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 [...]
Junius Hillyer to Howell Cobb.. Washington [D. C], Jan. 30th, 1861. Dear Sir: I wish you would take a few moments of your time to drop me a line. Things here are not working right. Since the Southern men have left Washington there seems to be nobody standing up for the Southern movement, and the [...]
The people of Georgia having dissolved their political connection with the Government of the United States of America, present to their confederates and the world the causes which have led to the separation. For the last ten years we have had numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slave-holding confederate States with reference to [...]
Fort Moultrie, in Charleston Harbour, South Carolina—The Secession Flag Flying Description from Fort Moultrie 1809-1930: The English-born correspondent Thomas Butler Gunn, representing himself as a reporter for the Illustrated London News (although he was also secretly filing stories with the New York Tribune and New York Evening Post), gained admission into occupied Fort Moultrie on [...]
Raphael Semmes[i] to Howell Cobb. Washington, D. C, Jan’y 26th, 1861. My Dear Sir: Permit me to remind you of the conversation we had just before you left Washington. I think States enough have gone out to determine me as to the course I shall pursue. If invited by the Confederacy of the Cotton States [...]
Richardson’ss New Map of the State of Texas 1861 Richardson’s New Map Of The State Of Texas Including Part of Mexico Compiled From Government Surveys And Other Authentic Documents. Published By Charles Desilver No. 714 Chestnut Street Philadelphia. Engraved Expressly For The Texas Almanac. Corrected By H. Wickland. 1861. Entered … 1861 by Charles Desilver [...]
George I. Durham[i] to Howell Cobb. Austin, Texas, Jan’y 17/61. Sir: I am directed by the Executive Committee to apprise you of the true condition of public sentiment in this State respecting our relations with the Federal Government. Our Executive is hostile to the present movement of the Gulf States and will use every means [...]
Jacob Thompson[i] to Howell Cobb. Washington, D. C, Jan’y 16th, 1861. My Dear Cobb, I was glad to receive your letter a few days since. It came the same day that I resigned, and I got Robt. M. McGraw to show it to the President. He folded it up very quietly and returned it to [...]
William Porcher Miles to Howell Cobb. Charleston [S. C], Jan. 14th/61. Dear Sir: I received your letter yesterday (Sunday) and this morning directed copies of all the ordinances passed and resolutions and addresses adopted by the convention of our state to be forwarded you at Macon. I will bear in mind your further request to [...]
William Henry Trescot[i] to Howell Cobb. E. (Private and confidential.) Barnwell Island, Near Beaufort, So. Ca., Jany. 14, 1861. My Dear Mr. Cobb, I reached home on Friday last with the intention of returning to Charleston today; but having been too late for the railroad I find time enough to do what I have been [...]
Robert Toombs to the Augusta, Ga., True Democrat.[i] Washington, D. C, Jan. 1, 1861. The cabinet is broken up, Mr. Floyd, Secretary of War, and Mr. Thompson, Secretary of the Interior, having resigned. Mr. Holt of Kentucky, our bitter foe, has been made Secretary of War. Fort Pulaski is in danger. The Abolitionists are defiant. [...]
Mrs. Robert Toombs to Alexander H. Stephens. Washington, D. C., Jan. 1st, 1861[i] Dear Sir: I write a few lines to you this morning to ask you what I shall do with your furniture that is in our house. I have despaired of the Union and will begin to pack up my own things today. [...]
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, [...]
Benton County, Arkansas Camp Hallek (sic) 17th Regiment of Missouri Volunteers, Company C 25 February, 1862 Your letter of November was sent on to me by my wife.1 I am of course happy to know that everything goes well with my brothers and sisters back in Germany. Is Brother William a pastor or a professor? [...]
Scene at Beaufort, S.C.—Negro Hucksters Disposing of their Produce to the Soldiers.—From a Sketch by W.T. Crane From Frank Leslie’s American Soldier in the Civil War, page 430, 1895 The pleasures of honest ownership were as sweet to the soldiers, even in the land of plenty, as to the most exemplary Christian citizen. Then there [...]
Arkansas True Democrat [Little Rock], October 31, 1861 The Arkansas penitentiary has been made a useful institution during the present war.–Among the articles turned out during the summer were wagons, harness, tents, cartridge boxes, belts, knapsacks, camp chests, stools and cots, caissons, etc. Besides these a large lot of army clothing were made up and [...]
[Little Rock] Daily State Journal, October 31, 1861 Prospectus of the Daily State Journal. Conducted by Thos. C. Peek. A Daily Newspaper, to be published regularly, in the city of Little Rock, Ark., under the editorial management and control of Thos. C. Peek, is commenced to-day, October 31st, 1861. It is intended to make the [...]
[Little Rock] Daily State Journal, October 31, 1861 Either country people think town denizens are chameleons and “doth feed on air,” and consequently regard it useless to bring their surplus provender to market, or the retailers here demand exhorbitant prices. If the first is the case, we pathetically appeal to ye countrymen to have some [...]
Daily Times [Leavenworth, Ks], October 30, 1861 The work now going on and the preparations being made at the Fort, indicate two things. First, that it will be put in a complete state of defence, and, second, that the Government designs making it a post of great magnitude; both of which are of vital importance [...]
Daily Times [Leavenworth, Ks], October 30, 1861 [From the Baltimore Patriot, Oct. 7.] We have had an opportunity of conversing with several persons just arrived from the interior of the Southern States, some of whom left rather than take the oath of allegiance to the new Confederacy; and others, because their business was broken up [...]