1881

Gardner, Asa Bird, 1839-1919

Book

Title: The Battles of "Gravelly Run", "Dinwiddie Court-House", and "Five Forks", Va.

Defending Sheridan's behavior. See .338 on the Warren Court of inquiry

GLC00267.334

1864

Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878

Book

Title: Commodore Charles Wilkes's court martial

First 301 pages is the document titled "Commodore Charles Wilkes's Court-Martial," while the last 24 pages is a separate document titled "Commodore Charles Wilkes's Court of Inquiry." A report submitted by Secretary of the Navy Welles to the House of Representatives consisting of correspondence and documents pertaining to the court martial and court of inquiry of Charles Wilkes in 1864. Wilkes's court martial stemmed from a scathing letter he wrote expressing his anger about Welles's report on Wilkes's behavior after the Trent affair. Wilkes was the commander of the vessel that captured two…

GLC00267.348

1864

United States. Senate.

Book

Title: Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 26th ultimo, correspondence with the rebel authorities in relation to the exchange of prisoners.

38th Congress, 1st session. Executive Document no. 17. Documents concerning exchange of prisoners of war.

GLC00267.353

1865

United States. Congress. House

Pamphlet

Title: Exchange of prisoners. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of 21st December last, relative to the exchange of prisoners of war.

House of Representatives, 38th Congress, 2nd session, Executive Document no. 32.

GLC00267.354

1864

United States. Congress

Pamphlet

Title: House of Representatives. Report # 67. Returned Prisoners.

38th Congress, 1st session. Signed by W. L. Ransom. Report made by Daniel Gooch of the Joint Committee on the Conduct and Expenditures of the War. Describes in detail the harsh treatment endured by prisoners of war and the destitute condition of the returned Union prisoners: "The evidence proves, beyond all manner of doubt, a determination on the part of the rebel authorities, ... to subject those of our soldiers who have been so unfortunate as to fall in their hands to a system of treatment which has resulted in reducing many of those who have survived and been permitted to return to us…

GLC00267.358

January 19, 1865

Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878

Pamphlet

Title: Letter from the Secretary of the Navy...

Title continues, "...in Answer to a Resolution of the House of the 20th instant, transmitting report of Chief Engineer King, as also May, in relation to iron-clad vessels and dock-yards of Europe." Report submitted by Secretary of the Navy Welles to the House of Representatives. Report is the correspondence from Chief Engineer J.W. King. Contains five foldout maps between pages 26-27 of Keyham and Devonport, two of Cherbourg, Portsmouth, and the extension of Chatham Yard. Dated from the date it was ordered to be printed. Appears to have been pulled from a larger book.

GLC00267.362

1875

Woodbury, Augustus, 1825-1895

Book

Title: The Second Rhode Island regiment: a narrative of military operations

I Nevins 182, Dornbusch 99.

GLC00267.326

1875

Woodbury, Augustus, 1825-1895

Book

Title: The Second Rhode Island regiment: a narrative of military operations

I Nevins 182, Dornbusch 99. SECOND COPY With loose map

GLC00267.327

1901-1904

Tillinghast, Pardon Elisha, 1836-1905

Book

Title: Twelfth regiment Rhode Island volunteers in the Civil War, 1862-1863

I Nevins 151, Dornbusch 123. Service in Virginia and Kentucky

GLC00267.328

1985

Rhodes, Robert Hunt, 1937-

Book

Title: All for the Union: A history of the 2nd Rhode Island volunteer infantry...

Publishing the diary and letters of E.H. Rhodes

GLC00267.329

25 October 1862

Rosecrans, William S. (William Starke), 1819-1898

Pamphlet

Title: General orders no. 151

Celebrating the Union victory at Corinth and explaining "the magnitude of the stake" involved there. "The possession of West Tennessee, and perhaps even the fate of operations in Kentucky," had depended on this victory. Says his army had been outnumbered two to one, lists dead and wounded on both sides, and thanks his men. The Battle of Corinth was not as decisive a victory as Rosecrans claims, and the Union was badly outfought on the first day. However, they rallied and were able to prevent the Confederates from achieving any strategic objectives, and did force them to retreat.

GLC00267.331

June 25, 1863

Shenk, Samuel D., fl. 1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his wife

The letter discusses Confederate invasion of Pennsylvania, slaves, and northern racism. Mentions Lee's offensive into Pennsylvania and offers insight into his own attitudes toward race. "I am very sorry to hear that the Rebels are in Pennsylvania But I hope the men will be Patriots enough to turn out and Chase or Drive the traitors from our soil...I think if our government would take more interest to how they used the Poor Soldiers and less these stinken old worn out Negroes for the Rebs to feed and take that which to give to the Negroes I think this war would a great deal quicker get settled…

GLC00267.332

1865

Denison, Charles Wheeler, 1809-1881

Book

Title: The life, campaigns, and services of Philip H. Sheridan

Published by T.B. Peterson & Brothers. Pages uncut.

