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1864

Hascall, Milo, fl. 1864

Manuscript document signed

Title: Draft copy of the official report of the 2nd Division

Draft copy of the official report of the 2nd Division, XXIII Corp's operations during Sherman's 1864 Atlanta Campaign, Decateur, GA., 10 September 1864.

GLC08107

27 April 1865

Johnston, Joseph Egleston, 1807-1891

Manuscript document

Title: General Orders # 18

General orders #18, announcing terms of his surrender to Sherman: "sparing the blood of this gallant army and saving our country from further devastation": clerical copy, made in the field, signed by WD Gale

GLC08108

circa 1862-1864

Ricks, Augustus J., fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his wife Emma and his brother

Marching with Sherman through Georgia: 17 letters of a staff officer, to his wife Emma and his brother. With Carte de visite, two printed general field orders, and a printed history of the 104 Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

GLC08109

04 May 1865

Schofield, John McAllister, 1831-1906

Autograph document signed

Title: to William T. Sherman

Eight days after Johnston's surrender regarding situation in North Carolina. "Concluded satisfactorily all details with Genl Johnston." General James Wilson "had disregarded the order to resume hostilities it being of an earlier date than yours..."

GLC08110.01

04 May 1865

Schofield, John McAllister, 1831-1906

Autograph document signed

Title: to Henry Halleck

Two telegrams on one page "A number of officers and men of both Lee's and Johnston's armies whose homes are in the Western states desire to press through the Northern states...can they be permitted to do so?"

GLC08110.02

22 August 1865

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

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry W. Slocum

Offering to do whatever he can to make life easier for Slocum and his family

GLC08112.01

07 September 1865

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

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry W. Slocum

Predicting a quick end to reconstruction: "The North cannot long afford to keep arms there for local police": "Still, as long as you do have the force and the state now you must of necessity control...my own opinion is that self interest will soon induce the present people of Mississippi to...manage in a kind of [system] that will, like in Maryland & Missouri, change the whole public opinion. They certainly will not again tempt the resistance of the U.S. nor will they ever reenslave the negro.

GLC08112.02

1889

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

Header Record

Title: to Henry W. Slocum

Four letters + one photograph

GLC08113

09 February 1889

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

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mrs. Henry Slocum

Thanking her for flowers sent on his 69th birthday: "If I can worry through another year...time with his scythe... may make a deep swath, but cannot cheat me of seventy years on this insignificant globe with a fair measure of life's pleasures and cares and responsibilities."

GLC08113.01

February 11, 1889

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

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry W. Slocum

"We three will go down to history as the leaders of 'The March to the Sea'." Requesting photos of Slocum and Howard

GLC08113.02

21 May 1889

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

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mrs. Henry Slocum

Declining invitation to her daughter's wedding

GLC08113.03

01 March 1889

Howard, Oliver Otis, 1830-1909

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry W. Slocum

Enclosing requested photograph (with photo). "Though the main honor of the work crowns our chief, yet in helpful planning & executing, our part will not be forgotten."

GLC08113.04

21 March 1873

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

Document signed

Title: Order to affix the seal

Order to affix the seal to a warrant for the pardon of Leon McLemon

GLC08114

circa 1776

Hancock, John, 1737-1793

Manuscript document signed

Title: Congress's proposed ship's passport

Certifying Congress's proposed ship's passport, which became part of the 1778 Treaty of Amity and Commerce with France, the Nation's first treaty with a foreign power in the hand of Charles Thompson

GLC08115

12 July 1837

Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Silas m. Stilwell

Ours is a "Civil War" for the White House: "The glory to be gained is not from the victory we may achieve but from the use we make of it," warning that "confidence in the weakness of an enemy has produced the most disatrous defeats on record."

GLC08116

03 March 1791

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Document signed

Title: Act of Congress

Act of Congress calling upon President Washington to "cause an estimate to be laid before Congress at their next session, of the quantity and situation of the lands not claimed by the Indians, nor granted to, nor claimed by any citizen of the United States, within the territory ceded to the United States, by the State of North Carolina and within the territory of the United States North-West of the River Ohio."

GLC08117

09 December 1806

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: 1806 State of the Union Address

1806 State of the Union Address, announcing the return of Lewis and Clark, who have "traced the Missouri nearly to its source." Burr's conspiracy discussing calling for prohibition of the slave trade in 1808, as son as allowed under the Constitution.

GLC08118

23 November 1769

Johnson, William, 1715-1774

Autograph letter

Title: to Thomas Gage

Re: Indian policy in the wake of mounting troubles on the frontier, fed by spanish and French agents

GLC08119.01

28 February 1798

Johnson, John, fl. 1798

Autograph letter signed

Title: Proposed sale of land

From exile in Canada, the loyalist son of Sir William writes on the proposed sale of land

GLC08119.02

02 July 1703

Dudley, Joseph, 1647-1720

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Secretary Addington

Re: The Indian Conference at Casco, seeking allies in Queen Anne's War

GLC08121

18 October 1666

Manuscript document

Title: John Richbell and his wife sell...

[Long Island] John Richbell and his wife sell "all that neck or tract of land commonly called & known by the name of Horse Neck lying & being upon the sound on the North side...bounded to the West with Oyster Bay, to the East with [Huntington] Boro Harbour."

GLC08122

May 1765

Duche, Jacob, fl. 1765

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: "Amicus Pennsylvaniae"

"Amicus Pennsylvaniae." Manuscript of Duche's blank-verse history of the colony of Pennsyvania (published by Franklin & Hall, 1766), here entitled "an attempt (by way of amusement) to sketch out some of the particulars." Content includs William Penn's Virtues and Braddock's Defeat.

GLC08123