secession

Storming the castle. "Old Abe" on guard.

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The Dis-United States. Or the Southern Confederacy

The Confederate leaders are portrayed as a band of competing opportunists led by South Carolina governor and secessionist Francis Pickens (far left). The artist criticizes the January 1861 secession of five sta... More

Lieutenant Tompkins, at the head of Company B, U.S. Dragoons, charging...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 12, no. 290 (1861 June 8), p. 53.

Stephens, Honorable Alex H. of Ga. Vice Pres. of Confederacy

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The Hartford Convention or Leap no leap / Wm. Charles, Sc.

Charles's satire attacks the Hartford Convention, a series of secret meetings of New England Federalists held in December 1814. The artist caricatures radical secessionist leader Timothy Pickering and lampoons... More

Secession House, 1113 Craven Street, Beaufort, Beaufort County, SC

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Secession House, 1113 Craven Street, Beaufort, Beaufort County, SC

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Secession House, 1113 Craven Street, Beaufort, Beaufort County, SC

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Secession House, 1113 Craven Street, Beaufort, Beaufort County, SC

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[Envelopes with political illustrations.]

In order of appearance: Secession Wagon; Jeff Davis-My wagon is kind of caving in. I am afraid Uncle Abe will catch me before I get far with these goods. President Abraham Lincoln. Vice-President. Hannibal Haml... More

[Envelopes with political illustrations.]. American Civil War 1861-186...

In order of appearance: Secession Wagon; Jeff Davis-My wagon is kind of caving in. I am afraid Uncle Abe will catch me before I get far with these goods. President Abraham Lincoln. Vice-President. Hannibal Haml... More

The "secession movement", Confederate States of America.

The movement of several Southern states toward secession in early 1861 is portrayed as a doomed enterprise. The artist shows Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, all represented by men riding donkeys, ... More

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate artillery jacket with secession b...

Case: Berg, no. 1-150. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congre... More

Great mass meeting to endorse the call of the legislature of South Car...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1860 Nov. 24, p. 8-9. Reference copy may be in LOT 4412A. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Secession exploded, Confederate States of America.

This strongly anti-Confederate satire is a fantastical vision of the Union defeat of the secessionist movement. A hideous monster representing secession emerges from the water at left. He is hit by a charge fro... More

The fox without a tail. - Public domain broadside, Library of Congress

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Oran M. Roberts, president of the 1861 secession convention that autho...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Secession House, 1113 Craven Street, Beaufort, Beaufort County, SC

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[Envelopes with political illustrations.]. American Civil War 1861-186...

In order of appearance: Secession Wagon; Jeff Davis-My wagon is kind of caving in. I am afraid Uncle Abe will catch me before I get far with these goods. President Abraham Lincoln. Vice-President. Hannibal Haml... More

[Envelopes with political illustrations.], engraving, Library of Congr...

In order of appearance: Secession Wagon; Jeff Davis-My wagon is kind of caving in. I am afraid Uncle Abe will catch me before I get far with these goods. President Abraham Lincoln. Vice-President. Hannibal Haml... More

[Envelopes with political illustrations.], engraving, Library of Congr...

In order of appearance: Secession Wagon; Jeff Davis-My wagon is kind of caving in. I am afraid Uncle Abe will catch me before I get far with these goods. President Abraham Lincoln. Vice-President. Hannibal Haml... More

[Private David C. Colbert of Company C, 46th Virginia Infantry Regimen...

Photograph shows identified soldier; manuscript found with photograph. More information is in "Glimpses of Soldiers' Lives," SoldierbiosColbert.html

Schuyler Colfax to [Ralph P. Lowe], Tuesday, January 01, 1861 (Secess...

Secession - Public domain historical image, Political Cartoon. A close...

Picture shows an African American boy and mother with a bundle running. Gladstone's inventory code and notes: Envelope 20; illustration of black mother and child; mother has animal-like head. "E20" inscribed o... More

Declaration of the causes which impel the state of Texas to secede fro...

