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21 May 1861
Pinckney, Henry Laurens, 1794-1863
Charleston mercury. [Vol. 56, no. 11, 157 (May 21, 1861)]
Napolean III in Alliance with Jefferson Davis, the Blunders of Lincoln, The Germans Deserting the Lincolnites.
GLC05959.43.03
circa 16 August 1872
Lee, John F., 1813-1884
to Henry Jackson Hunt
Discusses an unspecified case with Hunt, and notes that Hunt is engaged in political service. Remarks "I wish you would solve that mystery of the Ku Klux. It is not all a dream. There must be some waking reality in it." Mentions General Ethan...
GLC02382.091
circa 1880-1890
Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912
Valiant men "Dat Fite Mit Siegel"
Depicts a house being plundered and burned while a woman kneels, begging Federal officers to spare her children from the flames. The officers appear haughty and indifferent to her pleas. The threat of sexual violation is implicit as an officer with a...
GLC00493.14
7 January 1863
Hanleiter & Adair (publishers), fl. 1861-1865
Southern Confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 276 (January 7, 1863)]
This newspaper is from the Southern Confederacy and includes various local advertisments and runaway notices. The main articles are written based on an account of the war given by Burnside. It is noted that "New Englanders [are] sick of war". There...
GLC05959.09.119
4 November 1870
Porter, David Dixon, 1813-1891
to Ambrose Thompson
Admiral Porter indicates that he has written to B.S. Oslon, the editor of the "Nautical Gazette," to introduce Thompson in hopes that Thompson's articles, which should be of interest to "members of Congress," will be published there. Year is...
GLC03619.02.16
October 18, 1863
Gorsuch, Joseph B., 1834-1908
to Joseph Curtis and his wife
Gorsuch, Captain and Provost Marshal of the 13th Army Corps, writes to his aunt and uncle in Hamilton, Ohio. States that his corps will soon embark on the Texas Expedition. Discusses details regarding recruitment of Union soldiers in the South....
GLC00653.09.14
21 March 1862
Tillotson, George W., 1830-1918
To his wife
Drill, shooting guns, health problems of other men. "The inhabitants are a hard miserable looking set what I have seen of them and the contrabands say that most of them are rebels at heart for all they have taken the oath of allegiance." Rumors of...
GLC04558.014
23 November 1862
Rainy weather, rebels hold city, rebel pickets taunting about election, Bull Run and Antietam; Colonel courtmartialed twice for drunkenness but cleared, Colonel and regiment's surgeon trying to get regiment out of battle area, soldiers mutilating...
GLC04558.055
1 January 1863
Continued January 3 ["Dec."]. Written in pencil. Increasing strictness of the colonel for infractions, mentions that soldier mutilating himself (cutting off thumb) was court-martialed and sentenced to hard labor and half-pay for rest of service...
GLC04558.060
25 February 1861
Nixon, J.O., fl. 1861
New Orleans daily crescent. [Vol. 13, no. 305 (February 25, 1861)]
Published at 70 Camp Street. Article on University of Louisiana. Description of the New Orleans celebration of George Washington's birthday takes up three quarters of the front page. Describes an "Imposing Military Display." Short item on arrival...
GLC05960.02.06
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