22 July 1862

Hanleiter & Adair (publishers), fl. 1861-1865

Newspaper

Title: Southern confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 133 (July 22, 1862)]

An article, "Notorious Yankee Colonel Killed", reports the death of Colonel Wyman of the 16th Massachusetts regiment, and details a scandal involving the Colonel and a society lady of New York, Mrs. Captain James Brennan. "Morgan Forever" details rebel heroism. Also includes a printing of articles from Northern newspapers, titled "Late Yankee Talk". Includes accounts of proceedings in the U.S. Senate, troop movements and battle reports, advertisements, and local news.

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23 July 1862

Hanleiter & Adair (publishers), fl. 1861-1865

Newspaper

Title: Southern confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 134 (July 23, 1862)]

An article titled "European Intervention" reports that European recognition, let alone intervention, is unlikely. Another article, "Letter from General Butler Explaining his Order Concerning the Ladies of New Orleans" berates General Benjamin F. Butler for an order relating to prostitution. Other articles include: "Effect of the News of McClellan's Defeat in St. Louis" and "Condition of General McClellan's Army -- Views of Gens. Porter and Marcy." Includes accounts of proceedings in the U.S. Senate, troop movements and battle reports, advertisements, and local news.

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24 July 1862

Hanleiter & Adair (publishers), fl. 1861-1865

Newspaper

Title: Southern confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 135 (July 24, 1862)]

An article titled "Address of General McClellan to the Army of the Potomac", written from headquarters near Harrison's Landing on July 4, praises the soldiers and the government for their successes on the occasion of "the nation's birthday". Another article, titled "Yankee" details the origin and developing usages of the term in the United States. Includes accounts of proceedings in the U.S. Senate, troop movements and battle reports, advertisements, and local news.

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25 July 1862

Hanleiter & Adair (publishers), fl. 1861-1865

Newspaper

Title: Southern confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 136 (July 25, 1862)]

An article, "About Arming Negroes: The Policy of General Hunter and the Secretary of War" reports on the a debate in the House of Representatives regarding "negro soldiers", in which a Representative from Kentucky attacks Secretary of State Edwin M. Stanton and General David Hunter. Also includes "Special Correspondence from the Texas Rangers" about the Battle of Murfreesboro. Includes accounts of proceedings in the U.S. Senate, troop movements and battle reports, advertisements, and local news.

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26 July 1862

Hanleiter & Adair (publishers), fl. 1861-1865

Newspaper

Title: Southern confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 137 (July 26, 1862)]

An article, "Test Vote on Arming Negroes" reports on a vote in the House of Representatives. Also includes a war report, "Sherman Has Evacuated Germantown". Also prints a draft of a bill from President Lincoln which would compensate states that abolish slavery. Includes accounts of proceedings in the U.S. Senate, troop movements and battle reports, advertisements, and local news.

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27 July 1862

Hanleiter & Adair

Newspaper

Title: Southern confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 138 (July 27, 1862)]

"The Fight at Murfreesboro" reports deaths at the Battle of Murfreesboro, including an well-respected doctor. Another article, "The Great War Meeting in New York--Efforts to Drum up More Men--Inflamatory Speeches--Letters from President Lincoln, Seward, Sumner, and Edward Everett", prints those individuals' responses, having recieved invitations to a "mass meeting" in New York on July 15. Includes accounts of proceedings in the U.S. Senate, troop movements and battle reports, advertisements, and local news.

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17 August 1862

Hanleiter & Adair (publishers), fl. 1861-1865

Newspaper

Title: Southern confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 156 (August 17, 1862)]

Prints various articles regarding events in the war, including "The Battle at Southwest Mountain", "The Battle of Tazewell E.T.", "Is McClellan Evacuating?", "The Killing of General McCook, and "Battle at Cedar Creek". Also prints Chapter 4 of "A Hand-book of Miscellaneous Information for Soldiers and Officers " by John M. Richardson. Includes news from the Confederate War Department, new conscription orders, troop movements and battle reports via telegraph, advertisements and local news.

