1890

Kurz & Allison

Print

Title: Storming Fort Wagner

Depicts the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, composed of African American soldiers, leading the charge upon Fort Wagner in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. One African American soldier carries a United States flag. Lists the names of Union officers involved in the battle, including Generals Quincy Adams Gillmore, George Crockett Strong, and Truman A. Seymour, and Colonels Robert Gould Shaw, John Lyman Chatfield, and Haldimand S. Putnam. Lists the number of Union troops lost as 1200, stating that 300 Confederate soldiers and 16 officers led by Confederate General Pierre Gustave Toutant…

GLC00317.02

30 April 1781

Huntington, Benjamin, 1736-1800

Document signed

Title: [Oath certifying Cuffee Saunders's purchase to freedom]

One document certifying Cuffee Saunders's emanicipation dated April 30, 1781. States that Saunders, who mustered with the enslaved name, Cuffee Wells, enlisted to the Continental Army in May 1777. The document is composed of two oaths attesting to Saunders's freedom. The first stated by John Nutter and Richard Lamb that the bounty owed to Saunders was paid to his enslaver as payment for his freedom. The second statement by Captain Jedediah Hyde of Norwich, whom was Saunders's former commander confirms that it was "always understood that the money that was given to Wells at his Enlistment…

GLC00318

June 1862

Header Record

Title: Letter from Charles H. Olmstead to Edwin M. Stanton with transmittal letter concerning prisoners of war after Confederate surrender of Fort Pulaski [Decimalized .01-.02]

GLC00319

1690

Locke, John, fl. 1690-1698

Book

Title: Essay Concerning Humane Understanding [1st edition, 2nd issue]

First edition [corrected titlepage] with the "Eliz. Holt" imprint, the "SS" of "Essay" correctly printed and the typographical ornament aligned. PMM 164, Wing L273

GLC00320

1727

Province of Massachusetts Bay

Pamphlet

Title: [An act to prevent destruction of wild fowl]

Bans night shooting of water fowl, as well as the use of floats, boats, and canoes in hunting them. Removed from "Acts and laws, passed by the Great and General Court or Assembly of His Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, : begun and held at Boston, upon Wednesday the thirty-first day of May, 1727. And continued by adjournment to the sixteenth day of August following." Printed by B. Green, printer to His Honour the lieut. governour & Council, for Benjamin Eliot., 1727. Bound in quarter red morrocco. One of the first conservation laws passed in British America.…

GLC00321

December 9, 1787

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to M. Dumas

Written as American ambassador to France to Dutchman Charles William Frederic Dumas at the Hague, who had wanted to negotiate a commercial treaty for America. Dumas had been refused. Jefferson points out past history and present problems, including the coming change in form of constitution for the U.S. Also mentions his expectation of war in Europe

GLC00322

1849

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862

Book signed

Title: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

First edition printing in original brown pebble cloth. Printed by James Munroe & Co., Boston; New York : George P. Putnam; Philadelphia : Lindsay and Blackiston; London : John Chapman, 1849. Based on a boat trip taken with his brother from Concord, Massachusetts, to Concord, New Hampshire. Book is inscribed on first blank plate, "To Starr King/ from his friend William L. Aeger/ Jan 1859." Also signed in pencil on title page by Edith K. Davis, possibly at a later date.

GLC00326

February 25, 1843

Sherwood, Adiel, 1791-1879

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Absalom Janes

Sherwood, President of Shurtleff College, writes to Colonel Janes, a trustee of Mercer University. He writes, "A lady from La. was visiting at Jacksonville a few days ago with a servant girl: an abolitionist decoyed her off & took her into Greene Co. The kidnapper & his father were [laid] under $5,000 bonds to appear at Court. While the friends of the lady were taking [inserted: the girl] to St. Louis to meet her mistress, the [boundary] party arrested them, (I suppose for same offence), but they claimed a trial in Alton & were acquitted. Mean while, the girl was sent across the…

GLC00328

1866

Broadsheet

Title: [Reconstruction leaflet denouncing the Freedman's Bureau and supporting Andrew Johnson]

