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1804/01/19

Truxton, Thomas, fl. 1804

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Aaron Burr re: opinion on the government's response to Barbary pirates

Giving Burr his opinion about war with the Barbary states: "If the subject of carrying a war with... the Barbary States had been properly stated to the government, a more suitable force would have been provided."

GLC06907

1850

Lamb, John, 1735-1800

Book

Title: Memoir of the Life and Times of... John Lamb

John Lamb was a General serving under Henry Knox. Memoirs were inscribed by author Isaac Leake to his son. Printed by Joel Munsell.

GLC06908

1782/09/30

De Segond, Ascher, fl. 1782

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lachlan McIntosh re: French officer's request for American army commission

Loss on p. 3 affecting closing.

GLC06909

1780/01/10

Duportail, Louis L., fl. 1780

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Nathanael Greene re: plans for a new camp near Morristown

Docketed.

GLC06910

[1780/01/15]

Duportail, Louis L., fl. 1780

Letter

Title: to Nathanael Greene re: strategies for the defense of the camp near Morristown

Fragment? Possibly a draft. Docketed on p. 2.

GLC06911

1782/01

Manuscript document

Title: List... of the French Army in America

The list provides the order, rank and pay scales of French officers and most likely belonged to Nathanael Greene. Docketed. (Slight losses to text at center left, both pages. Edges losses and water staining.)

GLC06912

1877/02/05

Schwatka, Frederick, 1846-1892

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his father re: "the Indian question"

The letter notes that Sitting Bull, "is a myth. The[re] are about 75 to 100 chiefs who rank him," and that Crazy Horse is "the only war chief of importance." Also mentions Spotted Tail and Red Cloud. Written at Camp Sheridan.

GLC06913

1836/05/14

Calhoun, J.E., fl. 1836

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his wife re: the Texas army victory over Mexico at San Jacinto

He says of the victory, "the report of Santa Anna being taken is a fact... also Genl. Cos was taken." Addressed to Mrs. C.G. Calhoun at Port Gibson, Miss. Written on pink paper. Written in Monticello

GLC06914

1875/01/27

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

Autograph endorsement signed

Title: re: the character of [James Buchanan] Eads

Endorsement on letter to Sherman from Eads. Apparently written after 1-27-1875. Sherman comments on a letter from Eads on deepening the entrance to the Mississippi River by Jetties; "He has shown the ability to finish anything he undertakes." AES on page 4 of letter, written in pencil. The letter written in purple ink. Sherman forwards to Senator (John) Sherman.

GLC06916

1862/03/22

Dahlgren, John Adolphus Bernard, 1809-1870

Letter signed

Title: to Samuel S. Cox re: the value of the American West

"The West is not to be undervalued... The copper is superb... navy howitzers have been made from it... the N. West has never before understood its interest in the Navy, they will learn now."

GLC06919

1867 ca.

Photograph signed

Title: [Reuben Eaton Fenton]

Albumen oval half-length portrait as Governor of New York. Signed in pencil. Apparently removed from an album; with a portrait of an unidentified man adhered on verso.

GLC06920

1865/01/30 ca.

Beauregard, G.T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893

Autograph endorsement signed

Title: to Philip D. Roddy re: AES on p. 3 of Roddy ALS, giving military advice

AES (undated) in pencil on Roddy letter. AES initialed three times. "The most stringent measures should be adopted against these emissaries." The note was written on the margins of the Roddy letter signed to Beauregard seeking military advice. Date of AES inferred from date of letter.

GLC06921

1862/03/24

Johnston, Joseph Egleston, 1807-1891

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Richard S. Ewell re: strategic instructions for Ewell and J.E.B Stuart

"The object of you remaining where you are is to deceive the enemy & prevent his occupying additional country. if you have to move... don't let the enemy get too close... Stuart must look well to the enemy's flanks as well as yours..."

GLC06922

1862/03/28

Johnston, Joseph Egleston, 1807-1891

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Richard S. Ewell re: the destruction in Virginia

Ewell notes, "All rolling stocks on the rail road should be sent to the rear immediately... bridges burnt and every thing destructible in the V(irginia) V(alley) destroyed... Should the enemy come on we can deal with him." The letter has been continued by turning upside down and writing between the lines.

GLC06923

[1860]/09/15

Mosby, John S., 1833-1916

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: to Clay Dennis re: his hopes for an upcoming victory

"The star of the field that so often hath poured, it's beam o'er the battle is set; but enough of its light still remains on each sword, to light us to victory yet."

GLC06924

1880/09/15

Duke, Basil Wilson, 1838-1916

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Belmont Perry re: denying a request for John Hunt's autograph

Duke also notes the rarity of Morgan's and his own wartime letters. On personal stationery.

GLC06925

1862/01/21

Norris, William, fl. 1862

Autograph letter signed

Title: Special order no. 601 of Maj. Gen. John B. Magruder re: cutting down trees

Forbidding the cutting of tress near telegraph poles

GLC06926

1798/05/08

Adams, John, 1735-1826

Letter signed

Title: Thanking the citizens of New Brunswick, NJ for his reception

"I have constantly received... in New Brunswick, so much hospitality, civility, and friendship, that the candor and good will of these resolutions to me are nothing surprising."

GLC06928.01

1797/11/08 ca.

Neilson, John, fl. 1787-1797

Autograph document

Title: Address of the Citizens of New Brunswick [given at Adams' reception]

GLC06928.03

1798/08/29

Adams, John, 1735-1826

Document signed

Title: Appointment of commissioner Elijah Brigham (c/s Pickering)

c/s Timothy Pickering. His appointment was "to provide for the valuation of land and dwelling houses, and the enumeration of slaves within the United States."

GLC06929

1798/10/22

Adams, John, 1735-1826

Letter signed

Title: re: permitting French ship to depart U.S. during undeclared Quasi-War

This document grants a French ship permission to depart the U.S. en route to a French slave colony, St. Domingo, during the undeclared naval war with France. The text is written in the hand of Timothy Pickering.

GLC06930

1783/06/26

Adams, John, 1735-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Charles Dumas re: attempts at patience during Treaty of Paris negotiations

"There is a species of witchcraft [that] governs in England that keeps them from knowing their own minds- and a similar malignant spirit reigns in America and prevents us from getting any intelligence from there... It is now 6 months that I have been waiting in expectation that the next week would bring me something certain." Damaged with losses affecting text at bottom edge and right margin of pages 1 and 2.

GLC06931