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Weekly state journal.

A column titled "Latest News" gives war briefs and reports, as well as a column with "the very latest from the North," detailing war news. Notices from particular North Carolina troops are printed. Laws, minutes, and reports of the state of North...

GLC05959.25

Semi-weekly Raleigh register.

Correspondence includes news items from other locations and other newspapers. North Carolina State Convention minutes are often printed. Most articles are war-related, and often an article on coast defenses is present. Contributions to soldiers...

GLC05959.26

People's press. (Salem, North Carolina).

The "Latest News" column provides war updates and often includes information from Europe. Reports of battles and troops describe events and local people. Several issues contain proclamations from the North Carolina governor Z.B. Vance. Many issues...

GLC05959.27

Weekly Catawba journal. (Charlotte, NC)

"Devoted to news, agriculture, literature commerce and general intelligence." 4 p. each. 10/15/1861 and 1/7/1862.

GLC05959.28

Salisbury banner.

The masthead describes this paper as "a weekly Democratic newspaper, devoted to politics, agriculture, commerce, the mechanic arts, education, news, the markets, and miscellaneous reading."

This collection contains both weekly and semi-weekly...

GLC05959.29

Daily North Carolina standard. [Vol. 1, no. 187 (November 23, 1865)]

Georgia Convention Speech of Joshua Hill, Wade Hampton to the People of South Carolina.

Unionist newspaper. Masthead quotes Webster: "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable."

GLC05959.30

Newbern progress. [Vol. 5, no. 94 (January 24, 1863)]

Official orders, including about alcohol, black soldiers, and travel. A poem for a new "Yankee Doodle." Articles include The Battle at Springfield, Fight at Blackwater, Official report of Major General Foster. A few reports on foreign news -- Russia...

GLC05959.31

Church intelligencer. (Charlotte, NC)

The Church Intelligencer is "the accredited organ of the Bishops of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, and the University of the South."

At the time of this run, the paper was edited by F.M...

GLC05959.32

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

Hillsborough recorder. [Vol. 42, no. 2092 (May 15, 1861)]

Secretary Seward on the Union, Declaration of Independence of North Carolina.

GLC05959.35

North Carolina Presbyterian. [Vol. 6, no. 40 (October 3, 1863)]

Articles on the slave code, and Chickamauga. Whole no. 300.

GLC05959.36

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.

GLC05959.37

Charleston tri-weekly courier.

Reported Retreat of Burnside, General Lee's Official Report on the Pennsylvania Campaign (Gettysburg), Yankees Fortifying at Cupepper, C.H.

GLC05959.38

Confederate Baptist. (Columbia, SC)

Religious newspaper. Articles include military, letters from regimental chaplains, Yankee atrocities against slaves, biblical view of slavery. Correspondence from various churches, soldiers, missionaries, and chaplains. Religious poetry, children...

GLC05959.39

The free citizen.

E. A. [Eugene Alonzo] Webster is listed as publisher of the "Free Citizen," and A. [Alonzo] Webster is listed as editor. States that the Citizen is published weekly, and is devoted to "Temperance, Literature, and Politics."

GLC05959.40

Camden confederate. [Vol. 2, no. 1 (October 31, 1862)-v. 3, no. 33 (November 16, 1864)]

Biweekly. Vol. 1 nos. 1-3, 5-6, 8-9 (1862); nos. 11, 14, 16, 18, 23, 27-28, 44; vol. 3 no. 4.

GLC05959.41

Camden weekly confederate. [Vol. 3, no. 8 (May 25, 1864)-v. 3, no. 20 (August 17, 1864)]

Vol. 3, no.8, 10, 12, 14-17, 20, 23.

GLC05959.42

Charleston mercury.

Published daily except Sunday. Distinct title issued by same publisher of the Tri-weekly Mercury, the tri-weekly edition.

GLC05959.43

Tri-weekly mercury.

Published Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Triweekly edition of the Charleston Mercury; distinct title issued by same publisher of the Charleston Mercury.

GLC05959.44

The Guardian. [Vol. , no. (February 29, 1864)]

The Enemy are Pressing Upon Dalton in Force, Shelling of Charleston.

GLC05959.45

Tri-weekly South Carolinian. [Vol. 25, no. 6 (January 14, 1862)]

French Vessel Fired Into by Federals, From the Upper Potomac, Surrender of Vera Cruz.

