14 November 1862

Wilkinson, Frederick W., fl. 1861-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Amanda Wilkinson

Written at camp of the 2nd Michigan Infantry near Waterloo on the Rappahannock River to his wife. Writes that since her last letter they have marched a long way and are waiting for orders to move forward to Richmond, Virginia. Notes that General George McClellan has been replaced by General Ambrose Burnside. Hopes that General Burnside is better then General McClellan; if not the Union should give up the fight. Also notes that there has been little fighting with none killed and only a few wounded. Has received a letter from Mr. [Baldwin] which pleases him greatly as he considers Mr. [Baldwin…

GLC03523.13.065

January 22, 1822

Gay, Ebenezer, 1771-1842

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Aaron Hobart

Discusses his "claim before the Commrs under the Florida Treaty," possibly referring to the Adams-Onis Treaty. Seeks Hobart's assistance, mentioning that he will compensate Hobart with the commissions of the estate in return. Notes that a document proving his property loss will be found in the Secretary of State's office.

GLC06313.04.141

October 18, 1863

Gorsuch, Joseph B., 1834-1908

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph Curtis and his wife

Gorsuch, Captain and Provost Marshal of the 13th Army Corps, writes to his aunt and uncle in Hamilton, Ohio. He states that his corps will soon embark on the Texas Expedition. He discusses details regarding recruitment of Union soldiers in the South. Administered the Oath of Allegiance to the United States in French to many Louisiana French-speakers. Due to his own ability to speak French, Gorsuch has become popular among the Louisiana soldiers. He discusses the possibility of raising a brigade in Louisiana, and the likelihood that this would advance him in the military and politics much…

GLC00653.09.14

5 December 1861

Boughton, Nisbet & Barnes

Newspaper

Title: Daily federal union. [Vol. 4, no. 24 (December 5, 1861)]

Gen. Bragg's congratulatory order. This issue reports the results of the electoral college electing Jefferson Davis and Alexander H. Stephens as president and vice president of the Confederacy. Various reports describe the state of war events at Pensacola, Paducha, Bowling Green, and Missouri. The issue contains a report from the Richmond Dispatch with the details of Colonel M. Cogswell, a prisoner of war. An article from the Knoxville Register describes the necessity of preparing for a feared Southern blockade by buying a crop of hogs, and another article describes the fear of a Mississippi…

GLC05959.01.04

September 22, 1863

Morse, N.S., fl. 1862-1864

Newspaper

Title: Daily chronicle & sentinel. [Vol. 27, no. 226 (September 22, 1863)]

One issue of the Daily chronicle & sentinel dated September 22, 1863. Includes articles of a letter from the newly-elected governor of Alabama who dispels rumors of his supposedly reconstructive agenda, reports from Virginia, north Georgia, trans-Mississippi, north Alabama, and Tennessee that give indications of the war and its impact on the surrounding areas. Also printed is a special notice of a grievance that the George Railroad Company supplies Black employees with meat and money because they believe these men will be tempted to steal. Contains articles listing the names of enslaved…

GLC05959.07.02

6 December 1863

Morse, N.S., fl. 1862-1864

Newspaper

Title: Daily chronicle & sentinel. [Vol. 27, no. 355 (December 6, 1863)]

Yankee Estimates of Battle of Chattanooga, Siege of Knoxville. A detailed letter from Atlanta describes the recent mayoral election. An editorial implores the Confederate Congress to improve the currency situation through taxation. An article details the ways confederate prisoners are treated in Western prisons. Another article describes effective ways to pack cotton in wooden boxes to avoid moisture damage. A notice outlines the acts of plundering vandals from the North and encourages readers to treat them with contempt. There are slave ads and runaway slave ads in this issue. The newspaper…

GLC05959.07.04

January 16, 1864

Morse, N.S., fl. 1862-1864

Newspaper

Title: Daily chronicle & sentinel. [Vol. 28, no.25 (January 16, 1864)]

From Charleston, Late News From Texas, Latest From the North. The results of the Edgefield District elections are listed. The Secretary of War reports the achievements of the army for 1863. The culprit who has cut the telegraph lines for the past three nights has been apprehended. Detailed instructions about the legislative code for deceased family members are here. An editorial about how to actually shorten the war points to the need to prepare to make the war long. The escape of Captain Hines is included. An article from the Scientific American describes the uses of coffee and a variety of…

GLC05959.07.07

6 November 1861

Hanleiter & Adair (publishers), fl. 1861-1865

Newspaper

Title: Southern Confederacy. [Vol. 1, No. 225, (November 6, 1861)]

Victory at Leesburg, Article on General W.H.T. Walker, Election Ticket for Jefferson Davis, Jefferson Davis as President of the Confederate States and Alexander H. Stephens as Vice-President. Miscellaneous advertisements throughout issue.

