Beschreibung:

Approximately 95 items, including handwritten documents (a list of Confederate household objects sold at auction, a Union list of civilian workers, a Union payroll abstract, a document regarding the sale of a slave, a Louisiana plantation inventory of 19 slaves, a handwritten report to General Meigs, etc.), a number of Civil War-related newspapers, Civil War letters (one including a ring made by a soldier for his sister), a small Confederate electoral broadside promoting Jefferson Davis for president, stereoviews and CDVs depicting African-Americans, etc. Signatures include: Charles Sumner, Maj. Gen. John McAllister Schofield, Gen. John E. Wool, Gen. John A. Dix, Gen. Felix Angus, and others.