Wheeling, Virginia, 1861, artist's impression

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Notes
Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, September 30, 2011.
Image type
engraving
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No
Permission to use?
Public
Original caption
Southern view of Wheeling - The view shows the appearance of Wheeling as it is entered upon the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The steamboat and part of the city is seen in the central part. The suspension bridge crossing over to Wheeling Island on the left. Part of the railroad depot is on the right.
Source citation
John Warner Barber & Henry Howe,Our Whole Country or the Past and Present of the United States....Volume I (New York: Tuttle & McCauley, 1861), 658.

State House, Milledgeville, Georgia, 1861

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Notes
Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, July 12, 2008.
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
No
Permission to use?
Public
Original caption
Western view of the State House and other buildings in Milledgeville.
Source citation
John Warner Barber & Henry Howe,Our Whole Country or the Past and Present of the United States....Volume I (New York: Tuttle & McCauley, 1861), 753.

State House, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1861

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Notes
Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, July 12, 2008.
Image type
engraving
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No
Permission to use?
Public
Original caption
East view of the State House, or Capitol at Raleigh
Source citation
John Warner Barber & Henry Howe,Our Whole Country or the Past and Present of the United States....Volume I (New York: Tuttle & McCauley, 1861), 682.

Wilmington, North Carolina, 1861, artist's impression

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Notes
Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, September 30, 2011.
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
No
Permission to use?
Public
Original caption
Western view of the central part of Wilmington - The view shows the appearance of the central part of Wilmington, from the ferry on the east side of Cape Fear River, opposite the foot of Market street. The market is seen in the middle of the street; and beyond it, on the right, the tower of the Episcopal Church. The custom-house with its flag-staff appears on the left; the massive building directly back is the Cape Fear Bank. The depth of the water in the river, by the ferry at the foot of Market street, is 38 feet.
Source citation
John Warner Barber & Henry Howe,Our Whole Country or the Past and Present of the United States....Volume I (New York: Tuttle & McCauley, 1861), 675.

Thaddeus Stevens, Reconstruction (American National Biography)

Scholarship
Josh Zeitz, "Stevens, Thaddeus," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/04/04-00953.html.
The end of the war presented the Republican party with several distinct policy options, the most radical of which was pioneered by Stevens. Arguing that the southern states were conquered territories, outside of the Union, without constitutional protections, and subject to direct congressional governance, he proposed a wide-reaching land redistribution program aimed at breaking the economic and political influence of the planter elite and creating an independent black yeomanry.
American National Biography Online

Thaddeus Stevens, Relationship with Lydia Hamilton Smith (Trefousse, 1997)

Scholarship
Hans L. Trefousse, Thaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth-Century Egalitarian (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997), 69-70.
And before long, [Thaddeus Stevens] obtained the services of a housekeeper, Lydia Hamilton Smith, a mulatto widow of great respectability with two children, who remained with him and took care of him for the rest of his life. Thad’s relations with Mrs. Smith have given rise to never ending speculation. Widely thought to be his mistress, both at the time and afterward, Mrs. Smith was treated with great respect by Stevens’s family and by himself.
Thaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth-Century Egalitarian
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