1860/12/22

Pickens, Francis Wilkinson, 1805-1869

Autograph letter signed

Title: to D. F. Jamison

Written as Governor of South Carolina to Jamison, president of the Secession Convention.

GLC02269

1861/01/13

Campbell, Robert C., fl. 1861

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: James Beale.

Written as a pro-secession member of the Texas Secession Convention. Campbell accuses the North of bad faith on the question of slavery. Written at Galveston

GLC05127.02

1880/04

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

Letter

Title: to Nahum Capen re: Grant's presidential campaign

Written in purple ink and signed (for her husband) by Varina Davis. "With all his stupidity, neglect of his duties and abuse of his trust... the case must be hopeless. [...] God forbade war to coerce the seceding tribes (of Israel) to return. "

GLC05719

1861/12/20

Mulligan, James A., fl. 1861

Autograph quotation signed

Title: Quoting a sentiment: "If we stand firm...."

A sentiment addressed to A.S. Flandron (?). "If we stand firm, the Republic is saved. Weakness now is wickedness..."

GLC07012

1861/01/15

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

Letter signed

Title: to Isaac W. Hayne re: urging South Carolina to defer hostilities

Urges S.C. to defer hostilities toward Fort Sumter: "Our people feel that they have a common destiny with your people and expect to form with them in that convention a new confederation and provisional government. We must and will share your fortunes, suffering with you the evils of war, if it can not be avoided." Signed by: Jefferson Davis, Lewis T. Wigfall, John Hemphill, D.C. Yulee, Stephen R. Mallory, (Davis), C. C. Clay Jr., Benjamin Fitzpatrick, A. Iversen, John Slidell, and Judah P. Benjamin, et al.

GLC07078

1861/02/02

Jackson, Thomas J. "Stonewall", 1824-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Laura Jackson Arnold re: secession and preservation of the Union

"But if after we have done all that we can do for an honorable preservation of the Union, there shall be a determination on our part by the free states to deprive us of our rights which the fair interpretation of the constitution... guarantees to us, I am in favor of secession."

GLC07079

1909/10/04

Mosby, John S., 1833-1916

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: Sam Chapman

people who were for and against secession; requests the return of letter from Judge McDowell.

GLC03921.27

circa early 1861

McSherry, Anna, 1833-?

Autograph letter

Title: to Henry F. McSherry

Large parts of the letter are faded and it is hard to read. References receiving Henry's letter. Says she is sorry to hear that he is to lose Mr. Cunningham - who appeared to be a naval officer on Henry's ship. She knew he was an agreeable companion. Cunningham might have left the U.S. Navy to join the Confederacy. She writes, "It is a pity to think such a fine[,] efficient Navy may be no longer National." Says they will no longer be a "Great Power" if the country splits into Northern and Southern Confederacies. Says if it happens then the Pacific States, which are far away, will more than…

GLC03523.21.08

1861 ca.

Broadside

Title: Epitaph of the United States [South Carolina secession]

GLC07775

1862/11/22

Houston, J.N., fl. 1862

Autograph letter signed

Title: to "Dear Brother" re: secession

GLC07776

[1861]/01/10

Thom, R.T., fl. 1861

Manuscript document signed

Title: to Gov. [?] re: Alabama's secession

GLC07825

1862/10/15

Morris, Jesse M., fl. 1862

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: George M. Morris.

Jesse is getting better and his shoulder only hurts occasionally. He thinks "the girls will soon think different after the soldiers" return and if there are not enough, "two or three can take one in partnership." Joseph has not been well and is only 105 pounds. Jesse got into a fight with one of the many secessionists in town and was fined $1.50 but has no money to pay.

GLC06451.018

1861/01/13

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Francis W. Pickens re: prophesy of a Civil War; secession

Prophesizes that the South is "probably soon to be involved in that fiercest of human strifes, a Civil War," and discusses secession and withdrawal of southerners from the U.S. Congress.

