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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

Valiant men "Dat Fite Mit Siegel"

Depicts a house being plundered and burned while a woman kneels, begging Federal officers to spare her children from the flames. The officers appear haughty and indifferent to her pleas. The threat of sexual violation is implicit as an officer with a...

GLC00493.14

Tracks of the armies

Depicts a Confederate soldier returning home to find his home destroyed and his wife and dog dead. All of his belongings lay scattered and ruined, while in the distance another building burns. Vultures are perched above, more symbols of death. It is...

GLC00493.15

[Scammon endorsement on a manuscript document by Mrs. Abbot regarding property of Isaac H. Abbott destroyed by the federal troops]

Includes horses taken, a hog killed, a burned building, and all sorts of household goods and supplies destroyed or taken, reportedly by the 3rd provisional brigade. With signed autograph endorsement of Colonel Eliakim P. Scammon stating that Abbott...

GLC02414.106

[Orders of Captain Williams]

Possibly a copy in General Eliakim P. Scammon's hand. Talks of a court case. States that Captain Williams asked him for the names of the persons that pressed charges against Hines and Carey and the witnesses. On verso is a gravestone inscription...

GLC02414.119

The Tri-weekly telegraph. [Vol. 27, no. 115, whole no. 3496 (January 10, 1862)]

Federals repulsed in South Carolina. Letters from Brownville, Virginia Point, Camp Kirby, and Parsons's regiment. New York Bank. Reenlistment. Defects in the new military law. Fugitive slave ad. Editorial on death of Judge Hemphill. Report of Mrs. M...

GLC05959.51.016

The Tri-weekly telegraph. [Vol. 27, no. 116, whole no. 3496 (January 13, 1862)]

Spicy interview between General Dix and a lady of baltimore, The First Texas Regiment, The Reign of terror in Baltimore Proclamation by the Governor of Texas. Poems on the passing of the old year and the new year. Pres. Davis's message in England...

GLC05959.51.017

The Tri-weekly telegraph. [Vol. 27, no. 123, whole no. 3503 (January 29, 1862)]

General Van Dorn gone West, Newbern to be attacked, women & children leaving 125 Federal vessels at Hatteras, Letter from Rev. R.F. Bunting. War news form Mexico. General hospital fund. City Council minutes. Alamosa taken by Colonel Baylor.

GLC05959.51.020

The Tri-weekly telegraph. [Vol. 28, no. 21, whole no. 3516 (May 5, 1862)]

Women's work in New Orleans. The federal commander's demands. Editorial on New Orleans. Battle of Glorietta. News from New Mexico. Martial law. City Council minutes. The Winchester battlefield. Battle of Valverde.

GLC05959.51.033

The Tri-weekly telegraph. [Vol. 28, no. 28, whole no. 3523 (May 21, 1862)]

Terrible hailstorm in Lampassas, Texas. Lincoln's message to Congress. Affairs in Galveston. Stormy session of Cabinet. Federal gunboats at New Madrid. Compliment to Southern women. Davis's proclamation to the Confederacy.

GLC05959.51.039

The Tri-weekly telegraph. [Vol. 28, no. 31, whole no. 3526 (May 28, 1862)]

Several poems. A letter to the editor exposes censors, croakers, and traitors. Fugitive slave ad. Editorial on the fall of New Orleans and its effect on Europe. Federal war tax bill. Why women sympathize with the war rebellion. Evacuation of Richmond...

GLC05959.51.042

The Tri-weekly telegraph. [Vol. 28, no. 73, whole no. 3568 (September 3, 1862)]

Evacuation of Baton Rouge. Battle of Cedar Run. Appeal to the ladies of Texas to support aid societies. Editorial on well-drilled soldiers. Heroic incidents in New Orleans.

GLC05959.51.052

The Tri-weekly telegraph. [Vol. 29, no. 43, whole no. 3696 (June 24, 1863)]

Victory in Vicksburg. Poem to the death of Stonewall Jackson. Law of Impressment for Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. Lady Rangers. Summaries from the latest papers. Adventures of a young lady in the army. Fall of Puebla.

GLC05959.51.080

to Robert G. White

Writes regarding the employment of White's daughter.

GLC05891.16

to Henry Jackson Hunt

Thanks Hunt for the memorial he wrote after the death of her father, Harvey Brown. Writes "... we, Father's nearest and dearest, feel that full justice has been done... and that your writing his record has given additional honor to his memory. The...

GLC02382.206

to Henry Jackson Hunt

Date inferred from contents. Pertains to the funeral of Harvey Brown. Bessie transmits the address of her father's funeral. Gives Hunt, who is to write a memorial for her father, insight into his "home life, his gentleness, consideration and...

GLC02382.208

to Henry Jackson Hunt

Year inferred from contents. Hascall consoles Hunt after the death of his daughter (possibly Emily C. Hunt). Writes "one trouble follows another in this life, and a few more years will close the scene- and then it will matter little- what we have...

GLC02382.209

Fayetteville observer. [Vol. 43, no. 2383 (February 2, 1863)]

Good News From Charleston, 2 Blockaders Sunk, Brute Butler, Proclamation by Governor Vance of North Carolina.

GLC05959.34.10

Charleston daily courier. [Vol. 59, no. 18,920 (June 30, 1861)]

Battle of Manassas, Import Tax on European Articles That Run the Blockade on the Confederacy , Charleston Ladies to help Confederate Soldiers, Death of General Barnard Bee

GLC05959.37.03

Charleston daily courier. [Vol. 60, no. 19,051 (January 1, 1862)]

Release of Mason & Slidell (Trent Affair), President Jefferson Davis' Message in England, Queen Victoria's Proclamation against the Export of War Material.

GLC05959.37.06

Confederate Baptist. [Vol. 1, no. 1 (October 1, 1862)]

"Salutatory" explains the purpose of this paper to advance the Baptist denomination, with support of the Confederacy, and to cultivate fraternal relations with others. Blurbs following this article invite readers to write letters, to solicit...

GLC05959.39.01

Confederate Baptist. [Vol. 1, no. 17 (February 19, 1863)]

In "Army Correspondence," a soldier's letter describes conditions in Virginia and reminisces. "The Dying South Carolinian" describes the pious death of a soldier. Editorials examine topics including treatment of Blacks ("A Disciple in a Blaze"),...

GLC05959.39.12

Confederate Baptist. [Vol. 1, no. 19 (March 4, 1863)]

"Army Correspondence" pritns a letter from a soldier near Charleston, South Carolina. An editorial titled "Our Church" commemorates the Baptist church as "the most grand fabric of life and joy in the world." Brief editorials examine "Proselytism" and...

GLC05959.39.14

Song on the death of Col. Ellsworth, the gallant Zouave

Published by J. Magee at 316 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Printed on lined paper. Image of Ellsworth falling backward as he was shot at the top of the page. He is grasping the Confederate flag while another soldier returns fire with a rifle over...

GLC03617.07

Daily dispatch. [Vol. 20, no. 48 (August 28, 1861)]

Effect of the Manassas Battle Abroad, More Arrests - The Lincolnites Seizing Correspondence from Ladies - The Mutinous Soldiers.

GLC05959.56.055