1863-1865

Brownlow, William Gannaway, 1805-1877

Header Record

Title: 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, 14-26, 31-52; vol 2 nos. 1-9, 11-15. The issue dated 11/25/1864 lists election results by state in tabular form.

GLC05959.50

30 November 1864

Newspaper

Title: Daily Virginia state journal. [Vol. 2, no. 829 (November 30, 1864)]

Peace proposal by Abraham Lincoln, Drinking and Battle of Piedmont, West Virginia, Confederate Blockade Runners, Halifax, Novia Scotia.

GLC05959.63

20 October 1864

Baker, Lewis & Co., fl. 1864

Newspaper

Title: The Daily register. [Vol. 2, no. 25 (October 20, 1864)]

Prints a speech of New York Governor Horatio Seymour in Philadelphia to the democratic meeting about why Abraham Lincoln should not be re-elected in the 1864 presidential election. Prints the democratic ticket of General George B. McClellan. This paper is extremely supportive of McClellan as the Democratic presidential candidate. Also includes an interview between Abraham Lincoln and "loyal Tennesseans." Gives an update on the whereabouts of Union General William T. Sherman's army and other war news.

GLC05959.66

November 21, 1863

Glassett, R.E., fl. 1861

Newspaper

Title: Old dominion. [Vol. 1, no. 35 (November 21, 1863)]

Sever Fighting in East Tennessee - General Longstreet Attacked by Gneral Burnside - A Battle Expected at Knoxville.

GLC05959.68

7 March 1862

Bondurant & Elliot

Newspaper

Title: Daily Richmond whig. [Vol. 67, no. 56 (March 7, 1862)]

Page 1 and 2 have an image of the Viriginia state seal. Piece of 19th century paper adhered to the front page has the name "W. H. DeWitt." List of the acts passed by the Confederate Congress on front page. Page 2 has several columns of news from the Congress. Article on Confederate foreign relations which states "Negro slave labor, then, may safely be assumed to be essential to the successful production of cotton in the Confederate States. If the negro were withdrawn, or his status materially changed, the crop would soon dwindle into insignficance-for none but the negro can do the work, and…

GLC05959.78

27 October 1864

Bondurant & Elliot

Newspaper

Title: Daily Richmond whig [no volume and number (October 27, 1864)]

Contains an image of the Virginia state seal. Not a complete copy, missing pages 1 and 2. Copy of General Jubal Early's address to his troops and an editoral lauding its contents. From Northern newspapers, reports on Ulysses Grant's campaign against Richmond. News item predicts that Wilmington, North Carolina will soon be attacked. 3 column report from the Whig's own correspondant on "The Seven Months' Campaign against Richmond Considered as a Whole." Update on affairs in Missouri. News of a free black, age 14, killed when he fell attempting to "steal a ride on the Camp Lee train." Short…

GLC05959.79

24 July 1864

Cooper, Samuel, 1798-1876

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mark Alexander

Cooper, Adjutant General and Inspector General of the Confederate Army, writes to his friend Alexander. Mentions that his son recently travelled with Mrs. Captain Lee of the Confederate Navy. Complains that he is overworked, and fears he will not be able to leave his post soon due to Union General Ulysses S. Grant's recent movement north of the James River. Refers to recent Confederate success in Georgia. Transmits a report (not included) sent by telegram from General John Bell Hood discussing recent events during which "four...generals killed, one of whom, McPherson, was the master-…

GLC05980

1862-1864

Jones, John, fl. 1862-1864

Header Record

Title: [Collection of John Jones, Company F, 45th regiment, Illinois, infantry] [decimalized]

Contains vivid battle descriptions and political content. On 13 March 1863, he writes of his opposition to a $300 fee to avoid draft "based precisely on the same principle with the conscription of the 'Southern Confederacy' which exempts a man owning twenty negros.... " He also writes of "Union Jim our gallant contraband [cook who] shot one secesh and took two prisoners... so much for a nigger... some of them are as brave as any whites, give them a chance to fight and see whether or no they will disgrace our cause. Away with this prejudice of color...." John P. Jones served in the Illinois…

GLC05981

16 June 1863

Henry, Alexander, 1793-1883

Broadside

Title: Defence of the city of Philadelphia

Printed by Baird & King at 607 Samson Street in Philadelphia. Large pictorial broadside, with large woodcut of city seal, quoting from proclamation of Mayor Alexander Henry and from Brigadier General and Commander of Philadelphia A. J. Pleasanton and Assistant Adjutant General William Bradford, calling upon the people to "yield a prompt and ready obedience to the Orders of the said Commander of the Home Guard." Created during Robert E. Lee's invasion of the North, right before the Battle of Gettysburg.

GLC05985

1861

Broadside

Title: [Dixie printed on back of a sheet checks]

A new version of Dixie printed on the back of a sheet of checks from the Bank of Virginia. Contains 9 stanzas. Some very virulent anti-Lincoln lines, including "Old Abe is good at stealing niggers." Note on upper right in pencil says "Printed at Richmond, Va. 1861" What appears to be a title says "Running Air - "Dixie" Rhymes."

GLC05987.27

1864

Swinton, William, 1833-1892

Pamphlet

Title: McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed ...

Title continues, " ...THE MILITARY POLICY OF THE ADMINISTRATION SET FORTH AND VINDICATED ." Criticizes General George B. McClellan, the Democratic nomination for president in the 1864 election. First edition. Published by the Union Congressional Committee. Printed by Lemuel Towers.

GLC05937

May 13, 1881

Black, J.W., 1825-1896

Photograph signed

Title: [Isaac Fitzgerald Shepard]

Carte de visite of the organizer of 1st U.S. Colored Infantry, vignette bust. Shepard later served as U.S. Counsel at Hankow, China.

