December 4, 1777

Avery, John, 1739-1806

Document signed

Title: [Continental Congress appointments for Massachusetts]

Document attested to by Massachusetts Secretary of State Avery. Announces the men chosen as delegates to the Continental Congress from Massachusetts for the following year. Lists John Hancock, John Adams, Samuel Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry, Francis Dana, and James Lovell (the first five on this list signed the Declaration of Independence).

GLC00436

12 November 1812

Dearborn, Henry, 1751-1829

Manuscript document signed

Title: Treaty for the Release of Prisoners of War upon their parole, and for their eventual exchange, concluded at Whitehall. U.S.

Cosigned by Robert McDouall for the British. General Dearborn, commander of the Northern Department of U.S. forces, and Captain Robert McDouall, aid de camp to the Governour in chief of Canada arranged this treaty for prisoner exchanges during the War of 1812, authorized by Lieutenant General George Prevost. Prescribes the process of exchange. Apparently Dearborn's copy.

GLC00437

1861

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph

Title: [Robert E. Lee]

A reworked Brady daguerreotype (original from1851); republished by Brendann Brothers. This carte de visite depicts General Robert E. Lee in uniform (uniform was painted on). See Turner's "Even More Confederate Faces" p.16. With stamp on verso: "Jas. S. Waters/Balto."

GLC00439

May 1861

Pendleton, Alexander S., 1840-1864

Book signed

Title: A treatise on field fortification, containing instructions on the methods of laying out, constructing, defending, and attacking intrenchments, with the general outlines also of the arrangement, the attack and defence of permanent fortifications

Signed by Pendleton in May 1861 on front pastedown. Written by D.H. Mahan, professor of military and civil engineering at West Point. Second edition, published in New York by Wiley and Putnam in 1846.

GLC00440

June 1, 1862

Pendleton, Alexander S., 1840-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William N. Pendleton

Written to his father, General Pendleton. Describes an expedition to Winchester, Virginia, but writing is interrupted by battle. Discusses the destruction of railroads.

GLC00441

October 29, 1862

Semmes, Paul Jones, 1815-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Emily J. Semmes

Advises his wife on how to address letters to him and tells her she must not write anything that will attract the attention of the Yankees, should they intercept the letters. Refers to his previous letter (possibly GLC00175). Discusses mail communication, personal items, and their daughters' music education. Hopes to get a leave this winter to visit them in Arkansas. Comments on selling their enslaved individuals, "...negroes bring large prices throughout nearly all of the Cotton States...of course, they would not sell very high in districts [owned?] by the Yankey..." Is anxious to hear from…

GLC00442

July 27, 1861

Smith, Martin Luther, 1819-1866

Letter signed

Title: to David Emanuel Twiggs

Smith, a Major in the Confederate Corps of Engineers, discusses the defenses of New Orleans with Twiggs, Commander of the District of Louisiana. States "Our personal examination and instrumental reconnaissance of the vicinity of N. O., with the view to its defence by a line of works immediately encircling it, was suspended early this month, first by matters considered to be of greater military urgency, second, by the determination of the city authorities of N. O., to trust the location and construction of these works to their own Engineers to the extent allowed by the appropriation they had…

GLC00443

January 22, 1864

Taylor, Richard, 1826-1879

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John G. Walker

The letter discusses the stay of execution of a soldier. Writes that he has applied to Confederate General Kirby Smith to send an engineer to assist with building defensive works on the rivers. Mentions the affair of Brigadier General Jean J. A. A. Mouton. Comments on rations and the hunger of the soldiers. Speaks of preparing troops for the Red River campaign and comments on a group of young Texas soldiers who had fallen into disfavor.

GLC00444

December 25, 1860

Semmes, Paul Jones, 1815-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph E. Brown

Writes to the Governor of Georgia enclosing a plan and specifications for a powder magazine, with estimated costs. Advises that the magazine will hold 1250 barrels of 100 pounds of powder and that it was requested from Mr. E.J. Dupont de Nemours & Co. of Wilmington, Delaware. Semmes's autograph copy, marked as a copy. Docketed by Semmes. Accompanied by architectural drawing, GLC00446.02. Written from the 5th Avenue Hotel in New York City. This letter, written five days after South Carolina seceded from the Union, shows that preparations for war were already underway.

