21 November 1862- 2 December 1862

Smith, Gustavus Woodson, 1821-1896

Letterbook

Title: [Nine letters (from letterbook) written by General Gustavus Woodson Smith]

Written while Smith was commander of defenses at Richmond (expanded to become the Department of Virginia and North Carolina). Contains a dispatch from Smith to the officer in command of Fredericksburg, Virginia dated 21 November 1862, stating that the Mayor of Fredericksburg telegraphed Smith the news that Fredericksburg is to be shelled the following day. Smith asks if he should send cars for the removal of women and children. Contains a letter from Smith to General William H. C. Whiting at Wilmington, North Carolina (21 November), assuring Whiting that everything practicable will be done…

GLC05469

1868

McRae, John C., fl. 1850-1880

Print

Title: The Surrender of General Lee

Title continues, "and his entire army to Lieut. General U.S. Grant, April 9, 1865." Depicts Union General Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate General Robert E. Lee in front of a tree in a field. Grant is rendered in the act of handing Lee the surrender treaty. Organized troops can be seen in the distance. A few men on horseback stand watching behind and to the side of both Grant and Lee. Published by Thomas Kelly.

GLC05472

1889

Prettyman, William S., fl. 1889-1894

Header Record

Title: Oklahoma great land rush: "boomers" and towns & cities they built

Collection of fourteen photographs taken in Oklahoma (Indian) Territory at Oklahoma Station (later Oklahoma City) around the time of the land rush. The first five images show the growth of Oklahoma City from March 1889-1892. Other images include views of Chickasaw Indian Nation, Choctaw nation, Fort Washataw and Atoka. The photographer is unknown, but simalrities between the photographs in this collection and photographs by William S. Prettyman that appear in Robert E. Cunningham, Indian Territory: A Frontier Photographic Record by W. S. Prettyman (Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1957),…

GLC05475

6 March 1847

Pena y Barragán, Matías de la, 1800-1850

Broadside

Title: Comunicaciones

Communication from the general-in-chief of the Mexican army, Matías de la Peña y Barragán, to President Santa Anna regarding raising troops to defeat the Americans and establishing a legitimate government. Document is in Spanish.

GLC05477

1824/12/24

Austin, Stephen F., 1793-1836

Manuscript document signed

Title: Settling dispute between two settlers in his Texas colony, acknowledges Mexico

Signed as judge of the colony. Document in English, binding John P. Coles, William Pettus, James F. Tong, George Teel and Samuel M. Williams to the orphan children of the late William Whitesides for the sum or $2,000 (Mexican). The document also acknowledges Mexican law.

GLC05478

1830/02/08

Austin, Stephen F., 1793-1836

Document signed

Title: Certificate no. 256 of admission to enter Austin's colony (in Spanish)

Certificate permitting the bearer to enter Austin's colony. Partly printed document in Spanish, signed "Estevan F. Austin."

GLC05479

1800

Pamphlet

Title: Communications from several states... respecting the Alien & Sedition Laws

Full title: "Communications from several states, on the resolutions of the legislature of Virginia, respecting the Alien & Sedition Laws: also instructions from the General Assembly of Virginia, to their senators in Congress...." This is the first edition of this pamphlet, which was reprinted several times. Evans 38952. With Ex-lib. stamp of Texas State Library on pp. 57 and 84. (Possibly a made-up copy?). Printed by Meriwether Jones

GLC05480

1802

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Pamphlet

Title: Speech of...on his inauguration...[with his response to New Haven remonstrance]

Title: "Speech of...on his inauguration as President of the United States. Together with his reply to the celebrated New-Haven Remonstrance, and his message to both houses of Congress, of December 8, 1801, &c" Printed by John Barber. (Purchased for TJ's response to the New Haven remonstrance concerning his dismissal of office holders.) With crude wood-cut of Jefferson based on Edward Savage facing the titlepage. Not mentioned in Cunningham's study of Jefferson portraits. Not listed in Shaw & Shoemaker. Not in Sabin. Cunningham, The Image of Jefferson in the Public Eye, pp.11­21.

GLC05481

1812

Pamphlet

Title: Constitution or form of government of the state of Louisiana

Stab-stitched. The first printing of the first Louisiana constitution, the first constitution for any state west of the Mississippi. "The enabling act providing for calling a convention to frame a constitution for Louisiana was passed February 20, 1811, and this, the first constitution of Louisiana, was adopted on January 22, 1812. It is very rare" - Streeter. Streeter sale 1592. Sabin 42214. Eberstadt Constitutions 64. Jumonville 223.

GLC05482

1813

Pamphlet

Title: Declaration. The earnest endeavors... [British declaration of war on US]

Title: "Declaration. The earnest endeavors of the Prince Regent to preserve the relations of peace and amity with the United States of America having unfortunately failed...[caption title]." The official British declaration of war upon the United States. Interestingly, expresses the reluctance of the British crown to declare war (especially since the British had already agreed to most of the important American points). Printed by R.G. Clarke. With ink note at end "Abbett's Register, Vol. 23. Page 80."

