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to Captain A. Harwood

On board USS Congress, Montevideo, Uruguay, re: on -board experiments with sponges and the ship's guns; attacking secession: "no country on earth can stand universal Suffrage and secession.... The idea, too, that with us, one owes a higher and holier...

GLC08302

to Maria

has sent her $150. bought a gum blanket. writes about his friend and complains about a clerk who is very lazy and pretends to cook. . rumored that if it had not been for the Harper Ferry's raid, Virginia would not have seceded.

GLC08311.20

Lexington and Baltimore

features picture of Lexington battle in 1775 and the battle of Baltimore in 1861.

GLC08414.3

How Virginia Was Voted Out of the Union

shows polling booth with men holding guns

GLC08416.1

New York semi-weekly tribune. [Vol. 16, no. 1613 (November 9, 1860)]

Front page article announces that South Carolina will call a secession convention. Also contains news on the results of the election of 1860 listed by state. On page two there is a reprinted letter sent to Frederick Douglass by a white man stating...

GLC08429.09

Richmond enquirer. [Vol. 58, no. 14 (June 20, 1861)]

Confederate States of America newspaper. Prints news on the Virginia secession convention, Civil War news, and Northern news. Also includes public postings and advertisements.

GLC08430.10

Speech of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, delivered in the United States Senate, on the 10th day of January, 1861, upon the message of the President of the United States, on the condition of things in South Carolina.

Speaking a few weeks after South Carolina seceded and a month before he would be elected of the Confederacy, Davis argues that the Union cannot be maintained by force. Printed by John Murphy & Co.

GLC08479

Virginis Begins the War

features picture of woman with cannon that reads "secession"

GLC08482.2

Acts and Resolutions of the Fourth Session of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, Held at Richmond, Va.

Printed by Tyler, Wise, Allegro and Smith. Listing of acts and resolutions No. 292-413 passed by the Confederate Congress in its fourth session. Contains 106 pages of acts and resolutions and a 19 page index. Glued yellow paper binding.

GLC08489

Christian banner. [Vol. I, no. 6 (June 11, 1862)]

Pro-slavery newspaper, vol. 1 no. 6. Misdated June 11 but actually 14th, as noted inside newspaper. Anti-secessionist newspaper speaks of disloyal slaves now fighting against the survival of Virginia. There are also articles that argue that in...

GLC08493

Sketches of the rise, progress, and decline of secession; with a narrative of personal adventures among the rebels.

Printed by George W. Childs in Philadelphia and in Cincinnati by Applegate & Co. With engraving of the author and signature in facsimile.

GLC08580.03

Compendium of the impending crisis of the south.

Published by A.B. Burdick, New York and printed by George Russell and Co.

GLC08581.03

An Appeal to the Federal Soldiers

Written by "A New Englander, Now A Confederate Soldier." Dated from first line: "Two years of our sanguinary conflict..." Says he is going to lay aside "weapons of strife" and reason together on the lessons the war can teach. Says it was ill-will...

GLC08676

New York Herald. [No. 8826 (November 7, 1860)]

Reports the results of the 1860 Presidential election, announcing Abraham Lincoln as President and Hannibal Hamlin as Vice President. States "Our returns indicate, however, that the next Congress will be in opposition to the republicans." Includes...

GLC08824

National Anti-Slavery Standard. [Vol. 12, no. 4, whole no. 576 (June 19, 1851)]

With previous owner's signature (John Russell) signed along right margin of first page. Contains an article from the Southern Press on "The Constitutional Rights of Secession." Includes an article on abolitionist George Thompson's recent address at...

GLC08875.44

to Frank H. Alfriend

Noted at top "Strictly Confidential." Discusses events of 1850, 1857-8-9 and 1860-61. He argues that repeal of the Missouri Compromise logically allowed nullification of other things as well. Blames abolitionism. Argues that the South had to...

GLC05344.01

Atlas. [Vol. 6, no. 164 (January 11, 1838)]

Most prominent on this page is a report on the debate of "Calhoun's resolutions" concerning the parameters of the "gag rule," which was renewed by the senate annually between 1836 and 1844. The debate touches on states' rights, free speech, and...

