20 September 1847

Wool, John Ellis, 1784-1869

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Martin J. Townsend

Thanks Townsend and the people of Troy, New York, for their acknowledgments after the Battle of Buena Vista. Discusses the battle and Winfield Scott's negotiations with Santa Anna. Predicts any additional fighting will be with small guerrilla parties. Wool and Townsend were both from Troy. With an initialed postscript.

GLC02642

17 September 1845

Crozet, A., fl. 1845

Autograph letter signed

Title: to the Honorable Senate of the United States of America

Co-signed by Ulysses S. Grant and fifteen other brevet second lieutenants protesting L.R. Quimby's promotion on the grounds of their seniority.

GLC02643

22 September 1847

Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866

Autograph endorsement signed

Title: [Orders for the arrest of Mexican soldiers]

Winfield Scott's endorsement, countersigned by Henry Lee Scott on David McTeager's letter. Refers to General John A. Quitman the matter of arresting Mexican soldiers who, disguised as civilians, have returned to the neighborhood of Jesus Maria to collect arms. The conspiracy was organized by Father MacNamara, an Irish Catholic priest.

GLC02644

30 April 1847

Scott, H.L. (Henry Lee), 1814-1886

Document

Title: General orders No. 128

Signed by H. L. Scott. Marching orders toward Mexico City.

GLC02646

28 November 1846

Semmes, Raphael, 1809-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to David Conner

Reports that the Mexican brig Creole had been boarded and burned by men under his command during a blockade of Vera Cruz. The destruction of the Creole has obliterated Vera Cruz's commerce, as she was the city's only ship. Written as lieutenant, commanding the U.S. brig Somers.

GLC02647

1861-1883

McParlin, Thomas A., 1825-1897

Header Record

Title: [Collection of Dr. Thomas A. McParlin][Decimalized .01-.48]

Includes personal and professional letters and documents to and from Dr. Thomas A. McParlin, medical director of the Army of Virginia and the army of the Potomac during the Civil War. Among the individuals represented in this archive are Secretary of War Simon Cameron, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, generals George Meade, George D. Ruggles, John Pope, Rufus Ingalls, noted reformer Dorothea Dix, and numerous Civil War medical officers. Documents include wartime and post-war items. Of particular interest is a lengthy (40 page) manuscript report, prepared by McParlin for General William A.…

GLC02649

1864/07/12

Potts, J. J., fl. 1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Col. J. S. Ford re: spy report on Union forces to Texas Rangers

Potts, in this letter, notes that he is unable to serve in the military.

GLC02652

20 November circa 1861-1862

Fremont, John Charles, 1813-1890

Letter signed

Title: to Colonel E. Jay Allen

Possibly to Colonel Edward Jay Allen of the 155th Pennsylvania Infantry. No year indicated. General Fremont writes, "...I am sincerely gratified by the regard of yourself and your command. It will certainly give me pleasure to have you with me and so soon as I am ordered into the field I will do that best I can to have you there too." Notes that he plans to return to St. Louis, Missouri (Fremont was removed from command of the Department of the West in November 1861).

GLC02653

18 December 1874

Fagan, James Fleming, 1828-1893

Document signed

Title: [Authorization for payment of a Posse Comitatus]

Also signed by Andy McDavid and J.H. Lauderback. James Churchill and J.W. Harrul signed as clerks. John Speaker signed as a witness. Fagan, as the U.S. Marshal for the Western District of Arkansas, authorizes J.H. Lauderback to hire Andy McDavid to enact several arrests as a member of his Posse Comitatus. McDavid hired to arrest persons in the Indian Nation for murder, assault with intent to kill, open liquor, selling liquor, and larceny. McDavid details his travels through parts of Texas and Arkansas to perform arrests. Successful arrests include Polly Blackcoat and Andrew Jackson,…

GLC02656

25 April 1854

Buchanan, James, 1791-1868

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Nahum Capen

Discusses Capen's book, The History of Democracy, and mentions people to whom he has sent it, including members of the press who have responded favorably to it. Comments that although he is doing well in England, he is looking forward to the end of his mission so that he may return home. Written as Minister to Great Britain on stationary printed with "Legation of The United States. London." With later typewritten copy of the letter.

GLC02658

29 September 1828

Houston, Sam, 1793-1863

Document signed

Title: [Land grant to Thomas Seitz]

Land grant to Thomas Seitz signed by Sam Houston as Governor of Tennessee, and countersigned by Daniel Graham as Secretary. Notes, "State of Tennessee no 451." Red seal on upper left corner.

GLC02659

16 August 1899

Hampton, Wade, 1818-1902

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph Wheeler

Writes to Wheeler, a former Confederate general, about an article Wheeler wrote and corrects some mistakes. Explains that he was asked to correct them by former Confederate soldiers under his command who are still loyal to the Confederacy and felt that Wheeler's intimation that they had deserted did not do them justice. Explains why a plan to take Confederate President Jefferson Davis across the Mississippi River failed and supplies extracts of correspondence from April 1865 to help explain his points. Discusses how he heard of the surrender of Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston to…

GLC02662

16 July 1761 - 21 July 1775

Thomas, Joshua, fl. 1775-1776

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Massachusetts regimental orderly book]

Massachusetts regimental book regarding recruiting, movements, provisions, court martials, etc. The first 23.5 pages cover entries and accounts made by an unnamed leader of a regiment from Middleborough, Massachusetts, stationed mostly at Crown Point, New York in July-November 1761. Crown Point had been captured by the British in 1759, and since that time served as a defensive outpost. The entries speak to Jeffrey Amherst's military strategy of maintaining a military presence in the newly won territory and the difficulties-particularly with preventing desertions and maintaining provisions-…

