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Library of Congress1865

Plan of the battle of Five Forks, Va., April 1st 1865 : fought by 5th Army corps Genl Warren.

This map depicts the Five Forks area of Dinwiddie County, Va., where Confederate forces under Gen. George E. Pickett tried to hold off the Union advance on Petersburg and the important South Side Railroad. Included are Hatcher's Run, the Appomattox River, Petersburg, Dinwiddie Court House, and the Weldon Railroad. Union forces involved included Warren's Fifth Corps infantry and Sheridan's cavalry. Accused by Sheridan of insubordination and failure to cooperate, Warren was removed from command during the height of battle.

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Library of Congress1893

Image 6 of The Helena independent (Helena, Mont.), November 10, 1893, (Morning)

DANA ON JOURNALISM the Countrys Greatest Editor Dis ousses the rrainlng of News paper Makers Abstraot of His Recent Leoture on the Bubjeot at Union 0o1 legea Desas thiak Clleges Very Suesesotal Ia Makilg Jourmaliste What Greeley Bald on the blJbjeot In a lecture delivered at Union college on the education needed in preparation for journalism Chariea A Dana said The number of intellectual young men who are looking at this new profession which for the want of a better name we call the profession of journalism is very great I suppose that I receive myself ev ery day taking one day with another half a dozen letters from men many of them college graduates asking for employment and an opportunity of showing what is in them Of coarse they cannot all get it in the same paper Now and then one obtains a place but generally the rule that is ob served in all well organized newspaper of fices is that the boys who began at the Ie ginning aretakenup stepby step in accord ance with their faculties and their merits The boys w1o begin at the bottom come out at the top At the same time these boys

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Library of Congress1959

Image 28 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), May 25, 1959

C2 THE EVENING STAR W aihinftn 0 C MWf Mey 25 IMS tffK v kMp tK 3H DISTINGUISHED PRESSMANSamueI H Kaifffmann left president 5 of The Evening Star Newspaper Co holds a plaque naming him an 9 honorary member of the International Wessmens Union after it was presented him by Anthony J DeAndrade the union president at the microphone Robert Callahan right vice president of the Washington pressmen is holdng a traditional pressmans paper cap also presented to Mr Kauffmann Edward Meyer president of the Washington press men is second from rightStar Staff Photos by Francis Routt and B Arnold Sachs Family Day at The Star Draws Crowd of 4000 Four thousand festive em ployes and guests of The Eve ning Star satisfied their curios lty yesterday at a premiere sho wins of the new Star Building Ranging in age from 4 weeks to 87 years employes ex employes and their families embarked on hourlong tours of the big modem plant at Sec ond street and Virginia avenue SJE which has housed The Star since March Probably the oldest visitor to the Family Day Open House was Charles Powers 87 of 7402 Arden road Cabin John Md A former street

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Library of Congress1880

Samuel Bradford Fales.

Issued by the Pennsylvania Commandery, Military Order of the Loyal Legion. "300 copies privately printed." A biographical sketch of Fales, with an account of his connection with the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon in Philadelphia during the Civil War. Also available in digital form.

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Library of Congress1868

Map of location 11th hundred miles U.P.R.R. : [Utah]

Relief shown by hachures. Shows the path of the Union Pacific Railroad in the Great Salt Lake region from the Weber River in the east to the Great Salt Lake in the west. Pen-and-ink, colored ink, and watercolor on tracing linen. Includes illustrations and text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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Library of Congress1864

Letter from Hon. Jere. Clemens.

