1 September 1863

Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: 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 between equals in rights-- Reorganization or reconstruction is alone useful where vicious parts are to be left out. Amnesties are for individuals not for organized communities ... " Marked as a telegram. Contains a handwritten note in faded red ink on the first page labeling the document as copied. This telegram cites Conkling's name as "…

GLC06089

1864

National Union Executive Committee

Broadside

Title: 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 the Peace Democrats by demonstrating that the rebels started the war, and that the current administration has made considerable progress. It cites numerous figures to prove the progress. Asserts that, "To-day not a rebel foot-step profanes the soil of the Loyal States, except that of a prisoner of war." Published by the National Union Executive…

GLC06100

13 May 1864

Broadside

Title: 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

9 July 1864

Brownlow, William Gannaway, 1805-1877

Newspaper

Title: 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 all stragglers who fall behind.

GLC06107.09

29 July 1864

Brownlow, William Gannaway, 1805-1877

Newspaper

Title: 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

19 July 1862

Joy, George Mills, fl. 18301-864

Newspaper

Title: 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

December 24, 1862

Joy, George Mills, fl. 18301-864

Newspaper

Title: 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

18 June 1864

Joy, George Mills, fl. 18301-864

Newspaper

Title: North Carolina times. [Vol. 1, no. 43 (June 18, 1864)]

Union-occupation newspaper. Articles detail the Battle of Kinston, Battle of Columbia, Arkansas, wreck of the U.S. gunboat "Lavender" and invasion of Kentucky. Printed on yellow paper ("brown straw paper").

GLC06107.13

22 March 1865

French, George Z., fl. 1865

Newspaper

Title: Herald of the union. [Vol. 1, no. 20 (March 22, 1865)]

Union occupation newspaper with headline "News of the fall of Wilmington." Also: Postponement of the adjournment of the Confederate Congress, discussion of correspondence between General William T. Sherman and Confederate general Wade Hampton, reprint of an article by Horace Greeley on James Gordon Bennett, "Mrs. Lirripers Legacy," by Charles Dickens.

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14 July 1863

Newspaper

Title: Port Hudson freeman. [Vol. 1, no. 1 (July 14, 1863)]

Reports on the Surrender of Vicksburg and Port Hudson. Printed by Union troops the day Port Hudson was captured. States that Mrs. Vallandinham had gone insane but her "nervous system was severely shocked." Also includes a very moving report from a hospital. Brown necessity paper.

GLC06107.17

2 May 1862

Broadside

Title: News-Letter Extra

Union Soldiers' newspaper printing correspondence between Commodore David G. Farragut and the Mayor of New Orleans (it is unclear which mayor, there were six in 1862). Copied from the "New Orleans Cresent" of 29 April 1862. Also includes a column titled "Eight Great Blunders" copied from the "Religious Herald," a Baptist newspaper out of Richmond, Virginia. Lists eight greatest blunders of the Confederacy, including #2: "In believing that there would be a divided North, and an apathetic Federal Government." List of the deaths of six men in the 13th Connecticut regiment since leaving New York…

GLC06107.19

10 May 1862

Eastman, A. W., fl. 1862

Newspaper

Title: Soldier's News-Letter

Edited by Eastman with editorial assistance by Charles Giles of Belfast, Maine. Soldiers' newspaper (Vol. 1, No. 1) reporting on capture of Forts Jackson and Philip, which led to the fall of New Orleans. Gives news of events in New Orleans since its fall. Report of drunken Union soldier mistakenly hurrahed for Jeff Davis and was thrown in jail. Other miscelleanous news tidbits throughout, mostly concerned with logisitical issues involving New Orleans. News extracts from the "New Orleans Bee" of 2 May 1862 and the "New Orleans Picayune" of 6 May 1862. List of dead from the 30th Massachusetts…

GLC06107.20

17 May 1862

Eastman, A. W., fl. 1862

Newspaper

Title: Soldier's News-Letter

Edited by Eastman with editorial assistance by Charles Giles of Belfast, Maine. Soldiers' newspaper (Vol. 1, No. 2). Front page and part of 4th page contains a proclamation from 1 May 1862 by Major General Benjamin Butler which says "it has been found necessary to preserve order and maintain quiet by the administration of law Martial." Says the commanding general of occupying troops will govern the town until muncipal authority is reinstated. Goes on to list rules involving such areas as public and private property, foreigners, and the keepers of coffee houses and saloons. Other…

GLC06107.21

6 July 1863

Newspaper

Title: The black hawk chronicle. [Vol. 1, no. 5 (July 6, 1863)]

Siege of Vicksburg. A Southerner surrenders for whiskey. Many articles illustrate Army - Navy Rivalry. Prints poem Hiawatha.

GLC06107.23

29 November 1861

Newspaper

Title: The Union picket guard. [Vol. 1, no. 8 (November 29, 1861)]

"Fridday" misspelled in masthead. With ink marks (possibly iron gall) . Article about the 2nd Illinois Cavalry has been circled. Includes an article about a flag of truce passing through Paducah, at which point a Confederate flag waved outside a window, causing Union soldiers to be angry. Includes articles discussing the continuance of the Civil War, other local and national news, and advertisements.

