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Whitfield Stevens, a Confederate soldier from Company A of the 4th Virginia Infantry (Stonewall Brigade) writes to his grandfather (letter addressed "Dear Granpa") and sends his letter in a "Yanky Envelope." Written from "Camp Bunkers Hill" outside...

GLC00220

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Autograph letter signed

to Moses Grinnell

July 3, 1863

McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885

Asks Grinnell if he can assist the bearer of the letter, supposedly the wife of one of McClellan's soldiers. The woman who is delivering the letter to Grinnell "represents herself as being Mrs. McCormick," the wife of a soldier who served under...

GLC00221

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Document signed

Resolutions settling states' Revolutionary War debt

February 20, 1782

United States in Congress Assembled. Thomson, Charles

Broadside signed by Thomson

GLC00222

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Typed letter signed

to Frederick S. Greene

July 28, 1932

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

Franklin D. Roosevelt advises that there is $6,059,000 available for emergency relief to be used for highway projects in New York State. Informs that the money must be spent by July 1, 1933. Decides that some of the money should be used on the...

GLC00224

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Autograph letter

to Mother

October 8, 1859

Unknown

One letter from an enslaved man to his mother dated Alexandria, Va., October 8, 1859. Pertains to visiting with his friends at the Widow Bailys' in Faquier [Fauquier County], Virginia. Mentions meeting a young woman that he would like to marry and...

GLC00226

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Photograph

Camp of the 10th Massachusetts Regt., near Washington [stereocard]

1865 ca.

GLC00242.20

Collection Item

Photograph

Brady's Incidents of the War. 17th Regiment New York Volunteers Colonel Henry Seymour Lansing. Butterfield's Brigade. Fitz John Porter. Division Pauls Hill. Vol.

circa 1861-1863

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

One undated photograph entitled, "Brady's Incidents of the War," taken by Mathew B. Brady. Captures New York's 17th Regiment standing in dress parade formation and holding rifle-muskets raised upward at their sides.

GLC00243

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Photograph

A Harvest of death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania by T. H. O'Sullivan

July 1863

O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882

From Gardner's Photographic History, "No.36. July 1863"

GLC00244

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Photograph

Portrait of Abraham Lincoln by Alexander Gardner [later print] [O-77 detail]

November 1863, 1910 ca.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Detail of Alexander Gardner's famous November 8, 1863 portrait, reprinted about 1910 by Jason Rice. Ostendorf O-77 Head detail (p. 145). Labelled "no. 36." Accompanied by a photograph of Jason Rice's attestation of authenticity (in collateral file)...

GLC00245

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Broadside

[Programme of funeral procession]

19 April 1865

Broadside consists of information on the arrangement of Lincoln's funeral procession. Includes details on the order in which participants of the procession will walk. Also includes requests such as the closing of all businesses at 10 a.m. and that...

GLC00247

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Autograph manuscript

[Manuscript denouncing Benjamin Wade]

circa 1868

Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878

Welles rails against Congress, and Senate President Pro Tem Benjamin Wade in particular. Probably written during the Johnson impeachment crisis. Welles was a Johnson supporter and a strong opponent of Wade. If Johnson's impeachment had resulted in...

GLC00254

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Autograph letter signed

to Robert Tyler

February 25, 1850

Buchanan, James, 1791-1868

James Buchanan discusses the Compromise of 1850, the Wilmot Proviso, which he notes "is dead," and the issue of California statehood as it relates to slavery. He notes some of the measures that might make sectional compromise possible. He indicates...

GLC00260

Collection Item

Document signed

Thirteenth amendment resolution

February 1, 1865

United States. Congress

Congressional copy. One of the most significant copies of the Thirteenth amendment resolution ending slavery, signed by Lincoln, Hamlin, Colfax (twice), Forney, McPherson, 37 senators, and 111 Congressmen. It is Ex-Barrett. Of Senators who voted...

GLC00263

Collection Item

Broadside

General Washington's Letter Declaring his Acceptance of the Command of the Armies of the United States

18 July 1798

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Regarding the Quasi-War with France, Washington's support for the Administration and acceptance of commander in chief. Signed: "D.R. Slade" in upper right corner. Washington's letter is dated July 17, 1798 from Mount Vernon. The document is also...

GLC00265.04

Collection Item

Photograph

General Wright, commander of the "Bloody Sixth Corps" [stereocard]

1864 ca.

Wright, Horatio G., 1820-1899

Wright took command of the Sixth Corps in 1864 with the death of Sedgewick.

GLC00242.18

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Photograph

Where General McPherson was killed [at Atlanta] [stereocard]

1864 ca.