GLC05959.46

New South.

Weekly. 11/1/1862; 3/14/1863, 2/28/1863, 4/4/1863, 4/18/1863; and 4/2/1864.

GLC05959.47

Daily Register. [July 2, 1862]

Handwritten note at top: Why McClellan failed to reach Richmond; Vicksburg Intelligence; Killed & Wounded at Chickahominy. Ads for fugitive soldiers. Printed on heavy brown necessity paper with faded ink.

GLC05959.48

Memphis tri-weekly appeal.

Vol. 17 nos. 111-112.

GLC05959.49

Brownlow's Knoxville whig and rebel ventilator. [Vol. 1, no. 1 (November 11, 1863)- v. 2, no. 15 (May 24, 1865)]

Weekly Unionist newspaper. 2 copies of vol. 1, no.1, 11/11/1863. Parson Brownlow added the subtitle (starting a new series) after his triumphant return to Tennessee; he had been expelled the previous year from the Confederacy. Vol. 1 nos. 1-12, 14...

GLC05959.50

The Tri-weekly telegraph.

Issues contain state legislative minutes and lists of representatives and committees with election returns, Texas news items, occasional death and marriage notices, and an occasional poem. Commercial reports may include prices in produce, cotton...

GLC05959.51

Galveston (TX) tri-weekly news

Vol. 23, nos. 30 and 44.

GLC05959.53

Houston (TX) tri-weekly telegraph

Many previously bound. Vol. 30 no. 164-168, 170, 172-182, 184-186, 188, 193-194, 196-197, 199, 201, 204-206, 208, 210, 211 [CONTINUES]. vol. 30 no. 168 misprinted as 198.

GLC05959.54

The Houston daily telegraph.

Supplement (November 16, 1863) ; 2 p. : 30 x 19 cm. Letter from the Indian Territory. General orders from Texas District Headquarters. News from Shreveport. List of legislative committees.

Vol. 29, no. 154 (February 24, 1864) ; 2 p. : 46.1 x 31...

GLC05959.55

Daily dispatch (Richmond, VA)

Many issues have been previously bound. vol. 19 nos. 60, 114, 135-143, 146-153; vol. 20 nos. 6-15, 21, 24-25, 27-44, 46-62, 64-66, 68-69 [TO CONTINUE] Vol. 20 no. 38, 39, 53___ repeated.

GLC05959.56

Sentinel.

All issues are 2 pp. Inconsistent volume numbering. Issues: 1863: 5/7, 6/22, 12/19; 1864: 3/3, 3/4, 3/9, 3/10, 3/29, 5/3, 5/30, 6/1, 6/3, 6/24, 7/7, 7/12, 7/20, 7/22, 8/8, 8/12, 10/10, 11/21, 11/22, 11/24, 11/26 [... to finish]

GLC05959.57

The Record.

Weekly. All issues are 8 pp. Vol. 1 nos. 2, 10-11, 18-23, 25-26. Dates: 6/25/1863, 8/20/1863, 8/27/1863, 10/15/1863, 10/22/1863, 10/29/1863, 11/5/1863, 11/12/1863, 11/19/1863, 12/3/1863 and 12/10/1863.

GLC05959.58

Daily Republican.

4 pp. each. Vol. 5 nos. 145 and 146. Discusses Benjamin Franklin Butler's "women around town" order in New Orleans.

GLC05959.59

Southern churchman.

Religious newspaper. Vol. 30 #32 (8/26/1864; Prison camp), vol. 30 no. 46 (11/23/1864) and vol. 31 no. 8 (2/22/1865). Measures vary: First issue is 61 x 46.5 cm. while the two other issues measure 30.5 x 44 cm.

GLC05959.60

Williamsburgh Daily Gazette [Vol. 18, no. 290, whole no. 1675 (April 26, 1853)]

Includes 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 Red River, in...

GLC06069.01

To our constituents.

"A portion of the Southern Representatives in Congress, have recently issued an Address to the people of the South on the exciting question of slavery. We were unable to unite with them in the movement, and the absence of our names from the paper...

GLC06070

to George Washington Cullum

General Gillmore, Commander of the Department of the South (Union), writes to Cullum, chief of staff for General Henry Wagner Halleck. Describes recent operations against Fort Wagner, stating "I have taken the first step here and have had some...