GLC05508.025

New Orleans daily crescent. [Vol. 13, no. 260 (January 3, 1861)]

Published at 70 Camp Street. In response to an article in the "Chicago Tribune," front page has an article mockingly titled "New Orleans Ruined!-Cotton Doomed!" that says the city's markets will survive if New Yorkers eliminate tolls on Erie Canal...

GLC05960.02.02

New Orleans daily crescent. [Vol. 13, no. 261 (January 4, 1861)]

Published at 70 Camp Street. Only has first 2 pages of a usual full 8 page issue. Front page article titled "No Compromise," rejects the compromise efforts of Henry Winter Davis in Washington. Article titled "The State Conventions," gives updates on...

GLC05960.02.03

New Orleans daily crescent. [Vol. 13, no. 305 (February 25, 1861)]

Published at 70 Camp Street. Article on University of Louisiana. Description of the New Orleans celebration of George Washington's birthday takes up three quarters of the front page. Describes an "Imposing Military Display." Short item on arrival...

GLC05960.02.06

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!"...

GLC06107.39

[Civil War diary of Calvin S. Mixter]

Signed diary including printed almanac and eclipse calendar in the opening pages. Mixter writes from various locations. Relates the events of 1861, spending most of his time divided between his home in Hanson, Massachusetts, and his workplace in...

GLC06583.01

to Boutwell re: predicting secession of Virginia

"VA. will secede and will carry with her the rest."

GLC06714

to John Letcher re: transmitting Scott's policy paper, with Scott AES to Letcher

The policy paper (.02) was prepared for President Buchanan and Sec. of War John Floyd. Scott has endorsed page 4, to Letcher, with date 31 October 1860.

GLC06777.01

Views suggested by the imminent danger... [response to secession crisis]

Entitled "Views suggested by the imminent danger... of a disruption of the Union lay the secession of one or more southern states." Endorsed on verso: "Copy, not for publication, but for his Ex[cellency]. Gov. Letcher."

GLC06777.02

to Isaac W. Hayne re: urging South Carolina to defer hostilities

Urges S.C. to defer hostilities toward Fort Sumter: "Our people feel that they have a common destiny with your people and expect to form with them in that convention a new confederation and provisional government. We must and will share your...

GLC07078

State sovereignty and the doctrine of coercion, by the Hon. Wm. D. Porter, of Charleston, S. C. together with a letter from Hon. J. K. Paulding, former Sec. of Navy.

Includes the instructions, "Read and send to your Neighbor" on title page. Also includes designation: "1860 Association. Tract No. 2." Porter opens with, "The recent speech of Mr. Douglas at Norfolk, in which he threatened the Southern States with...

GLC00267.386

The Life of Robert Toombs

Signed in Los Angeles, California by Phillips to "Professor C.V. Gillilard" on 10 August 1922. Published by The Macmillan Company.

GLC00267.389

Declaration of the immediate causes which induce and justify the secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union; and the ordinance of secession.

First edition printed by Evans & Cogswell, Charleston, South Carolina. The report of the committee to draw up the Confederate declaration of independence. Original yellow paper cover as issued.

GLC00373

[The Ordinance of secession for the state of South Carolina]

Exact lithographic copy of the original manuscript ordinance with reproduced signatures of those who voted for the act. Printed by Evans and Cogswell, by act of the South Carolina assembly. "...An ordinance to dissolve the Union between the State of...

GLC00395

Is Davis a traitor, or, Was secession a constitutional right previous to the war of 1861?

Written by Albert Taylor Bledsoe, a former Northerner and friend of Davis. First edition published by Innes & Co. Signed twice by Davis (inside of front cover and on page 61); initialed by his wife Varina Davis. Part of his library. "Reserved copy -...

GLC00432

to Mary Hollett

Written by Hollett, a member of the 75th Ohio, to his sister Mary. Written in pencil on patriotic stationery with "Secession Web" envelope, and note on small piece of paper. Discusses fighting in West Virginia. Letter does not list the location from...

GLC00434.03

Letters related to the 19 April 1861 Baltimore Riot [Decimalized .01-.08]

GLC00451

to Thomas Holliday Hicks

Thomas, Baltimore city solicitor, relates events that took place during the April 19, 1861 Baltimore Riot to Maryland Governor Hicks. States that General Charles Calvert Egerton falsely informed a mob that Hicks had issued orders that Union troops...

