circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Beaufort Church, S.C., partially covered with ivy or cutzu, and a small cemetery with a man sitting on tomb.

Inscription on verso: " Beaufort Church, S.C." Numeric notation on verso: "133."

GLC05111.01.0770

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: The Monument [Methodist] Church, Richmond, VA.

Inscription on verso: "Monument Methodist Church." Numeric Notation on verso: "33."

GLC05111.01.0777

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Church at Bull Run

An image of a building is in the background, with the remains of a stone chimney in the foreground. Inscription on verso: "Church at Bull Run." Numeric notation on verso: "58."

GLC05111.01.0800

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Poplar Grove Church

The image shows the Poplar Grove Church, which was built by the 50th New York Volunteer Engineers in 1864-65. A Union drum Corps is in the right foreground, with other Union soldiers in front of the church. The site is near Petersburg, VA. Inscription on verso: "Church of the Engineer Corps before Petersburg." Numeric notation on verso: "348" and "45."

GLC05111.01.0979

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Baptist Church at the end of a road in Fredericksburg

A Baptist church stands at what seems to be the end of a road, with houses set to each side of it. A covered wagon sits, apparantly ready to unload parishiners, while a man on horseback peers intently at it. Inscription on verso: "Bapti." Numeric notation on verso: "135."

GLC05111.01.0865

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Baptist Church Fredericksburg [stereoview]

A stereoview (perhaps made up to be mounted on cardstock) of the Baptist Church at Fredericksburg, Virginia. Inscription on verso: "Baptist Church Fredericksburg." Numeric notation on verso: "135."

GLC05111.01.0866

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: View of Dunkard Church, from field where lives were cut short

A view of Dunkard Church at Antietam from across a field. On the field, near the remains of an artillery piece, several bodies and a horse lay in their final resting places. Inscription on verso: "View near Dunker Church Antietam." Numeric notation on verso: "98."

GLC05111.01.0886

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Ruins of the church at Hampton, Virginia

A view of the ruins of a church in Hampton, Virginia. A man sits on a former section of wall, surveying the almost total destruction of the place of worship. Inscription on verso: "Hampton Va Church." Numeric notation on verso: "129."

GLC05111.01.0894

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Ruins of Old Brick Church at Hampton, Virginia [stereoview]

A stereoview (perhaps made up to be mounted on cardstock) of the ruins of the brick church at Hampton, Virginia. A leafless tree stands sentinel over the ruins of the church. Inscription on verso: "Ruins of Old Brick Church Hampton Va." Numeric notation on verso: "131."

GLC05111.01.0895

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Ruins of Old Brick Church at Hampton, Virginia [stereoview]

Identical to image #895. Inscription on verso: "Ruins of Old Brick Church Hampton Va." Numeric notation on verso: "131."

GLC05111.01.0896

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Ruins of the church at Hampton, Virginia [stereoview]

Identical to image #894. A stereoview of the ruins of the church at Hampton Virginia. A man sits on a former section of wall, surveying the almost total destruction of the place of worship. Inscription on verso: "Hampton Va Church." Numeric notation on verso: "129."

GLC05111.01.0897

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Sentry at Stone Church at Centreville, Virginia

A guard stands sentry atop a hill, while five others on picket approach his position. In the center of the image is the Stone Church of Centreville, Virginia. Inscription on verso: '"Stone Church Centreville, Va." Numeric notation on verso: "19."

GLC05111.01.0898

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Sentry at Stone Church at Centreville, Virginia [stereoview]

Identical to image #898. Stereoview (perhaps made up to be mounted on cardstock) of a guard on sentry duty, standing on a hill near the Stone Church at Centreville, Virginia. Inscription on verso: "Stone Church Centreville, Va." Numeric notation on verso: "19."

GLC05111.01.0899

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: St. Paul's Episcopal Church and Capitol Square, Richmond, Va.

Eighteen distinct people are visible, along with several "ghosted" people [an effect that ocurred when a person was moving while the picture was being taken]. Inscription on verso: "St Paul's Church Richmond." Numeric notation on verso: "13-1." Additional inscription on verso: 719-737 ST Pauls Church."

