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[Call for applications to join a Corps of Field Engineers for the defense of Philadelphia]

Calls for 100 men to serve as artillerists. Indicates pay will be the same as artificers in the United States Army. The committee was authorized to raise the corps by the General Committee of Philadelphia.

GLC02978.03

to Jonathan Williams

Patterson, the chief engineer of the Corps of Field Engineers, reponds to Williams' request (see GLC02978.09). Indicates that Dr. Paschall refused to allow works to be built upon his land, but may consent if the works are not near his buildings...

GLC02978.10

to Robert M. Patterson

Reports that the General Committee of Defence had an interview with the Pennsylvania governor about the formation of a corps of engineers and pioneers. Governor Simon Snyder agreed to commission them as volunteers that could be called into service...

GLC02978.12

to Frederick Eckstein

Responds to Eckstein's complaint that he was omitted from the list of persons on the volunteer association of field engineers organized by Philadelphia's Committee of Defence (see GLC02978.18). Patterson recognizes Eckstein's service and...

GLC02978.19

to Robert M. Patterson

Asks Patterson to call the volunteer association of field engineers together and requests that the enclosed resolves (see GLC02978.21), to thank them for their service and record their names in the minutes of the Committee of Defense, be communicated...

GLC02978.22

Martyria, or, Andersonville Prison

Printed in Boston by Lee & Shepard, with a signed presentation note dated 10 October 1866 by the author to Ulysses S. Grant. The book documents the conditions at Andersonville Prison. Illustrated by the author.

GLC02982

Diary of John R. Garden.

Diary covers activity of the 62nd regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, with roll of company M and daily entries. Includes detailed account of action at Gettysburg, mentioning Gen. Reynold's death and the fight for the wheat field (2 July 1863 entry)...

GLC02989

to Mr. Peck

Typed on stationery of the Exposition Universelle de Chicago, Pavillon Haitien. Sympathizes with Peck, recently removed from a governmental office. Notes that he would have written a letter to the President (Grover Cleveland) on Peck's behalf, but...

GLC02990

to Alfred Burr

Signed as President. Letter regarding the investigation of statements made against Mr. Spellacy.

GLC02925.23

to Willie Olcott Burr re: Nebraska Democratic platform & other proposals [Bryan]

Signed as a former President, concerning his feelings on the Nebraska Democratic platform and implicitly, the rise of populism and William Jennings Bryan. Cleveland advocate the "old Democratic creed."

GLC02925.05

to Thomas H. Seymour re: letter of introduction for Mr. and Mrs. Stone

GLC02925.13

[Statement regarding military possession of a Louisiana plantation]

Major General Sheridan, supervising reconstruction in Louisiana, attests that military authorities took possession of a plantation on the Mississippi River near Carrollton, Louisiana, circa 29 April 1862. Asserts that the plantation was returned to...

GLC02943.02

to Joseph Pitcairn re: Mediterranean sailing for American ships, Algiers

GLC02961

to John E. Tourtelotte

Addressed to Tourtelotte as Major, 7th U.S. Cavalry. Comments upon his retirement three months earlier. " ... I feel that the End which we have so long contemplated has at last come, and looking at it in a Common Sense view it is better this than a...

GLC02964

[Oath of allegiance to the United States]

Also signed by Hope Bain and Edmund [Cross], both Justices of the Peace.

GLC02966

to Robert M. Patterson

Tells Patterson, the chief engineer of the Corps of Field Engineers, that a man named Jonathan Jones, who knows the local terrain, can provide assistance to the topographical engineers. Also notes a man named Spencer Sargeant will be retained for...

GLC02978.08

to Robert M. Patterson

Reports that, in accord with Patterson's "request & to accelerate the works," he has given a lot of assistance in the previous twenty days. Indicates that some on the Philadelphia General Committee of Defence have observed that he did so without...

GLC02978.17

to Eliakim P. Scammon

Hayes writes as Lieutenant Colonel of the 23rd Regiment of Ohio Volunteers to Scammon, his superior, as commander of the 1st Brigade. Reports that he believes the Confederate force at Pack's Ferry is not large enough to cross the river. Advises, "I...

GLC02995

Genl. Lee's Head Quarters

Image of stone house that served as Lee's Head Quarters at Gettysburg and surrounding grounds.

GLC03029.04

"3 Reb Pris[oners] behind B[reast]works."

Slightly darker print of image #7. Caption and image number on side of negative are slightly easier to read than in image #7.

GLC03029.08

"13th N.Y. artillery at Ft. Burpee."

Companion with image #13 (left half of stereo).

GLC03029.14

"Ram Atlanta."

[not before Union capture of C.S.S. Atlanta in Wassaw Sound, Ga., , cf. Davis and Wiley, v.1, 1050.] Distant image of C.S.S. Atlanta, presumably after Union capture, with soldiers standing along all three decks.

GLC03029.15

to Alexander Milton Ross

Brown Jr. writes from Put-in-Bay Island located on South Bass Island (Lake Erie), Ohio. He mentions he will personally be traveling to Kansas and possibly Colorado to examine the land for the purpose of "settlement by Colored people of limited means...

GLC03007.56.11

"Breast work on Left wing Round top Getezsburg [Gettysburg]."

Shows a lone man in a straw hat (perhaps Brady) amongst fallen trees and a crude stone fortification.

GLC03029.21

to Alfred Edmund Burr

Davis, a United States Senator from Mississippi, declines an invitation from Burr, Chairman of the Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee, to attend a canvass preceding the 1860 presidential election. Writes "Although the state of my health &...

GLC02925.08