Daily Times [Leavenworth, Ks], October 26, 1861 Our South-Eastern Border. Every day the necessity becomes more apparent for sending troops along the line between our State and Missouri. Marauding parties are almost constantly scouting along the border, sacking and burning our infant towns, and committing depredations among the inhabitants. The Kansas Brigade, which has so [...]
Daily Times [Leavenworth, Ks], September 17, 1861 Leavenworth, Sept. 16, 1861. At a meeting of the Committee of Safety, the following resolutions were passed and ordered to be published: Resolved, That this committee disapprove of, and denounce “;” and that they will do all in their power to prevent it; and, in this regard, they [...]
Tri-Weekly Telegraph (Houston) September 1, 1862, There are in this State about two thousand wheat growers. The crop this season is a plentiful one, and yet flour is worth $30 per barrel. Now, with all due respect–which simply means our own interests considered–we propose to drop wheat-raisers, wheat-grinders, and wheat-ground sellers, for the present altogether. [...]
August 6, 1862, Daily Times (Leavenworth, Kansas) War for the Union! and for Freedom for All. 1000 Colored Men Wanted for the 1st K. R. of the Liberating Army. All able bodied colored men, between the age of eighteen and forty-five, can now have [...]
The Charleston Mercury July 31, 1862, The following recipe for flesh wounds has proved very efficacious, and is recommended to the Medical Faculty as an experiment. It has been practically tested by an officer in the French army, who was wounded in the arm, and in the space of eight days his wound was healed. [...]
Arkansas True Democrat [Little Rock], July 25, 1861 From our own Correspondent. Richmond, July 9th, 1861. Notwithstanding the oppressively warm weather, the city of Richmond presents a stirring and lively appearance. There is great activity in the various departments of the newly formed government, particularly those of the war and navy, and their subordinate branches, [...]
Title: View of Indianola. Taken from the bay, on the Royal Yard, on board the barque Texana, Sept. 1860 / drawn from nature by Helmuth Holtz ; Ed. Lang’s lithographical establishment, Hamburg. Creator(s): Ed. Lang., Related Names: Holtz, Helmut , artist Date Created/Published: Published by Helmuth Holtz, sole proprietor, 1860. Medium: 1 print : lithograph, [...]
Eliza Woolsey Howland to Joseph Howland at Albany. Sunday (between churches), May 26. I am going over to the Dutch Church at the Corners more, I confess, to hear the news from Washington than for the sermon’s sake. The rumor by telegraph this morning was that Washington was on fire. I am restless and anxious. [...]
The New York Herald May 22, 1862 The last proclamation of President Lincoln, we are sure, from the abundant evidence around us and the testimony of our newspaper exchanges, has greatly strengthened and extended the public confidence of our loyal States in his sagacity, patriotism and firmness of purpose as the head of the government [...]
An Ordinance To dissolve the union between the State of North Carolina and the other States united with her, under the compact of government entitled “The Constitution of the United States.” We, the people of the State of North Carolina in convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, That [...]
The New York Herald May 14, 1862, Our Army Correspondence. WEST POINT, Va., May 8, 1862. I have gathered the following details of a most desperate engagement at this point yesterday:- After the landing of General Franklin’s division, which camped in a large field, surrounded on the south, west and north by a dense wood, [...]
May 13th.—We have been down from Montgomery on the boat to that God-forsaken landing, Portland, Ala. Found everybody drunk—that is, the three men who were there. At last secured a carriage to carry us to my brother-in-law’s house. Mr. Chesnut had to drive seven miles, pitch dark, over an unknown road. My heart was in [...]
Memphis Daily Appeal Tennessee May 7, 1861 A large quantity of clothing for the military companies is on hand, and the number of ladies having it in charge is inadequate to the work. All ladies who can assist, are requested to call at the residence of Mrs. Owen, corner of Madison and Second streets, and [...]
Daily Advocate Baton Rouge May 7, 1861 Mr. Editor—Here we are all safe and sound, becoming rapidly initiated into the regular routine of camp life. We all find it a somewhat different matter from the holiday soldiering at home, but the duties imposed are cheerfully and bravely met. It is a somewhat strange spectacle to [...]
Daily Advocate Baton Rouge May 7, 1861 We learn that Mr. McKelvy, Postmaster at Delhi, met with a serious accident on last Saturday evening, by the explosion of an anvil, with which he was firing salutes1. One of his legs was so shattered as to render amputation necessary. There are some hopes of his recovery.—Herald, [...]
Memphis Daily Appeal Tennessee May 7, 1861 Headquarters, Army of K. G. C.,} Louisville, Ky., May 1, 1861.} 1. Commandants of K. G. C. castles throughout the various States of the South, excepting Texas, are hereby ordered to forward, without delay, to general headquarters, at Louisville, Ky., complete muster rolls of military companies. If the [...]
Memphis Daily Appeal Tennessee May 7, 1861 A system that has long been a curse to northern cities has lately been inaugurated here—we mean the practice of sending little girls out into the streets to beg. As soon as one of these young swindlers—for that is what they are in reality—sees two or three gentlemen [...]
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
Frank Leslie’s The Soldier in Our Civil War, Vol. I.; The Stanley Bradley Publishing Company, Incorporated.
Charleston Mercury May 6, 1861 Prepare a stick four inches long, perfectly round, and a little smaller than the ball; cut small slices of paper, an inch and a half long, and wide enough to go one and a half times around the stick; prepare a mucilage of water and gumarabic; roll the paper on [...]
Sugar Planter (West Baton Rouge, LA) May 4, 1861 With the Delta Rifles of this parish, I leave for New Orleans, early next week, and, from thence, wherever ordered. The Sugar Planter office will, therefore, be closed until my return. I hope that those who have so liberally bestowed their patronage upon me, heretofore, will [...]
Savannah Republican (Georgia) August 7, 1862, On Saturday the ladies who are to devote their services to the sick and wounded from the siege of Fort Pickens will take their departure by the Mobile boat. Mrs. Nicholson, whose residence is 210 Lafayette (late Hevis) streets, has a letter from Governor Moore to the commanding General, [...]
Memphis Daily Appeal Memphis, Ten May 4, 1861 To the Editor of the New York Daily News: I am an Irishman. I have been asked why I did not volunteer and march to put down the rebellion in the South. May I give three of my reasons through your columns? They are I. I [...]
Sugar Planter (West Baton Rouge, LA) May 4, 1861 This fine body of volunteers left Baton Rouge on Monday last under command of Capt. W. F. Tunnard, for the wars. We never witnessed a greater turn out than was seen on the levee while the company awaited the arrival of the steamer Cotten, to embark. [...]
Standard Clarksville, Tx May 4, 1861, It will be seen by the news from Indianola, that the U. S. troops encamped at Green Lake, took possession of that town on the 22d April, as we presume without opposition, and by surprise. Before this, these intruders have been captured or laid in a heap. No more [...]