1861, 1864

Gilbert, Thomas, fl. 1861-1864

Header Record

Title: Daily sun.

The first three issues have four pages and the last one has two pages. Each issue has at least one column of "Telegraphic" war dispatches. The back page (except the last two-page issue) always contains the Georgia State Constitution. The 29 March 1864 issue contains fugitive slave ads. (1861/7/11, 1861/7/4, 1861/11/13, and 1864/3/29)

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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.

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1861/07/30, 1861/07/31

Header Record

Title: The Daily morning news. (Savannah, Ga.)

4 pages each. Vol. 12 nos. 177-178. Coast invaded by the Lincolnites, Incidents after the Battle of Manassas, The Maryland Regiment in the Battle at Stone Bridge, The killing of Colonel T.E. Rawlings, New York Republican Press on the Battle of Manassas, Reports on the battle.

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1862/11/20, 1865/04/14

Hayes, J.E., fl. 1862

Header Record

Title: Savannah republican. [necessity newspaper]

Vol. 61 no. 671 and vol. 65 no. 85. Dated 11/20/1862 and 4/14/1865. The latter issue is printed on brown wastepaper. Topics include Fredericksburg, St. Alban's raiders, suffering in Petersburg, Jefferson Davis's flight.

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1862 - 1864

Morse, N.S., fl. 1862-1864

Header Record

Title: Daily chronicle & sentinel.

Each issue contains telegraphic reports and Northern news, mostly covering battle reports and war news. Commercial reports indicate stock values in Augusta markets, including financial, cotton, dry goods, grain, groceries, country produce, and sale of enslaved people. Special notices in each issue list religious services, legislative and election news (including intentions of running for elected office), meeting notices, requests for blankets for soldiers, and conscription notices. Auction notices list a variety of things for sale in each issue. Most issues have four pages; one has two…

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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.

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1861-1863

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

Header Record

Title: Southern Confederacy.

Most issues 4 pages. Scattered issues 1861; most issues 1862 and 1863. Issue dated 12/8/1862 should be 12/9. Some issues with Tennessee Historical Society stamp (deaccessioned).

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1861, 1862, 1864

Redmond, Dennis, fl. 1856-1865

Header Record

Title: Southern cultivator.

The Southern Cultivator was published monthly (sometimes combined) with 32 pages at the first of this run, which reduced to 24 pages and then 16 by the end of the run. Each issue contains letters to the editor with detailed responses. Regular columns include Hints for the Month, Rural Hygiene, Rural Architecture, Horticulture, etc. Advertisements for seeds are printed here, as are lists of new publications and market reports. A few recipes and poems are often included, with occasional serialized articles and travelogues. Vol. 9 nos. 2, 7; Vol. 20 nos. 1, 5 & 6, 7 & 8, 9 & 10…

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1861

Header Record

Title: Louisville (Ky.) daily courier

Vol. 33 nos. 12, 24; and New Series no. 19. July 13, 27 and Nov. 4 1861. The November number issued a New Series at Bowling Green (due to Federal Troops). 11/4 issue with Tennessee Historical Society stamp. Written also at Bowling Green, Kentucky

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July - December 1863

Prentice, George Dennison, 1802-1870

Newspaper

Title: Louisville (Kentucky) daily journal.

The bulk of the paper is taken up by ads, many for military supplies, railway lines, schools, and others for medical needs and retail supplies. Telegraphic news lists special dispatches of war news. A back page statement of assets lists stocks and liabilities, with licensed agents. Many issues contain a list of local police proceedings. Fictional stories are also included, particularly in the Sunday issue, when there are fewer advertisements. Some issues contain marriage notices and obituaries, and some list river notices. Some Sunday papers have a Masonic Intelligence column. The 12…

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1862, 1864, 1865

Sandoz, Joel H., fl. 1840-1864

Header Record

Title: Opelousas courier.

The paper was edited by Joel H. Sandoz and William H. Spencer during the first year of this run; by 1864, Sandoz had become chief editor. Sandoz had previously edited the Opelousas Gazette, the town's first paper. Each issue includes war communications and updates and instructions for specific troops. Ads cover war benefits, retail and legal notices, and employment needs and openings. Vol. 10 no. 14; vol. 11 nos. 42-43; vol. 12 nos. 23, 30, 36 and 43. (1862/3/8, 1864/1/23, 1864/1/30, 1864/11/5, 1864/12/24, 1865/2/4, 1865/3/25) 1861 issue is 4 pages; rest are 2 pages. After 1862, the…

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1862

Lumsden, F.A., & G.W., fl. 1862

Header Record

Title: Daily picayune. (New Orleans, La.)

Vol. 26, nos.199 and 272. 4 p. each. 1862/09/14 and 1862/12/09. Volume 272 is printed on darker paper.