GLC06107.25

13 April 1865

Bondurant & Elliot

Newspaper

Title: The Richmond whig. [Vol. 1, no. 9 (April 13, 1865)]

Issue is dedicated to General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox. Prints the correspondence between General Lee and General Ulysses S. Grant leading up to the surrender. Prints general orders. Includes articles on the fall of the Confederate capital at Richmond and lists the buildings destroyed by fire, who owned the buildings, and the cost of each property. Publishes an open letter to the people of Virginia from various senators in order to call an emergency session. Other articles detail local, international, political, court, and ship news, advertisements, and public…

GLC06107.26

5 September 1863

Sears, Joseph H., fl. 1850-1862

Newspaper

Title: New south. [Vol.1, no. 52 (September 5, 1863)]

Union occupation newspaper. Contains a sarcastic poem titled "Farewell to the South," disparaging views of Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan, a list of "Loyal Generals" who support abolition and "unconditionally sustain the President and his constitutional advisers," and a detailed description of the layout of Fort Sumter. Articles concerning th 6th Conn. are circled. Many humorous stories are marked "show this to Frank," insulting poem about Jefferson Davis written in the voice of his coachman, list of those wounded and killed.

GLC06107.29

24 October 1863

Sears, Joseph H., fl. 1850-1862

Newspaper

Title: The new south. [Vol. 2, no. 7 (October 24, 1863)]

Union occupation newspaper. Includes articles concerning Naval prizes, Burnside's march from Crab Orchard to Knoxville, news from Morris Island, Vallandingham, the Sanitary Commission, capture of the tugboat "Herald,"Ohio soldiers, and voting. Also includes a poem titled "Heroes of Fort Wagner." Half of a blue postage stamp and remnants of red wax indicate the paper had been mailed.

GLC06107.30

5 September 1863

Stickney, Latta & Reed, 1863

Newspaper

Title: Free South. [Vol. 1, no. 35 (September 5, 1863)]

Union occupation newspaper, with content relating to emancipation and African American troops. The arrest and court martial of a soldier who referred to the 3rd USCT as "Nigger Regiment." Using the programs in Delaware and Missouri as examples of how to institute compensated emancipation. Also includes updates on the bombardments of Fort Sumter and Charleston, South Carolina (citizens "flying in terror").

GLC06107.31

26 March 1864

Newspaper

Title: Free South. [Vol. 2, no. 12 (March 26, 1864)]

Union occupation newspaper. Lincoln proclamation appointing Grant to command the United States Army, Lincoln's call for 200,000 men, secret prisoner exchange meeting between McClellan and Howell Cobb, occupation of Sea Islands, freeing of slaves & leasing of lands, General Meade's speech in Philadelphia, Brooklyn Sanitary Fair. Graphite inscription "W.T.I. Hawkins."

GLC06107.32

17 March 1864

S.W. Mason & Co.

Newspaper

Title: Palmetto herald. [Vol. 1, no. 3 (March 17, 1864)]

Steamer edition of this Union occupation newspaper. The Negro freed slave view of the war. Letter from the correspondent embedded in the 33rd Delaware regiment, escape & capture of three prisoners, night attack on Seabrook, Port Royal ship news.

GLC06107.33

3 May 1865

Newspaper

Title: Sixth corps. [Vol. 1, no. 6 (May 3, 1865)]

News of Lincoln's assassination and the capture and death of John Wilkes Booth. Also includes an article on opening trade with the south once all rebels have been overthrown, and the text of the "President's favorite poem."

GLC06107.34

14 May 1865

Wilson, James Harrison, 1837-1925

Broadside

Title: [Extract from Transcript Extra]

Headlined "Jeff. Davis, His Staff, Family & Others, Captured!" Written by Brevet Major General James H. Wilson for Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. Says calvary under his command captured Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Says they will be kept in Macon for the night and then forwarded under a strong guard. Accompanied by two cartes de visite depicting Davis wearing woman's clothes. One is titled "The Last Ditch" (10.4 x 6 cm.) and depicts Davis lunging at a cavalryman with a knife. The other is titled "A Distinguished Arrival," (10.1 x 6.2…

GLC06107.36

after July 22, 1861

The Whig and Observer

Broadside

Title: The Whig and Observer

Headline states "Glorious News! From Virginia! The Battle of Manassas. Our Arm Victorious." The first excerpt, from the Columbus Republic Extra 21 July 1861, reports that General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard's horse was shot from underneath him, and that nine hundred Union troops and sixty Confederate troops were killed. A second dispatch relates that Northern reports claimed the engagement at Manassas Junction was a Union victory. A third dispatch, reported 22 July from Louisville, Kentucky, and Washington, D.C., cites a Confederate victory. Possibly printed as an extra version of…

GLC05987.31

1864

Broadside

Title: The Degrading Compromise that the Northern Copperhead Leaders Would Force Upon the Country

Illustrated election broadside printed and circulated by the Indiana Union Club in Washington, D.C. The broadside is trying to influence the voters of Indiana to not vote for pro-Southern Copperheads. Top half of the broadside consists of an image reproduced from Harper's Weekly by the artist Thomas Nast (for another version of same image see GLC05986 with same text, but different title and imprint). It shows a ragged Northern soldier with an amputated leg shaking hands with an erect and proud Jefferson Davis in the uniform of a Confederate soldier over the freshly dug grave of "Union-Heroes…

GLC06032