1865, 1890s

Header Record

Title: Stereographs & cartes, including Lincoln, McClellan, Gettysburg [decimalized]

Including the famous Brady posed image of Lincoln and McClellan having a conference at Antietam. At least one of the Gettysburg views is similar to GL# 244 and 2435, showing corpses.

GLC00242

July 1863

Photograph

Title: Scene on the Battlefield of Gettysburg, Pa. A dead Union Soldier... [stereocard]

GLC00242.01

1865

Photograph

Title: Mills House. Charleston, S.C. and Forts in Vicinity by John Soule [stereocard]

GLC00242.03

1865

Photograph

Title: Union Picket line in front of the rebel Fort Mahone... Richmond, Va.[stereocard]

GLC00242.04

1865

Photograph

Title: Castle Thunder, Carey St., Richmond, Va., [Prisoners of War] [stereocard]

GLC00242.05

1865

Photograph

Title: Harpers Ferry in war time, no. 1. [stereocard]

GLC00242.06

1865

Photograph

Title: Brooklyn Navy Yard. [New York] Stereoscopic gems. [stereocard]

Published by Anthony from a Barnard & Bostwick photograph. War Views series.

GLC00242.07

1865

Photograph

Title: The Funeral of President Lincoln, New-York, April 25th, 1865 [stereocard]

From Anthony's Instantaneous Views.

GLC00242.08

1865

Photograph

Title: The Ruins of Charleston, S.C., showing the Sister Churches [stereocard]

Published by Anthony

GLC00242.09

February 4, 1863

Medary, Samuel, 1801-1864

Newspaper

Title: The crisis. [Vol. 3, no. 2 (February 4, 1863)]

Discussing the military service of African Americans, states "The very act of arming them, of equalizing us with them ... is a lawless, revolutionary act, subversive of all these distinctions of races, which have saved us Anglo-Saxons, Celts, and Teutons of the North from the amalgamation and fraternity of the Latin races of the Southern part of this continent, and which there have been destructive to both." Contains numerous letters to the editor. Includes various articles covering local and national politics, as well as Civil War events. Includes several articles discussing Clement Laird…

GLC08786

February 15, 1872

Woodruff, George B., fl. 1872

Autograph letter signed

Title: to the Singer Manufacturing Company

Written to The New York Singer Office, enclosing an invoice of the "Pearl" amounting to slightly over 136 pounds (not included). Says he has been busy "flying" all over the United Kingdom completing business. Is pleased that their offices are being organized efficiently. Says business is good except for "those bug-bear Alabama claims." American claims against Great Britain for outfitting the CSS "Alabama" privateer had gone to an international arbiter, which will hurt their bottom line and might lead to war between American and Britain.

GLC08682

February 13- February 14,1850

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

Pamphlet

Title: Speech of Mr. Davis, of Mississippi, on the subject of slavery in the territories.

Senator Davis, future President of the Confederacy, speech made while a member of Congress. Responds to resolutions introduced by Senator Henry Clay pertaining to the Compromise of 1850. Davis asks, "...is there such incompatibility of interest between the two sections of this country that they cannot profitable live together? Does the agriculture of the South injure the manufactures of the North? On the other hand are they not their life-blood?"

GLC08461

February 14, 1865

Confederate States of America. Congress

Printed document

Title: Amendment to the negro soldier bill

Invests the Confederate General-in-Chief with the power to call slaves in to military service. States that clothing and rations will be provided to slaves impressed or voluntarily offered for service by their owner. States "By Mr. Swan" (likely Confederate Congressman William Graham Swan). Contains a Rebel Archives stamp. Possibly created in Richmond, Virginia.

GLC08472

February 25, 1862

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

Pamphlet

Title: [Message of the Confederate President to the Confederate Congress]

State of the Union-like address to the Confederate Congress made in accordance with a constitutional provision. Admits that since the start of the Civil War they had "been so exposed as recently to encounter serious disasters." Discusses their limited manufacturing capability, arms procurement in Europe, the humiliating "surrender at Roanoke Island," and exaggerated "losses at Fort Donelson." Also discusses problems with the short enlistment periods occasioned by the popular belief that the war would not be long. Praises the financial system. Mentions reports being prepared by several…

GLC08503

1894

Johnson, Rossiter, 1840-1931

Book

Title: Campfire and battlefield : an illustrated history of the campaigns and conflicts of the Civil War

With contributions of J.T. Morgan, O.O. Howard, W. B. Howard, John B. Gordon, James Tanner, George Kilmer and Mrs. L.C. Pickett. First edition, published by Bryan, Taylor & Company. SIgned by Clark Hine on 11 November 1896. Heavily illustrated with photographs. The final chapter is "Woman's contribution to the cause." Reprinted by Trident Press International in 1999.

