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1861/11/23
Cowley, S. A., fl. 1861
Confederate soldier's letter on patriotic stationery
Transcript available. On color printed Confederate flag letterhead, "No foe shall conquer Dixie."
GLC08490
13 September 1864
Sale, John B., fl. 1864
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
1862/06/11
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
21 November 1862
Hershman, J.T., fl. 1862
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
1861
Confederate States of America
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
June 1861
Redmond, Dennis, fl. 1856-1865
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
circa 1780
Wayne, Anthony, 1745-1796
[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
1864
Election of 1864 Union party ballots [Decimalized .01-.05]
GLC08498
1860 circa
Lincoln and Hamlin election 1860 campaign tokens [Decimalized .01-.02]
GLC08499
1828-1865
Presidential items Fremont and Jackson; Lincoln mourning ribbon [decimalized]
GLC08500
1828
Lee, Henry, 1787-1837
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
1856
Fremont, John Charles, 1813-1890
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
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
[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
1862-1863
Great Britain. Parliament. Boston Port.
Three acts pertaining to Great Britain, the United States, and suppression of the African slave trade [Decimalized .01-.03]
GLC08514
9 November 1860
Milliken, N.J., fl. 1853-1860
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
1862-1865
Richmond Daily Dispath, Philadelphia Inquirer (2) and NY Tribune [decimalized]
GLC08516
7 November 1864
Greeley & McElrath, 1841-1866
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
15 March 1862
New York tribune. [Vol. 21, no. 6535 (March 15, 1862)]
Merrimac, Manassas, New Madrid, Ky. map
GLC08516.02
1864/12/05
Daily dispatch. [Vol. 27, no. 134 (December 5, 1864)]
GLC08516.03
14 September 1863
Harding, William W., 1830-1889
Philadelphia inquirer. [September 14, 1893]
Capture of Fort Smith and other army news.
GLC08516.04
3 November 1864
Dahlgren, John Adolphus Bernard, 1809-1870
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
1864 ca.
Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896
[Carte de visite of John Adolph Dahlgren]
Admiral Dahlgren poses standing next to a cannon.
GLC08518
9 February 1863
Gordon, S.W., fl. 1846-1871
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
23 September 1862
Raymond, Henry J. (Henry Jarvis), 1820-1869
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
1865 ca.
Carte de visite portrait of John Wilkes Booth
Possibly from a Brady negative.
GLC08521
1864-1865?
Keddy, T., fl. 1864
Photograph of Gen. Joseph Bailey and staff by T. Keddy
War date photograph with postwar photograph of T. H. Noland.
GLC08522
July to August 1863
Various
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
circa 1797
[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
10 February 1864
Memminger, Christopher G., 1803-1888
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
28 December 1862
Porter, David Dixon, 1813-1891
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
2 November 1862
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
9 July 1863
[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
1850
Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884
Review of Webster's speech on slavery.
Inscribed on cover to the Hon. William Foster. Printed by the American Anti-Slavery Society.
GLC08530
28 June 1919
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
5 November 1862
Signed by Acting Rear Admiral Porter as Commander of the Mississippi Squadron to Captain Walke as commander of the USS "Carondolet." Wants to have the tugboats in order so they can be ready for emergencies. Tells him to keep as few of them under...
GLC08533
11 November 1863
Lee, Samuel Phillips, 1812-1897
Signed by Acting Rear Admiral Lee as commander of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron to Commander Patterson of the USS "James Adger." Congratulates Patterson on the capture of the blockade runners "Cornelia" and "R.E. Lee" (names of the ships...
GLC08534
1868
Republican Party
The Funeral dirge of democracy [election campaign document]
Republican election campaign document: song for ends of meetings. Dated 10-29-1868. Grant's campaign.
GLC08536
3 June 1863
Wheeler, Joseph, 1836-1906
General orders no. 7
Orders given by Confederate Brigadier General Wheeler for Wheeler's Calvary Corps. Promulgated by Assistant Adjutant General D. G. Reed. Divided into seven sections. Stresses accuracy of reports of enemy strength. Says they need to probe the enemy...
GLC08537
Monumental Photo Corporation
Carte de visite of J. E. B. Stuart
Postwar printing in Confederate uniform.
GLC08538
circa 1863
Southern Prisoner's Relief Fund Committee, fl. 1863
Southern prisoner's relief fund.
A London subscription to raise money to help Confederate prisoners of war interred in Northern prisons. "Horrible as war is in all its features, assuredly it has no greater horrors than the long agony of the poor captive who, when the feverish...
GLC08539
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