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to J. M. Haldeman

Relates the events of his visit to Jackson's farm in Tennessee. Describes Jackson as a "great American Cincinnatus," friendly, personable, and even-tempered. Says Jackson prefers a quiet life, "but will serve the people, if by them chosen."...

GLC03199

to J. E. Boos

Reminiscences about John Brown by a former follower. Gives a physical description of Brown, and discusses Brown's conviction to always fight for what was right. "He said the Lord had created him to be the deliverer of the slaves from bondage, the...

GLC03227

to Seth Lewis

Lewis writes an eloquent letter to his nephew Seth, in Marshall, Michigan. Comments on the Civil War, his good health, and his ability to make a good living despite "the high prices of all we have to buy and the low rates of what little we have to...

GLC03229.01

Uncle Tom's cabin

Inscribed by Stowe to Edward W. Seymour, dated June 27, 1890, with quotation from Psalms 72:12, "He shall deliver the needy when he crieth, the poor, & him that hath no Helper." A later edition, printed by Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

Edward Woodruff...

GLC03363

to George & Cyrus Dickson re: religion of whites in Illinois, Indian mission

Dwells at considerable length upon a meeting with the Chief of the Potawatamie Indians, who accused white traders of using liquor to "destroy his people"

GLC03383

[Artillery park in Vicksburg captured at its surrender with Methodist and Catholic Churchs behind]

A print of a photograph taken near Vicksburg, MS in 1863 after Confederate loss of the city to the Union Army. Inscription on verso: "One of the parks of artillery Vicksburg captured at its surrender Methodist Church in the front Catholic Church...

GLC05111.01.0090

to unknown

Whittier declines an invitation to a religious festival because it coincides with the Quarterly Meeting of Friends (Quakers) at Amesbury, Massachusetts. He discusses schisms within his correspondent's religious community, particularly the debate over...

GLC05092.01

to Sallie E. Bickford

Whittier declines Bickford's invitation to a Union meeting because he has a Quaker meeting the day before in Amesbury.

GLC05092.02

[Program for the play Hiawatha]

Performed at the Shawmut Universalist Church. Includes pencil notes (possibly designating who will perform each part). Contains a list of names on verso of persons responsible for different aspects of production. The name "Sarah Bickford" is...

GLC05092.03.01

to Eliza Brooke, Jr.

News of a Quaker community in Philadelphia, where she had recently moved. Includes comments on the marriage of local couples. Signed "D. Payne."

GLC05102

Lutheran Theological Seminary from second story of Foulk House, Gettysburg, PA., 12 July 1863 ca.

Taken by Gutekunst. Accompanying text panel reads: "Scenes from the battlefield at Gettysburg, PA. The Seminary. Being the left of our Line of Battle on the 1st of July. In front of the Grove to the right is the spot where General Reynolds fell."...

GLC05111.01.0227

Chambersburg Pike with Lutheran Seminary to the left. 12 July 1863 ca.

Taken by Gutekunst. Inscription on recto reads: "Chambersburg Pike. 1st day." An inscription on the verso elaborates further: "Gen'l. view of the battlefield of the first of July the road in the foreground is the Chambersburg Pike the ridge in the...

GLC05111.01.0230

Blanford Church, Petersburg, Virginia. [April 1865]

Negative by Timothy O'Sullivan, published by Alexander Gardner. From Gardner's "Photo. Sketchbook of the Civil War" Vol. 2, plate 85. With text plate attached.

GLC05111.01.0262

Charles City Court House, rear view. June 1864.

Negative by Timothy O'Sullivan, published by Alexander Gardner. Taken from Gardner's "Sketchbook of the Civil War," vol. 2, plate No. 68. The original text plate is still attached.

GLC05111.01.0263

Post-war view of Richmond from Gamble's Hill.

Former owner claims the photographer may be Tomas Roche. Taken from a slightly different angle than Gardner's famous 6 April 1865 panoramic photograph which shows the destruction of Richmond. Visible in the distance are the Spotswood Hotel [as...

GLC05111.01.0290

Dunkard Church on Antietam Battlefied, after battle damge was repaired. [July 1863]

Negative by J. Gardner. Taken from "Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War. No. 21" with text accompanying panel. Heavy fighting took place around the church, and after the battle it was used as a field hospital. This photogrpah was...