Issued by the Union League of Philadelphia. Addressed to an anonymous friend in Huntsville, Ala. Also available in digital form. LAC tnb 2020-10-08 update (1 card) LAC aaa 2019-06-04 update (1 card)

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Library of Congress1918

[Middle East]

"This map of western Asia produced by the American Geographical Society (AGS) of New York dates from the period immediately after World War I. A similar map in the collection of the American Geographical Society Library at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is thought to have been made by the AGS for the use of the American delegation to the peace negotiations in Versailles in 1918-19. The map shows Turkey, the Arabian Peninsula, Persia (present-day Iran), and Afghanistan. Iraq is still shown as part of Turkey (the Ottoman Empire). The League of Nations mandates for Syria, Iraq, and Palestine, adopted at the peace conference, are not yet shown. Qatar is indicated as El Katr; Doha and Wakrah are shown as Dohah and Wakra. India (i.e., British India) includes present-day Pakistan. The Soviet Union, with its constituent republics in Central Asia (Russian Turkistan), has not yet been formed. The map has three scales: miles, kilometers, and Russian versts." World Digital Library.

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Library of Congress1861

Ordinance of Secession, 1861.

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.

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Library of Congress1858

Map of the territory of the United States from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean; ordered by Jeff'n Davis, Secretary of War to accompany the reports of the explorations for a railroad route

"The United States gained vast territories in the West through the Mexican War of 1846-48 and the 1846 Oregon Treaty with Great Britain. By the early 1850s, government and commercial interests were debating the possibilities of building a transcontinental railroad to the Pacific. The Army Appropriations Act of 1853 provided for the completion of railroad surveys to determine possible routes. This map, issued in 1858 by Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, depicts the United States west of the Mississippi on the eve of the Civil War. California and Texas were at this time the only Western states. Western regions initially became part of the United States as military departments, which only later were organized into territories and, eventually, states. The map uses colors to show the military departments and Indian lands. Brown flags indicate military establishments. In the lower right are listed all of the important surveys and expeditions that contributed to the mapping of the West, from the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804 to a survey of roads between the Sacramento and Columbia Rivers undertaken by two army officers in 1855. The routes of these expeditions are shown on the map. The map was compiled by then-Lieutenant Gouverneur K. Warren of the Army Topographical Engineers and a future Union general in the Civil War. Davis later became president of the Confederacy and a bitter adversary of President Abraham Lincoln under whose leadership, ironically, work on the transcontinental railroad began in 1862." World Digital Library.

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Library of Congress1879

Chicago to San Franciso via the Burlington Route

Stylized, diagramatic strip map in three sections: Chicago to Omaha; Omaha; Omaha to Salt Lake and Ogden (via the Union Pacific); Ogden to San Francisco (via the Central Pacific)

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Library of Congress1862

Battle of Fredericksburg. Dec. 13, 1862

From Century illustrated monthly magazine, v. 32, Aug. 1886. p. 622. "In indicating the Union artillery, we have followed an official map made under the direction of General Henry J. Hunt, chief of artillery." Gives troop positions, batteries, names of commanders, roads, R.F. & P Railroad and the unfinished railroad, houses and names of residents, street pattern of Fredericksburg, drainage, vegetation, and relief by hachures. Description derived from published bibliography. Scale ca. 1:50,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 557 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.

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Library of Congress1864

Map of Devaux Neck on Broad River, South Carolina.

Devaux Neck is formed by the Tulfinny River and Coosawatchie River as they branch off the Broad River. The Peninsula is crossed by the Charleston and Savannah Railroad. Map shows rebel forces protecting the railroad while Union forces, the 127th NY under Gen. Edward E. Potter, advance up the peninsula.

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Library of Congress1864

Plan of action at Devaux Neck South Carolina. December 9th 1864.

Devaux Neck is a peninsula formed by the Tulfinney and Coosawatchie rivers as they branch off the Broad River. The peninsula is crossed by the Charleston and Savannah Railroad. This map, in closer detail than the one on p. 196, shows the skirmish between Confederate forces protecting the railroad and Union forces (the 127th New York Regiment under Gen. E. E. Potter) hoping to secure it.

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Library of Congress1863

Plan of the Battle of Bristoe Station, Orange and Alexandria Railroad, Va., Octr. 14th 1863.

Shows the area of Fairfax County, Va., which was the site of the Battle of Bristoe Station. The map is oriented with Cedar Run to the south, Bristoe to the west and indicates the route of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad. Also indicated are A. P. Hill's Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, engaging the Union's II Corps during its withdrawal toward Centreville, Va.

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