1904/09/10

Mosby, John S., 1833-1916

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: Sam Chapman

upcoming elections, specifically mentioning Revercomb, Slemp, Hoge, Parker, and Roosevelt.

GLC03921.07

1906/05/09

Mosby, John S., 1833-1916

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: Sam Chapman

McCabe's letter abusing Grant.

GLC03921.14

1906/05/22

Mosby, John S., 1833-1916

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William A. Chapman

Willie's post-earthquake arrival in San Francisco; banquet given by the Middlesex Club in honor of Grant's birthday.

GLC03921.16

1908/08/02

Mosby, John S., 1833-1916

Typed letter signed

Title: to: Sam Chapman

Taft's upcoming speech to the Virginia Republicans; Maj. Swift's appointment as head of the Army War College.

GLC03921.23

1908/09/13

Mosby, John S., 1833-1916

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: Sam Chapman

letter concerning "the 'true inwardness' of Gen. Lee's staff;" intentions to vote for Taft; Maj. Swift's review of his book for the Journal of the United States Cavalry Association.

GLC03921.24

1909/02/10

Mosby, John S., 1833-1916

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sam Chapman

article about Lincoln in Cosmopolitan: "It is the best thing I have seen about Lincoln & confirms what I wrote you that Lincoln offered to the South compensation of their slaves when the Confederacy was in its last gasp & even then we rejected it."

GLC03921.25

1909/03/09

Mosby, John S., 1833-1916

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: Sam Chapman

Taft's Supreme Court appointees; dining with Col. Charles Francis Adams.

GLC03921.26

1912/05/30

Mosby, John S., 1833-1916

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sam Chapman

Theodore Roosevelt's run on a third party ticket: "Teddy has knocked out Taft in one of the most surprising phenomena of history;"

GLC03921.36

1912/10/29

Mosby, John S., 1833-1916

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: Sam Chapman

intention to vote for Taft: "If Wilson is elected…the Bull Moose will be buried forever."

GLC03921.37

1914/07/06

Mosby, John S., 1833-1916

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: Sam Chapman

traveling to Manassass to look over the battlefield; says Wilson will not stay in the White House longer than one term.

GLC03921.48

1915/02/04

Mosby, John S., 1833-1916

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: Sam Chapman

anniversary of the day he took over the Hong Kong consulate 36 years ago; opposition to Wilson's shipping bill; arranging a sitting for the group painting.

GLC03921.49

[1897]/07/25

Mosby, John S., 1833-1916

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: Sam Chapman

plans to travel east in September; view of President Cleveland and Democratic party; and opposition to coinage of silver: "If the people want cheap money give them old Confederate notes."

GLC03921.01

1897/09/22

Mosby, John S., 1833-1916

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: Sam Chapman

enclosed check to settle accounts; appointments by McKinley.

GLC03921.02

1899/11/01

Mosby, John S., 1833-1916

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Chapman

News of friends and family; hopes for November election; and article written for the Times concerning actions of Ulysses S. Grant and Philip Sheridan during the war: "[W]hen Grant telegraphed Sheridan about capturing and corralling my men's wives it would have been a great advantage and promoted the efficiency of command."

GLC03921.03

1862/7/3

Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his mother

They are currently camped at the birth place of William Henry Harrison. The house has been turned into a hospital. Stonewall Jackson turned the right flank of the Union Army, captured White House, Va and forced the retreat of the army. Many of the men are sick and wounded but the doctor and the steward have surrendered to the Confederates in order to care for captured wounded. He sent money home by a previous mail.

GLC04662.009

1866/02/23

Pickett, Byron M., fl. 1866

Autograph note signed

Title: To: J.Q.A. Ward. Re: receipt confirming that Ward paid $165, in relation to a monument of Van Buren.

2 cent stamp in left margin.

GLC06343.289

1866/03/29

Van Buren, fl. 1866

Autograph note signed

Title: To: J.Q.A. Ward. Re: thanks and praise to Ward for his work [bust of the late President Van Buren] and kindness from Mrs. Van Buren (most likely the late President's daughter-in-law).

Written on stationary trimmed in black and the letters "VB" imprinted in top margin.

GLC06343.290

1867/06/24

Autograph note signed

Title: To: J.Q.A. Ward. Re: receipt for Ward's payment of $15.00 toward preliminary studies for a pedestal design to a Lincoln monument.

Pencil inscription in different hand reads: "All right - thanks!!" 2 cent stamp in center. Note: docket appears to be wrongly addressing contents of note.Docket reads: "M[illegible]. Architect, Shakespear [sic] Pedestal in C[entral]. Park

GLC06343.293

1883/11/25-1889/05/08

Document

Title: 12 invitations to commemorative events held in honor of Washington's inauguration as president and of the British evacuation of New York, 1883-1889.

GLC06343.226

1900/04/19

Document

Title: Invitation to unveilings of statue, Washington and Lafayette, by Ward, 1900; board.

GLC06343.228

1883/04/06

Corbin, Henry Clark, 1842-1909

Autograph letter signed

Title: to J.Q.A. Ward.

Written on "Society of the Army of the Cumberland/Garfield Monument Committee" stationery. Re: possible erection of a memorial to the late President Garfield in Washington, D.C.

GLC06343.232

1884/11/21

Lincoln, Robert T., 1843-1926

Autograph letter signed

Title: to J.Q.A. Ward.

"War Department" stationary. Secretary of War Lincoln writes discussing the erection and location of a proposed memorial statue to President James Garfield in Washington, D.C. The site selected was "the circle at the foot of the Capitol grounds situate at the intersection of 1st Street and Maryland Avenue, South West..."

GLC06343.234

1884/12/12

The Garfield Monument Committee of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: Agreement contract between The Garfield Monument Committee and J.Q.A. Ward, commissioning Garfield memorial pedestal.

Contract outlines commission cost [$25,000] to be paid to Ward, required work, and contingency plans if pedestal cannot be completed by Ward.

GLC06343.236

1885/02/07

Lincoln, Robert T., 1843-1926

Autograph letter signed

Title: to J.Q.A. Ward.

"War Department" stationary. Secretary of War Lincoln discusses submission of Ward's "design, plan and specifications in detail" for the erection the pedestal for the President Garfield memorial in Washington, D.C.

GLC06343.237

1885/02/25

Lincoln, Robert T., 1843-1926

Autograph letter signed

Title: to J.Q.A. Ward

"War Department" stationary. Secretary of War Lincoln informs Ward that at a meeting on the previous day, a Commission approved Ward's proposal for a pedestal to memorial statue of President Garfield in Washington, D.C.

GLC06343.238