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”THE FLEET ARE NEAR READY TO GIVE VICKSBURG A TRY.” A significant archive of letters and...

”THE FLEET ARE NEAR READY TO GIVE VICKSBURG A TRY.” A significant archive of letters and ephemera from a Civil War gunboat sailor who served on Commodore Porter's flagship and participated in the siege of Vicksburg and the Red River Campaign

Mississippi River, Yazoo River, and Red River: Frigate Sabine, Gunboat Eastport and Flagship Black Hawk, 1862-1865. Unbound. Ten letters (31 page of text) and two printed poems document a gunboat sailor’s Civil War service in the U.S. Mississippi Squadron. One letter is on squadron letterhead, and one of the poems..... More

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“WE HAVE FOUGHT THE HARDEST BATTLE OF THE WAR [AND] BEEN IN THE ENGAGEMENT FOR TWO DAYS OUR...

“WE HAVE FOUGHT THE HARDEST BATTLE OF THE WAR [AND] BEEN IN THE ENGAGEMENT FOR TWO DAYS OUR LOSS IS HEAVEY [WE] CAPTURED THREE STANDS OF COLORS FROM THE REBS & A GOOD MANY PRISONERS.” A letter written on the Gettysburg Battlefield by a soldier in the regiment that destroyed the Confederate advance just as Pickett’s Charge reached the famous Copse of Trees

“Camp on the Battle field July 4th. 63 Near Getteysburg Penn: 4 July 1863. Envelope or Cover. This small archive contains four letters. Three were written by Spafford to his family between January and May of 1863 from camps in northern Virginia where the 2nd Vermont Brigade (13th, 14th, and..... More

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“THE IRON CLADS IN THE RIVER ARE ABOUT TO MAKE AN ATTACK ON US AND I SHOULD NOT BE SURPRISED IF...

“THE IRON CLADS IN THE RIVER ARE ABOUT TO MAKE AN ATTACK ON US AND I SHOULD NOT BE SURPRISED IF THE SHOULD BE UPON US SOME STILL DARK NIGHT. . .. WE DON’T MEAN TO RUN AND GIVE UP THE BLOCKADE.” Letter from the first African-American graduate of Yale who became the U.S. Navy's only African-American Ship’s Surgeon during the Civil War

U. S. Steamer State of Georgia off the Carolina Coast. Unbound. This six-page letter is datelined, “U.S.St’r State of Georgia / Feb. 20th 1864”. It was sent by Richard H. Green, an African-American Ship’s Surgeon, to his fiancé, Lottie [Charlotte A. Caldwell] of Bennington, Vermont. There is no mailing envelope..... More

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“IT IS NOT THE PLEASANTEST OCCUPATION TO BE WAITING UPPON THOS MEN THAT HAVE CAUSED OUR COUNTRY...

“IT IS NOT THE PLEASANTEST OCCUPATION TO BE WAITING UPPON THOS MEN THAT HAVE CAUSED OUR COUNTRY FOR TO BLEED. . .. WE HAVE 3,000 REBS ON THE ISLAND [AND] MY WARD IS FILLED UP.” Letter from one Union wardmaster to another expressing his dissatisfaction of having to care for Confederate soldiers who were wounded at Gettysburg

Davids Island, Long Island, New York: De Camp General Hospital, August, 1863. Envelope or Cover. This three-page letter was sent from a wardmaster at De Camp General Hospital on Long Island to a wardmaster at the U.S. General Hospital at Fort Schuyler, New York. It is enclosed in an envelope..... More

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“GENL GANALIS THE ROBBER AND ASSASSIN WAS DRIVEN, DAY AFTER DAY, FROM RANCHO TO RANCHO UNTIL HE...

“GENL GANALIS THE ROBBER AND ASSASSIN WAS DRIVEN, DAY AFTER DAY, FROM RANCHO TO RANCHO UNTIL HE COULD FIND NO REST IN HIS OWN NATIVE MOUNTAINS" - A small archive of letters sent to Colonel Edward G. W. Butler during his command of the 3rd U.S. Regiment of Dragoons during the Mexican-American War

Various locations: 1847-1848. Card. There are six stampless folded letters in this archive. Three letters from Butler’s wife (one from 1847 and two from 1848) regarding family matters and the management of their Louisiana sugar plantation, an 1848 letter-order from the War Department Adjutant General appointing Butler to investigate General..... More

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A RHODE ISLAND FACTORY'S CIVIL WAR RECORDS; Civil War Era Archive from the Providence Tool Co....

A RHODE ISLAND FACTORY'S CIVIL WAR RECORDS; Civil War Era Archive from the Providence Tool Co. Armory with over 300 manuscript and partially-printed purchase orders, bills, letters, inventory lists, sales records, and other documents

Providence, Rhode Island: Providence Tool Company Armory, 1860-1863. Unbound. This archive contains over 300 records documenting business conducted by the Providence Tool Company Armory between the years 1860-1863 including both manuscript (the majority) and partially-printed purchase orders, bills, letters inventory lists, sales records, and other documents. The documents are sorted..... More

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TURNED MAIL FROM A PROMINENT VIRGINIA FAMILY EARLY IN THE CIVIL WAR]; Envelope that was mailed...

[TURNED MAIL FROM A PROMINENT VIRGINIA FAMILY EARLY IN THE CIVIL WAR]; Envelope that was mailed twice, the first time using U.S. postage, the second with a Confederate stamp

Richmond, Virginia to Whittle’s Mills, Virginia, then Whittle’s Mills to Charlottesville, Virginia: April 1861. Envelope or Cover. This 3-cent U.S. stamped envelope (Scott #U10) was sent from Richmond to Dr. Conway Whittle at Whittle’s Mills and bears a Richmond postmark dated 28 April 1861. Whittle turned it inside-out, franked it..... More

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A FORMER OFFICER IN THE “ARMY OF CALIFORNIA” BECOMES AN EARLY EMPLOYEE OF THE UNION PACIFIC...

[A FORMER OFFICER IN THE “ARMY OF CALIFORNIA” BECOMES AN EARLY EMPLOYEE OF THE UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY EASTERN BRANCH (KANSAS PACIFIC RAILWAY) AFTER BEING PROMISED A JOB AS THE CONDUCTOR OF ITS SECOND TRAIN.]; Letter from Grove Watson to a friend reporting that had recently accepted a position with the railroad in Kansas

Wyandotte, Kansas: Office of the Contractors of the Union Pacific Railway Company, Eastern Division, 1863. Envelope or Cover. This letter on the stationery of the Union Pacific Railway Company, Eastern Division is datelined, Wyandotte, Kansas, November 7, 1863, and enclosed in a mailing envelope which bears a circular Wyandotte, Kas..... More

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