GLC05959.09.004

9 May 1862

Hanleiter & Adair (publishers), fl. 1861-1865

Newspaper

Title: Southern Confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 72, (May 9, 1862)]

Subjects include the Georgia Military Institute, The Confederate Ironclad Virginia, and a Defense of President Davis Against Objections. There are miscellaneous advertisements throughout the issue, including a recruitment ad for partizan rangers. Print is fading.

GLC05959.09.015

circa 1880-1890

Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912

Print

Title: Election in Baltimore, November, 1862

Depicts Federal troops overseeing the election. They are intimidating the respectable citizens attempting to vote while encouraging those of less reputable character. Unruly Unionist members of the crowd, at least some of whom appear to be African American, wave banners that say, "Union or Nothing," and "Hail Columbia-Happy Land!!!" The George Washington monument in Baltimore's Mount Vernon Place is seen in the background. Size in extent is for the mount. The actual size of the etching is 20 x 26.6 cm. Title in pencil on verso.

GLC00493.09

circa 1880-1890

Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912

Print

Title: Worship of the North

Depicts Lincoln in front of an altar with a black idol sitting on a platform with the words "Chicago Platform" on it. A sheet hanging from the platform says "The end justifies the means." Shows a white person being sacrificed in front of it. Henry Ward Beecher is shown having just used the sacrificial knife, Charles Sumner bearing a torch, Horace Greeley swinging a censer that emits snakes, and General Benjamin Butler (Volck had a special enmity for Butler after he occupied Baltimore, Volck's hometown, in early 1861) kneeling in worship with a knapsack full of stolen money. Also shows General…

GLC00493.01

24 October 1862

Hanleiter & Adair (publishers), fl. 1861-1865

Newspaper

Title: Southern confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 213 (October 24, 1862)]

Prints army correspondence on "What the Government Has Done and is Doing for the Sick, Wounded, and Destitute Soldiers." An article, "Great Democratic Meeting in New York," prints various resolutions and speeches, including speeches by John Van Buren and General Winfield Scott. "Bragg Reported Falling Back" reports on the movements of General Bragg's army in Kentucky and Tennessee. Includes accounts of troop movements and battle reports, advertisements, and local news.

GLC05959.09.093

February 22, 1863

Hanleiter & Adair (publishers), fl. 1861-1865

Newspaper

Title: Southern Confederacy. [Vol. 3, no. 10 (February 22, 1863)]

This newspaper is from the Southern Confederacy and includes main articles on the continued speech of Hon. C.L. Vallandigham, City of Mexico Taken by the French, and Political Movements in the War. Also includes local advertisments and runaway slave notices.

GLC05959.09.144

2 December 1888

Adams, Anne Brown, 1843-1926

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Alexander M. Ross

Wonders why there is so much evil in the world, is thankful for the good people she has known, and rejoices in the election of Benjamin Harrison as President. Has recently moved from Rohnerville to Petrolia. Wonders "why some people were ever permitted to be born into the world, They never seem to have a kind thought or do a good act, their lives are all wrong. Why did a good God create so much evil and so little that is really good, in the human race?" Despite this, feels lucky to have known some great men, "even if they are lost" too soon. On politics "greatly rejoiced with the results…

GLC03007.22

February 8, 1865

Unknown

Autograph letter

Title: to his mother

An officer named "Rob," writing to his mother. Says his most recent duty as "Brigade Field officer of the Day" kept him up all night. He was in charge of a long line of pickets and several scouting parties. Says "The troops in our part were negroes, & during Sat evening they made very peculiar demonstrations." Says he is inexperienced with infantry duty and had no orders about firing because of the tacit truce between pickets in this quarter. It seems like he gave orders to fire despite the truce and stayed up with his scouts all night. Says it was thrilling and that his actions were…

GLC01448.02

3 October 1863

Allison, William A., fl. 1861-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Stockton Bates

A portion of their army has been moved to other points, thus weakening their army. He disagrees with this strategy, for the "rebels are as busy as bees strengthening their position." A meeting to express political opinion and support for Governor Curtin; Union support helps soldier morale.

