19 July 1862

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

Newspaper

Title: Southern confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 131 (July 19, 1862)]

One article, "The Taking of Murfreesboro" reports on the defeat of the Union Army in this battle and the capture of Brigadier General Tom Crittenden, and praises Colonel Forest for his leadership. Other articles include: "The Federal Disasters in Virginia--European Intervention the Probable Consequence" and "Yankee Excerpts" which pokes fun at Union newspapers. Includes accounts of proceedings in the U.S. Senate, troop movements and battle reports, advertisements, and local news.

GLC05959.09.052

22 July 1862

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

Newspaper

Title: Southern confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 133 (July 22, 1862)]

An article, "Notorious Yankee Colonel Killed", reports the death of Colonel Wyman of the 16th Massachusetts regiment, and details a scandal involving the Colonel and a society lady of New York, Mrs. Captain James Brennan. "Morgan Forever" details rebel heroism. Also includes a printing of articles from Northern newspapers, titled "Late Yankee Talk". Includes accounts of proceedings in the U.S. Senate, troop movements and battle reports, advertisements, and local news.

GLC05959.09.053

23 July 1862

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

Newspaper

Title: Southern confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 134 (July 23, 1862)]

An article titled "European Intervention" reports that European recognition, let alone intervention, is unlikely. Another article, "Letter from General Butler Explaining his Order Concerning the Ladies of New Orleans" berates General Benjamin F. Butler for an order relating to prostitution. Other articles include: "Effect of the News of McClellan's Defeat in St. Louis" and "Condition of General McClellan's Army -- Views of Gens. Porter and Marcy." Includes accounts of proceedings in the U.S. Senate, troop movements and battle reports, advertisements, and local news.

GLC05959.09.054

24 July 1862

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

Newspaper

Title: Southern confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 135 (July 24, 1862)]

An article titled "Address of General McClellan to the Army of the Potomac", written from headquarters near Harrison's Landing on July 4, praises the soldiers and the government for their successes on the occasion of "the nation's birthday". Another article, titled "Yankee" details the origin and developing usages of the term in the United States. Includes accounts of proceedings in the U.S. Senate, troop movements and battle reports, advertisements, and local news.

GLC05959.09.055

25 July 1862

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

Newspaper

Title: Southern confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 136 (July 25, 1862)]

An article, "About Arming Negroes: The Policy of General Hunter and the Secretary of War" reports on the a debate in the House of Representatives regarding "negro soldiers", in which a Representative from Kentucky attacks Secretary of State Edwin M. Stanton and General David Hunter. Also includes "Special Correspondence from the Texas Rangers" about the Battle of Murfreesboro. Includes accounts of proceedings in the U.S. Senate, troop movements and battle reports, advertisements, and local news.

GLC05959.09.056

26 July 1862

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

Newspaper

Title: Southern confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 137 (July 26, 1862)]

An article, "Test Vote on Arming Negroes" reports on a vote in the House of Representatives. Also includes a war report, "Sherman Has Evacuated Germantown". Also prints a draft of a bill from President Lincoln which would compensate states that abolish slavery. Includes accounts of proceedings in the U.S. Senate, troop movements and battle reports, advertisements, and local news.

GLC05959.09.057

27 July 1862

Hanleiter & Adair

Newspaper

Title: Southern confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 138 (July 27, 1862)]

"The Fight at Murfreesboro" reports deaths at the Battle of Murfreesboro, including an well-respected doctor. Another article, "The Great War Meeting in New York--Efforts to Drum up More Men--Inflamatory Speeches--Letters from President Lincoln, Seward, Sumner, and Edward Everett", prints those individuals' responses, having recieved invitations to a "mass meeting" in New York on July 15. Includes accounts of proceedings in the U.S. Senate, troop movements and battle reports, advertisements, and local news.

