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Reports "within 3 weeks, you will hear tell of the Battle of Manassas Junction for Gen. McClellan has deceided to take that place what ever it may cost them. the campaign in Virginia will be over. And I guess we the Pennsylvania Reserve will have to...

GLC03523.08.22

Ambulance Wagons on the Battle-Field of Bull Run

E. & H. T. Anthony.

GLC05137.008

The Battlefield of Bull Run

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. Caption: "Soldiers and part of a Battery, on the Battlefield of 'Bull Run.'" One cannon in place and it appear

GLC05137.207

Confederate Quaker Guns at Centreville, Va. [March 1862]

Inscription on verso: "Battle of Bull Run. Confederate Quaker guns at Centreville, Va." Inscription in another hand "F. H. Meserve Collection" Numeric notation: "5430G/2" Image of Union soldiers posed inside a fort with "Quaker guns." The...

GLC05111.01.0374

The Robinson House at Manassas Battlefield [Henry Hill]. [March 1862 ca.]

A view of the Robinson House and front yard. Numeric Notation: "319 I"

GLC05111.01.0405

Ruins of Bull Run stone bridge, Manassas, Va. [March 1862 ca.]

View looks down the stream and shows the ruined stone bridge at Manassas battlefield. The structure is mostly intact on both banks of the water, middle span has collapsed. A pile of rubble is visible in the water below. A covered wago, perhaps...

GLC05111.01.0559

Ruins of Stone Bridge on Manassas battlefield.

Stone bridge foundation remains in right foreground and sparse vegetation. The bridge once spanned Bull Run--site of fierce fighting in 1861 and 1862. Numeric notation on verso: "3/0." Taken by Barnard & Gibson in March 1862. (Photographic History of...

GLC05111.01.0802

Soldiers and Cannon, at Bull Run [stereocard]

Inscription on verso: "War Views. No. 2060. Soldiers and part of a Battery, on the Battlefield of Bull Run." Numeric notation on verso: "44."

GLC05111.01.0830

Bridge span over Bull Run

This image shows a single soldier standing on a bridge just a few days before the second battle at Bull Run. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notation on verso: "IV" and "547."

GLC05111.01.0968

Bull Run monument

The image shows a soldiers monument on which the plaque states: "In Memory of the Patriots Who Fell at Bull Run." The monument is surrounded by a wood fence, and in the distance cows are grazing. Inscriptions on verso: "Gardner" and "Bull Run...

GLC05111.01.1100

To his wife

Rainy weather, rebels hold city, rebel pickets taunting about election, Bull Run and Antietam; Colonel courtmartialed twice for drunkenness but cleared, Colonel and regiment's surgeon trying to get regiment out of battle area, soldiers mutilating...

GLC04558.055

[Diary of Samuel G. Gottshall]

Leather bound autograph manuscript signed. Describes activity at Fort Donelson (the Battle of Fort Donelson was fought from 11 February to 16 February 1862), Yorktown (Siege of Yorktown took place from 5 April to 4 May 1862, as part of the Peninsula...

GLC04564.03

Battle of Young's Branch; or, Manassas Plain, Fought July 21, 1861

Co-authored with James M. Catlett. First edition copy published in Richmond by Enquirer Book and Job Press. Folded map (39.2 x 29 cm.) in front of book of the Centerville-Manassas, Virginia area. Says it is a "Map of the country occupied by the...

GLC04061

to Elizabeth Smith

A description of the old Bull Run battlefield. He describes trees cut in half and open graves. "We passed over an old Battle Field they say it was one of Bull Run Battles. I saw a number of Graves Some with legs out. Some with arms out & Some...

GLC04189.48

Incidents of the War. Ruins of Stone Bridge, Bull Run, Va. March, 1862.

The ruins of the small bridge occupy the front and center of the image. A man sits on the ruins on the left-hand side of the image. The desolate, battle-scarred Manassas landscape fills the background. Negative by Barnard & Gibson, positive by A...

GLC03588.01

to Benjamin Welch

Discusses his relief from command of the Army of Virginia and the political maneuverings that have undermined his reputation and led to his relief. "Whether the impression already made upon the public mind by this cause of designed and persistent...

GLC04704

to Almira Winchell

Describes hard marching between Culpepper and Centreville, and crossing the old Bull Run Battlefield where the skeletons of those killed were visible. Writes, "[L]ast week we Crossed the old bull run battle Field and we could See lots of Skeletons...

GLC04706.04

Southern confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 186 (September 23, 1862)]

Reprints "The Official Report of Gen. Pope--His Excuses for His Defeat"; caption reads "As a prominent feature in the history of this war, we give Pope's official report of the battles of Manassas. It is pregnant with lies". Other articles include:...