Caption title.; "Done by the people of the state of Texas, in Convention assembled at Austin, this first day of February, A.D. 1861."; Printed on satin.; Secession--Texas.; Texas--Politics and government--Civil... More

Liberty Hall, Crawfordville, Taliaferro County, GA

Survey number: HABS GA-158 Building/structure dates: 18h1 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 70000216

Ruins of Secession Hall, Charleston, S.C.

Stereograph showing the ruins of Secession Hall, right, and Circular Church, left. In the near distance, is St. Phillip's Church. A man is sitting on a brick wall. No. 6077. Part of series: The War for the Uni... More

Southern ass-stock-crazy (Southern aristocracy)

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[Southern secessionists raise flag at Yale College]

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 11, no. 271 (1861 February 2), p. 173.

Jeff Davis on his own platform; or the last "act of succession."

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Finding the last ditch--Running the "head" of Secession "into the grou...

Union soldier, followed by African American in broken chains, hurls Jefferson Davis (dressed as a woman) who drops a bag of "stolen gold" over the edge of a cliff; Satan waits below the cliff with a pitchfork. ... More

[Envelopes with political illustrations.]. American Civil War 1861-186...

In order of appearance: Secession Wagon; Jeff Davis-My wagon is kind of caving in. I am afraid Uncle Abe will catch me before I get far with these goods. President Abraham Lincoln. Vice-President. Hannibal Haml... More

[Envelopes with political illustrations.]. American Civil War 1861-186...

In order of appearance: Secession Wagon; Jeff Davis-My wagon is kind of caving in. I am afraid Uncle Abe will catch me before I get far with these goods. President Abraham Lincoln. Vice-President. Hannibal Haml... More

[Envelopes with political illustrations.]. American Civil War 1861-186...

In order of appearance: Secession Wagon; Jeff Davis-My wagon is kind of caving in. I am afraid Uncle Abe will catch me before I get far with these goods. President Abraham Lincoln. Vice-President. Hannibal Haml... More

Carl Schurz to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, December 28, 1860 (Secession ...

[Unidentified soldier in Virginia Volunteer uniform and secession badg...

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Meeting Street-Ruins of Secession Hall and Circular Church, with St. P...

Part of series: War Views, Charleston, S.C. and Forts in vicinity. No. 360. Printed on verso: "Photographed on the spot, in March and April, 1865." Copyright by John P. Soule in 1865. Forms part of: Civil War... More

Secession meeting in front of the Mills House, Meeting Street, Charles...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 11, no. 262 (1860 Dec. 1), p. 24. Reference copy may be in LOT 4421-A. Caption card tracings: US ... More

[Illustrated Civil War "Union Envelopes"]: A Secession Movement

Riding jackass backwards. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: The South; Patriotism; Devils & Demons (Cart. themes); Cotton industry; C... More

Jeff Davis on the right platform, or the last "act of secession"

A caricature of Jefferson Davis, probably issued not long after the bombardment of Fort Sumter, but certainly postdating his February 1861 election as president of the Confederacy. Davis is shown standing on a ... More

The Southern Confederacy a fact!!! Acknowledged by a might prince and ...

A biting vilification of the Confederacy, representing it as a government in league with Satan. From left to right are: "Mr. Mob Law Chief Justice," a well-armed ruffian carrying a pot of tar; Secretary of Stat... More

Southern tombstones; an inside view of Dixie. Taken by our "Special Ar...

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Ruins of Central and Secession Hall, and St. Philips church in the cen...

Stereograph showing ruins of Circular Church, left, St. Philip's Church, center, and Secession Hall, right, in Charleston, South Carolina.

Facts for men who do their own thinking. The two platforms, one positi...

Printed in five columns. Map of rebel and Union territory on verso.

Secession House, 1113 Craven Street, Beaufort, Beaufort County, SC

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[Envelopes with political illustrations.]

In order of appearance: Secession Wagon; Jeff Davis-My wagon is kind of caving in. I am afraid Uncle Abe will catch me before I get far with these goods. President Abraham Lincoln. Vice-President. Hannibal Haml... More

[Envelopes with political illustrations.]. American Civil War 1861-186...

