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Harper's Weekly

Civil War Text

Saturday, January 16, 1864 issue of the Harper's Weekly. Featuring "Averill’s Raid" in the American Civil War. With many lithographs. Cover: Averill's Raid. Centerfold lithograph: "An Advance of the Army of the Potomac - Sketched by Alfred R. Waud. Other lithographic illustrations include: Major-General Andrew A. Humphreys; General William W. Averill; the "suck" in the Tennessee River; the wreck of the "Aquila" at San Francisco; the ironclad screw frigate "Re d'Italia;" rebel screw steamer Rappahannock; The late most reverend John Hughes, D.C., Archbishop of New York – Photographed by Brady; The rebel screw steamer "Rappahannock" lying at Calais, France; Daboll's …

Harper's Weekly

Civil War Text

Saturday, May 21, 1864 issue of the Harper's Weekly. Featuring General Sherman's Advance in the American Civil War. With many lithographs. Cover lithograph: General Sherman's Advance- Buzzard's Roost Pass, Georgia. Centerfold lithograph: Grand musical festival in Philadelphia in aid of the Sanitary Commission; Departure of the Union Fleet from Newport News, Virginia, on May 4, 1864- From a sketch by a naval officer; Arrival of General Butler's advance at City Point, Virginia, on May 5, 1864- From a sketch by a naval office. Other lithographic illustrations include: The late General Wadsworth; Destruction of the East Tennessee and Virginia railroad; Destruction …

The War And Slavery, And Their Relations To Each Other : A Discourse, Delivered In The Old South Church, Reading, Mass., December 28, 1862, William Barrows

Civil War Text

This pamphlet is a discourse delivered by Reverend William Barrows about the relations between the War and Slavery. The pamphlet is a second edition and, as noted on the title page, was "published by request."

Campaigns Of 1862 And 1863, Illustrating The Principles Of Strategy

Civil War Text

This book reviews the military operations of the campaigns of 1862 and 1863. It contains diagrams and four map plates that fold out and depict the following: Plate I, the geographic zones (left zone, center zone, right zone) of the Southern Confederacy; Plate II, the position of the Union troops and Rebels within the geography of the Southern Confederacy; Plate III, the Union troops in the offensive, Rebels in the defensive, Union troops after the Rebels have taken the offensive, and the Rebels in the offensive within the geography of the Southern Confederacy in the campaign of 1862; Plate IV, …

The Union

Civil War Text

The Union, Vol. VI, No. 63, Thursday, September 19, 1850. Oversized newspaper consisting of 4 pages. This issue includes headline news "In Congress of the U. States."

Memoir Of George Mcclellan, M.D. [1796-1847]: A Lecture Introductory To The Course Of The Theory And Practice Of Physic In The Medical Department Of Pennsylvania College, For The Session Of 1847-48. By W. Darrach, M.D., W. Darrach M.D.

Jefferson Biographies

Memoir of George McClellan, M.D.: A Lecture Introductory to the Course of the Theory and Practice of Physic, in the Medical Department of Pennsylvania College, for the Session of 1847-48.

Speech Of Mr. Solomon Foot, Of Vermont, On The Origin And Causes Of The Mexican War, Solomon Foot

Palo Alto/Mexican War Research Collection

Delivered in the House of Representatives of the U. S., July 16, 1846. The bill making appropriations for the support of volunteers and other troops, authorized to be employed in the prosecution of the war with Mexico, during the year ending the 30th June 1847, being under consideration in Committee of the whole on the state of the Union. Printed by J. & G. S. Gideon

Documents Relating To The Ursuline Convent In Charlestown, George T. Curtis, Theodore Lyman, Charles G. Loring

Special Collections Miscellanea

An 1842 reprint containing two reports detailing the events surrounding the 1834 mob destruction of the Ursuline Convent in Charlestown, MA. The first report discusses the public responsibility and duty of the State to protect its citizens and their property, regardless of social or religious affiliation, from unjust actions. The second report, produced by a select committee of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, discusses the merits of a petition for the Commonwealth to indemnify the Sisters of the Ursuline Order for their loss. Boston: Reprinted by Samuel N. Dickinson, 1842.

See The Trial of John R. Buzzell by Lemuel Shaw, …

Book Review Of The Great Metropolis, Lucian Minor

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Book Review Of George Bancroft's A History Of The United States, N. Beverley Tucker

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Memoir Of The Indian Wars, John Stuart

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