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Daily Republican.

4 pp. each. Vol. 5 nos. 145 and 146. Discusses Benjamin Franklin Butler's "women around town" order in New Orleans.

GLC05959.59

Southern churchman.

Religious newspaper. Vol. 30 #32 (8/26/1864; Prison camp), vol. 30 no. 46 (11/23/1864) and vol. 31 no. 8 (2/22/1865). Measures vary: First issue is 61 x 46.5 cm. while the two other issues measure 30.5 x 44 cm.

GLC05959.60

Magnolia weekly.

GLC05959.61

Staunton spectator and general advertiser

4/1/1862, 12/9/1862; 2/3/1863, 12/15/1863; and 2/2/1864.

GLC05959.65

Richmond Whig & public advertiser.

Some without volume or issue numbers. 7/11/1862, 10/3/1862, 10/28/1862; 1/10/1865. (Note that 3/7/1862 and 10/27/1864 are distinct titles: 5959.78 and 5959.79).

GLC05959.71

Daily Richmond examiner.

Some are Ex-Flowers, or Duke University. Also includes Semi-weekly Examiner.

GLC05959.72

Richmond weekly enquirer

GLC05959.73

Daily express.

Vol. 11= 1861, vol. 12=1862, vol. 13=1863. One issue from 1862.

GLC05959.74

Southern literary messenger.

Monthy magazine. 7/1861 (war a contest for racial supremacy); 11-12/1862 (combined; a new literature); 2/1863-6/1863 (2 copies of March); 11-12/1863.

GLC05959.75

Southern illustrated news

Weekly. Most issues 8 pages. Not published July 18, 1863 and Jan. 9, 1864. Issues include: Vol. 1 (1862-63) nos. 4-5, 9-15, 17-23, 25-35, 37-42; vol. 2 (1863) nos. 1-3, 6, 8-11, 13-14, 16, 20, 23, 25, vol. 3 (1863) nos. 2, 4, 7-17.

GLC05959.76

The weekly express.

Vol. 12 nos. 28, 43 and 45. See related but distinct title Richmond Daily express, GLC 5959.74

GLC05959.77

The daily richmond enquirer

Vol. 36 nos. 201 [sic?], 100, 96 [sic?]; vol. 37 nos. 27, 30, 158 and 179. Last issue has no volume/issue. 11/29/1862, 11/30/1863, 3/24/1864, 6/28/1864, 7/1/1864, 12/10/1864, 1/11/1865 and 1/27/1865. See also Richmond Weekly Enquirer, GLC 5959.73...

GLC05959.80

Daily true delta.

Amongst the typical foreign and local news and advertisements, the front page of this paper contains two very interesting secession-related items. A women in Charleston Owned the table used for signing the Declaration of Independence of the United...

GLC05960.01

New Orleans daily crescent [mixed with Daily true delta]

14 issues, decimalized. Includes some issues of the "Daily True Delta." See GLC05960.02.01-.14

GLC05960.02

[Collection of John Jones, Company F, 45th regiment, Illinois, infantry] [decimalized]

Contains vivid battle descriptions and political content. On 13 March 1863, he writes of his opposition to a $300 fee to avoid draft "based precisely on the same principle with the conscription of the 'Southern Confederacy' which exempts a man...

GLC05981

Collection of Confederate broadsides & imprints [decimalized]

Collection of Confederate broadsides, flyers, leaflets, books and pamphlets relating to military and civil matters during the Civil War. Each of the 55 records has its own description.
[decimalized 05987.01-05987.55]

GLC05987

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

GLC05987.09

[Three manuscript Civil War maps of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Rappahannock Station] [Decimalized .01-.03]

Maps of battles at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Rappahannock Station by A. Clark Baum of the 50th New York Volunteer Engineers.

GLC06013

[Decimalized .01- .03]

GLC06027

[Two documents from C.D. Blanchard][Decimalized .01-.02]

A Civil War map and a 1913 military certification.

GLC06061

Why women do not want the vote.

Two-volume bound compilation of 94 different anti-suffrage pamphlets and leaflets. Most issued by Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women. Most leaflets run between 6-10 pages. Spine title on both volumes:...

GLC06064

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

New-York Weekly journal [decimalized]

GLC06108

The liberator. [Vol. 10, no. 1 (January 3, 1840) - v. 17. no. 53 (December 31, 1847)]

Run of 416 weekly issues of the famous anti-slavery newspaper edited by William Lloyd Garrison.

GLC06109

Book and newspaper clipping [Decimalized .01-.02]

GLC06126

Documents related to the NAACP [Decimalized .01-.08.02]

Created in New York, New York and Chicago, Illinois.

GLC06135

Collection of abolitionist materials including letters, documents and printed [Decimalized .01- .29]

Includes 15 ALS's by notable figures in abolitionist movement, large printed broadside (printing map at top) for election of 1856 (Fremont). Many of the letters discuss arrangements for lectures by abolitionists such as Lucy Stone, the Crafts...

