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The Degrading Compromise that the Northern Copperhead Leaders Would Force Upon the Country

Illustrated election broadside printed and circulated by the Indiana Union Club in Washington, D.C. The broadside is trying to influence the voters of Indiana to not vote for pro-Southern Copperheads. Top half of the broadside consists of an image...

GLC06032

The Star-Extra

An extra sheet of the Washington D.C. "Star." Contains three articles: first one from West Virginia on General Morris's attack against a division of Wise's army near Buckanon. Second article on the Tennessee disunionsts seizing the railroad between...

GLC06107.37

Dispatch! Extra. Death of the President

Newspaper clipping reports that President Lincoln is dead. Falsely announces that Secretary Seward has also been murdered. Includes information on the plotting of the assassination.

GLC06107.38

Herald extra

Reports on various events related to the 19 April 1861 Baltimore Riot, during which secessionists attacked Union soldiers passing through the city. Headlines announce "Governor Hicks Yielding" and "Massachusetts Regiment Reach Washington!"...

GLC06107.39

The sweet potato as a flour substitute

Carver, a celebrated agricultural chemist at the Tuskegee Institute, offers advice and recipes regarding conservation of the year's unusually large sweet potato crop. Provides recipes for using sweet potatoes to make flour, bread, and biscuits.

GLC06172