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20 August 1862

Hanleiter & Adair (publishers), fl. 1861-1865

Newspaper

Title: Southern confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 158 (August 20, 1862)]

Prints various articles, including "The Affair at Murfreesboro" regarding General T. T. Crittenden's capture, and "Secretary Seward on the Object of the War". Includes new conscription orders, troop movements and battle reports, advertisements, and local news.

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circa 1880-1890

Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912

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Title: Passage through Baltimore

Comments on Abraham Lincoln's stealthy trip through pro-South Baltimore on his way to Washington to be inaugurated. Lincoln's plans were changed in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on 22 February 1861 to avoid trouble in Baltimore. He boarded a special train on 23 February 1861 and travelled through Baltimore behind the curtains of a berth in a sleeping car. Volck depicts Lincoln being frightened by a hissing cat as he attempts to peek out of a freight car. The letters "P.W. & B.R.R. Co" (Philadelphia Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad) are on the freight car as well as the words "fright Bones…

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circa 1880-1890

Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912

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Title: The Battle in Baltimore April 19th 1861

What Volck calls a "battle" has been more often been described as the Baltimore Riot. Shows the 6th Massachusetts Regiment travelling through Baltimore to Washington, answering Lincoln's call for 75,000 volunteers for ninety days' service to defend the capitol. The troops had to switch train stations in Baltimore and a riot broke out on route to the transfer station. Image depicts the riot taking place at train tracks between Union soldiers and secessionist sympathizers. Shows civilians throwing stones and brandishing pistols. Also portrays Union soldiers, some on the train, using rifles with…

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4 December 1862

Hanleiter & Adair (publishers), fl. 1861-1865

Newspaper

Title: Southern confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 248 (December 4, 1862)]

"Late Northern Intelligence" features news from Washington, including Governor Yates of Illinois's complaints to the President, Native American prisoners, and the Confederate occupation of Fredericksburg. "The Yankee Estimate of General Lee", reprinted from the Chicago Times, describes General Robert E. Lee. Also includes a report entitled "Modification of the Emancipation Proclamation." Includes accounts of troop movements and battle reports, advertisements, and local news.

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12 March 1863

Hanleiter & Adair (publishers), fl. 1861-1865

Newspaper

Title: Southern confederacy. [Vol. 3, no. 25 (March 12, 1863)]

"Capture of the U.S. Gunboat Indianola" report from Washington on March 2, 1863, includes a description of the ship.

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circa 1880-1890

Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912

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Title: 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 Ward Beecher is shown having just used the sacrificial knife, Charles Sumner bearing a torch, Horace Greeley swinging a censer that emits snakes, and General Benjamin Butler (Volck had a special enmity for Butler after he occupied Baltimore, Volck's hometown, in early 1861) kneeling in worship with a knapsack full of stolen money. Also shows General…

GLC00493.01

circa 1880-1890

Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912

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Title: Searching for arms

Depicts arrogant Northern soldiers rummaging for weapons through the house of a Southern sympathizer. A woman is holding her scared daughter in the right foreground. The two women are in nightgowns and have wrapped themselves in a curtain to cover themselves from the view of the soldiers. The left foreground shows two soldiers looking under a mattress for weapons while another soldier shows the women a small Confederate flag he found in the house, as if to say this was all the proof he needed of their disloyalty. Background shows the man of the house fighting with two soldiers. Size in…

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circa 1880-1890

Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912

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Title: Enlistment of Sickles Brigade

Shows the duplicitous agents of Daniel Sickles recruiting the brigade he raised and equipped himself at considerable expense. A throng of bedraggled men congregate around a Federal officer who holds out a medal and wears a "Colonel Sickle's Brigade" sign on his hat. Even the dog listens intently to his rousing words. A sign reads, "The Capital in danger. Sickles Brigade to the Rescue!!!" The brigade was raised during the summer of 1861 and joined the Union Army as the Sickles or Excelsior Brigade in December 1861. Volck depicts the recruitment taking place amongst the rag-tag immigrant…

GLC00493.06

circa 1880-1890

Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912

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Title: 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 shyster agent is displaying the men the gentleman can buy as a substitute. The door has a sign pasted to it that says "Substitutes for sale supply of ablebodied men always on hand." Volck satirizes the claim that these are "ablebodied men," by depicting lower-class drunks and card players in a pub. Two blacks also appear to among the choices the…

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circa 1880-1890

Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912

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Title: Stone Blockade off Charleston, S.C.

