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to Edwin McMasters Stanton

President Lincoln states that Judge William Darrah Kelley, a United States Representative from Pennsylvania, is attempting to raise African American regiments in Philadelphia. Informs Stanton, Secretary of War, that Milton [M. Herpert?] is a friend...

GLC06678

to Edwin M. Stanton

Lincoln writes to Secretary of War Stanton concerning the promotion of Colonel Charles H. Tompkins to Brigadier General. The Rhode Island Delegation and General Horatio G. Wright called upon Lincoln to make the appointment, and brought a favorable...

GLC06679

The President is Dead

A dramatic printed version of Stanton's announcement of Lincoln's death to General John A. Dix, U.S. Military Commander of the Department of the East, headquartered in New York. In full: "The President is Dead! [rule] War Department, Washington...

GLC06680

to Mrs. Judge White

Discusses some confusion over Nathaniel Banks getting a cabinet post. States that President Lincoln said William Seward and Thurlow Weed never mentioned the subject. She remarks, "This all appears, as a strange dream, and if the information did not...

GLC06681

[Collection of William C. Alberger, 49th regiment, New York, infantry] [word processed inventory available] [Decimalized .01- .08]

Collection features a bound scrapbook and various documents relating to the military and civilian life of William C. Alberger. An inventory exists for the documents separated from the scrapbook, which are housed in a folder with the scrapbook....

GLC06628

Custer and Rosecrans items from the Alberger Collection

Visiting card of G. A. Custer / U.S.C.C. An army circular issued by Major General Rosecrans to the Army of Cumberland re: congratulations for victory over rebels of Tennessee.

GLC06628.01

to his brother

Discusses camp life and playing baseball.

GLC06630

Nominal Lists Casualties, Company Orders, Detailed officers and enlisted men, officers absent and present not on duty

Roster of 120th regiment New York Volunteer Infantry. Written on inside cover, in pencil, "The Regiment enlisted 2000 men but returned home unable to muster more than 350 - such had been the work of bullet and desease." First thirteen pages list...

GLC06638

to editor of the New York World

Wants to correct an "erroneous impression" from an article in his newspaper on his superintending of construction of an ironclad ship (the USS "Monitor") on behalf of Bushnell & Co. Says he is in fact making the ship "to my own plans approved by a...

GLC06639

to Mary C. Day

"Lines suggested, while standing over the dead body of a loved comrade, killed by a bullet fired from across the Potomac, by a treacherous hireling foe, Leisburg Va. Augt 9th 1861." A fair copy of his ballad "All Quiet along the Potomac tonight."...

GLC06640.01

The Blue and Gray of 1867.

A song opposed to reconciliation with the South, praising the loyalty, honor and bravery of Northern soldiers, while condemning the treason of Confederate soldiers. The song was originally written the same year that the Reconstruction Acts passed...

GLC06640.02

to Mary C. Day

A graceful acknowledgement of Day's letter of thanks for receiving "All Quiet on the Potomac." He writes in part: "It is a gratification to an old crippled Reb to receive such as womanly letter as yours." He closes by wishing her a long and...

GLC06640.03

[General Order No. 18]

Announces that by the terms of the surrender of 26 April 1865 between Union General William T. Sherman, and Confederate General Johnston, the officers and men of the army must not take up arms against the United States. Reports that duplicate muster...

GLC06654.01

to Pierre T. Beauregard

Telegram instructing Beauregard to notify the commander of the 6th corps which camped 18 miles from Danville last night that the truce between Union General William T. Sherman and Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston has resumed. On verso is an...

GLC06654.02

to John P. Nicholson

Possibly to John Page Nicholson, who published many essays on Civil War related topics. Discusses an article published by a Colonel Chesney in the "Fortnightly." Defends himself against Chesney's accusation that he (Johnston) exaggerated Federal...

