10 May 1863

Hammond, W.M., fl. 1863

Letter signed

Title: [Circular ordering execution of two privates in 53rd North Carolina]

Circular letter, hand-written, states that the sentence of the General Court Martial in the case of privates Berry Threat and Dulin Stavnes of Company D of the 53rd North Carolina regiment will be carried out. Says they will be executed at 12 p.m. in the open field in front of the entrenchments. All troops except those on picket duty are required to attend. Order Colonel J. A. Washington, the commander of the 50th North Carolina, to provide 1 lieutenant and 20 men who will be charged "with the proper execution of the sentence." Written under the order of Brigadier General Junius Daniel (1828-…

GLC03063

4 August 1862

Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Eliakim P. Scammon

Hayes writes as Lieutenant Colonel of the 23rd Regiment of Ohio Volunteers to Scammon, his superior, as commander of the 1st Brigade. Writes again about Mr. Landcraft and Mrs. Roberts, whom he states were sent on to safety (see GLC 2032). Proposes destroying the works at the Mercer Salt Well, as a squad of soldiers and bushwhackers is operating nearby. "The well is of no great importance in ordinary times but just now its loss would be felt by the Rebels." Informs in a postscript that the 28th has marching orders and that it is possible the entire army will be moved. Written at Camp…

GLC02994

6 August 1862

Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Eliakim P. Scammon

Hayes writes as Lieutenant Colonel of the 23rd Regiment of Ohio Volunteers to Scammon, his superior, as commander of the 1st Brigade. Reports that he believes the Confederate force at Pack's Ferry is not large enough to cross the river. Advises, "I would not make a forced march, nor perhaps even start a force until we get further news - No cannon were seen, and I doubt if the force was large..." Dated 7 AM. Hayes signs twice, as "R.B.Hayes" at the close of the letter, and as "H." at the close of the postscript. Written at Camp Green Meadows- located between New River and Bluestone.

GLC02995

6 August 1862

Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Eliakim P. Scammon

Hayes writes as Lieutenant Colonel of the 23rd Regiment of Ohio Volunteers to Scammon, his superior, as commander of the 1st Brigade. Says, "Soon afer our reinforcements under Capt Zimmerman reached Pack's ferry the enemy retreated up the River. They passed the ford before the force I sent ... had reached here." States he got this information from a scout sent to follow them and from Captain Warren who commanded a force sent to the ford at the mouth of the Blue Stone River. Dated 1 PM. Written at Camp Green Meadows- located between New River and Bluestone.

GLC02996

3 April 1863

Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Eliakim P. Scammon

Hayes writes as Colonel of the 23rd Regiment of Ohio Volunteers to Brigadier General Scammon in Charleston. States that he sent Lieutenant William McKinley (later elected U.S. president) to tell Scammon about Confederate General Albert G. Jenkins's force and advises to send cavalry after them. Writes, "Gen. Jenkins is reported to have crossed the pike leading from Guyandotte to the Mouth of Coal with less than half the men he brought with him." Says that many of Jenkins's men have been left behind and "...are likely to remain until they are either scared away or find a chance to escape on…

GLC02997

26 March 1866

Porter, David Dixon, 1813-1891

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Darius H. Ingraham

Written as Rear Admiral and Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy on Naval Academy letterhead. Written to Ingraham as the chairman of committee to aid widows and orphans of union soldiers. References Ingraham's letter about a "Grand Fair" in honor of the orphans of soldiers. Would be pleased if the orphans of Salem, Massachusetts are included. Also mentions his hope that orphans of sailors will not be forgotten. Porter had been an orphan himself.

GLC02998

28 November 1855

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

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Alexander S. Latty

Offers Judge Latty an appointment as his private secretary and hopes he will accept. Expresses only one reservation, that Latty's health may not be good enough for him to come to Columbus, Ohio. Written as he was about to take up duties as Governor of Ohio.

GLC02999

1872/05/19

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

Autograph letter signed

Title: to T. N. Parmelee

Written on Herald Tribune stationery to Parmelee, an attorney in New Haven, Connecticut. Marked "private." Salutation reads: "Friend Parmelee." Speaks of the impossibility of a Democrat being elected president in 1872. Notes a Democrat being elected is as unlikely as Parmelee offering presidential candidate and feminist George Francis Train $10,000 to take the vice presidential nominee for the Democratic party.