GLC05959.09.072

Daily picayune. (New Orleans, La.)

Vol. 26, nos.199 and 272. 4 p. each. 1862/09/14 and 1862/12/09. Volume 272 is printed on darker paper.

GLC05959.16

Daily picayune. [Vol. 26, no. 199 (September 14, 1862)]

Extended articles on the Battle of Manassas and Surrender of Clarksville. Updates on the movements of armies in the North. Contains several poems and miscellaneous ads, including for dentistry, venereal diseases, and harnesses. Two major rips are...

GLC05959.16.01

Fayetteville observer. [Vol. 43, no. 2362 (September 8, 1862)]

Great Victory at Manassas, Message of the President, The Late Battles in Virginia.

GLC05959.34.05

Confederate Baptist. [Vol. 1, no. 6 (November 4, 1862)]

"Southern Resources" examines the results of the 1860 census in terms of wealth and numbers for the Confederacy. "Northern Mind," a short editorial, decries Lincoln's [preliminary] Emancipation Proclamation. "Secular News" includes reports that Union...

GLC05959.39.04

Tri-weekly mercury. [Vol. 81, no. 11, 496 (July 10, 1862)]

The Battles Before Richmond, The Siege of Vicksburg, Recapture of BR, Full Yankee Accounts.

GLC05959.44.19

The Tri-weekly telegraph. [Vol. 28, no. 97, whole no. 3592 (October 29, 1862)]

Report of Jack Hamilton. Battle of Manassas. News from the Potomac. Editorial on the signs of the times. Fugitive slave ad.

GLC05959.51.054

Daily dispatch. [Vol. 23, no. 73 (September 26, 1862)]

Cofederate victory over the Yankees at Shepherdstown, Interesting incidents of the late Battle of Manassas, News that the recent Battle at Sharpsburg is not being considered a Federal victory, Scenes after the surrender at Harper's Ferry Bridge...

GLC05959.56.113

Richmond Whig & public advertiser. [no. 67 (March 7, 1862)]

Battle of Manassas.

GLC05959.71.01

Correspondence to Manning F. Force re: Fitz-John Porter, etc. [decimalized]

A collection of one hundred five items related to General John Pope, first commander of the Army of Virginia. General Pope was assigned the command of the fledgling Army by President Lincoln and his Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton. The main scope of...

GLC06762

to General Sherman

With 4 page insert: "Extracts from reports of the operations of the Army of Northern Virginia."

GLC06762.004

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations.

GLC06762.045

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations. Followed by blank half leaf.

GLC06762.051

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations.

GLC06762.052

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations.

GLC06762.053

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations.

GLC06762.054

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations.

GLC06762.055

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations.

GLC06762.056

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations.

GLC06762.057

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations.

GLC06762.058

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations. Followed by blank half leaf.

GLC06762.059

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations.

GLC06762.060

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations. Marked confidential

GLC06762.061

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations. Followed by blank half leaf.

GLC06762.062

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations.

GLC06762.063

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations.

GLC06762.064

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations.

GLC06762.065

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

GLC06762.066

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

GLC06762.067

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations

GLC06762.068

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

GLC06762.069

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations

GLC06762.070

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations. Followed by blank half leaf.

GLC06762.071

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

GLC06762.072

to John Pope

marked confidential

GLC06762.073

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations. Followed by blank half leaf.

GLC06762.074

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations.

GLC06762.075

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations. Followed by blank half leaf.

GLC06762.076

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations.

GLC06762.077

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations. Followed by blank half leaf. envelope date 19 March.

GLC06762.078

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations.

GLC06762.079

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations. Followed by blank half leaf.

GLC06762.080

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

GLC06762.081

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

GLC06762.082

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations. Followed by blank half leaf. Envelope dated 12 December.

GLC06762.083

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations. Followed by blank half leaf.

GLC06762.084

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations.

GLC06762.085

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations.

GLC06762.086

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations. Followed by blank half leaf.

GLC06762.087

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations. Followed by blank half leaf.

GLC06762.088

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations. Followed by blank half leaf.

GLC06762.089

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations.

GLC06762.090

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations.

GLC06762.091

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations.

GLC06762.092

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations.

GLC06762.093

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations. Followed by blank half leaf.

GLC06762.094

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

GLC06762.095

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

some insect damage. with annotations

GLC06762.096

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations.

GLC06762.097

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations. Followed by blank half leaf.

GLC06762.098

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations.

GLC06762.099

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations.

GLC06762.100

[The Chicago Tribune]

"Fitz John Porter. Senator Logan Replies to Gen. Grant's Recent Magazine Article. The History of the Case Reviewed at Length...etc."