GLC06075

Resolutions reported by the military committee, expressive of the high sense entertained by Congress, of the patriotism and good conduct of the people of Louisiana and New Orleans, during the late military operations before that city.

Published by Roger Chew Weightman, congressional printer. States that Senator William Branch Giles, a member of the committee on military affairs, read the included resolutions, expressing the patriotism of Louisiana citizens in the Battle of New...

GLC06078

Mr. Wadleigh, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following report to accompany bill S. Res. 12.

Committee rejection of a proposed amendment that would have granted women the right to vote, issued as Senate Report No. 523 (45th Congress, 3rd Session). Collateral with this is the minority report in support of the proposed amendment, with title...

GLC06081

President Jefferson's Library: A Catalogue

Compiled by the auctioneer, Nathaniel P. Poor. Title continues, "of the extensive and valuable Library of the late President Jefferson, (copied from the original MS., in his hand-writing, as arranged by himself,) to be sold at auction, at the Long...

GLC06094

The Truth and Removal [assassination of Garfield]

Signed only weeks before he was hanged for the assassination of President Garfield. The title refers to the "removal" of Garfield from the presidency as part of a cosmic belief system which Guiteau explains in his book. Inscribed to Miss Maggie...

GLC06095

General Orders No. 141

Signed as official by Assistant Adjutant General, E.D. Townsend. States that "all persons discouraging volunteer enlistments, resisting militia drafts, or guilty of any disloyal practice, affording aid and comfort to rebels against the authority of...

GLC06099

[Presidential pardon of Charles Anderson, who was covicted of selling liquor to Indians]

Anderson was pardoned by McKinley. Countersigned by James E. Bayard, acting Attorney General. includes seal.

GLC06105

The local news. [no volume or number information (November 6, 1861)]

Union occupation newspaper. Also published by W.F. Carne (fl. 1861-1862). Short item says the body of "the negro lad Sam," who had drowned in Hunting Creek during a previous storm, had been found. Report on the popularity of "Foot-ball" -- says it...

GLC06107.02

North Carolina times. [Vol. 1, no. 47 (June 29, 1864)]

Union-occupation newspaper. Masthead motto reads "Liberty and Union - Now and Forever - One and Inseparable." Front page prints recently passed U.S. laws, including acts to provide trials for minor offences and to incorporate homes for women and...

GLC06107.14

Weekly gazette and comet. [Vol. 45, no. 21 (March 4, 1863)]

Union occupation newspaper. Mediation between the Southern commissioners and Secretary of State Seward, sinking of the U.S. Gunboat "Kinsman," News from Washington - the Negro Soldier Bill rejected, capture of the "Queen of the West," Charleston...

GLC06107.18

The Star-Extra

An extra sheet of the Washington D.C. "Star." Contains three articles: first one from West Virginia on General Morris's attack against a division of Wise's army near Buckanon. Second article on the Tennessee disunionsts seizing the railroad between...

GLC06107.37

Dispatch! Extra. Death of the President

Newspaper clipping reports that President Lincoln is dead. Falsely announces that Secretary Seward has also been murdered. Includes information on the plotting of the assassination.

GLC06107.38

Herald extra

Reports on various events related to the 19 April 1861 Baltimore Riot, during which secessionists attacked Union soldiers passing through the city. Headlines announce "Governor Hicks Yielding" and "Massachusetts Regiment Reach Washington!"...

GLC06107.39

Herald extra. [May 30, 1861]

Two government steamers fired upon at Sewell's Point. Rebels evacuate Grafton in great haste. Rebel cavalry and soldiers in jail at Washington. Col. Bartlett's brigade bound to Fortress Monroe.

GLC06107.43

Lives and speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin.

Contains life of Lincoln by W. D. Howells and life of Hamlin by John L. Hayes. Published in New York by W.A. Townsend & Co., and in Columbus, Ohio by Follett, Foster & Co. Illustrated with portraits and image of Chicago Republican wigwam.

GLC06057

to Samuel M. Crothers

Typed in blue ink on printed personal stationery of Roosevelt, with changes in his hand. Crothers worked at Houghton Mifflin & Co. Discusses theory of "divine right" and states "with all our faults, we govern ourselves better than any one man, or...