GLC03000

7 December 1820

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George Poindexter

Writes to Governor of Mississippi Poindexter to introduce Rev. Austin Dickinson. In 1819 Dickinson was delegated by the Synod of Tennessee to raise funds to build a theological seminary in Tennessee; he is sure that Poindexter both will give Dickinson aid and will inform him of the best means of promoting support from "the citizens of the state" over which he presides. Jackson became Governor of the Florida Territory in 1821. He was President of the United States from 1829 to 1837.

GLC03001

1747/01/09

Toby, Hannah, fl. 1747

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Indenture apprenticing Javin Toby to John Steadman]

Singed by Toby with an X, also signed by Samuel Swift and Thomas Hazard, both Justices of the Peace. States that "Hannah Toby Indian Woman" has indentured her son "Javin Toby a Molatto" to John Steadman and his wife for fifteen years and five months. The terms of the indenture specify that "He shall not use any unlawfull games, nor Contract Matrimony nor Commit Fornication during sd Term." He must faithfuly obey them, and they must provide food and clothing.

GLC03002.01

1750/10/05

Kingsberry, Ephraim, fl. 1750

Document signed

Title: [Legal documents relating to the arrest of Ruth, an Indian Woman]

Two documents with legal dockets on verso. The two documents relate to the arrest of an Indian woman named Ruth, with a deposition against Ruth, an order for her arrest, a record of her arrest, and the facts of confession. The deposition is from Ephriam Kingsberry, who claims Ruth stole a pair of woman's shoes from his house. The arrest order was issued by Isaac Huntington, the Justice of the Peace. The record of the arrest is from constable Joseph Tracy. In the last document Ruth confesses to the crime, and is sentenced to work for Kingsberry for ten weeks.

GLC03002.02

1754/03/01

Clark, James, fl. 1751-1754

Document signed

Title: [Deposition of Clark concerning the murder of two Indians, signed with his mark]

Clark signed with his mark "J." Clark was servant to Ebenezer Hall at Montinicus Island and saw Hall and his son shoot two Indians in the Summer in 1751 and bury them in his garden. The deposition says "The Examinant afterwards saw Hall cut the Indians Canoe in Peices [sic] and burn it, saying, Now we have killed the Devils, we shall burn their damn'd Canoe; The Indians Cloaths were buried with their Bodies, Their Guns Hall put into his Chest, & afterwards carried them to Small Point. About a Week after the Indians were killed, Hall & his Son said that they would go to Virginia."…

GLC03002.03

1767/08/20

Flagg, James, fl. 1767

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Gov. Francis Bernard

Informs Governor Bernard that Asten is "the person suspected by the Indians," for being responsible for "the Murder and Robbery of some of their Brethren." Asten was believed to be robbing the Indians of furs. Numerous people, including Indians, saw Asten with wampum and articles of Indian clothing which "appears too suspicious to pass Unnoticed." In other documents Asten's name is spelled Austin.

GLC03002.04

1767/09/10

Hutchinson, Thomas, 1711-1780

Document signed

Title: [Order to sheriffs, deputies & constables to arrest Asten for murdering Indians]

Signed as Chief Justice of Massachusetts, with the last paragraph in his hand. Orders to find and arrest Daniel Asten and Francis Douglass as "the Perpetrators of the murder and robbery," against certain Indians. In the document Asten's name is spelled Austin.

GLC03002.05

22 November 1863

Sawyer, R. M., fl. 1863-1864

Manuscript

Title: [Copy of battle orders for Missionary Ridge, Battle of Chattanooga]

Sawyer, Assistant Adjutant General to General William Tecumseh Sherman, records battle orders from Sherman's command. Marked as official and signed by A. C. Fisk, Assistant Adjutant General. Written near Chattanooga, at the Head Quarters of the Department and Army of the Tennessee. Sawyer writes "The 15th Army Corps reinforced by (1) one Division of the Army of the Cumberland is to cross the Tennessee at the mouth of East Chickamauga Creek-" Referring to Joseph Hooker, states "Advance and take possession of the End of Missionary ridge viz: from the Rail Road Tunnel to Chickamauga- hold and…

GLC03004

27 September 1861

Slidell, John, 1793-1871

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Receipt for fifteen hundred dollars to John Slidell]

Partially printed document acknowledging receipt of $1,500, for use as "Commissioner of the Confederate States to France." Money received from William J. Bromwell, the "Disbursing Clerk of the Department of State."

