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Interior View of Castle Pinckney, Charleston Harbor, S. C

E. & H. T. Anthony, publisher. Caption: "Interior View of Castle Pinckney, Charleston Harobr, S. C. Showing the Sally port."

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North Carolina times. [Vol. 1, no. 47 (June 29, 1864)]

Union-occupation newspaper. Masthead motto reads "Liberty and Union - Now and Forever - One and Inseparable." Front page prints recently passed U.S. laws, including acts to provide trials for minor offences and to incorporate homes for women and...

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Weekly gazette and comet. [Vol. 45, no. 21 (March 4, 1863)]

Union occupation newspaper. Mediation between the Southern commissioners and Secretary of State Seward, sinking of the U.S. Gunboat "Kinsman," News from Washington - the Negro Soldier Bill rejected, capture of the "Queen of the West," Charleston...

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The Star-Extra

An extra sheet of the Washington D.C. "Star." Contains three articles: first one from West Virginia on General Morris's attack against a division of Wise's army near Buckanon. Second article on the Tennessee disunionsts seizing the railroad between...

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Dispatch! Extra. Death of the President

Newspaper clipping reports that President Lincoln is dead. Falsely announces that Secretary Seward has also been murdered. Includes information on the plotting of the assassination.

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Herald extra

Reports on various events related to the 19 April 1861 Baltimore Riot, during which secessionists attacked Union soldiers passing through the city. Headlines announce "Governor Hicks Yielding" and "Massachusetts Regiment Reach Washington!"...

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Herald extra. [May 30, 1861]

Two government steamers fired upon at Sewell's Point. Rebels evacuate Grafton in great haste. Rebel cavalry and soldiers in jail at Washington. Col. Bartlett's brigade bound to Fortress Monroe.

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Grant's Petersburg progress. [Vol. 1, no. 4 (April 10, 1865)]

Whimsical and humorous newspaper published by soldiers. Printing news of Gen. Lee's surrender. Includes humorous advertisement for the capture of Jefferson Davis.

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Nashville weekly union. [Vol. 1, no. 30 (May 25, 1863)]

News include report of 4th Mich. Cav. defeating 1st Alabama and capturing their flag. Prints 157 regulations to be followed under martial law. Ink inscription "G.W.C." Later graphite inscription "My uncle Geo. W. Clark."

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Nashville weekly union. [Vol. 2, no. 62 (January 4, 1864)]

Articles discuss black soldiers, slavery as the cause of the war, Lincoln's amnesty proclamation and the plight of rebel prisoners freezing to death in Northern prison camps.

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Brownlow's Knoxville whig and rebel ventilator. [Vol. 1, no. 27 (July 9, 1864)]

Colored troops in Union and Confederate armies, includes information on the death of General Polk, a campaign ad for Lincoln's election, anti-equality and anti-emancipation articles, John Morgan's raid into Kentucky, Sherman's orders to shoot any and...

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Knoxville tri-weekly whig and rebel ventilator. [Vol. 1, no. 2 (July 29, 1864)]

Confiscation Acts - written by the United States District Attorney for the District of East Tennessee, Political Ad for Lincoln & Johson, trade regulations, the Rebel Raid in Maryland.

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New Berne weekly progress. [Vol. 4, no. 50 (July 19, 1862)]

McClellan's Pennisula Campaign, the Battle of Corinth and Benjamin Franklin ("Beast") Butler's order in New Orleans. Includes a false report of Stonewall Jackson's death and wrongly explains how he received his nickname. Remnants of red wax.

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New Berne daily progress. [Vol. 5, no. 74 (December 24, 1862)]

Proclamation issued by Edward Stanley, Military Governor of North Carolina, The Battle of Prairie Grove, Foreign Affairs - Marriage of the Prince of Wales April Next.

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North Carolina times. [Vol. 1, no. 43 (June 18, 1864)]

Union-occupation newspaper. Articles detail the Battle of Kinston, Battle of Columbia, Arkansas, wreck of the U.S. gunboat "Lavender" and invasion of Kentucky. Printed on yellow paper ("brown straw paper").

