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Vignette bust portrait

Graphite inscription on verso "136." Ink inscription on verso "James B McPherson Major General Vols and" "Photo by A S Morse, Huntsville, Ala. 1864."

GLC05111.02.0585

Oval portrait, with decorative gold frame around portrail

Ink inscription on recto "Gen Jas B McPherson." Decorative frame-like border imprint on recto. Graphite inscription on verso "G...Pherson]." Photographers imprint on verso: "Barr & Young, Army Photographers, Vicksburg, Mississippi."

GLC05111.02.0586

General Orders No. 25

Medical officers are assigned to duty.

GLC04042.03.01

to William T. Sherman

Major General McPherson writes to Major General Sherman to report the success of an expedition to destroy Confederate railroads and equipment around Meridian, Mississippi. McPherson records the miles marched in this brief summary of operations under...

GLC03551

[James B. McPherson diary describing early Union successes in the western theatre.]

Notebook with McPherson's diary discussing the western theatre under Grant, with some 1861 diary entries relating to Fort Donelson, diagrams on making pickets, lists of artillery at different forts, and a hand-drawn map of Chickasaw (from 1864)...

GLC03746.01

A Treatise on field fortification

A copy of Dennis H. Mahan's "A Treatise on Field Fortification" signed by James B. McPherson. The full title of the book is"A treatise on field fortification : containing instructions on the methods of laying out, constructing, defending, and...

GLC03746.02

Invitations for James B. McPherson [Decimalized .01-.10]

Collections of ten items belonging to James B. McPherson, including nine invitations and one poem with an attached sketch.

GLC03746.03

Sketch showing the relative positions of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson

Engraved map of Fort Donelson and Fort Henry on woven paper. Map was "drawn under the direction" of General McPherson.

GLC03746.04

[James Birdseye McPherson]

Carte de visite in uniform. Trimmed oval, no imprint. Signed as Major General.

GLC05499

to David Dixon Porter

Written "Before Vicksburg," Mississippi. General McPherson requests that Admiral Porter "let the bearer Lorain Ruggles, one of our scouts have (500) Five Hundred Cartridges for 'Henry's Rifle,' Our Ordnance Officer has none that will suit." Written...

GLC02463.14

to Marcellus Monroe Crocker

General McPherson (Union) discusses Confederate troop movements with General Crocker. He writes "Have you heard anything more definite in relation to the movement of Troops to the Vicinity of 'Tunica Bend' and the concentration of Cavalry in the...

GLC00930.01

[General orders number 20, congratulating soldiers for their performance in the Battle of Vicksburg]

McPherson, Commander of the 17th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, declares: "With tireless energy, with sleepless vigilance, by night and by day, with battery and with rifle pit, with trench and mine, you made your sure approaches, until overcome...

GLC00267.286

to Leonard Ross

Discusses an exaggerated news report regarding the battle of Antietam. Writes "The substance of the news is that 'Genl McClellan has driven the Rebels out of Maryland with great slaughter and has bagged Genl Lee.' The bagging part I think is...

GLC02063.01

Where General McPherson was killed [at Atlanta] [stereocard]

GLC00242.19