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1791/10/29
Fenno, John, 1751-1798
Gazette of the United States. [Vol. 3, no. 53 (October 29, 1791)]
Contains Washington's proclamation on rules for building in Washington, D.C. as well as a list of members of the Second Congress.
GLC06961
6 November 1740
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 621 (November 6, 1740)]
Disbound. Trimmed at top with slight loss to masthead on p. 1 and some advertisements on p. 4.
GLC06949
1789/06/13
Gazette of the United States. [No. 18 (June 13, 1789)]
Contains "amendments to the New Constitution proposed by the Hon. Mr. Maddison," the future Bill of Rights. Disbound.
GLC06958
1789/10/14
Gazette of the United States. [No. 53 (October 14, 1789)]
Contains a report on the first session of the U.S. Senate, "Civil List" of federal expenditures, acts to compensate Senators and Congressmen for serving and acts setting up the Post Office. Disbound, leaves are now separate.
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25 April 1863
White, Jonathon C., fl. 1862-1863
The Weekly junior register. [Vol. 2, no. 16 (April 25, 1863)]
General orders. Discusses Union occupation and promotes patriotism. Green rosebud pattern.
GLC06998
1863/01/17
Free South. [Vol. 1, no. 2 (January 17, 1863)]
Includes article "The Policy of a Negro Army for the North"
GLC06810
16 June 1863
Swords, J. M., fl. 1863
The Daily citizen. [June 16, 1863]
News at Vicksburg, (false) reports of victory at Port Hudson. Support for General Pemberton. Geometric red and gray pattern.
GLC06812
1863/01/02
Nashville daily union. [Vol. 1, no. 226 (January 2, 1863)]
Union-occupied Tennessee newspaper printing the Emancipation Proclamation for the first time in Nashville. The proclamation printed in a full column article on the last page. Also includes news about Robert Hendershott, the "Michigan Drummer Boy"...
GLC06842
11 April 1865
Richmond Whig. [Vol. 1, no. 7 (April 11, 1865)]
Union-occupation issue, covering the fall of Richmond shortly before and the surrender of Robert E. Lee two days before. The front page contains biographical sketches of Confederate generals killed at Richmond or Petersburg, or who played an...
GLC06843
1863/06/18-186312/10
Record of news, history and literature, vol. 1 nos. 1-26
Complete set of 26 issues and 7 supplements containing news and other related articles concerning Southern life and culture. The Record was published for six months (the latter half of 1863) and was published by West and Johnson. The masthead was...
GLC06844
1863/02/25
Weekly gazette and comet. [Vol. 45, no. 20 (February 25, 1863)]
Accounts of Union occupied Baton Rouge. Articles include the battle for Island no. 10, passage of a Negro Soldiers Bill by the U.S. House and the Confederacy receiving a minister from France.
GLC06845
1868/05/21
Revolution. [Vol. 1, no. 20 (May 21, 1868)]
Disbound. Paginated [305]-320. Edited by E.C. Stanton and Parker Pillsbury. Includes editorial by Stanton "The Last Republican Lamp has Gone out" and articles. This issue records the annual meeting of the American Equal Rights Association. Although...
GLC06855
24 March 1848
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
North star. [Vol. 1, no. 13 (March 24, 1848)]
Douglass' Abolitionist newspaper; re: Theodore Parker's John Quincy Adams eulogy, anti-slavery meetings, etc. Waterstained across top.
GLC06865
1865/04/15
Chicago tribune. [Vol. 18, no. 280 (April 15, 1865)]
"The Terrible end." "The news reaches us just as we are going to press, and we hold our forms open to the last moment." The central column has "Postscript. 4 o'clock A.M. Terrible News." Lincoln assassination issue. Foxed.
GLC06869
14 June 1864
F.T. Cooper & A.N. Kimball
Daily Mississippian. [Vol. 3, no. 39 (June 14, 1864)]
re: Genl Sheridan's defeat by Hampton's cavalry near Richmond, Death of Genl Ambrose Burnside; printed in exile in Selma, AL. Lamination repairs at edges and center
GLC06870
1864/01/04
Spirit of the age. [Vol. 15, no. 20 (January 4, 1864)]
A scene in the life of General Stonewall Jackson, negro troops
GLC06871
1 April 1865
Selby, Julian A., 1833-?
Columbia phoenix. [Vol. 1, no. 5 (April 1, 1865)]
Capture, sack, and destruction of the city of Columbia. Evacuation of Charleston.
