18 July 1862

Meigs, Montgomery C. (Montgomery Cunningham), 1816-1892

Book signed

Title: Elements of military art and science

Signed on the front pastedown and titlepage by Meigs. Book by Henry W. Halleck. Third edition, published in 1862 by D. Appleton & Company. A note on the titlepage updates Halleck's position

GLC06243

December 1870

Arkansas. Supreme Court.

Manuscript document

Title: [Gideon Pillow v. Brown & Childress as executor of John Pointer, appeal from Philips Circuit Court]

Supreme Court of Arkansas case. Involves Pointer's sale of 85 slaves to Pillow on 28 December 1860. Discusses the legitimacy of enforcing slavery related cases. Focuses on unpaid debt, and interest on unpaid debt, that might have accrued during the course of the Civil War. Cites an earlier precedent from the 18th century: "This question first arose in the United States shortly after the War of 1776 and it was held that on contracts made before the War, when the parties belong within the opposing forces, that the debt was suspended and that interest did not run (accrue) unless the creditor…

GLC06244

1862-1904

Arthur, D.B., fl. 1862-1904

Header Record

Title: [Collection of David B. Arthur, I company, 20th regiment, Wisconsin, infantry] [Decimalized .01- .12]

Arthur writes from various locations in Mississippi and Alabama, and comments most frequently on the weather, his correspondents, and army life, including marching orders, guard duty, and erecting houses, and sleeping conditions. Items of note include the September 1864 entries regarding Mobile Bay; November 1864 entries mentioning Lincoln's election; and July 1863 entries discussing sights in and around Vicksburg. 1. Casey, Silas. B: Infantry Tactics, v. 2, School of the Batallion. New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1862. 279 p. + 6 p. 2. Arthur, D.B. AMS: [various places]. Diary. 4…

GLC06245

1809

Lamb, Roger, fl. 1809

Book

Title: An original and authentic journal of occurrences during the late American war

Signed by William Steele.

GLC06246

8 February 1828

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

Document signed

Title: [Patent for Hercules Thomas' invention of the Herculean Hub, an improvement in hubs for carriage wheels]

Signed by Adams as President. Countersigned by Henry Clay as Secretary of State and William Wirt as Attorney General. Thomas' description of the Herculean Hub is signed by [Charles?] Dwight and [Angus?] Peabody as witnesses. Sealed and bound with green ribbon.

GLC06595

6 February 1854

Hamlin, Hannibal, 1809-1891

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Directed to "Dear Dr." Hamlin replies to a letter from the recipient. Mentions affidavits pertaining to an unspecified matter. Writes, "How the reopening of the Slavery questions will effect me and our friends, I cannot tell at this time- They ask us to repeal the Missouri Compromise line of 1820- I cannot do so- They assert that the Compromise measures of 1850 intended to repeal that of 1820- It is false, & I will not vote a lie..." Discusses an upcoming political convention, to be held possibly in the spring or fall. Refers to other political matters, and in closing asks that this…

GLC06596

1869/05/06

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

Document signed

Title: Executive Order removing civil servant in accordance with Tenure of Office Act

Executive order advising that a civil servant has been suspended from his position in accordance with the Tenure of Office Act. Cancelled, with name scraped-off.

GLC06597

22 April 1919

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

Document signed

Title: [Sentence commutation for Fernando Robert Edward Ludicke, convicted for violating the Espionage Act on 18 September 1918]

Fernando Ludicke, alias Robert Edwards, was convicted of violating the espionage Act of June 15, 1917 in the U.S. District Court of Western Pennsylvania and sentenced to 18 months to be served in the Maryland State Penitentiary at Baltimore, Maryland. Wilson commuted his sentence to expire immediately; no reason given. Countersigned by A. Mitchell. Printed document with blanks filled in with type.

GLC06598

February-December 1862

Williams, George M., fl. 1862

Header Record

Title: Collection of Confederate soldier George Morton Williams] [Decimalized: .01-.62]

Includes 56 complete and 3 incomplete letters written to his wife. Williams was a captain in the 9th Virginia, Hansbrough's Battalion. Discusses family matters, and important military information including the surrender of Fort Donelson, and the Merrimac blow up. Mentions Jackson's good news in the valley: "Vicksburg is relieved and New Orleans will soon be retaken -- then to Butler the Beast... if he had forty lives he should lose them all by hanging." During the period of these letters, Williams, the adopted son of Congressman John S. Pendleton, had been ordered to Richmond for…

GLC06582

1861-1864

Mixter, Calvin Symmes, 1832-?

Header Record

Title: Materials pertaining to Mixter, a Civil War soldier. [Decimalized .01-.05]

GLC06583

1868/07/23

Meade, George Gordon, 1815-1872

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Samuel W. Crawford re: election of 1868, abolishing the office of General

"If Grant resigns after the election, Congress will abolish the office of General."

GLC06584

13 June 1861

Wadsworth, James S., 1807-1864

Autograph endorsement signed

Title: [Endorsement of the creation of Berdan's sharpshooters]

Wadsworth endorses s clerical copy of a letter from Major General Nathaniel P. Banks to Secretary of War Simon Cameron, with his own approval of the establishment of "Berdan's Sharpshooters." Banks recommends that "the Rifle shooters what Mr. Berdan proposes to organize" be made part of the military, and Wadsworth adds, "I entirely concur in the above - especially in view of the mode of warfare adopted by the rebels."

GLC06585

1856 ca.

