16 May 1863

Turner, Thomas, 1808-?

Document signed

Title: Divisional order

Signed by Commodore Turner. This copy of the order could have been sent to Captain Thomas H. Patterson of the USS "James Adger," as the docket says "Jas Adger." Demands great vigilance of the blockaders. Has received information on a large fleet of steamers at Nassau ready to run the blockade. Reports that 1 steamer and 5 sailing vessels escaped Charleston Harbor last night, and only 2 were captured. Says two nights earlier a steamer ran into the north channel of the harbor without a shot being fired at it. Claims that most ships that attempt to run the blockade do so at high tide, but that…

GLC08576

14 December 1863

Manuscript document

Title: [List of farm animals, farm supplies, and destroyed crops]

States "United States of America to Savanah Billingsley & Livingston Brien." Possibly a list of items lost or damaged during military looting, possibly a supply inventory or request. Lists corn, fodder, cattle, sheep, bacon, and other items. Refers to the destruction of bushels of green corn, cotton, sweet potatoes, and several other crops.

GLC08578

1862-1952

Header Record

Title: Books relating to Lincoln and Lincoln collections [decimalized]

GLC08580

1952

Barrett, Oliver Roger, 1873-1950

Magazine

Title: The immortal autograph letters, documents, manuscripts, portraits, personal relics, and other Lincolniana...

(title continues)... collected by the late Oliver R. Barrett, Chicago, sold by order of the executors of his estate and of Roger W. Barrett, Chicago. Published by Parke- Bernet Galleries, Inc. Lists items auctioned 19 and 20 February.

GLC08580.01

1900

Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva), 1857-1944

Header Record

Title: The life of Lincoln [3 vols.]

GLC08580.02

1862

Brownlow, William Gannaway, 1805-1877

Book

Title: Sketches of the rise, progress, and decline of secession; with a narrative of personal adventures among the rebels.

Printed by George W. Childs in Philadelphia and in Cincinnati by Applegate & Co. With engraving of the author and signature in facsimile.

GLC08580.03

1859-1917

Header Record

Title: Books relating to Lincoln and other Civil War books [decimalized]

GLC08581

1864

Abott, Abott A., fl. 1864

Book

Title: The Life of Lincoln

Campaign biography printed by T.R. Dawley, Publisher for the Million. With adverts at the end.

GLC08581.01

1865

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Book

Title: The state papers of Abraham Lincoln / Raymond, Ed.

GLC08581.02

1860

Helper, Hinton R., 1829-1906

Book

Title: Compendium of the impending crisis of the south.

Published by A.B. Burdick, New York and printed by George Russell and Co.

GLC08581.03

1860

Redpath, James, 1833-1891

Book

Title: Public life of Capt. John Brown, by James Redpath, with an auto-biography of his childhood and youth.

Tells John Brown's life in heroic terms, praising him as a hero and a martyr. Signed by Alfred Chesebrough. Same book as GLC00267.212.

GLC08581.05

1862

Gasparin, Agenor de, fl. 1862

Book

Title: Uprising of a Great People [Pro-Union Work by Frenchman, Translation]

GLC08581.06

1862

Gurowski, Adam, fl. 1862

Book

Title: Diary from March 4, 1861 to November 12, 1862

GLC08581.07

1863

Hunnicutt, James W., 1814-?

Book

Title: The Conspiracy Unveiled. The South Sacrificed; or, the Horrors of Secession

Written by Reverend Hunnicutt who was the editor of the "Fredericksburg [Virginia] Christian Banner." Published by J.B. Lippincott & Co. Introductory remark says "The author of this unpretending volume being a Southern man by birth and education, by marriage and location, by every sacred tie and interest, political, religious, social, and domestic, which makes life desirable ... all eyes look with indifference on the heart-crushed refugee." Says he lived in Fredericksburg until it was evacuated by General Ambrose Burnside in August 1862. Was editor of the "Christian Banner" from December…

GLC08581.08

1864

Farrar, C.C.S., fl. 1864

Book

Title: The War, Its Causes and Consequences

First edition published by Blelock & Company. Discusses the causes of the Civil War.

GLC08581.09

1917

Norwood, T.M., 1830-1913

Book

Title: A true vindication of the South

GLC08581.10

1830

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Header Record

Title: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies, from the papers of Thomas Jefferson

Edited by Thomas Jefferson Randolph. Second edition. Published in Boston by Gray and Bowen. Signed by Hamilton Fish. This was the first of several attempts to replicate Thomas Jefferson's correspondence. Volumes 1 and 4 are mis-identified on the spine as the other. Quarter leather with marbled paper.

GLC08584

1844

Kendall, George W., fl. 1844-1856

Header Record

Title: Narrative of the Texas Santa Fe Expedition

Printed by Harper and Brothers

GLC08585

15 June 1861

Lloyd, James T., fl. 1861

Newspaper

Title: Lloyd's American Railroad Weekly [Vol. 1, no. 48 (June 15, 1861)]

Inside the newspaper there is a large color map of the railroads of the Eastern United States as well as a smaller map of the railroads of Texas and the harbor in Pensacola, Florida. The map is the size of the entire newspaper folded out. Published at 164 Broadway in New York (it is a weekly publication and costs 25 cents). Front page is filled with an article titled "An Historical and Descriptive Sketch of all Places of all Places of Interests in the Southern States." A paragraph is provided for several dozen places. Pages 2, 3, and part of 4 consists of schedules for 304 railroad lines.…

GLC08586

1860

Scripps, J. L. (John Locke), 1818-1866

Pamphlet

Title: Life of Abraham Lincoln

Printed by the Chicago Press and Tribune.

GLC08589

1860

Scripps, J. L. (John Locke), 1818-1866

Pamphlet

Title: Life of Abraham Lincoln

Campaign biography for the 1860 presidential election. Printed by Horace Greeley & Co. New York edition, Tribune tracts no. 6.

GLC08590

1889

Book

Title: Justice and Jurisprudence [judicial theory re: 13th thru 18th amendments]

GLC08591

1793

United States. Congress (1st : 1789-1791). Senate

Book

Title: Acts passed at a second Congress [Bill of Rights]

Printed by E. Oswald.

GLC08592

3 December 1864

Becker, Joseph, 1841-1910

Newspaper

Title: The Presidential Election, Nov. 8 - Scene at the Polls in the Army of the Potomac - Soldiers Voting

Shows soldiers voting in the presidential election of 1864. A Union poster is hanging on the voting tent. Sketched by the artist Joseph Becker. Extracted from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, New York, of 3 December 1864, page 172. Contains additional unrelated printing on verso.

GLC08593

1864

Currier & Ives

Print

Title: The Old Bull Dog on the Right Track

Published by Currier & Ives at 152 Nassau Street in New York. Depicts a very short and hostile General George McClellan and a very tall and confident Abraham Lincoln, both candidates in the 1864 presidential election, on the left side of the picture. McClellan says: "Uncle Abraham don't you think you had better call the old dog off now, I'm afraid he'll hurt those other dogs, if he catches hold of them." Lincoln responds: "Why little Mac that's the same pack of curs, that you chased you aboard of the Gunboat two years ago, they are pretty nearly used up now ... " They are looking at a…

GLC08594