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Boston Evening Transcript, Saturday Evening, November 16, 1861 Boston, MA: Henry W. Dutton & Son. Civil War news. Poem, "Watchers" by John G. Whittier. Advertisement for 500 Recruits Wanted Instantly! Bounty of $100. Special appeal to Irishmen of Massachusetts for 28th Regiment being raised by Patrick Donahoe, editor of the Boston Pilot. A Roman Catholic Priest will accompany the regiment. Gloucester Fishermen are feeling the effects of the war-- mackerel prices have hit a new low. "We hope that many fishermen will enter the navy, for great things should be done this winter in that branch of the service." Particulars on the Occupation of Port Royal: General Sherman has decided to fortify it so that it will be impregnable. Rebel Account of the Engagement at Hilton Head. Much consternation in Savannah as retreating Rebels, many wounded, show up there. The Navy Department has extended the time for receiving students at the re-located Naval Academy at Newport, RI. Troubles in Baltimore on account of a "treasonable minority" --delegation of Baltimore citizens visited Washington; Message in reply by President Lincoln. 4 pp. 49 x 68 cm. Newspaper, tears in some folds, fair. (7409) $24.00. Civil War/Newspapers Boston Evening Transcript, Wednesday Evening, January 22, 1862 Boston, MA: Henry W. Dutton & Son. Civil War news. Poem "At Port Royal--1861" by John G. Whittier, from The Atlantic Monthly. Also, "Song of the Negro Boatmen" --"Oh, praise an' tanks! De Lord he come To set the people free, An' massa tink it day ob doom…" Report of Rebel raid on home of Union officer in Tennesee, how they abused his wife and daughters, stripped the house of all possessions. Good news from battle in Eastern Kentucky. Zollicoffer and Crittenden. Report of how the Pirate Sumter escaped from the United States sloop Iroquois, as reported by the London Times. Report of General Lane's Texan Expedition, with goal of recruiting men, black, white or red, to "wrest Texas from the confederate grasp." Report of interview with President Lincoln by several gentlemen from Philadelphia and Boston; Lincoln's statement of how and why he appointed Stanton as Secretary of War. Editorial: "No General in either army has succeeded in so short a time in contributing so much and such disreputable matter to the history of this war as Gen. Butler.” Long editorial fully excoriates the political general Butler. Telegraph Report: The Battle at Somerset, Ky. Trap Laid for the Flying Rebels. Who Killed Zollicoffer. Daring Courage of the Loyal Tennessee Troops. Movements of the Rebels: Proposed Arming of Negroes. Report that Union force of 700 blacks killed three rebel officers, two privates and wounded 50 members of the German southern regiment.. 4 pp. 49 x 68 cm. Newspaper, tears in some folds, good. (7410) $27.00. Civil War/Newspapers Boston Evening Transcript, Friday Evening, February 19, 1864 Boston, MA: Henry W. Dutton & Son. Civil War News. Editorial: "Encourage Military Enthusiasm." Report of the Confederate Raider Alabama, blockaded by USS Wyoming at Amoy, China. Report of Rebel Steamers on the Pacific Coast. Arrival of the Twenty-fifth Massachusetts Regiment in Boston by steamer and train from Newport News. Report of their reception in Boston and Worcester. Relaxation of the Blockade at Brownsville, Texas: Proclamation by the President. Veteran troops also returning to New York from Hilton Head. Report of War between Denmark and Austria. Poem, "The brother of Mercy" by John G. Whittier, from the Atlantic Monthly. Long report of fire Feb. 18 in Gloucester, MA: Selectmen and engineers had to blow up six buildings to stop the spread of flames as firemen battled in six degrees below zero cold. The Salem steam engine, when it arrived, prevented the fire from spreading farther to the west. 4 pp. 49 x 68 cm. Newspaper, tears in some folds, fair. (7411) $26.00. Civil War/Newspapers Boston Evening Transcript, Boston, Mass., Saturday Evening, April 2, 1864 Boston, MA: Evening Transcript. Story about "Port Royal Slander" U.S. Treasury Agent in Port Royal comments on story in New Hampshire Patriot, a Democrat paper, about 64 spinster abolitionists who came to Port Royal "to