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A compelling brigade battlefield report composed in the immediate wake of the Battle of Port Gibson (Mississippi, 1 May ‘63), an assault that set the stage for Grant’s pivotal siege of Vicksburg; the eight reports of Army of the Tennessee regiments and batteries chronicle extensive combat; the capture of Confederate.....
A rare printed letter evidently intended exclusively for political officials, urging them to use their influence to shift United States funding away from the suppression of the African slave trade and towards Liberian colonization efforts. This circular, signed in type by Mitchell in his capacity as agent of the American.....
A scarce broadside, published in the year that the author first met Abraham Lincoln—with whom he was later more closely associated—attempting to lay the foundation for an African colonization society in Illinois. Addressing the public as “general agent of the American Colonization Society for the northwest,” Mitchell opens this broadside.....