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Orders for Robinson, who is being sent on reconaissance. Mentions James Longstreet and Robert E. Lee. Originally included orders for General William E. Jones. "Your object will be to watch the enemy, deceive him as to our designs, and harass his rear...

GLC07181

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Header Record

to Eben R. Ayers; archive of 4 letters. re: activities early in civil war [Decimalized .01- .04]

1861

Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881

1. 6 July 1861, 2. 25 November 1861, 3. 22 Sept 1861 and 4. 31 Oct 1861.

GLC07187

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Broadside

[Message to the People of Maryland to support the Confederacy]

8 September 1862

Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870

Addressed "To the People of Maryland," encouraging them to join the Confederacy and support the Confederate Forces. "The people of the Confederate States have long watched with the deepest sympathy the wrongs and outrages that have been inflicted...

GLC07195

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Broadside

An ordinance to dissolve the Union between the state of Texas and other states..

1861/02/18

Printed broadside. Paper patch has ink facsimile.

GLC07196

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Broadside

Gen. Forrest to his troops.

9 May 1865

Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 1821-1877

Title from heading. Addressed to "soldiers." Details the fact that "the troops of this Department have been surrendered. ...That we are BEATEN is a self evident fact, and any further resistance on our part would be justly regarded as the very...

GLC07197

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Painting

[Captive soldier in Libby Prison]

May 1863

McCasky, J.E., fl. 1863

Oil on canvas, unstretched, of older Union soldier, with white hair and a mustache, seated on the ground in a despairing pose, holding his hand to his forehead, near a rifle. Signed at lower right "J. E. McCasky [or McCosky], NY / Libby Prison / May...

GLC07201

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Printed document

[Men and Women's Emancipation petitions]

circa 1863

Women's National Loyal League

Blank, unsigned petitions for the emancipation of slavery. Folded document. First page is titled "Women's Emancipation Petition," second page is titled "Men's Emancipation Petition." Calls on the U.S. House and Senate to abolish slavery throughout...

GLC07202.05

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Photograph

George Washington Custis Lee

1862 ca.

Cook, George S., 1819-1902

Quarter length portrait of George Washington Custis Lee as General (3 stars).

GLC07074

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Letter signed

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

1861/01/15

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

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

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Document signed

[Authority to affix seal to additional article to slave trade treaty with Britain]

5 March 1863

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Partially printed document. Lincoln signs an official State Department warrant ordering the Secretary of State to affix the Great Seal of the United States to "my ratification of the Additional Article to the slave trade treaty between the United...

GLC07083

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Photograph

Gen. W.F. Barry [&] Gen. W.T. Sherman Before Atlanta

1864

Barnard, George N., 1819-1902

Image of Generals William Farquhar Barry and William Tecumseh Sherman and their staff gathered around an artillery piece at Federal Fort No. 7 near Atlanta, Georgia. The background is blurred and composed of rolling, empty fields. According to the...

GLC07067