GLC00451.01

to Thomas Holliday Hicks

Mercer, Governor Hick's aid-de-camp during the April 19, 1861 Baltimore Riot, states that during the riot Hicks refused to interfere with the passage of Northern troops through the city despite the urging of his political colleagues. Written at the...

GLC00451.02

to Thomas Holliday Hicks

Co-signed by Grayson Eichelberger, Ulysses Hobbs, and William Maulsby, soldiers present for the April 19, 1861 Baltimore Riot. Shriver et al. claim that General Bradley Tyler Johnson, with Baltimore Marshal of Police George Proctor Kane and others...

GLC00451.03

to Thomas Holliday Hicks

Mercer, Maryland Governor Hicks' aid-de-camp during the April 19, 1861 Baltimore Riot, transmits a statement (not included) describing events of the Riot. Claims that he heard Hicks order General Charles Calvert Egerton to drive back the mob of...

GLC00451.04

[Statement from an unknown witness regarding the 19 April 1861 Baltimore Riot]

Attests that police Marshal George Proctor Kane ordered men to protect the Union troops passing through the city. Claims that in the confusion, Union soldiers fired indiscriminately into the mob, which included Mayor George W. Brown. Recalls...

GLC00451.05

to Thomas Holliday Hicks

Based on the request of Maryland Governor Hicks, Colonel John G. Johannes recalls events of the Baltimore Riot. States that 19 April 19, 1861, after spotting a signal light from the Armory of the Maryland Guard, he consulted his Commander, who had...

GLC00451.06

to Thomas Holliday Hicks

He takes it for granted that the new state constitution will be ratified and a new governor will be elected, but doubts that the new governor will be as good as Hicks was. In Annapolis last winter he spoke with Judge Bowie of Montgomery County, one...

GLC00451.08

[Draft of Sumner's article on "Domestic Relations" with regard to the Confederate states]

Sumner, a United States Senator and abolitionist, opens his lengthy article by stating "At this moment, our Domestic Relations all hinge upon one question; what shall be done with the rebel States?" Discusses abolition and human nature, quoting...

GLC00454

to Paul Semmes

Discusses the meeting of the legislature in Milledgeville, Georgia on the issue of secession. Writes that the general consensus in Milledgeville is one of resistance. States that Georgia Senator Benjamin Hill is demanding that Lincoln enforce the...

GLC00572.14

to Paul J. Semmes

Informs that the Senate passed a bill calling for a secession convention in Georgia. Mentions the remote chance of war, "Amongst those who are doubtful or timid the feeling is getting out that they must take choice between the remote chance of a...

GLC00572.15

to Paul J. Semmes

Informs that the General Assembly has passed a bill appropriating one million dollars to buy arms for Georgia and that Governor Joseph E. Brown requests his help in carrying this out. Asks Semmes to go to New York or wherever he needs to in order to...

GLC00572.16

to General C.J. Wright

In the letter, Jefferson Davis writes about his political future and Reconstruction. Davis upholds the secessionist notion of the Union: "The word Union implies volition among the members...." The location where the letter was written is possibly...

GLC00578

to Judge Haden

John P. Furniss thanks Judge Haden for sending $100. He explains that room and board must be paid in advance and he was concerned he would not have the money in time. He discusses his concerns about being able to help his mother financially. He...

GLC00653.24.02

to Julia Blanche Kell

John McIntosh Kell writes to his wife with postscript that "the Secession Ordinance will probably pass tomorrow."

GLC00684.05

to Mollie Van Valkenburgh

Written by Gerrit to his sister Mollie. Attempts to justify his decision, as a transplanted Northerner, to side with the South. Mixes support for his adopted home with love for the family he left in the North. He references her letter of from...

GLC00686.05

[Appointment of a Mississippi commissioner to Alabama]

Mississippi governor Pettus appoints Joseph W. Matthews as commissioner to Alabama to inform that state of Mississippi's upcoming convention "to consider the present threatening relations of the Northern and Southern sections of the United States"...

GLC01064

An Address Delivered by Hon. William D. Kelley at Girard Avenue, Above Eleventh St. on October 3rd, 1856

Published by "Philadelphia Morning Times", No. 3. Discusses various topics including the character of the Republican Party, threats of dissolution of the Union, and emigration from the South to the North. Includes a map of the U.S. showing "free...

GLC01265.05