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to Elhanan M. Mast

Informs his brother that he has heard from his son Joseph, who is on picket and fatigue duty near Vicksburg, Mississippi. Reports that John Petty, a family friend, is sick and is no longer on duty. Mentions that Petty was a Clerk under General John...

GLC03523.10.078

to Louisa B. Terry

Addresses letter to his sister "Lou," telling her that he thinks "Gen. [Ulysses S.] Grant deserves the extra Star for the service he has rendered the U.S. during the present Rebellion..." Also remarks that he would like to see General George Meade...

GLC03523.08.94

Counterfeit Confederate notes publicly offered for sale in the "City of Brotherly Love"

Depicts a disreputable fellow, cigarette in mouth, motioning toward a broker's office which bears a sign that reads: "Counterfeit Confederate Treasury Notes for Sale. Soldiers under orders to the South supplied with lots to suit at reasonable rates."...

GLC00493.25

Louisville daily journal. [Vol. 33, no. 328 (October 15, 1863)]

Military Situation in Virginia, Rebels Driven to Brandy Station, News from Charleston, The Recent Fight on the Mississippi, Heavy Skirmishes with Rebels.
The front page of this issue opens with a lengthy list of the dead, wounded, or missing in...

GLC05959.14.21

Opelousas courier. [Vol. 12, no. 43 (March 25, 1865)]

The front page is in French and the back page is in English. General Order by General E. Kirby Smith, Notice to Confederate Tax Payers, Schedule of Prices for Confederate Army Quartermaster on Food and Livestock the Requisition from Local Citizens. A...

GLC05959.15.07

to Jacob Dolson Cox

Scammon writes as Colonel of the 23rd Ohio to General Cox, the division commander at Charleston, West Virginia. States that Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes has reported that some men of the 23rd Ohio have captured 15 "noted Bushwhackers" and burned...

GLC02414.062

Houston tri-weekly telegraph. [Vol. 30, no. 179, whole no. 3843 (December 7, 1864)]

Sherman is devasting the country, Hood's army occupies Waynesboro.

GLC05959.54.14

People's press. [Vol. 13, no. 3 (May 22, 1863)]

Particulars of Vallandigham's Arrest, T.J. Jackson's Last Moment, Reaction to Hooker's Retreat.
An editorial from the Richmond Enquirer examines the purpose of the war from a Northern perspective. An article describes the recusant conscription of a...

GLC05959.27.07

The Suffolk resolves: Proceedings of the ...

Printed by John Holt. The first printing in New York of the Suffolk Resolves. Evans 13701

GLC02438

to Tobias Lear re: modifications to a treaty between Tunis and U.S.

Translation copy in a clerk's hand. Informs Lear that the Bashaw of Tunis wishes to postpone modifications to the treaty pending the return of his ambassadors with ratification of the treaty by President Jefferson. The Bashaw does agree to stop...

GLC02794.097