27 April 1865

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

Manuscript document

Title: [Draft of Special Orders No. 15]

By order of Major General Sherman, clerically signed by L. M. Dayton, Assistant Adjutant General. Announces the cessation of hostilities and the final surrender agreement with Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston. Gives instructions on carrying out the surrender terms. Stresses carrying out orders uniformly in order to restore friendships with fellow citizens. Calls for an end to foraging. Also includes a draft copy of a circular dated 28 April 1865 by command of General Sherman signed clerically by Archer Anderson as Assistant Adjutant General. Orders commanders to send four fifths…

GLC02220.03

28 December 1783

Price, William, ?-1790

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Return]

Return for ordnance and military stores at West Point, New York. Items listed by type, weight and ammunition.

GLC02437.10712

circa 10 November 1793

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: to George Washington

Knox's draft, written in the president's voice, for a portion of Washington's December 3, 1793 annual message (State of the Union address) to Congress. Discusses negotiations for peace between the U.S. and hostile Indians in the Ohio Territory. Says if the negotiations falter, "it appears to be incumbent upon the United States to use decisively such degrees of their force as shall be competent, as well to the immediate protection of their exposed citizens, as to the exemplary punishment of those tribes, which, obstinately persevere in their cruel depredations upon our frontiers." Says…

GLC02437.05984

26 July 1782

Hall, James, A., 1750-1819

Manuscript document

Title: [Report of shells cast at Salisbury Furnace]

Created by Captain Lieutenant Hall of the 3rd Regiment of Artillery. Contains Hall's signature, possibly copied (document is in the hand of Samuel Shaw). Hall divides his assessment into 8 inch and 5 1/2 inch shells. Docketed 27 July 1782.

GLC02437.10037

8 October 1782

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Richard Frothingham

Shaw instructs Frothingham, Field Commissary of Military Stores, to send articles to Lieutenant Fenno for his use at Stony Point, New York. Requests items such as cartridges, ladles, quadrants, dredging boxes, hand spikes, hammers, weights, shovels, and buckets, among others.

GLC02437.10048

5 December 1782

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document

Title: [Instructions to officers at West Point]

Written by Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide, and signed by Shaw on Knox's behalf. Covers many aspects of the defense of West Point and the need to avoid a surprise attack. Knox gives instructions pertaining to arms and ammunition, sentries, guardhouses, closing of the gates, provisions, alarms, and signals. Signed by eight officers commanding redoubts and forts in the vicinity of West Point. These men acknowledge receipt of Knox's instructions.

GLC02437.10066

2 April 1779

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document signed

Title: The United States of America in account current with Brigadier General Henry Knox, commanding the artillery of the same.

Title continues: "For monies and warrant on the Pay Master General delivered to sundry persons for the following." Lists account information from December 1776-June 1777. Lists pay to officers for recruiting, ordnance, and other purposes. Knox signs twice: 2 April from Artillery Quarters in New Jersey, and another time certifying that the account information cited is accurate. Signed 3 April 1779 by Nathaniel Ayers, Justice of the Peace for Somerset County, New Jersey. Signed 6 April 1779 by James Johnston, Auditor of Accounts for the Main Army. Appears to be the same as GLC02437.10471.

GLC02437.10470

2 April 1779

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document signed

Title: The United States of America in account current with Brigadier General Henry Knox, commanding the artillery of the same.

Title continues: "For monies and warrant on the Pay Master General delivered to sundry persons for the following." Lists account information from December 1776-June 1777. Lists pay to officers for recruiting, ordnance, and other purposes. Knox signs twice: 2 April from Artillery Quarters in New Jersey, and another time certifying that the account information cited is accurate. Signed 3 April 1779 by Nathaniel Ayers, Justice of the Peace for Somerset County, New Jersey. Signed 6 April 1779 by James Johnston, Auditor of Accounts for the Main Army. Appears to be the same as GLC02437.10470.

GLC02437.10471

9 July 1782

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: A statement of the cannon, mortars, and howitzers at West Point and its dependencies essential to the defence of those places...

Title continues, "... with a computation of ammunition and an exhibition of the quantities on hand and of the deficiencies." Sent to George Washington from Henry Knox, General commanding the artillery. Signed for and docketed for Knox by Samuel Shaw, his aide de camp. Originally sent undercover of GLC02437.01479.

GLC02437.10503

28 December 1782

Treadwell, William, 1748-1795

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Ordnance report for the artillery park and other posts at West Point]

Signed by Treadwell, Captain of Artillery.

GLC02437.10069

circa 31 July 1782

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Manuscript document

Title: [Return of ordnance and stores on hand from 1 January 1777 to 31 July 1782]

Written in the hand of Samuel Shaw. Note on verso states a form was sent to John Ruddock at Fishkill, P. Rensselaer at Albany and Thomas Frothingham at West Point.

