1826/04/07

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Arthur S. Brockenbough re: the University of Virginia, actions needed

Originally accompanied by a paper which was probably minutes of the meeting of the Board of Visitors but separated and acquired separately as GLC 2696. The left margin and verso have Brockenbough's notes on his response to the letter and the minutes of the board. Written in Monticello

GLC06102

1861-1865

Header Record

Title: Collection of Union occupation newspapers [decimalized]

Includes first Issues from Knoxville, Petersburg, Port Hudson, Ship Island, Etc. Plus issues from Virginia, N.C. Texas, and Baton Rouge. [decimalized 06107.01-06107.49]

GLC06107

25 May 1865

United States Sanitary Commission (1860-1870)

Newspaper

Title: Soldier's journal. [Vol. 2, No. 14 (May 25, 1865)]

Includes articles relevant to soldiers upon their return home following service in the Civil War. Printed at Augur General Hospital.

GLC06107.01

13 May 1864

Broadside

Title: Crutch--Extra.

"Glorious News." Broadside extra printing of Union soldiers' hospital newspaper reporting the capture of General Johnson's division by Winfield S. Hancock.

GLC06107.03

26 July 1864

Brownlow, William Gannaway, 1805-1877

Newspaper

Title: Knoxville tri-weekly whig and rebel ventilator. [Vol. 1, no. 1 (July 26, 1864)]

Reports capture of Atlanta by Sherman, opposition to granting "open & avowed" Rebels the right to vote in upcoming election, death of General Faulkner & Colonel Forrest, defeat of General Forrest, affirmation of Lincoln's handling of the war.

GLC06107.04

1865/04/03

Newspaper

Title: Grant's Petersburg progress. [Vol. 1, no. 1 (April 3, 1865)]

First issue. Whimsical and humorous newspaper published by soldiers. Includes story about a newly imposed dog tax in Illinois.

GLC06107.05

1865/04/10

Newspaper

Title: Grant's Petersburg progress. [Vol. 1, no. 4 (April 10, 1865)]

Whimsical and humorous newspaper published by soldiers. Printing news of Gen. Lee's surrender. Includes humorous advertisement for the capture of Jefferson Davis.

GLC06107.06

1863/05/25

Newspaper

Title: Nashville weekly union. [Vol. 1, no. 30 (May 25, 1863)]

News include report of 4th Mich. Cav. defeating 1st Alabama and capturing their flag. Prints 157 regulations to be followed under martial law. Ink inscription "G.W.C." Later graphite inscription "My uncle Geo. W. Clark."

GLC06107.07

1864/01/04

Tillotson, George W., 1830-1918

Newspaper

Title: Nashville weekly union. [Vol. 2, no. 62 (January 4, 1864)]

Articles discuss black soldiers, slavery as the cause of the war, Lincoln's amnesty proclamation and the plight of rebel prisoners freezing to death in Northern prison camps.

GLC06107.08

9 July 1864

Brownlow, William Gannaway, 1805-1877

Newspaper

Title: Brownlow's Knoxville whig and rebel ventilator. [Vol. 1, no. 27 (July 9, 1864)]

Colored troops in Union and Confederate armies, includes information on the death of General Polk, a campaign ad for Lincoln's election, anti-equality and anti-emancipation articles, John Morgan's raid into Kentucky, Sherman's orders to shoot any and all stragglers who fall behind.

GLC06107.09

29 July 1864

Brownlow, William Gannaway, 1805-1877

Newspaper

Title: Knoxville tri-weekly whig and rebel ventilator. [Vol. 1, no. 2 (July 29, 1864)]

Confiscation Acts - written by the United States District Attorney for the District of East Tennessee, Political Ad for Lincoln & Johson, trade regulations, the Rebel Raid in Maryland.

GLC06107.10

19 July 1862

Joy, George Mills, fl. 18301-864

Newspaper

Title: New Berne weekly progress. [Vol. 4, no. 50 (July 19, 1862)]

McClellan's Pennisula Campaign, the Battle of Corinth and Benjamin Franklin ("Beast") Butler's order in New Orleans. Includes a false report of Stonewall Jackson's death and wrongly explains how he received his nickname. Remnants of red wax.

GLC06107.11

December 24, 1862

Joy, George Mills, fl. 18301-864

Newspaper

Title: New Berne daily progress. [Vol. 5, no. 74 (December 24, 1862)]

Proclamation issued by Edward Stanley, Military Governor of North Carolina, The Battle of Prairie Grove, Foreign Affairs - Marriage of the Prince of Wales April Next.

GLC06107.12

18 June 1864

Joy, George Mills, fl. 18301-864

Newspaper

Title: North Carolina times. [Vol. 1, no. 43 (June 18, 1864)]

Union-occupation newspaper. Articles detail the Battle of Kinston, Battle of Columbia, Arkansas, wreck of the U.S. gunboat "Lavender" and invasion of Kentucky. Printed on yellow paper ("brown straw paper").