GLC06656

Journal of the U.S. ship Shepherd Knapp

Written by Hudson as Acting Master on the USS "Shepherd Knapp." Signed at least five times by Hudson, including once on the cover. A note on the inside cover says he lived on Franklin Avenue at East Brooklyn, New York (the second house on the right...

GLC06664

to Benjamin Franklin Butler

Townsend, United States Adjutant General, replies to a letter from Butler, who served as a General in the Civil War. Informs Butler that in the Civil War, 7,122 African American men served as officers, and 178,975 served as enlisted men, for a total...

GLC07200

to Beverly H. Robertson

Orders for Robinson, who is being sent on reconaissance. Mentions James Longstreet and Robert E. Lee. Originally included orders for General William E. Jones. "Your object will be to watch the enemy, deceive him as to our designs, and harass his rear...

GLC07181

to Eben R. Ayers; archive of 4 letters. re: activities early in civil war [Decimalized .01- .04]

1. 6 July 1861, 2. 25 November 1861, 3. 22 Sept 1861 and 4. 31 Oct 1861.

GLC07187

[Message to the People of Maryland to support the Confederacy]

Addressed "To the People of Maryland," encouraging them to join the Confederacy and support the Confederate Forces. "The people of the Confederate States have long watched with the deepest sympathy the wrongs and outrages that have been inflicted...

GLC07195

An ordinance to dissolve the Union between the state of Texas and other states..

Printed broadside. Paper patch has ink facsimile.

GLC07196

Gen. Forrest to his troops.

Title from heading. Addressed to "soldiers." Details the fact that "the troops of this Department have been surrendered. ...That we are BEATEN is a self evident fact, and any further resistance on our part would be justly regarded as the very...

GLC07197

[Captive soldier in Libby Prison]

Oil on canvas, unstretched, of older Union soldier, with white hair and a mustache, seated on the ground in a despairing pose, holding his hand to his forehead, near a rifle. Signed at lower right "J. E. McCasky [or McCosky], NY / Libby Prison / May...

GLC07201

George Washington Custis Lee

Quarter length portrait of George Washington Custis Lee as General (3 stars).

GLC07074

to Isaac W. Hayne re: urging South Carolina to defer hostilities

Urges S.C. to defer hostilities toward Fort Sumter: "Our people feel that they have a common destiny with your people and expect to form with them in that convention a new confederation and provisional government. We must and will share your...

GLC07078

[Authority to affix seal to additional article to slave trade treaty with Britain]

Partially printed document. Lincoln signs an official State Department warrant ordering the Secretary of State to affix the Great Seal of the United States to "my ratification of the Additional Article to the slave trade treaty between the United...

GLC07083

Gen. W.F. Barry [&] Gen. W.T. Sherman Before Atlanta

Image of Generals William Farquhar Barry and William Tecumseh Sherman and their staff gathered around an artillery piece at Federal Fort No. 7 near Atlanta, Georgia. The background is blurred and composed of rolling, empty fields. According to the...

GLC07067

Nathan G. Evans

Title on mount. Photograph inlaid on cabinet card sized mount, possibly cut out of an album. Evans is a Brigadier General in this photograph.

GLC07068.01

W. C. Wickham, Brig. General

Quarter length bust portrait of William C. Wickham on cabinet card sized mount.

GLC07068.02

C. M. Wilcox, Brigadier General

Half length portrait of Cadmus M. Wilcox.

GLC07068.03

Samuel McGowan

Quarter length bust portrait in uniform. Photograph on cabinet card sized mount.

GLC07068.04

Harry T. Hays, Brig. General

Bust portrait of the bearded Confederate General Harry Thompson Hays. Photograph on cabinet card sized mount.

GLC07068.05

Tredegar Iron Works, Richmond, Va

Shows factory buildings, with two men standing (facing away from the camera), in the center foreground

GLC07069.01

View of Crenshaw's Mill, [Richmond, Va.]

