Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inauguration: Scenes from March 4, 1865
Posted by: Michelle Krowl
Experience Abraham Lincoln’s second inauguration on March 4, 1865, through selected scenes from the day.
Posted in: Civil War, War and Society
Category: Civil War
Made at the Library: “Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War,” with George C. Rable
Posted by: Michelle Krowl
Join us on September 17, the anniversary of the 1862 battle of Antietam, as Manuscript Division historian Michelle Krowl and reference librarian Lara Szypszak interview historian George C. Rable about his new book Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War, which reevaluates the command relationship between General McClellan and President Lincoln during the Civil War.
Posted in: Civil War, Events, War and Society
Of Note: The Material Culture of Picket Duty during the Civil War
Posted by: Michelle Krowl
Find out what kind of military duty Civil War soldier Private William M. Phile of the 27th Regiment Connecticut Infantry found to be particularly rough on his pants.
Posted in: Civil War, War and Society
What’s In Their Wallets?
Posted by: Michelle Krowl
Wallets and their contents are sometimes contained in collections of personal papers, and can provide clues about their owners, based on what they carried with them and the times in which they lived.
Posted in: Civil War, Digital Collections, Exhibits, Of Note
Of Note: Abraham Lincoln Promotes Another Union
Posted by: Michelle Krowl
Among all the administrative burdens that confronted President Abraham Lincoln in August 1862, helping a naval officer get married was one task he seemingly enjoyed.
Posted in: Civil War, Of Note, War and Society
Now Available Online: The Colorful World of Montgomery C. Meigs
Posted by: Michelle Krowl
Newly available high-resolution full color scans of oversize drawings and sketches by Union army Quartermaster General Montgomery C. Meigs provide vivid new insight into how the engineer, architect, and artist saw the world around him.
Posted in: Civil War, Digital Collections
Of Note: Charles Wellington Reed’s Civil War “Emoji”
Posted by: Michelle Krowl
Civil War soldier and artist Charles Wellington Reed proves that today’s emojis had Civil War ancestors.
Posted in: Civil War, Digital Collections, Letters, Of Note, War and Society
New Crowdsourcing Transcription Project in the By the People Walt Whitman Campaign: The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of Walt Whitman Papers
Posted by: Josh Levy
Walt Whitman’s birthday month of May marks the addition of a new Manuscript Division collection in the By the People Walt Whitman Campaign.
Posted in: Civil War, Digital Collections, Literature Culture & the Arts
This Just In: Newly Processed Manuscript Collections
Posted by: Lewis Wyman
Learn about twelve recently processed new collections and additions to twelve other existing collections. This post is the first of what will be a regular blog feature announcing recently available collections.
Posted in: African American History, Civil War, Diaries, Journalism, Labor, Letters, Politics, Science and Technology, War and Society