circa 1861-1865

Barr & Young (photographer)

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite of Ulysses S. Grant

Similar to 407. Gold imprint of oval frame surrounds image. Photographed as major general. Image is an oval bust view with decorative boarder. Graphite inscription on recto "U.S. Grant." Photographers imprint on verso: "Barr & Young, Army Photographers, Vicksburg, Mississippi."

GLC05111.02.0406

circa 1861-1865

E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm)

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite of Ulysses S. Grant

As major general, vignette half-view, facing forward. Graphite inscription on verso "16." Photographers imprint on verso: "Published by E. & H.T. Anthony 501 Broadway, New York. Manufacturers of the best Photographic Albums."

GLC05111.02.0415

circa 1861-1865

E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm)

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite of Ulysses S. Grant

As major general, seated half-view, profile. Graphite inscription on verso "April 63" "US Grant." Photographers imprint on verso: "Published by E. & H.T. Anthony 501 Broadway New York. Manufacturers of the best Photographic Albums." Cancelled orange two-cent tax stamp on verso.

GLC05111.02.0416

circa 1861-1865

Saltsman, T.F., fl. 1865

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite of Ulysses S. Grant

As major general, oval bust portrait. Ink inscription on recto "U. S. Grant Lieutenant General of the United States of America." Graphite inscription on verso "50-." Photographers imprint on verso: "T.F. Saltsman, Photographer, Cor. Union & College Sts., Nashville, Tenn." Cancelled blue two-cent tax stamp on verso.

GLC05111.02.0418

circa 1861-1865

Lilienthal, Theodore, 1829-1894

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite of Ulysses S. Grant

As major [?] general vignette bust portrait, facing forward. Rank insignia partially obscured by the vignette. Shows a tired and haggard, thin faced Grant. Photographers imprint on verso: "Theo. Lilienthal's Photographic Gallery, 102 Poydras St., N.O."

GLC05111.02.0419

circa 1861-1865

Gurney, Jeremiah, 1812-1895

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite of Ulysses S. Grant

As lieutenant general, vignette bust portrait, facing slightly left. Ink inscription on recto "U.S. Grant." Photographers imprint on verso: "Gurney [with crest] Fifth Avenue, Cor. 16th St. N.Y."

GLC05111.02.0420

circa 1861-1865

E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm)

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite of Ulysses S. Grant

As lieutenant general, seated, facing left. Shows Grant with short hair and a well trimmed beard. Similar to # 420. Graphite inscription on verso "17" "Grant." Photographers imprint on verso: "Published by E. & H.T. Anthony, 501 Broadway New York. Manufacturers of the best Photographic Albums."

GLC05111.02.0422

circa 1861-1865

E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm)

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite of Ulysses S. Grant

As lieutenant general, seated, facing forward. Photographers imprint on verso: "Published by E. & H. T. Anthony 501 Broadway New York. Manufacturers of the best Photographic Albums."

GLC05111.02.0423

7 August 1865

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

Document signed

Title: [Presidential pardon and authority to the Secretary of State to affix the seal to the pardon of Lawson Eastham, charged with treason].

Andrew Johnson granted Lawson a full parson and amnesty for all the offences he comitted. Countersigned by Secretary of State William H. Seward.

GLC06408

1 March 1848

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Jesse W. Fell

Short letter announcing the war's end. Predicts that the peace treaty submitted to Congress will be passed. Notes: Basler 1:454-55.

GLC06413

7 October 1861

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Samuel P. Chase

Writes of his intentions to appoint Marvin J. Green, a clerk under Secretary of the Treasury Chase, to the Commissary of General John J. Peck. Requests that Chase appoint a Mr. Hawley to replace Green.

GLC06414

1 July 1864

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Printed document signed

Title: [Commission of Henry Hunt as Lieutenant Colonel of the 3rd Artillery Regiment]

Countersigned by Edwin McMasters Stanton, Secretary of War, and Edward Davis Townsend, Assistant Adjutant General. Official seal has been ripped and is partially missing. Partially printed on vellum. Contains an image of an eagle, a knight's helmet, and several United States flags.

