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to Jubal A. Early re: preventing enemy from crossing river

Four days after Fredericksburg. Trimmed and lined, with green staining.

GLC07604

To Arms! Fellow Citizens of Northern Ohio.... [Union recuiting broadside]

Union recruiting broadside. "Kentucky appeals to us to come toher relief. Her cause is out cause!..." Alludes to the defense of Fort Stephenson by Kentuckians in 1813. Signed in type by Lt. Col. R. P. Buckland, recruiting for the 72d Ohio. Severely...

GLC07605

to "Dear Cousin" re: campaign details of Cherokee Confederate Col. Stand Watie

"The Federal and the Pens and the Negroes have Changed the name of Fort Gibson on the last Scout Col. Stand Waity toke Gen Ross prisoner."

GLC07607

to Ezekel Dubois re: slave turning in master to Union troops

"We heer that the 59 regement has got a rebel prisner they fetcht him in Last night they told us that one of his own nigers came to the rigement and tod them that his master was a captin in the rebel army..." Also describes Washington D.C. and the...

GLC07612

re: response to rebel threats of shooting black prisoners of war

Incomplete letter from Corporal 10th VT., Co. H.: "...[O]ur Generals sent them word that every Black Prisoner they [the Confederates] shot they would pick out A rebel Prisoner...that had owned the most slaves and shoot him."

GLC07610