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Mar

10

Captain Noah Hart Papers (1862-1865)

Posted by sailerd  Published in Civil War (1861-1865), Historic Periodicals, Images, Letters & Diaries

The Noah Heart Papers at Dominican University offer an interesting perspective on the Civil War from a Union officer. Noah, who served with the 10th Michigan Infantry, wrote a number of letters to his wife, Emily, between 1862 and 1865. His regiment took part in several campaigns, including General William T. Sherman’s March to the […]

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24

Mar

10

Railway Cars in Philadelphia

Posted by sailerd  Published in Civil War (1861-1865), Historic Periodicals

Pennsylvania Civil War Newspapers offers a great collection of historic newspapers published in cities across the state. This editorial from the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin highlights that while those in the USCT were in the US Army, they did not enjoy the same rights and privileges as white soldiers. After a USCT surgeon was “ejected…[from a […]

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22

Mar

10

William Elisha Stoker: A Texas Farmer’s Civil War

Posted by sailerd  Published in Civil War (1861-1865), Historic Periodicals, Images, Letters & Diaries

Listen to the essay Editor’s Comments: This essay was originally prepared for an exhibit co-sponsored by the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg and available online at http://housedivided.dickinson.edu/stoker/

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19

Mar

10

Becker Collection – Drawings of the American Civil War Era

Posted by sailerd  Published in 19th Century (1840-1880), Images

The Becker Collection is a great digital project from Boston College that contains over 600 drawings by Joseph Becker and others who worked for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly. The “Featured Images” slideshow provides a nice introduction to what is available in the collection. These drawings cover a range of Civil War related topics, such as […]

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17

Mar

10

Western History – Historic Images

Posted by sailerd  Published in 19th Century (1840-1880), Images

The Denver Public Library has a nice digital collection of images related to various topics in Western history. While not available to download for free, each set of images can still be viewed as a slideshow – these include “Railroads,” “On the Trail and Covered Wagon,” “Western Life,” and “Wild West Shows.” Other digital collections […]

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16

Mar

10

Two Communities during the Election of 1860

Posted by   Published in 19th Century (1840-1880), Lesson Plans, Rare Books

William G. Thomas III and Edward L. Ayers have a piece of digital scholarship entitled “The Differences Slavery Made: A Close Analysis of Two American Communities” that analyzes Augusta County, Virginia and Franklin County, Pennsylvania in the period just before the Civil War.  While the scope of the article is to relate how slavery affected […]

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9

Mar

10

Papers of Jefferson Davis

Posted by   Published in Antebellum (1840-1861), Letters & Diaries

Rice University’s project The Papers of Jefferson Davis has been blogged about earlier, but there are two documents relevant to the Election of 1860 that I wanted to point out.  The project is an attempt to compile all of Davis’s documents into a 15-volume set (twelve of which has been published so far), and in the […]

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8

Mar

10

“A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment”

Posted by sailerd  Published in Civil War (1861-1865), Letters & Diaries

“A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment,” which is available from the Library of Congress, features Captain Tilton Reynolds correspondence with his family between 1861 and 1864. Reynolds, who joined the 105th Pennsylvania Volunteers as a seventeen year old private, became a prisoner of war after the Battle of Fair Oaks in May […]

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5

Mar

10

Upper South and the Secession Crisis

Posted by sailerd  Published in Antebellum (1840-1861), Letters & Diaries

I already described DocSouth’s online exhibit on antebellum students at UNC-Chapel Hill, but this letter from March 1861 provides an interesting example of the Upper South’s role in the secession crisis. Even though “Lincoln’s inaugural…amounts to coersion [sic],” John Halliburton believed that “[he could] hate him and still love the Union.” Pro-secession editorials were “absurdities,” […]

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2

Mar

10

Lincoln at Cooper Union

Posted by   Published in Antebellum (1840-1861), Letters & Diaries

On February 27, 1860, Abraham Lincoln made a landmark speech in his political career at the Cooper Institute in Manhattan, now known as the Cooper Union Address.  This speech catapulted the Illinois senator onto the national scene and Lincoln scholars such as Harold Holzer believe that this speech secured his nomination as the Republican party […]

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