Shows mill on a river, with a masonry bridge at the center of the image. Ruins of buildings on banks of river.

GLC07069.02

View of Chimborago Hospital, Richmond, Va.

Distant view showing barracks, with Black man holding crutches sitting in the left foreground, facing away from the camera. Title from pencil note on verso.

GLC07070

Oval albumen bust portrait of Ulysses S. Grant

Signed on the mount and dated by Grant as Lt. General. at City Point, Va. However, the vignetted image probably may have been taken 1862-63 because it shows Grant as a Major General with only two stars. (Image dimensions 20.4 x 15.7 cm.)

GLC07071

John B, Hood, General

Photographic bust portrait of "the Iron Boar" John Bell Hood showing three stars. Photograph likely taken while Hood was in command of the Army of Tennessee. Photograph on cabinet card sized mount.

GLC07072

Fitzhugh Lee

Bust portrait of Fitzhugh Lee as a Major General. Photograph on cabinet card size mount.

GLC07073

[Photograph of General Robert E. Lee]

3/4 length bust portrait of Lee. Variant of Meredith p. 61 (which has full image). This photograph is one of the series which Brady took at Richmond after Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, Virginia.

GLC07075

George E. Pickett

Photographic bust portrait in uniform as Major General.

GLC07076

Civil War photographs, album of 117 large format prints, with 20 small prints

Album of 117 large format albumen prints, plus 20 smaller prints, mounted back to back on thick card with letterpress or manuscript labels.

GLC07077

to Alexander Robinson Boteler

Writes to Boteler, the representative of Virginia's 10th District to the Provisional and First Regular Confederate Congresses (who also would serve on his staff when Congress was not in session) and addresses him as "colonel." Discusses the issue of...

GLC07080

Robert E. Lee letter to his son George W.C. Lee and three collateral letters. [Decimalized .01-.04]

GLC07081

to E. T. Lawsing

Beauregard replies to an inquiry about the origins of the name "Stonewall" for General Thomas J. Jackson after the 1st Battle of Manassas (Bull Run). He refers him to his article titled "Bull Run" and published in the Century. He remarks, "Most of us...

GLC07082.02

to John J. Pettus

Writes to the Governor of Mississippi about Rankin county, Mississippi, which is in very bad condition due to a lack of able bodied men. They fear a slave uprising. "In our county the able bodied men have been so reduced by volunteering and...

GLC07082.03

to Abraham Lincoln

Grant, Commander-in-Chief of the United States Army responds to President Lincoln's letter of 12 September (refer to GLC07084.01). Writes "It has been my intention for a week...to see Sheridan and arrange what was necessary to enable him to start...

GLC07084.02

to John

Gives an update on news near the end of the war to an unknown friend named John. Reports that Charleston, Georgetown, Fort Fisher, Wilmington and Confederate General Benjamin Butler have all fallen. Also writes about Union General Philip A...

GLC07085

Military Map Showing the Marches of the United States Forces Under Command of Maj. Genl. W.T. Sherman, U.S.A. During the Years 1863, 1864, 1865

Black and white map ranging from Missouri to Maryland in the north and Louisiana to Georgia in the south. Sherman's routes are outlined in red, blue, green, yellow and brown. Compiled according to Sherman's order by Brevet Major W.L.B Jenney, and...

GLC07086.01

No. 5 Map of Chattanooga and Vicinity

The title continues: "Compiled from Surveys and Information Under the Direction of Capt, W.E. Merrill U.S. Engrs. Chattanooga Nov 21st 1863." However, "Capt, W.E. Merrill U.S. Engrs" is crossed out and underneath is hand written: "Capt. Preston F...

GLC07086.02

[Civil War map of Mississippi and Alabama]

Covers northern segments of the two states, showing towns, watercourses, railroads, and roads. Also shows Corinth and vicinity. The Tennessee River appears prominently, colored with a light blue paint wash. The map is painted and drawn on a coated...

GLC07086.03