One side titled, "ECONOMISE AND PAY YOUR DEBT!: Restore the South and increase your resources." The other side titled, "ONLY SEVEN MILLIONS!" One side denounces the funding Congress passed in the Freedman's Bureau Bill as support for "lazy negros." The other argues the money is needed for the national debt and praises President Johnson's veto of the bill. Echoes Johnson's belief that buying land, building schools, and offering relief to freedmen was unprecedented, would make paupers and vagrants out of freemen already prone to indolence, and was unaffordable. This break between the…

GLC00329

March 24, 1849

Dexter, Andrew Alfred, 1809-1854

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Simon Newton Dexter

Signed as "A. A. Dexter." Docket reads "Rodney B[illegible]." Mentions his father's memoir. Discusses his "planting business" and a successful crop. Writes, "I have now quite a reputation as a planter having made the best crop in the county... I had no overseer or driver- neither did I find it necessary to be with my people in the field, except occasionally. This result I think will compare favorably with free labor at the North... I have now bought me six more hands, making 14 workers of my own, besides house servants..." Discusses a trip to Columbus in which he became sick. Notes that…

GLC00330

May 4, 1862

Lee, Charles, fl. 1862

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Artemas Lee

Written in pencil to his mother, Artemas Lee, in Templeton, Massachusetts. Reports fall of Yorktown and erroneously reports capture of Lee. Writes from a camp before Yorktown, Virginia.

GLC00334

May 20, 1776

Whipple, William, 1730-1785

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Langdon

Whipple, a Continental Congressman, discusses the appointment of naval officers with Langdon, Congressman and Continental Naval Agent. Discusses Langdon's suggestion to appoint Captain John Roche, admitting his apprehension that Roche's appointment would "make some uneasiness as there are many Masters of Vessels of good carecter out of employ who perhaps will think themselves neglected." Relates his intention to appoint Captain Thompson (possibly Thomas Thompson) at the first opportunity. Discusses transmitting canvas and guns to Langdon for use in equipping the Continental Navy. Reports that…

GLC00336

09 April 1798

Pamphlet

Title: Instructions to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, John Marshall and Elbridge Gerry

XYZ affair. Evans 34837. Sabin 34865. Disbound with paper wrapper. With date at top in ink: April 9, 1798

GLC00338

15 April 1865

Medill, Joseph, 1823-1899

Newspaper

Title: Chicago tribune. [Vol. 28, no. 280 (April 15, 1865)]

Reports that president Lincoln has been assassinated and that an attempt was made on Secretary Seward's life. Also reports that Jefferson Davis has issued an edict at Danville. Article about reconstruction in Virginia on second page.

GLC00339.03

13 April 1813

Rhea, Jonathan, 1758-1815

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Manumission of a mulatto slave named Benjamin Harkimon (or Harkinson)]

Sends John B. Timberlake, bursar of the frigate United States commanded by Commodore Decatur, an official document freeing thirty-three-year-old Harkimon (or Harkinson), who was aboard the United States, with the stipulation that Harkimon pay $200. Notarized by James Linn, "one of the Masters of the Court of Chancery of the State of New Jersey." Written on the same paper as a letter to Timberlake introducing the document. Contains a red wax seal.

GLC00340

7 February 1826

Armistead, John C., fl. 1826

Document signed

Title: [Legal document giving authorization to sell a slave named Marshall]

Legal document, probably a copy, for the Bruice (or Bruce) family and Mahlon Gibson appointing John C. Armistead as their attorney with the power to sue for and receive any money due them and to sell "a certain Negro man named Marshall" currently in the possession of Major Lawrence Lewis and "to make such Bill of Sale as would be required of us as though we were present." Signed by Eliza, Judith and Jonathan Bruce and Mahlon Gibson. Witnessed by Thomas Smith, Travis Glascock, and John Fleming. Second page is a statement by John C. Armistead claiming that he was appointed with power of…