In order of appearance: Secession Wagon; Jeff Davis-My wagon is kind of caving in. I am afraid Uncle Abe will catch me before I get far with these goods. President Abraham Lincoln. Vice-President. Hannibal Haml... More

Charleston, South Carolina. Ruins of Secession Hall

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Charleston, South Carolina. Ruins of Circular Church and Secession Hal...

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[Unidentified soldier in Confederate artillery jacket with secession b...

Case: Berg, no. 1-150. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congre... More

[Illustrated Civil War "Union Envelopes"]: Poor deluded Miss-Sori take...

This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: The South; Patriotism; Devils & Demons (Cart. themes); Cotton industry; C.W. CS Govt.; Seals; Va. H... More

Throckmorton, Honorable James Webb of Texas (Member of Secession Conve...

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Honorable Alexander Hamilton Stephens Vice-President of the Confederac...

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Stephens, Honorable Alexander H. of GA

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The political Courtney / Gillam., Confederate States of America.

Illustration shows a scene at a boathouse where an exhausted James G. Blaine, suffering from "Guano Gout", is being attended to by Jay Gould, Whitelaw Reid, George M. Robeson, William W. Phelps, and Stephen B. ... More

The Hartford Convention or Leap no leap / Wm. Charles, Sc.

Charles's satire attacks the Hartford Convention, a series of secret meetings of New England Federalists held in December 1814. The artist caricatures radical secessionist leader Timothy Pickering and lampoons... More

Institute Hall - known as Secession Hall

Photograph shows a street view of Institute Hall, known as Secession Hall, flanked on the left by the Circular Church and on the right by the Teetotal restaurant. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:02... More

[Envelopes with political illustrations.]. American Civil War 1861-186...

In order of appearance: Secession Wagon; Jeff Davis-My wagon is kind of caving in. I am afraid Uncle Abe will catch me before I get far with these goods. President Abraham Lincoln. Vice-President. Hannibal Haml... More

Samuel Denison to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, January 31, 1861 (Secess...

Secession - Public domain historical image, Political Cartoon. A drawi...

Picture shows an African American boy and mother with a bundle running. Gladstone's inventory code and notes: Envelope 20; illustration of black mother and child; mother has animal-like head. "E20" inscribed o... More

The Hercules of the Union, slaying the great dragon of secession

A tribute to commander of Union forces Gen. Winfield Scott, shown as the mythical Hercules slaying the many-headed dragon or hydra, here symbolizing the secession of the Confederate states. At left stands Scott... More

Liberty Hall, Crawfordville, Taliaferro County, GA

Survey number: HABS GA-158 Building/structure dates: 18h1 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 70000216

Charleston, South Carolina. Ruins of Circular Church and Secession Hal...

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Charleston, South Carolina. Remains of Circular Church and Secession H...

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[Charleston, S.C. Hibernian Hall (with columns; 105 Meeting Street), p...

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865.

[Corporal John Wesley Edmunds of Co. B, 11th Virginia Infantry Regimen...

Photograph shows identified soldier. Case: Leather; floral design. Notation in ink on trade card verso: "John Wesley Edmunds, son of Joseph & Charlotte, died 1863 in Civil War." Notation in ink on manuscript r... More

Great mass meeting to endorse the call of the Legislature of South Ca...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 11, no. 261 (1860 Nov. 24), pp. 8-9. Reference copy may be in LOT 4421-A. Caption card tracings: ... More

[Unidentified young boy wearing secession badge and holding a rifle]

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The folly of secession, Confederate States of America.

South Carolina struggles against the outgoing Buchanan administration in an attempt to "smash the Union up!" The artist uses the age-old pictorial conceit of two parties pulling on the different ends of a cow, ... More

Republic of Georgia. Ordinance of secession, passed Jan'ry 19, 1861. w...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 14, Folder 26.

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Ruins of Circular Church and Secession Hall, Charleston, S.C., St. Phi...

Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). No. 6077. Brady Handy Studio.

Secession House, 1113 Craven Street, Beaufort, Beaufort County, SC

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The starting point of the great war between the states / lith. by A. H...

Print shows a crowd gathered in front of the capitol building at Montgomery, Alabama, at the time of the announcement of Jefferson Davis as the first President of the Confederate States of America; also shown w... More

[Corporal John Wesley Edmunds of Co. B, 11th Virginia Infantry Regimen...

Photograph shows identified soldier. Case: Leather; floral design. Notation in ink on trade card verso: "John Wesley Edmunds, son of Joseph & Charlotte, died 1863 in Civil War." Notation in ink on manuscript r... More

Important news by telegraph. - Public domain broadside, Library of Con...

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The folly of secession. - Political cartoon, public domain image

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Gallant capture of a lady's wardrobe by the brave troops of Florida.

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Thaddeus Stevens Papers: General Correspondence, 1829-1869; 1865, Dec

Secession House, 1113 Craven Street, Beaufort, Beaufort County, SC

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Secession House, 1113 Craven Street, Beaufort, Beaufort County, SC

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[Envelopes with political illustrations.]. American Civil War 1861-186...

In order of appearance: Secession Wagon; Jeff Davis-My wagon is kind of caving in. I am afraid Uncle Abe will catch me before I get far with these goods. President Abraham Lincoln. Vice-President. Hannibal Haml... More

Charleston, South Carolina. Remains of Circular Church and Secession H...

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Charleston, South Carolina. Ruins of Secession Hall

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[Corporal John Wesley Edmunds of Co. B, 11th Virginia Infantry Regimen...

Photograph shows identified soldier. Case: Leather; floral design. Notation in ink on trade card verso: "John Wesley Edmunds, son of Joseph & Charlotte, died 1863 in Civil War." Notation in ink on manuscript r... More

Alexander Stephens C.S.A., American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negati...

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Interior of Secession Hall. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Photograph showing the interior of St. Andrew's Hall, or Secession Hall, in Charleston, South Carolina. Photograph by George S. Cook. Information about date and photographer from: Portraits of Conflict: a Phot... More

Strong's dime caricatures. No. 2, Little Bo-Peep and her foolish sheep

The second in a series of caricatures criticizing the secession of several Southern states from the Union during the last months of the Buchanan administration. Here the young nursery-rhyme shepherdess Bo-Peep ... More

Train Extra! Right of free speech! George Francis Train arrested in Fa...

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Statue at Capitol of Alexander H. Stephens

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Secession House, 1113 Craven Street, Beaufort, Beaufort County, SC

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[Envelopes with political illustrations.]. American Civil War 1861-186...

In order of appearance: Secession Wagon; Jeff Davis-My wagon is kind of caving in. I am afraid Uncle Abe will catch me before I get far with these goods. President Abraham Lincoln. Vice-President. Hannibal Haml... More

The Hercules of the Union, slaying the great dragon of secession

A tribute to commander of Union forces Gen. Winfield Scott, shown as the mythical Hercules slaying the many-headed dragon or hydra, here symbolizing the secession of the Confederate states. At left stands Scott... More

Secession House, Dependency, 1113 Craven Street, Beaufort, Beaufort Co...

Survey number: HABS SC-190-A Public domain photograph - historical image of South Carolina, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Our heroes, and our flags, Confederate States of America.

Memorial print for the Confederacy, published 30 years after the end of the American Civil War. Portraits, clockwise from top center, of "Jefferson Davis, Alexander H. Stephens, Lt. Gen. T.J. [Stonewall] Jackso... More

Charleston, South Carolina. Ruins of Circular Church and Secession Hal...

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[Alexander Hamilton Stephens, half-length studio portrait, sitting] / ...

Gift ; Francis H. McAdoo ; August 26, 1949. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites... More

The Olive branch. Peace and union. How shall we obtain them?

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Stephens, Honorable Alexander H. of Ga.

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Secession House, 1113 Craven Street, Beaufort, Beaufort County, SC

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