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[Appointment of Joseph Jackson Coombs as an examiner-in-chief of the United States Patent Office]

Countersigned by Walton J. Smith, acting Secretary of the Interior. Impression stamped with The Department of the Interior seal.

GLC00782.14

to Gen. Rufus Saxton

"If Banks reaches Martinsburg is he any the better for it?" The letter mentions Gen. Banks's retreat before Jackson.

GLC00790

[Promotion of Edward O.C. Ord to Major General of Volunteers]

Partially printed form from an engraving signed by President Lincoln and countersigned by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. With a docket signed by Adjutant General Lorenzo. Thomas indicating the commission was recorded on 3 May 1862 in "Volume 17...

GLC00792

[Pardon of John H. Craigmiles by Abraham Lincoln]

Tennessean rebel whose pardon was recommended by Andrew Johnson. Unusual Civil War pardon date for a rebel. (c/s Seward)

GLC00870

to Maj. John Dix

Letter written in pencil on mourning stationery. The letter discusses the dispatch from Grant, Kirby Smith, and Gen. Banks.

GLC00876

Carte de visite by Brady, signed on mount

Signed on the mount "A. Lincoln" This image is O-49.

GLC00919.01

to William H. Seward

Letter is on Executive Mansion stationery, and discusses news of the Siege of Knoxville. Four days after the address at Gettysburg.

GLC00940

[Endorsement on a letter by Governor Pierpont]

Lincoln endorsement on the address leaf of a letter to Lincoln, from Francis H. Pierpont dated 23 November 1864. In the letter, Pierpont states he would be relieved if Lincoln and General Ulysses S. Grant had a meeting. Lincoln replies, "My time is...

GLC00951

to David B. Campbell

Lincoln replies to Illinois Attorney General Campbell and discusses his unpopular stand on the Mexican War. Mentions a speech on internal improvements and another in support of Zachary Taylor that would constitute the close of his Congressional...

GLC00965

to Simon Cameron

Lincoln writes to Secretary of War Cameron to express his desire to accept a fifth regiment from Michigan. He is referring to the 16th Michigan Volunteers, under Colonel T.B.W. Stockton. Lincoln seeks Cameron's approval of this action.

GLC00966

to his Holiness, Pope Pius IX

Letter of credence for Rufus King as U.S. Minister to Papal States.

GLC01000

Pass to allow four orphaned children to go to their Kentucky relation

Lincoln allows three sisters and one brother, Sallie, Juliana, Eliza, and Dabney Overton to pass through the federal lines and go to their relative Grant Green in Henderson, Kentucky. Endorsement written diagonally over the pass states "Rec'd Vienna...

GLC01011.01

[Petition for promoting Colonel Andrew Wood Denison].

Lincoln submitted this petition to Secretary of War Stanton. Fifteen prominent men from Maryland signed the petition asking that Colonel Denison be promoted to Brigadier General of Volunteers. The petition recounts Denison's service to the Union...

GLC01012

General orders no. 139.

Preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation published for the Army War Department printing, removed from a compilation of general orders. Noted on pages 117-120 are the orders that all people enslaved in the south will be freed. Beginning on...

GLC01024

to Don Pedro Diez Canseco

Countersigned by Secretary of State Seward. Letter of condolence to Vice President of Peru Canseco upon the death of the President of Peru Don Miguel San Roman. Canseco succeeded Roman, was shortly overthrown, and eventually regained power through a...

GLC01085

[Appointment of Godfrey Weitzel as Brigadier General of Volunteers]

Also signed by Edwin McMasters Stanton as Secretary of War, and by Edward Davis Townsend as Assistant Adjutant General. Townsend attests that this appointment is recorded in the Adjutant General's office. Serves as an official United States...

GLC01115

[Commission of Orville Babcock as a First Lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers]

Partially printed form from an engraving signed by President Lincoln and countersigned by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. Note signed by Adjutant G. Thomas on top left corner indicating the commission was recorded on 27 March 1862 in "Volume 17...

GLC01128

[Lincoln endorsement on letter concerning the remains of Captain W. G. Hewins]

Lincoln note written on a letter by the Governor of Massachusetts, John A. Andrew, dated 13 May 1863 from Boston. The letter is addressed to "All Officers in Command, of the United States, or of Volunteers," asking that Mr. Gibbs, who is bringing...

GLC01195

Printed draft call for troops from Pennsylvania

Printed document signed by Lincoln.

GLC01202

[Appointment of Samuel B. Wallace as Second Lieutenant]

Signed by Lincoln as President, Edwin M. Stanton as Secretary of War, and Edward Davis Townsend as Assistant Adjutant General. Includes blue seal at top left corner.

GLC01207

to John Stuart

Letter is written in blue ink. Discussing Illinois and Sangamon county politics, Lincoln says he and some others would like Bat Web (Edwin B. Webb) as District Attorney. He concludes by alluding to the "locos" (Democrats) in the upcoming...

GLC01210

to Edwin M. Stanton

Curtis was replaced with Schofield in the Dept of the Missouri. Letter written on Executive Mansion stationery. Docketed on page 4 by Stanton.

GLC01211

to Gen. David Hunter

Letter written after Frémont was relieved of duty. A draft in the hand of John Hay (Sec.) with corrections and an additional paragraph at the end in Lincoln's hand. Also, mentions command of Dept. of West & strategy suggestions.

GLC01212

Reply to Caleb Smith re: meeting with John Ross (Chief of Cherokee)

Endorsement on blank leaf of Caleb Smith's letter. Smith's letter was written on Interior Department Stationery, agreeing to meet with Cherokee chief Ross.

Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers...

GLC01233.01

[Endorsement on Simon Cameron telegram relaying the burning of Chambersburg]

Lincoln's reply on the recipient's copy of an August 1, 1864 telegram from former Secretary of War Simon Cameron, now chairman of the Committee of Safety, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Cameron informs Lincoln that the burning of Chambersburg...

GLC01237