GLC04624

1861/02/01

Texas

Broadside

Title: An Ordinance to dissolve the Union between the state of Texas...

Addressed to James Loving on verso. With collateral tintype of unidentified man.

GLC04482

1860/12/20

South Carolina

Broadside

Title: An ordinance to dissolve the Union between the State of South Carolina....

Dated 1860, but printed 1861.

GLC04483

1861/02/18

Broadside

Title: An ordinance to dissolve the Union between the state of Texas and other states..

Printed broadside. Paper patch has ink facsimile.

GLC07196

1859/12/16

Newspaper

Title: Liberator. [Vol. 29, no. 50 (December 16, 1859)]

Whole no. 1511. It includes "Brown's letter to his wife.", the burial of John Brown; South Carolina's secession movement and the dissolution of the Union.

GLC07287

1861/01/15

Broadside

Title: Mississippi ordinance of secession [lithographic facsimile]

Lithographic broadside printing of the manuscript ordinance issued by the Mississippi convention. Printed by J. Manrouvier & Co.. With manuscript label at bottom "Facsimile of the Ordinance of Secession of the State of Mississippi Presented by Mrs. R.D. Foster." Also with manuscript note at top "Littleman, Springfield, Mo." Parish & Willingham 3283.

GLC07289

1861/01/18

Whitthorne, W.C., fl. 1861

Broadside

Title: Joint Resolution of the General Assembly of Tennessee [secession crisis]

Regarding resolutions recently adopted by the state of New York, concerning the tendering of men and money to the President of the United States. The broadside argues that they should not be used in coercing certain sovereign states of the south in obedience to the Federal government.

GLC07291

1861/08/15

Various

Autograph letter signed

Title: re: sight of secession flag over Marshall House in Annapolis, with photograph

Letter written by a private in the 13th NY volunteers, alluding to the circumstances of the death of Col. Elmer Ellsworth. "We begged for permission to land, to tear form that house that hated emblem of 'traitors', had we been permitted to land, doubt not but the life of Col. Ellsworth might have been saved..." Also mentions Baltimore riots and getting his uniform at Brooks Brothers. Accompanied by an oval photograph of Tomes in uniform.

GLC07304

1861/04/15

Broadside

Title: Auburn Daily Democrat Extra re: Fort Sumter

Presidential Proclamation calling for 75,000 Militia to put down secession and reclaim "forts, places and property which have been seized from the Union."

GLC07408

1859/12/08

Scott, Robert, fl. 1859

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George W. Randolph et al. re: the South's peril from the North

Written to Randolph and others. "The Northern People came to us with assurances that the south was in no peril...Harper's Ferry was invaded and captured...We have but to be one united people for security out of the Union or Justice & Equality in it."

GLC07410

1861/?/17

Garrett, John W., fl. 1861

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: Gov. Thomas Hicks.

Regarding Garrett's conversation with Lincoln: "Gentlemen, the salvation of the union depends upon your state. If Maryland...secedes, civil war is inevitable."

GLC07968

1861/01/28

Hale, F.L., fl. 1861

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: re: secession

Speech given in Carroll County, Virginia: "The mere empty name of Union, with one section arrayed in deadly hostility against the other section, committing acts of violence against our property, making invasions upon our Citizens, and committing the most atrocious, and unheard of murders--Then it is no Union for me."

GLC07613

1861/08/15

Tomes, Fuller, fl. 1861

Autograph letter signed

Title: re: sight of secession flag over Marshall House in Annapolis, with photograph

Letter written by a private in the 13th NY volunteers, alluding to the circumstances of the death of Col. Elmer Ellsworth. "We begged for permission to land, to tear form that house that hated emblem of 'traitors', had we been permitted to land, doubt not but the life of Col. Ellsworth might have been saved..." Also mentions Baltimore riots and getting his uniform at Brooks Brothers.

GLC07304.01