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Journal of the House of Representatives August 24, 1864

Full title is: "Journal of the House of Representatives August 24, 1864, Together with the Testimony Before the Committee on the Bill in Relation to Allowing Soldiers to Vote." Printed by Amos Hadley, State Printer in Concord. Creator is the Clerk of...

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History of the antislavery measures of the thirty-seventh and thirty-eighth United-States congresses, 1861-1864.

Inscribed and signed by Wilson on front flyleaf to Hannibal Hamlin, Vice President of the United States under President Abraham Lincoln. Published by Walker, Wise, and Company. In the preface, Wilson writes, "I have sought, in this volume, to...

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Address of the Union State Central Committee upon the constitutional amendment ...

Printed signature of James G. Batterson as Chairman. Title continues, "...extending the elective franchise to citizen soldiers in the field." Appeals to voters to approve elective franchise for soldiers in time for them to be able to vote in the...

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Give us back our old Commander

Song sheet calling for return of McClellan, with a handcolored print of a military unit on top. Yearns for "Little Mac, the people's pride." Printed some time after McClellan's dismissal from command of the army. The song was written by Septimus...

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Harper's Weekly [10 issues], New York Herald [12 issues]

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Harper's weekly. [Vol. 8, no. 376 (March 12,1864)]

William T. Sherman biography. Unbound.

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New York Herald. [Whole no. 10,108 (May 20, 1864)]

War news. Grant, a brisk engagement on Wednesday. Sherman, important successes in Georgia.

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Collection of newspapers related to Lincoln assassination [decimalized]

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Philadelphia inquirer. [April 20, 1865]

Includes a detailed account of the Lincoln funeral procession in Philadelphia. Provides decriptions of the coffin, funeral car, and catafalque, lists of important attendees, and engravings of the coffin.
The newspaper columns have dark black...

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The Hartford evening press. [Vol. X, no. 89, whole no. 2813 (15 April 1865)]

Covers General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox including an account of the events leading up to the surrender, an interview between Ulysses S. Grant, and military information. Another article is on the assassination of President Abraham...

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