January 20, 1862

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Philemon Ewing

Brigadier General Sherman reflects upon his suitability for high command and notes the handicap of having been influenced by his years spent in the South, "I am not fit to be a leader in such a war, and have from the first desired to keep in the background ..." Written from Benton Barracks near St. Louis on stationary marked "Head-Quarters, Camp of Instruction."

GLC04931

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Monitors on the James River with ALS to Hallie Mayers from "Joe" and album

Albumen print of monitors on the James River and an accompanying letter. ALS measures 20.2 x 12.5 cm.

GLC04938

2 May 1863

Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 1821-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to the authorities of Rome, Georgia

Forrest, commander of a cavalry brigade in the Army of Tennessee, writes from Headquarters (of an unspecified post), "twenty miles west of Garrison." Informs the authorities of Rome "There is a Federal Force of Fifteen Hundred cavalry marching on your place I am pursuing them prepare your selves to Repulse them- they have 2 Mountain Howitzers. I will be close on them I have kild 300 of thir men They are Runing for their lives."

GLC04940

May 1864

United States. Congress (38th, 1st session : 1864)

Printed document

Title: H. R. 244. An Act to guarantee to certain States whose governments have been usurped or overthrown a republican form of government.

A rough draft of the Wade-Davis Bill, passed by the House of Representatives 4 May 1864. Changes noted throughout this document in ink. Docketed by H. R. U. L., an enrolling clerk. Docket states "2nd July 1864-- This is in the precise shape it was presented to President Lincoln." Accompanied by a fragment of string.

GLC04716

14 August 1861

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Document signed

Title: [Promotion of Thomas W. Sherman to Lieutenant Colonel of the 5th Regiment of Artillery].

This document is a record of the promotion of Thomas W. Sherman, signed by Abraham Lincoln as President and countersigned by Simon Cameron as Secretary of War. Partially printed from an engraving, with blanks filled in by hand. Accompanied by an orange seal and docketed in the upper left corner.

GLC04741

1862-1863

Dederer, N. A., fl. 1862-1863

Header Record

Title: Collection of Nicholas A. Dederer, E company, 114th regiment, New York, infantry [Decimalized .01-.12]

Letters written as Captain and Quartermaster. By end of his letters, Dederer was Provost Marshall. Rathbone seems to have been his son-in-law. The letters discuss Louisiana and New Orleans. There is much talk of arresting deserters. Brief mention is made of enslaved people's relations with Federal soldiers.

GLC04703

9 November 1862

Pope, John, 1822-1892

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Benjamin Welch

Discusses his relief from command of the Army of Virginia and the political maneuverings that have undermined his reputation and led to his relief. "Whether the impression already made upon the public mind by this cause of designed and persistent malice & misrepresentation, can ever be eradicated by the truth is doubtful, but if such sacrifice of my personal reputation will advance the cause in which we are all enlisted, I shall submit to it cheerfully and silently." Pope, who had been put in charge of all the Armies in the East not under McClellan was relieved of this command after his…

GLC04704

February 21, 1861

Pope, John, 1822-1892

Autograph letter signed

Title: to General B. Welch, Jr.

Apologizes for not meeting Welch. Explains that on the way to Welch's house, he was persuaded to attend the opera: "Mr Lincoln told me that he was going to the opera... As I was the only one of his Army friends present I felt bound to do so-" Written on Astor House, Stetson & Company, New York stationery. Marked "Private" under docket.

GLC04705

1862-1865

Winchell, Almira, fl. 1862-1865

Header Record

Title: [New York Civil War soldiers' archive, letters to Almira Winchell from four soldiers] [Decimalized .01-.26]

Letters to Winchell, from Belleville or Belle Isle, New York (Onondaga County). Winchell received letters from three soldiers, stationed mostly in Virginia: Thomas Donahue (1st NY Art., Batt. B), William Remington (101st NYS Vols.) and William Newman (101st and then 40th NY, Co. J; mostly in hospital). There is an additional letter to Winchell's mother from Pyrrhus H. Lawton ([15th] NY Co. A), and a song-sheet "When this Cruel War is Over," (released 1863). The song became one of the most popular songs of the war. The hand-colored picture, "Reconnoitering Party after the battle of…

GLC04706

31 March 1875

Whittier, John G., 1807-1892

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: [Poetic tribute to Charles Sumner]

Titled "Sumner." Reads, "If to the master's plea he gave The vast contempt he felt, He saw a brother in the slave, with man as equal man he dealt."

GLC04726

4 May 1862

Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Nathan Kimball

Asks Kimball to get "your train in motion as early as possible." Written four days before the nearby battle of McDowell, the first major encounter in Stonewall Jackson's Shenandoah Valley Campaign. The lack of Union troops at Harrisonburg would prove to be of great importance towards the end of this campaign. Most of the docket is lost. 1 full length black and white engraving and 1 black and white bust engraving of Nathaniel P. Banks.

GLC04727

13 May 1874

Cartwright, Alexander Joy, 1820-1892

Autograph document signed

Title: [Document regarding the estate of Hawaii's Dowager Queen Emma]

Serving as the administrator for the estate of Dowager Queen Emma, Cartwright confirms a sum of money Frank Pratt owes the estate. Also records that H. A. Wactman owes Emma's estate $1000.

