18 June 1863

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary

Writes to his sister Mary about marching in Maryland. Also mentions the recapture of Winchester, Virginia by Longstreet.

GLC02082.35

21 June 1863

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary

Continuation of GLC02082.37. Relates that "we will start to Pennsylvania." Declares that the "Yanks [are] now in hot water." Writes from "Antietam, near Hagerstown," in Maryland.

GLC02082.36

28 June 1863

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his mother

Details his Pennsylvania experiences and "Alabamiams." Pages 3 and 4 written on separate scrap of paper.

GLC02082.37

19 July 1863

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter

Title: to Mary

Describes the retreat through Maryland and Pennsylvania. Mentions the plentiful food. Describes the battle of Gettysburg & retreat. Written in pencil. May be missing conclusion. Author assumed based on letters of similar handwriting and content. See GLC02082.39.

GLC02082.38

6 August 1863-7 August 1863

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Dorcus and to his sister

Letter on first page to cousin Dorcus, hoping that her sweetheart Robert has fared well in the late battle. Uses a numeric code. Letter of last three pages to his sister. Describes Gettysburg and their retreat: "Hear we have bin for several days, but we kno not what minut that we will have to march, we have marched solong so four til dont seam rite to stay in camps."

GLC02082.39

26 August 1863

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sister

Reports good health for himself as well as the majority of the army. Writes briefly about the fight at Gettysburg because Mary had not received any letters from him.

GLC02082.41

12 September 1863

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter

Title: to Mary

Describes his leisure time. Reports that they are being sent to Chattanooga. Complains about the complaining men of the South. Describes how Lee treated deserters: he shot them.

GLC02082.42

23 September 1863

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his mother

Discusses shooting a deserter. Writes from a camp on the Rappahannock River.

GLC02082.43

1 November 1863

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary

Written on long sheet of blue letter paper and cross-written on page 1. Discusses camp news, battles & skirmishing. Location listed as Camp 5th Alabama Regiment near Brandy Station, Virginia.

GLC02082.44

19 November 1863

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary

Discusses camp news, Yankee shelling picketts & skirmishing, and fortifying a camp. Written from Camp 5th Alabama near Monetons ford on the Rapperdan.

GLC02082.45

December 10, 1863

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary

Written from Camp 5th Alabama near Monetons ford on the Rapperdan. Discusses fighting & skirmishing with Yankees.

GLC02082.46

1 January 1864

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary

Comments on camp news, picket duty & drilling. Written from Camp Co. H 5th Alabama Regiment, twelve months volunteers near Orange C.H., Virginia.

GLC02082.47

January 31, 1864

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary

Provides camp news. Believes that 1864 will be a desperate year for the South.

GLC02082.48

February 13, 1864

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary

Discusses visiting Richmond. Reports that Gen. Rodes wants Brigade to go back to Rapidan.

GLC02082.49

February 21, 1864

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary

Discusses his return to old winter quarters. Mentions marching in the cold weather. Reports that the Yanks seized Tuscaloosa. Also Tate also worries about the seizure of Tuscaloosa and wishes for a furlough to "bush whack them." Also describes an interesting meeting in Richmond with the widow who cared for him when he was wounded in 1862.

GLC02082.50

6 April 1864

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary

Mentions making a bone ring from bone found at Seven Pines.

GLC02082.51

17 April 1864

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary

Reports sending the bone ring.

GLC02082.52

27 April 1864

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his mother

The first page is overwritten. Mentions various engagements with Yankees including the Battle of Plymouth, North Carolina.

GLC02082.53

23 May 1864

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary

Discusses battle action in the Wilderness Campaign, and mentions Yankee losses.

GLC02082.54

7 June 1864

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his sister

Written in pencil. Provides more information on the Wilderness Campaign and reports heavy losses in own company.

GLC02082.55

1861/02/09

Toombs, Robert Augustus, 1810-1885

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Francis W. Pickens re: announcing formation of Confederate States of America

GLC02283

February 3, 1848

Dix, John Adams, 1798-1879

Document signed

Title: [Members of Congress agree on Washington D.C.'s need for an Episcopal Church]

Written and signed by Congressmen John A. Dix. Cosigned by George E. Badger, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, H. Johnson, (possibly either Henry or Herschel Johnson), Robert Winthrop, John Sergeant, William D. Dayton, John Macpherson Berrien, and Joseph R. Ingersoll. Supreme Court Justices Samuel Nelson, V. Daniel (possibly Peter V. Daniel), and Levi Woodbury signed the document 8 February 1848. States that members of the Episcopal Church temporarily in Washington, D.C., need accommodation. Acknowledges that a subscription is needed to build another Church; states that the Church is also…

GLC02288

29 November 1814

Adams, Abigail, 1744-1818

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Richard Rush

Addressed to Rush as Attorney General in Washington, D.C. Encloses a letter received from her son, John Quincy Adams, to the President, James Madison, and states that he may read the political parts to the President if he desires. States that the letter is John Q. Adams opinions on the "farce" of the peace negotiations with Britain during the War of 1812, and should not be made public. Comments upon the fate of Alexandria, Virginia. Finishes by saying, "I have not a word to say, in vindication of the conduct of my own native State, but much to deplore." Free frank of John Adams.

GLC02291

1793/10/02

Adams, John, 1735-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John [Jean] Luzac re: America should maintain neutrality

Written as Vice President, recommending Tobias Lear, former secretary to President George Washington. "This country is too happy in the enjoyment of that Liberty which cost them so dear to risque it, by medling in foreign wars." Luzac, a distinguished lawyer, philologist and journalist, was "Professor of Grecian Literature in the University of Leyden." Written on front of leaves only, with integral address leaf.

GLC02294

20 March 1866

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

Autograph document signed

Title: to Officers Commanding Troops in Southern States

Instructs troops in Southern States to welcome historian Benson J. Lossing. Lossing was visiting the South for the purpose of "seeing different battle fields and [illustrating] them for the benefit of the future reader of the scenes though which this country has passed." States that favors granted to Lossing will be appreciated by Lossing and himself. With original official envelope on which Grant has penned "Introducing Mr. B.F. Lossing Historian".

GLC02306