GLC06872
1864/04/27
Camden weekly confederate. [Vol. 3, no. 4 (April 27, 1864)]
Reprinting of official Yankee account of storming of Ft. Pillow by Genl. Forrest; Battle of Bull Run; Battle of Derussy
GLC06873
1830/12/08
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
U.S. Telegraph Extra. Annual address to Congress
GLC06778
1789/09/09
The Constitution of the United States
Essex Journal and New Hampshire packet. [No. 271 (September 9, 1789)]
Scarce newspaper printing of the seventeen amendments introduced by James Madison in the first Congress. Includes proceedings of Congress, introducing the amendments. The name "Mr. John Adams" has been inscribed in the left hand margin of the front...
GLC06766
1734/05/06
Zenger, John P., 1697-1746
New-York weekly journal. [No. 27 (May 6, 1734)]
Two pages on one half-sheet. Includes advertisement for defense of James Alexander. Brigham 1: 699.
GLC06770
1 November 1859
Charleston mercury. [Vol. 53, no. 10688 (November 1, 1859)]
Contains coverage of John Brown's Harper's Ferry raid: "The insurrection at Harper's Ferry was simply no insurrection at all. Not a slave joined the reckless fanatics in their nefarious policy of emancipation by blood and treason. It was a silly...
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1848/04/14
North star. [Vol. 1, no. 16 (April 14, 1848)]
Whole number 26. Includes poem "Farewell to Frederick Douglass" and Front page article "Mrs. Madison a slave dealer."
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1851/12/04
Frederick Douglass' paper. [Vol. 4, no. 50 (December 12, 1851)]
Early issue. Confessions of a slave dealer
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1861/03/02
Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper. [Vol. 11, no. 275 (March 2, 1861)] [uncut]
Abraham Lincoln
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1861/02/02
Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper. [Vol. 10, no. 271 (February 2, 1861)]
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26 April 1853
Darbee, L. & Son, fl. 1853
Williamsburgh Daily Gazette [Vol. 18, no. 290, whole no. 1675 (April 26, 1853)]
Includes preview of a work soon to be published called "The Narrative of Solomon Northrop, a Citizen of New York, Kidnapped and Sold into Slavery in Washington City, in 1844, and Rescued in 1853 from a cotton plantation, near the Red River, in...
GLC06069.01
6 November 1861
Snowden, E., Jr., fl. 1861-1862
The local news. [no volume or number information (November 6, 1861)]
Union occupation newspaper. Also published by W.F. Carne (fl. 1861-1862). Short item says the body of "the negro lad Sam," who had drowned in Hunting Creek during a previous storm, had been found. Report on the popularity of "Foot-ball" -- says it...
GLC06107.02
29 June 1864
Joy, George, fl. 1785-1795
North Carolina times. [Vol. 1, no. 47 (June 29, 1864)]
Union-occupation newspaper. Masthead motto reads "Liberty and Union - Now and Forever - One and Inseparable." Front page prints recently passed U.S. laws, including acts to provide trials for minor offences and to incorporate homes for women and...
GLC06107.14
4 March 1863
Charlotte, J.C., fl. 1863
Weekly gazette and comet. [Vol. 45, no. 21 (March 4, 1863)]
Union occupation newspaper. Mediation between the Southern commissioners and Secretary of State Seward, sinking of the U.S. Gunboat "Kinsman," News from Washington - the Negro Soldier Bill rejected, capture of the "Queen of the West," Charleston...
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2 July 1863
The Daily citizen. [July 2, 1863]
Misspelled title in masthead: "Ctizen." This is a variant issue of the newspaper printed with the last half column re-set by Union soldiers after the occupied Vicksburg on July 4. See the original Confederate printing, GLC 5988.05, and the Union...
GLC06043
1844
Newspaper
[The Times and seasons; Vol. 5, nos. 1-24].
Title continues: "containing a compendium of intelligence pertaining to the upbuilding of the Kingdom of God, and the signs of the times, together with a great variety of useful information, in regard to the doctrines, history, principles...
GLC06045
23 August 1862
Sears, Joseph H., fl. 1850-1862
The new south. [Vol. 1, no. 3 (August 23, 1862)]
Union occupation newspaper
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14 March 1863
The new south. [Vol. 1, no. 28 (March 14, 1863)]
Prints Lincoln's famous letter to the workingmen of Manchester. Union occupation newspaper
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30 May 1863
The new south. [Vol. 1, no. 38 (May 30, 1863)]
Printed on yellow "necessity" paper. Union occupation newspaper
GLC06054.03
12 March 1864
The new south. [Vol. 2, no. 27 (March 12, 1864)]
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1863/10/31
Southern illustrated news. [Vol. 2, no. 17 (October 31, 1863)]
With caricature of Lincoln on the back page, as Brutus in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, seeing a Black man in ragged attire appear as the ghost of Caesar.
