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Siege of Vicksburg

Depicts the 13th, 15th, and 17th Corps, Army of the Tennessee, commanded by General Ulysses S. Grant, during the Battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi. The Mississippi River serves as background. Notes that Grant was assisted by Admiral David Dixon...

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[Transportation of convict to Virginia]

Assigns convict Thomas Morgan to serve a term of seven years beginning on 17 September 1774, the day the ship transporting him, the Taylor, arrives in Virginia.

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Monumental Inscriptions.

8 images of fictitious funeral monuments, each to a man executed by Jackson. The first six are for Tennessee militiamen executed in February 1815, after the Battle of New Orleans, for being deserters. The last two are for John Woods, a mutineer...

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Address of Governor Kellogg to the people of the United States on the condition of affairs in Louisiana, with official facts and figures.

Reconstruction address as Republican governor of Louisiana defending his administration from charges of mismanagement.

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Black republican and office-holder's journal. [No. 4 (September 1865)]

Racist newssheet from New York, handwritten in dialect ridiculing republicanism, reconstruction and the freed slaves. Referring to President Andrew Johnson's reconstruction policies, states "De party must be up and stirring to head off Johnson's...

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Vote the Flag [Mississippi election ticket]

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[Permission for slaves to work for their own profit]

Legal document permitting his two slaves, Samuel and Andrew, to work for themselves or any other person on Saturdays.

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To the sheriff of New London County

Arrest of a Native American named Ben Garrit for disturbing the peace. Requests the sheriff search for Garrit and bring him before Raymond or another of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace within the County of New London to be properly dealt with...

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Don't unchain the tiger!

Signed "A Democratic Workingman." 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 and violence. Printed...

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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...

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[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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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[Message regarding govermental liability for the value of slaves who escaped while impressed]

Confederate President Davis's statement, issued 21 April 1863, reports "Whether the liability of the Government shall be extended to such cases is a question to be determined, not by the Executive, but by Congress." Includes communications from...

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Items pertaining to the 3rd Regiment, Louisiana Native Guards. [Decimalized .01-.04]

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Learning is wealth. Wilson, Charley, Rebecca, and Rosa

Subtitled "Wilson, Charles, Rebecca and Rosa. Slaves from New Orleans." Shows an older black man reading with three fair-skinned slave children. No. 6. Published by Charles Paxson, NY. Trimmed. (Other cartes in this series appear in the Brady...

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to Jeremiah Wilbur

Taylor, a Northerner who had moved to South Carolina and became a slave owner, explains his views on slavery and his willingness to fight for it. "If these matters are going to be carried so far as to the separation of the Union and blood must be...

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Relations of states. Speech of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, delivered in the Senate of the United States, May 7th, 1860, on the resolutions submitted by him on 1st of March, 1860.

The resolutions submitted and discussed reaffirmed the legality of slavery and states' rights, championed the doctrine of popular sovereignty, and called for faithful observance of fugitive slave laws, among other things. Offers a constitutional and...

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to J. C. Worth

Discussing the Civil War, Ohio Representative Carey states "We know not (& you only know) what moment the conflict of arms will commence But whenever the time arrives & soon it must- The conflict will be dredful ... But sir I would not yield one...

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Speech of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, delivered in the United States Senate, on the 10th day of January, 1861, upon the message of the President of the United States, on the condition of things in South Carolina.

Speaking a few weeks after South Carolina seceded and a month before he would be elected of the Confederacy, Davis argues that the Union cannot be maintained by force. Printed by John Murphy & Co.

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[Civil War memoirs of Captain Oscar Fox of the 76th New York Volunteers]

Incomplete manuscript of Fox's memoirs. Chronicles his time in the Union Army from when he joined "Balcom's 'six-foot company" in Binghamton, New York in September 1861until the Battle of Cedar Mountain in August 1862. He was wounded later that...

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[Union Party 1864 presidential election ticket for Ohio]

Lists Abraham Lincoln for President and Andrew Johnson for Vice President. Also lists electors for the state. Printed in blue with orange emblematic image of an eagle and flags. A patriotic emblem, "Rally 'round the Flag, Boys! Rally once again!"...

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Six Civil War patriotic covers

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Letters regarding emancipation of slaves, the 1864 election, and Abraham Lincoln's assassination [Decimalized .01-.03]

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