11 September 1863

Prentice, George Dennison, 1802-1870

Newspaper

Title: Louisville daily journal. [Vol. 33, no. 294 (September 11, 1863)]

Burnside at Cumberland Gap - Unconditional Surrender Thereof, Crittenden Occupies Chattanooga, Glorious News From Charleston, Fall of Fort Wagner & Fort Gregg, Rebels to Make Stand at Rome, Georgia, Rebels Evacuate Little Rock, Arkansas. This issue reports a sword presentation, with printed speeches made by Jacob Tilford and Lieutenant W.H. Brown. A notice to Louisville property owners lists areas for work on pavement, curbs, and sidewalks, and a monthly auditor's report records expenditures for the city for August. An article reports the surrender of Cumberland Gap to loyalist hands.…

GLC05959.14.11

12 September 1863

Prentice, George Dennison, 1802-1870

Newspaper

Title: Louisville daily journal. [Vol. 33, no. 295 (September 12, 1863)]

Enemy at Work Vacating Little Rock, Lee Reinforces Beauregard & Bragg, Official Report from General Burnside, Resignation of General Burnside. Correspondence between Lincoln and Fernando Wood is reprinted here. A detailed article describes the siege of Charleston. Minutes from the Board of Aldermen are included, listing allowed claims. An editorial criticizes Lincoln's analysis of the peace problem, lacking the need to promise returning rebels protection. An article as well as ads point to the upcoming state fair. Several ads list fugitive slaves and the sale of slaves.

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13 September 1863

Prentice, George Dennison, 1802-1870

Newspaper

Title: Louisville daily journal. [Vol. 33, no. 296 (September 13, 1863)]

Arrival of Grant in New Orleans, General Longstreet in North Carolina, Fort Sumter not yet Surrendered, Preparations to Shell Charleston, News from Charleston, Bombardment of Fort Moultrie, News from Richmond. A letter from the Rebel Col. J.A. Poindexter imprisoned in Missouri is reprinted here, as are resolutions of the Massachusetts Democratic Convention, opposing secession. Minutes from the Board of Common Council are printed. Dr. Strew's speech upon the raising of an American flag at a hospital is also printed in this issue. A lengthy article describes the death of Schiller in 1805 and…

GLC05959.14.13

20 September 1863

Prentice, George Dennison, 1802-1870

Newspaper

Title: Louisville daily journal. [Vol. 33, no. 303 (September 20, 1863)]

Rebs Fleeing Towards Texas, Arkansas Will Soon be Redeemed, News From the Army of the Cumberland, General Thomas Punishes the Rebels. An article reports Cumberland Gap since its Union takeover. Superstitious warnings are given. An editorial extols the war effort to produce feelings of patriotism. This Sunday edition also contains fictional stories, poetry, and travel accounts. A list of prizes awarded at the state fair is printed here.

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21 September 1863

Prentice, George Dennison, 1802-1870

Newspaper

Title: Louisville daily journal. [Vol. 33, no. 304 (September 21, 1863)]

The Rebels Fleeing Towards Texas. A circular letter from William H. Seward of the State Department is printed in this issue, describing recent battles in reviewing the campaign. An article about the upcoming presidential election highlights the two Democratic National Committees. This issue contains runaway slave ads.

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27 September 1863

Prentice, George Dennison, 1802-1870

Newspaper

Title: Louisville daily journal. [Vol. 33, no. 310 (September 27, 1863)]

Official Dispatch from General Bragg - Report on Recent Battles, How the Late Battle was Lost, Union Movement in W. Tennessee, General Burnside's Disregard of Orders, Death of General Jos. Johnston, Capaign in Virginia, News from Bank's Expedition. S.S. Nicholas reports his remarks on the semi-treasonable orders from the Department of War. A long letter from R.R. Belshaw to Earl Russet discloses British views on the war. A length treatise about a murder in rural France is included with an article on the Frankfurt Congress and another about Japan. Poems and stories also appear in this Sunday…

GLC05959.14.16

1 October 1863

Prentice, George Dennison, 1802-1870

Newspaper

Title: Louisville daily journal. [Vol. 33, no. 314 (October 1, 1863)]

General Halleck's Texas Expedition, Federal Attack on Fort Johnson, Fight with Mosby's Guerrillas, Movements of the Guerrilla Mosby. A guest editorial uses religious proof to denounce emancipation, with a follow up editorial expressing support, especially for the Union. An article promotes a new publication, Annals of the Army of Cumberland.