GLC00446.01

circa December 1860

Semmes, Paul Jones, 1815-1863

Sketch

Title: Plan and elevation of a magazine 18 x 26 feet on the floor x 10 foot high for E.J. Du Pont & co

Drawing of the plan and elevation of a powder magazine made for E.J. DuPont Nemours & Co. of Delaware. Lists dimensions as "18 x 26 Feet on the Floor x 10 Feet high for E.J. DuPont & Co./Capacity 5220 kegs." Includes sketch of a full size floor pin. On one side of muslin? cloth. Suffered water damage at some point.

GLC00446.02

1789

Cushing, William, fl. 1789

Book signed

Title: Acts passed at a Congress of the United States of America...

Containing the Bill of rights. This copy annotated by Assoc. Supreme Court Justice William Cushing; Collation: pi A-B4 C4(-C4)D-Z4 2A1 2B-2C4. With adverts. First 8vo edition and first unofficial edition of Acts passed at a Congress. Cushing's notes concern division of Congress' and the Supreme Court's powers; revenues collectors, etc.

GLC00447

January 19 1781

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Document signed

Title: Printed letter signed re: invasion & defense of Virginia

Circular notice signed as Governor of Virginia concerning Benedict Arnold's invasion of Va. and defense measures. Addressed to Berkeley County. Mentions musters for militia and required supplies. Lined on verso.

GLC00448

1861

Letcher, John, 1813-1884

Pamphlet

Title: Message of the Governor of Virginia, and accompanying documents

Statement from Virginia Governor John Letcher regarding slavery. With original pink wrappers as issued. With stamp of Lehigh University Library 2 May 1893.

GLC00449

07 April 1783

Bartlett, Josiah, 1729-1795

Autograph document signed

Title: [Investigation and dismissal of the complaint of Nathaniel Weare against William Towle for the robbery of wheat]

In his role as a Justice of the Peace of New Hampshire, Barlett signed the document six times. Also signed by Deputy Sheriff of the county of Rockingham Solomon Wheeler and Justice of the Peace John Dudley. Bartlett was a signer of the Declaration of Independence

GLC00450

December 3, 1867

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

Pamphlet

Title: Letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, transmitting a statement of the accounts of the Colorado militia for 1864 and 1865

Report of the expenditures of the Colorado militia from 1864-1865 compiled by Grant as Secretary of War ad interim for the House of Representatives. Pages 1-14 of report consists of correspondence between assistant adjutant generals in the Colorado militia, including E.D. Townsend and Thomas M. Vincent, to the War Department. Pages 15-23 consists of charts of expenditures by the militia in 1864-1865. Dated from the day the report was "referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed." Cover seems to to missing, or pages were pulled from a larger book.

GLC00267.244

1861

Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907

Book

Title: The Rejected stone: or insurrection vs. resurrection in America. By a native of Virginia

Conway's authorship marked as "By a Native of Virginia." Published by Walker, Wise, and Company at 245 Washington Street. Printed by Welch, Bigelow, & Co. First edition. A plea for emancipation divided into 19 chapters. Original red printed wrappers, which are fragile (front cover is barely attached).

GLC00267.248

1862

Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907

Book

Title: The Golden Hour.

Signed by Julia Piatt, 29 July 1862, Washington, D.C. Conway was an American author and preacher, and ardent abolitionist. He lectured in England during the Civil War in the interests of the North. The Golden Hour is a plea for the emancipation of enslaved people in the form of a novel. Published by Ticknor and Fields, Boston. Printed by the University Press, Welch, Bigelow, and Company, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

GLC00267.249

1910

Thompson, Gilbert, 1839-1909

Book

Title: The Engineer battalion in the Civil War (Occasional papers no. 44)

Revised and rewritten by John W. N. Schulz. Illus. Dornbusch II 1628

GLC00267.254

January 16,1862

Cameron, Simon, 1799-1889

Pamphlet

Title: Letter of the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 6th instant, relative to the purchase of extracts of coffee for the use of the troops

Report submitted to the Senate by Secretary of War Cameron extols the advantages of Professor H.A. Tilden's coffee extract, apparently a synthetic or ersatz coffee and condensed milk mixture. Claims "[t]he coffee and sugar ration for 100,000 men for twenty days weighs two hundred and fifty tons, one-half of which is saved, or hundred and twenty-five tons, an important item on a march or advance, reducing the number of wagons for this ration half." Consists of various correspondence reporting the benefits of the coffee and its general acceptance. Dated from the date it was ordered to be…

GLC00267.255

1864

United States War Department

Pamphlet

Title: General T.T. Garrard and others : letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to Resolution of the House of 18th instant, transmitting papers relative to the claim of T.T. Garrard and others for the destruction of their salt and works, by order of General Buell, in 1862.

