3 March 1864

Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Louise Walbridge

Continued 3 April. Notes that General Hatch relieved General Seymour as commander of the District of Florida. Seymour is under investigation by a congressional committee on the Florida campaign. The section dated 3 April explains that a steamer had not come to take the mail yet.

GLC04663.35

9 March 1864

Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Louise Walbridge

Assigned to General Seymour's staff. Discusses Kilpatrick's advance toward Richmond and hopes that Sherman will capture Mobile.

GLC04663.36

11 April 1864

Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Louise Walbridge

Receives his commission [as captain, see # 42]. He is starting home on furlough but must first be mustered out of his old regiment. Hopes to visit home before George [his brother?] leaves. Death of a sister's young child.

GLC04663.37

12 April 1864

Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Louise Walbridge

Assigned to Bermuda Hundred under Major General Butler. Describes the houses and trip up the river.

GLC04663.38

17 May 1864

Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Louise Walbridge

Confederate attack near Fort Darling. Lists officers wounded and killed.

GLC04663.39

31 May 1864

Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Louise Walbridge

Reinforcements sent to Grant from Bermuda Hundred. Butler failed to capture the Petersburg and Richmond Railroad.

GLC04663.40

4 June 1864

Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Louise Walbridge

Wishes he was with Grant's army, where there is more excitement and work. "I have great faith in Grant, and the old army of the Potomac . . . ." Mentions Sherman's expedition in Georgia.

GLC04663.41

8 June 1864

Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Louise Walbridge

Another soldier asks Walbridge to send money home for him, news concerning the arrival of another captain from Buffalo.

GLC04663.42

21 June 1864

Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Louise Walbridge

A visit to the Petersburg lines, requests paintings done by Sarah and Louise, wonders why Lydia Walbridge still succumbs to "the humbug of spiritualism" after it has taken the lives of several of her children.

GLC04663.43

2 July 1864

Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Louise Walbridge

Requests the location of the 94th NY. Writes that most of the officers in the 100th NY regiment will not re-enlist.

GLC04663.44

9 August 1864

Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Louise Walbridge

Writing to let the family know he arrived safely [from a furlough]. The weather is very hot and there is a new chief Quartermaster.

GLC04663.45

16 August 1864

Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Louise Walbridge

Failed attempt of the 2nd and 10th Corps to take Richmond. Has not received any letters from home since his return.

GLC04663.46

27 August 1864

Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Louise Walbridge

Describes his new quarters, two tents and an open space over which is a "fly", with a diagram of the tents. Failed rebel attack at Bermuda Hundred, intercepted message from General Beauregard to General Pickett ordering the latter to destroy a pontoon bridge.

GLC04663.47

12 July 1776

Cary, Richard, Jr., fl. 1776

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Relays an order from George Washington to have two or three cannons mounted on carriages and prepared to be moved. Washington would also like to see Knox at Headquarters. Cary was an aide to Washington.

GLC02437.00371

July 15, 1776

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lucy Knox

Responds to a letter from Lucy in which she remonstrated Henry over their recent separation in which she left New York and went to Connecticut. Henry is "both grieved an angry" because Lucy blames Henry for her inconveniences even though it is in her "power instantly to remedy them." Moreover, if she does not like it there, it is within her power to go elsewhere. Warns her against anyone contradicting his advice. Urges her to use her "own good sense and see that there can be no essential difference as you have a carriage and Horses, between coming [to New York] from New Haven or…

GLC02437.00375

July 18, 1776

Jackson, Henry, 1747-1809

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Reports no news from Boston and a feeling of security there. Explains that all news from New York comes from the bi-weekly post deliveries. They keep hoping to hear "something grand from you[r] quarter." General George Washington's call for troops from Boston to go to New York has made the people alarmed, but Jackson sees it in a positive light because it will compel the raising of more local troops to replace those leaving. Smallpox will prevent some troops from marching for New York. Mentions that Colonel John Glover's men will march to New York. Reports that the Declaration of…