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2 October 1863

Prentice, George Dennison, 1802-1870

Newspaper

Title: Louisville daily journal. [Vol. 33, no. 315 (October 2, 1863)]

An editorial from London theorizes about American arms. A letter to the editor responds to a previous letter generalizing about the nature of Kentuckians. A long report from Chattanooga discusses war efforts there, with a Nashville report of an explosion at the barracks there. An inquiry was made into the death of an imprisoned runaway slave, but found death to be the result of a chill and not a whipping.

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7 October 1863

Prentice, George Dennison, 1802-1870

Newspaper

Title: Louisville daily journal. [Vol. 33, no. 320 (October 7, 1863)]

Price's Army Retreating, Skirmishing near Murfreesboro, Official News From Admiral Dahlgren, News From Burnside's Army, Evacuation of Morris Island, Enlistment of Slaves in Maryland Stopped. Minutes of the Louisville Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church are printed here. A list of fatalities from Battery H, 6th Artillery are listed, as well as a list of deceased soldiers at the military hospital in Louisville. Letters from correspondents in St. Paul and New York are included, and a report of the battle of Chickamauga is printed.

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14 October 1863

Prentice, George Dennison, 1802-1870

Newspaper

Title: Louisville daily journal. [Vol. 33, no. 327 (October 14, 1863)]

News From Virginia, Fighting Near Culpepper, Federals Evacuate Culpepper, Rebel Army Crosses Rapidan, General Meade Falling Back, Federal Cavalry in Pursuit of Wheeler, News From the Potomac. A report of the destruction of a supply train in Tennessee is printed in this issue. Colonel Richard T. Jacob writes a lengthy letter describing the pursuit and capture of Morgan. An editorial about the election in Tennessee points to abolition as the big problem.

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15 October 1863

Prentice, George Dennison, 1802-1870

Newspaper

Title: Louisville daily journal. [Vol. 33, no. 328 (October 15, 1863)]

Military Situation in Virginia, Rebels Driven to Brandy Station, News from Charleston, The Recent Fight on the Mississippi, Heavy Skirmishes with Rebels. The front page of this issue opens with a lengthy list of the dead, wounded, or missing in battle at Chickamauga, divided by division. An editorial credits Senator Charles Sumner with the definition of the rights of war. Another editorial complains about the depredations caused by looters and gangs.

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16 October 1863

Prentice, George Dennison, 1802-1870

Newspaper

Title: Louisville daily journal. [Vol. 33, no. 329 (October 16, 1863)]

Rebels Attack Colliersville, Rebels are Completely Routed, News from Virginia, Lee's Army Crosses Rappahannock, General Meade to be Removed, The Battle on the Rapidan, News From Charleston, Hurlbut's Forces Pursuing Chalmers. Bishop John H. Hawkins of Vermont publishes a letter of response concerning his previous treatise on slavery and the Bible. An editorial explores the actions of Major-General Thomas L. Crittenden in the battle of Chickamauga. Another editorial examines French reaction to the war. Ads for slave sales appear in this issue.

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17 October 1863

Prentice, George Dennison, 1802-1870

Newspaper

Title: Louisville daily journal. [Vol. 33, no. 330 (October 17, 1863)]

News from Virginia, Battle at Bristow Station, General Cook Killed, Lee Holds the Old Bull Run Ground, Wheeler's Command Scattered, News From Virginia & New Orleans. An additional list of the dead, wounded, or missing in battle from Chickamauga is printed here. The auditor's monthly report and minutes for the Board of Aldermen are included in this issue. An editorial describes the work of the 20th army corps in McLembre's Cove at Chickamauga.

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20 November 1863

Prentice, George Dennison, 1802-1870

Newspaper

Title: Louisville daily journal. [Vol. 33, no. 364 (November 20, 1863)]

Military Situation in Tennessee, Address from General Kirby Smith. An address by E.W. Gantt in Arkansas describes the nature of leadership struggle in the South, with particular attention given to critique Jefferson Davis.

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22 November 1863

Prentice, George Dennison, 1802-1870

Newspaper

Title: Louisville daily journal. [Vol. 33, no. 366 (November 22, 1863)]

Lincoln and His Cabinet, Official Advice from Burnside, Official Advices from Banks' Expedition, Cavalry in the Rear of Lee. Reports of incidents on the Opelousas Railroad, the Port of London, and events in Wilmington, SC, are included on the front page, with an article recounting the marriage of ex-governor Sprague of Rhode Island and Kate Chase. Poems, fiction, and other human interest stories fill this Sunday edition.

