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[receipt for Woodson Johnson's county, slave, land and horse taxes]

GLC09302.052

[receipt for Woodson Johnson's county, slave, land and horse taxes]

GLC09302.053

[handwriting practice, possibly punishment]

repeats command your mind from play throughout page

GLC09302.054

[Receipt for Rawley Johnson]

GLC09302.055

[Receipt for Bayleys Lymus]

received part of a note from Woodson Johnson in Dallas?

GLC09302.056

[Bill for Harvey and Johnson]

Harvey and Johnson owe money for tobacco.

GLC09302.057

[record of Woodson Johnson's account having been paid in full]

GLC09302.058

[receipt or part of a letter at one point]

looks as though it was used as scrap paper. math problems on back.

GLC09302.059

[receipt for Woodson Johnson]

paid for salt and iron

GLC09302.060

[receipt for Woodson Johnson]

says the receipt is for "dealings" in the year 1839

GLC09302.061

[receipt for Woodson Johnson]

received for medical services.

GLC09302.062

[receipt for Woodson Johnson]

paid in part for horse shoes

GLC09302.063

[list of tasks or things to do]

GLC09302.064

[sales receipt for R.G Johnson]

GLC09302.065

News by Telegraph.

Headlines "Good News by McClellan! The Rebels Beaten in the F[i]ght of Tuesday!" reporting the Seven Days Battles; article on "The Army Signal Corps-How Intelligence is Transmitted"; and reactions to "the news of the sanction given by the people of...

GLC09303

to Dr. J.J. Wardlaw

Former Alabama slave owner comments on Reconstruction: "There will be in this country great distress and destitution; hundreds of men who were in good circumstances before the war are completely ruined. Suing and being sued is the order of the day...

GLC09311

News by Telegraph

Includes the New York Herald's reports of McClellan's battles in the Peninsular Campaign; summarizes the news recently received from Europe; reports on "The Colored Race in Illinois" concerning the denial of "negroes" the right to vote in Illinois.

GLC09314

to R.L. Wilson

As Brig. General and Adj. General, to R. L. Wilson: "...You are hereby informed that the President of the United States has appointed you First Lieutenant in the Seventh Regiment Louisiana Volunteers of African Descent."

GLC09318

to Sara McMillan

Captain in the 8th Regiment Iowa Infantry, earlier taken prisoner at Shiloh and later paroled: "My vengeful feelings are the hardest to keep down, when thinking of those in the free North, who would prefer giving up to that Tyrant, Jeff. Davis who is...

GLC09319

General Orders No, 3

Brig. Gen. commanding Military District of Western South Carolina during the Southern Occupation period, orders equal rights for the newly freed black population. Recounts incidents of abuse of freedmen and threatens punishment if such acts continue...

GLC09325

[Collection of York Woodward] [Decimalized .01- .18]

15 letters written by a Freedman's Bureau Superintendent, from January 1866 to February 1868. Many are from Abingdon, VA, and reveal the personal responses and official actions of a Pennsylvania veteran who served throughout the Occupied South as a...

GLC09327

[to unknown recipient]

GLC09327.01

[to unknown recipient]

GLC09327.02

[to unknown recipient]

Either the 19th or the 25 of January as letter states "Friday Evening".

GLC09327.03

[to unknown recipient]

GLC09327.04

[to unknown recipient]

GLC09327.05

[to "Souli"]

GLC09327.06

[to unknown recipient]

GLC09327.07

[to unknown recipient]

GLC09327.08

[to unknown recipient]

GLC09327.09

[to unknown recipient]

GLC09327.10

[to unknown recipient]

GLC09327.11

[to unknown recipient]

GLC09327.12

[to unknown recipient]

GLC09327.13

[to "Sauiee"]

GLC09327.14

[unknown]

Note with enclosed hair.

GLC09327.16

[to unknown recipient]

GLC09327.17

[York Woodward carte de visite]

GLC09327.18

Minutes of the Proceedings of the Thirteenth American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery...

"Minutes of the Proceedings of the Thirteenth American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and Improving the Condition of the African Race Assembled at Philadelphia..." Reports on schools for African-Americans, kidnapping, arrests of...

GLC09328

to C.H. Howard

To C. H. Howard, an editor/publisher in Chicago, acknowledging receipt of six copies of a "little Letter" he had written. "I very rarely write anything for a newspaper. Almost all my articles appear first in Circulars." He cannot promise to write any...

GLC09329.01

To the voters of Oswego and Madison counties New York

Thanking them for electing him to a seat in Congress, and reprising his anti-slavery, pro-equality platform.

GLC09329.02

[Decree]

Decree issued by the Kentucky Circuit Court at Fayette, awarding payment to Clay, who held the mortgage on a property including slaves, which must be sold to pay him. Clay adds an addendum specifying that a young girl not listed on the mortgage be...

GLC09331

[List of slaves]

"A Schedule of the negro slaves, the separate property of Obedience Aurelia Runnels, wife of Hiram G. Runnels," lists 29 slaves by name, age, sex and complexion. This may have been produced in anticipation of an imminent duel between Hiram Runnels...

GLC09344

[Legal document transferring a slave woman's ownership]

Legal document from Nausau Island, New York, conveying a "Negro woman called…Candes thirty odd years of age" to Joseph Coles for 65 pounds, from Thomas Smith and John Butler, executors of the estate of Richard Butler.

GLC09345.01

Carrier's Address To the Patrons of the Boonsboro Odd Fellow.

"Carrier's Address To the Patrons of the Boonsboro Odd Fellow." Maryland pro-slavery broadside with two columns of text in verse, dealing with the political troubles of the day, including a section ridiculing abolitionist John Brown, who had been...

GLC09346

[to unknown]

GLC09354.04

to Mary "Mollie" McLean

Written "in the field." The "Johnnies" have been skirmishing with their infantry and artillery. They have a strong position. They have three regiments of colored troops but they have not been let in yet.

GLC02161.127

to Mary Ann Davis

Written at Camp Lyon to a friend. Talks of mutual acquaintances, (including a death, one in an "insane retreat" and one who goes down town and returns "pretty tight"), Christmas (when he hears a sermon by an African missionary on "what shall be done...

GLC02165.01

to Mary Ann Davis

Written at Vermilion Bayou to a friend. Describes reading Mary's letters on the march, and the expansive plantation of a Rebel General "Moota" (perhaps General Alfred Mouton), commenting "you can imagine how things will look here in a day or two, not...

GLC02165.15

to Mary Ann Davis

Written from "Lakeport, La." to a friend. Talks of the visit of the wife of his friend, William Hoyt, whom he will be sad to see leave as he enjoys having a "respectable female friend to chat with." Talks of how he wants to leave the army--"what a...

GLC02165.17