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1794
Butler, William Orlando, 1791-1880
Hudibras, in three parts, written in the time of the late wars
Zachary Grey, Ed.. With Hogarth's engravings. With index and errata. Bookplate of John Pollexfen Bastard on front pastedown.
GLC08411
9 November 1860
Greeley & McElrath, 1841-1866
New York semi-weekly tribune. [Vol. 16, no. 1613 (November 9, 1860)]
Front page article announces that South Carolina will call a secession convention. Also contains news on the results of the election of 1860 listed by state. On page two there is a reprinted letter sent to Frederick Douglass by a white man stating...
GLC08429.09
13 April 1861
Raymond, Henry J. (Henry Jarvis), 1820-1869
New York times. [Vol. X, no. 2983 (April 13, 1861)]
The front page of this issue is a drawing of the commanding officers at Fort Sumter, less than a month before an attack on the fort would begin the hostilities of the Civil War. The news focuses on the Union forts that have already been turned over...
GLC08429.22
17 September 1864
Harper & Brothers, 1833-1962
Harper's weekly. [Vol. VIII, no. 403 (September 19, 1864)]
Cover illustration entitled, "Harry Davis Capturing the Battle-Flag of the Thirtieth Louisiana Regiment, at the Battle of Ezra Church." Includes articles on General William T. Sherman, the presidential election of 1864, General George McClellan, and...
GLC08430.05
1845/02/05
Eastman, Charles G., fl. 1845
to J. T. Fields re: his poetry with copy of poem [Indian related]
Charles Eastman was a Sioux Indian, Dartmouth graduate and friend of Sitting Bull.
GLC08445.07
24 July 1863
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...
GLC08467
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...
GLC08468
28 June 1854
Brown, E.W., fl. 1854
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
26 May 1860
Harper's weekly. [Vol. 4, no. 178 (May 26, 1860)]
Includes a front-page article on Lincoln, recently announced as the Republican presidential candidate. Accompanied by an engraving of Lincoln after a Mathew Brady photograph. Also: "The Woman in White," news regarding Congress, and reports on foreign...
GLC08621
circa 1863
An Appeal to the Federal Soldiers
Written by "A New Englander, Now A Confederate Soldier." Dated from first line: "Two years of our sanguinary conflict..." Says he is going to lay aside "weapons of strife" and reason together on the lessons the war can teach. Says it was ill-will...
GLC08676
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