GLC06055
25 June 1862
Shober, William A., fl. 1862
Quincy semi-weekly dispatch [Vol. 2, no. 1 (June 25, 1862)]
Necessity newspaper from Florida, with accounts of J.E.B. Stewart's ride around McClellan's army, Benjamin Butler's atrocities in New Orleans, Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley, also discussion of an "Emancipation Measure" on page 4...
GLC06063
25 May 1865
United States Sanitary Commission (1860-1870)
Soldier's journal. [Vol. 2, No. 14 (May 25, 1865)]
Includes articles relevant to soldiers upon their return home following service in the Civil War. Printed at Augur General Hospital.
GLC06107.01
26 July 1864
Brownlow, William Gannaway, 1805-1877
Knoxville tri-weekly whig and rebel ventilator. [Vol. 1, no. 1 (July 26, 1864)]
Reports capture of Atlanta by Sherman, opposition to granting "open & avowed" Rebels the right to vote in upcoming election, death of General Faulkner & Colonel Forrest, defeat of General Forrest, affirmation of Lincoln's handling of the war.
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1865/04/03
Grant's Petersburg progress. [Vol. 1, no. 1 (April 3, 1865)]
First issue. Whimsical and humorous newspaper published by soldiers. Includes story about a newly imposed dog tax in Illinois.
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1865/04/10
Grant's Petersburg progress. [Vol. 1, no. 4 (April 10, 1865)]
Whimsical and humorous newspaper published by soldiers. Printing news of Gen. Lee's surrender. Includes humorous advertisement for the capture of Jefferson Davis.
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1863/05/25
Nashville weekly union. [Vol. 1, no. 30 (May 25, 1863)]
News include report of 4th Mich. Cav. defeating 1st Alabama and capturing their flag. Prints 157 regulations to be followed under martial law. Ink inscription "G.W.C." Later graphite inscription "My uncle Geo. W. Clark."
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Tillotson, George W., 1830-1918
Nashville weekly union. [Vol. 2, no. 62 (January 4, 1864)]
Articles discuss black soldiers, slavery as the cause of the war, Lincoln's amnesty proclamation and the plight of rebel prisoners freezing to death in Northern prison camps.
GLC06107.08
9 July 1864
Brownlow's Knoxville whig and rebel ventilator. [Vol. 1, no. 27 (July 9, 1864)]
Colored troops in Union and Confederate armies, includes information on the death of General Polk, a campaign ad for Lincoln's election, anti-equality and anti-emancipation articles, John Morgan's raid into Kentucky, Sherman's orders to shoot any and...
GLC06107.09
29 July 1864
Knoxville tri-weekly whig and rebel ventilator. [Vol. 1, no. 2 (July 29, 1864)]
Confiscation Acts - written by the United States District Attorney for the District of East Tennessee, Political Ad for Lincoln & Johson, trade regulations, the Rebel Raid in Maryland.
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19 July 1862
Joy, George Mills, fl. 18301-864
New Berne weekly progress. [Vol. 4, no. 50 (July 19, 1862)]
McClellan's Pennisula Campaign, the Battle of Corinth and Benjamin Franklin ("Beast") Butler's order in New Orleans. Includes a false report of Stonewall Jackson's death and wrongly explains how he received his nickname. Remnants of red wax.
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December 24, 1862
New Berne daily progress. [Vol. 5, no. 74 (December 24, 1862)]
Proclamation issued by Edward Stanley, Military Governor of North Carolina, The Battle of Prairie Grove, Foreign Affairs - Marriage of the Prince of Wales April Next.
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18 June 1864
North Carolina times. [Vol. 1, no. 43 (June 18, 1864)]
Union-occupation newspaper. Articles detail the Battle of Kinston, Battle of Columbia, Arkansas, wreck of the U.S. gunboat "Lavender" and invasion of Kentucky. Printed on yellow paper ("brown straw paper").
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22 March 1865
French, George Z., fl. 1865
Herald of the union. [Vol. 1, no. 20 (March 22, 1865)]
Union occupation newspaper with headline "News of the fall of Wilmington." Also: Postponement of the adjournment of the Confederate Congress, discussion of correspondence between General William T. Sherman and Confederate general Wade Hampton...
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