GLC06058

[Sale of land near Dutch Reformed Church abutting Wall Street]

Signed by Samuel Waldron and countersigned on back by Simon Pasco and Thomas Thong. Sale of land to Abraham Gouverneur, Isaac Gouverneur, Isaac De Riemer, Jr., and Henry Coerten. The sheets are joined at the bottom with ribbon.

GLC06059

to Seth Williams [Official copy of Sumner's report on the Battle of Antietam.]

Reports on action at the battle of Antietam, focusing on Second Corps. "I regret that the loss in my corps was very heavy, which is to be accounted for by the long and furious contest that my Divisions had to maintain in the centre against the most...

GLC06060

[Manuscript Civil War map of the battleground of the Battle of Seven Pines]

Shows roads, streams, and some troop positions. Drawn on a scale of 200 paces or 133-1/3 yards to an inch. The Battle of Seven Pines took place on 31 May 1862-1 June 1862. Blanchard served as Chief Quartermaster, 4th Corps. Mostly black & white...

GLC06061.01

From Sandbar to Forbay over the Stanislaus Flume

Small photo scrapbook stamped "Photographs" on front cover. Photographs and manuscript narrative pasted on black paper. The pictures depict railroad, wilderness, timber, logging and other scenery. There is a skinned page at the end of the book...

GLC06062

Quincy semi-weekly dispatch [Vol. 2, no. 1 (June 25, 1862)]

Necessity newspaper from Florida, with accounts of J.E.B. Stewart's ride around McClellan's army, Benjamin Butler's atrocities in New Orleans, Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley, also discussion of an "Emancipation Measure" on page 4...

GLC06063

Why women do not want the vote.

Two-volume bound compilation of 94 different anti-suffrage pamphlets and leaflets. Most issued by Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women. Most leaflets run between 6-10 pages. Spine title on both volumes:...

GLC06064

The interests of Great Britain considered...[with]Observations on the Increase..

[title continued] "... with regard to her colonies, and the Acquisitions of Canada and Guadaloupe, to which are added, observations concerning the increase of mankind, peopling of countries, etc." Printed by T. Beckett. 8vo. Franklin argues for...

GLC06065

General Assembly. State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantation [with seal]

Printed by John Carter. Stab-stitched. Contains act freeing Quaco, a former slave, as reward for providing information about Newport after it had been seized by the British (pp. 4-5). We know of four African-American Spies, one for the British in...

GLC06066

General Assembly. State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantation [with seal] + [docket]

Documenting the Revolutionary War service of four African-American soldiers, Prince Green, Pharoah Hazard, Vaughn Prince and Bristol Rhodes. Hazard served in the 1st RI Reg. Rhodes served with RI troops in 1776 and 1778, and lost a leg at Yorktown...

GLC06067

to unknown

Moton, President of the Tuskegee Institute, reports on "[t]he lynching record for 1921," based on the research of Monroe N. Work, in charge of the Department of Records and Research at the Institute. States that in 1921, "...there were 72 instances...

GLC06068

[General Orders, No. 12 of Department of the Pacific]

General Order No. 12 issued by Buell as Assistant Adjutant General at the Headquarters of the Department of the Pacific by order of Brigadier General Edwin V. Sumner. Says "Commanding Officers will promptly report to this office the execution of...

GLC06071

Prayer at the dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg

Published by William S. & Alfred Martien, Booksellers. Delivered 19 November 1863, though a precise print date for this document is not cited. Delivered by Reverend Thomas Hewlings Stockton, who previously served as Chaplain to the United States...

GLC06072

[Character of Robert E. Lee defamed by Susan B. Anthony...].

A response to Anthony's accusation in her History of Woman Suffrage that Robert E. Lee banished his youngest daughter, Annie Carter Lee (1839-1862) during the Civil War because of her Unionist sentiments. The author explains that Lee protected his...

GLC06073

Sherman's campaign through the Carolinas.

Printed song written by Lawson, who served in Co. C, 46 Illinois volunteers.

GLC06074

Letters of Col. Mosby and John Tyler Jr.

Reprints a letter from Mosby to a former confederate comrade in reply to one urging him to support the democratic candidate in the presidential election of 1876, Samuel Tilden. Mosby writes that he will support Republicans Rutherford B. Hayes and...

GLC06076

General Assembly. State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantation [with seal]

Printed by John Carter. Resolution welcoming Lafayette back to America. Documentation of payment to Gideon Davenport for service by people he enslaved for Rhode Island's Continental battalions (p. 12). With state seal.