GLC03006

5 January 1860

Stevens, Aaron D., 1831-1860

Letter

Title: to Anne Brown Adams

One letter from Aaron D. Stevens to Anne Brown Adams dated January 5, 1860. Awaiting his upcoming trial and execution, and recalls the deaths of John Brown and other Harpers Ferry raiders. Says "The boys met their fate very cheerful." Was badly wounded in the jaw. Written from the Charlestown Jail. Says he is sharing a cell with Harrison, the name that Albert Hazlett had assumed. Likely copied in Anne Brown Adams' hand.

GLC03007.01

1 March 1860

Stevens, Aaron D., 1831-1860

Letter

Title: to Anne Brown Adams

Likely copied in Anne Brown Adams' hand. Awaiting his execution "very cheerful and happy," he councils her to always try and do what is good, for "the better they do the higher they rise in happiness." Looks forward to "the other world" and meeting old friends there. Says Harrison, the assumed name of Albert Hazlett, is also awaiting his execution. Written from Charlestown Jail.

GLC03007.02

January 17, 1860

Stevens, Aaron D., 1831-1860

Letter

Title: to Anne Brown Adams [Fragment]

Likely copied in Anne Brown Adams' hand. Written to one of John Brown's sons as well, addressed simply to "My Dear Brother." Portion of the letter written to the son states Stevens is awaiting execution, ready to die, and looking forward to the next life. He writes, "Some of us must suffer that the rest may learn." Says he did not see John Brown write anything before his death, but was not with him at the very end. Part written to Anne has the same content as GLC03007.01, except that the end of the letter has been lost. Written from Charlestown Jail.

GLC03007.03

1878-1898

Ross, Alexander Milton, 1832-1897

Scrapbook

Title: [Alexander Ross' scrapbook related to John Brown's family]

Ross' collection of letters relating to John Brown's family, mostly letters sent to him by John Brown's children. Scrapbook contains twenty one letters and one cartoon relating to John Brown, as well as envelopes for most of the letters. Letters written by Anne Brown Adams, Ruth Brown Thompson, John Brown Jr., Sarah Brown, Owen Brown, George B. Gill. One letter is signed W. H. Harrison, the pseudonym of Albert Hazlett. Also contains letters written by others to Anne Brown, which she copied and forwarded to Ross. Inside the pages is a small envelope labeled "California wild flowers.…

GLC03007.56

2 May 1792

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Printed document signed

Title: An Act to provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrection and repel Invasions

Signed as Secretary of State. Passed during the first session of the Second Congress in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 24 October 1791.

GLC03009

15 July 1848

Madison, Dolley, 1768-1849

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Miss Saltonstall

Thanks her for her kind thoughts. Comments that she is glad Saltonstall was able to sample figs from the southern climate. Mentions travel plans and her health, stating "I should have been with you yesterday but was obliged to sleep - I hope Dr. Tuckerman knows a remedy for this ungracious affection. . ."

GLC03010.02

1860

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

Book

Title: The Life of Lincoln

Tribune Tracts no. 6. Extra-illustrated biography with engravings of Lincoln, the Executive Mansion, the Capitol, and a Lincoln-Hamlin electoral ribbon depicting Lincoln pasted in first few pages. Published by Horace Greeley & Co.

GLC03012

May 21, 1864

Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant, 1818-1893

Letter

Title: to Daniel Harvey Hill

Clerical copy of a letter by Beauregard, with Beauregard's signature attesting that it is a "true copy." Beauregard informs Hill that President Davis refuses to assign him to command until Hill makes "the application for orders in the field", which he has already refused to do (see GLC00864-Beauregard's request to have Hill transferred, with Bragg's and Cooper's responses). Also relates that General Bushrod Rust Johnson has been promoted to command the Second Division and General Robert Frederick Hike will command the First Division. Writes "It is useless, I hope, for me to say how I regret…

GLC03013

23 March 1858

Delafield, Richard, 1798-1873

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Charles James Faulkner

Delafield, Superintendent of the United States Military Academy, writes to Faulkner, a United States Representative from Virginia. Recently received an address delivered by Faulkner to the House of Representatives "on the true policy of our Country in its application of Volunteers, the Militia, and the regular army." Requests another copy. Writes, "If we take enthusiastic inexperienced citizens, we must either have a very large proportion of experienced officers to lead and take care of them in the field; much time to instruct and discipline them, or the consequences, sickness, disease,…

GLC03015