Washington D.C. July 22nd 1861 Monday Evening 6 o’clock P.M. My dear father, It becomes my painful duty to write you of the disaster of yesterday. Our Army has been unfortunate, that the results amount to a defeat we are not willing to admit, but we have been severely repulsed, and our troops returned in [...]

Gallant Charge of the Zouaves and Defeat of the Rebel Black Horse Cavalry Currier and Ives, c. 1861

The First Battle of Bull Run, Va., Sunday afternoon, July 21, 1861 Retreat of the Federal Army under Gen. McDowell upon Centreville. — The Reserve Division of Col. Miles Covering the Retreat and Repelling the Confederate Cavalry. Panic Among the Teamsters and Civilians and General Stampede Toward Arlington Heights. The J. Howard Brown Company, Publishers, [...]

The Battle Of Bull Run, between the Federal Army, Commanded by Major General McDowell, and the Confederate Army, under Generals Johnston and Beauregard, on July 21st, 1861—Advance of the Federal Troops. (from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated History of the Civil War…, edited by Louis Shepheard Moat, Published by Mrs. Frank Leslie,New York, 1895) “The first battle [...]

Blenker’s Brigade Covering the Retreat near Centreville. Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War by Alfred H. Guernsey and Henry W. Alden; copyrighted 1866 by Harper and Brothers; 1894 by Alfred H. Guernsey and Henry W. Alden; 1894 by McDonnell Bros; pub. The Puritan Press Co.; Chicago, Illinois

The painting Capture of Ricketts’ Battery, depicting action during the First Battle of Bull Run, one of the early battles in the American Civil War. The painting is oil on plywood, and is displayed in the Henry Hill Visitor Center at Manassas National Battlefield Park. 1964 Author: Sidney E. King (1906-2002), National Park Service painter

Standard [Clarksville], Tx, July 20, 1861 Fort Washita, July 12th, ’61. Dear Major: — The Bowie county company reached here on Tuesday morning, commanded by Capt. Morris. They are fine looking soldiers, and predicating my opinion, from their appearance, and the atmosphere they have been breathing for the last six months, I am satisfied, when [...]

Standard [Clarksville], Tx, July 20, 1861 Capt. Woodward, Reagan Guards; Capt. A. T. Rainey, Texas Guards, left our port on yesterday, on steamer Texas, en route for the seat of war. Our military turned out, and patriotic speeches were made.–Caddo Gazette, 6th.

Daily Chronicle & Sentinel [Augusta, Ga], July 20, 1861 The question of supplying our troops with winter clothing is beginning to attract considerable attention. — It is now evident that the South must depend mainly on herself for clothing material during this war. Her magnificent crops will supply a large surplus of breadstuffs and food, [...]

Bellville [Tx] Countryman, July 17, 1861 We copy the following from the Galveston Civilian. It is very appropriate at this time: The Christian Advocate appears on a half sheet, though without proportionate diminution of interesting reading matter. The scarcity of paper and of paying subscribers begins to tell on the newspaper business, and we fear [...]

Advance of General Rosecrans’s Division through the Forests of Laurel Hill to Attack the Confederate Intrenchments at Rich Mountain, July 11, 1861 “General McClellan’s plan for attacking the Confederates under General Garnett in Western Virginia and driving them beyond the Alleghenies involved the surprise of a large body strongly intrenched at Rich Mountain, in a [...]

Standard [Clarksville, Tx], July 20, 1861 Fort Washita, C. N., } July 7th, 1861. } My Dear Major: According to promise, I have concluded to write you, though at this time I am quite unwell–the effects of a severe attack of fever. But I hope, with prudence, I will soon be restored to health, and [...]

Austin State Gazette, July 6, 1861 A correspondent of the Charleston Courier relates the following: I can myself personally attest to the rudeness of these abolition mercenaries in the vicinity of the Relay House. They enter cars in crowds, insult women, raise dresses to ascertain whether their folds conceal weapons of a dangerous character, break [...]

Austin State Gazette, July 6, 1861 A company of emigrants from Missouri, numbering nearly 90 negroes besides whites, camped a few miles from Dallas on Friday and Saturday. They report a large number behind, and say thousands will move out of that State during the summer and fall. A gentleman traveling from the North, says [...]

Arkansas True Democrat [Little Rock], July 4, 1861 Newspapers, as well as other institutions, North and South, are constantly succumbing to the storm, but the True Democrat still weathers it bravely and securely. No matter at what sacrifice to ourselves pecuniarily, we intend the True Democrat shall live and issue regularly during the war; but [...]

Arkansas True Democrat [Little Rock], July 4, 1861 When the tocsin of war was sounded throughout the land none were more prompt to respond to their country’s call than Arkansians, and none in the State more prompt than the citizens of Little Rock and Pulaski county. Pulaski county has furnished and sent to the seat [...]

Standard [Clarksville, Tx], July 20, 1861, Fort Washita, C. N. } July 3d, 1861. } Maj. DeMorse: — Dear Sir: — A day of leasure at this place, enables me to send you a few items, that may have some interest to those readers of the Standard who have friends and relations serving in the [...]

Bellville [Tx] Countryman, July 3, 1861 At a recent large gathering of volunteers in a Southern State, where field operations were performed as if in sight of an enemy, the general officer in command made a short speech to the men, which is very apropos just now. “All that you have heard in the way [...]

The Commonwealth Of Virginia To Richard Thomas Zarvona, Greeting: Know you that from special trust and confidence reposed in your fidelity, courage and good conduct our governot in pursuance of the authority vested in him by an ordinance of the convention of the State of Virginia doth commission you a colonel in the active volunteer [...]

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This always popular black and green $1 from this venerable New York bank that was organized in 1784 depicts History Instructing Youth and has green protectors and design elements. The note faces up very well and has many of the attributes of an even higher graded example. A perfect addition if you need a representative [...]

Richmond Whig, May 2, 1864 At 7 o’clock Saturday evening, a little boy, son of President Davis, died from injuries believed to have been received by an accidental fall from the back porch of his father’s residence. Nothing is known of the particulars of the accident. At 6 o’clock in the evening, the child was [...]

Aquia Creek Landing, Va. Embarkation of 9th Army Corps for Fort Monroe; photograph is by Alexander Gardner. “On February 5, 1863, Sedgwick was succeeded by Maj. Gen. William F. “Baldy” Smith, and on February 12 the corps was ordered to Newport News, where it encamped for a month.” [IX Corps (Union Army) — Wikipedia] Library [...]

by Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1,2 adapted to music by John Molter 3 . The shades of night were falling fast, As through a Southern village passed A youth, who bore, not over nice, A banner with the gay device, Skedaddle! . His hair was red, his toes beneath Peeped, like an acorn from its sheath, [...]