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Scott and McClellan

pictures of Scott and McClellan

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President's message

Address to the Confederate Congress regarding the progress of the war, Southern production, international relations and the Trent Affair. Celebrates Southern success on the battlefield, proclaims Southern independence permanent and unstoppable...

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[Message of the President from Jefferson Davis to the Speaker of the Confederate House of Representatives]

Sends reports on the fall of Fort Donelson, which are "incomplete and unsatisfactory." The reports, which also include commentary on the Battle of Dover, were written by Brigadier General Gideon J. Pillow on 18 February 1862, Brigadier General John...

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[Message of the President from Jefferson Davis to the Confederate Congress]

Annual message in which Davis discusses the state of the war. Comments on the simultaneous advance by Federal troops on two fronts and assures Congress that the Confederate armies will repulse them. Mentions the reasons for the Civil War, arguing...

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Acts and Resolutions of the Fourth Session of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, Held at Richmond, Va.

Printed by Tyler, Wise, Allegro and Smith. Listing of acts and resolutions No. 292-413 passed by the Confederate Congress in its fourth session. Contains 106 pages of acts and resolutions and a 19 page index. Glued yellow paper binding.

GLC08489

to Braxton Bragg

Writes to Confederate General Bragg just after the fall of Atlanta about Union General William T. Sherman's and Confederate General John Bell Hood's 10 day armistice. "Sherman & Hood's 10 days Armistice is troubling the public mind hereabout."...

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Camden confederate. [Vol. 2, no. 4 (November 21, 1862)]

Schedule of the South Carolina Railroad. Proclamation of Governor Francis Wilkinson Pickens, including 10 resolutions ordering all "white residents" to be put under arms in a militia immediately and the draft of all men ages 18 to 45. Asked to be...

GLC08494

Provisional and Permanent Constitutions, Together with the Acts and Resolutions of the First Session of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States

Printed and bound by Shorter & Reid. Pages 3-31 contains the Constitution of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America, divided into 7 articles. Pages 32-139 contains Acts and Resolutions of the First Session of the Provisional...

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Southern cultivator [with subscription letter 1/23/1861 and envelope]

Magazine vol. 19, no. 6, with ALS to William Birnie, 1/23/1863 with Confederate envelope.

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[Blank subscribers list for the Southern Cultivator]

Blank subscription sheet for "The Southern Cultivator" with four columns for name of subscriber, post office, county, parish, or district, and state. Top of document has image of the masthead. Partial tear where it was folded in the center.

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Southern cultivator [Vol. 19, no. 6 (June 1861)]

Co-edited with C.W. Howard. Consists of 30 pages for the magazine with 32 pages of advertisements -- 16 pages before getting to the magazine and 16 pages after the magazine. This issue is paginated 170-200. Tagline below masthead says "Devoted...

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[Business envelope sent to William Birnie, Esq.]

Office envelope of "The Southern Cultivator," sent to William Birnie, Esq. of Greenville Court House, South Carolina. Has 2 cancelled 5-cent stamps of Jefferson Davis. Postmarked 23 January [1863]. Verso of envelope has calculations made in pencil...

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to William Birnie

Replying to Birnie's letter of 14 January 1863, which had enclosed $1 for a one-year subscription to "The Southern Cultivator." Says the best grass adapted to light high land soil is Bermuda grass. Says roots can be obtained in any quantity at the...

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[Notes from the Pennsylvania Executive Council regarding pardons, appointments, and appropriations of funds].

Wayne notes that on 6 January 1780, the Executive Council pardoned William Cassidy and Peter Swope, both of whom were "convicted of high treason--on condition that he serve as a soldier during the present war in one of the regiments of this State..."...

GLC08497

Election of 1864 Union party ballots [Decimalized .01-.05]

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Union Ticket

Union ticket for the 1864 presidential election. Lists Abraham Lincoln for President and Andrew Johnson for Vice President. Lists electors for districts in California. Printed in orange. Printed on verso is an engraving of the ships, the Alabama...

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Before Election. After Election.

Cartoon type anti McClellan ballot. Humorous scenes of before and after General George McClellan is defeated in the presidential election of 1864. He ran on the Democratic ticket.

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[National Union nomination ticket]

Ticket for Massachusetts listing nominations for Governor, John A. Andrew, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary, Attorney General, etc. With flag and eagle emblem and engraving of bust of Abraham Lincoln, "Honest Abe."

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Lincoln and Johnson. Union and Liberty.

Union ticket from Massachusetts for the 1864 presidential election. Lists John A. Andrew for Governor and Joel Hayden for Lieutenant Governor, along with the nominations for other political offices in the state. Eagle emblem at top.

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National Union Nominations

Union ticket for the 1864 presidential election from Maryland listing Abraham Lincoln for President, Andrew Johnson as Vice President. Also lists Thomas Swann for Governor, Christopher C. Cox for Lieutenant Governor, and other nominations for...

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[Lincoln and Hamlin 1860 election token]

Republican election token from the 1860 presidential election with photographic portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin on opposite sides. With hole punched at top. Same as .02.

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[Lincoln and Hamlin 1860 election token]

Republican election token from the 1860 presidential election with photographic portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin on opposite sides. With hole punched at top. Same as .01.

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Presidential items Fremont and Jackson; Lincoln mourning ribbon [decimalized]

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A Vindication of the character and public services of Andrew Jackson.

(title continues) In reply to the Richmond Address, signed by Chapman Johnson, and to other electioneering calumnies. Written during the Presidential campaign of 1828. Asserting that "no man has rendered more important services to his country...

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Fremont songs for the people, original and select. Compiled by Thomas Drew...

Presidential election of 1856. Published by John P. Jewett and Co. With woodcut of Fremont on the titlepage. Stained.

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