GLC00341

June 9, 1779

Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Lee, a Continental Congressman and signer of the Declaration of Independence, expresses disgust regarding political affairs to an unknown recipient. States "The demon of avarice, extortion, and fortune making seizes all racks- And now, to get into office is another thing for getting into wealth on public funds and to the public injury- I well know that much of this will in all countries take place in time of war but in America unfortunately at this time, nothing else is attended to." He laments a tax which he worries will fall heavily upon industrious, honest people. Discusses the…

GLC00344

1 October 1785

Adams, John, 1735-1826

Document signed

Title: Instructions to John Lamb to treat with Algiers

Co-signed by Jefferson 11 October 1785 in Paris. Lamb was instructed to confer with Minister Carmichael in Spain, then proceed to Algiers. The Continental Congress sent John Lamb to negotiate with Dey Mohomet of Algiers for the release of 21 Americans held as prisoners and to secure safe passage of American vessels in the Mediterranean. The Dey demanded $3,000 ransom per man, twice as much as he asked of other nations. Lamb returned home in 1789 without securing a treaty. Also written in Paris, France

GLC00345

17 June 1777

Morris, Robert, 1734-1806

Document signed

Title: [Appointment of Samuel Chew as a naval captain]

Signed by Continental Congressmen Morris, Thomas Burke, Abraham Clark, Philip Livingston, Henry Marchant, Roger Sherman, and Nicholas Van Dyke, who appoint Samuel Chew as a Captain in the Continental Navy. Instructs Chew to depart immediately for New London, Connecticut, to assume command of the ship Resistance. Relates that Nathan Shaw, a naval agent in New London, will assist Chew in fitting and manning the vessel. Discuss payment and provisions for the vessel's voyage. Instructs Chew to immediately sail with intent to intercept British merchant and transport ships, and "to take, Sink,…

GLC00346

2 April 1796

Wilson, James, 1742-1798

Document signed

Title: [Receipt for salary as U. S. Supreme Court Justice]

Verifies receipt of $875 for a quarter term's salary ending on 31 March 1796. Received of Samuel Meredith, Treasurer of United States.

GLC00348

1867

United States. Congress

Pamphlet

Title: Acts of Congress, general orders, and instructions for the guidance of boards of Registration, in the third military district, (Georgia, Alabama, and Florida.)

Acts of Congressional reconstruction, centering on the registration of freedmen to vote, beginning with two Acts "to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel states," signed in type by Schuyler Colfax and Lafayette Foster; a second Act signed in type by Colfax and B.F. Wade. With supplementary reconstruction acts of Congress passed 19 July 1867. First edition.

GLC00349

1987

Parrish, T. Michael, 1953-?

Book

Title: Confederate Imprints: A bibliography

The first definitive bibliography of Confederate imprints, this formidable reference work will prove indispensable to scholars, libraries, collectors, and bookmen interested in the Civil War era. Completely revising, correcting, and extending the Crandall and Harwell checklists, this work lists 9500 books, pamphlets, broadsides, maps, pictorial prints, and sheet music produced throughout the South during the war, including Texas and all Confederate-held territory in the Trans-Mississippi West. The index of over 200 pages is the most comprehensive of its kind. Holdings of about a thousand…

GLC00350

1870

Alfred Mudge and Son (printers)

Book

Title: The Prince library: a catalogue of the collection of books and manuscripts which formerly belonged to the...

(title continues)... Reverend Thomas Prince, and was by him bequeathed to the old South Church and is now deposited in the public library of the City of Boston. Published by Alfred Mudge & Son printers. Divided in American part, foreign part, and manuscripts (Mather papers, Cotton papers, Cotton and Prince papers, Hinckley papers and appendix, Torrey v. Gardner, and minor manuscripts).

GLC00351

1947

Grolier Club

Book

Title: One hundred influential American books printed before 1900...

(title continues)... Catalogue and addresses. Exhibition at The Grolier Club, April eighteenth-June sixteenth, MCMXLVI. Published by the Grolier Club. Contents include the committee's selections, "America as Frontier," a catalogue of the exhibition, and an index.

GLC00352

1967

Rosenbach, A. S. W. (Abraham Simon Wolf), 1876-1952

Book

Title: Collected catalogues of Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach

GLC00354