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Spirit of the Campaign Number Three

Series: "Spirit of the Campaign Number Three" Heading on the first page reads: "Compare the Doctrines of the Two Parties." Pro-republican campaign material which cites former Confederates' support for Seymour and Blair (R. Semmes, Wise, Vance...

GLC04360.063

to Stockton Bates

Was a prisoner of war a year ago here; has visited his old prison. Local attitudes towards the Union have changed due to Grant. "The conduct of the soldiers has been remarkable, when we consider the bitterness, the cruelty, the fiendishness with...

GLC03523.23.40

[Fragment of speech on the Civil War and its aftermath]

Fragment of a speech at a Civil War commemorative event, probably given in the 1880s with pages numbered 2-10, and 12-13. Sherman discusses the Civil War, national debt, race relations, and General Ulysses S. Grant. "Some of the Witnesses of a...

GLC03546

to James M. Mason re: Jefferson Davis' imprisonment, his law career in England

Cross-written on p. 1. Benjamin mentions that Pres. Johnson is intimidated by the Radical Republicans from releasing Davis. He mentions his legal career in England and says he saw Slidell in Paris.

GLC03787

to Delia Slocum

re: Cranor describes his move from Blue Springs back to Nashville and the somber mood present after Lincoln's assassination ("evry thing is dressed in mourning.") He writes that he talked to the "rebs" who said that they thought Johnson would be...

GLC03791.026

to Delia Slocum

. re: "I will give you a short not of our trials and trubells since we left Nashville[.]" He also reports that there next stop is in Texas, 900 miles away by water "and that is the way we will go[.]" He reports on hot weather and poor health, but...

GLC03791.028

to Delia Slocum

re: Cranor reports going to church for the first time since he left Indiana on his furlough last spring. He reports that his regiment are the only troops in the area, a big change, but one that he enjoys. He complains of his inability to be home...

GLC03791.030

to Sam Chapman re: letters on slavery, the war, Lincoln, Grant, Lee, Stuart [decimalized]

A collection of letters from John Singleton Mosby, of Warrenton, Virginia, to Samuel Chapman of Covington, Virginia, most written on stationery of the Department of Justice. (Other recipients are noted in the inventory.) The letters discuss the...

GLC03921

to Sidney Webster

Discusses aspects of reconstruction, criticizing "the appointment of a Massachusetts negro to the office of Postmaster at Macon, Georgia." Inquires as to the well-being of Webster's family.

GLC04895

to A. J. Kellar re: condemning "military secession combination"

Condemning "the military secession combination which I trust is forever broken" and its "tyrannical and wicked rule."

GLC04919

to William H. Seward re: accepting the conditions of his pardon

Forrest accepts the conditions of his presidential pardon and amnesty oath, with all the conditions specified. Certified at bottom by Isaac Morrison, U.S. Commander for the District of West Tenn.

GLC04978

General Orders No. 62

Marked as a "True Copy." Contracts between planters and freedmen: "any contact... which contains provisions tending to peonage, will be considered null."

GLC05037

[General Order No. 4 regarding the patriotic loyalty of women to the Union]

Issued by the command of Colonel Arthur A. Smith. Signed by William W. Shrader, Assistant Adjutant General. States "as long as the cradle, the nursery, and the hearth-stone are schools where rebellion and treason are taught-- as long as the plastic...

GLC05081

[Proclamation establishing a provisional government in North Carolina]

Proclamation establishing a provisional government in North Carolina, in which Holden directly addresses the "colored people of the State." Issued by Holden, the first man to be appointed as a provisional governor of any state east of the Mississippi...

GLC05082

[Instructions for house managers for the showing of David W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation"]

Contains spaces for house managers to fill in information, including performance or film dates, company arrival and departure times, and manager names. Jack Edwards, a Southern Representative of the performance or film, instructs theater house...

GLC05091

to mother

His stock is not selling as fast as he had hoped. He thinks Darlington is the wealthiest district in the state and adds, "The people are very sesech in their proclivities and are as 'ugly as sin', as the children say."

GLC04662.111

to mother

Describes the auctions which are occurring throughout the state. Discusses the weather, which is quite warm one day and cool the next. Also discusses the economic stagnation of the south.

GLC04662.117

to C. C. Jones re: applying for pardon, for financial reasons

Writing to Jones about business, especially about the matter of seeking a direct pardon. He adds: "...Now that the Pres[iden]t. & Congress are renewing the fight, things will only go from bad to worse, we may suppose."

GLC04676

Speech of Gerrit Smith (to his neighbors) in Peterboro, N.Y., June 22d 1872.

Smith writes "The Democratic Party is my dread. The Republican Party is my hope... I need not say that it is not the original Democratic Party- the party of my childhood and youth... But this modern Democratic party- this degenerate Democratic party...

GLC04717.71

to Horace Greeley

Mentions Greeley's run for the Presidency, noting "It is surely not for me to question the propriety of your being upon an electioneering tour." Agrees with Greeley that the reconciliation of the North and South should be the focus of the campaign...

GLC04717.72

to James L. Kemper

Written on "Office of John S. Mosby, Attorney at Law" letterhead. Writes to Kemper, Governor-elect of Virginia, about Reconstruction and Southern rights: "Of course I never designed to advise an unconditional alliance between Grant & the Southern...

GLC04734

[request for Reynolds to report to Adjutant General's office]

Reynolds has passed an examination before the board and should report to the Adjutant General's office for instructions. Docket: 1/1/1867 Noting amount of money reimbursed to Reynolds for his trip to New Orleans and then to New Orleans.

GLC03614.02.10

Special Orders No. 1

Special Orders, No. 1. Assigned command of the Sib-District of the Rio Grande. Docket indicates mileage paid from New Orleans, Louisiana to Galveston, Texas.

GLC03614.02.12

[Reynolds to take command of the sub-district of the Rio Grande]

Orders Major General J.J. Reynolds to take command of the "Sub-District of the Rio Grande, relieving Bv't Brigadier Lewis G. Brown, Col. 177th U. S. C. Troops."

GLC03614.02.13

to Joseph J. Reynolds

He jokes that Reynolds must be in a healthy climate judging by the weight of the ladies. He also discusses various improvements to the city including a railroad and a penitentiary.

GLC03614.02.16