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Address By The Union League Of Philadelphia, To The Citizens Of Pennsylvania, In Favor Of The Re-Election Of Abraham Lincoln., Union League Of Philadelphia. Dec 1863

Address By The Union League Of Philadelphia, To The Citizens Of Pennsylvania, In Favor Of The Re-Election Of Abraham Lincoln., Union League Of Philadelphia.

Pamphlets

A speech addressing the importance of re-electing Abraham Lincoln, 1964.


A Campaign Tract For 1864 : Extract From A Speech By Alexander H. Stephens, Vice-President Of The Confederate States, Delivered In The Secession Convention Of Georgia, January, 1861 [And Quotations From Speeches By Secessionists]., Alexander Hamilton Stephens Dec 1863

A Campaign Tract For 1864 : Extract From A Speech By Alexander H. Stephens, Vice-President Of The Confederate States, Delivered In The Secession Convention Of Georgia, January, 1861 [And Quotations From Speeches By Secessionists]., Alexander Hamilton Stephens

Pamphlets

Caption title. Evidently a campaign document for the Republican or Union Party in 1864.


Twenty-Fourth Ward Lincoln And Johnson Club's Union Campaign Songster. Dec 1863

Twenty-Fourth Ward Lincoln And Johnson Club's Union Campaign Songster.

Pamphlets

Headquarters: Market Street, above Thirty-third, south side.


General Orders. No. 35 /War Department, Adjutant General's Office, Washington, February 1, 1864., United States. Adjutant-General's Office. Dec 1863

General Orders. No. 35 /War Department, Adjutant General's Office, Washington, February 1, 1864., United States. Adjutant-General's Office.

Pamphlets

Signed: Abraham Lincoln ... E.D. Townsend, Assistant Adjutant General.


General Orders, No. 80 : Executive Order, Executive Mansion, September 24th, 1864. Dec 1863

General Orders, No. 80 : Executive Order, Executive Mansion, September 24th, 1864.

Pamphlets

Signed on page 2: Abraham Lincoln. Signed on page 3: E.D. Townsend. Executive order, with general orders and forms, concerning the purchase of products of Confederate states.


Address Of The Union State Central Committee Upon The Constitutional Amendment Extending The Elective Franchise To Citizen Soldiers In The Field Dec 1863

Address Of The Union State Central Committee Upon The Constitutional Amendment Extending The Elective Franchise To Citizen Soldiers In The Field

Pamphlets

A document detailing an address of the Union State Central Committee regarding an amendment that would extend the right to vote to citizen soldiers, and it is addressed to the Freemen of Connecticut. The document is in support of this amendment. The title fills the top quarter of the document and occupies seven lines of text, and the names of the committee members are listed below the address. Signed by James G. Batterson and sixteen members of the committee.


A Democratic Peace Offered For The Acceptance Of Pennsylvania Voters Dec 1863

A Democratic Peace Offered For The Acceptance Of Pennsylvania Voters

Pamphlets

This pamphlet is a pre-election article detailing the importance of this election and the important issues involved in this election. The title, "A Democratic Peace" appears above the beginning of the text, and there is a thin line separating the title from the text. Bartlett, The literature of the rebellion, no. 1296.


Speeches For The Times, James Walter Wall Dec 1863

Speeches For The Times, James Walter Wall

Pamphlets

Running title: James W. Wall. "With a sketch of his personal and political history." James W. Wall [biographical sketch] -- The indemnification bill, Senate of the United States, March 2, 1863 -- Peace or separation, Meeting of the Democratic club, Philadelphia, May 9th, 1863 -- Civil liberty overthrown, Mass meeting, Mount Holly, N.J., Sept. 28, 1863.


Broadside, Is The War A Failure? [1864] Dec 1863

Broadside, Is The War A Failure? [1864]

Lincolniana Original Manuscript Collection

This broadside titled, "Is the War a Failure" addresses a statement made at the Chicago Convention that declared the War against the Rebellion a failure. The broadside provides perspectives or testimonies from General Grant, General Sherman, General Seymour, and General Dix and provides facts to the contrary of the statement of failure.


