Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware, 1863, zoomable image

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Cropped, edited, and prepared for use here by Don Sailer, Dickinson College, February 15, 2011.
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photograph
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
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Public
Original caption
Instantaneous view of Market St., Wilmington, [Delaware,] on market day
Source citation
Stereograph Cards Collection, Library of Congress
Source note
Original image has been adjusted here for presentation purposes.

Confederate president invites applications for "letters of Marque and Reprisal"

Confederate States President Jefferson Davis called for applications for "letters of Marque and Reprisal," the traditional authority countries gave to privateers to attack enemy shipping.  On receiving the letters, independent privateers would be able to prey on United States commerce shipping in the name of the Confederate States.  Two days later President Lincoln declared that such privateers would be considered pirates and ordered a coastal blockade from South Carolina to Texas.  (By John Osborne)  
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The governor of North Carolina sends an immediate refusal to provide troops for the Union

Governor John W. Ellis telegraphed Secretary of War Simon Cameron from Raleigh an immediate response to the call for two regiments from his state to serve the Union.  His telegram concluded,  "I regard the levy of troops made by the Administration for the purpose of subjugating the States of the South as in violation of the Constitution and a usurpation of power. I can be no party to this wicked violation of the laws of the country, and to this war upon the liberties of a free people. You can get no troops from North Carolina."  (By John Osborne) 
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Governor Magoffin of Kentucky refuses troops for "the wicked purpose" of subduing the South

Beriah Magoffin, governor of Kentucky send an reply to Secretary of War Cameron on his call for troops from the states the day before.  Kentucky had been requested to send four regiments.  Magoffin's reply read, "Your despatch is received. In answer, I say emphatically, Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister southern States. B. Magoffin."  Before war's end, 78,540 Kentuckians would serve in the Union Army.  (By John Osborne)
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The Otto Farm (Dickinson College Farm), South Middleton Township, Pennsylvania, 1965, zoomable image

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Don Sailer, Dickinson College
Scan date
Notes
Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by Don Sailer, Dickinson College, February 17, 2011.
Image type
photograph
Use in Day View?
No
Courtesy of
Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
Permission to use?
Yes
Original caption
Otto Farm – near Boiling Springs – given to the College 1967
Source citation
Photograph Collection, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
Source note
Original image has been adjusted here for presentation purposes.

Real estate sales in New York City

The local press reported two real estate transactions in Manhattan.  Lot number 233, around 17 feet by 100 feet, with a house, on West 31st Street sold for $4,570 while nearby lot 242 on West 32nd Street, the same size and also with a house, sold for $7,500.  (By John Osborne) 
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Confederate General Ewell's requisition of supplies during his occupation of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, June 27, 1863, original

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Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, February 13, 2011 
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document
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No
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Public
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Requisition received by Joseph W. Ogilby, then Secretary of Town Council. Owned by J. Webster Henderson, Esq.
Source citation
Civic Club of Carlisle, Carlisle, Old and New (Harrisburg, PA: J. Horace McFarland Company, 1907), 55.

Newark, New Jersey (Fanning's, 1853)

Gazetteer/Almanac
Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States.... (New York: Phelps, Fanning & Co., 1853), 241-242.
NEWARK, city, seat of justice of Essex co., N. J., 49 N. E. of Trenton, is situated on the west side of Passaic river, 3 miles from its entrance into Newark bay, 9 miles west of New York, and 215 miles from Washington. It has a pleasant location on level ground, somewhat elevated above the river. The streets are broad and straight, lighted with gas, and supplied through iron pipes with pure water from a neighboring spring. Two spacious public parks, shaded by lofty trees, add much to the beauty of the place.
Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States....

Henry Stanbery (American National Bibliography)

Scholarship
Bruce Tap, "Stanbery, Henry," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/04/04-00939.html.
Although widely recognized as a man of integrity and principle, Stanbery was not adept at practicing the art of political compromise. Of conservative and somewhat inflexible temperment, his advice to Johnson encouraged the seventeenth president to become more recalcitrant in his attitude toward Congress. By encouraging this defiance through his interpretation of the Reconstruction Acts, Stanbery played a significant role in furthering conflict that resulted eventually in the first impeachment of a U.S. president.
American National Biography Online
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