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[Statement of payment for Major Wells' service]

Wells attests that he received $384.32 for his service as Major of the 15th Regiment, Virginia Volunteer Infantry. States that he was paid by army paymaster S. T. Safford. Includes a description of two of Wells's servants, John and Tim, who are...

GLC05336.01

[Monthly field return of Company B, 11th Regiment United States Colored Troops]

States that the 11th Regiment was commanded by Captain John Hayes, Jr. Indicates that the 11th Regiment was stationed in Arkansas 1 November 1864-31 March 1865. Written on lined paper. Docket on verso.

GLC05336.02

[Statement of clothing camp and garrison equipage pertaining to Company B, 11th Regiment U. S. Colored Troops]

Lists numbers of knapsacks, canteens, mess pans, pins, and other items distributed to the 11th Regiment, United States Colored Troops.

GLC05336.03

to John Eaton

Lincoln instructs Eaton, Colonel of the 63rd U.S. Colored Infantry to "continue your supervision of Freedmen over the same territory & on the same principles as in the past ... " Signed and dated by Lincoln; the remaining text is in Eaton's hand...

GLC05484

to John Eaton

Writing two days before the capitulation of Vicksburg, Mississippi, General Grant acknowledges receipt of a letter from Major Eaton. Relates that, based on Eaton's request, he will forward a recommendation for the promotion of Colonel John W. Fuller...

GLC05485.01

to John Eaton

General Grant states "I should have liked to have seen you ... about ... utilizing the negroes down about Grand Junction, Tenn. In writing on that subject for my book I had to rely on memory." States that the first volume of his personal memoirs is...

GLC05485.02.01

[Description of a note from General Ulysses S. Grant]

General Eaton describes a note given to him by General Ulysses S. Grant (see GLC05485.02.01). States that Grant's note was written at Mt. McGregor, Wilton, New York. Asserts that General Grant handed him the note after they witnessed a sermon by D...

GLC05485.02.02

to Abraham Lincoln

True copy of a letter from General Grant to President Lincoln, written one week after the surrender of Vicksburg, Mississippi to Grant. Grant encloses a report (not included) created by General John Eaton discussing African Americans within his...

GLC05485.03

[General order regarding the presence of non-soldier African Americans in military camp]

Written from Fort Donelson, Tennessee. General Grant states that "orders ... prohibit negroes from coming into camp. When they are brought in by an officer or soldier they must be turned out ... owners are not to be permitted to search the camp on...

GLC05529

Houston tri-weekly telegraph. [Vol. 30, no. 155, whole no. 3886 (March 22, 1865)]

Dispatches regarding the defeat & capture of General Early by Sheridan, Sherman in Fayetteville, NC, Guerrillas active in Kentucky, 25,000 loyal blacks being organized into regiments by Sherman.

GLC05959.54.42