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Herald of the union. [Vol. 1, no. 20 (March 22, 1865)]

Union occupation newspaper with headline "News of the fall of Wilmington." Also: Postponement of the adjournment of the Confederate Congress, discussion of correspondence between General William T. Sherman and Confederate general Wade Hampton...

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Camp kettle. [Vol. 1, no. 9 (January 7, 1862)]

Regimental newspaper produced by the members of the "Roundhead Regiment of the 100th Pennsylvania Vol."

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Port Hudson freeman. [Vol. 1, no. 1 (July 14, 1863)]

Reports on the Surrender of Vicksburg and Port Hudson. Printed by Union troops the day Port Hudson was captured. States that Mrs. Vallandinham had gone insane but her "nervous system was severely shocked." Also includes a very moving report from a...

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News-Letter Extra

Union Soldiers' newspaper printing correspondence between Commodore David G. Farragut and the Mayor of New Orleans (it is unclear which mayor, there were six in 1862). Copied from the "New Orleans Cresent" of 29 April 1862. Also includes a column...

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Soldier's News-Letter

Edited by Eastman with editorial assistance by Charles Giles of Belfast, Maine. Soldiers' newspaper (Vol. 1, No. 1) reporting on capture of Forts Jackson and Philip, which led to the fall of New Orleans. Gives news of events in New Orleans since its...

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Soldier's News-Letter

Edited by Eastman with editorial assistance by Charles Giles of Belfast, Maine. Soldiers' newspaper (Vol. 1, No. 2). Front page and part of 4th page contains a proclamation from 1 May 1862 by Major General Benjamin Butler which says "it has been...

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to Mary L. Forrest

Reports waiting for military orders with four new vessels. Thanks her for the money she sent and describes how he spent his wages. Discusses relationships between various captains and his meeting with David Porter.

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The black hawk chronicle. [Vol. 1, no. 5 (July 6, 1863)]

Siege of Vicksburg. A Southerner surrenders for whiskey. Many articles illustrate Army - Navy Rivalry. Prints poem Hiawatha.

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Union vidette. [Vol. 1, no. 1 (1863)]

First edition, volume 1, no. 1. "Published every now & then." Counterpart to Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan's "Vidette." Poem to Kearny (dead). Article titled "Is the President's Proclamation of Freedom (Emancipation of Slaves) Constitutional or...

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The Union picket guard. [Vol. 1, no. 8 (November 29, 1861)]

"Fridday" misspelled in masthead. With ink marks (possibly iron gall) . Article about the 2nd Illinois Cavalry has been circled. Includes an article about a flag of truce passing through Paducah, at which point a Confederate flag waved outside a...

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The Richmond whig. [Vol. 1, no. 9 (April 13, 1865)]

Issue is dedicated to General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox. Prints the correspondence between General Lee and General Ulysses S. Grant leading up to the surrender. Prints general orders. Includes articles on the fall of the Confederate...

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Richmond whig. [Vol. 1, no. 12 (April 17, 1865)]

Announcement of the assassination of President Lincoln on page four. Also includes a front page article entitled "feeling of the people of the north toward the south."
The Whig was the first newspaper in the South to print the news of the...

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Richmond whig. [Vol. 1, no. 16 (April 21, 1865)]

Inlcudes news on the raising of the flag at Fort Sumter and surrender of Gen. Johnston in North Carolina. Also contains news concerning the arrest of the Lincoln assassination conspirators. Prints a letter from Edwin Booth concerning the...

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New south. [Vol.1, no. 52 (September 5, 1863)]

Union occupation newspaper. Contains a sarcastic poem titled "Farewell to the South," disparaging views of Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan, a list of "Loyal Generals" who support abolition and "unconditionally sustain the President and his...

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The new south. [Vol. 2, no. 7 (October 24, 1863)]

Union occupation newspaper. Includes articles concerning Naval prizes, Burnside's march from Crab Orchard to Knoxville, news from Morris Island, Vallandingham, the Sanitary Commission, capture of the tugboat "Herald,"Ohio soldiers, and voting. Also...

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Free South. [Vol. 1, no. 35 (September 5, 1863)]

Union occupation newspaper, with content relating to emancipation and African American troops. The arrest and court martial of a soldier who referred to the 3rd USCT as "Nigger Regiment." Using the programs in Delaware and Missouri as examples of...