GLC06077

An ordinance prohibiting slavery in the State of North Carolina.

Ordinance No. 16, introduced by Mr. Settle. Declares, "... it is hereby declared and ordained, That Slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than for crimes, whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be, and is hereby forever...

GLC06079

Memorial Day, May 10th, 1877, at Magnolia Cemetery, under the auspices of the Ladies Memorial Association, Charleston, South Carolina

Contains an announcement for a prayer and memorial ode delivered by Reverend W. H. Campbell. Includes odes by Grace Raymond and Reverend Charles Stuart Vedder. Announces the decoration of graves to be completed by ladies of the Association. The...

GLC06080

Women's right and the public welfare.

Title continues: "Remarks of Hon. George F. Hoar before a Joint Special Committee of the Massachusetts legislature, April 14, 1869." "I have failed to think of a single reason which I can give why you or I should have the right of suffrage which...

GLC06082

Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge.

Printed by B. T. Albro. Compiled by Francis Harriet Whipple Green McDougall (born Francis Harriet Whipple), an abolitionist and author. Eldridge was a black female slave and servant, who saved money from her labors, establishing herself as a...

GLC06083

The history of the New-York African free-school, from their establishment in 1787, to the present time; embracing a period of more than forty years: also a brief account of the succesful labors of the New-York Manumission Society

Written by Andrews as the principal of the African Free School. Printed by Mahlon Day at 376 Pearl Street in New York. First edition copy. Includes engraving of the school building, from a drawing by a student, opposite the title page. Provides a...

GLC06084

View of the conduct of the Executive, in foreign affairs....

Written by James Monroe. Printed by Benjamin Franklin Bache. "View of the conduct of the Executive, in foreign affairs, of the United States, connected with the mission to the French Republic... 1794, 5 & 6." In original paper boards with...

GLC06085

[General orders from department of the Gulf]

One hundred and twenty General orders issued by the commanding officers of the Department of the Gulf, first Butler then Banks, regarding New Orleans. The first fourteen orders range from 20 March 1862 up until the capture of New Orleans and were...

GLC06086

Official Report ... of the Siege and Reduction of Fort Pulaski, Georgia.

Full title is "Official Report to the United States Engineer Department, of the Siege and Reduction of Fort Pulaski, Georgia, February, March, and April, 1862." Written by Brigadier General Quincy Adams Gillmore, U.S. Volunteers, Captain of Engineers...

GLC06087

to Alfred

Discusses his finances. Mentions that he is building two houses in St. Louis and another in Illinois. Writes about his determination to stay out of politics and Ulysses S. Grant's financial troubles. "Every day's development of the Grant affair...

GLC06088

to James Cook Conklin

In a working draft of a telegram, General Butler responds to an invitation to a convention of Union supporters in Springfield, Illinois from Conkling, a judge active in state politics. Discussing the Civil War, states "Compromises are impossible save...

GLC06089

A map of Louisiana and of the river Mississippi by John Senex

Engraved map of North America from Chesapeake Bay to the Rio del Norte. English version of the first map to show Texas, earlier land routes, and details of gulf region and the Mississippi. Original outline coloring. Scale: 1 inch = approximately 22...

GLC06090

A new map of Mexico and adjacent provinces [roll map on linen]

A New Map of Mexico and Adjacent Provinces Compiled from Original Documents.... London: Published 5th. October 1810, by A. Arrowsmith, 10 Soho Sque. Hydrographer to His Majesty, 1810. Wall map, mounted on linen, with wooden rollers at top and bottom...

GLC06091

Oval salt print photograph as Governor at the age of 67

GLC06092

Convention between his most Christian majesty and the United States of America

[Title continued] "For the Purpose of Defining and Establishing the Functions and Privileges of their Respective Consuls and Vice Consuls." Agreement between France and the U.S. With stamp of New Jersey Historical Society. Printed the convention...

GLC06093

President's Address

President Jackson's second inaugural address. Printed in two columns with show-through. Printed at the New Hampshire Gazette Office. The notice at top notes when the address was received at the office by express, and also notes that Clay's Land...

GLC06096

[Treasury Department Prescription Blank - National Prohibition Act]

Prescription for Ira Altman of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, for "Sp[iritus] Frumenti" (alcohol) issued by Dr. McCarter. Treasury Dept. US Internal Revenue B 38246 / Blank no. 57. Watermarked "Prohibition."

