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to Thomas Hindman re: barbarities of Texas troops

Written from the temporary Louisiana Confederate capitol, to Hindman, commander in the Department of Arkansas. Describes the barbarities by Texas troops including their threatening Bowie knives.

GLC06372

1st Wisconsin posing with artillery on 4th street, Chattanooga, TN

Unmounted photograph, accompanied by a latter laid sheet of paper with note "Union Forces - Chattanooga"

GLC06389

Camp of the 45th Ill. Vols. before Vicksburg, near the Shirley

Dugouts and caves, below a white plantation house, used by 45th Illinois near Vicksburg. Blind stamp of photographer C.D. Finch at center bottom. With signature on verso, and later ballpoint pen note "Melancthon Smith 45 Ill."

GLC06390

Album of abolitionist cartes de visite

Includes Sojourner Truth, H. B. Stowe, John Brown and William L. Garrison.

GLC06391

to Maria B. Weaver re:

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Congressional subpoena of W. S. Huntington re: impeachment of Andrew Johnson

Countersigned by Edward McPherson.

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[Andrew Johnson]

Imprint on verso.

GLC05908.02

[William Farquhar Barry]

Carte de visite of the Union Chief of Artillery, 1/2 length portrait. Inscribed to Ms. Belle Riley." Barry served as Chief of Artillery from 1st Bull Run through the Peninsula Campaign.

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[McMillian, James W.]

Carte de visite, vignette bust portrait.

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to Edwin M. Stanton re: parole of honor for Col. Basil K. Duke

Also stating that "Gen. Smith will be responsible that Col. Duke will faithfully keep his parole."

GLC05922.01

An act donating public lands to the several state & territories, which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture & the mechanic arts

A copy of the Morril Land Grant act, granting public lands to individual states for the building of agricultural colleges, written by Robert E. Lee. The act, passed in 1862, offered states 30,000 acres of public land per Congressman from that state...

GLC05926

Document of sale for 3 slaves to be transferred from Louisiana to Texas

Sale from Kilgore to E. W. Rogers. The slaves were Bill (25), Patsey (33) and her son John (2). (Through a punctuation error the document seems to say that Kilgore fathered the boy John.)

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to Horace Porter re: claim against Government, support for Grant

The claim against the government should be paid but not publicized in order to preserve his support and influence for Grant in the upcoming election.

GLC05852

Confederate salt print portrait, full length seated portrait

With manuscript inscription on verso.

GLC05888.01

[William Wirt Adams]

Full length standing portrait of William Wirt Adams, a Confederate Brigadier General. On a later mount with signature scratched off front lower left corner.

GLC05888.02

Col. Berdan

Carte-de-visite engraved bust portrait of Himan Berdan. Inscribed on verso with name and rank, "H. Berdan Col. Commanding U.S.S.S."

GLC05917

[Robert G. Shaw]

Carte de visite, 3/4 length standing portrait. Later reprint of a war-time photo.

GLC05923

Proceedings of the Liberal Republican Convention, in Cincinnati

Title continued: "May 1st 2d and 3d, 1873. Horace Greeley's letter of acceptance. Address of the New York State Committee to their fellow-citizens." With obituary of Reverend Charles Brooks .

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Daily sun.

The first three issues have four pages and the last one has two pages. Each issue has at least one column of "Telegraphic" war dispatches. The back page (except the last two-page issue) always contains the Georgia State Constitution. The 29 March...

GLC05959.03

The Daily morning news. (Savannah, Ga.)

4 pages each. Vol. 12 nos. 177-178. Coast invaded by the Lincolnites, Incidents after the Battle of Manassas, The Maryland Regiment in the Battle at Stone Bridge, The killing of Colonel T.E. Rawlings, New York Republican Press on the Battle of...

GLC05959.05

Savannah republican. [necessity newspaper]

Vol. 61 no. 671 and vol. 65 no. 85. Dated 11/20/1862 and 4/14/1865. The latter issue is printed on brown wastepaper. Topics include Fredericksburg, St. Alban's raiders, suffering in Petersburg, Jefferson Davis's flight.

GLC05959.06

True witness (New Orleans, La.)

Vol. 8 nos. 31 and 41. Presbyterian religious newspaper. The 12/7/1861 issue discusses slavery and religious readings for soldiers.

GLC05959.18

Spirit of the age (Raleigh, NC)

Weekly. Vol. 12, no. 47; vol. 13, nos. 50-51; vol. 14 nos. 2, 7, 13 and 17. One very worn issue from 1861. Issues from 1862 use a smaller format of 49 x 33 cm. 7/17/1861; 8/4/1862, 8/11/1862, 9/1/1862, 10/6/1862, 11/17/1862 and 12/15/1862. "A...

GLC05959.33

Fayetteville (NC) observer

Most issues contain 4 pp. One issue from 1861; 8 from 1862; 12 from 1863. Vol. 43 no. 2341, 2344-45, 2362, 2371-74, 2383, 2385-87, 2389, 2416-17, 2419, 2426-27, 2429-30, 2432-33, 2435, 2437-41, 2445-47, 2449 [...]

GLC05959.34

Charleston daily courier. [Vol. 59, no. 18,835 (April 19, 1861)-v. 63, no. 19,915 (November 8, 1864)]

Previously bound. (Daily issue of the Daily Courier; see also Charleston tri-weekly Courier.) Size varies. Five measure 74 x 54.5 cm. while another 12 measure 60 x 42 cm.

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