powell requested allowance of Confederate POW's to take the oath of Dec. 8th, including prisoners at Camp Chase, Johnson's Island, Camp Douglas, etc.
With note and signature from Lincoln: "Excepting commissioned officers... let the...
GLC07943
Diary of Captain Samuel J. Chaffee, Co. D, 49th Mass. Volunteers.
1862/11-1863/10
Chaffee, Samuel J., fl. 1862-1863
Seige of Port Hudson, battle descriptions, black soldiers, sketches, etc.
GLC07921
Journal of caseworker and surgeon's assistant with Sanitary Commission
1862/06-1863/05
Johnson, E. Emory, fl. 1862-1863
Detailing medical care of Civil War patients. Notebook is housed with diary key.
GLC07923
"We are sometimes asked in the name of patriotism..."
1871 ca.
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Quotation in full: "We are sometimes asked in the name of patriotism to forget the merits of this fearful conflict and to remember with equal admiration those who struck at the nation's life and those who struck to save it--those who fought for...
GLC07926.01
General orders no. 252
1863/07/31
GLC07888
to W.T. Woffard
1865/04/21
Cobb, Howell, 1815-1868
Reporting on the armistice. In part: "I have the honor to inform you that an Armistice has been agreed upon by Gen[era]ls. Sherman & Johnsgon & that all military operations have ceased....In my opinion they will not be resumed at all..."...
GLC07894
Authority to affix the seal to proclamation declaring the end of war in Texas.
1866/08/20
Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875
Ending of the Civil War.
GLC07950.01
Instructing William Seward to affix the seal to a proclamation
1867/10/07
Correcting a previous proclamation of 20 August 1866.
GLC07950.02
New-York daily tribune. [Vol. 25, no. 7520 (May 13, 1865)]
1865/05/13
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872
Reports that news reporters are once again not allowed to enter the courtroom during the Lincoln conspiracy trial. Also includes a previously unpublished letter written by President Lincoln regarding Mr. Thomas Durant and the secession of Louisiana...
GLC08726.32
Harper's weekly. [Vol. 9, no. 447 (July 22, 1865)]
1865/07/22
Harper, James, 1795-1869
Includes engravings of the execution of Lincoln conspirators, portraits of Lewis Payne, David Harold, J.W. Atzerodt, and Mary Surratt, and image of Surratt's home in Washington, D.C. Highlights the consecration of the Gettysburg monument of July 4...
GLC08748.04
The Philadelphia inquirer
19 November 1863
Harding, William W., 1830-1889
Includes articles on the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery. Documents the departure of President Abraham Lincoln from Washington, D. C. to attend the dedication. Includes Civil War reports from the Army of the Cumberland and the...
GLC08781
New York herald. [No. 9415 (June 20, 1862)]
1862/06/20
GLC08726.21
New-York daily tribune. [Vol. 22, no. 6622 (June 25, 1862)]
1862/06/25
GLC08726.22
New-York times. [Vol. 11, no. 3358 (June 27, 1862)]
1862/06/27
GLC08726.23
New-York daily tribune. [Vol. 22, no. 6625 (June 28, 1862)]
1862/06/28
GLC08726.24
New-York times. [Vol. 11, no. 3397 (August 13, 1862)]
1862/08/13
GLC08726.25
New-York times. [Vol. 12, no. 3523 (January 8, 1863)]
1863/01/08
GLC08726.26
New-York daily tribune. [Vol. 22, no. 6821 (February 13, 1863)]
1863/02/13
GLC08726.27
New-York daily tribune. [Vol. 22, no. 6868 (April 9, 1863)]
1863/04/09
GLC08726.29
New-York times. [Vol. 13, no. 3931 (April 29, 1864)]
1864/04/29
Tax bill, Lincoln on slavery page 3.
GLC08726.30
New-York times. [Vol. 14, no. 4175 (February 10, 1865)]
1865/02/10
Peace conference, Grant, Sherman
GLC08726.31
New-York times. [Vol. 14, no. 4281 (June 14, 1865)]
14 June 1865
Raymond, Henry J. (Henry Jarvis), 1820-1869
Includes two proclamations issued by President Andrew Johnson. The first proclamation addresses trading restrictions officially removed within Southern states, and the second discusses some of Johnson's reconstruction policies. Includes...
GLC08726.33
Tri-weekly telegraph [bombardment of Vicksburg, T.J. Jackson's Valley campaign]
11 July 1862
GLC08732
New-York daily tribune. [Vol. 22, no. 6786 (January 3, 1863)]
3 January 1863
Prints the Emancipation proclamation on page four. This is among the early printings of the Proclamation in a newspaper. Other news includes the Battle of Murfreesboro with map, attack on Vicksburg, and other Civil War news. Includes article on U...
GLC08748.03
The New-York times. [Vol. 11, no. 3306 (April 28, 1862)]
28 April 1862
Capture of New Orleans with map.
GLC08748.07
New York times. [Vol. 12, no. 3514 (December 28, 1862)]
December 28, 1862
This prints Davis' retaliatory policy against Gen. Benjamin F. Butler's New Orleans policy. (This policy is mentioned in Jefferson Davis' speech, GLC# 699.)