teach the little niggers to read and pray" and were forced to open nurseries of their own, with births of many little mulattoes. Agent says this is false, slanderous story. "More pure, devoted, Christian women I have never known than these 'female abolitionists'", he said. Story from Louisville Journal of attack upon Union Garrison at Paducah by Maj. Gen. Nathan B. Forrest and Confederate Forces. Forrest was apparently quite intoxicated, as were his men. Report of meeting of Massachusetts Horticultural Society. Report of Instruction of Freedmen in the Department of the Gulf. Report of Rebel Movements in Chattanooga. Account of Funeral in San Francisco of Rev. T.S. King. Story on Maryland Politics about prevention of disloyal persons being elected to Constitutional Convention in Baltimore. 4pp. 48 x 60 cm. Newspaper, some tears in folds, fair. (7679) $26.00. Civil War/Newspapers Boston Evening Transcript, Saturday Evening, December 10, 1864 Boston, MA: Henry W. Dutton & Son. Filled with Civil War news. Situation around Nashville-- question whether Hood will dash his army in pieces against the entrenchments of the city, whether he will endeavor to invade Kentucky, or lay siege to Nashville. Rebel papers report that Gen. Sherman is skirmishing with the outposts of Savannah. Movements in Tennessee: Gen. Burbridge flanks Breckinridge. Considerable excitement in Louisville, KY with arrest of gamblers and impressment of horses. The Episcopal church is growing rapidly in New England: St. John's church in Gloucester was occupied for the first time on Sunday last. 4 pp. 49 x 68 cm. Newspaper, good. (6361) $24.00. Newspapers/Civil War Boston Evening Transcript, Friday Evening, June 16, 1965 Boston, MA: Henry W. Dutton & Son. Civil War News. Editorial calls attention to all the fine work of civilians, in addition to that of the Boys in Blue, that led to Union victory. Another editorial ridicules John Mitchel, making excuses for slavery, and saying that southerners' "sorrow is more for the fate which threatens that unhappy race they protected so long than for the loss of the money value of their slaves;... they could at all times had labor on cheaper terms." Editorial writer is NOT buying this song!! Report on the state of public feeling in the South, from the Baltimore American. "A Barbarian" Commentary on a creature walking the streets of Richmond today who was a "negro-trader" and Mrs. Stowe's Legree was an angel of justice and mercy compared with him. “He brutally and unmercifully whipped the unfortunates in his power; he has taken negroes from the whipping post and poured molten sealing wax into the gaping wounds made by the lash...He has tied naked men under the hydrant, and allowed the water to run on them for hours...." etc. Poem on front page: "The Changeling" by John G. Whittier, a grim piece about witches, set in 1691. "Oh fair and sweet was my baby, Blue eyes and hair of gold; But this is ugly and wrinkled Cross and cunning, and old." Notice of a new book about the Life of Lincoln, recently published, by Frank Crosby of the Philadelphia bar. Report of an interview held by President Johnson with colored persons resident in Richmond. They presented the President with details of the barbarity and inhumanity with which their people are treated by officers of Gen. Halleck and Gen. Ord. They said they were in worse condition than before the war. Report from Washington states that Frederick Seward continues to improve. Secretary Seward's health continues to improve; his jaw is still supported by an iron framework. [Both men were brutally attacked on the night of April 14th, the same night Lincoln was shot.] An old-fashioned Kentucky barbecue is planned to entertain the whole of Gen. Sherman's army, 60,000 men, near St. Louis. Advertisement for "New Skirt for 1865: The Great Invention of the Age in Hoop Skirts" J.W. Bradley's new Patent Duplex Elliptic (or double) Spring Skirt. 4 pp. 46 x 62 cm. Newspaper, holes in some folds, good. (7696) $29.00. Civil War/Newspapers Boston Morning Journal, Friday Morning, January 6, 1865 Boston, MA: Charles O. Rogers. Filled with Civil War news. The Richmond Jeremiades. Discusses prospect of speedy triumph of U.S. government, and Richmond's idea to beg recognition of England and France through the abolition of slavery. Trade with the Rebel States-- Spies among the Speculators. Discussion on what Gen. Sherman will do next. Cincinnati correspondent describes the stagnation of the South in the vicinity of Sherman's march through Georgia. 4 pp. 54 x 68 cm. Newspaper, good. (6359) $24.00. Newspapers/Civil War