GLC06097

[Iowa joint resolution, ratifying the 13th Amendment to the Constitution]

Document of the eleventh General Assembly of the State of Iowa ratifying the 13th amendment to the Constitution of the United States which abolished slavery. Parchment document, with green state seal. Signed in ink by Iowa's Governor, William M...

GLC06098

How the war commenced, and how near it is ended.

Campaign broadside that includes a map showing the expansion of Union military control in the South. Includes paragraphs headed "Who commenced the War?" and "Have we made any Progress in Crushing the Rebellion?" The text underneath the map attacks...

GLC06100

to Arthur S. Brockenbough re: the University of Virginia, actions needed

Originally accompanied by a paper which was probably minutes of the meeting of the Board of Visitors but separated and acquired separately as GLC 2696. The left margin and verso have Brockenbough's notes on his response to the letter and the minutes...

GLC06102

Collection of Union occupation newspapers [decimalized]

Includes first Issues from Knoxville, Petersburg, Port Hudson, Ship Island, Etc. Plus issues from Virginia, N.C. Texas, and Baton Rouge.
[decimalized 06107.01-06107.49]

GLC06107

Soldier's journal. [Vol. 2, No. 14 (May 25, 1865)]

Includes articles relevant to soldiers upon their return home following service in the Civil War. Printed at Augur General Hospital.

GLC06107.01

Crutch--Extra.

"Glorious News." Broadside extra printing of Union soldiers' hospital newspaper reporting the capture of General Johnson's division by Winfield S. Hancock.

GLC06107.03

Knoxville tri-weekly whig and rebel ventilator. [Vol. 1, no. 1 (July 26, 1864)]

Reports capture of Atlanta by Sherman, opposition to granting "open & avowed" Rebels the right to vote in upcoming election, death of General Faulkner & Colonel Forrest, defeat of General Forrest, affirmation of Lincoln's handling of the war.

GLC06107.04

Grant's Petersburg progress. [Vol. 1, no. 1 (April 3, 1865)]

First issue. Whimsical and humorous newspaper published by soldiers. Includes story about a newly imposed dog tax in Illinois.

GLC06107.05

Grant's Petersburg progress. [Vol. 1, no. 4 (April 10, 1865)]

Whimsical and humorous newspaper published by soldiers. Printing news of Gen. Lee's surrender. Includes humorous advertisement for the capture of Jefferson Davis.

GLC06107.06

Nashville weekly union. [Vol. 1, no. 30 (May 25, 1863)]

News include report of 4th Mich. Cav. defeating 1st Alabama and capturing their flag. Prints 157 regulations to be followed under martial law. Ink inscription "G.W.C." Later graphite inscription "My uncle Geo. W. Clark."

GLC06107.07

Nashville weekly union. [Vol. 2, no. 62 (January 4, 1864)]

Articles discuss black soldiers, slavery as the cause of the war, Lincoln's amnesty proclamation and the plight of rebel prisoners freezing to death in Northern prison camps.

GLC06107.08

Brownlow's Knoxville whig and rebel ventilator. [Vol. 1, no. 27 (July 9, 1864)]

Colored troops in Union and Confederate armies, includes information on the death of General Polk, a campaign ad for Lincoln's election, anti-equality and anti-emancipation articles, John Morgan's raid into Kentucky, Sherman's orders to shoot any and...

GLC06107.09

Knoxville tri-weekly whig and rebel ventilator. [Vol. 1, no. 2 (July 29, 1864)]

Confiscation Acts - written by the United States District Attorney for the District of East Tennessee, Political Ad for Lincoln & Johson, trade regulations, the Rebel Raid in Maryland.

GLC06107.10

New Berne weekly progress. [Vol. 4, no. 50 (July 19, 1862)]

McClellan's Pennisula Campaign, the Battle of Corinth and Benjamin Franklin ("Beast") Butler's order in New Orleans. Includes a false report of Stonewall Jackson's death and wrongly explains how he received his nickname. Remnants of red wax.

GLC06107.11

New Berne daily progress. [Vol. 5, no. 74 (December 24, 1862)]

Proclamation issued by Edward Stanley, Military Governor of North Carolina, The Battle of Prairie Grove, Foreign Affairs - Marriage of the Prince of Wales April Next.

GLC06107.12