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Cover-title. Campaign of the Sixth army corps, summer of 1863 [by George E. Reed]: p. 11-28. Also available in digital form.
Includes (14 p. at end) supplement to Fourth report, (of Dec. 15th, 1862) concerning the aid and comfort given by the Sanitary Commission to sick soldiers passing through Washington / by Frederick N. Knapp. -- Washington : [The Commission, 1863.] Caption title.
"A sermon, preached on Sunday morning, February 22, 1863." "Published by request." Also available in digital form.
Caption title. "Commission appointed under ordinance of Dec. 12, 1863, to pay bounty to volunteers." Also available in digital form.
Initially, the Civil War between the North and the South was fought by the North to prevent the secession of the South and preserve the Union. Ending slavery was not a goal. That changed on September 22, 1862, when President Abraham Lincoln issued his Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which stated that slaves in those states or parts of states still in rebellion as of January 1, 1863, would be free. One hundred days later Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious areas "are, and henceforward shall be, free." Lincoln's bold step was a military measure by which he hoped to inspire the slaves in the Confederacy to support the Union cause. Because it was a military measure, the proclamation was limited in many ways. It applied only to states that had seceded from the Union, and left slavery untouched in the border states. Although the Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery, it did fundamentally transform the character of the war. Henceforth, every advance of Federal troops expanded the domain of freedom. Moreover, the proclamation announced the acceptance of black men into the Union Army and Navy. By the end of the war, almost 200,000 black soldiers and sailors had fought for the Union and their own freedom.
Map of the eastern United States showing relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, forts and fortification, express companies, railroads, and magnetic telegraph wires. Includes railroads which have been completed and in operation up to July 1863.
Detailed map of the north-central states showing drainage, cities and towns, township and county boundaries, and the railroads with names and emphasis on the main line. Incorporated in 1863 as the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway. See items 464 and 465. In 1874 the word Chicago was added to the name. LC has a Rand McNally and Company map, measuring 35 x 45 cm., which uses the new name for the first time.
"President Abraham Lincoln signed the Pacific Railroad Act into law on July 1, 1862. The act gave two companies, the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad, responsibility for completing the transcontinental railroad. The Union Pacific was to lay track westward from a point near Omaha, Nebraska, toward Ogden, Utah; the Central Pacific was to build eastward from Sacramento, California. The Union Pacific began construction on December 2, 1863. This map, submitted to Secretary of Interior James Harlan on September 18, 1865, by Lieutenant Colonel J.H. Simpson of the Army Corps of Engineers, shows the different routes between the Missouri River and the Platte Valley in Nebraska surveyed for the Union Pacific. Based on a map submitted by Silas Seymour, consulting engineer to the Union Pacific, the map shows five alternative routes with probable connections to existing railroads. Also shown are relief by hachures, county boundaries, drainage, vegetation, and roads. Nebraska was at this time a territory; it became the 37th state on March 1, 1867. Under the authorizing legislation, the railroad was not to have grades or curves exceeding the maximums on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, the first U.S. railroad to cross the Appalachians. This profile shows the careful attention paid by the engineers to the steepness of the grades on alternative routes considered for the line. The horizontal scale shown is one mile to one inch (1.61 kilometers to 2.54 centimeters), and the vertical scale is 60 feet to one inch (18.28 meters to 2.54 centimeters). The profile accompanied a topographic map showing five different routes between the Missouri River and the Platte Valley in Nebraska, which was part of a report submitted to Secretary of Interior James Harlan by Lieutenant Colonel J.H. Simpson of the Army Corps of Engineers." World Digital Library. Detailed map of Nebraska showing relief by hachures, drainage, vegetation, roads, and railroads.
"Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1861 by J. T. Lloyd." Copyright no. 290, July 12, 1861, written in right margin. Stamped: Deposited in U.S. District Clerk's Office, Southern District of New York. General map. 1862 edition listed as item no. 29, and 1863 edition as no. 41.2 Description derived from published bibliography. Scale ca. 1:2,000,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 14.2 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
"Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1862, by Thomas Kimber Jr." Inset: Southern part of Florida. 25 x 18 cm. Map depicts rail lines, roads, cities and towns, state and county boundaries, and rivers. 1863 edition published by Willis. P. Hazard is listed as Civil War Maps entry no. 44. Geography and Map Division also has an uncolored issue with annotations made by the Topographer, U. S. Post Office Department. Another uncolored copy, in covers, is in the Samuel P. Heintzelman papers, Manuscript Division, LC, container no. 11. Cover title: Map of the southern states. Map is in 29 parts, 16 x 12 cm. Description derived from published bibliography. Scale ca. 1:1,880,000. Library of Congress. Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 31.5 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
"Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by J. T. Lloyd." General map of the eastern United States showing state and county boundaries, cities and towns, forts, roads, and railroads. This map was in the possession of Jedediah Hotchkiss at the time of his death. Major Hotchkiss served as topographic engineer with the Army of Northern Virginia. In July 1948, the Library of Congress purchased his map collection. Handwritten note on the verso reads "Lloyd's [sic] map of the United States, 1863 captured and used as part of my collection of maps, during the Civil War, 1861-5. Jed. Hotchkiss, Top. Eng., 2nd. Corps, Army N. Va." For the 1864 edition see Civil War Maps entry no. 50. Description derived from published bibliography. Scale ca. 1:2,250,000. Library of Congress. Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 41.4 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
Ansel A Packard of the Graduating Class U of M Gives the Class Day Oration Prom the Bangor Commercial W Ansel A Packard of Belfast was the class day orator and proved himself worthy of the name He delivered an oration that will be long remembered by those who heard it The oration was well adapted to this era of preparedness and was a call to the students to do their share towards the preservation of this republic Mr Packard Baid in part On the afternoon of Nov 19 1863 a vast vast silent multitude billowed like waves at sea over what had been not long before the battle of Gettys burg True Americans all they had paused in the midst of that terrible strife to do honor to the memory of thoBe who had gone down in the storm On the platform before them towered a loosebung figure six feet four inches tall a man awkward and illdressed in whose haggard face seemed to be the suffering of the sinB of the world Abra ham Lincoln President of the United States out of the depth of his great heart spoke to his people these words which shall endure throughout