Mitchel Civil War

Boston Evening Transcript, Friday Evening, June 16, 1865, Boston, MA Henry W. Dutton & Son 1865

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 threatnes 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. Newspaper, holes in some folds, good.

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Sill, Joshua W. (1831-1862). A VINTAGE ORIGINAL CARTE-DE-VISITE PHOTOGRAPH OF BRIGADIER GENERAL JOSHUA SILL.

FORT SILL, OKLAHOMA WAS NAMED IN HONOR OF CIVIL WAR GENERAL JOSHUA SILL - An original sienna-toned photograph depicting Brigadier General Joshua Sill from the chest up mounted onto 4 inch high by 2-1/2 inch wide card stock. There is some rubbing to the photographic paper with a tiny tear to the top right corner of the photo. The card is very slightly worn at the corners. Very good. <p>A career officer, Joshua W. Sill (1831-1862) served as Brigadier General in the American Civil War. He was one of the best scholars in his class at West Point, and after serving at the Watervliet Arsenal, was assigned as an instructor to West Point in 1855. Sent to Vancouver (Washington Territory) to build an arsenal, he was reassigned to Watervliet and subsequently to Leavenworth when complications with the British prevented the completion of the project. He resigned in 1860 to teach mathematics and civil engineering but, upon the start of hostilities and bombardment of Fort Sumter, he was appointed Assistant Adjutant General to Ohio where he supervised Ohio forces. As Colonel of the 33rd Ohio Volunteers, he served with General William Bull Nelson in the Eastern Kentucky campaign and was subsequently promoted to Brigadier General under General Ormsby Mitchel. Having met with General Sheridan the evening of December 31, 1862, he was wearing Sheridan's coat when he was killed on the first day of the Battle of Stone River, Tennessee - one of the bloodiest battles of the war. His friend General Sheridan would later name Fort Sill, Oklahoma in his memory.

[SW: AMERICANA; MILITARY; PHOTOGRAPHY; ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH; CDV; CARTE-DE-VISITE; CIVIL WAR GENERAL; BRIGADIER GENERAL JOSHUA W. SILL; BATTLE OF STONE RIVER; PHOTO; AMERICAN HISTORY; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY.]

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Baker, Samuel T.. FORT SUMTER AND ITS DEFENDERS. Buffalo, N.Y.: Charles Wells Moulton, 1891
Blue pictorial cloth, binding, dark blue stamping (hardcover binding). Design on front board of a Confederate officer standing beside a Confederate flag. Frontispiece drawing of the author. Illustrated with black & white drawings (including portraits of Colonel Alfred Rhett, Colonel Stephen Elliott, Captain John C. Mitchel, and Captain T.A. Hugenin). CONDITION: Binding lightly soiled and slightly rubbed, top edge of front free endpaper slightly soiled, owner's nam at top edge of flyleaf, small chunk of paper chipped from top edge of flyleaf (approximately 1/4" x 1/2"), else Good+, sound and tight. A book-length tribute in poetry to the Confederate defenders of Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.) at the end of the Civil War.. First edition. 12mo (5 1/2" x 7"). 62 pages.

[SW: KEYWORDS: *Literature *Poetry *South Carolina *Civil War *Fort Sumter *Georgia Author *Confederate States *Charleston, S.C.,]

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Mitchel, D. W. Ten Years in The United States: Being and Englishman's Views of Men and Things in the North and South, 1862
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America as seen through the eyes of an Englishman in Richmond Virginia in the years leading up to the American Civil War. Spine is seriously damaged, however the binding is still strong.Boards have edgewear. Occasional underlining in pencil. Pages are foxed. Cloth

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