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April 21, 1859

Kagi, John, fl. 1859

Photograph

Title: [Photograph of couple]

Collateral photo accompanied with autograph letter signed (See GLC07235.01).

GLC07235.02

1940's ca.

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

Postcard

Title: [Blank Postcard]

One blank postcard dated circa 1940's based on a 1880's portrait of Frederick Douglass. Printed on the rear of the postcard is the text, "Frederick Douglass1818-1895 Born a slaveon the eastern shore of Maryland, but ran away to become a great anti-slavery leader."

GLC07926.02

25 June 1858

Newspaper

Title: New-York Semi-weekly Tribune.

Printing Lincoln's House Divided Speech, given on June 16th, at the Republican State Convention: "...'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free..." Also reporting on laying of the Transatlantic telegraph cable.

GLC09085

14 June 1794

Lawrence, James, fl. 1794

Autograph document signed

Title: [Reciept for an enslaved woman]

New York Slavery. "...Received of Mr. Leffert Lefferts the sum of Thirteen Pounds, it being in full for a Negro Woman, Sold and Delivered him nam'd Mary."

GLC09086

July 1859

Taney, Roger Brooke, 1777-1864

Pamphlet

Title: The Quarterly Law Journal, vol IV, No 3, [163] - 202.

Circuit court case of United States v. Amy, re: slave stealing letter written by her master. Arrested under Section 22 of the Act of Congress which provides that "Any person shall steal a letter from the mail, the offender shall, upon conviction, be imprisoned not less than two years..." The defense held that the word "person" as used in the Constitution of the United States to describe a citizen, did not apply to a slave, as defined in the Dred Scott Decision of 1857, and asked for a motion to dismiss. Although the judge hearing both cases was Roger B. Taney, chief justice of the Supreme…

GLC09087

29 April 1851

Pennington, J.W.C., fl. 1851

Autograph letter signed

Title: [Runaway slave]

A runaway slave in his own right, Pennington, while avoiding arrest in Liverpool, England, comments on the situation here in American and a fugitive slave case: "...My constant trouble of mind is the evils now pressing on my nation and people. What the end is to no eye human can forsee...[O]f the termination of the last Boston case - Thomas Sims has been given over to his claimant and has been taken back into Slavery. These cases are enough to break one's heart. It is difficult to see how the enormous evil and crime of Slavery can be carried to a greater extent. The whole land is full of…

GLC09088

27 September 1841

Carroll, Charles, fl. 1841

Broadside

Title: [Notice]

"Notice. I will give $5 for any one of my Servants who may be taken at or beyond Ellicott's Mills..."

GLC09089

circa 1868

Ku Klux Klan

Autograph letter signed

Title: To Davie Jeems

Threatening a Black office-holder. "Notice/To Jeems, Davie, you must be a good boy...at night I am a Ku Klux sent here to look after you and all the rest of the radicals and make you know your place. I have got my eye on you every day...[T]ell Platt Madison we have, a Box, For him and you. We nail all, radicals up in Boxes and send them away to KKK. There is 200 000 ded men returned to this country to make you and all the rest of the radicals good Democrats and vote right with the white people...no nigger is safe unless he joins the Democratic Club...give all your Friends timely warning…

GLC09090

1880

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: [Tribute to Lincoln]

His tribute to Lincoln; the original manuscript published in Osborn H. Oldroyd's "The Lincoln Memorial: Album-Immortelles," in 1882, [page 265]. "A great man: Tender of heart, strong of nerve, of boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country. He could recieve [sic] counsel from a child and give counsel to a sage. The simple approached him with ease, and the learned approached him with deference. Take him for all in all, Abraham Lincoln was one of the noblest, wisest and best men I ever knew."

GLC09091

13 November 1867

Townsend, E. D. (Edward Davis), 1817-1893

Printed document

Title: [General orders no. 99 concerning the establishment of an artillery school at Fort Monroe, Virginia]

Townsend, Assistant Adjutant General of the United States Army, details the procedure for the establishment of an artillery school. Includes instructions pertaining to organization, duties of the staff, instruction, examination, and other details. Page three consists of a note handwritten in pencil. Pencil note mentions an 1849 order passed by General Scott (possibly Winfield Scott). Townsend served as a Union Brevet Brigadier General.

GLC02382.215