February 27, 1863

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

Autograph letter signed

Title: to David D. Porter

To Adm. David D. Porter. Vicksburg campaign letter re frustrated attempt to dig a canal to bypass Confederate forces. "At the present stage of water the submarine pump cannot be used. Capt. Prime therefore has had it put aboard the Champion. Will you be kind enough to let us have the pump and steamer again when the water falls about ten inches from its present level?"

GLC09363

1863 ca.

Photograph

Title: Training Negro troops

Mounted albumen print of the members of the Louisiana Native Guard learning to read at Port Hudson, Louisiana, at a school set up for the soldiers and freedmen. The guard was one of the first all-black units in the Civil War, formed by Benjamin Butler in 1862.

GLC09229

11 November [1861]

Blackman, Francis G., fl. 1861-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Blackman

Writes to his mother. "...I never knew what it was to go hungy till I come here...I was on the sick list when we got here but I shouldered my gun and marched with the Regiment...we have had one meal of bull soup, we slept in the sand 3 nights all I had to eat in 30 hours was 1/2 pint of rice." "...10 guns boats but we did not get but one of the boats...the Rebel's genarl was kild and then the rest run and flung their things away...we did at Bull Run..." No year on letter.

GLC02159.01

February 19, 1863

Miller, Michael Murray, fl. 1861-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lile Miller

Miller writes to his wife from camp near Union Mills. Notes that their duties are difficult, since there are no other Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteers at their location. Describes standing picket in mud and water for 24 hours at a time. Comments on his living quarters, rations, and clothing.

GLC02155.083

February 18, 1862

Mortimer, Caleb C.E., 1835-1862

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his wife

Written from Camp Follett.

GLC01898.15

February 19, 1864

Johnston, Witter H., fl. 1861-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Miss Sue Johnston

He took a walk on the beach for the first time in a long time. The weather has been very cold.

GLC02167.15

February 19, 1863

Parrott, Henry C., fl. 1861-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sophia Parrott

All the rain has made the roads very muddy and nearly impassable. He expects to paid soon. He was playing ball with the other men but paused to write.

GLC03858.02.08

February 17,1882

Elliot, John, fl. 1860

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Weeks

Writes that he has filled out his recollections of Weeks' case (referring to Weeks contracting the measles while in service). Also writes that John P. Lenhart is willing to make an affidavit on Weeks' behalf. Asks that Weeks return the same favor by recollecting and documenting Elliot's rheumatic neuralgia and chronic diarrhea.

GLC06728.100

February 18, 1864

Perkins, Jacob N., fl. 1860-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to "Healus"

Signed "J. N. Perkins"

GLC02181.33

February 28, 1880

Pope, John, 1822-1892

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations.

GLC06762.060

February 10, 1881

Pope, John, 1822-1892

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations. Followed by blank half leaf.

GLC06762.076

1862/07/23

Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870

Manuscript letter signed

Title: to George B. McClellan

Declining McClellan's offer for medical supplies for captured sick and wounded because he hopes that "in a few days your sick and wounded will be under you own care...."

GLC03905

1862/10/03

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Photograph

Title: The President, General McClellan and suite on... Antietam [by Gardner]

GLC04346

1862/04/11

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

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Richardson, Spenser & Towson re: ordering new uniforms for himself & staff

GLC04356

1864/08/29

Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870

Letter signed

Title: to Richard H. Anderson re: Early's & Sheridan's Valley campaign, strategy

Concerning his fears of enemy strength and his desire that Anderson cooperate with Early by moving his forces or sending Fitz Lee's cavalry into Maryland.

GLC04369

1864/10/22

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph note signed

Title: to Edwin M. Stanton re: allowing a soldier to apply for leave to go home to vote

In full; "Sec of War please give this man the proper directions to apply for leave to go home to vote. Oct. 22, 1864. A. Lincoln." (Election of 1864.)

GLC04618

1865 ca.

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph

Title: Album of 200 cartes de visite, most by Brady. [word processed inventory available]

Album with "A.A." initials embossed on front knob. Includes images of Lincoln, Mary Lincoln (2), Lincoln's Cabinet, generals, writers, emancipated people, prisoners of war, Confederate leaders, etc. Lacks one clasp. Due to album's fragility, pages removed from album 6/97 and boxed as album pages. 50 pages with four cartes per page, most labeled in a contemporary hand (and sometimes humorously, as in Jefferson Davis). Another copy of the New Orleans freed slaves is in GLB 75.

GLC04609

[1864 ca.]

Header Record

Title: Photographs of Atlanta and environs during occupation by Federal Troops

Unmounted photographs of Atlanta, Kennesaw, Resaca and environs during Union occupation in the Fall of 1864. Nos. 1 and 2 are a composite photograph of Kennesaw Mountain, taken shortly after the battle (illustrated in Voices of the Civil War: Atlanta, Time-Life, 1996, pp. 74-75).

GLC04610

1864 ca.

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph signed

Title: [John A. McClemand]

Signed on front and verso, with biographical information. Three-quarter length of John A. McClemand. Republished by Anthony.

GLC04737

1861/03/31

Anderson, Robert, 1805-1871

Letter signed

Title: to Lorenzo Thomas re: no work done, supplies nearly exhausted

GLC04461.01

1888/01/18

Doubleday, Abner, 1819-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Isaac N. Roland re: Fort Sumter, "I aimed the first gun there"

Writes Roland that he has no time for a detailed answer to his question. He notes that there were 60 regular soldiers at Fort Sumter and that "I aimed the first gun there."

GLC04461.03

[1862-1865]

Stephens, Asbury, fl. 1862-1865

Header Record

Title: Six manuscript maps of the Atlanta campaign, with ALS 5/7/1865

6 maps with 1 ALS: 1) Route of March of 2nd Division [Chattanooga to Atlanta; shows Andersonville on path] (cloth map); 2) Position of 2d Div.... July 22d 1864 near Atlanta, Ga. (small paper map); 3) [Skirmish at Eastpoint, Ga., July 27, 1864] (small paper map); 4) Plan of Rome... Georgia... Oct 8th 1864 (small paper map); 5) Position of the Fourth Division... at Ogeechee River Ga. (small paper map); 6) Position of the 4th Div.... before Columbia, S.C. Feby 16 and 17 1865; 7) Asbury Stephens ALS Petersburg, Va. 5/7/1865 2 p.

GLC04498

1865 ca.

Header Record

Title: Cartes of Fort Sumter & Charleston after capture, photographed by Osborne [word processed inventory available]

Pictures taken by Osborne shortly after the capture of Sumter. Album housed separately.

GLC04509

1859, 1864

Flinn, John William, fl. 1863-1893

Autograph manuscript

Title: [Bible given to Flinn at Point Lookout, Maryland]

A fellow inmate at Point Lookout gave this Bible to Flinn. Contains two inscriptions recording the gift: "C. R. Myers to J. W. Flinn Prison Camp 1864" and "From C. R. Myers to J. W. Flinn Prison Camp Point Lookout Maryland 1864."

GLC04573.15

1865/01/28

Wallace, Oliver V., fl. 1850-1865

Newspaper

Title: Soldier's letter. Second Colorado cavalry. [Vol. 1, no. 13 (January 28, 1865)]

GLC04587