GLC02437.00382

22 July 1776

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lucy Knox

Indicates that he found an indentured servant, Thomas Eliot, for Lucy (see Lucy's request for one in GLC02437.00383) and has purchased three years of his labor. Mentions that Captain Sebastian Bauman's family "have gone into the Jersies" and asks why she inquired about them. Comments on Lucy's loyalist family. Tells the story of a formal visit of adjutant general of General William Howe's army in which he attempted to deliver a letter addressed to George Washington Esqr. The envoy failed for the same reason as an earlier attempt to deliver a letter to negotiate a truce: because it refused…

GLC02437.00385

21 July 1776

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lucy Knox

Thanks her for writing and remarks that "Religion and virtue dictated every line" of her last letter. Discusses death from a religious perspective. Informs Lucy that this letter will be delivered by Elbridge Gerry, a member of the Continental Congress from Massachusetts, and asks her to be as civil towards him as her circumstances will allow. Notes that Gerry will tell her about General Charles Lee's recent victory over the British at Fort Moultrie in Charleston (28 June 1776), South Carolina, and Knox provides some details about the battle. Briefly mentions the unsuccessful attempt of an…

GLC02437.00387

1863/5/10

Elwell, D. B., fl. 1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Friend Furm

Letting his old tentmate know what has happened to him.

GLC04189.42

11 July 1776

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lucy Knox

Responds to Lucy's most recent letter (see GLC02437.00364), discussing her hasty departure from New York. Henry is upset by her distress. He reiterates that he did not want her in New York before something decisive occurred in the war. In response to her complaint that Nathanael Greene's wife returned to New York, he explains that General Greene did not want her there for the same reasons and had just sent her to Newark and she will later go to either Fairfield or Providence. Comments that if Mrs. Pollard comes to New York, she will distract her husband Jonathan Pollard, Knox's quarter…

GLC02437.00369

11 July 1776

Jackson, Henry, 1747-1809

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Discusses Scottish (Highlanders) attempts to "purchase Conquer'd Lands." Describes Scottish prisoners as saucy because they call the country people rebels and say they will later be able to sieze their farms. Explains news that Colonel Archibald Campbell, a British officer from Scotland who was then a prisoner, suspiciously purchased a rifle dress. Jackson holds Campbell in a high esteem. Comments on the ships whose recent capture was decribed in an earlier letter (see GLC02437.00343). Says that one of the ships will be refitted and sailed to England "to see if she cant take some East…

GLC02437.00370

13 July 1776

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lucy Knox

Henry is upset that Lucy is taking others advice over his and reiterates his recommendation for her to go to Fairfield or New Haven immediately. Mentions various people going to New Haven who Lucy could meet up with. Discusses the British attack of New York the previous day. Knox lost six men in an accident, which he casts as a learning experience for the others, who will learn "to moderate their fiery courage." After the attack the British ships sailed north to Tappan Bay, near Tarrytown New York. Knox will send Lucy's clothes to New Haven, where he hopes she will go. He reaffirms his…

GLC02437.00372

14 July 1776 - 17 July 1776

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Supply list for officers in Henry Knox's artillery regiment]

Also signed by William Eustis, John Howard, Garret Van Wagner, Thomas Hanley, Isaiah Audebert, William Dana, David Briant, William Treadwell, Abiel Leonard, and John Crane. Notes supplies, money, and artillery received by officers from Jonathan Pollard, the quartermaster of Knox's artillery regiment.

GLC02437.00373

14 July 1776 - 15 July 1776

Sprague, Samuel, 1712-1783

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Supply list for officers in Henry Knox's artillery regiment]

Also signed by Remember Preston. Notes supplies received by officers from Jonathan Pollard, the quartermaster of Knox's artillery regiment.

GLC02437.00374

15 July 1776

Jackson, Henry, 1747-1809

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Wants Knox to write more frequently to keep him updated on activities in New York. Remarks that "at Last the grand Question of Independence is determined and I hope every true American will support it with his Life and Fortune." Comments on smallpox afflicting the Continental troops and the lack of news about the privateer he discussed in his previous letter (GLC02437.00370). Date of 15 July 1776 from docket. Header of letter only dated July 1776.

GLC02437.00376