GLC00267.267

February 5, 1839

Thompson, Waddy, 1798-1868

Pamphlet

Title: Speech of Waddy Thompson of South Carolina, in the House of Representatives of the United States, being in Committee of the whole on the state of the union.

Favors states' rights and criticizes former President Andrew Jackson as "a man who has done more to break down all the landmarks of the Constitution, and to consolidate all power in this Federal Government, than every other man who has preceded him." Opposes all programs favored by the industrializing North and West. Printed at the Madisonian Office, Washington, D.C.

GLC00267.024

February 5, 1780

Paine, Robert T., 1731-1814

Autograph document signed

Title: [Legal document pertaining to the confiscation of William Walter's property]

On behalf of the states of Massachusetts, Treat, the state attorney general, writes to the Justices of the Superior Court to argue the case for confiscating a tory's property in Boston. Claims Walter "levied War and Conspired to levy War against the government and People of this Province Colony and State." Describes him as an absentee loyalists whose messuage and land in Boston were confiscated on 20 April 1775 according to "An Act for Confiscating the Estates of certain persons Commonly called absentees." Argues that the property should "accrue to the sole use and benefit of the…

GLC00133

February 16, 1833

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

Pamphlet

Title: Speech of Mr. Webster, in the senate, in reply to Mr. Calhoun's speech on the bill "Further to provide for the collection of duties on imports."

Response to John C. Calhoun's bill "Further to provide for the collection of duties on imports," which opposed the tariff bills passed. Webster attacks the states' rights language underlying Calhoun's resolutions, analyzes their language (and that of the Constitution) and argues that nullification is not provided for in the Constitution. First edition. Printed by Gales and Seaton.

GLC00267.018

February 16, 1847

Missouri, Legislature

Printed document

Title: Memorial of the general assembly of Missouri, requesting that efforts be made by negotiation with the British government, to procure the restoration of fugitive slaves.

29th Congress, 2d session. Senate document no. 150. Missouri requests a measure for negotiations with England to prevent slaves escaping to Canada. Printed by Ritchie & Heiss, printers.

GLC00267.137

circa 1898

Field, Charles D., fl. 1898

Book

Title: Three years in the saddle from 1861 to 1865

I Nevins 87, Dornsbusch 64, Coulter 159. The 13th Illinois Cavalry in AR & MO

GLC00267.265

1845/02/08

Newspaper

Title: National intelligencer. [Vol. 46, no. 6575 (February 8, 1845)]

Monroe Doctrine

GLC08785

1842/03/24

Tyler, John, 1790-1862

Book

Title: Message of the President [Texas boundary with fold-out map]

GLC08847

Jaunary 31, 1818

Jay, John, 1745-1829

Autograph letter

Title: to John Adams

Marked copy. Written by Jay to Adams when both were in retirement. References Adams' letter of 9 January 1818. Mentions that his son and daughters just returned from a tour of New England and that they enjoyed the hospitality of Adams. Discusses assertions made by William Wirt in his new book (probably his 1817 biography of Patrick Henry). Wirt was making claims about the authorship of various revolutionary documents produced by the 1774 Continental Congress. Adams asked Jay for a correction of the record. Unsigned, except "Mr. Jay" in text. Quotes at length from journals of Congress. Docket…

GLC00015

1799/01/10

Smith, Samuel Harrison, 1772-1845

Newspaper

Title: The universal gazette. [Vol. I no. 61 (January 10, 1799)]

Reports a resolution passed by the Virginia legislation labeling the alien and sedition acts unconstitutional. Recounts activities in Congress relating to the quasi war with France and part of a debate in the House of Representatives. Contains news from around the country and Europe, advertisements, and an article by George Logan in which he defends his reputation.

GLC08787

1807/02/28

Russell, Benjamin, 1761-1845

Newspaper

Title: Columbian centinel. [No. 2393 (February 28, 1807)]

Prints a letter from President Jefferson to the Massachusetts legislature, thanking them for their expression of approval of his administration. Contains other political miscellany, news on foreign affairs, reports from the state and national legislatures, and various announcements and advertisements.

GLC08791