January 26, 1862

Smith, John, fl. 1862

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas Smith

Reveals his anti-Lincoln sentiment, and discusses hardships due to war. Smith, an ardent secessionist, writes to his son Thomas. Mentions hardship, the number who have died for "The Cause," scarcity of money and provisions from "Lincoln's war." He says that he does not have long to live. "Times are hard here, money scarce, provisions high but plenty. I think we have passed through the tightest place in Lincoln's war but if we have not I for one am willing to suffer on, even unto death rather than submit. But to be conquered and have no fears they may and doubtless will do us a vast injury…

GLC06370

22 July 1863

Gillmore, Quincy Adams, 1825-1888

Autograph letter signed

Title: 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 pretty hard knocks in trying to take the second. My losses will foot up 1000.- They appeared greater the day after the last fight, but many men struggled back to their camps on Folly Island, & have since joined. Fort Wagner is a hard nut to crack. I shall push matters- but at the same time shall erect heavy batteries against sumter at 3500 yards…

GLC06075

6 November 1861

Snowden, E., Jr., fl. 1861-1862

Newspaper

Title: 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 is played everywhere by both boys and men but "We suggest, however, that the game be discarded in all the business streets - so that passers-by - especially ladies, be not incommoded by dashing balls and gangs of lads running at full tilt." Quick line says General Winfield Scott is leaving for Europe. News items from the South, including remarks on…

GLC06107.02

15 April 1865

Broadside

Title: 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.

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1844

Newspaper

Newspaper

Title: [The Times and seasons; Vol. 5, nos. 1-24].

Title continues: "containing a compendium of intelligence pertaining to the upbuilding of the Kingdom of God, and the signs of the times, together with a great variety of useful information, in regard to the doctrines, history, principles, persecutions, murder of the prophets, at Carthage, and the onward progress of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints." One of six volumes of the official Mormon newspaper published in Illinois from 1839 to 1846. This volume contains detailed information about the early history of the Church, troubles in Illinois and Missouri, the murders of Joseph…

GLC06045

January 25, 1863

White, Edward B., fl. 1863-1868

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his nephew

Poignant content from old southern farmer. Details regarding battle in which family members fought, who was killed and who was captured. Expresses remorse over the bloodshed and misery.

GLC06053.01

January 23, 1864

White, Edward B., fl. 1863-1868

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his sister

Offers reflections on his earlier prediction for the Confederacy. Writes in part: "my doctrine before the commencement of it [i.e., the war] was that secession would be followed by the bloodiest strife recorded in the page of modern history and lay the foundation stone for the abolition of slavery; but all such talk as this was, at that time, looked upon as proceeding from the imagination of a lunatic, and treated accordingly. There must be a tremendous reconning to settle up for the misery inflicted on the innocent thousands of young boys, who never had a voice in the affairs of government…

GLC06053.02

1 October 1862

Sumner, Edwin V. (Edwin Vose) 1797-1863

Document

Title: 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 determined efforts of the enemy. I cannot give too much praise to the regimental officers and soldiers of the 2nd corps." Gives a list of officers who "were distinguished for their zeal and devotion." Final two pages are a postscript, dated 6 October 1862, also written and signed twice by Sumner. Lists batteries and other officers that "…

GLC06060

December 31, 1921

Moton, Robert Russa, 1867-1940

Typed letter signed

Title: 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 in which officers of the law prevented lynchings. Of these 8 were in Northern States and 64 were in Southern States. In 1920 there were 56 such instances, 46 in Southern and 10 in Northern States. In 66 of the cases, the prisoners were removed, or the guards were augmented, or other precautions taken. In 6 instances armed force was used to…

GLC06068

19 November 1863

Stockton, T. H. (Thomas Hewlings), 1808-1868

Broadside

Title: 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 House of Representatives. States "our enemies-- they came unresisted ... They prepared to cast the chain of Slavery around the form of Freedom, binding life and death together forever."

GLC06072

circa 1920

Callaway, James, fl. 1920

Broadside

Title: [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 daughter by sending her away and did not bring her body home for burial as a tribute to the people who took care of her.

GLC06073

10 May 1877 circa

Ladies Memorial Association of Charleston, South Carolina, 1865-1880

Broadside

Title: 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 precise print date of this document is not included.

GLC06080

26 July 1864

Brownlow, William Gannaway, 1805-1877

Newspaper

Title: 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

24 October 1864

Williams, W.T.C., fl. 1864

Broadside

Title: To the relatives of deceased soldiers of of Leake County

File contains two documents, a broadside and an autograph letter signed. Broadside, which says "Circular" at the top, says he has received from Major J.L. Power, Superintendent of the Army Records of Mississippi Troops, many blanks for the "collection of deceased soldiers arrearage." Says those wishing their claims made out and forwarded to the government should call on him at Carthage, Mississippi with a credible witness. Asks if claimants who have been furnished with accounts of the deceased by company captains, that they should be brought along. Service is free to widows, others have to…

GLC05987.45

1863

Warren, Edward, 1828-1893

Book

Title: An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital

Written by Warren as Surgeon General of North Carolina. He was formerly a Professor at University of Maryland. Published by West & Johnson at 145 Main Street, Richmond, Virginia. First edition copy (misspelled "Frist Edition" on the cover page). Dedicated to Lafayette Guild and Joseph P. Logan, both surgeons in the Confederate Army. Index at front lists diseases and other medical problems and procedures that are written about, including amputation, dislocations, fractures, and bullet and sword wounds, etc. Appendix at rear lists charts of various operations undertaken and number of deaths…

GLC05987.48

13 June 1863

Swords, J. M., fl. 1863

Newspaper

Title: The daily citizen. [June 13, 1863]

Estimates of 15,000 troops killed; 45,000 missing in the Battle of Vicksburg. A soldier's letter describes conditions on a warship off the Vicksburg coast. Wallpaper has geometric floral pattern in a faded red color.

GLC05988.01

2 July 1863

Swords, J. M., fl. 1863

Newspaper

Title: The daily citizen. [July 2, 1863]

Mentions the deaths of a few Confederate leaders; cautions against citizens who hoard foodstuff. A notice mocks Grant and invites him to dinner upon his arrival; a magnificent sword was presented to him previously. Wallpaper has maroon, peach and tan geometric swirl pattern.

GLC05988.05