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Sea Coast of Georgia

Lithographed and published by Howell, cartographer unknown. Printed Civil War map showing the coastal area of Georgia from Florida to South Carolina. Marks railroads, canals, and major geographical points of interest. According the previous owner...

GLC05987.38

[General order no. 6 exempting certain persons from military service]

Orders are issued by Confederate General Greer from Headquarters, Bureau of Conscription, Trans-Mississippi Department. Exempts one person per plantation (an owner, agent, or overseer) if the plantation has at least twenty enslaved people. Contains...

GLC05987.40

[Circular pretaining to construction and fortification of redoubts used by the Army of Tennessee]

Based on orders issued by General Joseph E. Johnston, commanding the Army of Tennessee in anticipation of the siege of Atlanta. Orders strengthening of the redoubts and stockade, and fortification of defense. Contains instructions for firing and...

GLC05987.43

To the people of the State of Louisiana

Announces that all the Confederate forces in the states east of the Mississippi River have been surrendered to the United States and that the armies of Generals Robert E. Lee, Joseph E. Johnston, and Richard Taylor are prisoners of war. States that...

GLC05987.44

Regulations for the Army of the Confederate States, 1863.

Signed twice by Confederate General Alfred E. Jackson at Jonesboro, Tennessee on 20 March 1863. This was signed while Jackson was serving as a brigade commander in the military department of East Tennessee. Published by J.W. Randolph at 121 Main...

GLC05987.50

Correspondence Between Governor Brown and President Davis, on the Constitutionality of the Conscription Act

Describes the differing view points of Georgia Governor Joseph E. Brown and Jefferson Davis on the later's call for more troops from the state of Georgia for the Confederate Army. Printed by Atlanta Intelligencer Print. Original printed wrappers.

GLC05987.51

Correspondence Between the War Department and General Lovell, Relating to the Defences of New Orleans

Contains two reports in one bound volume. One is a printing of the correspondence pertaining to Major General Mansfield Lovell's defense of New Orleans in 1862 and the second report is the correspondence of Louisiana Governor Thomas Overton Moore...

GLC05987.52

Battle of Young's Branch; or, Manassas Plain, fought July 21, 1861

Co-authored by James M. Catlett. Signed "J. R. Barlett's" on the front cover. First edition published in Richmond by Enquirer Books and Job Press. The book has been rebound in a green cloth cover. There is also another copy of this book at GLC04061...

GLC05987.53

The daily citizen. [June 25, 1863]

Lee assumed the offensive and marched through Maryland into Pennsylvania. Expresses need to be patient while waiting for Johnston. A letter from a soldier describes conditions. Fugitive slave ad. Wallpaper has gray and blue floral and foliage...

GLC05988.04

The daily citizen. [July 2, 1863]

Mentions the deaths of a few Confederate leaders; cautions against citizens who hoard foodstuff. A notice mocks Grant and invites him to dinner upon his arrival; a magnificent sword was presented to him previously. Wallpaper has maroon, peach and...

GLC05988.05

The Opelousas courier. [Vol. 11, no. 45 (February 13, 1864)]

News from the Confederate capitol at Richmond that Lee's Army has not received reinforcements after the turn of events at Gettysburg. Ads for slave sales, fugitive slaves, and retail. French translation on right side. Wallpaper has beautiful...

GLC05988.08

The Opelousas courier. [Vol. 11, no. 46 (February 20, 1864)]

Jayhawkers making preparations to rob and pillage citizens; announces John Hunt Morgan's raid into Kentucky. An act to prevent draft and conscription substitutions. Ads for slave sales. French translation on right side. Wallpaper has pink floral...

GLC05988.09

The Opelousas courier. [Vol. 12, no. 1 (June 4, 1864)]

Congratulatory order by Gen. John A. Wharton after the Battle of Pleasant Hill, a report by Gen. R. E. Lee on Petersburg and a message of Confederate President Jefferson Davis delivered before the Confederate Congress. French translation on right...

GLC05988.11

The Opelousas courier. [Vol. 12, no. 3 (June 18, 1864)]

Lincoln's Proclamation to the citizens of the United States, dated May 17, 1864; note from Lee; news from various battle fronts. Gray and green geometric pattern.

GLC05988.13

The Opelousas courier. [Vol. 12, no. 4 (June 25, 1864)]

The latest news from Virginia: Lee beat Grant and repulsed the Yankees from the Confederate capitol at Richmond. French translation on right side. Wallpaper has multi-color floral pattern printed with alternating white and color bouquets. (pattern...

GLC05988.14

The Opelousas courier. [Vol. 12, no. 7 (July 16, 1864)]

News from Virginia during the Battle of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania in which Gen. Lee states that "the enemy were hurled upon our lines 8 and 10 deep and that their dead lay in heaps in front of our breastworks." French translation on right...

GLC05988.17

The weekly junior register. [Vol. 2, no. 11 (March 12, 1863)]

Reactions to Lincoln's emancipation proclamation. Article on the controversy over the new militia: "Now that New Orleans is captured the new militia law is suicidal." Includes General Sibley's expedition to New Mexico. Captured by David Cates Co...

GLC05988.25

The southern sentinel. [Vol. 1, no. 24 (August 15, 1863)]

Confederate occupation newspaper. Article concerning Confederate generals Johnston, Pemberton, and President Davis describes them as a crew of mercenaries and parasites of the Confederate government; General Johnston is responsible for the fall of...

GLC05988.28

The southern sentinel. [Vol. 1, no. 34 (October 24, 1863)]

This Confederate re-occupation edition was published after Alexandria had been recaptured by Confederate forces from the Federals and includes Gen. Lee's Official Report of the Battle of Gettysburg. No news; plenty of rumors. Printed on eggshell...

GLC05988.29

[Joseph Eggleston Johnston]

Cropped mount, not affecting image. Image as embedded grime at edges. Stamp on verso: Collection of Ambrose Lee.

GLC05998

[Presidential pardon of Philip D. Roddey for his participation in the rebellion]

This document is a Presidential pardon in which President Andrew Johnson granted Philip D. Roddey a full pardon and amnesty from crimes committed during the rebellion. Roddey was nicknamed "the Swamp Fox of Tennessee." The pardon was countersigned by...

GLC05921

An act donating public lands to the several state & territories, which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture & the mechanic arts

A copy of the Morril Land Grant act, granting public lands to individual states for the building of agricultural colleges, written by Robert E. Lee. The act, passed in 1862, offered states 30,000 acres of public land per Congressman from that state...

GLC05926

Confederate salt print portrait, full length seated portrait

With manuscript inscription on verso.

GLC05888.01

[William Wirt Adams]

Full length standing portrait of William Wirt Adams, a Confederate Brigadier General. On a later mount with signature scratched off front lower left corner.

GLC05888.02

Democratic Creed!

National Union illustrated election broadside. "Democratic Creed! Love Creed! Love for Civilization and Niggers!... Worship of Southern aristocracy! Sneer for Northern Mechanics." An anti-slavery and anti-Democrat broadside for National Union...

GLC05889