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A bill to be entitled an act to declare what persons shall be exempt from military service

Conferate act listing all person and professions exempted from military service, with amendments at the end.

GLC08980.03

A bill to be entitled an act to increase and strengthen the army of the Confederate States.

Confederate act granting the President the power to call slaves "to serve as teamsters, cooks, laborers and hospital nurses" in the Confederate Army.

GLC08980.04

A bill to be entitled an act in relation to substitutes in the army.

Repealing an act allowing for substitutes in the Confederate Army.

GLC08980.05

The Future of the American Negro

Published by Small, Maynard & Company in 1899. Inscribed in 1900 on the inner front cover to Almira Thornton Goff, wife of Lyman B. Goff, an active Republican and head of the Union Wadding Company of Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Includes a photograph...

GLC04297.01

Needs and progress of the Negro

Printed leaflet of an address delivered by Washington at the annual meeting of the American Missionary Association. First page contains the New York address of the Missionary Association and a photograph of Washington. Text indicates that this is...

GLC04297.02

[Notice of transportation furnished for Private Frank Lloyd, Company K, 19th Regiment, United States Colored Troops]

Renton, Assistant Quartermaster, informs the United States Army Paymaster General that he has provided transportation to Harpers Ferry, Virginia, for Private Frank Lloyd. States that Lloyd is on a leave of absence granted by General Benjamin...

GLC06133.02

[Notice of transportation furnished for Private Stephen Bailey, Company C, 19th Regiment, United States Colored Troops]

Renton, Assistant Quartermaster, informs the United States Army Paymaster General that he has provided transportation to Baltimore, Maryland, for Private Bailey. States that Bailey is on a leave of absence granted by General Charles Adam Heckman....

GLC06133.03

[Notice of transportation furnished for Sergeant Peter Knock, Company A, 19th Regiment, United States Colored Troops]

Renton, Assistant Quartermaster, informs the United States Army Paymaster General that he has provided transportation to Annapolis, Maryland, for Sergeant Knock. States that Knock is on a leave of absence granted by General Charles Adam Heckman....

GLC06133.04

[Notice of transportation furnished for Sergeant Judson Matthews, Company G, 19th Regiment, United States Colored Troops]

Renton, Assistant Quartermaster, informs the United States Army Paymaster General that he has provided transportation to Annapolis, Maryland, for Sergeant Mathews. States that Mathews is on a leave of absence granted by General Charles Adam Heckman...

GLC06133.05

[Notice of transportation furnished for Corporal Frank Sewell, Company K, 19th Regiment, United States Colored Troops]

Renton, Assistant Quartermaster, informs the United States Army Paymaster General that he has provided transportation to Annapolis, Maryland, for Corporal Sewell. States that Sewell is on a leave of absence granted by General Charles Adam Heckman....

GLC06133.06

Second Grand Premiums by the Washington Library Co in aid of the Riverside Insitution!

Civil War broadside advertising a raffle and engraving sale organized for the Riverside Institute, which provided "a home for soldiers' and sailors orphans." The prizes, whose values are listed only, "consist of Works of Art, Painting, Statuary, &c."...

GLC08442.03

Parade of the Grand Army of the Republic

Color drawing of a parade along the national mall in Washington, D.C., with the capitol building visible in the distance. "Sparks from the Camp Fire" is written at the bottom right. The date is that of the parade.

GLC08442.09

Soldier's Dream of Peace

Civil War print of a soldier sleeping with a image of his dream above him. A poem is written below the print describing the dream. Labeled as a "presentation plate to the patrons of the Philadelphia Enquirer, 1865."

GLC08442.12

[Receipt for payment for wages]

Receipt to the Committee of War in Rhode Island for payment of Peter Bateman's wages as a soldier in Major Burkett's Company. Directs that the 16 shilling New York currency payment to be made to Cornelius Culnon and to "Deduct the same out of the...

GLC01450.190.07

[Order of confinement]

Captain Badlam writes to the Officer of the Quarter Guard to confine Parker Noyes for going to New York and staying there several days and nights without leave. Was written near Hells Gate.

GLC01450.190.08

[Receipt for payment of wages]

Receipt to Committee of War in Rhode Island requests payment of Darius Priest's wages of three pounds New York currency to be delievered to Cornelius Culnon. Also says to 'deduct the same out of the Wages first due to me as a Soldier." Priest was a...

GLC01450.190.09

to Catharine Macaulay

Bowdoin requests assistance in writing a history of the present disputes. Reports the American people "continue spirited & determined." Complains "the English now in America seem to have lost all that humanity for which they were justly famed."

GLC01791.02

to Sophronia

Draft of letter commenting on Sophronia's sentiments of public liberty. She looks forward to future correspondence and publications from America relative to the present dispute.

GLC01797.01.02

to Mercy Otis Warren

Expresses thanks for her book (which she hasn't yet seen), Macaulay's comments on Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution: "it is a vehement and virulent attack on the French constitution and Legislature for I must tell you that we in general...

GLC01800.06

[Abraham Lincoln 1864 election campaign pin]

Small round pin with photo of Abraham Lincoln in center bordered with black fabric. Meant for the 1864 presidential election.

GLC05125.01

[Pin with two American flags]

Stick pin with black knob at top. Attached to pin are two small cloth American flags and two ribbon tassels. Meant for the 1864 presidential election.

GLC05125.02

[Notice of transportation furnished for Private Henry Mitchell, Company F, 19th Regiment, United States Colored Troops]

[Rinhemberk?], Assistant Quartermaster in Harrisburg, informs the United States Army Paymaster General that he has provided transportation to Baltimore, Maryland, for Private Mitchell. This document is partially printed on Assistant Quartermaster's...

GLC06133.07

[Wrapper for 19th United States Colored Troops accounts for March & April 1865]

GLC06133.08

[Muster roll for the 19th Regiment, United States Colored Troops]

Perkins signs as Lieutenant Colonel of the 19th Regiment. Includes signatures of soldiers in the 19th Regiment. Contains information regarding payment to soldiers between October and December 1864. States that the soldiers were paid 24 March 1865...

GLC06133.09

[Muster roll for Company A, 19th Regiment, United States Colored Troops]

Perkins signs as Lieutenant Colonel of the 19th Regiment. Signed by Captain Thomas S. Stewart as a witness. Includes signatures of and information regarding payment to soldiers of Company A between October and December 1864. States that the...

GLC06133.10