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Portrait of Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, officer of the United States government.

Die Neuner, a German language book written in 1897 by Constantin Grebner, is a history of the 9th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (O.V.I.), an all-German Civil War regiment. Sections from the book's 290 pages are included here. Grebner (1830-1907), was born…

This 8" x 10" (20.32 x 25.4 cm) photograph depicts the Sherman House, birthplace of the brothers General William Tecumseh Sherman and statesman John Sherman. The home is a Registered National Landmark and is listed on the National Register of…

Carte de visite portrait of John Sherman, 1862. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1855 - 1861. He was elected United States Senator from Ohio in 1861 to fill the Senate seat left vacant by Salmon P. Chase.

Reproduction of a photograph of the storefront occupied by the Soldier's Aid Society on Bank Street, Cleveland, Ohio during the Civil War, ca. 1861-1865.

Lowe's intended flight from Cincinnati shown in red. Actual flight in blue.

Balloon Enterprise

June 16 1861

This point of observation commands an area near fifty miles in diameter-- The city with its girdle of encampments presents a superb scene-- I have pleasure in sending you this first dispatch ever telegraphed from…

Editorial cartoon shows three caricatured Copperheads advancing on Columbia who holds a shield labeled "Union" and a sword. Although Clement Vallandigham was one of the leading members of the Copperhead Party, it doesn't appear that he is among those…

Cartoon shows a delegation of Copperheads entreating a Southerner to return to the Union.

An anti-Lincoln satire, showing the Republican incumbent and his supporters menaced by giant "Copperheads" (Peace Democrats). After a speech on May 1, 1863, asserting that the Civil War was being fought to free blacks and enslave whites, not to save…