Broadside, Ohio Union Presidential Ticket, [1864] Dec 1863

Broadside, Ohio Union Presidential Ticket, [1864]

Lincolniana Original Manuscript Collection

This broadside of the Ohio Union Ticket features an illustration of an eagle, flags, muskets, drums, and other wartime imagery. The ticket lists Abraham Lincoln for president and Andrew Johnson for vice president. The rest of the ticket lists the different candidate in various Ohio districts.


Broadside, The Platforms , [1864] Dec 1863

Broadside, The Platforms , [1864]

Lincolniana Original Manuscript Collection

This broadside, titled "The Platform," provides resolutions of the national conventions in Baltimore and Chicago for their respective parties.


Broadside, The People's New Ten Commandments, 1864 Dec 1863

Broadside, The People's New Ten Commandments, 1864

Lincolniana Original Manuscript Collection

This broadside, titled "The People's New Ten Commandments, From the Book of John, the Pilgrim, Chapter XII" was written by David the Scribe and is a pro-Lincoln celebration of the 1864 election in a mock-biblical style.


Broadside, Ohio Union Presidential Ticket, [1864] Dec 1863

Broadside, Ohio Union Presidential Ticket, [1864]

Lincolniana Original Manuscript Collection

This broadside of the Ohio Union Ticket features an illustration of an eagle, flags, muskets, drums, and other wartime imagery. The ticket lists Abraham Lincoln for president and Andrew Johnson for vice president. The rest of the ticket lists the different candidate in various Ohio districts.


Broadside, President Lincoln & General Grant On Peace & War, 1864 Dec 1863

Broadside, President Lincoln & General Grant On Peace & War, 1864

Lincolniana Original Manuscript Collection

This broadside, titled "President Lincoln & General Grant on Peace & War" contains an interview with President Lincoln on his view of the Democratic strategy and a letter from General Grant on his thoughts on restoring the Union on the importance of not dividing the North. A poem by Bayard Taylor, "On the Chicago Surrender" is included on the broadside beneath General Grant's letter.


Broadside, President Lincoln & General Grant On Peace & War, 1864 Dec 1863

Broadside, President Lincoln & General Grant On Peace & War, 1864

Lincolniana Original Manuscript Collection

This broadside, titled "President Lincoln & General Grant on Peace & War" contains an interview with President Lincoln on his view of the Democratic strategy and a letter from General Grant on his thoughts on restoring the Union on the importance of not dividing the North. A poem by Bayard Taylor, "On the Chicago Surrender" is included on the broadside beneath General Grant's letter.


Broadside, Is The War A Failure? [1864] Dec 1863

Broadside, Is The War A Failure? [1864]

Lincolniana Original Manuscript Collection

This broadside titled, "Is the War a Failure" addresses a statement made at the Chicago Convention that declared the War against the Rebellion a failure. The broadside provides perspectives or testimonies from General Grant, General Sherman, General Seymour, and General Dix and provides facts to the contrary of the statement of failure.


The Life And Services As A Soldier Of Major-General Grant : Hero Of Fort Donelson! Vicksburg! And Chattanooga! Dec 1863

The Life And Services As A Soldier Of Major-General Grant : Hero Of Fort Donelson! Vicksburg! And Chattanooga!

Pamphlets

The front cover contains the added title, "General Grant's Life and Public Services" along the top. An illustration of General Grant is centered between the official title and the words "Every Person should read this life of General Grant" are vertical on either side of the title and illustration. "Commander of the Military Division of the Mississippi; and Captor of 472 Cannon and over 90,000 Revel Prisoners" is beneath the title.


Personal Traits Of General Grant Dec 1863

Personal Traits Of General Grant

Pamphlets

This article is from McClure's Magazine, volume two, number 6, May 1894. Photographs of General Horace Porter, General Ulysses S. Grant, and various important places from Grant's time as a general in the Civil War are included within the article.


Letter Book, Engineers Department: Lexington, Kentucky; Jackson, Mississippi; Knoxville, Tennessee, March 16, 1863 To March 15, 1864, Orville E. Babcock Dec 1863

Letter Book, Engineers Department: Lexington, Kentucky; Jackson, Mississippi; Knoxville, Tennessee, March 16, 1863 To March 15, 1864, Orville E. Babcock

Documents

This letter book provides handwritten copies of correspondence written by Orville E. Babcock to various superiors while serving in the engineer's department during the civil war.


