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Issued also as Senate Document 412, 57th Cong., 1st sess. under title: Missouri troops in service during the Civil War. Letter from the Secretary of War ... Also available in digital form. Also available in digital form.
Map shows Union troops on the road running parallel to the Orange and Alexandria railroad. Just past Bristoe Station, as Union troops crossed Broad Run, a Confederate battery emerged from woods north of the railroad. Next, Confederate skirmishers appeared on a hill overlooking the Union column. Finally, there were several Confederate charges. Union forces were able to return fire and, after several hours of fierce fighting, to capture Confederate artillery and approximately 450 prisoners.
Half-title. "Appendix. List of regiments and batallions from Virginia in the Confederate States army, 1861-65. Comp. in War records office, United States War department": p. 558-571. "Biographical [Major-generals and brigadier-generals, Provisional army of the Confederate States, accredited to Virginia]": p. 573-692. "Additional sketches illustrating the services of officers and privates and patriotic citizens of Virginia": p. 693-1295.
Rose O'Neal Greenhow was a spy for the Confederacy during the American Civil War. As a young woman in Washington, she befriended many influential politicians, including President James Buchanan and South Carolina Senator John C. Calhoun, who played a role in shaping her dedication to the South. During the Civil War, Greenhow wrote ciphered (secret code) messages to the Confederates, providing information about Union military plans. Confederate President Jefferson Davis credited her with helping the South win the First Battle of Bull Run. Greenhow sent a message about Union troop movements in time for Brigadier Generals Pierre Beauregard and Joseph E. Johnston to meet at Manassas, Virginia. A young woman working with Greenhow named Betty Duvall carried the message wrapped in a tiny black silk purse and hidden in a hair bun. Head of U.S. Intelligence Service Allan Pinkerton observed Rose Greenhow as part of his counterintelligence activities and found sufficient evidence to place her under house arrest. She later was transferred to prison and then deported to Richmond, Virginia. Shown here is one of her encoded letters.
Printed Ephemera -Confederate States of America. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 245, Folder 17a.
Cover printed on wallpaper. A reprint of the English edition published in 1863. Crandall, M.L. Confederate imprints, 2670 Form AACR2: vj36 2003-01-06 LAC snh 2019-05-22 no edits (2 card)
Dedication signed: W. E. H. Gramp. Served in the Civil War in the 1st Texas Artillery and as colonel of the 16th Confederate States Cavalry. Also available in digital form.
Another edition of the same year published in London. "Biographical sketches of generals of the Confederate army" [and of the Federal forces]: p. 335-352. Also available in digital form. LAC tnb 2020-10-27 update (1 card)
Originally published in the Magnolia weekly. Publisher's advertisements: p. [2]-[3] at end. Crandall, M.L. Confederate imprints, 3104 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC knj 2020-09-25 no edits (1 card)
Stories of life in Northern Louisiana before the Civil War, with a narrative of the author's experience as a Confederate soldier. Also available in digital form.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Attributed to W.R. Smith by Anne Easby-Smith in her William Russell Smith of Alabama, his life and works, p. 148 and 292; also by Owen, Bib. of Ala., and Hist. of Ala., v.4, p. 1598; Sabin, Bib. Amer., v. 21, 84892. Crandall, M.L. Confederate imprints, 3231 LAC tnb 2020-10-08 no edits (1 card) LAC aaa 2019-05-16 no edits (1 card) LAC ecr 2020-10-13 review
This document is a one-page handwritten copy of the Ordinance of Secession passed on January 10, 1861, by the members of the Florida Convention of the People (commonly referred to as the Secession Convention). Pursuant to an act of the Florida legislature approved on November 30, 1860, Governor Madison S. Perry issued a proclamation calling an election on Saturday, December 22, 1860, for delegates to a convention to address the issue of whether Florida had a right to withdraw from the Union. The Secession Convention met in Tallahassee on January 3, 1861, and passed, on January 10, the Ordinance of Secession. The ordinance declared Florida to be "a sovereign and independent nation." On April 13, the convention ratified the constitution adopted by the Confederate States of America. The convention adjourned on April 27, 1861.
"Sketch from the Confederate Engineer Bureau in Richmond, Va. General J.F. Gilmer, Chief Engineer[.] Presented to the Virginia Historical Society by his only daughter, Mrs. J.F. Minis, Sav[ana]h, Ga."--Note on map. Extends from Richmond west to West Point. Also shows the course of the Pamunkey River. Forms part of the Gilmer Map Collection. Relief shown by hachures. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Gift of Mrs. Louisa Porter (Gilmer) Minis (i.e., Mrs. J. F. Minis), Savannah, Ga., in 1911. Manuscripts o.s.
An arraignment of the Union government and armies for their conduct of the war, while defending the Confederates from like charges. Also available in digital form.
"This article, reprinted from the Olympian magazine of November, 1903, published at Nashville, Tenn., contains the main portion of an address delivered by Gen. G. P. Thruston before the Society of the army of the Cumberland in Washington, D. C., October 14, 1903 ..." "Statistics of soldiers in both armies" (reprinted from the Confederate veteran): p. 12-13. Also available in digital form.