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to: his wife.

Union victories in the west including the fall of Columbus and New Madrid. Also the capture of Fort Donelson and the abandonment of Bowling Green & Nashville. He complains that Stanton, McClellan and Buell have tried to take credit for his...

GLC05601.100

to Samuel Hooper

Banks, commander of the Military District of Washington, Army of the Potomac, writes to Hooper, a United States Representative from Massachusetts. Discusses the court martial of Lt. Goodrich (possibly the son of John Goodrich, former Representative...

GLC02944.02

[Promotion of Henry Eugene Davies to Major General]

Official document promoting Davies, signed by President Lincoln and countersigned by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. Partially printed from an engraving, with blanks filled in by hand. Features two detailed patriotic scenes and a blue paper seal...

GLC03113

The World. [Vol. V., no. 1501 (April 14, 1865)]

Covers the issues surrounding General Robert E. Lee's surrender and the end of the Civil War. Announces that drafting and recruiting has stopped, that Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston will be urged to surrender, and details the pursuit of Lee's...

GLC03119

[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