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to Mary Mayberry

Says heat is bad, but he feels better than he ever has except for loneliness. Says "I have not the least caus[e] to complain only some times when I am off of duty and get to thinking and studying I will get low spirited when thinking of home and...

GLC02829.15

to his sister

Tells her he is now steaming up the English Channel and that he will send this letter by the first port they land in, either Calais or Dover. Left the waters around Brest on 17 January to go to Cadiz in order to reprovision, get coal, and have the...

GLC02828.13

to Mary Mayberry

Says he received her letter with his mother's letter about a week ago. Says he waited to write until he finished the clothes and had them shipped by the Express Office. They were made as close to the measurements sent to him as possible. Says she...

GLC02829.11

George Washington

One photograph entitled, "George Washington," taken by Keith Carter dated 1990. Image is of a young Black boy holding a gilt-framed print of Gilbert Stuart's "Athenaeum," a portrait of President George Washington.

GLC04502

An Ordinance to dissolve the Union between the state of Texas...

Addressed to James Loving on verso. With collateral tintype of unidentified man.

GLC04482

Album of 200 cartes de visite, most by Brady. [word processed inventory available]

Album with "A.A." initials embossed on front knob. Includes images of Lincoln, Mary Lincoln (2), Lincoln's Cabinet, generals, writers, emancipated people, prisoners of war, Confederate leaders, etc. Lacks one clasp. Due to album's fragility, pages...

GLC04609

Photographs of Atlanta and environs during occupation by Federal Troops

Unmounted photographs of Atlanta, Kennesaw, Resaca and environs during Union occupation in the Fall of 1864. Nos. 1 and 2 are a composite photograph of Kennesaw Mountain, taken shortly after the battle (illustrated in Voices of the Civil War: Atlanta...

GLC04610

Battles and battleflags of the 89th Regiment, N. Y. S. Vols.

One undated albumen print entitled, "Battles and Battleflags of the 89th Regiment, N.Y.S. Vols." Image is a collage composed of two separate images of printed lists of Civil War battles where the New York's 89th Regiment was present, the United...

GLC04558.208

Tintype photograph taken by Cole in 1858, in later case; campaign image

Tintype, apparently based on Ostendorf 14 (the tintype reverses the image). Hamilton & Ostendorf, Lincoln in Photographs, p. 28 suggests that Roderick M. Cole of Peoria made the image about 1858. (See GLC 590.)

GLC03950

[Collection of John H. Worcester, H company, 7th regiment, New Hampshire, infantry] [Decimalized .01- .41]

The collection includes documents and letters written to the Worcester family, especially the father, John, from Lieutenant John H. Worcester and his younger brother Charles H. Worcester. John was wounded at Fort Wagner, South Carolina, and taken...

GLC03974