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Collection Reference Number GLC06589
From Archive Folder Unassociated Civil War Documents 1862 
Title News-letter extra
Date 2 May 1862
Document Type Broadside
Content Description Rare newspaper extra from Ship Island containing two letters by Admiral Farragut to the Mayor of New Orleans. On verso is an autograph letter signed (undated) from Union soldier S. S. Eastman to a friend. Severe ink bleed-through throughout.
Subjects Civil War  Military History  Union Forces  Navy  Union General  Journalism  
People Eastman, S.S. (fl. 1862)  
Place written Ship Island, Mississippi
Theme The American Civil War; Naval & Maritime
Sub-collection Papers and Images of the American Civil War
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945
Civil War: Theater of War Lower Seaboard Theater and Gulf Approach