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to George G. Meade

Ordering Meade to send "one of your reduced regular regiments to New York City to report to General Dix for duty."

GLC03470

Cartel for the exchange of prisoners.

Details a proposed exchange of prisoners of war between the Union and Confederate Armies at Haxall's Landing, on the James River, Virginia. Printed under authority of Major Generals Daniel H. Hill, C.S.A. and John A. Dix, U.S.A.

GLC05987.36

to John A. Dix

Reports that the One hundred and fifteenth New York Volunteers has been detached from his command and sent to Fort Monroe. Requests new troops be assigned to him, since this move has left him well short of the necessary number of soldiers to defend...

GLC02459.18

to Henry Wager Halleck

General Dix, Commander of the Department of the East, encloses a confidential report (not included) by a detective from Buffalo, New York. Informs Halleck, General in Chief of the Union army, that the detective "has seen, as you will observe, a...

GLC02455.04

Engraving of Major General John A. Dix, U.S.A.

Printed below the image, "From Photograph in possession of his family. New York, G.P. Putnam. Entered according to act of Congress A.D. 1861 by G.P. Putnam, in the clerks office of the district court for the southern district of N.Y."

GLC02455.19

Engraving of John Adams Dix

Glued below the image are two typed bio notes of John Adams Dix.

GLC02455.20

to Maj. John Dix

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

GLC00876

to Edwards Pierrepont

Discusses the delay in the army for the order of his pontoon bridge. Mentions General John Adams Dix. Informs that Colonel Edward Serrell needs to go to Washington to see Francis's bridges but there is a problem getting the orders for Serrell to...

GLC03502

1863 Diary

Henry Cook describes his life in camp, including his reading and other pasttimes, day trips into cities, soldiers' pay, food, and signal corps duty. He also writes of the movements of the signal corps and of his regiment (9th NJ Volunteers) in...

GLC03958.02

to Alfred Edmund Burr

Dix, postmaster of the City of New York, declines an invitation from Burr, Chairman of the Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee, to speak at a canvass preceding the 1860 presidential election. Dix served as a U.S. senator from New York...

GLC02925.10

Is the War a Failure?

Pro-Lincoln,Union ticket election broadside defending the Civil War, which the Democratic Convention at Chicago called a failure. Reprints letters of Generals Ulysses S. Grant, Truman Seymour, William T. Sherman and John Adams Dix on the conduct of...

GLC01702

John A. Dix.

One engraving entitled "John A. Dix." circa 1861-1877. Portrait of John Adams Dix. Engraver unknown.

GLC08878.0261

[Pardon of William Peacock]

Pardoning William Peacock, a Union army deserter, with the condition that he serve in the army for two years. With General John A. Dix note on verso dated 6 February 1865 stating that Brigadier General [Lewis Cass] Hunt in New York will execute the...

GLC05278

to Henry Jackson Hunt

Mentions Upton (probably Emory Upton, who published a book on infantry tactics in 1867). Praises and discusses Hunt's artillery tactics, a topic on which Hunt had co-published in 1864. Discusses his European tour, including a meeting in Paris with...

GLC02382.062

Generals of Our Army 1861

One engraving entitled "Generals Of Our Army 1861" dated 1861. Portraits of Major General George B. McClellan, Major General Benjamin Franklin Butler, Major General John Adams Dix, Major General John Charles Frémont, Lieutenant General Winfield Scott...

GLC08878.0117

[Members of Congress agree on Washington D.C.'s need for an Episcopal Church]

Written and signed by Congressmen John A. Dix. Cosigned by George E. Badger, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, H. Johnson, (possibly either Henry or Herschel Johnson), Robert Winthrop, John Sergeant, William D. Dayton, John Macpherson Berrien, and Joseph...

GLC02288