v. 1. Annual message of the President ; Report of the Secretary of the Interior ; Report of the Secretary of War ; Report of the Secretary of the Navy ; Report of the Postmaster-General -- v. 2. Report of the Secretary of War --
Warne's picture puzzle toy book. : Comprising The house we live in. Our holidays. The nursery play book. Holiday fun. : With twenty-four pages of illustrations printed in colours by Kronheim
Frederick Warne and Co. Bedford Street, Covent Garden. ;
Scribner, Welford and Co.,
Date of Publication
[1869]
Physical Description
[12] leaves, [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm
Notes
"This volume contains four distinct subjects, with upwards of eight hundred figures represented in blank spaces. These have to be filled up by the careful cutting out of the coloured pictures from the keys, and their insertion in the blank spaces of the respective books."--preface, second leaf.
Records of the revolutionary war: containing the military and financial correspondence of distinguished officers; names of the officers and privates of regiments, companies, and corps, with the dates of their commissions and enlistments; general orders of Washington, Lee, and Greene, at Germantown and Valley Forge; with a list of distinguished prisoners of war; the time of their capture, exchange, etc. To which is added the half-pay acts of the Continental Congress; the revolutionary pension laws; and a list of the officers of the Continental Army who acquired the right to half-pay, commutation, and lands
"A condensation and revision of the series of twelve articles in review of McClellan's report, by William Swinton, published in the New York times ... February, March, and April, 1864."
Published the same year under title: The "Times" review of McClellan: his military career reviewed and exposed.
Bartlett, The literature of the rebellion, no. 1296.
This pamphlett is bound together with numerous other pamphletts in one volume. The pamphletts in the volume were all published separately. This particular pamphlett is a little more than half-way through the volume.
Summary
Writing during the presidential campaign of 1864, an unidentified Pennsylvanian writer speaks of the catastrophic implications of the election of General George McClellan who proposes making peace with the confederacy. The writer believes that a peace would not resolve the basic issue of maintaining the Union. He believes that the tensions that brought on the war would remain and would eventually break the Union apart.
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
The history, civil, political and military, of the southern rebellion, from its incipient stages to its close. Comprehending, also, all important state papers, ordinances of secession, proclamations, proceedings of Congress, official reports of commanders, etc., etc