GLC06762.101

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations.

GLC06762.102

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations.

GLC06762.103

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations.

GLC06762.104

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations. Followed by blank half leaf.

GLC06762.105

to Sarah Ogden

Thanks Ogden for her kindness. Says he wished to write sooner, but found it impossible because of his regiment's movements. Reports seeing many battles, stating that Gaines Mills, Manassas, Cramptons Gap, and Antietam were "the hardest fought."...

GLC06559.020

to Andrew Jackson Smith

Pope recommends to Major General Smith that McParlin be brevetted to the ranks of Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel for his service on 29-30 August 1862 (Second Battle of Manassas) and Brigadier General for his service as Medical Director of the Army of...

GLC02649.31

to Andrew Jackson Smith

A copy of GLC02649.31 (so marked), but with a different place of address and date. Pope recommends to Major General Smith that McParlin be brevetted to the ranks of Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel for his service on 29-30 August 1862 (Second Battle...

GLC02649.32

five letters to his family

There are five letters on one folded sheet. Includes two letters from Epperly to Mary Epperly, one letter from Epperly to Harvey D. Phleagar, one letter from Epperly to his "Mother" Catharine Phleagar, and a letter to his "Brothers." Mentions a...

GLC02715.027

[Collection of Henry S. Figures, F company, 4th regiment, Alabama, infantry] [Decimalized .01- .33]

Figures was a member of Law's Brigade, Longstreet Division, of the 4th Alabama Infantry. Letters mention prisoners from the "Star of the West," the Battles of Manassas, Yorktown, Fredericksburg and Gettysburg, enslaved people, etc. Figures was...

GLC00653.01

to Abraham Lincoln

Petition to President Lincoln recommending "the immediate removal of George B. McClellan from the Command of any army of the United States," signed by Chase, Stanton, and Smith. These three members of Lincoln's cabinet feel "constrained to urge this...

GLC00776

to Captain Julius Walker Adams

Fitz-John Porter remarks that he recently traveled to Washington, D.C. for business. Discusses the board evaluating his conduct in the Battle of Second Manassas. Remarks that Major Gardiner plans to attempt to gain support from the Secretary of War...

GLC00214.02.03

to Captain Julius Walker Adams

Refers to his lawyers John C. Bullitt and Joseph Hodges Choate. Mentions General Irvin McDowell, dispatches pertaining to his case from 1862, and a letter he (Porter) sent to Adjutant General Edward Davis Townsend concerning the testimony McDowell...

GLC00214.02.07

to Colonel Julius Walker Adams

The year for the date is inferred from the letter's content. The letter mentions Generals Irvin McDowell and David Hunter, in reference to an investigation called to reevaluate Porter's actions at the Battle of Second Manassas. He remarks, "There is...

GLC00214.02.13

Review by the judge advocate general of the proceedings, findings, and sentence of a general court martial held in the City of Washington...

(title continues)... for the trial of Major General Fitz John Porter, of the United States Volunteers. Includes a record of Porter's court-martial.

GLC00267.312

Argument of Asa Bird Gardner, counsel for government, after conclusion of the evidence in the case of Fitz-John Porter before the Board of Army officers at West Point, January, 1879.

Discusses the reevaluation of General Porter's conduct during the Battle of Second Manassas. Includes a fold-out "Letter-press descriptive of illustrative map no. 1 of counsel for the government." Fold-out has been partially detached from binding.

GLC00267.313

Speech of Honorable Theodore F. Randolph of New Jersey, in the Senate of the United States, Monday, March 1, 1880...

(title continues)... on the bill for the restoration of General Fitz John Porter to the United States Army. Argues in support of Porter. Signed by Randolph on the front cover.

GLC00267.314

[Report of Service as Medical Director of the Army of Virginia during the summer of 1862]

The report sent to General William A. Hammond on 2 May 1863 (see GLC02649.02). Written mostly in a narrative form the report, with some charts, maps and other media included, provides a detailed and dramatic history of medical procedures and services...

GLC02649.01

[Collection of George W. Ladd, B company, 2nd regiment, New Hampshire, infantry] [Decimalized .01- .08]

Collection of 7 letters including commander's letter regarding his death at the Second Battle of Manassas.

GLC03057

to Mrs. Abbott

He writes on the death of her son, George Abbott. He praises him and gives somes of the details surrounding his death. Everyone loved him as a brother.

GLC03057.07

to James Lyons

Davis informs Lyons that General Robert E. Lee sent a dispatch indicating that General William B. Taliaferro was slightly wounded at Manassas Junction (during the second Battle of Manassas, AKA Bull Run). He does not want Lyons to be alarmed by...

GLC01651