GLC03523.23.24

5 June 1865

Allison, William A., fl. 1861-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Stockton Bates

Complains about how veteran soldiers are being treated, especially those who have reenlisted. Has prepared the muster-out rolls and complains about inefficient officers. Looks forward to spending the 4th of July at home in Philadelphia. Several soldiers want to go fight in Mexico, while he expresses contradictory opinion to events there.

GLC03523.23.41

13 November 1916

Lane, Franklin K., 1864-1920

Typed letter signed

Title: to G. B. Lunn

Possibly intended for George Richard Lunn, who served as United States Representative from New York 1917-1919. Lane congratulates Lunn on his recent unspecified victory (possibly his election to the House of Representatives), stating "it is good to know that we shall have your help in carrying on the good work." Typed on Secretary of the Interior stationery.

GLC03481.27

14 September 1857

Kane, George Proctor, 1820-1857

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Isaac Toucey

Kane, H. P. Brooks, and James [Lawrence?] recommend Dr. Edward Sparks of Annapolis to Toucey's consideration for the post of naval storekeeper. Brooks relates that Sparks has recently been removed from two positions on account of his political sentiments.

GLC03481.11

circa January 21, 1866

Randall, Samuel Jackson, 1828-1890

Document signed

Title: [List of orders for a printed Congressional speech]

Lists the names and corresponding number of copies ordered for a print of a speech delivered by John Littleton Dawson 21 January 1866 in the House of Representatives. List includes 18 signatures of Representatives: Samuel Jackson Randall (Pennsylvania), Benjamin Markley Boyer (Pennsylvania), Charles Denison (Pennsylvania), James Morgan Humphrey (New York), Lawrence Strother Trimble (Kentucky), Philip Johnson (Pennsylvania), William Ellis Niblack (Indiana), Samuel Scott Marshall (Illinois), John Hogan (Missouri), Anthony Thornton (Illinois), Henry Grider (Kentucky), Myer Strouse (Pennsylvania…

GLC03481.15.01

circa 19 March 1867

Koontz, William Henry, 1830-1911

Document

Title: [List of orders for a printed Congressional speech]

Lists the names and corresponding number of copies ordered for a print of a speech delivered 19 March 1867 in the House of Representatives by William Henry Koontz, United States Representative from Pennsylvania 1865-1868. List includes eight signatures of Representatives: Koontz, Daniel Johnson Morrell (Pennsylvania), Ignatius Donnelly (Minnesota), James Lawrence Getz (Pennsylvania), William Darrah Kelley (Pennsylvania), and one illegible signature. Price per hundred copies cited as $1. Speech was delivered on "The relief of the destitue poor of the South." Includes the name "F. W.…

GLC03481.15.02

circa 16 March 1872

Clagett, William Horace, 1838-1901

Document

Title: [List of orders for a printed Congressional speech]

Lists the names and corresponding number of copies ordered for a print of a speech delivered 16 March 1872 by William Horace Claggett, United States Representative from Montana 1871-1872. List includes six signatures: Claggett, William Theopilus Jones (Wyoming), Jerome Bunty Chaffee (Colorado), among others. Speech was delivered on "The nature of the Supreme Court & District Courts in the Territories."

GLC03481.15.03

circa 30 May 1872

Stevenson, Job Evans, 1832-1922

Document

Title: [List of orders for a printed Congressional speech]

Partially printed. Lists the names and corresponding number of copies ordered for a print of a speech delivered 16 March 1872 in the House of Representatives. List includes three Representatives' signatures: Job Evans Stevenson (Ohio), Aaron Fyfe Perry (Ohio), and Charles Foster (Ohio). Speech was delivered on the topic of the Ku Klux Klan. The name of the person who delivered the speech is torn from document. Printed text relates that copies of the speech are to be printed at the Congressional Globe Office.

GLC03481.15.04

7 July 1866

Black, Jeremiah Sullivan, 1810-1883

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Ward Hill Lamon

Black writes "I don't see how I can get down just now or how I could do any thing if I were down... But in the mean time I own to the weakness of wanting to see you very much..."

GLC03481.16

January 27, 1875

Manning, Daniel, 1831-1887

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Possibly created by Manning, editor of the Albany Argus 1858-1871 and United State Secretary of the Treasury 1885-1887. Discusses the recipient's upcoming visit to Albany. Writes "Congress Hall, although an hotel, is comparatively quiet, and I recommend it to you, because you will be certain to meet there the Judges of the Court of Appeals, many leading members of our Legislature, and other prominent public men." Recipient's name is illegible.

GLC03481.17