GLC05959.09.058

29 July 1862

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

Newspaper

Title: Southern confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 139 (July 29, 1862)]

Prints a letter titled "Our Special Correspondence from General Humphrey Marshall's Command", in which Marshall describes the trajectory of the war and warns against the "syren song" of foreign intervention. "Gen. Bedford Forest" describes the features, attributes, and illustrious career of General Nathan Bedford Forrest. Other articles include: "Important Arrest of a Circulator of Counterfeit Confederate Money--Another Thieving Yankee Plot Exposed," "Both Fleets Have Abandoned Vicksburg," and "Captured Union Flag Displayed in Atlanta." Includes accounts of proceedings in the U.S. Senate,…

GLC05959.09.059

7 August 1862

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

Newspaper

Title: Southern confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 147 (August 7, 1862)]

Article titled "The Emancipation Scheme Recommended by Lincoln", described as an "interview between President Lincoln and the border state Congressmen -- Mr. Lincoln makes a speech and appeals to them to pass the measure -- reply of the congressmen -- a majority and minority report." Majority Report written July 1, 1862, authored by the Representatives from the border states with C.A. Wickliffe as chairman. Minority report written July 15, 1862. Also includes a response by Horace Maynard written July 16, 1862. Also prints "Complete Correspondence between Lincoln and the Border State Men."…

GLC05959.09.060

9 August 1862

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

Newspaper

Title: Southern confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 149 (August 9, 1862)]

Prints a letter titled "Important Documents", written to General Robert E. Lee from Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States, on July 31, 1862. Describes the "campaign of robbery and murder" practiced by the United States in response to a Cartel regarding prisoners of war, condemns their treatment of civilians. Includes advertisements, troop movements, local news, and new conscription orders.

GLC05959.09.061

17 August 1862

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

Newspaper

Title: Southern confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 156 (August 17, 1862)]

Prints various articles regarding events in the war, including "The Battle at Southwest Mountain", "The Battle of Tazewell E.T.", "Is McClellan Evacuating?", "The Killing of General McCook, and "Battle at Cedar Creek". Also prints Chapter 4 of "A Hand-book of Miscellaneous Information for Soldiers and Officers " by John M. Richardson. Includes news from the Confederate War Department, new conscription orders, troop movements and battle reports via telegraph, advertisements and local news.

GLC05959.09.063

19 August 1862

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

Newspaper

Title: Southern confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 157 (August 19, 1862)]

Prints various articles including "Morgan's Escape from Kentucky" and "Voluntary Emancipation in Louisiana" by S.H. Stafford. Also prints "A Trip to Yankeedom and Back", an amusing story about Dr. F.H. Orme's travels to New York. Includes new conscription orders, troop movements and battle reports via telegraph, advertisements and local news.

GLC05959.09.064

20 August 1862

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

Newspaper

Title: Southern confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 158 (August 20, 1862)]

Prints various articles, including "The Affair at Murfreesboro" regarding General T. T. Crittenden's capture, and "Secretary Seward on the Object of the War". Includes new conscription orders, troop movements and battle reports, advertisements, and local news.

GLC05959.09.065

1877-1900

Robin, Augustus, fl. 1860

Engraving

Title: [Engraving of Frederick Douglass]

Accompanied an unrelated autograph note signed by Douglass (see GLC08948.01). Robin was an artist and engraver who worked in New York.

GLC08948.02

1864

Truth, Sojourner, 1797-1883

Photograph

Title: Carte-de-visite of SojournerTruth

Caption on mount reads :"I sell the Shadow to Support the Substance. Sojourner Truth." Copyright stamp on verso

GLC09082

July 1835

American Anti-Slavery Society

Pamphlet

Title: The Anti-Slavery Record. Vol 1, no. 7.

Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, printed by S. W. Benedict & Co. With images of a schoolhouse and slave children being whipped, asks, "Which of these systems of education shall we hand down to posterity."

GLC09083

May 1836

American Anti-Slavery Society

Pamphlet

Title: The Anti-Slavery Record. Vol 2, no. 17.