Boston Morning Journal, Tuesday Morning, January 10, 1865 Boston, MA: Charles O. Rogers. Filled with Civil War news. Relief for Savannah. Discussion on public meeting at Faneuil Hall, to supply the needy citizens of Savannah. Rebels in Richmond fear that Georgia will repudiate the Confederacy and yield to the Yankees. Report on campaign of Gen. Thomas in Tennessee-- 10,000 Rebel prisoners and 68 artillery pieces taken. Hood is speeding toward Okalona, Miss. Report on Discharged Soldiers' Home in Boston has handled 2208 men in 2 1/2 years. 4 pp. 54 x 68 cm. Newspaper, good. (6363) $24.00. Newspapers/Civil War Boston Morning Journal, Tuesday Morning, January 17, 1865 Boston, MA: Charles O. Rogers. Filled with Civil War news. Much discussion devoted to Removal of General Butler and the failed Wilmington expedition. Gen. Butler throws responsibility of failure to Commodore Porter. Lt. General Grant is clearly not happy with Butler. Exchange of prisoners at Mobile. Report of new Rebel ram being finished on the Roanoke river. Much reporting about the death of Edward Everett, prominent Bostonian. 4 pp. 54 x 68 cm. Newspaper, good. (6365) $24.00. Newspapers/Civil War Boston Morning Journal, Monday Morning, January 23, 1865 1865 Boston, MA Charles O. Rogers. Filled with Civil War news. The assault on Fort Fisher by Gen. Terry shows firmness and bravery, and shows that statements that Army is badly demoralized by crowds of substitutes and bounty jumpers are untrue. Discussion of Gen. Sherman's strategy, which is driving rebels crazy. He has occupied the rebel works at Pocotaligo, within a day's march of Branchville, SC. Collision of two army transport ships near New Orleans cost lives of five men. 4 pp. 54 x 68 cm. Newspaper, good. (6366) $24.00. Newspapers/Civil War Boston Morning Journal, Wednesday Morning, January 25, 1865 Boston, MA: Charles O. Rogers. Filled with Civil War news. The charges against Gen. Butler relating to the seizure of gold in New Orleans. Magazine explosion at Fort Fisher. Peace projects by Messrs. Blair, Singleton and others may turn peoples' attention from duty of filling up quota calling for 300,000 additional troops. Report of the loss of the Monitor Potapsco, near Fort Sumter, SC. Commanding officer was LCDR S.P. Quackenbush. 4 pp. 54 x 68 cm. Newspaper, good. (6367) $24.00. Newspapers/Civil War Boston Daily Advertiser, Wednesday Morning, October 12, 1864, Vol. 104 No. 87 Boston, MA: Boston Daily Advertiser. Civil War era newspaper: Panic in Richmond, special despatch by the American Telegraph Company's Lines. State elections: Great Republican Victory in Pennsylvania. Report from St. Louis, MO on rebel movements, crossing the Osage River with 20,000 men, 16 to 25 cannon, and a long train of wagons. News from Grant's Army of the Potomac: Enemy opened fire towards the Second Corps. Capt. Daniel Foster of the United States 37th colored regiment was killed in the attack on Chapin's Bluff, VA. Capt Foster was formerly chaplain of the Mass. 22nd Rgt. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1841 and for several years was a Unitarian missionary in Kansas. The Massachusetts 54th Regiment, colored troops, has been paid off by the government in full to August 31st. The soldiers have sent back to their families and friends in this city and vicinity the sum of $45,000. Willard Cheney, Jr. of Worcester has been commissioned a second lieutenant of the 2nd U.S. colored infantry, now stationed at Key West, Fla. 4 pp. 54 x 76 cm. Newspaper, edges frayed, good. (5979) $32.00. Civil War/History Boston Weekly Journal, Boston, Mass., Thursday Morning, November 5, 1868 Boston, MA: Charles O. Rogers. Lead Story: Ullyses S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax have been elected President and Vice-President. Editorial notes that every Democratic administration following John Quincy