GLC05483

10 February 1865

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Letter signed

Title: to John Eaton

Lincoln instructs Eaton, Colonel of the 63rd U.S. Colored Infantry to "continue your supervision of Freedmen over the same territory & on the same principles as in the past ... " Signed and dated by Lincoln; the remaining text is in Eaton's hand. Embossment in the upper left corner.

GLC05484

1863-1885

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

Header Record

Title: Items related to Generals Ulysses S. Grant and John Eaton [Decimalized .01-.03]

GLC05485

2 July 1863

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

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Eaton

Writing two days before the capitulation of Vicksburg, Mississippi, General Grant acknowledges receipt of a letter from Major Eaton. Relates that, based on Eaton's request, he will forward a recommendation for the promotion of Colonel John W. Fuller to President Abraham Lincoln.

GLC05485.01

circa 1885

Header Record

Title: A note from Ulysses S. Grant accompanied by a brief description [Decimalized .01-.02]

GLC05485.02

11 June 1863

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

Manuscript letter

Title: to Abraham Lincoln

True copy of a letter from General Grant to President Lincoln, written one week after the surrender of Vicksburg, Mississippi to Grant. Grant encloses a report (not included) created by General John Eaton discussing African Americans within his department. States after discovering "that negroes were crossing into our lines in great numbers, and receiving kind or abusive treatment, according to the peculiar views of the troops they first came in contact with, and not being able to give that personal attention to their care and [use], the matter demanded, I determined to appoint a General…

GLC05485.03

31 August 1806

Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820

Autograph document signed

Title: [Legal document signed by Daniel Boone]

Signed by Boone as commander of the Femme Osage District in St. Charles County, Missouri. Contains a list of expenses related to a legal case. Joseph Haines signs, stating that he received money from District Constable William Hayes. Timothy Kibby, Justice of the Peace, signs as a witness of Hayes' payment to Haines.

GLC05486

December 21, 1785

Randolph, Edmund, 1753-1813

Autograph document signed

Title: [Manumission of mulatto slave Robert Cowley from the estate of Peter Randolph]

Signed and sealed in the presence of Beverly Randolph, Martha Randolph, and James Rim. Randolph purchases the slave, Robert Cowley, from Peter Randolph, deceased, with the intention of freeing the slave. Cowley purchased his freedom from Randolph for fifty pounds. Notes that Cowley is older than forty-five years. Document is a court copy.

GLC05490

16 August 1841

Tyler, John, 1790-1862

Broadside

Title: President Tyler's Veto Message [of the bill to incorporate the Bank of the United States]

Broadside printed on off-white silk and mounted on a wood backer board. Three columns of type with floral border and an eagle at top with a banner reading "E Pluribus Unum." Noted at top "For D.D. Davis." Tyler writes that he has always felt that Congress should not establish a Bank of the United States. Discusses the failure of previous national banks in the United States. Dimesions of the backer board are 45.5 x 30 x .8 cm.

GLC05491

1862-1893

Russell, Samuel, 1835-1896

Header Record

Title: [Collection of 8 documents related to Mormonism is Utah. Decimalized.]

GLC05493

28 December 1830

Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Edward Chase

Writes a long letter to his brother, a lawyer in Lockport, New York, joking about his own poor handwriting and offering advice and admonitions. Discusses politics, "You ask me if I think that Kentucky and Ohio will go for [Henry] Clay. You may depend upon it that every state in the West, except Tennessee, and possibly Illinois, will go for him." States "the Jackson Party is defeated here and can never rally again," but says that he has seen this misrepresented in the newspapers. Writes of Andrew Jackson, "The late message exhibits the President in an attitude of unequivocal hostility to…

GLC05494.02

1851/06/29

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas R. Hazard

Encloses testimonial (not included) "in behalf of Mr. and Mrs. Jones," who are traveling to Africa and back to America. Remarks that he has been largely away from home the last eighteen months, and so will not be able to visit Newport this summer.

GLC05495.02

circa 1850-1855

English, John G., fl. 1827-1869

Diary

Title: [Mississippi cotton plantation diary and journal]

Signed in inner front cover in August 1850, where English notes that his father, James English, moved from Kingsport, Tennessee to Madison County, Alabama in 1818. Records that James took him, and left his sister in Salem, North Carolina, and his brother in college at Granville, Tennessee. In the first two pages, English recalls his youth: a trip to New Orleans in 1827, working for John W. Lane of Livingston, Alabama, and managing a large warehouse for Robert King of Knoxville, Tennessee in 1833. Records events, such as the purchase of slaves in 1835 and a business trip to New York in May…

GLC05496

1880 August 27

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

Photograph signed

Title: [G.T. Beauregard]

Signed on the front "G.T. Beauregard. 1865" with a note on verso giving an August 27 1880 date. Imprint of Washburn, New Orleans.

GLC05498

1861 ca.

McPherson, James Birdseye, 1828-1864

Photograph signed

Title: [James Birdseye McPherson]

Carte de visite in uniform. Trimmed oval, no imprint. Signed as Major General.

GLC05499

1860 ca.

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph signed

Title: [Winfield Scott]

Anthony imprint on verso. Inscription on verso reads: Presented "To Miss Mary Trumbull -- daughter of the noble [Revolutionary War] Colonel, my friend [John Trumbull]. Health & happiness." Shows Scott 3/4 length in dress uniform.

GLC05500