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Tri-weekly mercury. [Vol. 56, no. 11, 086 (February 13, 1861)]

Governor Brown's Reprisal, Slave Trade in Southern Congress, Speech by Stephens, Affairs of Pensacola.

GLC05959.44.02

Tri-weekly mercury. [Vol. 79, no. 11, 198 (July 11, 1861)]

Battle Near Martinsburg, Message of Abraham Lincoln, the Abolitionist President, Death of Governor Ellis of North Carolina.

GLC05959.44.08

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

A Slave Cabin

Marked "Plate 10." Contains 3 images. Upper left image is titled "A Slave Cabin," and shows a shabby wooden shack with a makeshift canopy for a porch. Upper right image is titled "The Old Grist Mill," and shows a large clapboard mill with a very tall...

GLC02199.10

The Rear of the Column

Marked "Plate 18." Depicts stragglers and wagon guards bringing up the rear while the wagon train is seen coming down the distant hill, with flankers thrown out to protect it from the enemy's horsemen. Depicts a Black man, possibly a freed enslaved...

GLC02199.18

The "Reliable Contraband"

Marked "Plate 23." A scene at the cavalry outpost. In the foreground, a Black enslaved person is leading an old horse and is seen hesitatingly imparting to anxious officers what little information he possesses of the enemy's movements. Cavalrymen...

GLC02199.23

A Watched Pot Never Boils

Marked "Plate 29." Contains 4 images. Upper left is titled "A Watched Pot Never Boils," and shows a black soldier sleeping next to a coffeepot that had been sitting on a fire and that is now knocked over. Upper right image is titled "A Hearty Supper...

GLC02199.29

Coming into the Lines

Marked "Plate 30." Depicts a group of enslaved people riding in an enslaver's wagon towards the Union lines. They are passing a picket post. In the background are a few enslaved people who have lagged behind, including one waving his hat in joy at...

GLC02199.30

The Supply Train

Marked "Plate 31." Centers on a laden wagon, drawn by six horses, that is being driven by two black supplymen. Both are cracking their whips to get the horses to move along the muddy road. Several other wagons snake into the distance. Actual size of...

GLC02199.31

Gone Off with the Yanks

Marked "Plate 32." Contains 4 images. Upper left image is titled "Gone off with the Yanks," and shows what appears to be an abandoned shack that was inhabited by enslaved people. Upper right image is titled "A Land Flowing with Milk and Honey," and...

GLC02199.32

Daily Richmond examiner. [Vol. 16, no. 238 (December 10, 1862)]

Capture of 2 Yankee gunboats in North Carolina, Progress of the Abolitionists, General Johnson has taken command of the Dept of the West.

GLC05959.72.026

Daily Richmond examiner. [Vol. 17, no. 267 (January 25, 1864)]

Employment of Free Negroes and slaves in the Army.

GLC05959.72.047

Daily Richmond examiner. [Vol. 18, no. 30 (April 2, 1864)]

Maryland Embittered Against Lincoln, Emancipation forced upon the Border States, the corruption growing out of the war.

GLC05959.72.074

Daily Richmond examiner. [Vol. 18, no. 31 (April 4, 1864)]

Yankee Negro Calvary operating on the Mississippi River, Guerrillas appear in the vicinity of Baton Rouge, Pending battle in Texas, Inflation of Confederate Currency.

GLC05959.72.075

Daily Richmond examiner. [Vol. 18, no. 33 (April 6, 1864)]

Negro equality in the North.

GLC05959.72.077

Daily Richmond examiner. [Vol. 18, no. 40 (April 15, 1864)]

A brooch of diamonds given to General R.E. Lee, Acts by the Fourth Session of the First Congress, Negro Soldiers in the North - A novel picture of what the Negroes have gained by freedom, The Minnesota hit by rebel torpedo, The enemies plans for a...

GLC05959.72.084

Daily Richmond examiner. [Vol. 18, no. 41 (April 16, 1864)]

Forrest's expedition in Tennessee, Beast Butler & the clergy, All the clergy of Portsmouth & Norfolk swallowed Butler's oath, Splendid victory - capture of Fort Pillow, the whole garrison annihilated (massacred).

GLC05959.72.085

Daily Richmond examiner. [Vol. 18, no. 42 (April 18, 1864)]

Burnside's Expedition inot the Shenandoah Valley, Confederate Prison at Salisbury, North Carolina, Louisiana's Zouave Battalion of New Orleans, Capture of Fort Pillow by Feneral Forrest - The fort ran with blood, many jumped into the river and were...

GLC05959.72.086

Daily Richmond examiner. [Vol. 18, no. 44 (April 20, 1864)]

General Forrest's official report on the capture of Fort Pillow.

GLC05959.72.088

Daily Richmond examiner. [Vol. 18, no. 52 (April 29, 1864)]

The coming campaign to capture Richmond - The situation and preparations, Capture of an ironclad, The Fort Pillow Affair - Lincoln has promised retaliation by putting to death our men at his hands - Tales of the most horrible massacre and butchery...

GLC05959.72.095

Daily Richmond examiner. [Vol. 18, no. 69 (May 19, 1864)]

General Breckinridge's victory at New Market, Reported Surrender of Bank's Army, Fort Pillow - The Defenses of Mobile.

GLC05959.72.106

Daily Richmond examiner. [Vol. 18, (January 21, 1865)]

The fall of Fort Fisher, Letter by Admiral David Porter, Peace Resolutions Yankee Congress, General Sherman's Freed Men, Resignation of James A. Seddon, Secretary of War.

GLC05959.72.122

Southern literary messenger. [Vol. 33, no. 1 (July)]

A magazine devoted to Literature, Science and Art.
Exile and Empire
The true question: A contest for the supremacy of race
Conrad Clifford.
Gan-Eden
Juggernaut

GLC05959.75.01

The rear of the column

Marked "Plate 18." Depicts stragglers and wagon guards bringing up the rear while the wagon train is seen coming down the distant hill, with flankers thrown out to protect it from the enemy's horseman. Depicts a black man, possibly a freed slave...

GLC08653.10

The "Reliable Contraband"

Marked "Plate 23." A scene at the cavalry outpost. In the foreground a black runaway slave, a contraband of war, is leading an old horse and is seen hesitatingly imparting to anxious officers what little information he posses of the enemy's movements...

GLC08653.13