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Entfesselt der Tiger nicht! = Don't Unchain the Tiger! [in German]

Signed "Ein Demokratischer Urbeiter," "A Democratic Worker." German-American broadside supporting the Union cause, pleading with the public to keep peace in the north. Discourages lashing out at public officers and falling into the depths of crime...

GLC08468

[Three-quarter seated portrait of Ulysses S. Grant]

Three-quarter length seated portrait of Grant in civilian dress. Ornately decorated column visible on his left and carved table on his right. Albumen print on thick black mount with rounded corners and gilded edges all around. Type inscribed on...

GLC08469

to his mother

Written on board the U.S.S. Mohican near Wilmington, North Carolina. Replies to his mother's letter from 11 December. Discusses the Mohican's participation with Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter's North Atlantic Blockading Squadron at the close of...

GLC08470.01

The border ruffian code in Kansas

A pro-Republican, free-soil pamphlet published by Horace Greeley's Tribune. "The character of the Code of pretended Laws enacted by the bogus Territorial Legislature of Kansas- a Legislature notoriously forced upon the people of that Territory, at...

GLC08471

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...

GLC08472