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Box 1

 Container

Contains 1 Collection or Record:

National Armory. An Appeal to Congress by the Citizens of Rock Island and Moling, Illinois, and Davenport, Iowa, in favor of a National Armory on the site of Fort Armstrong, on the Island of Rock Island, in the State of Illinois. 14p. (appendix and map);, 1861

 File — Box: 1, Folder: S56
Identifier: 228681
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of 16 boxes of books and papers, mostly from the 1860s, all of which were readily available to the public in the Confederacy at the time. The collection includes state and C.S.A. laws, ordinances, and regulations, military manuals, political dissertations, school books, novels, maps, tracts, and sermons. Also included are works related to the Confederacy such as histories of the war and autobiographies. Most are originals, any photocopies are noted as such in this...
Dates: 1861