GLC05111.01.0189

Falles [sic] Church in VA

A print of a photograph of a two-story brick building. Union officers posed on horses in front of Falls Church, VA where George Washington once worshipped. It was a favorite tourist site for soldiers passing through. On the inside of the church's...

GLC05111.01.0069

Group of people in front of Church, New Berne, NC [split stereocard]

The image shows six adults and three children standing in front of a large white church. Inscription on verso: "Colored Church New Berne N.C."

GLC05111.01.1248

Camp scene with Church, Port Hudson, LA

The image shows a small camp scene, with A-frame tents in the left background, and a white wooden church. Various soldiers are scattered throughout the scene. Inscription on verso: "Port Hudson" and "Church."

GLC05111.01.1273

Church scene, Port Hudson, LA

The image shows a white wooden church with A-frame tents in the background, and a horse at rest on the left-hand edge of the photo. Inscription on verso: "Port Hudson" and "Church."

GLC05111.01.1292

Lutheran Church in Sharpsburg, Maryland, showing battle damage.

Inscription on verso: "Lutheran Church Sharpsburg, Maryland." The church shows the scars of battle suffered from artillery fire on 17 September 1862. Numeric notation on verso: "134."

GLC05111.01.0753

Dunker Church at Antietam battlefield, taken after battle damage has been repaired.

Inscription on verso: "Dunkar[d] Church (Antietam)." Numeric notation on verso: "45(916)."

GLC05111.01.0757

Dunker Church at Antietam battlefield, with dead artillery horse.

Inscription on verso: "Dunker[d] Church." Variant view of Dunker Church. In other views, the bodies of Confederate soldiers can be seen piled together amongst horse carcases and an abandoned limber. Numeric notation on verso: "48."

GLC05111.01.0758

Hall St., Sharpsburg, Maryland, with St. Paul's Episcopal Church in the distance and Gardner's photographic wagon in foreground.

Inscription on verso: "Sharpsburg-Episcopal Church in distance." View down a road in the town of Sharpsburg, with a house visible to the right and left of the road, and an Episcopal church in the distance. Numeric notation on verso: "38."

GLC05111.01.0759

Main St., Sharpsburg, Maryland, with St. Paul's Episcopal Church in the distance.

Inscription on verso: "Principal Street in Sharpsburg." Main Street stetches down a hill and then back up again toward the woods where Gen. Lee's headquarters were located oods far into the distance. Numeric notation on verso: "49."

GLC05111.01.0760

Beaufort Church, S.C., partially covered with ivy or cutzu, and a small cemetery with a man sitting on tomb.

Inscription on verso: " Beaufort Church, S.C." Numeric notation on verso: "133."

GLC05111.01.0770

The Monument [Methodist] Church, Richmond, VA.

Inscription on verso: "Monument Methodist Church." Numeric Notation on verso: "33."

GLC05111.01.0777

Church at Bull Run

An image of a building is in the background, with the remains of a stone chimney in the foreground. Inscription on verso: "Church at Bull Run." Numeric notation on verso: "58."

GLC05111.01.0800

President Lincoln's Hearse

Mourning border around image. Shows Lincoln's hearse with horses and escorts in front of Cathedral. Inscription on recto "President Lincoln's Hearse. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by Henszey & Co., Photographers, No. 812...

GLC05111.02.0041

Lincoln's funeral horse "Old Bob"

Two black men wearing overcoats, top hats, and mourning ribbons stand with Lincoln's horse in front of Lincoln's Springfield home. Ostendorf p. 32 identifies the men as Revs. Brown (left) and Trevan (right). Three additional black men gather...

GLC05111.02.0043

Walks about Richmond

Complete title: "Walks about Richmond, A story for boys, and a guide to persons visiting the city, desiring to see the principal points of interest, with an index showing the exact location of each point mentioned. (Illustrated.)" The guide is...

GLC05111.01.1384

Injured Humanity; Being A Representation of What the Unhappy Children of Africa Endure from Those Who Call Themselves Christians

Printed broadside on terrible conditions of slavery and the slave trade in the West Indies. Wood, a prolific Quaker-reformist publisher, printed and sold the broadside out of his office at 362 Pearl Street in New York. Describes the sale, horrendous...

