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Book

The Engineer battalion in the Civil War (Occasional papers no. 44)

1910

Thompson, Gilbert, 1839-1909

Revised and rewritten by John W. N. Schulz. Illus. Dornbusch II 1628

GLC00267.254

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Pamphlet

Letter of the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 6th instant, relative to the purchase of extracts of coffee for the use of the troops

January 16,1862

Cameron, Simon, 1799-1889

Report submitted to the Senate by Secretary of War Cameron extols the advantages of Professor H.A. Tilden's coffee extract, apparently a synthetic or ersatz coffee and condensed milk mixture. Claims "[t]he coffee and sugar ration for 100,000 men for...

GLC00267.255

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Autograph letter signed

to Captain Hudson

July 14, 1777

Bachellor, William, 1749-?

Discusses the chemistry Dr. Boerhaav and determines there is "No process in which the purging Salts are made that is practicable at this Time." Transcribes a long passage from a book explaining how to make salt cartharticum.

GLC01450.802

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Header Record

Certificates admitting Dr. John Lorimer to the Icelandic Literary Society and the Abredonian Medical Society [Decimalized .01-.03]

1791-1793

GLC01450.807.05

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Photograph signed

[Cyrus H. McCormick]

1875-1880 ca.

Rocher, H., fl. 1875-1880

Cabinet photograph of Cyrus H. McCormick. Signed on mount. Image by H. Rocher of Chicago.