Adams has increased spending from 44 to 72 per cent over that of immediate predecessors, while Whigs or Republicans have retrenched. "War of Races in Louisiana" report of armed bands patrolling the streets of New Orleans and negroes were shot down. "Large numbers have been killed here (New Orleans) and St. Bernard, and mob law has ruled, but no United States soldiers have fired a gun." Special dispatch from Little Rock, Ark. reports on assassination of Republican Representative James Hinds by George A. Clark, Secretary of the Democratic Committee of Monroe County. Clark was drunk at the time. Letter from Japan reports that Christians have been driven from Nagasaki--encountered 400 native Christians on ship. Civil War is now convulsing Japan-- a fight between North and South. The Southern damios, Satsuma, Choisin and Bizen are determined to break down the Tokugama family. (Long description.) Story about Quakers in the South during the Civil War. President Davis refused their appeals. The term "Carpet-Baggers" seems to be taking on a more honorable connotation. 4 pp. 52 x 68 cm. Newspaper, very good. (7690) $34.00. Civil War/History Brattleboro Reformer, The, Brattleboro, Vermont, Friday, February 1, 1895 Brattleboro, VT: The Reformer. Lead story: "Fraternity, Charity and Loyalty! Finely Exemplified at the Department Encampment of the Vermont G.A.R. --One of the Most Inspiring Gatherings the Order Has Ever Held" Report of encampment of Civil War Veterans at Brattleboro. Department Commander C.F. Branch from Newport, VT. Ex-Gov. Holbrook spoke of remembrances of Lincoln; large camp fire and speeches by Gov. Woodbury, Gen. Lawler, ex-Gov. Euller, Col. Gou'ding, Revs. Day and Parry. Includes photos of distinguished Vermont veterans who attended, with biographies. Also story about President Cleveland sending special message to Congress on the financial situation; country is on the verge of a gold panic. 10 pp. 42 x 60 cm. Newspaper, fraying at horizontal center folds, fair. (6719) $17.00. Civil War/Newspapers Cavalry Tactics, or Regulations for the Instruction, Formations, and Movements of The Cavalry of the Army and Volunteers of the United States, Vol. II. Cooke, Colonel Philip St. Geo., 2nd U.S. Cavalry 1861 Washington: Government Printing Office. Evolutions of a Regiment. Evolutions of the Line. Special Service of Cavalry in the West. No table of plates, but plates included for paras 460,477,547,573,579,583-4, 585, 586-7,599, 603, 611 (2), 613, 619 (3), and 12 pages of music for bugle calls. This volume was one used for Union cavalry troops in Civil War and after. . 96 pp. + 16 plates + 12 pp. bugle music 11 x 15 cm. Embossed cloth on board, cover quite worn and frayed, spine cloth missing. Front free endpaper contains inscr. "Lt. Jno. K. Lomax, 1st Mass. Cav'y" Plates loose. Poor. (3757) $190.00. Civil War/History/Military Christian Banner and Tract Journal, Boston, January 1867 Boston, MA: The American Tract Society. Correspondent from West Virginia reports on the terrible problem of Whites learning to accept freed slaves, and of Slaves coming into their own in Reconstruction. Hon. Henry Wilson reports on Temperance situation in Nation's Capital: Present House of Representatives is much freer of drunkenness than ever before. The Senate is another matter; "when the rebel Senators left at the start of the war, they took their liquor rations with them; we hope when they return they'll leave the liquor at home." 4 pp. 36 x 62 cm. Newspaper, fragile, tears in folds, poor. (6758) $15.00 Civil War/Religious/History Christian Banner and Tract Journal, Boston, February 1867 1867 Boston, MA The American Tract Society "Our Work in the South" report from Virginia about American Tract Society educating freed blacks. "Was it a Particular Providence?" by Rev. E.N. Kirk, D.D. reports about riding trains in Southern Alabama in dangerous conditions. Report that Roman Catholic Catechisms very often omit the Second Commandment, "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain." Rev. Dr. Kirk reports on much oppression, cruelty and attempts to defraud freed blacks in the South. 4 pp. 36 x 62 cm. Newspaper, fragile, tears in folds, poor. (6759) $15.00. Civil War/Religious/History |
