April 17, 1861 broadsheet.

April 17, 1861 An Ordinance to Repeal the Ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America by the State of Virginia and to resume all the rights and powers granted under said Constitution.

The South-West or Gorge Front of Fort Sumter, Showing the Gate, Wharf, and Esplanade, Machicoulis Gallerries on the Parapet and the Effect of the Fire from Cumming’s Point and Fort Johnson. From a Photograph Chester, James. “Inside Sumter in ’61.” Essay. In Battles and Leaders of the Civil War , edited by Clarence Clough Buel [...]

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

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

Page 71 Battles and Leaders of the Civil War Chester, James. “Inside Sumter in ’61.” Essay in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, edited by Clarence Clough Buel and Robert Underwood Johnson, Vol. 1. New York, NY: The Century Co., 1887.

April 15th & 16th, 1861: Rush Christopher Hawkins goes to Albany, New York, where he offers the services of the “New York Zouaves” to the Governor, which services are accepted, and at the same time the Governor grants authorization to Hawkins to raise a Regiment of Zouaves for service. Recruiting for the New York Zouaves [...]

Abraham Lincoln, June 16, 1858 Illinois Republican State Convention, Springfield, Illinois Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention. If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy [...]

Fort Pickens on Santa Rosa Island, near Pensacola, Florida 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

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

Appeared in Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War Hand-tinted off-print Special handed-tinted off-prints were often sold separately from newspapers and other documents. Numerous originals held today by public institutions and in private collections.

Perine, George Edward (1837-1885) Bombardment of Fort Sumter in 1861, Engraved in 1863 expressly for Abbotts Civil War Medium: illustrations (layout features) Item Location: Fort Sumter NM/Charles Pinckney NHS Curatorial Storage Facility, located at Charles Pinckney National Historic Site Box: Box 3 of 3 FOSU 19th c Illustrations Frank Leslie Harper’s Weekly London Times etc [...]

Frank Leslie’s The Soldier in Our Civil War, Vol. I.; The Stanley Bradley Publishing Company, Incorporated.

Gazaway B. Lamar to Howell Cobb. Bank of the Republic, New York, Apl. 13, 1861. Dr. Sir: We have just learned by telegram of the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter. Strange as it may seem to you, it is true that the people of this city who have professed to sympathise with the South [...]

HONORING THE LIFE OF SERGEANT PETER HART ______ HON. STEVE ISRAEL of New York in the House of Representatives Wednesday, April 13, 2011 Mr. ISRAEL. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay special tribute to the life and legacy of Sergeant Peter Hart, a soldier and New York City Police Officer, who served in the [...]

probably from Moultrie Drawn by Frederic B. Schell; Engraved by Samuel Sartain from The history of the Civil War in the United States : its cause, origin, progress and conclusion by Smucker, Samuel M. (Samuel Mosheim), 1823-1863; Brockett, L. P. (Linus Pierpont), 1820-1893 Publisher Philadelphia [etc.] Jones Brothers & Co.; Chicago [etc.] Zeigler, McCurdy & [...]

Title: Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor: 12th & 13th of April, 1861 Creator(s): Currier & Ives.

Handed-tinted off-print of originally black and white engraving Title: Scene on the floating battery in Charleston Harbor during bombardment of Fort Sumter [verso] From the book: The Soldier In Our Civil War. Locations: Charleston Harbor, Charleston County, South Carolina, United Medium: illustrations (layout features) Item Location: Fort Sumter NM/Charles Pinckney NHS Curatorial Storage Facility, located [...]

Title: Interior of Fort Sumter: during the bombardment, April 12th, 1861 Creator(s): Currier & Ives.

Bombardment of Fort Sumter Vignette title page image from  J. T Headley’s 1898 The Great Rebellion: A History of the Civil War in the United States

(Private.) Rome, Ga., April 11, 1861. Dear Sir: You will have seen no doubt a few favourable notices of myself for next Governor. My inclination is to write a letter declining to have any such use made of my name. I have been restrained by the consideration, first, that it might possibly be of some [...]

New Orleans, 7 April, 1861. My Dear Wife, This is Sunday in New Orleans. I have just strolled “solitary and alone” through some of the streets and found here and there a French store open, but most generally the store doors were closed and things bore the appearance of Sunday in a well regulated Christian [...]

Montgomery [Ala.], April 6, 1861. Dear Stephens, . . . We have very urgent requests from our friends at Little Rock for you to come to Arkansas and make some speeches for them at such time as will suit you before their election in August. They would prefer it soon. Dr. Blackburn, a very intelligent [...]

Howell Cobb to His Wife. E. Mobile [Ala.], 31 March, 1861. My Dear Wife, We failed to make connection at this point, so I am detained here for a day. I shall leave this evening however for New Orleans and expect to be there early tomorrow morning. I have met many friends and acquaintances and [...]