General Grant's Grand March Dec 1863

General Grant's Grand March

Grant Library Sheet Music

A black and white portrait of General Grant surrounded by battle scenes and the names of his battles.


The Patriot's Song Of Victory. : A Thanksgiving Discourse, For Recent Military Successes, Delivered In The Third Congregational Church, New Haven, September 11, And Repeated, By Request, In The Same Place, September 18, 1864, Elisha Lord Cleaveland,1806-1866 Dec 1863

The Patriot's Song Of Victory. : A Thanksgiving Discourse, For Recent Military Successes, Delivered In The Third Congregational Church, New Haven, September 11, And Repeated, By Request, In The Same Place, September 18, 1864, Elisha Lord Cleaveland,1806-1866

Pamphlets

This pamphlet includes a letter to Reverend E. L. Cleveland thanking him for the principles involved in the war that were contained in the sermon which was first giving on the President's Thanksgiving day and was repeated. The group of New Haven men from whom the letter was written, request a written copy of the sermon for publication to which Cleveland responds with a the requested manuscript.


What Our Democratic Generals Say : The Democratic Party Declare That The War Is A Failure ... Dec 1863

What Our Democratic Generals Say : The Democratic Party Declare That The War Is A Failure ...

Pamphlets

This pamphlet includes statements of Lieutenant General Grant, Major-General Burnside, Major-General Hooker, Major-General Dix, and Major-General John E. Wool speaking on the Democratic party's declaration that the war is a failure and declare for an immediate and unconditional cessation of hostilities.


Union Refugees, John Rogers Dec 1863

Union Refugees, John Rogers

Statuettes and Figurines

A genre figure, Union Refugees illustrates a Southern Unionist family fleeing to the North. In the piece, the father is shown standing with his gun and a small bundle of belongings as his wife leans on him in sorrow. Next to the mother stands a small child who holds a small bouquet of wildflowers. This piece was the first of Rogers's to show the harrowing effects of the War on civilians.


The Wounded Scout: A Friend In The Swamp, John Rogers Dec 1863

The Wounded Scout: A Friend In The Swamp, John Rogers

Statuettes and Figurines

A highly admired piece, The Wounded Scout illustrates an escaped slave leading and protecting a wounded soldier. Its contemporaneous admirers included Jessie Benton Frémont, Henry Ward Beecher, Lydia Maria Childs, and Abraham Lincoln who said of the piece, "[It] is very pretty, and suggestive, and, I should think, excellent as a piece of art."


Country Post Office: News From The Army, John Rogers Dec 1863

Country Post Office: News From The Army, John Rogers

Statuettes and Figurines

In the sculpture, an unidentified woman is shown visiting her local post office where she reaches toward a clerk for a letter, presumably from a member of the Army. This particular piece has two variants where the only difference is the length of the woman's dress sleeve. Variant A - the variant shown here - shows the woman's forearm sleeved to the wrist, while Variant B shows a bare forearm.


Diary Of Orville E. Babcock, January-March 1864, Orville Elias Babcock Dec 1863

Diary Of Orville E. Babcock, January-March 1864, Orville Elias Babcock

Diaries

Fifty-eight page Diary of Orville E. Babcock, January-March 1864 . Dates: 1864-01-01 - 1864-03-07


Letter Book-Loose Page, Dimensions Of Pontoon Boats Built In Knoxville For Bridge At Strawberry Plains, By Robert B. Talfer, [1864], Robert B. Talfer Dec 1863

Letter Book-Loose Page, Dimensions Of Pontoon Boats Built In Knoxville For Bridge At Strawberry Plains, By Robert B. Talfer, [1864], Robert B. Talfer

Documents

These pages provide a sketch and written dimensions of pontoon boats built in Knoxville for a bridge at Strawberry Plains.


Beautiful Dreamer, Stephen Collins Foster Dec 1863

Beautiful Dreamer, Stephen Collins Foster

Sheet Music Collection

Illustration of black text with designs around it


The Drumer Boy Of Shiloh, Charles Grobe Dec 1863

The Drumer Boy Of Shiloh, Charles Grobe

Sheet Music Collection

Illustration of black text with designs around it


The Soldiers Happy Return, Frederick Blume Dec 1863

The Soldiers Happy Return, Frederick Blume

Sheet Music Collection

Illustration of black text with designs around it