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9 April 1870
Frederick MacCrellish & Co.
Daily alta California. [Vol. 22, no. 7323 (April 9, 1870)]
Discusses proceedings in the House and the Senate. Contains details of the funeral proceedings of Union General George H. Thomas.
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1872/05/23
New-York times. [Vol. 21, no. 6451 (May 23, 1872)]
Election news.
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1864/04/29
New-York times. [Vol. 13, no. 3931 (April 29, 1864)]
Tax bill, Lincoln on slavery page 3.
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14 June 1865
Raymond, Henry J. (Henry Jarvis), 1820-1869
New-York times. [Vol. 14, no. 4281 (June 14, 1865)]
Includes two proclamations issued by President Andrew Johnson. The first proclamation addresses trading restrictions officially removed within Southern states, and the second discusses some of Johnson's reconstruction policies. Includes...
GLC08726.33
18 October 1865
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872
New-York daily tribune. [Vol. 25, no. 7654 (October 18, 1865)]
Discusses President Andrew Johnson's involvement in various aspects of reconstruction. Addresses the responsibility of the Judiciary, not the Executive, in bringing former President of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis to trial. Includes a full...
GLC08726.34
11 November 1864
Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878
The Evening Post. [Vol. 55, no. 91 (November 11, 1864)]
Announces the re-election of President Abraham Lincoln and lists election returns by state. Also describes plots of Confederate agents in Canada to sink the steamer Michigan and release the prisoners on Johnson's island. Reprints excerpts from...
GLC08765
1867/02/02
New York times. [Vol. 16, no. 4791 (February 2, 1867)]
Testimony in Johnson's impeachment trial.
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7 January 1865
William Lloyd and Co. (Richmond, Va.), fl. 1861-1865
The daily examiner. [no volume or number information, (January 7, 1865)]
A Confederate newspaper previously published as "The Richmond Examiner." Published without a masthead 30 May 1864-9 December 1865. Pencil signature at top says "Rev. Everhart" (or Overhart). Includes coverage of the fall of Savannah to General...
GLC08780
9 November 1864
Tribune Co., 1864-1872
Chicago tribune. [Vol. XVIII, no. 12 (November 9, 1864)]
Announces the re-election of Abraham Lincoln for president, "A Victory of Gigantic Proportions. Re-Election of Abraham Lincoln." Other articles include news on the Civil War such as Union General William T. Sherman's advance on Savannah and...
GLC08797
1868/06/04
Weekly patriot and union. [Vol. 16, no. 4 (June 4, 1868)]
Also prints a once supressed report on Ben. B. F. Butler in New Orleans. Johnson acquitted, Stanton resigns.
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7 December 1864
Cowardin, J.A., fl. 1864
Daily dispatch. [Vol. 27, no. 136 (December 7, 1864)]
Also known as the "The Richmond Dispatch." Says not much has changed on the front lines of Lee and Grant's armies and that "the tacit truce heretofore existing between the pickets has not been broken by the presence of Butler's's negroes." Update...
GLC08838
5 March 1861
Young, Joshua M. (fl. 1861)
President Lincoln's Inaugural. Maine Democrat Extra
Printing of Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address in three colums.
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May 13, 1863
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
to Don Pedro Diez Canseco
Countersigned by Secretary of State Seward. Letter of condolence to Vice President of Peru Canseco upon the death of the President of Peru Don Miguel San Roman. Canseco succeeded Roman, was shortly overthrown, and eventually regained power through a...
GLC01085
5 December 1860
Pettus, John Jones, 1813-1867
[Appointment of a Mississippi commissioner to Alabama]
Mississippi governor Pettus appoints Joseph W. Matthews as commissioner to Alabama to inform that state of Mississippi's upcoming convention "to consider the present threatening relations of the Northern and Southern sections of the United States"...
GLC01064
13 February 1864
Virginia, Constitutional Convention, 1864
Constitution of the State of Virginia, and the Ordinances Adopted by the Convention which Assembled at Alexandria, on the 13th Day of February, 1864.
Printed by D. Turner, printer to the state. This constitution was passed by the loyal government of the state of Virginia, in exile in the North during the Civil War. The most notable change from earlier constitutions was the abolition of slavery...
GLC01065
October 19, 1864
McLaws, Lafayette, 1821-1897
to Colonel Ray
Forwards an application, "Of the Officers of the 9th Ga [Georgia] Battallian of Arty [Artillery] for transfer to Siege batteries Savannah." Analyzes the conditions at different forts and batteries in Georgia and South Carolina in preparation for the...
GLC01073
April 30, 1864
Polk, Leonidas, 1806-1864
to Henry T. Clark
Writes to North Carolina Governor Clark about the recent act passed by the Confederate Congress authorizing the exportation of cotton across enemy lines in exchange for supplies.
GLC01078
12 December 1861
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889
[Signed endorsement, "J.D."]
Confederate President Jefferson Davis endorsement signed (with initials) on the top of the first page in pencil. "Sectry of Treasry - Has not this matter been attended to on a former letter? J.D." Written on a signed autograph letter from...
GLC01079
July 6, 1874
to unknown
Briefly states that "sovereign states cannot rebel."
GLC01089
December 1864
Collection of two items related to Abraham Lincoln and Lazarus Whitehead Powell [Decimalized]
GLC01011
24 September 1862
General orders no. 139.
Preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation published for the Army War Department printing, removed from a compilation of general orders. Noted on pages 117-120 are the orders that all people enslaved in the south will be freed. Beginning on...
GLC01024
April 10, 1861
to his Holiness, Pope Pius IX
Letter of credence for Rufus King as U.S. Minister to Papal States.
GLC01000
18 February 1865
[Confederate act to authorize the exportation of produce and merchandise]
Passed by the Confederate Congress, Thomas Bocock as speaker of the House, and R.M.T. Hunter as president pro tempore of the Senate and approved by Davis as president. Authorizes the export of government-owned "cotton, tobacco, and other produce and...
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06 May 1875
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
[Presidential authority to the Secretary of State to affix the seal to the pardon of C.A. Hayne].
GLC00956
November 20, 1861
to Henry S. Randall
Writes to Randall, a biographer of Thomas Jefferson, about the relative qualities of Jefferson, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and Alexander Hamilton. Expresses thanks for Randall's "vindication of Jefferson from the personal calumnies which had...
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