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Wyles SC 294
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Title: Confederate Broadside,
Date (inclusive): 1862
Collection Number: Wyles SC 294
Extent:
.01 linear feet
(1 folder)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical Location: Vault
Language:
English.
None.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Confederate Broadside. Wyles SC 294. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Undetermined.
Scope and Content of Collection
One Confederate broadside, "To the People of Western Virginia," issued by Maj. Gen. [William Wing] Loring, noting recent victories
at Fayette C. H., Cotton Hill, and Charleston, imposing martial law, and calling upon citizens to join the Confederate army.
The broadside begins "The Army of the Confederate States has come among you to expel the enemy, to rescue the people from
the despotism of the counterfeit State Government imposed on you by Northern bayonets, and to restore the country once more
to is natural allegiance to the State" and continues in a similar vein. Charleston, Virginia, 14 Sept. 1862.