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Daily Richmond examiner. [Vol. 18, no. 28 (March 31, 1864)]

Draft of Militia Forces in Virginia, The Capture of Richmond, Confederate Raiders Alabama and Florida and the British Parliament.

GLC05959.72.073

Daily Richmond examiner. [Vol. 18, no. 35 (April 8, 1864)]

CSS Alabama in the Indian Ocean, Yankee Recruiting in Ireland, Patriotic citizens funding the purchase of a mansion in Richmond to present to General Lee, Governor Brown of Georgia cited New York as Evidence of the failing of the Confederacy.

GLC05959.72.079

Daily Richmond examiner. [Vol. 18, no. 36 (April 11, 1864)]

Report from Rio that CSS Alabama at Cape Good Hope, 30 crew sick with yellow fever.

GLC05959.72.080

Daily Richmond examiner. [Vol. 18, no. 38 (April 13, 1864)]

War in Indian Territory, Cherokee Troops, Old Confederate Currency and the new 6% bonds, General Banks on the Mississippi River, Capture and Burning of the Texan Star by the CSS Alabama, Effects of the War in the North - growing desire for Peace.

GLC05959.72.082

Daily Richmond examiner. [Vol. 18, no. 43 (April 19, 1864)]

Arrest of a Union Spy, Gold up to $179 in New York, Grant's losses at Missionary Ridge - 600 Killed, 4,000 wounded, 700 missing, An ironclad runs the blockade, Poor whites in the North, how they live Battles in Florida, How the freed men are treated...

GLC05959.72.087

Daily Richmond examiner. [Vol. 18, no. 52 (April 29, 1864)]

The coming campaign to capture Richmond - The situation and preparations, Capture of an ironclad, The Fort Pillow Affair - Lincoln has promised retaliation by putting to death our men at his hands - Tales of the most horrible massacre and butchery...

GLC05959.72.095

Southern illustrated news. [Vol. 3, no. 13 (April 2, 1864)]

Sketch of Major General John C. Breckinridge and Illustration of "Laird's Anglo-Rebel Ram."

GLC05959.76.59

The daily richmond enquirer. [Vol. 37, no. 195 (January 27, 1865)]

This item is two internal pages from the newspaper; no front page. Article on Hemma Micco, aka John Jumper, a Seminole Indian chief who became a colonel in the Confederate Army. Notes from the Virginia state legislature session and the Confederate...

GLC05959.80.04

to unknown

Written from Camp Butler. Eyewitness account of the destruction wrought by the CSS "Merrimac" on 8 March 1862 and the battle between the USS "Monitor" & CSS "Merrimac" the next day. Includes a separate sketch (10.3 x 12.6 cm.) of profile views of...

GLC06318

Large albumen photographs taken by Memphis photographer Taft

Photographs taken from life by Memphis photographer Taft, beginning with Admiral Porter's flagship U.S.S. Blackhawk, also the U.S.S. Tyler, U.S. Navy gun Bat Brown, the Memphis & St. Louis packet boat "The City of Alton," the U.S.S. Fawn, the U.S...

GLC06739

U.S. Navy steamboat Daisy

Title from inscription on mount. Identified as Mifs(?) Squadron. Stamp of Frank F. Raciti on verso.

GLC06739.01

The hull of the U.S. Ironclad Steamer Indianola

Title from inscription on mount. The U.S.S. Indianola was sunk by Confederate rams and grounded on Jefferson Davis Island, 1863 February 24.

GLC06739.02

U.S.S. Carondelet

The U.S. Ironclad gun boat Carondelet. Photograph taken near Vicksburg, Mississippi.

GLC06739.03

U.S. steamer "Fawn"

Inscription on mount reads: "U.S. Steamer Fawn. off Memphis, Tenn. The place where the naval engagement before Memphis, Tenn.

GLC06739.04

"The City of Alton"

Memphis & St. Louis Packet Co. Mail Line steamboat.

GLC06739.05

U.S. Navy gun boat Brown

Title from inscription on mount.

GLC06739.06

U.S.S. Blackhawk

Title from inscription on mount. Flagship Blackhawk while under the command of Admiral Porter. It is the same ship as GLC06739.08.

GLC06739.07

U.S.S. Blackhawk

Title from verso. Flagship Blackhawk while under the command of Admiral Porter. It is the same ship as GLC06739.07.

GLC06739.08

U.S.S. Tyler

Title from inscription on mount. The U.S.S. Tyler was an ironclad gunboat.

GLC06739.09

Red River Rapids

Inscription on verso reads: "The dam at the falls in Red River, La. formd by barges amd logs anchored, leaving a channel for passage of our naval vessels, 14 in. all, the heaviest vessels in the NYS(?) Squadron. Nasho and Osage passing over the falls...

GLC06739.10

to editor of the New York World

Wants to correct an "erroneous impression" from an article in his newspaper on his superintending of construction of an ironclad ship (the USS "Monitor") on behalf of Bushnell & Co. Says he is in fact making the ship "to my own plans approved by a...

GLC06639

to Samuel Barron re: U.S.S. Kearsage off the port side

"The Kearsage is off the port, which I understand of course, as a challenge." Also he deposited four and a half sacks of gold sovereign in Cherbourg.

GLC06730

to Edward E. Preble re: letter of recommendation for him, praising his bravery

Praising Preble for action under fire in the battle between Kearsage and Alabama.

GLC06731

to: Mr. & Mrs. John Morris.

Wilmor describes leaving Camp Johnston on 17 March and arriving at Fortress Monroe the next day. They are "encamped at the mouth of James River [with]in about 200 yards of ex President Tyler['s] mansion." Fourteen vessels brought the men up the bay...

GLC06451.044

to E. Jackson

Written by Admiral DuPont to E. Jackson. Thanks Jackson for his letter of 15 September. Letter concerns his removal from office. Believes it was done because of his statement that a naval attack could not take Charleston. Says he has no anger toward...

GLC06453