circa 1861-1865

Banks, Mary T.P., fl. 1847

Photograph

Title: Wearing summer coat and carrying parasol

Wife of General Banks. Imprint on recto "Mrs. N. P. Banks." Graphite inscription on verso "**Book." Photographers imprint on verso: "Published by E. Anthony 501 Broadway New York from Photographic Negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery."

GLC05111.02.0214

circa 1861-1865

Edward and Henry T. Anthony & Co. (photographers)

Photograph

Title: As major general, vignette bust portrait

Ink inscription on verso "Francis C. Barlow. Brig Gen. and Bv't Maj. Gen. Vols. U.S.A." Photographers imprint on verso: "Published by E. & H.T. Anthony, 501 Broadway, New York from Photographic Negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery."

GLC05111.02.0215

circa 1861-1865

E. & H.T. Anthony (photographers)

Photograph

Title: As brigadier general, seated, facing right

Ink inscription on verso "Henry A. Barnum, Brig. Gen. and Bv't Maj. Gen. Vols. U.S.A." Photographers imprint on verso: "Published by E. & H.T. Anthony, 501 Broadway, New York. Manufacturers of the best Photographic Albums."

GLC05111.02.0218

circa 1861-1865

E. & H.T. Anthony (photographers)

Photograph

Title: As brigadier general, seated facing forward

Ink inscription on verso "Henry Baxter. Brig. Gen. Vols. U.S.A." "Bv't Maj. Gen." "1864." Photographers imprint on verso: "Published by E. & H.T. Anthony, 501 Broadway, New York from Photographic Negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery."

GLC05111.02.0219

circa 1861-1865

Charles D. Fredricks & Co., fl. 1865

Photograph

Title: As brigadier general, seated facing left, holding cap

Graphite inscription on verso "Gen Bayard" "e." Ink inscription on verso "Geogre D. Bayard. Brigadier Gen'l Vols. and Capt. 4th Cavalry U.S.A." "'Fredericksburg' 13th Feb, 1862." Photographers imprint on verso: "C.D. Fredricks & Co. 587 Broadway, New York. 108 Calle de la Habana, Habana. 31 Passage du Havre. Paris."

GLC05111.02.0221

circa 1861-1865

Morse & Peaslee, Gallery of the Cumberland

Photograph

Title: As brigadier general, seated facing right

Graphite inscription on verso "2857." Ink inscription on verso "Brevet Major Genl Sam Beatty Commanding 3d Brig. 3d Div. 4th A,C. by Capt. A.K. Raff nuiscation [?]" Photographers imprint on verso: "No. Negative....... Morse's Gallery of the Cumberland, 25 Cedar St., opposite Commercial Hotel. Nashville, Tenn."

GLC05111.02.0222

circa 1861-1865

Belknap, William K., fl. 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: As brigadier general, seated facing left

Graphite inscription on verso "Belknap." Ink inscription on verso "William W. Belknap. Brig Gen. Vols. U.S.A. and Bv't. Maj. Gen."

GLC05111.02.0224

1811/10/24

Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816

Manuscript document signed

Title: to Samuel Storer re: personal news & desire to have his son Lincoln join him

Marked "Duplicate" on first page. Written in a clerk's hand with Lear's signature. Lear thanks his brother-in-law, Storer, for letting his son, Lincoln, stay in Storer's home. Lear sends for Lincoln to join him in Algiers.

GLC02794.166

1815/09/01

Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816

Document signed

Title: Certified copy of bond agreement between Calder and Tobias Lear

Lear's agreement to the bond mentioned in GLC 2794.168. Countersigned by W.S. Nicholls.

GLC02794.168

1815/09/01

Calder, James, fl. 1815

Document signed

Title: Certified copy of bond agreement between Calder and Tobias Lear

Marked "Copy" on p. 1. This is Calder's agreement to the bond mentioned in GLC 2794.169. Notation on verso: "Certified Copy," and in a different hand: "Delivered original to Mr. Calder & Recd from him a Deed dated 31 Decr. 1817."

GLC02794.169

1861/08/14

Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878

Document signed

Title: Appointment of Stephen Decatur, Jr. as commander on the Naval Reserve List

Partially printed manuscript with handwritten insertions. Signed as U.S. Secretary of the Navy.

GLC02794.170

1867/04/04

Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878

Document signed

Title: Appointment of Stephen Decatur, Jr. as captain on the Naval Reserve List

Partially printed manuscript with handwritten insertions.

GLC02794.171

[1800 ca.]

Young, Arthur, 1741-1820

Document

Title: Detailed description of a plow

George Washington introduced Tobias Lear to Young, a prominent British agriculturalist.

GLC02794.178

16 December 1778

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Letter signed

Title: to Alexander McDougall

Written by Washington as Commander in Chief of the Continental Army to Major General McDougall as commander of the Hudson Highlands Department. Place written inferred from George Washington Papers, which place his headquarters at Gulph Mill, Pennsylvania that day. References McDougall's letter of 9 December 1778. Says Sir Henry Clinton's fruitless naval expedition up the Hudson in December 1778 was not worth the trouble. Mentions the necessity of shuffling several officers into different commands and hopes it does not cause too many problems. Approves of his choices and management thus far.…

GLC02795

9 October 1861

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Quincy A. Gilmore

On a small card, President Lincoln writes to Captain Gilmore, the chief engineer on the Port Royal Expedition to South Carolina, regarding General Thomas W. Sherman's attack on Port Royal: "I feel great interest in Gen. Sherman's expedition; and therefore prefer to not interfere with the programme." Accompanied by a carte de visite of Lincoln (GLC02798.02).

