1863

Wormeley, Katherine P., fl. 1863

Book

Title: The United States Sanitary Commission: A Sketch of its purposes and work

First edition published by Little Brown. Inscribed in pencil on the titlepage by S. W. Bridgham to "Mrs. Ives." Wormeley was a prominent organizer of women's aid societies in New England during the Civil War. She also served on U.S. Sanitary Commission hospital ships along the Virginia peninsula. She became "Lady Superintendent" of the Lowell General Hospital in September 1862, but poor health forced her to give up the position. She wrote this book in order to raise money for the Boston Sanitary Fair. The work describes the Commissions' evolution and relief efforts. Wormeley gives…

GLC06820

1861/11/05 ca.

Fremont, John Charles, 1813-1890

Header Record

Title: Six items re: prisoner exchanges after battle of Springfield [Decimalized .01- .07]

1. John C. Fremont. DS: Springfield, Mo. 5 November 1861. 4 p. "Proclamation to all peacably disposed citizens of the State of Missouri..." Cosigned by Sterling Price. 2. Little, Henry. DS: Cassville, [Mo.] 5 November 1861. 1 p. + docket. List of prisoners captured at Springfield, Mo., and released on oath. 3. Eaton, J. H. DS: Springfield, Mo. 2 November 1861. 3 p. "Agreement for Exchange of Prisoners." 4. Little, Henry. ALS: Cassville, [Mo.], to Henry P. Williams and D. Robert Barclay. 5 November 1861. 1 p. re: transmitting list of prisoners. 5. Little, Henry. DS…

GLC06821

1862/05/10

Semmes, Paul Jones, 1815-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Emily J. Semmes re: action and retreat at Williamsburg

With a continuation on verso, dated 12 May 1862 in pencil.

GLC06822

1863/07/09

Semmes, Paul Jones, 1815-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Emily J. Semmes re: deathbed description of Gettysburg, Wheatfield

Also discusses severe injuries that he incurred (written one day prior to his death).

GLC06823

1865/05/01 ca.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Broadside

Title: Chicago broadside printed in white ink on black silk for Lincoln funeral

"Order of Procession" printed in 3 columns. Worn.

GLC06825

1806/03/15

Ellery, William, 1727-1820

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Stedman re: embargo, Florida and the Miranda expedition

Ellery thanks Stedman, Federalist representative from Massachusetts, for his letters, remarks that "I cannot perceive any good arising out of partial restrictions of trade with G.B. but I can see great evil springing from a total non-Importatation edict." He writes "I wish we may obtain the Floridas by such an exchange as I have often mentioned. I don't wish to know secrets, but I am well satisfied that two million of dollars will not purchase them." He also talks about the Miranda expedition to liberate Venzuela of Spanish rule: "You will I hope be able to reassue that the Government hath…

GLC06827

1781/10/26

Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Samuel Cooper re: Victory over Cornwallis at Yorktown

"The glorious and important success we have obtained will afford joy to every true american." Co-signed by Samuel Cooper.

GLC06828

1866/12

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

Magazine

Title: Atlantic Monthly. [Vol. 18, no. 110 (December 1866)]

First part, published by Ticknor & Fields. First and only printing prior to the collected works. McFeely p. 255.

GLC06830.01

1867/01

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

Magazine

Title: Atlantic Monthly. [Vol. 19, no.111 (January 1867)]

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1865

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

Pamphlet

Title: The equality of men before the law, claimed and defended in speeches...

Title continued: "by Hon. William D. Kelley, Wendell Phillips and Frederick Douglass." Lacks original wrappers, stab-stitched. Douglass' speech was made to the annual Anti-Slavery Convention. Blockson Collection 2779. Schomburg 324.15-K. USE WITH CARE.

GLC06831

1878

Flipper, Henry O., fl. 1878

Book

Title: The Colored Cadet at West Point. Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper...

First edition printed by Homer Lee & Co. Flipper, while not the first African-American to attend West Point, was the first to graduate. He was assigned to the all-black 10th Cavalry Regiment. Accused of embezzling army funds at Fort Davis, Indian Territory, he was exonerated but convicted of lying in a court-martial and dishonorably discharged. Flipper kept trying to clear his name until his death in 1940, but it was not until 1976 when he was officially exonerated. On 19 February 1999 President Clinton pardoned Flipper. LCP Negro History no. 143, Brignano 76, Schomburg D81-528,…

GLC06832

1899

Lynk, Miles V., 1871-1957

Book

Title: The Black troopers ... in the Spanish American War

Complete title: "The black troopers or the daring heroism of the Negro soldier in the Spanish-American War." Lacks front free endpaper. Illustrated with lithographed drawings. Self-printed book of M.V. Lynk. Work notes this author as African-American but does not note this book in his bibliography. Lacks free front endpaper. Lynck was a doctor. Hampton catalog 2868. Not in Work or Blockson collection.

GLC06833

1852/06/19

Bibb, Henry, fl. 1813-1852

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Calkins re: how his money was used for fugitive slaves

A long, detailed letter from Bibb, the noted runaway slave and conductor on the Underground Railroad, telling Calkins of Wilbraham, Mass., how his money was spent in aiding runaway slaves who had traveled on the Underground Railroad, particularly those who had just arrived in Canada. In part: "The next sum was used to aid a sick man who had [been] but a short time in Canada before he was attacked with the intiminant fever.... He must have died had I not procured medical aid for him." Bibb lectured widely and published a number of works, including his Narrative of the Life and Adventures of…

GLC06834

1842

Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842

Pamphlet

Title: The duty of the Free States, or remarks suggested by the case of the Creole

In original wrappers. Channing argues in favor of the slaves who had taken over the Creole, a slave ship. Steering towards the British West Indies, they won freedom under British law, even though the U.S. attempted to reclaim them. Blockson Collection 9370, Dumon p. 36.

