Transcript They were real people…

The American Civil War
JULY 29, 1864.
“Sleepless nights. The report is that the Yankees have left
Covington for Macon, headed by Stoneman, to release
prisoners held there. They robbed every house on the
road of its provisions, sometimes taking every piece of
meat, blankets and wearing apparel, silver and arms of
every description. They would take silk dresses and put
them under their saddles, and many other things for
which they had no use. Is this the way to make us love
them and their Union? Let the poor people answer
whom they have deprived of every mouthful of meat
and of their livestock to make any! Our mills, too, they
have burned, destroying an immense amount of
property.”
-Dolly Sumner Lunt’s journal
FROM A SOLDIERS WIFE.
AT Paducah, Kentucky, I first realized what
it required to be a soldiers wife. I had
seen much before, and borne a great deal, yet
it seemed but little comparatively when I came
to take leave of my husband, and turned back to
my lonely room to await his return.
THE SOLDIERS BA]3Y.
A baby was sleeping,
A mother was weeping,
Pale vigil was keeping,
For slumber had fle&
Had news from the battle,
Where deaths cannon rattle,
0, news from the battle!
Its father was dead.
The wife is still weeping,
The baby is sleeping,
Good angels are keeping
Watch over its bed.
Too young to know sorrow,
Or lifes woes to borrow,
Must learn some to-morrow,
Its father is dead.
A soldier’s,
Charles
Wellington
Reed's,
pencil
sketch of
Abraham
Lincoln at
City Point,
Virginia,
1865.
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A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment , . Library of Congress
Camp of 31st Pennsylvania Infantry near Washington, D.C. Published in: American women : a Library of
Congress guide for the study of women's history and culture in the United States / edited by Sheridan
Harvey ... [et al.]. Washington : Library of Congress,, 1862. Library of Congress
Charles P. Stone to Abraham Lincoln, Monday, February 15, 1864 (Requests that his name be cleared;
endorsed by Nathaniel P. Banks) Charles P. Stone, 15 Feb. 1864. Library of Congress
Charles Wellington Reed's pencil sketch of Abraham Lincoln at City Point, Virginia, 1865. Charles
Wellington Reed, 1865. Library of Congress
Civil War Maps , . Library of Congress
Confederate soldiers as they fell, near the Burnside Bridge, at the battle of Antietam.
[Stereograph] Alexander Gardner, 1862. Library of Congress
Dead Confederate sharp shooter at the battle of Gettysburg. [Stereograph] Timothy H. O'Sullivan, 1863.
Library of Congress
From a Soldier's Wife. [Harper's new monthly magazine. / Volume 29, Issue 173, October, 1864] Belle Z.
Spencer, Oct 1964. Library of Congress
I want to be a soldier. Air--I want to be an angel. [n. p.] [n. d.] , . Library of Congress
James W. Grimes, James Harlan, and James F. Wilson to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, June 19, 1863 (Write on
behalf of soldier who performed heroic feat at Vicksburg) James W. Grimes, James Harlan, and James F.
Wilson, 19 June 1863. Library of Congress
Johnny's prayer! Copied from a soldier's letter. [n. p.] [n. d.] , . Library of Congress
Joseph P. Pope to Abraham Lincoln, Monday, March 14, 1864 (Sends ring) Joseph P. Pope, 14 Mar 1864.
Library of Congress
Soldier's Letter. [Harper's new monthly magazine. / Volume 24, Issue 142, March, 1862] Fitz James
O'Brien, Mar 1862. Library of Congress
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Soldier's sister. Tune--Irish emigrant's lament. Written by J. Dyer, 104th Reg't, P. V.,
Col. W. W. H. Davis. Sold by R. H. Singleton, Bookseller, ... Post Office Building,
Nashville, Tenn. [n. d.] J. Dyer, . Library of Congress
The Confederate soldier's wife parting from her husband! [n. p.] [n. d.] , . Library of
Congress
The Selected Civil War Photographs Collection , . Library of Congress
The Soldier's Baby. [The Old Guard / Volume 3, Issue 11, Nov 1865] C. Chauncey Burr,
Nov 1865. Library of Congress
The Union soldier's prayer. Dedicated to the U. S. Army, by H. V. McCully. Tune.- Old
hundred. Johnson, pr. [Philadelphia] [n. d.] H.V. McCully, . Library of Congress
Transcribed from: A woman's wartime journal: an account of the passage over a
Georgia plantation of Sherman's army on the march to the sea, as recorded in the
diary of Dolly Sumner Lunt (Mrs. Thomas B Burge, Dolly Lunt., 1918. Library of
Congress
[Portrait of a Confederate soldier?]. , . Library of Congress
[Portrait of a Confederate soldier?]. , 1860-1865. Library of Congress
[Portrait of a Federal soldier (Horse artillery)]. , 1860-1865. Library of Congress
[Portrait of a Federal soldier]. , 1860-1865. Library of Congress
[Portrait of a Federal soldier]. , 1860-1865. Library of Congress
[Portrait of a soldier group]. , 1860-1865. Library of Congress
[Portrait of boy soldier]. Morris Gallery of the Cumberland, Nashville, Tenn., , 18601865. Library of Congress
[Wounded soldier telling story to young woman and older man]. Darley, Felix
Octavius Carr, . Library of Congress