Depicts the treacherous route into Charleston Harbor with several sunken ships. Size in extent is for the mount. The actual size of the etching is 20.5 x 26.6 cm. Title in pencil on verso.

GLC00493.10

circa 1861-1863

Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912

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Title: 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 shadows behind the door. The actual size of the etching is 20.1 x 26.7 cm. Title in pencil on verso.

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circa 1880-1890

Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912

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Title: 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 significant to note that the bare breast of the dead wife is exposed in the rubble, suggesting that she may have been the victim of sexual assault as well as murder. Although Volck does not specify which army committed such atrocities against civilians in his title, it was understood by all who viewed the sketch that it was the Union army that was…

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circa 1880-1890

Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912

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Title: Formation of guerrilla bands

Foreground depicts an angry figure trying to convince a farmer, who has had his homestead destroyed by Union forces, to take revenge by joining a guerrilla band in the background. The farmer sits with his wife and son among the ruins of what appears to be their house while other buildings smolder in the background. One of them could be the angry man's house. The men of the guerrilla band raise their fists in defiance and carry a banner that reads "No more surrenders." Size in extent is for the mount. The actual size of the etching is 20.2 x 26.5 cm. Title in pencil on verso.

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circa 1880-1890

Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912

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Title: Gen'l Stuart's raid to the White House

Depicts Confederate cavalrymen under the command of General J.E.B. Stuart descending upon the Federal line only to find one Hezekiah Skinflint, a sutler who had provided provisions, in this case "ale and lager," to the soldiers. Many Southerners held stereotypes against the free-market North, and Volck buys into that by giving the sutler a name that means selfish and miserly. A bewildered Skinflint is being taken into custody at gunpoint, his supplies confiscated. The long line of covered wagons stretching into the distance suggests that many other supplies were taken in this raid of the…

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circa 1880-1890

Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912

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Title: 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 to and mock them. In the distance, General Benjamin Butler escorts two ladies, most likely Unionist locals, through the compound. Federal forces under General Benjamin Butler and Admiral David Farragut captured Fort St. Philip, New Orleans in April 1862. Size in extent is for the mount. The actual size of the etching is 20.2 x 26.7 cm. Title in…

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14 September 1862

Hanleiter & Adair (publishers), fl. 1861-1865

Newspaper

Title: Southern confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 180 (September 14, 1862)]

Prints various articles regarding the war, including "Bragg's Proclamation", "Jackson & Longstreet Moving on Harper's Ferry", "Order of Major General McClellan", and "The Writ of Habeas Corpus Suspended in Atlanta." Includes letters from soldiers under the title "From our Army", new conscription orders, troop movements and battle reports, advertisements, and local news.

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18 September 1862

Hanleiter & Adair (publishers), fl. 1861-1865

Newspaper

Title: Southern confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 183 (September 18, 1862)]

"Position of the Union Cause" features excerpts from an article originally printed in the New York Times, which describes the failures of the Union Army in recent campains. "Riot in New York Regiment" reports on a mutiny of the 53rd New York regiment of the Union Army. Other articles include: "Affairs in New Orleans--The Town Becoming too Hot for Picayune," "Incidents at Frederick," and "Letter from Murfreesboro'--The Federals Leave Nashville & Return." Lists members of the 13th Regiment of Georgia killed and wounded in battle, occupying 2 columns on the second page. Includes accounts of…

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23 September 1862

Hanleiter & Adair (publishers), fl. 1861-1865

Newspaper

Title: Southern confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 186 (September 23, 1862)]

Reprints "The Official Report of Gen. Pope--His Excuses for His Defeat"; caption reads "As a prominent feature in the history of this war, we give Pope's official report of the battles of Manassas. It is pregnant with lies". Other articles include: "The Surrender of Harper's Ferry--Battle in Maryland," and "Battle of Maryland;" both reprints from the Richmond Enquirer, and "Defenses on the Red River." Includes accounts of troop movements and battle reports, advertisements, local news, and a printing of a soldier's letter to his family ("Letter from Soldier JIm").

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