Included in the extractions are: advertisements; appointments by the President; petitions in the House of Representatives; Acts of Congress; legal notices; insolvent debtors; marriages; deaths; divorces; miscellaneous notices and pieces of correspondence; packages in the post office; tax lists; court cases; deaths by accident; prisoners; maritime information, such as ship's crews and accounts of naval skirmishes; listings of regiments arriving in Washington for Union service; casualty lists from various hospitals; property confiscated by the Union forces; and names and valuation of emancipated slaves. Volume 2 includes an account of the assassination of President Lincoln, with details of the life of John Wilkes Boothe, and a report of the hanging of the seven collaborators involved in the assassination. Newspapers.
Joan M. Dixon
(2000), 2007, 5.5" x 8.5", paper, indices, 640 pp.
ISBN: 9780788443817
101-D4381