GLC06415.01

20 November 1805

Madison, James, 1751-1836

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas McKean

Marked private and confidential. Written by Madison as Secretary of State probably to McKean as Governor of Pennsylvania. Madison is trying to keep the Marquis de Casa Yrujo (Don Carlos Martinez de Yrujo), the Spanish Minister to the United States, from going to Washington. Yrujo angered the Jefferson administration by his public disapproval of the Louisiana Purchase and Madison says it "will make it necessary that he should not remain indefinitely in this Country in his public Character." Wants McKean to use his friendly relations to Yrujo's family to communicate this fact in a…

GLC06416

12 March 1836

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Document signed

Title: [Patent for Charles Richardson's improvement in blacksmith's cast iron hollow forge backs]

Signed by Jackson as President. Countersigned by John Forsyth as Secretary of State and Benjamin Franklin Butler as Attorney General. Richardson's written description of his improvement is signed by Albert and Cyrus Richardson as witnesses. Docketed 24 November 1837 by Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, Commissioner of Patents. Sealed and bound with yellow ribbon.

GLC06418.01

February 23, 1808

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Document signed

Title: [Appointment of William Swann to Captain in the first regiment infantry].

Countersigned by Secretary of War Henry Dearborn.

GLC06418.02

27 September 1821

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

Document signed

Title: [Arkansas land grant]

Signed by Monroe as President and countersigned by Josiah Meigs as Commissioner of the General Land Office. Also signed by "J. Wheaton," apparently a clerk in the land office who recorded the grant and by a "Will. Blanchard" on verso at the docket. Blanchard describes the tract of land and might have worked in a local land office in Arkansas, where the tract is situated. This document gave Isaac Sanders, "a private in Talbotts Company of the 19th Regiment of Infantry," 165 acres of land in Arkansas. This document is part of the bounty land offers that promoted enlistment during the War of…

GLC06418.03

10 April 1826

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

Printed document signed

Title: [Indiana land grant to Samuel Cook]

Countersigned by George W. Graham, Commissioner of the General Land Office. Partially printed document granting Cook eighty acres in Crawfordsville, Indiana.

GLC06418.04

February 1, 1779

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Letter signed

Title: to Anthony White

No free frank. Orders Colonel White to send two troops from the regiment to Baltimore to pick up cavalry supplies. Specifies that one should be Captain David Hopkins's. Marked no. 1 at top. Free frank in clerical hand.

GLC06425

5 August 1781

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Letter signed

Title: to Joseph Woodbridge

Negotiates for credit to purchase a cannon for the Continental Army. With a presentation note on page three dated 17 April 1844 from Sheldon Woodbridge to H. A. Sheldon (signed by Woodbridge).

GLC06427

3 September 1781

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Letter signed

Title: to Joseph Woodbridge

Indicates that he has referred Woodbridge's letter about finalizing a cannon purchase to Robert Morris because he (Washington) has to march southward (for the Yorktown campaign). See also GLC06427 on the cannon purchase.

GLC06428

20 March 1782

Wilson, James, 1742-1798

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George Washington

Formal letter of contract in which Wilson, a prominent Pennsylvania attorney, agrees to let Washington's nephew read law with him. For a fee of one hundred guineas, Wilson agrees to furnish him with reading matter at his lodgings, and says that he may come into the office for information. In a few months Wilson will take him into the office.

GLC06429.02

24 August 1789

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Manuscript letter signed

Title: to John E. Howard

Transmits to the governor of Maryland "an Act providing for the Expenses which may attend Negotiations or Treaties with the Indian Tribes, and the appointment of Commissioners for managing the same." With presentation note on verso indicating that this document was given as a gift to Count Donadio of Spain by Brantz Mayer on 10 November 1876.

GLC06430

27 March 1791

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Tobias Lear

Writes about household affairs at Mount Vernon. Discusses the staff and forbids the steward from having wine. Asks him to keep the garden in order. Asks Lear to, "Furnish Mrs. Washington with what money she may want and from time to time ask her if she does want, as she is not fond of applying."

GLC06431

10 October 1793

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Document signed

Title: [Recognizing Dannery as French Consul at Boston]

Countersigned by Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of State. Official recognition of Thomas Dannery as French Consul in Boston. Given "such functions, powers, and priviledges, as are allowed to Consuls of the French Republick by law." Large raised seal of the United States in the lower left corner of document.

GLC06432

19 June 1794

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Gouverneur Morris

Marked both duplicate and private. President Washington writes to Morris as Minister to France. Assures Morris of his continued confidence in him, despite the need to recall him from his position in Paris. Says he was not going to write and simply allow the Secretary of State to send him word, but when an opportunity to write presented itself he could not pass it up. The French government asked the American government to recall Morris after they recalled Edmond Charles Genet, their minister to America. Genet, angry that America would not support France in the wars that had broke out in Europe…

GLC06433.01