GLC06143

Collection of eight Union imprints [decimalized]

GLC06157

Collection of 13 Confederate imprints [decimalized]

GLC06158

[Collection of Jefferson Cruger, A company, 29th regiment, Wisconsin, infantry] [word processed inventory available] [Decimalized .01- .09]

Collection includes a diary accompanied by personal items: 1 cased photograph, 1 framed photograph, 1 tin type photograph, 1 belt buckle, 1 calico handkerchief, 1 small American flag, 1 pocket comb, and 1 piece of fabric (part of uniform?).

GLC06160

Journal and drawings of bombproofs, with collateral

Collection incudes 6 documents: 4 drawings, notes (2 documents), and a journal. Drawings include bomb proof fortifications and cannon emplacements for South Carolina, by Capt of the 50th NY Vols [engineers]. Also contains notes and instructions for...

GLC06166

[Collection of George W. Clark, field and staff, 4th regiment, Michigan, cavalry] [decimalized]

Collection includes 16 letters. Also includes hand-drawn map of Middleton, Tennessee (decimalized as part of .06) and U.S. Cavalry saber (decimalized as .17).

GLC06167

Archive of U.S. assistant Secretary of State [decimalized: .001-.284]

Hilldring served as a major general, Assistant Secretary of State, and first Director of the Civil Affairs Division within the Office of the Chief of Staff (U. S. military government in Europe and Japan). Includes U. S. government documents, signed...

GLC06196

The Confederate states. [Decimalized]

6 necessity papers and 23 wallpaper newspapers. With military and political content, including discussion of the Emancipation Proclamation. Mostly in English, but several articles in French. See separate typed inventory.

GLC06208

Orders regarding George McClellan's command of the Department of the Ohio [Decimalized .01-.09]

Nine printed orders issued by George McClellan during his command of the Department of the Ohio. Some orders signed by McClellan and his chief of staff, Randolph Marcy. The orders were originally tied together with a pink ribbon, also included.

GLC06235

[Collection of David B. Arthur, I company, 20th regiment, Wisconsin, infantry] [Decimalized .01- .12]

Arthur writes from various locations in Mississippi and Alabama, and comments most frequently on the weather, his correspondents, and army life, including marching orders, guard duty, and erecting houses, and sleeping conditions. Items of note...

GLC06245

Lawyer's papers [Decimalized .01- .23]

Collection of 23 letters to and by Van Valkenburgh, a Milwaukee lawyer, regarding developments of his family and country for 50 years. Related to GLC 686, Van Valkenburgh collection, which includes some letters written by and to him. See especially...

GLC06253

Journal of the Southern campaign (2 v.) with album of 22 cartes de visite [Decimalized .01- .02]

Pope belonged to Company I, 35th Massachusetts Volunteers. The manuscript consists of 2 volumes (total 414 p.). Battle content on Antietam, Fredericksburg and Vicksburg. Also mentions contrabands and General Ambrose Burnside. The accompanying album...

GLC06266

[Collection of James M. Stuart, C company, 94th regiment, Ohio, infantry] [decimalized]

Includes 22 letters from Stuart, and one letter to Stuart. Mentions General Nathan Bedford Forrest, playing ball and anti-black sentiment. Also discusses Sherman's March to the sea: "I suppose we will stop at Savannah, Ga. It will take us 30 or 40...

GLC06268

to Antonio Bucareli [Decimalized .01- .08]

Collection of eights letter concerning the California missions. Each letter is noted separately

GLC06287

[Decimalized .01- .19]

GLC06293

re: documents discussing passport request and preparation for trial [in Spanish]

Includes government discussion of passport request, cover letter accompanying passport and two requests for documents in preparation for Santa Anna's defense.

GLC06293.19

[Collection of John A. Bogert, 103rd Regiment, United States Colored Troops] [decimalized]

GLC06298

Letter about reinforcements and engraved carte de visite [Decimalized .01-.02]

GLC06311

Aaron Hobart Collection [Decimalized .01-.04.445]

Includes letters and documents that span Hobart's entire career, from the time that he was a law student, a lawyer, a representative, and, finally, a judge. The documents shed light on both Hobart's personal and political lives. The bulk of the...

GLC06313

Letter and engraving of Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph [Decimalized .01-.02]

GLC06329

Legal documents pertaining to the Easter Plot of 1802 [Decimalized .01-.16]

An archive of legal documents related to the Halifax County, Virginia trial of slaves following Sancho's Rebellion, also known as the Easter Plot of 1802. Includes six indictments, five mittimus warrants, one arrest warrant, and four writs of...

GLC06338

Diaries while serving in the Union Army Telegraph Corps [photos in .02 for cons] [decimalized .01-.09]

Diaries housed in Primary: Range 3B, Shelf 1-2.

GLC06738

Large albumen photographs taken by Memphis photographer Taft

Photographs taken from life by Memphis photographer Taft, beginning with Admiral Porter's flagship U.S.S. Blackhawk, also the U.S.S. Tyler, U.S. Navy gun Bat Brown, the Memphis & St. Louis packet boat "The City of Alton," the U.S.S. Fawn, the U.S...

GLC06739

Confederate imprints: mostly handbills and pamphlets, mostly Confederate laws [decimalized]

GLC06745