Ruffin, Thomas, fl. 1856

Document signed

Title: Subscription list for copy of "Speech of Hon. Thomas Ruffin of NC"

Also signed by Lawrence Branch, Thomas Clingman, John Lecher, and others. "Speech of the Hon. Thomas Ruffin of NC in the Presidential election."

GLC06586

22 July 1862

Adams, Alexander D., 1832-1872

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Petition to New York Governor Edwin D. Morgan seeking military policy changes]

Signed by several New York officers and endorsed by prominent Union generals Joseph Bartlett, John Newton, Winfield S. Hancock, and Henry W. Slocum, among others. Seeks to institute policy changes in order to fill the ranks for New York regiments. Includes two pages of regiment statistics. Lieutenant Colonel Adams was the first signed among the New York officers.

GLC06587

August 1862- July 1865

Elmore, Bruce, fl. 1862-1865

Header Record

Title: [Collection of Bruce Elmore, C company, 143rd regiment, New York, infantry] [decimalized]

Over 200 letters from Sergeant Elmore to his wife, with an additional 60 from his wife. Highlights include pursuit of Lee's army after Gettysburg, the siege of Atlanta, Sherman's march to the sea, and other campaigns. Also includes several loose pages of an informal diary kept by Elmore during the March to the Sea, which he mailed home to his wife upon reaching Savannah. Elmore was discharged in July 1865.

GLC06588

2 May 1862

Broadside

Title: News-letter extra.

Rare newspaper extra from Ship Island containing two letters by Admiral Farragut to the Mayor of New Orleans. On verso is an autograph letter signed (undated) from Union soldier S. S. Eastman to a friend. Severe ink bleed-through throughout.

GLC06589

3 August 1861

Haldeman, Walter N., 1821-1902

Newspaper

Title: Louisville courier--extra. [no volume or number information (August 3, 1861)]

Pro-Confederate newspaper. Front page is dominated by a speech on executive usurpation by Kentucky Senator John C. Breckinridge on 16 July 1861. List of taxes passed by the House of Representatives. A scathing column critical of the "Abolitionism and Niggerism of the Editor of the Journal." Page 2 contains a copy of the Confederate Constitution, divided into 7 articles. Page 2 is dominated by a 4.5 column printing of a speech on the loan bill by Ohio Congressman Clement L. Vallandigham from 10 July 1861.

GLC06590

circa 1824

Woodson, Cuffy, fl. 1824

Document signed

Title: [Petition for the emancipation for Fanny and Patsy Woodson]

Official document reporting that since Cuffy Woodson was emancipated, he purchased his wife Fanny Woodson, "a mulatto woman," and her child Patsy from his former master Micajob Moorman. Cuffy "further represents to your worship that the sd. Fanny & Patsy have done good & meritorious services to him by their extraordinary obedience fidelity & affection & that it is naturally against his feeling to hold his sd wife Fanny and his child Patsy as his slaves, & he hopes this this feeling will not be deem'd unworthy of being sanctioned by your worship. He therefore prays that…

GLC06592

circa 1841-1845

Header Record

Title: Resolutions and other papers from the Anti-Slavery Society in New York [Decimalized .01-.21]

Contains two letters to N. R. Chapman, who served as secretary for an Anti-Slavery Society in the Onondaga/Madison County region of New York (refer to GLC06593.20). Contains a Civil War soldier's letter noting the fall of Atlanta. Includes numerous resolutions related to the Anti-Slavery Society (possibly of which Chapman was affiliated). Anti-slavery documents mention abolitionists Gerrit Smith and James Caleb Jackson, the mutiny on board the Brig Creole (GLC06593.09), and the need to form a Liberty Party (GLC06593.20).

GLC06593

25 November 1900

Willett, Grace, fl. 1900

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sylvia Willett

Discusses women suffrage in Wyoming in the election of 1900. Comments that turnout among women was high, but "their voting does not help purify politics." Willett supported the candidacy of Williams Jennings Bryan. Also comments on bad weather, money available to send, illness in the family, and playing music professionally.

GLC06594

1833/03/22

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Manuscript document

Title: [Retained clerical copy of a treaty between the United States and the Ottawa Indians]

Manuscript copy of the treaty made on 18 February 1833 between the Ottawa chiefs "residing on the Indian Reserves on the Miami of Lake Erie" and George B. Porter, the United States commissioner. Outlines the cession of Ottawa land in Ohio, the establishment of a reservation, and the remuneration that will be owed. Probably a working draft prior to sending to printer.

GLC07392

1836

Field, Joseph E., fl. 1836

Pamphlet

Title: Three years in Texas

Includes a view of the Texas Revolution.

GLC07387

1839

Thompson, Henry, fl. 1839

Book

Title: Texas. Sketches of Character, Moral and Political...by Milan

GLC07388

1878/01/01

Vallarta, I.T., fl. 1878

Manuscript document

Title: Translation of Account of Relations between Mexico and Pawnee Tribes of Texas

Consists of clerical transmittal, bound with a copy of the treaty written in the same hand.

GLC07389

1834

Printed document

Title: [Advertisement for A Narrative of the Captivity & Providential Escape of Mrs. Jane Lewis]

Illustrated publication advertisement for a recently published book about Lewis experience as a captive of Chief Black Hawk during the Black Hawk War. Published in the aftermath of the war after Black Hawk was taken as a captive on a tour for the United States. The advertisement refers to the tour. An unrelated poem is printed on verso: "The Factor's Garland, or The Turkish Lady." Date inferred from the publication year of Lewis' narrative.

GLC07390