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Contains 47 Results:

Printed letter from "Edward M'Crady" to "Hon. R.F.W. Allston", 1860 December 20

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5, Item: 1
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Asking for contributions to equip the Meagher Guards.

Dates: 1860 December 20

Printed letter from Gabriel Manigault to Governor Francis W. Pickens, 1861 August 9

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5, Item: 2
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Recommends the creation of a flotilla of rowboats to transport soldiers from Charleston to both Santee and Savannah Rivers.

Dates: 1861 August 9

Printed message from Jefferson Davis to "The Army in Eastern Virginia", 1862 July 5

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5, Item: 3
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series includes Civil War era documents assembled by the Allston family, including broadsides, correspondence, handwritten manuscripts, news clippings, and cartoons from Punch and Vanity Fair caricaturing personalities and issues before and during the war. Detailed information about each item included with collection.

Dates: 1862 July 5

Typed transcript of letter from Unionist James Louis Petigru to Confederate friend Joshua Hill, 1862 January 28

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5, Item: 4
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series includes Civil War era documents assembled by the Allston family, including broadsides, correspondence, handwritten manuscripts, news clippings, and cartoons from Punch and Vanity Fair caricaturing personalities and issues before and during the war. Detailed information about each item included with collection.

Dates: 1862 January 28

"An Ordinance to dissolve the Union between the State of South Carolina and other states" broadside, 1860 December 20

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6, Item: 1
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series includes Civil War era documents assembled by the Allston family, including broadsides, correspondence, handwritten manuscripts, news clippings, and cartoons from Punch and Vanity Fair caricaturing personalities and issues before and during the war. Detailed information about each item included with collection.

Dates: 1860 December 20

"Battle of Manassas" newspaper clippings, 1861 August 12-1861 August 19

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6, Item: 2
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Include poetry about the Battle of Manassas and Hampton's Legion.

Dates: 1861 August 12-1861 August 19

The Charleston Mercury newspaper, 1861 July 21

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6, Item: 3
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Includes Jefferson Davis' message to Confederate Congress on preparations for defense in the South; includes "Yankee Accounts of the Battle at Bull's Run."

Dates: 1861 July 21

"From Savannah: Development of Union Sentiment in Georgia" clipping, 1865 January 10

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6, Item: 4
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series includes Civil War era documents assembled by the Allston family, including broadsides, correspondence, handwritten manuscripts, news clippings, and cartoons from Punch and Vanity Fair caricaturing personalities and issues before and during the war. Detailed information about each item included with collection.

Dates: 1865 January 10

Punch or The London Charivari and Vanity Fair, 1860-1865

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
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Cartoons from the English magazines Punch and Vanity Fair with uniformly unfavorable depictions of Lincoln until his death; includes some cartoons relating to Garibaldi's liberation of Italy from the Papacy.

Dates: 1860-1865

"Sketch of the Country occupied by the Federal & Confederate Armies on the 18th & 21st July 1861" lithograph, undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8, Item: 1
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At the Battle of Bull's Run by Captain Samuel P. Mitchell.

Dates: undated