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to Ira Harris

Mitchel discusses President Abraham Lincoln and the pending Civil War with Harris, United States Senator from New York. States "How would it do for Mr Lincoln to offer to receive the Commissioners from the 'Cotton States' or the accredited...

GLC05044

Mitchel, Ormsby M.

Identified on verso. Half length portrait in uniform. White mount.

GLC06391.22

[Appointment of Ormsby M. Mitchel as Brigadier General of Volunteers]

Signed by Abraham Lincoln as president; countersigned by Edwin M. Stanton as Secretary of War, and endorsed by Lorenzo Thomas as Adjutant General on 7 February 1862. On verso, contains a note in pencil relating that this document was given to a...

GLC01821

to Henry Wager Halleck

Written from the Willard Hotel. Mitchel writes to Halleck, commander in chief of the United States Army: "In obedience to the orders of the Secretary of War, I report to you for duty." Two bust engravings of Mitchel included as collateral.

GLC02456.19

Engraving of O.M. Mitchel

One engraving of O.M. Mitchel dated circa 1860. Half portrait of Mitchel.

GLC08878.0403

Engraving of O. M. Mitchel

One engraving of O.M. Mitchel dated circa 1860. Standing portrait of Mitchel based on the painting by Alonzo Chappel.

GLC08878.0404