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1861/09/28, 1861/12/07

Header Record

Title: True witness (New Orleans, La.)

Vol. 8 nos. 31 and 41. Presbyterian religious newspaper. The 12/7/1861 issue discusses slavery and religious readings for soldiers.

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5 March 1862

M. Shannon & W.H. M'Cardle (publishers)

Newspaper

Title: Vicksburg weekly Whig. [ Vol. 24 no. 10 (March 5, 1862)]

Battle of Fort Donelson; Fayetteville, Ark. Ordered burned.

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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…

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1862

Holden, William Woods, 1818-1892

Header Record

Title: Weekly standard.

The paper gives regular reports of the latest war news. Advertisements include runaway slave notices and slaves for sale; retail, real estate, and other items for sale; conscription substitutes wanted; lost items; and market reports. Telegraphic news is also included. Obituaries are printed, as are notices of deserters. Many issues contain minutes of the North Carolina Legislature or Acts and Resolutions of the North Carolina General Assembly. Most issues contain fugitive slave and negro for sale ads. (1862/9/17, 1862/12/17, 1862/12/24, and 1862/12/31)

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1861-1864

Holden, William Woods, 1818-1892

Newspaper

Title: Semi-weekly standard.

This selection focuses on congressional reports and state records and minutes, with repetitive lists of state governors, and political parties. Articles, editorials, and letters focus on the impending issue of secession and legislative action. Advertisements include a large number of business ads, including professional services and retail goods, and as secession and impending war progress, focus turns to war. Other versions include the North Carolina Standard, North Carolina Standard Weekly, Weekly North Carolina Standard, Weekly Standard, Semi-Weekly North Carolina Standard, Weekly,…

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October 1861

Spelman, John, fl. 1861

Header Record

Title: State journal. (Raleigh, NC)

Vol. 1 nos. 90 and 95; 10/9/1861 and 10/26/1861.

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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.

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1861

Syme, John W., fl. 1861

Header Record

Title: Semi-weekly Raleigh register.

Correspondence includes news items from other locations and other newspapers. North Carolina State Convention minutes are often printed. Most articles are war-related, and often an article on coast defenses is present. Contributions to soldiers are listed, particularly items handmade by women. The front page of each issue is compiled of advertisements; some ads warn that cash only, not credit, will be required for sales. The back page is made up of ads and court listings. Vol. 61, nos. 45, 69, 70, 72, 74, 76-79, 81-83. 1861: 6/5, 8/28, 8/31, 9/7, 9/14, 9/21, 9/25, 9/28, 10/2, 10/9,…

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26 April 1861

Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866

Letter signed

Title: to Benjamin Franklin Butler

United States General-In-Chief Scott relates orders received from President Abraham Lincoln to General Butler, Brigadier General of Militia, regarding the Legislature of Maryland scheduled to assemble at Annapolis. Hoping to prevent further uprising following the 19 April 1861 Baltimore Riot, Lincoln orders that if the Legislature arms their people against the United States, Butler must "adopt the most prompt and efficient means to counteract, even if necessary to the bombardment of their cities- and in the extremest necessity suspension of the writ of habeas corpus."

GLC05996

7 March 1866

Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878

Letter signed

Title: to James Wilson Grimes

Written in secretarial hand and signed by Secretary of the Navy Welles to Grimes, U.S. Senator from Iowa who chaired the Committee on Naval Affairs. Wants to "invite your attention" to the estimate submitted last November to provide for the deficiency in the appropriation for the re-establishment of the Naval Academy at Annapolis and its support for the fiscal year starting 30 June 1866. Says it appears to have been overlooked. Says the money is needed badly because it has already been expended or obligations incurred to spend it. Also wants 20,000 dollars to erect a building at the academy…

GLC05997

1881/12/12

Guiteau, Charles, 1841-1882

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Appleton re: sends autograph with authenticity note of warden John S. Crocker

Countersigned and authenticated by John S. Crocker, the warden. On U.S. Jail stationery.

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1876/02/02

Gordon, G. A., fl. 1876

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Theophilus Rodenbough re: Indians as skirmishers

"The Indians are the best skirmishers in the world." Gordon says he received orders from Sheridan to join the regiment in Chicago. He says that fighting Indians is hard and dangerous since they are frequently better armed, better shots and better horsemen than his own men.

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3 November 1879

Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906

Autograph letter signed

Title: to A. C. Barstow

Secretary of the Interior Schurz writes to the Chairman of the Board of Indian Commissioners about the Meeker Massacre at the White River Ute Reservation in Colorado. Mentions that Special Agent General Charles Adams secured the return of women and children held as captives. Discusses reaching a settlement with Utes, arguing against an all-out war because other bands of Utes friendly to the United States might become involved. Written on stationery of the Department of the Interior.

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