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Three Civil War patriotic covers: Lincoln & cabinet, Scott & McClellan

GLC08484

Carte de visite of Jefferson Davis, standing (republished Anthony from Brady)

Half-length portrait of Jefferson Davis posed standing.

GLC08485

President's message

Address to the Confederate Congress regarding the progress of the war, Southern production, international relations and the Trent Affair. Celebrates Southern success on the battlefield, proclaims Southern independence permanent and unstoppable...

GLC08486

[Message of the President from Jefferson Davis to the Speaker of the Confederate House of Representatives]

Sends reports on the fall of Fort Donelson, which are "incomplete and unsatisfactory." The reports, which also include commentary on the Battle of Dover, were written by Brigadier General Gideon J. Pillow on 18 February 1862, Brigadier General John...

GLC08487

[Message of the President from Jefferson Davis to the Confederate Congress]

Annual message in which Davis discusses the state of the war. Comments on the simultaneous advance by Federal troops on two fronts and assures Congress that the Confederate armies will repulse them. Mentions the reasons for the Civil War, arguing...

GLC08488

Acts and Resolutions of the Fourth Session of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, Held at Richmond, Va.

Printed by Tyler, Wise, Allegro and Smith. Listing of acts and resolutions No. 292-413 passed by the Confederate Congress in its fourth session. Contains 106 pages of acts and resolutions and a 19 page index. Glued yellow paper binding.

GLC08489

Confederate soldier's letter on patriotic stationery

Transcript available. On color printed Confederate flag letterhead, "No foe shall conquer Dixie."

GLC08490

to Braxton Bragg

Writes to Confederate General Bragg just after the fall of Atlanta about Union General William T. Sherman's and Confederate General John Bell Hood's 10 day armistice. "Sherman & Hood's 10 days Armistice is troubling the public mind hereabout."...

GLC08491

Christian banner. [Vol. I, no. 6 (June 11, 1862)]

Pro-slavery newspaper, vol. 1 no. 6. Misdated June 11 but actually 14th, as noted inside newspaper. Anti-secessionist newspaper speaks of disloyal slaves now fighting against the survival of Virginia. There are also articles that argue that in...

GLC08493

Camden confederate. [Vol. 2, no. 4 (November 21, 1862)]

Schedule of the South Carolina Railroad. Proclamation of Governor Francis Wilkinson Pickens, including 10 resolutions ordering all "white residents" to be put under arms in a militia immediately and the draft of all men ages 18 to 45. Asked to be...

GLC08494

Provisional and Permanent Constitutions, Together with the Acts and Resolutions of the First Session of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States

Printed and bound by Shorter & Reid. Pages 3-31 contains the Constitution of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America, divided into 7 articles. Pages 32-139 contains Acts and Resolutions of the First Session of the Provisional...

GLC08495

Southern cultivator [with subscription letter 1/23/1861 and envelope]

Magazine vol. 19, no. 6, with ALS to William Birnie, 1/23/1863 with Confederate envelope.

GLC08496

[Notes from the Pennsylvania Executive Council regarding pardons, appointments, and appropriations of funds].

Wayne notes that on 6 January 1780, the Executive Council pardoned William Cassidy and Peter Swope, both of whom were "convicted of high treason--on condition that he serve as a soldier during the present war in one of the regiments of this State..."...

GLC08497

Election of 1864 Union party ballots [Decimalized .01-.05]

GLC08498

Lincoln and Hamlin election 1860 campaign tokens [Decimalized .01-.02]

GLC08499

Presidential items Fremont and Jackson; Lincoln mourning ribbon [decimalized]

GLC08500

A Vindication of the character and public services of Andrew Jackson.

(title continues) In reply to the Richmond Address, signed by Chapman Johnson, and to other electioneering calumnies. Written during the Presidential campaign of 1828. Asserting that "no man has rendered more important services to his country...

GLC08500.01

Fremont songs for the people, original and select. Compiled by Thomas Drew...

Presidential election of 1856. Published by John P. Jewett and Co. With woodcut of Fremont on the titlepage. Stained.

GLC08500.02

[Mourning ribbon]

Silk mourning ribbon for president Lincoln. Has a portrait of Lincoln in rondel surmounted by eagle. Below the portrait it reads "The late lamented president Lincoln."

GLC08500.03

Letter from union soldier including 11th Massachusetts Regt. Patriotic cover with battle of Williamsburg, Va

GLC08502

[Message of the Confederate President to the Confederate Congress]

State of the Union-like address to the Confederate Congress made in accordance with a constitutional provision. Admits that since the start of the Civil War they had "been so exposed as recently to encounter serious disasters." Discusses their...

GLC08503

[Announcement for a Republican demonstration scheduled to be held 16 October 1860]

Circular inviting Republican organizations to attend a "wide-awake" demonstration and torch-light procession. Instructs participants to inform Burbank, Chief Marshal of Boston, of the "number of men you can parade ... the list of your officers, and...

GLC08504

to Isaac Hill

Regrets that almost all the mail received in the town has been anti-Jackson, and that much of the town is against the President.

GLC08505

to John H. Stout

Writes to his brother. Mentions an outbreak of cholera, "Most of it however is found among emigrants some of the poor and dissipated of the towns also are suffering with it." Discusses the settlement of the Kansas and Nebraska territories, "The...

