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Author's name is illegible but signs as Major Commanding. Informs that the companies will be sent as directed, the ferry boat was destroyed and that the men are back in their quarters. Reports on shots being fired at their camp but that no one was...

GLC02414.139

to Eliakim P. Scammon

Copy of a telegram to Brigadier General Eliakim P. Scammon possibly in his hand. Colonel White states that he has sent a scout to Lewisburg and expects to hear from him and from Princeton, West Virginia soon. He has organized a scouting company of...

GLC02414.140

[Scammon endorsement on a telegram from Benjamin F. Kelley]

Brigadier General Kelley asks Brigadier General Scammon of the 23rd Ohio for an update on news of Confederate forces in his area of West Virginia. Scammon endorses and signs with initials answered at 10AM on 17 September.

GLC02414.141

Song on the death of Col. Ellsworth, the gallant Zouave

Published by J. Magee at 316 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Printed on lined paper. Image of Ellsworth falling backward as he was shot at the top of the page. He is grasping the Confederate flag while another soldier returns fire with a rifle over...

GLC03617.07

A Voice from Ellsworth

Dedicated to the New-York Fire-Zouaves. Published by H. De Marsan at 54 Chatham Street, New York. Has same image of flags drapping the sides as well as an image of a Zouave and a black slave that is at GLC03617.05, except this version is not hand...

GLC03617.08

On the Death of Col. Ellsworth

Published by J. Magee at 316 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Image at the top is same as image at GLC03617.07. Depicits Ellsworth falling backward as he was shot. He is grasping the Confederate flag while another soldier returns fire with a rifle over...

GLC03617.09

Ellsworth's Avengers

Published by J. Wrigley at 27 Chatham Street in New York. Marked No. 844 at the top. Sung to the tune of "Annie Lisle." That song is an 1857 ballad by Boston, Massachusetts songwriter H. S. Thompson. The song is about the death of a young maiden, by...

GLC03617.10

[Endorsement on verso of letter to Judah P. Benjamin]

Letter from John Slate to Benjamin, requesting that he be discharged due to ill health, with autograph endorsement signed by Chilton as assistant adjutant general on verso. Also with autograph endorsement signed by Vulosko Vaiden as Slate's...

GLC04210.01

to Daniel Ruggles

Says the Federal steamer Sumter (formerly the Confederate steamer Lovell) has run aground nearby, and discusses possible actions. Says "…she lies within thirty feet of the shore ... evidently becoming firmly fastened every hour …"

GLC04210.02

to unknown

Regarding Confederate troop movements. Written on the same day Confederate forces laid down their arms at Appomattox Court House.
In pencil.

GLC04210.04

to James W. Eldridge

Discusses his service in the Confederate army, acquaintances with famous Confederate generals, and worries about the future of the nation. "Bad blood is brewing and must be let to keep quiet. Our Constitution is a good things among friends, but...

GLC04210.05

The Tri-weekly telegraph. [Vol. 29, no. 107, whole no. 3762 (November 25, 1863)]

Editorial on financial condition. News from Shreveport, the North, the West, the frontier. Movements of Green's brigade. Debate on legal tender.

GLC05959.51.094

The Tri-weekly telegraph. [Vol. 29, no. 108, whole no. 3763 (November 27, 1863)]

Circular to Texas citizens. Letter from the Rangers. Editorial on trans-Mississippi couriers. News from Alexandria, the West, and the legislature. Ads for slave sales.

GLC05959.51.095

The Tri-weekly telegraph. [Vol. 29, no. 108, whole no. 3763 (December 5, 1863)]

Letter to Texas cotton planters. Death of Major Hill. Legislative proceedings. Situation on the border. Editorial announcing the formation of the Texas Cotton Bureau. Fall of Fort Esperanza. Letter from L.A. Bryan. List of voluntary contributions.

GLC05959.51.096

The Tri-weekly telegraph. [Vol. 29, no. 113, whole no. 3768 (December 9, 1863)]

Special orders to the citizens of Houston. Circular to Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. News from Shreveport, the coast, and the West. Editorial on reversal of events at Chattanooga. Legislative proceedings.

GLC05959.51.097

The Tri-weekly telegraph. [Vol. 29, no. 114, whole no. 3769 (December 11, 1863)]

News from the front, Arkansas, Missouri, Shreveport, Memphis, Alexandria. Notice to Negro owners. Editorial on the impressment schedule. The hog question. Banks on the Rio Grande. Canadian journal on the war.

GLC05959.51.098

The Tri-weekly telegraph. [Vol. 29, no. 118 (December 21, 1863)]

News from the front, Shreveport, the Rio Grande. An editorial on the corn crop. Legislative proceedings. Yankee dispatches.

GLC05959.51.099

The Tri-weekly telegraph. [Vol. 29, no. 119, 3774 (December 23, 1863)]

Letter from Captain R.S. Poole. The hog and bacon question. Correspondence between commissioners of exchange. Texas almanac for 1864. General Johnston and General Bragg. Election notice.

GLC05959.51.100

The Tri-weekly telegraph. [Vol. 29, no. 122, 3777 (December 30, 1863)]

News from the front, Shreveport, Alexandria. Act to provide for the defense of the state. Editorial on the impressment. State cotton bonds. Sketches of Quantrell's men: Captain George Todd.

GLC05959.51.101

The Tri-weekly telegraph. [Vol. 29, no. 125, 3780 (January 6, 1864)]

News from Alexandria, the Chesapeake, the front, Shreveport. Hobby's regiment. Editorial questioning when the war will end. Agricultural prospects. Deserted soldier ad.

GLC05959.51.102

The Tri-weekly telegraph. [Vol. 29, no. 126, 3781 (January 8, 1864)]

News from Alexandria, the front. General orders for the district of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona. Editorial on duties for coming crops. Sketch of Quantrell's men: Lieutenant William Anderson. General orders for the state of Texas.

GLC05959.51.103

The Tri-weekly telegraph. [Vol. 29, no. 127, 3782 (January 11, 1864)]

News from the front. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury. Contrast of Revolution of 1776 with war of 1861. Circular to local defense men in district of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.

GLC05959.51.104

The Tri-weekly telegraph. [Vol. 29, no. 128, 3783 (January 13, 1864)]

News from Alexandria. The affair of the Peninsula. Appeal by governor to the state troops not now in service. Sketch of Quantrell's men: Lieutenant William Anderson, continued.

GLC05959.51.105

The Tri-weekly telegraph. [Vol. 29, no. 129, 3784 (January 15, 1864)]

Proposed plan of pacification. Sketches of Quantrell's men: Lieutenant Taylor. Resources of Southern fields and forests. Letter from Mexico. Editorial about Negroes in troops. Indigo. News from the front.

GLC05959.51.106

The Tri-weekly telegraph. [Vol. 29, no. 132, 3787 (January 22, 1864)]

News from Alexandria, Beaumont, the front, Bonham. To Texas citizens from Thomas Lockett, Capt. P.A.C.S. Soda, potash, soap. Contrast of Revolutionary War with Civil War.

GLC05959.51.107