GLC05113

to Henry B. Whipple

Long letter about the 2 October 1863 Red Lake Treaty with the Red Lake and Pembina bands of Chippewa Indians. Discusses government and missionary efforts to assimilate the Indians and the Indian resistance to adapting the "habits of the white man."...

GLC05121

Cherokee Bible [old testament]

Cherokee Bible (Genesis, Exodus, Psalms, Wisdom and Isaiah) printed at Park Hill, Cherokee Nation, by Edwin Archer. Imprint date varies slightly since Exodus is dated 1853, Genesis 1856 and the rest undated. With manuscript notations in Cherokee.

GLC05122

Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States: Being the third session of the thirty-seventh congress; ...

Title continues, " ... begun and held at the city of Washington, December 1, 1862." Compilation journal containing Abraham Lincoln's address of 1 December 1862, Ulysses S. Grant's General Order No. 11 expelling Jews from the Department of Tennessee...

GLC05165

Standing, three-quarters length view

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher.

GLC05137.232

[Henry Ward Beecher]

Verso has pencil notes of previous owner: "t[aken] @ 62-65 = 1878."

GLC05144

Life in Utah or the mysteries and crimes of Mormonism; being an expose of their secret rites and ceremonies.

Title continues: "WITH A FULL AND AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF POLYGAMY AND THE MORMON SECT, FOR ITS ORIGIN TO THE PRESENT TIME." Illustrated advertisement for a book with this title. Broadside at foot reads: "PLEASE POST THIS UP IN A CONSPICUOUS PLACE."

GLC05154

Cemetery Hill with stone wall charged by the Louisiana Tigers [Gettysburg]

Inscribed on verso. "Charged by the Louisiana Tigers." Group of visitors to the battlefield with three men wearing medals. "Sold for the benefit of the Soldier's Memorial Church to be erected on this battlefield, in which any soldier may have a...

GLC05137.037

Interior View Showing the Northeast Angle

Quinby & Co.,Charleston, S.C., publisher. Extensive caption describes Gen. Wade Hampton and Rev. Bishop Lynch and others standing by a 10-inch Columbiad gun.

GLC05137.086

Ruins of the Catholic Cathedral, Charleston, S. C

E. & H. T. Anthony, publisher. Front view of the cathedral which no longer has a roof.

GLC05137.105

'A Sayre [Satire] upon the Times'

Verse entitled "A Saytr upon ye Times." Caustic critique of an "Unhappy York," where a manipulative church and king have allowed the colony's political affairs to become rife with corruption and hypocrisy. In New York "villians triumph under a...

GLC03107.00692

to Robert Livingston re: interest in an expedition

Philip discusses how difficult it is to purchase wheat at the moment, and also requests that his father volunteer him for a tentative expedition, as he is eager to find a profitable position. He concludes by stating his suspicions of the 5 Nations...

GLC03107.00919

to Robert Livingston re: christening of Gilbert's child

Gilbert explains that he and his wife have not yet christened their child, as they are waiting for Robert and the rest of the family to arrive, which has been delayed due to weather. He also mentions that the child seems sickly, which makes them...

GLC03107.01003

to Robert Livingston re: family concerns

Vetch expresses concern over the loss of John Livingston's wife, and hopes that his wife and her sister Jo[h]anna will be in each other's company soon. He also mentions some trouble abroad relating to hostility against Protestants.

GLC03107.01007

to Robert Livingston re: invitation to learn more of Elizabeth Knight

John expresses his regret that his parents believe Elizabeth Knight to be of poor character, and asks that they write to the Minister of the North Church in Boston, where Elizabeth was brought up, in order to confirm that she is of good fortune and...

GLC03107.01019

to Robert Livingston re: political affairs

Jamison mentions a rumor of Governor Hunter's removal, discusses a growing fear of a religious war involving France and Spain, and also writes of the trouble between Samuel Vetch and Governor Nicholson. Docketed on verso.

GLC03107.01055

to Robert Livingston re: plans for the construction of a church

Hager desires Livingston's opinion on the matter of constructing a church. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.01180

to Robert Livingston re: need for an answer about the church

Hager states that there is an urgent need for an answer regarding the construction of the church. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.01185

to Robert Livingston re: request for advice on his financial situation

Hager implores Livingston for advice on how to help his family out of financial ruin. He expresses regret at spending so much money on the church, which has made him indebted to Livingston. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.01186