GLC05918.03

February 12, 1864

McClees, J.E., fl. 1855-1865

Photograph signed

Title: [Julius Stahel]

Awarded the Medal of Honor in 1893 for distinction while commanding a cavalry division at the Battle of Piedmont (June 5, 1864).

GLC05918.04

June 1864

Bartelle, Charles V., fl. 1864

Map signed

Title: Sketch showing defences and channels of Charleston Harbor.

This document is a map of Charleston Harbor depicting the major waterways and various forts in the area, among these is Fort Sumter. On the map it states that the map has been, "Copied by direction of Rear Admiral J. A. Dahlgren." The water on the map has been hand-colored in light blue ink. Signed "[Charles V. Bartelle], Asst. U.S. Comm. Survey." A note, "from the best information," is handwritten underneath the title (apparently not in Bartelle's hand).

GLC05919

circa 1864

Pamphlet

Title: Copperhead Conspiracy in the North-West

Title continued: "An Exposé of the Treasonable Order of the 'Sons of Liberty.' Vallandingham, Supreme Commander." Published by the Union Congressional Committee. Printed by John A. Gray & Green in New York. Pages are uncut at the top of the pamphlet. Details the investigation into the Northern anti-war Democrats, known as the Copperheads, who formed "secret, oath-bound, treasonable associations throughout the Northern States to act in concert with those already existing in the States in rebellion." Says the group was known as the Knights of the Golden Circle in Indiana in 1863. Relates…

GLC05936

10 December 1862

Clisby, Joseph, fl. 1862

Newspaper

Title: Macon daily telegraph. [no. 881 (December 10, 1862)]

Subjects include Confederate War Debt, Lincoln's Emancipation Policy, Article on Compensated Emancipation. Includes general advertisements and land sale advertisements.

GLC05959.04

10 May 1863

Gardner, James, fl. 1863

Newspaper

Title: Daily constitutionalist. [Vol. 20, no. 109 (May 10, 1863)

Details of the Battle of Fredericksburg, Yankee Strength in the Field, Rebels Recapture Tupelo. Includes "An Act To provide for the funding, and further issue of Treasury Notes." There are several general advertisements as well as land sales.

GLC05959.08

2 July 1863

Swords, J. M., fl. 1863

Newspaper

Title: Daily citizen. [July 2, 1863]

The famous wallpaper issue with the "Note" added by Grant's soldiers in the last column. This issue has the banner title spelled correctly. (See also GLC 6043, the variant issue with misspelled masthead.) Docketed on verso, signed by Lt. Tom Custer, 1st Arkansas Colored Infantry. Note is written to "Charley," dated March 29, 1864. (Thomas M. Custer, formerly of the 124th Illinois, was recruiting for the 46th US Colored Troops. He joined the regiment as 1st Lieutenant in Jan. 1865. Copies of service files in collateral.) This is the rarest of all Vicksburg wallpaper editions, being the last…

GLC05959.20

1862

Spelman, John, 1821-1899

Header Record

Title: 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 Carolina are often printed. Advertisements refer to fugitive slaves, soldiers in need of clothing and supplies, the sale and rent of plantations and other retail items. Obituaries are often included. Vol. 2 nos. 24-25, 27 and 52. 4/23/1862, 4/30/1862, 5/14/1862 and 11/5/1862.

GLC05959.25

20 September 1866

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

Document signed

Title: [Presidential pardon of S.S. Lee for offenses arising from the rebellion]

This document is a Presidential pardon of S.S. Lee for offenses committed during the Civil War. It is filled out and signed by Andrew Johnson as President and countersigned by William H. Seward as Secretary of State. Accompanied by a white seal.

GLC05782

December 6, 1864

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph manuscript

Title: Speech fragment of annual address to Congress

"Presents the example of complete success, Maryland is secure to liberty and union for all the future...." With ANS endorsement on verso by John DeFrees, Superintendent of public printing, attesting to its source. GLC 3252 is the preceding page.

GLC05805

April 1862

Map

Title: [Field map made prior to the Civil War battles of Shiloh and Corinth]

This document is a manuscript map that shows major roads from Corinth to the Tennessee River, houses and their inhabitants, and occasionally their sympathies along the route. It also includes other topographical features. Drawn in pencil and brown ink and marked No. 5.

GLC05759

20 June 1862

Pamphlet

Title: Green-Back to his Country Friends.

Addressed to the constituents of the 37th Congress and signed by "Green-back." Concerns the issuance of paper money during the Civil War. First edition in original bright green wrapper, as issued. Signature of John R. Bartlett on cover. (Possibly John Russell Bartlett, the former boundary commissioner, explorer, author and ethnographer; he served as Rhode Island's secretary of state from 1855-1872.)

GLC05772

11 April 1864

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph note signed

Title: to Edwin McMasters Stanton

President Lincoln sends a colored man to advise the Secretary of War, Stanton, on the organization of colored troops in the army. Instructs Stanton to "see [L.H.?] Putnam, whom you will find a very intelligent colored man, and who wishes to talk about our colored forces, their organization ... " Written on a small card.

GLC05809

5 December 1863

Cosby, George Blake, 1830-1909

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Birdseye McPherson

Written from CSA Headquarters, Cosby's Brigade. Marked as unofficial. Contains a watermark on the upper left corner. General Cosby writes to McPherson, commanding forces at Vicksburg, Mississippi. States "I am informed that Peter Grinner a citizen of Vicksburg has been arrested and is to be tried for being a spy & c- Said Grinner came out from Vicksburg by permission of Genl Sherman on a visit to his brother who is Chf Bugler at my Hdqr- He staid I believe near the camp two or three days- I solemnly pledge my word of honor that said Grinner gave me no information whatever prejudicial…

GLC05814