House Executive Document (HED) No. 29 of the 1st Session of the 38th Congress. Copies of letters, reports, depositions, and other statements pertaining to General Don Carlos Buell's destruction of the salt works in Goose Creek, Kentucky on 21 October 1862, during the Civil War. Buell ordered the salt works destroyed to prevent Confederate forces from gaining control of them. Colonel David A. Enyart of the 1st Kentucky Infantry, Lieutenant Colonel Charles S. Hanson of the 20th Kentucky Infantry, and Lieutenant Colonel Warner Spencer of the 2nd Kentucky Infantry executed Buell's order.…

GLC00267.258

1906

Pinkerton, Allan, 1819-1884

Pamphlet

Title: History and evidence of the passage of Abraham Lincoln from Harrisburg, Pa. to Washington, D. C. on the 22d and 23d of February, 1861

Documents the attempted assassination of then President-elect Abraham Lincoln on his way to his inauguration. Written in response to a published letter by John A. Kennedy, who claimed, along with his detective force, the responsibility of discovering the plot and stated "I know nothing of any connection of Mr. Pinkerton with the matter." Pinkerton explains this with "In this respect, Mr. Kennedy spoke the truth: he did not know of my connection with the passage of Mr. Lincoln, nor was it my intention that he should know of it. Secrecy is the one thing most neccessary to the success of the…

GLC00267.276

27 May 1864

Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869

Pamphlet

Title: Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives, transmitting Major General G. W. Morgan's report of the occupation of Cumberland Gap.

Report of General George W. Morgan's occupation of the Cumberland Gap forwarded by Secretary of War Stanton to the House of Representatives. Pages 1-7 consists of Morgan's report. Pages 8-19 consists of supporting correspondence. Dated from the date it was read and ordered to be printed. Cover appears to be missing, or the pages were pulled from a larger book.

GLC00267.289

28 February 1865

Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894

Pamphlet

Title: [Message from the President to Congress communicating Nathaniel Bank's General Order number 23]

Banks' General Orders No. 23 being forwarded to Congress, by President Lincoln, with a note from Edwin Stanton. "In compliance with the resolution by the Senate of the 23rd instant, I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of War, with the accompanying General Orders No. 23, issued by Major General Banks at New Orleans February 3, 1864." The General Orders regards "compensated plantation labor" and details the beginnings of government regulation of the planter-laborer relationship. To preserve plantation labor force the order establishes wages for plantation work as well as the…

GLC00267.294

1868

Mason, John, fl. 1868

Book

Title: Recollections of the early days of the national guard comprising the prominent events in the history of the famous seventh regiment New York militia

Published by J.M. Bradstreet & Son. Image of the regiment's seal opposite the title page. By "an ex-orderly sergeant" named John Mason. Publisher advertisement before the text says the manuscript, which had been disregarded for "two or three years," was not edited because it would have "lack[ed] the simplicity characteristic of truthfulness - the peculiar temper that, with all its imperfections, imparts so much interest to its details and descriptions." Was dedicated to Col. Washington R. Vermilye "the President and the Gentleman formerly members of the regiment." Divided into 12…

GLC00267.296

1864

Dahlgren, John Adolphus Bernard, 1809-1870

Book

Title: Operations against Charleston

The report "Operations against Charleston," is only the first of several reports sent to the U.S. Senate in this bound volume. The others include: Operations in the Gulf Department, Trade Regulations, Battle of Cedar Mountain with testimony by General Nathaniel P. Banks, Treatment of Prisoners, Treatment of Prisoners, Treatment of Rebel Prisoners, Exchange of Prisoners, and Administration of the Department of Arkansas. Has green wrapper cover, which seems to be original.

GLC00267.301