GLC02663

5-22 July 1862

Gardner, Horace B., fl. 1862

Header Record

Title: [Collection of Horace B. Gardner]

Letters dated July 5, 12, and 22 1862. First McClellan lettersheet with McClellan patriotic, second on choice multicolor Magnus General Halleck lettersheet, eagle and shield patriotic. Last on plain paper with multicolor Magnus White House Views patriotic. Letters mention deserters, a duel, Fort Albany's artillery. All addressed to same Massachusetts address. Written at Fort Frederick (also known as Fort Albany)

GLC02665

circa 1871

Safford, A.P.K. (Anson Peasley Keeler), 1830-1891

Manuscript document

Title: [Autobiographical account of Safford, Governor of Arizona] [Incomplete]

Cites his birth as 1828 in Hyde Park, Vermont, to Joseph W. Safford and Dyanthia P. Little. Reports on his early childhood, including a move to Illinois. States that after his parents' deaths, he placed his little sister in school and sought his fortune gold mining in California, where he studied extensively in his spare time and was elected to the legislature of California in 1857. After working as a politician and business man, he pursued his fortune in the Nevada silver mines. Reports being appointed United States Surveyor General for Nevada in 1869, and Governor of the Arizona…

GLC02666

20 May 1792

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Jackson

Informs that he has advanced upwards of $1100 on Madame de la Val's account, which is in addition to the $1000 Jackson already advanced on the account of Mr. Hinks in Boston. States that General Rufus Putnam gave him $1200 on Jackson's account. Remarks that he will do whatever possible to protect Jackson, "You may rely my dear sir that I shall exert my upmost not only to prevent you being injured, but great to benefit you." Addressed to General Henry Jackson in Massachusetts. Possible free frank indicated by Knox's signature on the address leaf.

GLC02667

1774/10/20

Continental Congress, 1774-1789

Broadside

Title: Extracts from votes and proceedings of Continental Congress

Full title: "The following extracts from the votes and prceedings of the American Continental Congress, we are induced to publish early purely to ease the impatience of our readers. Association & C." Printed by T[homas] R. J. Fleet.

GLC02668

1800-1855 ca.

Bailey family

Header Record

Title: War of 1812 documents and correspondence including muster rolls [decimalized .001 - .107]

Mostly receipts, militia muster rolls, etc. relating to the Bailey family. Includes some legal documents before and after the war. Also contains correspondence of the Flitner family (1850s) and a single letter concerning the Union blockade off the North Carolina coast.

GLC02669

circa July 1863

Bachelder, John B. (John Badger), 1825-1894

Header Record

Title: [Sketchbooks and drawings of Civil War subjects, mostly Gettysburg] Decimalized .01 - .07

GLC02670

circa 1862

Bachelder, John B. (John Badger), 1825-1894

Sketchbook

Title: [Sketchbook of miscellaneous drawings] [word processed inventory available]

Includes seven pencil and watercolor sketches. None are identified and all are in different stages of completion. Images include two mountain scenes, a battle scene, a courthouse, soldiers with a cannon, an unidentified town, and infantry on parade. Bound with an unglazed cloth cover.

GLC02670.02

circa 1863

Bachelder, John B. (John Badger), 1825-1894

Sketch

Title: Union counter attack during Pickett's charge, Gettysburg. July 3, 1863

Pencil and watercolor sketch. Landscape of battlefield from above showing men during Pickett's charge. Unfinished with vivid blues and greens. Title is written in pencil on verso. Possibly cut from sketchbook GLC02670.01.

GLC02670.03

1874

Bachelder, John B. (John Badger), 1825-1894

Sketchbook

Title: [Postwar sketchbook: Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad] [word processed inventory available]

Postwar sketchbook of scenery along the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad. Mostly nature scenes like Scranton Gorge, Seneca Lake in Watkins NY, and Paupack Falls in Hawley, Pennsylvania. One pre-war sketch of Gilmanton, New Hampshire Academy, dated 1857 where Bachelder probably went to school. Some sketches are signed, titled, and dated. Some are unfinished. Pencil with watercolor, gray/black wash or ink. Blank pages at the end. Bound in a purple stamped cloth case style binding.

GLC02672

circa 1852-1893

Bachelder, John B. (John Badger), 1825-1894

Sketch

Title: [Collection of sketches and watercolors] [decimalized]

Consists of sketches of mostly scenery but some house portraits, monument studies, and notes. Watercolor and graphite. The dates span from 1852 to 1893 but many are undated scenes of Pennsylvania and the New York Finger Lakes region from 1874-1875. One sketch, accompanied by notes and a clipping relates to the United States Centennial exposition of 1876 (#18, 19 ). Another sketch is of the White House Green Room probably circa 1867 (#6). Some sketches appear to have been removed from sketchbooks. The original order of undated drawings cannot be determined. Includes four engravings of…

GLC02673

1877-1900

Photograph

Title: [Stereocard of John B Bachelor]

My Uncle John B. Bachelder. Born in Gilmanton N.H. 1825. Artist and Historian. [inscription on verso] Stereocard of middle-aged JBB reading a newspaper.

GLC02673.36

22 March 1866

Tate, Jerry M., fl. 1866

Manuscript document

Title: Agreement hiring a freeman

Signed '"J.M. Tate and B.F. Wells." Also signed by "George." Tate and Wells agree to to pay George, a freedman, $35.00 for his services. Possibly a clerical copy.

GLC02674.01