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to John Eaton

Lincoln instructs Eaton, Colonel of the 63rd U.S. Colored Infantry to "continue your supervision of Freedmen over the same territory & on the same principles as in the past ... " Signed and dated by Lincoln; the remaining text is in Eaton's hand...

GLC05484

Items related to Generals Ulysses S. Grant and John Eaton [Decimalized .01-.03]

GLC05485

to John Eaton

Writing two days before the capitulation of Vicksburg, Mississippi, General Grant acknowledges receipt of a letter from Major Eaton. Relates that, based on Eaton's request, he will forward a recommendation for the promotion of Colonel John W. Fuller...

GLC05485.01

A note from Ulysses S. Grant accompanied by a brief description [Decimalized .01-.02]

GLC05485.02

to John Eaton

General Grant states "I should have liked to have seen you ... about ... utilizing the negroes down about Grand Junction, Tenn. In writing on that subject for my book I had to rely on memory." States that the first volume of his personal memoirs is...

GLC05485.02.01

[Description of a note from General Ulysses S. Grant]

General Eaton describes a note given to him by General Ulysses S. Grant (see GLC05485.02.01). States that Grant's note was written at Mt. McGregor, Wilton, New York. Asserts that General Grant handed him the note after they witnessed a sermon by D...

GLC05485.02.02

to Abraham Lincoln

True copy of a letter from General Grant to President Lincoln, written one week after the surrender of Vicksburg, Mississippi to Grant. Grant encloses a report (not included) created by General John Eaton discussing African Americans within his...

GLC05485.03

to Richard G. Dunlap

Letter written by Jackson as President, upset by the events surrounding the resignation of Major John H. Eaton as the Secretary of War. Jackson praises Eaton, as well as Martin Van Buren and Major William Berkeley Lewis for their loyalty. He attacks...

GLC01690