1867 ca.

Photograph signed

Title: [Reuben Eaton Fenton]

Albumen oval half-length portrait as Governor of New York. Signed in pencil. Apparently removed from an album; with a portrait of an unidentified man adhered on verso.

GLC06920

1865/01/30 ca.

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

Autograph endorsement signed

Title: to Philip D. Roddy re: AES on p. 3 of Roddy ALS, giving military advice

AES (undated) in pencil on Roddy letter. AES initialed three times. "The most stringent measures should be adopted against these emissaries." The note was written on the margins of the Roddy letter signed to Beauregard seeking military advice. Date of AES inferred from date of letter.

GLC06921

1862/03/24

Johnston, Joseph Egleston, 1807-1891

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Richard S. Ewell re: strategic instructions for Ewell and J.E.B Stuart

"The object of you remaining where you are is to deceive the enemy & prevent his occupying additional country. if you have to move... don't let the enemy get too close... Stuart must look well to the enemy's flanks as well as yours..."

GLC06922

1862/03/28

Johnston, Joseph Egleston, 1807-1891

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Richard S. Ewell re: the destruction in Virginia

Ewell notes, "All rolling stocks on the rail road should be sent to the rear immediately... bridges burnt and every thing destructible in the V(irginia) V(alley) destroyed... Should the enemy come on we can deal with him." The letter has been continued by turning upside down and writing between the lines.

GLC06923

1862/01/21

Norris, William, fl. 1862

Autograph letter signed

Title: Special order no. 601 of Maj. Gen. John B. Magruder re: cutting down trees

Forbidding the cutting of tress near telegraph poles

GLC06926

1862/02/04

Townsend, E. D. (Edward Davis), 1817-1893

Document signed

Title: G. O. no. 10 re: taking possession of railroad and telegraph lines

GLC06783.03

1862/02/05

Townsend, E. D. (Edward Davis), 1817-1893

Document signed

Title: G. O. no. 11 re: Capt. John R. Cutler Court Martial

GLC06783.04

1862/10/29

Document

Title: G. O. no. 173 re: court martial for Pvt. C. Zachringer for striking officer

GLC06783.06

1865/11/14

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Document

Title: G.O. no. 62 printing Lincoln's order for observing the Sabbath

Quoting George Washington. Signed by J. K. Wood.

GLC06783.07

1863/09/03

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to D. M. Leatherman re: claim on land of a Confederate soldier

Responding to a claim upon land in Memphis, Tenn., owned by a man in the rebel service. Lincoln writes in part: "The Impropriety of bringing such cases to me is obvious to any one who will consider that I could not properly act on any case without understanding it, and that I have neither the means nor time to obtain such understanding."

GLC06788

1865/06/22

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

Document signed

Title: Pardon of Francis Smith for rebellion (c/s William Hunter, Acting Sec. of State)

With MS note on his taking oath that pardon will take affect when Smith takes oath, including provision against slavery. Countersigned by William Hunter as Acting Sec. of State.

GLC06794

1873/03/27

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

Document signed

Title: Authority to affix seal to warrant for pardon of Benjamin J. Harrison

(Not the president)

GLC06801

1870/06/16

Fish, Hamilton, 1808-1893

Document

Title: Passport of George Rice indicating complexion as "Dark"

Signed (?) by Hamilton Fish

GLC06817.02

1865 ca.

Print

Title: Battle of "Gettysburgh" [Gettysburg] [from book]

GLC06783.02

1864/02/23

Document

Title: G. O. no. 5 court martial orders re: court martial of 6 men

GLC06783.08

1876/02/12

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

Autograph letter

Title: to Crafts J. Wright re: vehement denial of claims that Davis started the war

Signature removed. Davis denies that he "instigated and precipitated" the Civil War, and that he "left the U.S. Govt. to be made Presdt. of the Confederate Govt." Davis also addresses the questions of "Negro" Troops and exchange of "Negro" prisoners. With asterisked noted written upside down at top of p. 7.

GLC06784

1861/06/05

Broadside

Title: Committee of Safety for Montgomery County.....

Requesting committees be formed at the courthouse to "Assist in suppressing insurrection or repelling invasion." Paper has purple stain from inactive mold at left margin.

GLC06785.01

1866/08/16

Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Charles Butler re: Atlantic cable

"My prediction of the 1842-3 of the Atlantic Cable Project is at length realized. May it be a blessing to the World..."

GLC06805

1864/02/17

Eaton, John Jr., fl. 1864

Broadside

Title: Circular. Office of....Freedmen re: information for Freedmen in Natchez, La.

With manuscript note on obtaining permits, etc. Printed by Freedmen Press, Vicksburg, MS with MS corrections, for use in Dept. of Tenn. & Ark. One black and white bust engraving of General Eaton included.

GLC06807

1865/01-1865/09

Oviatt, Morris N., fl. 1865

Autograph manuscript

Title: "Diary" of Captain, Co. D. 9th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery

Captain Oviat's "Diary" with printed titlepage, and short entries concerning drilling, telegrams received, etc. The entries appear to have been copied, as noted on the titlepage "Edited by Joseph Fitzgerald, 1st Lt. Co. 9, USC Artillery (heavy)." Topics include Lincoln's assassination, daily life, etc. Written in a Clayton's quarto diary, with many blank pages in the latter half of 1865.

GLC06808

1865/04/03

Broadside

Title: Daily Journal Extra... "2 P.M. Richmond is taken. The city is on fire"

Double column broadside prints Stanton's telegraph.

GLC06809

1863/01/17

Newspaper

Title: Free South. [Vol. 1, no. 2 (January 17, 1863)]

Includes article "The Policy of a Negro Army for the North"

GLC06810

1863 ca.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Pamphlet

Title: The President's dedication address at Gettysburg

Printed by Miller & Mathews. Contains textual variations indicative of a very early printing of the Gettysburg Address.

GLC06811

1864/09/19 ca.

Holmes, David S., 1827-1904

Broadside

Title: Benedict Arnold & Horatio Seymour! ... Who is to be president? [election]

Election-relation broadside attacking Seymour and attempting to link him to the 1863 draft riots in New York City.

GLC06813

1870/07/05

Rice, George, fl. 1797-1800

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry W. Beecher re: difficulties in graduating from medical school

Rice was a black doctor and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery who studied under Joseph Lister. He writes concerning his difficulties being accepted into medical school; Rice states: "I hope soon....to get my diploma from a school which stands first in the world & no thanks to N.Y. doctors...."

GLC06817.01