1864
This collection contains the entries written or created in 1864, the forth year of the Civil war, for the Union Homefront collection compiled by Wallace Hettle, a history professor at the University of Northern Iowa.
This collection is a subset of the larger Union Homefront: A History in Documents collection.
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42. 1864. Consumer Goods (2 Documents)
Wallace Hettle, Harper's Weekly, and Portland Daily Express
Document citations
Document 1:
Harper’s Weekly: A Journal of Civilization, Vol. 8, Iss. 366, January 2, 1864, page 16. https://archive.org/details/sim_harpers-weekly_1864-01-02_8_366/mode/2up.
Document 2:
Portland Daily Express, May 20, 1864.
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43. 1864 - The Mission of War - Frederick Douglass
Wallace Hettle and Frederick Douglass
Document citation:
Frederick Douglass, “The Mission of the War,” January 13, 1864, Women’s Loyal League, Cooper Institute in New York City. The speech is reported in the New York Tribune, January 14, 1864.
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44. 1864 - Vassar College: Women’s Own - Milo P. Jewett
Wallce Hettle and Milo P. Jewett
Document citation:
Jewett, Milo P. "Vassar College: Women's Own," Speech Delivered Before the Trustees at Their Meeting, February 23, 1864.
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45. 1864 - Slave Narratives (2 Documents)
Wallace Hettle, Amelia Jones, and Byers York
Document citations
Document 1:
Amelia Jones in Federal Writers Project; Works Project Administration, Slave Narratives, Kentucky, Volume 7, collected by Bogie Woods. 416-418.
Document 2:
Federal Writers #39; Project: Slave Narratives, Vol. 7, Kentucky, Laurel County collected by Byers York., 1936, 11-12.
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46. 1864 - Song of the Working-Women - Ann S. Stephens
Wallace Hettle and Ann S. Stephens
Document citation:
Fincher’s Trades Review, April 2, 1864.
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47. 1864 - Letter to Abraham Lincoln - A. M. Gilford
Wallace Hettle and A. M. Gilford
Document citation:
Lincoln, Abraham. Abraham Lincoln papers: Series 1. General Correspondence. 1833 to 1916: A. M. Gilford to Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday,Does not want her son to be drafted. 1864. Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/mal3550700/.
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48. 1864 - Democratic Party Platform - Edward Stanwood
Wallace Hettle and Edward Stanwood
Document citation:
“Democratic Party Platform, 1864” in Edward Stanwood, ed., A History of Presidential Elections (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., 1896) 237-243.
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49. 1864 - Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races - Anonymous
Wallace Hettle and Anonymous
Document citations
Document 1:
Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races, applied to the American White Man and Negro, p. 48-60. New York: H. Dexter, Hamilton & Co., 1864. Retrieved from: https://www.loc.gov/item/05009520/.
Document 2:
Miscegnation;” Or Color Blending with the Negro; Anonymous, Attributed to Republicans, 1864.
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50. 1864 - Emancipation and Amalgamation: Lydia Maria Child
Wallace Hettle and Lydia Maria Child
Document citation:
“Emancipation and Amalgamation: A Letter from L. Maria Child” To the Editor of the New York Tribune, Reprinted in The National American Anti-Slavery Standard, September 13, 1862.
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51. 1864 - Letter of George B. McClellan in Acceptance of the Nomination of the Chicago Convention
Wallace Hettle and George B. McClellan
Document citation:
Mcclellan, George Brinton. Printed. Letter of Geo. B. McClellan in acceptance of the nomination Chicago Convention. Orange, New Jersey, September 8, 1864. Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/scsm000266/.
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52. 1864 - Elmira Prison Camp (8 Documents)
Wallace Hettle, Benjamin Munger, William Hoffman, Seth Eastman, Eugene F. Sanger, William P. Jordan, B. F. Tracy, and Miles Sherrill
Document Citations
Documents 1-7:
Official Records War of the Rebellion; A Compilation of the Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1880-1901, Series II, Volume 7:1, 691-693, 1092-1095, 1133-1135.
Document 8:
Miles Sherrill, A Soldier’s Story: Prison Life and Other Incidents in the War of 1861-1865 (Newton: North Carolina Enterprise: c. 1903-4), 8-12.
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53. 1864 - Female Students at Medical Colleges
Wallace Hettle and New York Times
Document citation:
New York Times, December 6, 1864.