13 August 1863

Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870

Document

Title: [General Orders No. 83, Declaring 21 August 1863 a Day of Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer]

General Lee issues orders on behalf of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Declares "All military duties, except such as are absolutely necessary, will be suspended ... Soldiers! we have sinned against Almighty God."

GLC05987.05

7 November 1864

Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870

Document

Title: [General Order No. 65 concerning day of worship proclaimed by President Jefferson Davis]

Lee, commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, announces that President Jefferson Davis proclaimed 16 November as a day of worship. Printed document says "all military duties, except such as are necessary for the safety of the Army, will be suspended for the day, and every facility for its due observance will be afforded to the troops." Says they must be acknowledge what "Him who alone controls the destiny of nations" has done for them. Says chaplains to hold services at their usual place of worship and that soldiers are "earnestly exhorted" to attend. Says they should not forget their…

GLC05987.06

12 May 1865

Ford, John S., 1815-1897

Broadside

Title: [Last Confederate printing of the Civil War in Texas]

Printed general orders stating that every officer and soldier must be ready to meet the enemy at a moment's notice. States that the Brigadier General Commanding is determined to fight and if possible, ". . .drive back the insolent foe who advances to rob and enslave us." Ends with, "Every man must do his duty, and all will be right. Men resolved to be free can never be conquered."

GLC05987.07

24 September 1862

Loring, William Wing, 1818-1886

Broadside

Title: [General Order assuring the public that Confederate money is secure]

Confederate Major General Loring asserts that "The money issued by the Confederate government is secure, and is receivable in payment of public dues, and convertible into 8 per cent bonds. Citizens owe it to the country to receive it in trade."

GLC05987.08

May 1865

Header Record

Title: [Collection of three documents related to the surrender of E. K. Smith] Decimalized

GLC05987.09

18 March 1861

Reagan, John H. (John Henninger), 1818-1905

Letter

Title: [Circular letter announcing Confederate post office policy]

Printed Circular Letter marked "No. 2." Issued from the first Confederate Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama by Reagan, the first (and only) Confederate Postmaster General. Dealing with issues of transition from the Federal postal service to the Confederate postal service. Says the Confederate government will not interfere with any existing contracts until it assumes "entire control of its postal affairs." Says liability of present contractors in the United States will also be decided when the Confederates take over the postal system. Says if the United States cuts off mail service before the…

GLC05987.10

11 October 1864

Cooper, Samuel, 1798-1876

Document

Title: [General Order No. 78 concerning war correspondence and rations]

Cooper was Confederate Adjutant and Inspector General. The printed order has 6 parts. First part directs all military officers how to create correspondence with the War Department. Says any failure to follow orders will be subject to a court martial. Says endorsements should be carefully made so recipients can understand its contents at a glance and leave room for subsequent endorsements. Says writers must sign and date correspondence with full rank before they send it in to the War Department. Second part says commissioned officers drawing rations must have a certificate that they are for…

GLC05987.11

1863/07/01

Fisher, Thomas H., fl. 1863-1864

Broadside

Title: Hospital regulations

Written by Fisher as Surgeon in Charge of General Hospital No. 3 in Lynchburg, Virginia. Says the regulations "are published for the government and guidance of the Patients of this Hospital." Regulation topics include: getting full name, company, and regiment of patients, passes, curfews, patient cleanliness, patient behavior, hospital property, and liquor. Has printed border of tree leaves and vegetation. Embossed stamp of "Essex Institute" with seal in corner. Some water staining.

GLC05987.12

circa January 1861

Convention of the people of the state of Alabama

Broadside

Title: To the People of Alabama

Delegates to the Alabama Convention, convened to decide upon the issue of secession, "make public the reasons that actuate them in withholding their signatures from the Ordinance of Secession on the 11th day of January, 1861." Lists the names of thirty-two delegates to the Convention. Includes a list of paper prices. Published by the Montgomery Confederation. Illegible notation written in red pencil on verso.