GLC04730

14 December 1873

Mosby, John S., 1833-1916

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James L. Kemper

Written on "Office of John S. Mosby, Attorney at Law" letterhead. Writes to Kemper, Governor-elect of Virginia, about Reconstruction and Southern rights: "Of course I never designed to advise an unconditional alliance between Grant & the Southern people: but only on the express condition that security is given us against any further oppressions on Southern rights. If however Sumner's Civil Rights bill (which by the by Mr Greeley was earnestly advocating in the Tribune the week he was nominated) becomes an Administration measure (which I do not believe) no man will more earnestly oppose it…

GLC04734

26 June 1862

Tyndell, S. M., fl. 1862

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Isaac J. Carol

Discusses the Confederate home front, military worries, and crops. "When the present army is wasted none other can be raised... What then! Military dictation? Then emancipation; what then is left to us." Written at Castle Hill.

GLC04738

circa November 1863

Wallen, Henry Davies, 1819-1886

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: [Handwritten copies of documents pertaining to the Adjutant General Department's continued rejection of Wallen's requests]

Contains responses to Wallen's repeated requests to see action in the Army of the Potomac, and his belief that he was not promoted because he was a Southerner (he was born in Georgia, and served in Florida before the Civil War). The manuscript includes copies of letters and an inserted printed copy of General Order No. 28. Dates of letters span from 8 January 1862- November 1863. Includes Wallen's order to New Mexico, the decline of his appeal to be relieved from his assignment in New Mexico, the application of General John C. Frémont to assign Wallen to his department (and the rejection…

GLC04742

1863

Photograph

Title: Stereoscopic views of Chattanooga after its capture

Stereocards of Chattanooga, including the town (Main Street), Lookout Mountain (with some posed pictures), etc.

GLC04749

October 19, 1873

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

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John E. Williams re: solving banking crisis, Panic of 1873

Grant writes in part: "Cannot the bank presidents be brought together & resolve to aid each other?"

GLC04784

1866

Barnard, George N., 1819-1902

Photograph album

Title: Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign [complete album of 61 photographs]

This is the complete album as published, and is more complete than GLC 2833 (36 photos). This album includes "Sherman and his Generals" and most of Sherman's campaign from Chattanooga, through Atlanta and Kennesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, Columbia, S.C., and views of Charleston and Fort Sumter. The image of John Ross's home appears to be that of Cherokee Indian chief John Ross, who left the house during the Trail of Tears.

GLC04953

4 March 1865

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Pamphlet

Title: Inaugural address. March 4, 1865.

Printing of Lincoln's historic second inaugural address which he delivered on the steps of the Capital 4 March 1865. This is the official edition printed by the U. S. Government Printing Office.

GLC04958

24 June 1865

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

Broadside

Title: [Proclamation lifting restrictions on trade west of the Mississippi River]

Printed signature of President Johnson and Acting Secretary of State William Hunter. Proclamation will "restore unrestricted commercial intercourse between and in the several States ... and Territories west of the Mississippi river." Opens all trade except that in arms, ammunition, all articles from which ammunition is made, gray cloth, and property purchased by agents of the former Confederate forces. Says customs agents will supervise trade and that they shall receive any captured or abandoned property that should be confiscated by law.

GLC04973

17 July 1868

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

Document signed

Title: [Pardon of Nathan B. Forrest for rebellion]

Pardon for ex-Confederate General Nathan B. Forrest of Tennessee. The pardon includes a provision against Forrest attempting to enslave people, and that he claim no property or the proceeds of any property that has been ordered sold by court of law. Accompanied by a Free Franked envelope. (c/s by William H. Seward). Features embossed seal on verso.

GLC04977.01

10 August 1868

Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 1821-1877

Document signed

Title: Receipt of pardon form. [N. B. Forrest]

Partially printed receipt of pardon form sent by William H. Seward to Nathan B. Forrest along with his pardon. Forrest, as per the specifications of the pardon, returns the completed form to Seward.

GLC04977.02

6 August 1868

Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 1821-1877

Document signed

Title: Acknowledging receipt of presidential pardon [for Nathan B. Forrest].

GLC04977.03

21 May 1866

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Pardon of Thomas H. Howard by Andrew Johnson]

Pardon for a burglar who pled guilty to three charges. Countersigned by William H. Seward.

GLC04992

circa 1869-1870

Bailey, James M., fl. 1869-1870

Book

Title: [Scrapbook of James M. Bailey]

Professionally prepared scrapbook entitled "History Set Right," published in 1869, with 2 pamphlets and 2 maps bound into the book. Also bound in are two colored lithographs of the "Manassas" and the "Louisiana" (original 19th century binding stubs are causing prints and some pages to break at the margins). Book was owned by Bailey, who signed it on a blank preliminary leaf. The first pamphlet is: "History Set Right. Attack on New Orleans and its Defenses. By the Fleet Under Admiral Farragut, April 24, 1862. Correspondence between Admirals Farragut and Bailey." The reference to Bailey in the…

GLC04965