1860/11/27

Davis, Charles H., fl. 1860

Autograph letter signed

Title: re: books

GLC02466.02

1862/11/16

Foote, Andrew H. (Andrew Hull), 1806-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: re: dinner invitation

GLC02466.05

February 8, 1864

Thomas, George Henry, 1816-1870

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

General Thomas writes from Headquarters, Department of the Cumberland to an unnamed colonel. Requests that the colonel "give the enclosed list of relics to Mrs. Goddard with my compliments and say that I am sorry I can do no better for the Sanitary Commission's Fair now." States that already, many desirable relics have been taken from the battle fields of Chickamauga and Chattanooga, Tennessee. Two bust engravings of Thomas included as collateral.

GLC02457.18

5 December [1861]

Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Charles S. Hamilton

Authorizes Hamilton to make his Brigade Head Quarters with his Wisconsin regiment. Must have been written during 1861, since this was the only year during which Hamilton would have been in the vicinity of Maryland and under Bank's command during the month of December. Banks resigned from the army in April 1863, and in December 1862 he was serving in the Western theater.

GLC02459.02

1861/03/07

Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Gideon Welles re: recommendation of Mr. Stone as lieutenant of Marines

[vice presidents]

GLC02512.01

1860/10/15

Ellet, Charles, fl. 1860

Autograph letter signed

Title: to A. Thomas re: regarding family

GLC02480.04

1861/01/24

Curtin, Andrew Gregg, 1815-1894

Document signed

Title: Pennsylvania resolutions relative to maintenance of the... Union

Resolutions by the Pennsylvania legislature rejecting the secession of South Carolina. Signed by Curtin as Governor and countersigned by S.B. Thomas as Deputy Secretary, and Eli Slifer as Secretary.

GLC02281

February 18, 1865

Richardson, Hollon, 1835-1916

Letter

Title: to Gouverneur K. Warren

Contains two letters, both copied by James Preston. Page one contains a copy of a letter from Richardson to General Warren dated 18 February 1865. Original created near Petersburg, Virginia. Discusses attacking Petersburg: "I am satisfied in my own mind... that the works of the Enemy in front of Petersburgh, or at almost any point in the line, can be carried by assault... " Refers to the Battle of Fort Fisher, North Carolina, assuming that an assault on Petersburg should have the same success. Thinks two corps will be sufficient for the assault. The second page contains Warren's reply…

GLC02297.04

1862/08/10

Eliot, S. F., fl. 1862

Letter signed

Title: to Brigadier General John M. Brannan

Signed as Brigade Surgeon, 4th N.H. Vols. About health problems in his regiment.

GLC02297.09

1864/07/12

Potts, J. J., fl. 1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Col. J. S. Ford re: spy report on Union forces to Texas Rangers

Potts, in this letter, notes that he is unable to serve in the military.

GLC02652

1864/11/17

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Document signed

Title: Document re: purchase of cotton from Augustus Wright by agent Hanson Risley

Signed by Lincoln on page 3; countersigned by Hanson A. Risley as special agent and by Green Adams as government purchasing agent. "I, Hanson A. Risley, Agent for the purchase of products of insurrectionary States, on behalf of the Government of the United States ... do hereby certify that I have agreed to purchase from Augustus R. Wright of the State of Georgia, Five Hundred Bales of Cotton, more or less, deposited and stored at or near Rome... I therefore request safe conduct for the said Augustus R. Wright and his means of transportation and said Cotton from Rome, Georgia, within the lines…

GLC02691.04

1864/11/24

Wright, Augustus Romaldus, 1813-1891

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Andrew Johnson re: introduction and pledge of loyalty for son Miller

Asks Johnson to assist his son in finding honest work. "He was in command of the 38th Ga Reg at Antietam where he fell after 6 hours fighting ... He was pardoned by the President [Lincoln]."

GLC02691.09

1864 ca.

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph signed

Title: [Carte de visite of Alfred Pleasanton]

Signed as Major General on image and verso. Brady imprint on verso.

GLC02790

February 9, 1862

Goldsborough, Louis Malesherbes, 1805-1877

Letter

Title: To the men under his command

Written aboard the flag steamer USS Philadelphia. General order, signed clerically, sent by Flag Officer Goldsborough as commander of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron thanking his men for a victory "worthy of yourselves and the sacred cause the flag upholds." Says they have more work to accomplish and they "will soon deliver another blow to crush the Hydra of rebellion." At some point another sheet of paper seems to have been pasted and torn off the document. During his command of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron from October 1861 to September 1862, Louis Goldsborough led his…

GLC02252

1860/11/28

Moore, Andrew Barry, 1807-1873

Document signed

Title: [Alabama's first official action to secede due to election of Lincoln]

Refers to "the Election of Abraham Lincoln, a Black Republican."

GLC02267

1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: 1/6 plate ambrotypes: 1 Union image, standing

Union soldier with bayonet, yellow touches and buckles

GLC02189.01

1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: 1/6 plate tintype: Union image, standing

Union Infantry with flag in background, holding bayonet

GLC02190.01

1865/04/04

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Frank Richardson

Written from an unknown soldier. Written on stationery of the Sergeant of Arms Office, House of Representatives, noted "Q.M. Gen.s Office." Envelope with 3 cent (1861) pink stamp, postmarked. Discusses the fall of Richmond and the celebration of the end of the war: "You have heard the glorious news and I hope when you heard it that you expressed your joy in a suitable manner. Had I been at home, our house should have been decorated with flags as in the first days of the rebellion - for their strong city has fallen, and the war is at an end." "The fact of losing their capitol and being…

GLC02034.02

1866/04/02 after

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

Broadside

Title: A Proclamation: Declaring the insurrection at an end in certain states

Printed on blue paper. Reconstruction related.

GLC02037

1865/04/03

Lard, A.P., fl. 1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to C.W. Rugg

Describes his entrance into Richmond and the cheering which the Union flag received. Envelope with 3 cent (1861) pink stamp, postmarked.

GLC02034.01

12 May [1864]

Tompkins, Charles, fl. 1864

Note signed

Title: to Henry Jackson Hunt

Battle note, on scrap of paper, asking for cohorns (mortars). Year inferred based on date. Location was probably the Spotsylvania campaign.

GLC02382.027

1863/07

O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882

Photograph

Title: Field where Gen. Reynolds fell, Gettysburg [published by Gardner]

Photograph, not showing Reynold's body, but showing corpses on the field after the battle.

GLC02435

1862/09-1864/11/08

Kellogg, James H., fl. 1862-1864

Header Record

Title: [Collection of James H. Kellogg, I company, 21st regiment, Michigan, infantry] [Decimalized .001- .113]

Letters to his wife and family, written as a member of the 21st Michigan Infantry, Army of the Cumberland. The letters begin with his recruitment camp (Camp Siegel) in September 1862, and end with the election, just after the fall of Atlanta at Kingston, Georgia, on 8 November 1864. Includes the Battle of Murfreesboro (Stones River) (see letter 12, long and graphic), Knoxville, Chattanooga and the fall of Atlanta. Other letters describe suffering in the South, abolitionists (12 September 1864) and voting for Lincoln ("we expect to give the Old Rail splitter four years more"), 8 November…

GLC02415

1865/03/22

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Note signed

Title: Ordering that "this man take the oath of Dec 8th" [written on back of letter]

GLC02371.02

1864/09/06

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Gideon Welles re: furnishing coal for the Government

Written as President. Not in Basler. Lincoln writes to his Secretary of Navy about a woman's proposal to supply coal. He suspects she is insane.

GLC02793.036