Includes an article on Phillis Wheatley.

GLC09084

circa 1880-1890

Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912

Print

Title: Passage through Baltimore

Comments on Abraham Lincoln's stealthy trip through pro-South Baltimore on his way to Washington to be inaugurated. Lincoln's plans were changed in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on 22 February 1861 to avoid trouble in Baltimore. He boarded a special train on 23 February 1861 and travelled through Baltimore behind the curtains of a berth in a sleeping car. Volck depicts Lincoln being frightened by a hissing cat as he attempts to peek out of a freight car. The letters "P.W. & B.R.R. Co" (Philadelphia Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad) are on the freight car as well as the words "fright Bones…

GLC00493.02

circa 1880-1890

Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912

Print

Title: The Battle in Baltimore April 19th 1861

What Volck calls a "battle" has been more often been described as the Baltimore Riot. Shows the 6th Massachusetts Regiment travelling through Baltimore to Washington, answering Lincoln's call for 75,000 volunteers for ninety days' service to defend the capitol. The troops had to switch train stations in Baltimore and a riot broke out on route to the transfer station. Image depicts the riot taking place at train tracks between Union soldiers and secessionist sympathizers. Shows civilians throwing stones and brandishing pistols. Also portrays Union soldiers, some on the train, using rifles with…

GLC00493.04

circa 1880-1890

Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912

Print

Title: Marylanders crossing the Potomac to join the Southern Army

Depicts four Marylanders rowing south across the Potomac River into Virginia to join the army of Robert E. Lee. One man is standing in the boat in an echo of George Washington in Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze's famous painting "George Washington Crossing the Delaware." The Potomac is also associated with Washington, which gives these men further patriotic virtue. The men have supplies on the boat and are staring off in the distance at what appears to be a camp. Size in extent is for the mount. The actual size of the etching is 20.4 x 26.6 cm. Title in pencil on verso.

GLC00493.08

circa 1880-1890

Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912

Print

Title: Election in Baltimore, November, 1862

Depicts Federal troops overseeing the election. They are intimidating the respectable citizens attempting to vote while encouraging those of less reputable character. Unruly Unionist members of the crowd, at least some of whom appear to be African American, wave banners that say, "Union or Nothing," and "Hail Columbia-Happy Land!!!" The George Washington monument in Baltimore's Mount Vernon Place is seen in the background. Size in extent is for the mount. The actual size of the etching is 20 x 26.6 cm. Title in pencil on verso.

GLC00493.09

19 November 1862

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

Newspaper

Title: Southern confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 235 (November 19, 1862)]

Prints a description of the movements of the Army of Misssissippi, entitled "Gen. Bragg's Kentucky Campaign." Other articles include: "Late Washington Gossip" and "Grand Army Stealing." Includes accounts of troop movements and battle reports, advertisements, and local news.

GLC05959.09.099

4 December 1862

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

Newspaper

Title: Southern confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 248 (December 4, 1862)]

"Late Northern Intelligence" features news from Washington, including Governor Yates of Illinois's complaints to the President, Native American prisoners, and the Confederate occupation of Fredericksburg. "The Yankee Estimate of General Lee", reprinted from the Chicago Times, describes General Robert E. Lee. Also includes a report entitled "Modification of the Emancipation Proclamation." Includes accounts of troop movements and battle reports, advertisements, and local news.

GLC05959.09.105

January 28, 1863

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

Newspaper

Title: Southern Confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 294 (January 28, 1863)]

This newspaper is from the Southern Confederacy and includes main articles on the new exemption from service bill and related amendments, the Expectation of Another Battle, and Small Pox Prevailing in Almost Every Neighborhood in Washington.

GLC05959.09.130

12 March 1863

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

Newspaper

Title: Southern confederacy. [Vol. 3, no. 25 (March 12, 1863)]

"Capture of the U.S. Gunboat Indianola" report from Washington on March 2, 1863, includes a description of the ship.

GLC05959.09.153