GLC08752
New York times. [Vol. 13, no. 3988 (July 6, 1864)]
6 July 1864
Vol. 13 no. 3988. Describes sinking of the CSS Alabama p.1, the suspension of habeas corpus in Kentucky, etc.
GLC08755
The Evening Post. [Vol. 55, no. 91 (November 11, 1864)]
11 November 1864
Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878
Announces the re-election of President Abraham Lincoln and lists election returns by state. Also describes plots of Confederate agents in Canada to sink the steamer Michigan and release the prisoners on Johnson's island. Reprints excerpts from...
GLC08765
New York times. [Vol. 12, no. 3515 (December 29, 1862)]
1862/12/29
Banks' expedition to New Orleans
GLC08772
The daily examiner. [no volume or number information, (January 7, 1865)]
January 7, 1865
William Lloyd and Co. (Richmond, Va.), fl. 1861-1865
A Confederate newspaper previously published as "The Richmond Examiner." Published without a masthead 30 May 1864-9 December 1865. Pencil signature at top says "Rev. Everhart" (or Overhart). Includes coverage of the fall of Savannah to General...
GLC08780
New York times. [Vol. 14, no. 4290 (June 25, 1865)]
1865/06/25
Sherman's march from Atlanta to Savannah.
GLC08783
The crisis. [Vol. 3, no. 2 (February 4, 1863)]
February 4, 1863
Medary, Samuel, 1801-1864
Discussing the military service of African Americans, states "The very act of arming them, of equalizing us with them ... is a lawless, revolutionary act, subversive of all these distinctions of races, which have saved us Anglo-Saxons, Celts, and...
GLC08786
The New York herald. [No. 9136 (September 15, 1861)]
1861/09/15
Bennett, James Gordon, 1841-1918
Prints a letter of President Lincoln to John C. Fremont concerning emancipation. Headline reads, "Modification of the Proclamation with regard to the liberation of slaves." Lincoln asks Fremont to modify his order proclaiming that all slaves owned...
GLC08793
Chicago tribune. [Vol. XVIII, no. 12 (November 9, 1864)]
9 November 1864
Tribune Co., 1864-1872
Announces the re-election of Abraham Lincoln for president, "A Victory of Gigantic Proportions. Re-Election of Abraham Lincoln." Other articles include news on the Civil War such as Union General William T. Sherman's advance on Savannah and...
GLC08797
New York tribune. [Vol. 21, no. 6324 (July 21, 1861)]
21 July 1861
Latest news from Bull Run.
GLC08798
New York tribune. [Vol. 24, no. 7,249 (June 29, 1864)]
29 June 1864
Reports on various Civil War events, including a 27 June 1864 Confederate attack on General Ambrose Burnside's soldiers. Includes a tribute from a Kentucky slaveholder concerning an enlisted slave. Includes local reports, international news, and...
GLC08800
Weekly patriot and union. [Vol. 16, no. 4 (June 4, 1868)]
1868/06/04
Also prints a once supressed report on Ben. B. F. Butler in New Orleans. Johnson acquitted, Stanton resigns.
GLC08805
The New York times. [Vol. XIV, no. 4220 (April 14, 1865)
1865/04/14
Covers General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox in detail. Includes an account of the events leading up to the surrender, an interview between Ulysses S. Grant and Lee, the signing of the articles of capitulation by Lee, the era of peace...
GLC08807
to Edwin M. Stanton
June 4, 1863
One letter from Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton dated June 4, 1863. Regarding suspending the publication of the anti-war Chicago Times.
GLC00001
Emancipation Proclamation
January 1, 1863
Wide margined copy of the Leland-Boker "authorized" edition, produced for raising money at the Philadelphia Great Central Sanitary Fair in June 1864. The Sanitary Commission engaged in hospital and other charitable work during the Civil War; it was a...
GLC00004
to Gen. Stephen A. Hurlbut.
August 4, 1863
Lincoln tested the firing mechanism of automatic navy rifles and found it faulty; he tells Hurlbut not to order the guns. (Hurlbut) Convicted of embezzling funds and money from the National Bank of Baltimore.
GLC00005.01
The correspondence between the commissioners of the state of So. Ca. to the government at Washington and the President of the United States; ...
1861
South Carolina. Convention, 1860-1862
Title continues, " ... together with the statement of Messrs. Miles and Keitt." Concerns the secession of South Carolina and the attempt by the Carolina authorities to gain control over federal property in the state. Contains copies of letters...
GLC08841
[Printed letter to General George B. McClellan]
9 April 1862
Discusses the defense of Washington and Manassas Junction and a discrepancy with the number of troops under McClellan. Urges McClellan to strike soon, "By delay, the enemy will readily gain on you ... and once more let me tell you, it is...
GLC08850
[Adjutant General's Office general orders no. 1: Emancipation Proclamation]
2 January 1863
Includes obliterated property stamp on page one. Possibly the first army printing of the final proclamation. Binding is extremely fragile.
GLC08852
Report of the joint select committee to inquire into the condition of affairs in the late insurrectionary states.
1872
United States. Congress (42nd, 2nd session : 1871-1872)
Published by the Government Printing Office. Explores the Ku Klux Klan, and contains witness reports regarding the number of Klan members, Klan initiation doctrines (including swearing oaths against the Union League), and other Klan activities....
GLC08872
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