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No. 1 - Naval Battery

One undated albumen print entitled, "No.1 - Naval Battery." Depicts soldiers sitting on sand bags with two 80-pound Whitworths before breaching Fort Sumter. Printed by Haas and Peale.

GLC05134.001

Lane on Folly Island

One undated albumen print entitled, "No. 2 - Lane on Folly Island." Image is of a horse passing through a forest. Printed by Haas and Peale.

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Naval Battery

One undated albumen print entitled, "No. 3 - Naval Battery." Depicts naval men behind a wall of sandbags with two 8-inch parrot riffles.

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First Parallel

One undated albumen print entitled, "No. 4 - First Parallel." Depicts an encampment from a distance. Printed by Haas and Peale.

GLC05134.004

Battery Strong

One undated albumen print entitled, "No. 5 - Battery Strong." Depicts military men with one 300-pound parrot rifle.

GLC05134.005

Battery Brown

One albumen print entitled, "Battery Brown." Printed by Haas & Peale.

GLC05134.006

Gun in Battery

One undated albumen print entitled, "No. 7 - Gun in Battery." Image is of William Rosecrans with a burst gun in the battery. Printed by Haas and Peale.

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Battery Hays

One albumen print entitled, "No. 16 - Battery Hays." Depicts one 8-inch Parrot Rifle in front of a low trench surrounded by water.

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Section of Captain Ashcroft's Battery

One albumen print entitled, "No. 20 - Section Capt. Ashcroft's Battery, 12-pounder Napoleons, in Second Parallel." Image depicts soldiers standing behind cannons. Printed by Haas & Peale.

GLC05134.020

Battery Meade

One albumen print entitled, "No. 23 - Battery Meade." Depicts Union soldiers with two 100-pounder Parrot Rifles in a trench. Taken before breach battery against Fort Sumter. Printed by Haas & Peale.

GLC05134.023

Battery Rosecrans

One albumen print entitled, "No. 24 - Battery Rosecrans." Image is of Union soldiers with a row of three 100-pound Parrot Rifles. This took place before breaching the battery against Fort Sumter. Printed by Haas & Peale.

GLC05134.024

Battery Reno

One albumen print entitled, "No. 27 - Battery Reno." Depicts the trench and cannons with two 100-pound and one 8-inch Parrot Rifle. Printed by Haas & Peale.

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Section of Lt. Birchmeyer's Battery

One albumen print entitled, "No. 28 - Section of Lt. Birchmeyer's Battery." Depicts Union soldiers with two 12-pound Wiards. Printed by Haas & Peale.

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Battery Stevens

One albumen print entitled, "No. 29 - Battery Stevens." Image depicts soldiers standing within a trench that are armed with two 100-pound Parrot Rifles. This took place before the Battle at Fort Sumter.

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Gunboat Commodore McDonough

One albumen print entitled, "No. 30 - Gunboat Commodore McDonough." Image is of a group of soldiers seated in a rowboat, the ferryboat, U.S.S. Commodore McDonough is seen in the distance. Printed by Haas & Peale.

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Battery Kirby

One albumen print entitled, "No.31 - Battery Kirby." Depicts two 8-inch Seacost Mortars in a trench used in the Battle at Fort Sumter.

GLC05134.031

Splinterproof

One albumen print entitled, "No. 32 - Splinterproof." Image is of a shelter built with wood boards covered by branches and grass. Printed by Haas & Peale.

GLC05134.032

Fort Sumter, August 13, 1863 - trial shots

One albumen print entitled, "No. 42 - Fort Sumter, August 13, 1863 - trial shots." Image is of Fort Sumter across the water. Printed by Haas & Peale.

GLC05134.042

Fort Sumter, November 10, 1863

One albumen print entitled, "Fort Sumter, November 10th, 1863." Image is of Fort Sumter across the water. Printed by Haas & Peale.

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Fort Sumter

One albumen print entitled, "No. 44 - Fort Sumter, November 10, 1863." Image is of Fort Sumter from across the water. Printed by Haas & Peale.

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untitled envelope

light yellow

GLC08413.30

Col. Robert Anderson

features quote and picture of the Colonel

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Liberator. [Vol. XXXL, no. 16 (April 19, 1861)]

Announces "Civil War Begun. Fort Sumter Captured. The Federal Capital in Danger. Thousands of Troops Mustering. The North United At Last." Includes proclamations by the President, official correspondence regarding the surrender of Fort Sumter...

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The Troy daily press. [Vol. 1 (August 29, 1863)]

Fort Sumter's surrneder, Pemberton's death

GLC08429.17

The New York daily tribune. [Vol. XXV, no. 7495 (14 April 1865)]

Covers General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox in detail. Includes an account of the events leading up to the surrender and the terms of the surrender. Publishes articles on the dawn of peace, reconstruction, the Battle of Fort Sumter 12-13...

GLC08429.20

New York times. [Vol. X, no. 2983 (April 13, 1861)]

The front page of this issue is a drawing of the commanding officers at Fort Sumter, less than a month before an attack on the fort would begin the hostilities of the Civil War. The news focuses on the Union forts that have already been turned over...

GLC08429.22

The New York times. [Vol. XIV, no. 4220 (April 14, 1865)

Covers General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox in detail. Includes an account of the events leading up to the surrender, an interview between Ulysses S. Grant and Lee, the signing of the articles of capitulation by Lee, the era of peace...