GLC08507

to Leicy M. Clapp

Clapp, a Union soldier, writes from camp near Vicksburg, Mississippi, to his cousin in Franklin Mills, Portage County, Ohio. Describes the battle of Vicksburg to Miss Clapp, stating that the city is surrounded, and that there are gunboats in the...

GLC08508

[Union soldier's letter] [incomplete]

Discusses Sherman's march.

GLC08509

to Mr. & Mrs. Edward Giraud

Written by a Union sailor on the USS "Montauk" to his parents in New York City. Tells them that since his last letter he has been in two major engagements at Fort McCallester on the Big Ogeechee River where they tried to capture the CSS "Nashville."...

GLC08510

[Union soldier's letter]

Discusses completion of the Capitol. Accompanied by patriotic stationery envelope.

GLC08511

[Salt print portrait of Montgomery Dent Corse]

Medium large oval format photograph. Depicts Dent as three-star General. Verso shows same image, but with ink added to his facial features.

GLC08512

Three acts pertaining to Great Britain, the United States, and suppression of the African slave trade [Decimalized .01-.03]

GLC08514

Ontario Republican times [Vol. 9, no. 339 (November 9, 1860)]

Cover includes articles covering a railroad robbery, a story about two young people falling in love aboard the steamer Ocean, and the papacy, among others. On page two, large headlines declare, "Lincoln and Hamlin Elected! THE COUNTY, STATE AND...

GLC08515

Richmond Daily Dispath, Philadelphia Inquirer (2) and NY Tribune [decimalized]

GLC08516

New York daily tribune. [Vol. XXIV, no. 7360 (November 7, 1864)]

Announces the defeat of Confederate General John Bell Hood at the Tennessee River. Many articles detail news about the upcoming presidential election of 1864 including an article on guaranteeing a free and peaceful election. Includes other Civil...

GLC08516.01

New York tribune. [Vol. 21, no. 6535 (March 15, 1862)]

Merrimac, Manassas, New Madrid, Ky. map

GLC08516.02

Daily dispatch. [Vol. 27, no. 134 (December 5, 1864)]

GLC08516.03

Philadelphia inquirer. [September 14, 1893]

Capture of Fort Smith and other army news.

GLC08516.04

to Thomas H. Patterson

Written by Rear Admiral Dahlgren as on the USS "Harvest Moon" to Commander Patterson of the USS "James Adger." Tells Patterson to bring in the "USS Dai Ching" inside the blockade when weather permits. Also wants Lieutenant Commander Chaplin to report...

GLC08517

[Carte de visite of John Adolph Dahlgren]

Admiral Dahlgren poses standing next to a cannon.

GLC08518

to Thomas H. Patterson

Circular letter signed by Captain Gordon as commander of the USS "Powhatan" to Commander Patterson of the USS "James Adger." Says he has been ordered by the admiral to remind all commanding officers off Charleston of General Order No. 11. Says at the...

GLC08519

The New-York times. [Vol. 11, no. 3432 (September 23, 1862)]

Contains a printing of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on first page and more coverage on page four. Also includes news about the Civil War, guerillas in Missouri, the defeat of General Bragg's rear guard in Kentucky, the battle of Iuka...

GLC08520

Carte de visite portrait of John Wilkes Booth

Possibly from a Brady negative.

GLC08521

Photograph of Gen. Joseph Bailey and staff by T. Keddy

War date photograph with postwar photograph of T. H. Noland.

GLC08522

Items relating to Gettysburg troops sent to quell New York draft riots [Decimalized .01-.03]

Three official copies or extracts from Army Headquarters relating to the New York City draft riots.

GLC08523

[Lottery ticket for the benefit of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures]

Ticket for a lottery to be held in Paterson, New Jersey, to benefit the "Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures, erected by Virtue of an Act of the Legislature of the State of New-Jersey. -- Subject to a Deduction of 15 per Cent." Printed by...

GLC08524

to [Jefferson Davis]

Memminger, Secretary of the Confederate Treasury, encloses an estimate (not included) of appropriations requested "to make purchases of Cotton and Tobacco to meet the engagements of the Government." Requests that Davis inform Congress of this action...

GLC08526

to Henry Walke

Signed by Acting Rear Admiral Porter as Commander of the Mississippi Squadron to Captain Walke as commander of the USS "Carondelet." Says Walke is not to let prisoners go to Vicksburg for any reason, nor to allow them any further communication with...

GLC08527

to Henry Walke

Signed by Acting Rear Admiral Porter as commander of the Mississippi Squadron to Captain Walke as commander of the USS "Carondolet." Says he is sending coal down the river. Orders that army transport cannot have any of it. Says his calculations on...

GLC08528

[Civil War order to hold a court martial]

Orders a Naval General Court Martial at Vicksburg aboard the steamer Choctaw on 10 July 1863. Indicates that the court will be composed of Captain H. Walke, lieutenant commodores James A. Greer, James W. Shirk, John G. Walker, and Frank M. Ramsey...

GLC08529

Review of Webster's speech on slavery.

Inscribed on cover to the Hon. William Foster. Printed by the American Anti-Slavery Society.

GLC08530

Treaty of peace between the allied and associated powers [Versailles]

Uncut. With fold-out maps. Signed on cover by Evan C. Mac Veagh. Contains Treaty of Versaille and League of Nations Covenant.

GLC08532