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Appointment of Charles Landers as captain of first Woonsocket artillery Co.

GLC07247.02

Clipped signature "Thomas Wilson Dorr"

GLC07249.03

Dorr liberation stock [printed document, fund-raising for his legal case]

To raise funds to carry Dorr's case to Supreme Court, not issued but signed by president of liberation society and counsel for the citizens.

GLC07253.01

General Order No. 1 re: trials of soldier and officer at Ft. Arbuckel, NM

GLC07217

War of 1812 orderly book of Capt. Thorne's Co., 60th King's Rifles

60th regiment, King's Royal Rifle Corps in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

GLC07222

Certifying true copy of act for land south of Tenn.

Accompanied by an attached manuscript copy of the act.

GLC07173.05

Pardon of William Goss (c/s Edward Livingston)

Convicted of gambling. Pardoned because he was unable to pay the fine and was now "a steady and peaceable citizen."

GLC07193

Appointing Madison as his attorney for lands granted to him in Louisiana

Appoints James Madison to act as, "My true lawful, and special attorney" with respect to business and legal issues. Written on blue paper with seal and blind stamp.

GLC07173.02

General Orders no. 83 re: day of fasting and prayer

After Gettysburg: "Soldiers! we have sinned against Almighty God . . . we have not remembered that the defenders of a just cause should be pure in his eyes--that our lives are in his hand, and we have relied too much on our own arms for the...

GLC07177

Authorizing provisions to be distributed to Indians

"...to supply the Indians at a treaty I am authorized to hold with the Six Nations, at Painted Post."

GLC07192

Court deposition transcript of Cherokee land sale in Tenn. (signed with mark)

Transcript of court deposition, signed by Henderson with her mark. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC07311

Endorsement on back of G.B. Brooks ALS re: idea of a "boat infantry"

Endorsement on T.B. (or G.B.) Brooks letter, with manuscript proposal entitled "Boat Infantry," a mobile attack force. Gilmore refers the proposal to a Board of Approval. The proposal may be response to the carnage the attack on Fort Wagner. (Water...

GLC07303

An Act relative to the Compensations to Certain officers [duties]

Printed document signed. "An act of relative to the compensations to certain officers employed in the collections of the duties of import and tonnage." Outlining "allowances" to be paid to tax collectors of various areas

GLC07305

Cherokee Indian "Spoilatia" claim against U.S. Goverment (signed with cross)

Claim for of $125.25 written after Winfield Scott and troops confiscated his property during the "Trail of Tears." Signed by Hatchchett with his mark, a cross ("+").

GLC07310

To: Lieutenant Colonel Jean Babtiste Gouvion.

Commendation of Jean B. Gouvion's "most valuable services" at Yorktown.

GLC07907

Address of Booker T. Washington, principal of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama, before the Hamilton Club, Chicago

With autograph corrections. Washington's address establishes that he believes in the African American to be the glue that holds and can hold the North and the South together. He believes that African Americans in both the North and South struggle...

GLC07934

Order.

Punishment of deserter William J. Chandler of Penn. Vols. on Executive Mansion stationary.

GLC07942

Instructions on attack of Algiers. Entitled "Revenge off Algiers"

Rear Admiral Harry B. Neale gives in depth instructions to the ships under his command to form at distances of 120 fathoms from each other in order to attack Algiers. A Van (front), Center and Rear Division are established and orders are issued...

GLC07895

Charges against a private for striking a superior officer.

GLC07909

Affidavit.

Benjamin Headwine swears that he believes the Spanish ship Cleopatra "is intended for the slave trade."

GLC07910

Vote.

Warren, as Committee of Safety Chairman, declares that it has been voted by the Massachusetts Comittee of Safety that imprisoned loyalists are to be received and protected in Boston, its surrounding towns, and in other colonies. Only those loyalists...

GLC07913

Diary of Captain Samuel J. Chaffee, Co. D, 49th Mass. Volunteers.

Seige of Port Hudson, battle descriptions, black soldiers, sketches, etc.

GLC07921

Journal of caseworker and surgeon's assistant with Sanitary Commission

Detailing medical care of Civil War patients. Notebook is housed with diary key.

GLC07923

"We are sometimes asked in the name of patriotism..."

Quotation in full: "We are sometimes asked in the name of patriotism to forget the merits of this fearful conflict and to remember with equal admiration those who struck at the nation's life and those who struck to save it--those who fought for...

GLC07926.01

Rhode Island issued warrant for seizure of the Schooner "Orange"

Schooner seized for trafficking slaves.

GLC07930