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1862 – Letter from a New Orleans attorney providing outdated information to an associate in New York regarding the method of sending mail to him across-the-lines in the early years of the Civil War

by Louis Janin

New Orleans, Louisiana 1862 (click for more details)

1860 – Abraham Lincon’s famous Cooper Union speech that launched him towards the Presidency on the Republican Party ticket

by Abraham Lincon

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1740 – An Address from the British House of Lords commending King George II for his pursuit of the War of Jenkins Ear, which was fought in part by Virginia volunteers against the Spanish in the West Indies and by British regulars, colonial militia, and Native American allies along the Georgia-Florida border

by The House of Lords

[London] 1740 (click for more details)

1825 – A dramatic recounting of a firefighting effort that could not stop the destruction of a Vermont factory

by Charles Linsley

Middlebury, Vermont 1825 (click for more details)

1810 – Letter from the Commanding General of a Massachusetts Militia Division to one of his brigade commanders expressing irritation that an election of a company officer had been bungled

by Major General Nathaniel Goodwin

Plymouth, Massachusetts 1810 (click for more details)