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Free South. [Vol. 2, no. 12 (March 26, 1864)]

Union occupation newspaper. Lincoln proclamation appointing Grant to command the United States Army, Lincoln's call for 200,000 men, secret prisoner exchange meeting between McClellan and Howell Cobb, occupation of Sea Islands, freeing of slaves &...

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Palmetto herald. [Vol. 1, no. 3 (March 17, 1864)]

Steamer edition of this Union occupation newspaper. The Negro freed slave view of the war. Letter from the correspondent embedded in the 33rd Delaware regiment, escape & capture of three prisoners, night attack on Seabrook, Port Royal ship news.

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Sixth corps. [Vol. 1, no. 6 (May 3, 1865)]

News of Lincoln's assassination and the capture and death of John Wilkes Booth. Also includes an article on opening trade with the south once all rebels have been overthrown, and the text of the "President's favorite poem."

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unknown

Part of an unknown newspaper. The collateral files suggests that it might be from Alexandria, Louisiana. If that is true, then this section is probably from the "Louisiana Democrat." Date of creation estimated from the dates of the printed letters on...

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[Extract from Transcript Extra]

Headlined "Jeff. Davis, His Staff, Family & Others, Captured!"
Written by Brevet Major General James H. Wilson for Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. Says calvary under his command captured Confederate...

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Herald extra

Reports on various events related to the 19 April 1861 Baltimore Riot, during which secessionists attacked Union soldiers passing through the city. Discusses a town meeting held in Calais' Horton's Hall, where "The vast assemblage was animated by...

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Herald extra

Reports on various events related to the 19 April 1861 Baltimore Riot, during which secessionists attacked Union soldiers passing through the city. Referring to Baltimore officials' prior authorization of the destruction of bridges leading into the...

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Herald Extra [May 27, 1861]

Newspaper clipping of General Butler's attack on Sewall's Point.

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Herald extra. [December 31, 1861]

Long sheet. Reports on Lincoln regarding the Trent Affair.

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Daily republican extra. [June 9, 1861]

"Reported Battle at Harpers Ferry"

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Paynesville daily telegraph. [Vol. 1, no. 7 (May 5, 1861)]

Describes troop movements in and around New York and Kentucky.

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Herald extra. [August 3, 1861]

Describes battle of Bull Run. Sunday edition.

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Liberator. [Vol. 32, no. 39 (September 26, 1862)]

Prints Lincoln's first Emancipation Proclamation. Said to be the first printing of the proclamation in an abolitionist newspaper. Headline reads "Proclamation of Emancipation - Freedom of the Slaves in Rebellious States on the First Day of January...

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Jamestown journal extra

Announces the deaths of Capt. Willard, Lieut. Bailey of Co. B and Capt. Barrett of Dunkirk at Williamsburg battle. Also includes a partial list of killed and wounded in Hooker's division and a call to a citizens public meeting.

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Items pertaining to the 19th Regiment, United States Colored Troops, Companies A-I, K [Decimalized .01-.19]

Muster rolls cover August-December 1864. Written from various locations, including Bermuda Hundred, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

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The Degrading Compromise that the Northern Copperhead Leaders Would Force Upon the Country

Illustrated election broadside printed and circulated by the Indiana Union Club in Washington, D.C. The broadside is trying to influence the voters of Indiana to not vote for pro-Southern Copperheads. Top half of the broadside consists of an image...

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to George G. Meade re: stay of execution for two Union privates

Also requesting the facts of the cases. Signed twice (the second time on a postscript). Lincoln stays the execution for two privates, one whose name Lincoln can't remember in the 1st Regiment NJ Vols., and one of Private Daniel Sullivan in the 13th...

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to George Washington Cullum

General Gillmore, Commander of the Department of the South (Union), writes to Cullum, chief of staff for General Henry Wagner Halleck. Describes recent operations against Fort Wagner, stating "I have taken the first step here and have had some...

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The local news. [no volume or number information (November 6, 1861)]

Union occupation newspaper. Also published by W.F. Carne (fl. 1861-1862). Short item says the body of "the negro lad Sam," who had drowned in Hunting Creek during a previous storm, had been found. Report on the popularity of "Foot-ball" -- says it...

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