GLC06835

1788

Pamphlet

Title: The Constitution of the Pennsylvania Society for ... the Abolition of Slavery

Rest of title: "and the relief of free Negroes, unlawfully held in bondage, begun in the year 1774 and enlarged... To which are added the Acts of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania for the gradual abolition of slavery." First edition, printed by Francis Bailey. The Second year's Constitution of the Society. Disbound. Evans 21831.

GLC06836

1856/07/29

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

Autograph letter signed

Title: to J. S. Foy re: politics, slavery and morality in North and South

"I am quite aware that the people of the South are not all 'slave drivers' or 'slave holders,' but the non-slaveholders allow the slave drivers to rule them and rule us by means of them.... We have prostitution and other evils here, but our laws are not on the side of the vices but against them: Is it so with yours?... My friend our house has many windows...."

GLC06837

1843

Lattimer, George, fl. 1843

Pamphlet

Title: Massachusetts Congress "House No. 41" [slave case]

Account of slave case of George Lattimer. First and only edition. Original wrappers. Lattimer, a free black Boston resident, had been arrested on application of James Gray of Norfolk, Va., as his escaped slave. Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, acting as Circuit Judge, had Lattimer detained. Many Bostonians were outraged, and a meeting at Fanueil Hall voted that disunion was preferable to returning slaves. With the threat of massive civil disobedience, Gray sold Lattimer to a group of Bostonians for $400. A result of this incident (included in this pamphlet) was the passage of "An Act to…

GLC06838

1879

Pettit, Eber, fl. 1879

Book

Title: Sketches in the history of the Underground Railroad...

Title continued: "Comprising many thrilling incidents of the escape of fugitives from slavery and the perils to those who aided them." First edition, with mounted albumen photograph frontispiece of Pettit. Original publishers brown cloth. Pettit was one of the chief conductors of the Underground Railroad. Not in Blockson Collection. Schomburg 326.973F-P, Work p.338.

GLC06839

1869

Tubman, Harriet, 1822-1913

Book

Title: Scenes in the life of Harriet Tubman / by Sarah H. Bradford

First edition printed by Moses. The story of Tubman, an escaped slave who became a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad. She made more than nineteen trips into the south, rescuing 300 people. During the Civil War, she served as a nurse and spy. Royalties from this book paid off the mortgage on her home when she married Nelson Davis, an African American Civil War veteran. Exlibris stamp of the Phillis Wheatley Library. Blockson Collection 3950, Schomburg 326.93-B. Including engraving of Tubman.

GLC06840

1836

Stuart, Charles, fl. 1836

Book

Title: A memoir of Granville Sharp

First edition; early publisher's cloth. Includes Patrick Reason's first published portrait engraving. Reason was an black artist. Collateral to Lincoln manuscript GLC 5302, referring to Granville Sharp.

GLC06841

1863/01/02

Newspaper

Title: Nashville daily union. [Vol. 1, no. 226 (January 2, 1863)]

Union-occupied Tennessee newspaper printing the Emancipation Proclamation for the first time in Nashville. The proclamation printed in a full column article on the last page. Also includes news about Robert Hendershott, the "Michigan Drummer Boy" who went to war with the 7th Michigan, battle of Murfreesboro.

GLC06842

11 April 1865

Newspaper

Title: Richmond Whig. [Vol. 1, no. 7 (April 11, 1865)]

Union-occupation issue, covering the fall of Richmond shortly before and the surrender of Robert E. Lee two days before. The front page contains biographical sketches of Confederate generals killed at Richmond or Petersburg, or who played an important role, including A.P. Hill, William H. Fitzhugh Lee, Gen. Pegram. On page 8 appears the correspondence between Lee and Grant, giving the terms of surrender at Appomatox. An article "The Duty of the North" by Henry Ward Beecher pleads pardon for the rebels. INK BLURRING from poor registry of the printer's forms. UNOPENED.

GLC06843

1863/06/18-186312/10

Newspaper

Title: Record of news, history and literature, vol. 1 nos. 1-26

Complete set of 26 issues and 7 supplements containing news and other related articles concerning Southern life and culture. The Record was published for six months (the latter half of 1863) and was published by West and Johnson. The masthead was engraved by Julius Baumgarten and depicts the seal of the Confederacy between two Confederate flags. Topics include battle reports, casualties, laws, political news, poems, short stories, etc. There is even a "Black List" of southern-born soldiers who betrayed their home to serve in the federal army.

GLC06844

1863/02/25

Newspaper

Title: Weekly gazette and comet. [Vol. 45, no. 20 (February 25, 1863)]

Accounts of Union occupied Baton Rouge. Articles include the battle for Island no. 10, passage of a Negro Soldiers Bill by the U.S. House and the Confederacy receiving a minister from France.

GLC06845

1820-1879

Gilpin, Sarah Lydia, 1802-1894

Header Record

Title: [Diaries and journals of Sarah Lydia Gilpin] [word processed inventory available]

Diary of a woman who was a close friend of Sophie Du Pont. Writings span with gaps, 1820-21, 1863-72, 1874-75, 1879. Diaries are written from Wilmington, Delaware and New York City. The author of the later diaries corresponded with Admiral S.F. Du Pont, among other people. Usual topics include household events, weather, her reading, church meetings, family, financial and parties. Noteworthy topics include the Battle of Gettysburg, Lincoln Assassination, aid for free blacks. Abolition sentiment is evident in a 21 January 1865 entry "brought an appeal for aid for the poor negroes liberated by…

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