GLC02437.10505

28 October 1783

Swartwout, Cornelius, fl. 1776-1783

Manuscript document

Title: Return of ordinance, ordinance stores, apparatus &c. &c. at the garrisons of Stoney & Verplanks Points- Kingsferry

Lists ammunition according to type of gun and other ordnance apparatuses. Noted on the lower left that "the Barge Went a Drift...in Last Storm." Signed by Swartwout, Captain-Lieutenant of Artillery of Kings Ferry.

GLC02437.10178

10 May 1785

Manuscript letter

Title: to [Congress]

Proposing the establishment of permanent arsenals and magazines throughout the country and a means of controlling them. Given the content, the date (two months after Knox was made Secretary of War), and the docket in Knox's hand, Henry Knox is most likely the author. The letter itself is in a secretarial hand. Followed by a 16 May 1785 order of Congress, in a secretarial hand, that "the Secretary at War devise a plan for the general regulation of the militia of the United States in such manner as to render it most respectful and least expensive to the respective States in order to ground…

GLC02437.10204

11 June 1790

Freeman, Ezekiel, fl. 1790

Manuscript document signed

Title: Henry Knox, Secretary at War in account current with the United States

Accounts for General Knox as of 1789, most likely for his time thus far as Secretary of War. Includes "Accounts opened in Treasury Books for sundry warrants in his favor from the 26th May 1785 to Jan 1789..." deductions from the Ordnance Department, charges to the Hospital Department, Clothing Department, Indian Department and others. Noted in the docket that the "Balance due from [Knox]" amounts to $15,517.34 ½. Created in the Auditors Office, which most likely travelled with Congress. Congress at this time was in New York City. Sewn binding. Watermarked "J Buttanshaw" and with a fleur…

GLC02437.10225

1 November 1791

United States. Congress. House

Manuscript document

Title: [Resolves regarding St. Clair's expedition]

Five House resolutions discussing St. Clair's failed expedition against the Indians in Ohio. Absolves St. Clair from the blame of the failure of the expedition. It was not a "consequence of any defective qualitites, or insufficient quatities of arms, accoutrements, or powder or other military stores furnished for the said expedition." Previously estimated date as 1 November. Writing is faded and pages are stained with four water stains. Letterpress copy.

GLC02437.10238

circa 1 August 1781

Ruddock, John, fl. 1779-1796

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Return]

Return for ordnance and military stores available, received and delivered at Fishkill, New York for the month of July 1781. Items listed by type, weight and current condition.

GLC02437.10683

3 September 1782

Frothingham, Thomas, 1755-1827

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Return]

Return for ordnance and military stores available, received and delivered for the month of August 1782 at West Point, New York. Items listed by type and weight.

GLC02437.10703

September 1782

Manuscript document

Title: [Return]

Return for ordnance and military stores ordered by General Lord Stirling to be sent to West Point. Items listed by type and number.

GLC02437.10705

February 20, 1783

Patten, Thomas, fl. 1777-1785

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Return]

Return for Captain Thomas Patten's company of artillery men. Men listed by name (more than 70), date of enlistment, length of service, hometown and state including New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts.

GLC02437.10706

28 March 1783

Fleming, George, 1748-1822

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Return]

Return of ordnance and ordnance stores at Stoney [Stony] Point and Verplancks [Verplanck's] Point. Items listed by weight, ammunition and location.

GLC02437.10707

19 July 1780

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document

Title: Sundry Articles wanted for the operations of the Present Campaign

Lists items [howitzers, powder, shells, mortar, etc.] requested and their amounts. Knox's retained copy, docketed in Shaw's hand.

GLC02437.00819

December 31, 1778

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document

Title: [Account between John Jacob Faesch and Henry Knox]

Document in Shaw's hand, and signed by him for Henry Knox. Knox ordered grape shot and three pound balls from Faesch (spelled "Feash" in this document). Faesch signed 31 December 1778 at Mount Hope Furnace. Knox signs 20 February 1779 at Pluckemin, noting that the grape shot and cannon balls are "agreeable to the orders of His Excellency."

GLC02437.00741

4 January 1779 - 29 June 1779

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: No. 7: Articles Issued in the Year 1779

Lists articles issued to 240 men, including officers. Includes articles such as bayonets, cartridges, powder, muskets, and flints, among many others.

GLC02437.00742

July 29, 1779 - December 31, 1779

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: [Articles issued in 1779]

Appears to be a continuation of GLC02437.00742. Lists articles for 180 men, including officers. Includes powder, ball, flints, cartridges, and muskets, among others.

GLC02437.00743

January 6, 1779 - December 31, 1779

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: No. 2: Ordnance and stores received during the year 1779

Lists articles for 90 men, including officers. Includes muskets, bayonets, lead, flints, and gun slings, among other items.

GLC02437.00744