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Scrapbooks of mounted newspaper clippings relating to the Civil War and the Reconstruction period, taken chiefly from contemporary New York papers, are arranged generally in a chronological sequence and entitled THE GREAT REBELLION (98 v.); ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE GREAT REBELLION consists of preĢcis of the newspaper articles and refer to larger group by volume and page number (24 v.); INDEX refers to the ENCYCLOPEDIA by volume and page number and is arranged in large subject groupings as by state (4 v.); and GUIDE TO THE INDEX has subjects and individual names arranged alphabetically and refers to the INDEX by volume and page number (1 v.).
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This collection is located on-site.
This collection has no restrictions.
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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Townsend library of national, state, and biographical records; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
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Source of acquisition--Schermerhorn, Frederic Augustus. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--05/--/1895. Accession number--M-95-05.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 09/--/89.
In 1860 Thomas S. Townsend began the compilation of this collection by filing all items pertaining to the Civil War from all the important New York daily papers as well as from one Boston paper, one Philadelphia paper, and one Washington paper to form a contemporary record of the Great Rebellion. In 1865 George Templeton Strong recorded in his diary that on April 13, 1865 he saw this great collection at the Union League Club in New York. It then consisted of 64 huge folios.
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