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1865
[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
1862 ca.
Letter from union soldier including 11th Massachusetts Regt. Patriotic cover with battle of Williamsburg, Va
GLC08502
25 February 1862
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889
[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
1 October 1860
Burbank, Robert I., fl. 1860
[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
1834/06/10
Thayer, Elisha, 1785-1860
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
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
13 June 1863
Clapp, James, fl. 1863
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
12 March 1865
[Union soldier's letter] [incomplete]
Discusses Sherman's march.
GLC08509
6 February 1863
Giraud, Pierre, fl. 1863
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
6 December 1863
Walhert, Christian, fl. 1863
[Union soldier's letter]
Discusses completion of the Capitol. Accompanied by patriotic stationery envelope.
GLC08511
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