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Louisville daily journal. [Vol. 33, no. 332 (October 19, 1863)]

Grant Reviews Troops at Vickburg, Capture of Guerrillas in Arkansas, Hindman Wounded at Chickamauga, Fight at LaGrange, Tennessee, Attack on Washington Probable.
A lengthy letter from Judge George Robertson of Kentucky fills the front page discussing...

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Opelousas courier. [Vol. 12, no. 23 (November 5, 1864)]

The front page is in French and the back page is in English. Armistice Pressed at Washington. Printed are a call for oil cloths and blankets for soldiers is printed here and an address of Colonel Alcibiade Deblanc on his return from Virginia...

GLC05959.15.04

Confederate Baptist. [Vol. 1, no. 25 (April 15, 1863)]

Two articles titled "Army Missions" describe several battalions and their ties to religion. "Warlike" compares religions work in the army with ancient battles. Three columns of "Secular News" include an extensive report reprinted form the Mercury, of...

GLC05959.39.20

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...

GLC05960.02.02

New Orleans daily crescent. [Vol. 13, no. 305 (February 25, 1861)]

Published at 70 Camp Street. Article on University of Louisiana. Description of the New Orleans celebration of George Washington's birthday takes up three quarters of the front page. Describes an "Imposing Military Display." Short item on arrival...

GLC05960.02.06

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

Williamsburgh Daily Gazette [Vol. 18, no. 291, whole no. 1676 (April 27, 1853)]

Includes the conclusion of a preview of a work soon to be published called "The Narrative of Solomon Northrop, a Citizen of New York, Kidnapped and Sold into Slavery in Washington City, in 1844, and Rescued in 1853 from a cotton plantation, near the...

GLC06069.02

Progress of a race or the remarkable advancement of the Afro-American...

Full title is: "Progress of a race or the remarkable advancement of the Afro-American from the bondage of slavery, ignorance and poverty to the freedom of citizenship, intelligence, affluence, honor and trust." Published by J. L. Nichols & Co. Co...

GLC06126.01

[Notice of transportation furnished for Private Aaron Scott, Company F, 19th Regiment, United States Colored Troops]

Renton, Assistant Quartermaster, informs the United States Army Paymaster General that he has provided transportation to Baltimore, Maryland for Private Scott. States that Scott is on a leave of absence granted by General Benjamin Franklin Butler....

GLC06133.01

[Notice of transportation furnished for Private Frank Lloyd, Company K, 19th Regiment, United States Colored Troops]

Renton, Assistant Quartermaster, informs the United States Army Paymaster General that he has provided transportation to Harpers Ferry, Virginia, for Private Frank Lloyd. States that Lloyd is on a leave of absence granted by General Benjamin...

GLC06133.02

[Notice of transportation furnished for Private Stephen Bailey, Company C, 19th Regiment, United States Colored Troops]

Renton, Assistant Quartermaster, informs the United States Army Paymaster General that he has provided transportation to Baltimore, Maryland, for Private Bailey. States that Bailey is on a leave of absence granted by General Charles Adam Heckman....

GLC06133.03

[Notice of transportation furnished for Sergeant Peter Knock, Company A, 19th Regiment, United States Colored Troops]

Renton, Assistant Quartermaster, informs the United States Army Paymaster General that he has provided transportation to Annapolis, Maryland, for Sergeant Knock. States that Knock is on a leave of absence granted by General Charles Adam Heckman....

GLC06133.04

[Notice of transportation furnished for Sergeant Judson Matthews, Company G, 19th Regiment, United States Colored Troops]

Renton, Assistant Quartermaster, informs the United States Army Paymaster General that he has provided transportation to Annapolis, Maryland, for Sergeant Mathews. States that Mathews is on a leave of absence granted by General Charles Adam Heckman...

GLC06133.05

[Notice of transportation furnished for Corporal Frank Sewell, Company K, 19th Regiment, United States Colored Troops]

Renton, Assistant Quartermaster, informs the United States Army Paymaster General that he has provided transportation to Annapolis, Maryland, for Corporal Sewell. States that Sewell is on a leave of absence granted by General Charles Adam Heckman....

GLC06133.06

Three copies of the same pamphlet: Speech of Hon. Abraham Lincoln, delivered in Springfield, Saturday evening, July 17, 1858 [Decimalized .01-.03]

GLC06214

[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

[Civil War diary of Calvin S. Mixter]

Signed diary including printed almanac and eclipse calendar in the opening pages. Mixter, a member of the 22nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, begins his 1863 diary as his corps returns to Stafford County, Virginia, from a reconnaissance to Ellis...

GLC06583.02

[Civil War diary of Calvin Symmes Mixter]

Signed diary including a printed image, an eclipse calendar, a mileage chart, and postage rates in the opening pages. Mixter writes from various locations, including Washington, D.C., during 1864. On 12 January, accepts appointment as 1st...

GLC06583.03

[Loose Page from Scrapbook of William C. Alberger]

Page contains:

Unknown. Map: s. l., Topographical map of Virginia between Washington and Manassas Junction. No date. 1 p. Includes an image of Washington, D. C., with the capital building in the foreground. Depicts Virginia and the western...

GLC06628.03

Worship of the North

Depicts Lincoln in front of an altar with a black idol sitting on a platform with the words "Chicago Platform" on it. A sheet hanging from the platform says "The end justifies the means." Shows a white person being sacrificed in front of it. Henry...

GLC00493.01

Buying a substitute in the North during the war

Image comments negatively upon the Northern policy of allowing men to find a substitute to take their place in the draft. Shows a well-dressed and dandified agent with a holstered pistol showing a timid gentleman into a low class pub where the...

GLC00493.07

Slaves Concealing Their Master From a Search Party

One etching entitled, "Slaves Concealing Their Master From a Search Party," by Adalbert John Volck, political cartoonist and sympathist with the Confederacy. Depicts an enslaved woman, directing mounted Federal soldiers as the enslaver hides in the...

GLC00493.12

Offering of bells to be cast into cannon

Depicts a pastor and members of his congregation presenting church bells to be used to create weapons of war. The officer who accepts the bells removes his hat in recognition of the reverence of the occasion. Enslaved people are depicted lifting...

GLC00493.19

Butler's victim of Fort St. Philip

Depicts a heavily fortified prison where reputable and well-dressed citizens of New Orleans are shown at manual labor, shackled with ball and chain. The prisoners are guarded by members of the local home guard African American Zouave unit, who point...

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