GLC05987.13

29 October 1864

Allen, Henry Watkins, 1820-1866

Broadside

Title: To the planters and slave-owners of Louisiana.

Allen, Governor of Louisiana, implores slave owners to loan their slaves to construct fortifications on the Red River. Promises, "Your negroes will be well treated and well fed. They will be required to labor but sixty days, at the expiration of which time they will be dismissed and returned to their homes... Unless the negroes are promptly sent forward, they will be impressed- the country must be defended."

GLC05987.14

after 20 December 1860

South Carolina. Convention, 1860-1862

Broadside

Title: [South Carolina secession ordinance]

Printed by Evans and Cogswell. Announces secession, stating " ... the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of 'The United States of America,' is hereby dissolved." Secession was declared at Charleston, 20 December 1860, though a precise print date for this document is not listed. Printed in color on card stock, containing an image of South Carolina's flag.

GLC05987.15

27 December 1860

Dunovant, R. G. M., 1821-?

Broadside

Title: [Call for volunteers under General Order No. 4]

Printed broadside is part of the first call of troops for the Confederacy. Dated from "Headquarters" in Charleston. Order given by Adjutant and Inspector General Dunovant to various commanders to make a call of volunteers from "their commands." These commands seem to be militia units around South Carolina. Order given a week after South Carolina passed legislation to secede from the Union. Says to organize the volunteers into companies "according to the Section referred to above." Section 2 of an unknown act is printed above this order and it describes how units are to be created. Says…

GLC05987.16

15 July 1864

Broadside

Title: Memoriam of Capt. G. T. Burch

Broadside created as a memoriam for Captain George Tilley Burch of Co. I, 29th Georgia Regiment who was killed in the Battle of Atlanta. Died at City Hall Hospital on 13 July 1864 from wounds that pierced both his knees in a charge near Kenesaw Mountain. Says he was a graduate of Mercer College in 1861. Joined the army at Savannah, Georgia in August or September 1861 for a 3-year-term. Showed extreme fortitude during the Mississippi campaign and kept up his command in trying circumstances. Says he scorned "screening" himself during battle. Claims as an officer he was "strict, but ever just,…

GLC05987.17

February 1864

Chase, George, fl. 1864

Broadside

Title: To the veterans of the Confederate army

Asking for the public, especially soldiers, to furnish written accounts of "incidents of remarkable daring in battle, endurance, sufferings, sacrifices and other trials in imprisonment, camp, hospital or marches." Says if contributors want to wait until after the war to have their items published, they should say so. Also says diaries will be returned upon request. Would especially like to receive items from Southern women, "the Spartan-spirited daughters of the sunny South." Says the women "are worthy [of] the loving praise of a great, chivalric race." Addressed on verso to "Capt. Wm S. Keen…

GLC05987.18

6 November 1861

Fern, William, fl. 1861

Printed document signed

Title: [Confederate election ballot for Jefferson Davis as president]

Virginia electoral ticket endorsing Jefferson Davis for president and Alexander H. Stevens for vice president. Also lists John R. Edmunds of Halifax and Allen T. Caperton of Monroe "for the state at large," various men "for the districts," and Roger A. Pryor "for congress." Indicates that the election was on Wednesday, 6 November 1861. Signed by Fern on verso, presumably the voter who cast the ballot.

GLC05987.19

13 July 1864

Seddon, James A. (James Alexander), 1815-1880

Printed document signed

Title: [Authorization to pay Colonel A.L. Rives $30 to produce map]

Countersigned by the comptroller and auditor. Filled in form of the Department of Northern Virginia, Chief Engineer's Office authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to pay $30 ($10 in gold bullion) for a reproduction of Lieutenant M. McDonald's map of Richmond (see GLC 5987.20). It is to be made with "chloride or gold" through a "photographic process."

