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| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Civil War handbill that reads: "Charleston Mercury Extra...The Union Is Dissolved!" |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Chicago and Northwestern Railway pass belonging to Reverend Jackson Kemper. |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | 1861 Racine and Mississippi Railroad Pass belonging to Jackson Kemper. |
| Date: | 11 08 1860 |
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| Description: | Receipt for a package delivered to Brees' Express via Morris & Essex Railroad. There is an engraving of a train traveling through a rural landscape near th... |
| Date: | 04 21 1861 |
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| Description: | "Warning to Traitors." A threatening handbill warning against treasonable and dangerous utterances, signed by the "Vigilance Committee." |
| Date: | 08 22 1862 |
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| Description: | A call to arms issued by Confederate colonel John H. Morgan, asserting that the Confederacy is winning the war. He mentions George B. McClellan, Thomas J. ... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A rattlesnake labeled "SECESSION," with an arrow through its neck, is in front of a federal shield. The shield is protecting the Constitution and the Holy ... |
| Date: | 08 28 1862 |
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| Description: | A Commissioner's Notice of the draft, beginning on the first of September. On the first two days, claims of exemption from military service were to be hear... |
| Date: | 10 10 1861 |
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| Description: | Recruiting poster. At the top is printed "Attention! Mechanics." Underneath is an eagle with a banner in his beak, which reads "Rally, Boys! Rally!" and "Y... |
| Date: | 11 1860 |
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| Description: | Confederate Presidential Election ballot. Jefferson Davis and Alex. H. Stephens were elected without opposition. The corrosion on the front is caused by th... |
| Date: | 11 06 1860 |
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| Description: | National Democratic Ticket for the United States Presidential Election, Stephen A. Douglas and for Vice President, Herschel V. Johnson. Voters that desired... |
| Date: | 11 06 1860 |
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| Description: | Union Electoral Ticket for the United States Presidential Election, John Bell and for Vice President, Edward Everett. Voters that desired to select a strai... |
| Date: | 11 08 1864 |
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| Description: | Democratic Ticket for the 1864 Presidential election. General George B. McClellan was the candidate for President, running against Abraham Lincoln. |
| Date: | 11 08 1864 |
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| Description: | The National Union Ticket. National Union Party was the name the Republican Party used in 1864 to attract War Democrats who would not vote for the Republic... |
| Date: | 05 30 1861 |
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| Description: | Letterhead of two hands clasping in front of the American Constitution. The American flag, stars and a fasces are behind the constitution with bunting belo... |
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