Life in southern prisons; from the diary of Corporal Charles Smedley, of Company G, 90th regiment Penn'a volunteers, commencing a few days before the "battle of the Wilderness", in which he was taken prisoner, in the evening of the fifth month fifth, 1864: also, a short description of the march to and battle of Gettysburg, together with a biographical sketch of the author
Life of Jefferson Davis, with a seceret history of the Southern Confederacy, gathered "behind the scenes in Richmond." Containing curous and extraordinary information of the principal southern characters in the late war, in connection with President Davis, and in relation to the various intrigues of his administration
The author was a pro-slavery and pro-secession journalist and writer. A detailed article about him can be found at Encyclopedia.com : https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/energy-government-and-defense-magazines/edward-pollard
Pennsylvania reserves in the peninsula : General M'Call's official reports of the part taken by his division in the battles of Mechanicsville, Gaines' Mills, and New Market Cross Roads, together with statements of Generals Mead [!] and Porter, and Colonels Stone, Fisher, Hays, Warner, Taggart, Roberts, Bollinger, and others
The complete analysis of the Holy Bible : or, how to comprehend Holy Writ from its own interpretation, containing the whole of the Old and New Testaments, collected and systematically arranged in thirty books, together with an introduction setting forth the character of the work, and the immense facility this method affords the reader for understanding the word of God. Also, three different tables of contents prefixed, a general index of subjects and a scripture index subjoined, so elaborated and arranged in alphabetical order as to direct at once to any subject required
History of the Pennsylvania reserve corps: a complete record of the organization; and of the different companies, regiments and brigades; containing descriptions of expeditions, marches, skirmishes, and battles; together with biographical sketches of officers and personal records of each man during his term of service
The prayer of Thaddeus Hyatt to James Buchanan, president of the United States, in behalf of Kansas, asking for a postponement of all the land sales in that territory, and for other relief : together with correspondence and other documents setting forth its deplorable destitution from the drought and famine : submitted under oath, October 29, 1860
"Mr Hyatt was an abolitionist and inventor. In his opposition to slavery, Hyatt organized the efforts of abolitionists in Kansas to have the territory admitted to the Union as a free-state and campaigned for the federal government to aid Kansans afflicted by drought. Hyatt befriended John Brown and provided Brown with financial support; following the raid on Harpers Ferry, Hyatt was investigated by a committee of the United States Senate." [from Wikipedia]
The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments ; together with the Apocrypha, concordance, and Psalms, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised; the text conformable to the original edition of the year of our Lord 1610, and the American Bible Society's original standard edition of 1816
576, 1-116, 579-768, 1-42, 1- 22: illustrations ; 30 cm.
Notes
New Testament has separate title-page.
The Psalms of David in Metre.
Genealogy of Samuel O. Frantz and Emma L. Weaver family on two pages following Apocrypha.
The Frantz Bible.
Viewing bibles contingent on staff availability, an appointment may be required.
Loose items removed to MG-399; Frantz family bible; includes clilpping of the 3rd annual Overholser reunion to which a letter to Sara Ann Stauffer from J. Spencer Overholser is attached recounting the first two reunions, the first being held on an island in the Conestoga River near Terre Hill and the second and third reunions being held at the homestead of Samuel O. Frantz near Rohrerstown.
Elaborate morocco binding with gold tooling on front and back covers, spine, and edges; gilded edges; Samuel O. Frantz in gold in center of front cover.
Trial of the assassins and conspirators for the murder of Abraham Lincoln, and the attempted assassination of Vice-President Johnson and the whole cabinet : the most intensely interesting trial on record : containing the evidence in full, with arguments of counsel on both sides, and the verdict of the military commission : correct likenesses and graphic history of all the assassins, conspirators, and other persons connected with their arrest and trial
21-102 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., map, plans, ports. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Trial of David E. Herold, George A. Atzerodt, Lewis Payne, Michael O'Laughlin, Edward Spangler, Samuel Arnold, Mary E. Surratt, and Samuel A. Mudd, before a military commission at Washington, D.C.
The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments : translated out of the original tongues together with the Apocrypha, Concordance and Psalms and with the former translations diligently compared and revised
Historical sketch of Nazareth Hall from 1755 to 1869; with an account of the reunions of former pupils and of the inauguration of a monument at Nazareth on the 11th of June, 1868, erected in memory of alumni who fell in the late rebellion