GLC05987.21

1861

Grant, M. B., fl. 1861

Map

Title: Map of the Seat of War

Compiled and drawn by M. B. Grant, lithographed by R. H. Howell, and published by T. A. Burke of the Morning News Office. Shows eastern Virginia (mostly Manassas and vicinity) and part of Maryland. A manuscript note on the bottom by a quartermaster sergeant tells the recipient of this map that they can use it to track his movements, which will take him from Richmond to Fort Monroe and are marked, in part, in pen on the lower right hand side of the map.

GLC05987.22

1862

Manouvrier, Julius, 1816-1875

Map

Title: Map of the Present Seat of War in Missouri

Lithographic Confederate Civil War map on light blue paper. Illustrates the border area between Missouri and Kentucky. Manouvrier was a cartographer in New Orleans, Louisiana. His company was named J. Manouvrier & Co.

GLC05987.23

1861

Manouvrier, Julius, 1816-1875

Map

Title: Plan of the Seat of War

Lithographic map of the Chesapeake Bay area and the border between Virginia and Maryland with an inset of Harper's Ferry, by J. Manouvrier & Co., a cartographer in New Orleans, Louisiana. Backed with cloth.

GLC05987.24

1861

Broadside

Title: [Dixie printed on back of a sheet checks]

A new version of Dixie printed on the back of a sheet of checks from the Bank of Virginia. Contains 9 stanzas. Some very virulent anti-Lincoln lines, including "Old Abe is good at stealing niggers." Note on upper right in pencil says "Printed at Richmond, Va. 1861" What appears to be a title says "Running Air - "Dixie" Rhymes."

GLC05987.27

circa 1860

Taylor, Richard, 1826-1879

Broadside

Title: To the People of the state of Louisiana

Pro-secession broadside issued by Confederate General Richard Taylor, F.H. Hatch, R.A. Hunter, and Emile Lasere, as the Committee on the part of the Louisiana Delegation at Charleston and Baltimore. Discusses preserving the sovereignty of Louisiana, the Democratic candidates for the 1860 election, the state of politics in Louisiana, and the importance of protecting the institution of slavery. Published by order of the Democratic State Committee. Accompanied by collateral envelope "F. H. Hutch to R. Taylor Esq, St. Charles, New Orleans Augt 29, 1860."

GLC05987.28

circa June 1861

Broadside

Title: To Tennesseans. Can Tennessee stand alone?

One long sheet. Prints a Tennessee Confederate call to arms and secession published when Tennessee was attempting to secede from the Union. The lower half of this broadside includes a section entitled "Can Tennessee Stand Alone?," which asks the question of whether Tennessee should stay joined to the Confederate states, or attempt to stand alone as a individual, separate nation.

GLC05987.29

9 July 1861

Moore, A.B., 1807-1873

Broadside

Title: [Recruitment broadside requesting three thousand volunteers]

An official call to arms by Alabama Governor Andrew Barry Moore, saying President Jefferson Davis has asked for 3,000 volunteers. Issued after the Confederate government moved from Montgomery to Richmond. Says volunteers must provide their own uniforms, other clothing, and blankets, "for which a commutation will be allowed them in money. "Illustrated with a large confederate flag (7 stars) at top.

GLC05987.30

19 May 1812

Macon, Nathaniel, 1758-1837

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Langdon

Reports that James Madison was nominated for president and Langdon for vice president by Republican Congressional Caucus. Congratulates Langdon and describes his nomination as "made without the solicitation or intrigue of any one of your acquaintances, I consider it made purely on principle." Hopes Langdon will accept the nomination. Macon was a North Carolina congressman. Langdon declined the nomination.

GLC05899.01

21 May 1812

Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Langdon

Urges Langdon to accept the nomination for vice president, claiming that "Your not declining the nomination to the vice presidency is, in my opinion, essential to Union, Republicanism and the public welfare." Heaps praise on Langdon. Earnestly exhorts him to take the nomination for the public good and to avert the creation of factions in the party, "which will lead to toryism and perhaps worse consequences." Langdon declined the nomination.

GLC05899.02