GLC05111.01.0715

1 March 1864

Gibbs, Alfred, 1823-1868

Autograph letter signed

Title: to F. S. Cozzens

Written from camp near Culpeper. Missed Cozzens on a recent trip to Washington, D.C. On the train to Washington, sat beside a Presbyterian parson. Told the parson he was a brevet Bishop in the Army of the Potomac. Notes that the parson was respectful in consequence, but drank a large amount from Gibbs's canteen. Writes, "I can't be funny under any circumstances... They have just sent the best part of my brigade, and left me here to watch the [river?]." Requests tacks. Wishes he had "redeye" instead of "'certain death' suttler whiskey."

GLC05033

10 November 1861

Mansfield, Joseph K.F., 1803-1862

Autograph letter signed

Title: to A. T. Goodman

General Mansfield replies to Goodman's request for his autograph. Says "You ask my autograph - If I could close this unhappy war as easily as I can comply with your complementary request, I should be happy. We are now engaged in a contest from which there is no retreating. We battle for principle, and our glorious institutions, and the word should be onward; and may the Great God who rules over all, guide our steps and conduct us to a happy end." Written at Fort Monroe.

GLC05042.01

16 August 1864

Prince, Henry, 1811-1892

Letter

Title: to Ulysses S. Grant

Written in the hand of Captain Russell, aide-de-camp. Reports on events which occurred since Prince was assigned to command the District of Kentucky. Relates that he was superceded unannounced by another commander (possibly Stephen Gano Burbridge). Writes that "a policy calculated in my belief to spread ruin & devastation and having no good in it, is being pursued, at the moment that an improvement in the feeling of the citizens towards the government was making itself apparent to me.." Calls Burbridge's policy a reign of terror. Reports on public killings, supported by Burbridge, of…

GLC05049

10 May 1886

Whittier, John G., 1807-1892

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Whittier declines an invitation to a religious festival because it coincides with the Quarterly Meeting of Friends (Quakers) at Amesbury, Massachusetts. He discusses schisms within his correspondent's religious community, particularly the debate over predestination.

GLC05092.01

14 May 1881

Whittier, John G., 1807-1892

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sallie E. Bickford

Whittier declines Bickford's invitation to a Union meeting because he has a Quaker meeting the day before in Amesbury.

GLC05092.02

circa 25 October 1892

Document

Title: [Program for the play Hiawatha]

Performed at the Shawmut Universalist Church. Includes pencil notes (possibly designating who will perform each part). Contains a list of names on verso of persons responsible for different aspects of production. The name "Sarah Bickford" is written in pencil on verso.

GLC05092.03.01

circa 1785

Madison, Dolley, 1768-1849

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Eliza Brooke, Jr.

News of a Quaker community in Philadelphia, where she had recently moved. Includes comments on the marriage of local couples. Signed "D. Payne."

GLC05102

circa 1861-1865

Fawx, Egbert Guy, fl. 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Falles [sic] Church in VA

A print of a photograph of a two-story brick building. Union officers posed on horses in front of Falls Church, VA where George Washington once worshipped. It was a favorite tourist site for soldiers passing through. On the inside of the church's walls, soldiers often wrote down their names and units. It became a catalogue of sorts for Union regiments passing by. Title from graphite inscription below photograph: "Falles [sic] Church in va." "Falls Church" is written below that. Print is in an oval shape on a rectangular sheet of albumen.

GLC05111.01.0069

1863

French & Co.

Photograph

Title: [Artillery park in Vicksburg captured at its surrender with Methodist and Catholic Churchs behind]

A print of a photograph taken near Vicksburg, MS in 1863 after Confederate loss of the city to the Union Army. Inscription on verso: "One of the parks of artillery Vicksburg captured at its surrender Methodist Church in the front Catholic Church rear with high steeple." Photograph shows many artillery pieces and associated carts for transporting amunition and powder. Two large churches can be seen in the background along with a handful of other structures.

GLC05111.01.0090

July 1863

Gardner, James, 1832-?

Photograph

Title: Dunkard Church on Antietam Battlefied, after battle damge was repaired. [July 1863]

Negative by J. Gardner. Taken from "Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War. No. 21" with text accompanying panel. Heavy fighting took place around the church, and after the battle it was used as a field hospital. This photogrpah was taken some time after the extensive battle damage inflicted on the church was repaired [according to the Dates of creation, the image was taken in July 1863]. Two of Gardner's assistants appear on the right side of the church.

GLC05111.01.0189

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Group of people in front of Church, New Berne, NC [split stereocard]

The image shows six adults and three children standing in front of a large white church. Inscription on verso: "Colored Church New Berne N.C."

GLC05111.01.1248