GLC08807

to A. A. Harwood

Written by Chief Clerk Faxon to Commodore Harwood. Tells Harwood that the "'Monitor' was launched January 30th, 1862 - Contest with the 'Merrimac,' March 9th - Foundered on the night of 30th Decr. 1862." (The "Merrimac" sank on 11 May 1862; the...

GLC05331.03

to Virgil Hickox

Douglas, serving as a Democratic United States Senator from Illinois, responds to a letter from Hickox, Chairman of the Democratic State Committee (refer to GLC05621.01). States " ... war is being waged against the United States with the avowed...

GLC05621.02

Daily Richmond examiner. [Vol. 17, no. 275 (February 3, 1864)]

Dispatch from Colonel Gordon, Yankee prisoners, gunboat "Smith Briggs" captured, telegraph from General Beauregard - enemy re-shelling Fort Sumter, Report Ex-Senator Robert Toombs of Georgia arrested, Yankees evacuate Corinth, Army corps of the...

GLC05959.72.050

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...

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New Orleans daily crescent. [Vol. 14, no. 45 (April 25, 1861)]

Published at 70 Camp Street. Front page is filled with military notices and advertisements for men to volunteer for various units. Copy of Robert Anderson's dispatch to Secretary of War Simon Cameron after the fall of Fort Sumter. Telegraphed updates...

GLC05960.02.12

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...

GLC06075

[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

Sarah Lydia Gilpin Diary 1865

Pages numbered 665 - 856
This volume contains accounts of the end of the Civil War and the assassination and funeral of President Lincoln.
10 April 1865, p. 737: News of General Lee's surrender to General Grant.
13 April 1865 p. 739: "One of the...

GLC06846.05

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

[Copy of Crawford's notes regarding surrender of Fort Sumter]

Walker's "true copy" of Crawford and Seymour's first hand account of the meeting between Colonel Louis Wigfall and Major Robert Anderson, during which Fort Sumter was surrendered. Walker copied, in pencil, Crawford and Seymour's written account...

GLC01127.01

[Account of the surrender of Fort Sumter]

Firsthand account of the negotiations for the surrender of Fort Sumter. Details conversation between Major Robert Anderson and Captain Lee negotiating terms of surrender. Finishes Crawford's narrative begun in GLC01127.01. Recounts the...

GLC01127.03

to Francis W. Pickens

"A true copy" - attestation by Anderson. (Souvenir copy). Written after Oct. 1861 (and before Feb. 1863). The U.S.S. Star of the West had been fired upon. With small engraved portrait of Anderson.

GLC01351

to Simon Cameron

Orders Secretary of War Cameron to send a naval expedition to resupply Fort Sumter. Indicates that specific instructions were in an attached memorandum (not included) and instructs Cameron to cooperate with Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles.

GLC08093

South Carolina. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting correspondence in relation to Fort Sumter, &c.

Marked House Executive Document, No. 61, 36th Congress, 2nd Session. Buchanan transmits to Congress correspondence concerning Fort Sumter. Printings of seven letters, including ones by or to Jefferson Davis, John Slidell, Colonel Isaac W. Hayne...

GLC08438

New York herald. [No. 8917 (February 7, 1861)]

Includes a report that the United States government refuses to comply with the propositions of South Carolina for the surrender of Fort Sumter. Reports on the recent secession of Texas from the Union. Discusses the proceedings of the Washington...

GLC08726.10

The correspondence between the commissioners of the state of So. Ca. to the government at Washington and the President of the United States; ...

Title continues, " ... together with the statement of Messrs. Miles and Keitt." Concerns the secession of South Carolina and the attempt by the Carolina authorities to gain control over federal property in the state. Contains copies of letters...

GLC08841

[Diary aboard the U.S.S. Nantucket]

Allen was an officer on the USS "Nantucket" during and before the bombardment of Fort Sumter. The diary appears to have been written within days of the actions. Includes manuscript pencil and ink "Sketch of Charleston Harbor and fortifications," and...

GLC01006

New York times. [Vol. X, no. 2983 (April 13, 1861)]

The headline announces the firing on Fort Sumter by Confederate Troops, the beginning of the Civil War. Though the South had already seceded, physical confrontation did not begin until the fort was fired on. The paper reports in detail the events...

GLC04661.06

to C. E. Blair

Former President Hayes thanks Professor Blair for sending an article discussing the Civil War battle at Fort Sumter, South Carolina. Corrects misinformation contained within the article, stating "The firing on Sumter in Charleston Harbor began Friday...

GLC00162.04

The Genesis of the Civil War: The Story of Sumter, 1860-1861

Discusses the events leading to the Civil War both from his vantage point as an officer at Fort Moultrie and Fort Sumter and from a larger context. Focuses both on events he witnessed firsthand and those he researched. Printed by Charles Webster...

GLC00267.252

The lost cause; a new southern history of the war of the confederates

Written by Pollard, the former editor of the "Richmond Examiner," which supported the Confederacy but was hostile to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. First edition copy published by E.B. Treat & Co. in New York. Sticker at bottom of title...

GLC00267.307

The first year of the war

Written by Pollard, the editor of the "Richmond Examiner," which supported the Confederacy but was hostile to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Second edition copy printed in New York by Charles B. Richardson at 594 and 596 Broadway. Title...

GLC00267.308

Fort Sumter flag raising

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