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1861/09/14
Nichols, E. B.
to Thomas Ward re: unsettled conditions in Galveston at beginning of Civil War
Written as a business associate, to say that he cannot pay duties and remove goods to a place of safety.
GLC02145.18
15 August 1863
Epperly, Christian M. (1837-1904)
[A Confederate Assessment of the War]
Mentions the high price of food. States that he believes the Confederacy is doomed. "I beleave [sic] the South first started on a just course but our wickedness and diobediians [sic] has brought us to what [where] we are: and I dont think the South...
GLC02715.067
1868 [?]
Republican Party
Paying Off the Democratic Public Debt
re: Civil War debts and "the legacy which the Democratic administration of James Buchanan bequeathed the Republican party."
GLC07722
1864
United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War.
House of Representatives. Report # 67. Returned Prisoners.
38th Congress, 1st session. Signed by W. L. Ransom. Report made by Daniel Gooch of the Joint Committee on the Conduct and Expenditures of the War. Describes in detail the harsh treatment endured by prisoners of war and the destitute condition of...
GLC00267.358
30 April 1861
Carey, George (fl. 1837-1861)
to Galloway Cheston
Writes to his uncle about Baltimore at the beginning of the Civil War. Reports that someone from the bank has said the "run" has ended and people are depositing money again. Of the people that withdrew their money, he states "Great leniency ought to...
GLC03228.09
21 September [1871]
Drum, Richard C. (Richard Coulter) (1825-1909)
to Henry Jackson Hunt
Year inferred from content. Drum, who had served as an assistant adjutant general during the Civil War, discusses a financial matter. Mentions Mrs. Cooper and General C. (possibly General Samuel Cooper and his wife Sarah).
GLC02382.114
10 June 1871
Drum, who had served as an assistant adjutant Union general during the Civil War, writes to Hunt at Fort Adams, Newport, Rhode Island. Notes that Harney (possibly General William Selby Harney) "would get through notwithstanding his demerit."...
GLC02382.113
25 February 1862
Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889)
[Message of the Confederate President to the Confederate Congress]
State of the Union-like address to the Confederate Congress made in accordance with a constitutional provision. Admits that since the start of the Civil War they had "been so exposed as recently to encounter serious disasters." Discusses their...
GLC08503
25 April 1861
Carey, Henry G. (fl. 1839-1861)
Reports to his uncle on the city of Baltimore at the beginning of the Civil War. States that everything is quiet. Asks him for some financial advice and states that there is no news in copper. Encloses some letters from others. Remarks upon the...
GLC03228.04
10 December 1862
Clisby, Joseph (fl. 1862)
Macon daily telegraph. [no. 881 (December 10, 1862)]
Subjects include Confederate War Debt, Lincoln's Emancipation Policy, Article on Compensated Emancipation. Includes general advertisements and land sale advertisements.
GLC05959.04
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