GLC00267.333

1865

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

Book

Title: The Hero's own story. General Sherman's official account of his great march through Georgia and the Carolinas ...

Title continues, "...from his departure from Chattanooga to the surrender of General Johnston, and the Confederate forces under his command." Also includes, "General Sherman's evidence before the Congressional Committee on the conduct of war; the animadversions of his Secretary Stanton and General Halleck; with a Defence of his Proceedings, etc." Published by Bunce & Huntington, New York. Original front cover, back cover missing, binding broken.

GLC00267.335

1958

Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949

Book

Title: Sherman: fighting prophet

Reissue of 1932 original with foreword by Bruce Catton

GLC00267.336

1869

Smith, Edward Parmelee, 1827-1876

Book

Title: Incidents of the United States Christian Commission

Published by J. B. Lippincott & Co. Serves as a collection of descriptions of Civil War events contributed by Union soldiers and sailors. Includes chapters pertaining to various Civil War battles and locations.

GLC00267.337

circa 1880-1890

Stickney, Albert, fl. 1865

Book

Title: Warren Court of Inquiry. Argument of... counsel for General Warren

I Nevins 45, who finds this defense of Warren's conduct at Five Forks convincing. See .334

GLC00267.338

1912

Tyler, Mason W. (Mason Whiting), 1884-1923

Pamphlet

Title: Recollections of the Civil War [Mass. 37th regiment]

I Nevins 171, Coulter 456, Dornbusch (Mass.) 330, Union Bookshelf 241

GLC00267.342

1886

Walker, Francis A., fl. 1886

Book

Title: History of the second army corps in the Army of the Potomac

III Dornbusch 1311 (citing 1886 ed.). With 30 maps.

GLC00267.344

1952

Wiley, Bell I., 1906-1980

Book

Title: The Life of Billy Yank

I Nevins 178.

GLC00267.346

1949

Williams, Kenneth P., 1887-1958

Header Record

Title: Lincoln finds a general: A Military Study of the Civil War

GLC00267.347

1889

Wilson, William Bender, fl. 1889

Book

Title: A few acts and actors in the tragedy of the Civil War....

II Nevins 33, Dornbusch II 2557, Nicholson 937.

GLC00267.350

1861

Ziegler, George J., fl. 1861

Pamphlet

Title: The soldier's friend; or, hints for the physical and moral welfare of the soldiers of the United States

Published "for gratuitous distribution" by Samuel S. White. Pamphlet is a morale booster as well as a health guide. Page 2 cover has a copy of the poem "Army Hymn" by Oliver Wendell Holmes from the June 1861 Atlantic Monthly. Pages 3-7 has 24 tips on how to stay healthy because "War is an evidence of barbarism, but as it is upon us we must recognize its obligations, and do everything we can to mitigate its dreadful evils and promote the cause of justice and peace." Page 8 has a section of a patriotic speech Henry Clay gave in the Senate during the Compromise of 1850 debates, titled "The…

GLC00267.352

1863

Bartlett, John Russell, 1805-1886

Book

Title: The Barbarities of the Rebels...

Title continues, "...as Shown in their Cruelty to the Federal Wounded and Prisoners; in their Outrages Upon Union Men; in the Murder of Negroes, and in their Unmanly Conduct Throughout the Rebellion." Written by Bartlett as Secretary of State for Rhode Island, under the pseudonym of Colonel Percy Howard, supposedly late of the Royal Horse Guards. Printed privately and marked "printed for the author." The preface states that the author has seen wars in both Europe and Asia but "has been shocked with the barbarities with which the war has been conducted by the South; barbarities which no war…

GLC00267.355

1863

Howard, Frank Key, 1826-1872

Pamphlet

Title: Fourteen months in American Bastiles.

Published by Kelly, Hedian & Piet, Baltimore. Howard writes of his experience in prison. In the preface, Howard criticizes President Abraham Lincoln's policies during the Civil War, "The unlawful and oppressive acts of Mr. Lincoln ... " Francis Key Howard, the grandson of Francis Scott Key and a pro-Confederate Baltimore editor, was imprisoned for treason for fourteen months at Fort McHenry in September 1861. In all, 30 legislators from Maryland were seized for suspected disloyalty to the U.S. government. Most if not all were never given any criminal charge, and all were denied trial.

GLC00267.356