GLC02798.01

10 December 1859

Windom, William, 1827-1891

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Edward R. Parry, Isaac Andrews, Truman Andrews, W. H. Wickoff, and Charles Mansfield

Windom, a United States Representative from Minnesota, states that he will attempt to postpone discussion in Senate regarding a proposed treaty with the Mankato (possibly referring to the Mdewakanton Sioux, who inhabited the region surrounding Mankato, Minnesota). Regarding disagreement between Northern and Southern Congressmen, declares "We have a warm time here with the Southern fire eaters ... In the House, so anxious were they to kindle anew the fires of agitation and sectionalism ... making inflamatory, disunion Speeches ... They openly avow their determination (in case of the Election…

GLC02799

1814/09/21

Foster, Ephraim H., 1794-1854

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Graham

Foster writes to a childhood friend. Tells Graham of recently becoming a lawyer, his drive to succeed, and his plans to live in Nashville in order to "avoid a life of disagreeable solitude, in an insignificant country village." Dramatically reacts to the burning of Washington, D.C., describing the stakes of the War of 1812 as "our Liberty, our Independence, our national existence." Sees a possible benefit, if America's wounded pride galvanizes support for the war. Reports news about their acquaintances. Foster was a secretary to Andrew Jackson during the War of 1812 and later…

GLC02803

15 June 1864

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph endorsement signed

Title: [Lincoln endorsement for release of Union prisoner of war]

Written on verso of a 28 April 1864 autograph letter signed from Missouri Representative Austin King. King seeks release for E. M. Brashear of Lafayette County, Missouri. Writes " While I know but little of this youth, I know his relations to be among the most respectable of my district. … I ask of you Mr President the discharge of Brashear, and I have such confidence in his sense of honor, and of the same in his relatives & friends who wish his discharge, that I feel that I risk nothing in vouching for his future fidelity to the Government." Lincoln orders that this man be allowed to…

GLC02805

2 March 1793

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Document signed

Title: [An Act to alter the times and places of holding the circuit courts in the eastern district, and in North Carolina, and for other purposes]

Printed document signed by Jefferson as Secretary of State. Also signed in type by Jonathan Trumbull as Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Langdon as President pro tempore of the Senate, and approved by George Washington as President. Decided at the second session of the second Congress held at Philadelphia, 5 November 1792. Establishes the exact places and dates for the spring circuit courts to meet for each district, and creates provisions for the marshal in North Carolina to be entrusted with the powers of a judge in summoning jurymen.

GLC02806

28 October 1818

Marshall, John, 1755-1835

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Bushrod Washington

Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States, writes to Associate Justice Washington regarding the case of Oliver Evans, who claimed one of his patents had been violated. States that to his knowledge, the court "meant to decide that the specification was sufficient & enabled O. E. to prove under it at the trial that his improvement had been violated."

GLC02815

26 February 1829

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

Book

Title: Message from the President of the United States, transmitting in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of 13th January, 1825.

"A statement of convictions, executions, and pardons, under the authority of the Government of the United States, since the adoption of the Constitution. February 26, 1829. Read, and laid upon the table." Printed as House Document no. 146, 20th Congress, 2d Session.

GLC02821

1815

Madison, James, 1751-1836

Pamphlet

Title: Message from the President... transmitting a Treaty of Peace...[with] Algiers

Printing a the treaty of peace between the U.S. and the Dey of Algiers with the statements of American peace commissioners Stephen Decatur and William Shaler. Printed by William A. Davis.

GLC02822

6 December 1859

Johnson, Cave, 1793-1866

Autograph letter signed

Title: to P. G. Washington

Discusses the ownership of an unspecified paper, mentioning several persons associated with the paper's publication. Recommended Washington's brother to one of the paper's editors. Comments that he is no longer engaged in politics, and is disappointed in the Democratic party. Discusses the Democratic Party Convention scheduled to be held in Charleston, South Carolina in April 1860. Of the candidates for nomination at the convention, prefers James Guthrie of Kentucky over Stephen Douglas. Also mentions candidate Daniel S. Dickinson. Writes, "The present position of the Slavery question…

GLC02823

8 October 1904

Mosby, John S., 1833-1916

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Gaston

Written as Assistant Attorney General, he comments that anyone joking about McKinley's assassination is "a brute." Written on Department of Justic letterhead.

GLC02827

5 February 1862

Halleck, H.W. (Henry Wager), 1815-1872

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George B. McClellan

Discusses gun boats being used by Grant in attack on Fort Henry. Informs McClellan "Gun boats supplied with temporary crews and in the the field. Mortar boats of no use at present. Enlistments for regular crews going on rapidly. Bombardment of Fort Henry now going on. our Troops have landed three miles below." Writing from his headquarters in St. Louis, Halleck did not know that the bombardment would not begin until the next day, 6 February 1862. The gunboats would play a key role in the Union victory at Fort Henry. Written on Department of the Missouri station.

GLC02832