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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

[Men and Women's Emancipation petitions]

Blank, unsigned petitions for the emancipation of slavery. Folded document. First page is titled "Women's Emancipation Petition," second page is titled "Men's Emancipation Petition." Calls on the U.S. House and Senate to abolish slavery throughout...

GLC07202.05

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 Laura Jackson Arnold re: secession and preservation of the Union

"But if after we have done all that we can do for an honorable preservation of the Union, there shall be a determination on our part by the free states to deprive us of our rights which the fair interpretation of the constitution... guarantees to us...

GLC07079

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

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