GLC06107.13

22 March 1865

French, George Z., fl. 1865

Newspaper

Title: Herald of the union. [Vol. 1, no. 20 (March 22, 1865)]

Union occupation newspaper with headline "News of the fall of Wilmington." Also: Postponement of the adjournment of the Confederate Congress, discussion of correspondence between General William T. Sherman and Confederate general Wade Hampton, reprint of an article by Horace Greeley on James Gordon Bennett, "Mrs. Lirripers Legacy," by Charles Dickens.

GLC06107.15

1862/01/07

Newspaper

Title: Camp kettle. [Vol. 1, no. 9 (January 7, 1862)]

Regimental newspaper produced by the members of the "Roundhead Regiment of the 100th Pennsylvania Vol."

GLC06107.16

14 July 1863

Newspaper

Title: Port Hudson freeman. [Vol. 1, no. 1 (July 14, 1863)]

Reports on the Surrender of Vicksburg and Port Hudson. Printed by Union troops the day Port Hudson was captured. States that Mrs. Vallandinham had gone insane but her "nervous system was severely shocked." Also includes a very moving report from a hospital. Brown necessity paper.

GLC06107.17

2 May 1862

Broadside

Title: News-Letter Extra

Union Soldiers' newspaper printing correspondence between Commodore David G. Farragut and the Mayor of New Orleans (it is unclear which mayor, there were six in 1862). Copied from the "New Orleans Cresent" of 29 April 1862. Also includes a column titled "Eight Great Blunders" copied from the "Religious Herald," a Baptist newspaper out of Richmond, Virginia. Lists eight greatest blunders of the Confederacy, including #2: "In believing that there would be a divided North, and an apathetic Federal Government." List of the deaths of six men in the 13th Connecticut regiment since leaving New York…

GLC06107.19

10 May 1862

Eastman, A. W., fl. 1862

Newspaper

Title: Soldier's News-Letter

Edited by Eastman with editorial assistance by Charles Giles of Belfast, Maine. Soldiers' newspaper (Vol. 1, No. 1) reporting on capture of Forts Jackson and Philip, which led to the fall of New Orleans. Gives news of events in New Orleans since its fall. Report of drunken Union soldier mistakenly hurrahed for Jeff Davis and was thrown in jail. Other miscelleanous news tidbits throughout, mostly concerned with logisitical issues involving New Orleans. News extracts from the "New Orleans Bee" of 2 May 1862 and the "New Orleans Picayune" of 6 May 1862. List of dead from the 30th Massachusetts…

GLC06107.20

17 May 1862

Eastman, A. W., fl. 1862

Newspaper

Title: Soldier's News-Letter

Edited by Eastman with editorial assistance by Charles Giles of Belfast, Maine. Soldiers' newspaper (Vol. 1, No. 2). Front page and part of 4th page contains a proclamation from 1 May 1862 by Major General Benjamin Butler which says "it has been found necessary to preserve order and maintain quiet by the administration of law Martial." Says the commanding general of occupying troops will govern the town until muncipal authority is reinstated. Goes on to list rules involving such areas as public and private property, foreigners, and the keepers of coffee houses and saloons. Other…

GLC06107.21

1863

Forrest, Moreau , fl. 1835-1863

Letter

Title: to Mary L. Forrest

Reports waiting for military orders with four new vessels. Thanks her for the money she sent and describes how he spent his wages. Discusses relationships between various captains and his meeting with David Porter.

GLC06107.22.01

6 July 1863

Newspaper

Title: The black hawk chronicle. [Vol. 1, no. 5 (July 6, 1863)]

Siege of Vicksburg. A Southerner surrenders for whiskey. Many articles illustrate Army - Navy Rivalry. Prints poem Hiawatha.

GLC06107.23

1863

C.R. Galpin & Co., 2d. Mich. V. (publishers)

Newspaper

Title: Union vidette. [Vol. 1, no. 1 (1863)]

First edition, volume 1, no. 1. "Published every now & then." Counterpart to Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan's "Vidette." Poem to Kearny (dead). Article titled "Is the President's Proclamation of Freedom (Emancipation of Slaves) Constitutional or Not?" Also, news from the 17th Michigan Infantry, describing their response to Lee's invasion of Maryland, and an editorial, "Peace," on what should be done with the Confederacy.

GLC06107.24

29 November 1861

Newspaper

Title: The Union picket guard. [Vol. 1, no. 8 (November 29, 1861)]

"Fridday" misspelled in masthead. With ink marks (possibly iron gall) . Article about the 2nd Illinois Cavalry has been circled. Includes an article about a flag of truce passing through Paducah, at which point a Confederate flag waved outside a window, causing Union soldiers to be angry. Includes articles discussing the continuance of the Civil War, other local and national news, and advertisements.

GLC06107.25

13 April 1865

Bondurant & Elliot

Newspaper

Title: The Richmond whig. [Vol. 1, no. 9 (April 13, 1865)]

Issue is dedicated to General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox. Prints the correspondence between General Lee and General Ulysses S. Grant leading up to the surrender. Prints general orders. Includes articles on the fall of the Confederate capital at Richmond and lists the buildings destroyed by fire, who owned the buildings, and the cost of each property. Publishes an open letter to the people of Virginia from various senators in order to call an emergency session. Other articles detail local, international, political, court, and ship news, advertisements, and public…

GLC06107.26