1865 ca.

Various

Header Record

Title: Carte de visite portrait of Richard Taylor, with later enlargement [Decimalized .01-.02]

Two bust portraits of Richard Taylor.

GLC01176

February 18, 1865

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Confederate act to authorize the exportation of produce and merchandise]

Passed by the Confederate Congress, Thomas Bocock as speaker of the House, and R.M.T. Hunter as president pro tempore of the Senate and approved by Davis as president. Authorizes the export of government-owned "cotton, tobacco, and other produce and merchandise." Docketed: "Secret." Passed by the Senate on 23 November 1864 and by the House of Representatives on 18 February 1865.

GLC00990

1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Confederate cavalryman with canteen, 1/6 plate ambrotype, ruby-glass

GLC02187

1861/09/14

Nichols, E.B., fl. 1861-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas Ward re: unsettled conditions in Galveston at beginning of Civil War

Written as a business associate, to say that he cannot pay duties and remove goods to a place of safety.

GLC02145.18

1861/08/19

Nichols, E.B., fl. 1861-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas Ward re: the first Union attack on Galveston

Enclosing a duplicate of his letter of Aug. 10 (not included).

GLC02145.19

1861/12/20

Nichols, E.B., fl. 1861-1863

Letter

Title: to Thomas Ward re: reports removal of Nichol's office from Galveston to Houston

Nichol's office had removed from Galveston because of the threat of Union invasion.

GLC02145.20

1862/10/14

Nichols, E.B., fl. 1861-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas Ward re: reports that Galveston is in Yankee hands

Written on stationery of E. B. Nichols & Co.

GLC02145.21

1862/05/20

Nichols, E.B., fl. 1861-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas Ward re: notice of Union order to surrender Galveston to avoid bombing

Written on stationery of E. B. Nichols & Co.

GLC02145.22

1865/02/10

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Endorsement signed

Title: Endorsement on Winfield Scott ALS 3 p. 2-8-1865 re: paroling nephew E. P. Scott

Scott's ALS to William Hoffman, Commissary General of Prisoners, 2/8/1865 has been endorsed by Lincoln, asking that Capt. E. P. Scott be paroled to Lieut. General Scott. Young Scott was the elder's grand nephew, serving as a Confederate Prisoner of War.

GLC01889.01

1889/11

Davis, Varina, 1826-1906

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Redpath

Sends memoranda (not included) and a brief account of Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston retreat of the 1862 Battle of Yorktown, on behalf of her ill husband, Jefferson Davis. Redpath was writing an account of the battle.

GLC01945

1864/04/28

Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870

Letter signed

Title: to James A. Seddon re: disbanding company and reassigning officers

With docketing ANS of James Seddon, Confederate Secretary of State, on verso saying "I hope the Legislation of Congress will enable me to support your views. JAS."

GLC01957

1861/02/22

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Francis W. Pickens re: control over proposed attack on Fort Sumter

Written as President of the Confederate States. Pickens was governor of South Carolina. Also concerning the larger issue of who determines peace or war. Beauregard fired upon Fort Sumter six weeks after the date of this letter.

GLC01958

1862/12/06

Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870

Letter signed

Title: to Maj. Gen. Gustavus W. Smith re: military matters, Gen. Burnside

GLC01966

1861/04/29

Jackson, Thomas J. "Stonewall", 1824-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Letcher re: building railroad between Strasburg & Wincester

Jackson recommends building the railroad for military purposes.

GLC01979

1862/12/10

Van Cleve, Horatio P., 1809-1891

Letter signed

Title: to Joseph Wheeler re: flag of truce for captured Union soldiers, surgeons

Clerical docket on verso.

GLC02015

1863/03/30

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

Autograph letter signed

Title: to David D. Porter re: southerners moving to Texas

Sherman writes that the enemy "are all moving to Texas with their negroes. God grant all may go there and that our government will open the back door wide and promise to let them stay there in peace." 1 black and white seated engraving of Sherman included.

GLC02501

1865/06/16

Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Alfred Howe Terry

Lengthy letter describing the war-time sacrifices of Erhandz Richter, a Richmond brewer, presumably of German origin, who sacrificed his fortune and risked his family to serve in the Union Army. Schurz pleads Richter's cause with the commander of the Dept. of Virginia, asking him to assist Richter in returning to his business, which had been sold off by his partners, who were Confederate sympathizers. With a docket on the verso from Head Quarters in Richmond concerning action to be taken about Richter and his brewery.

GLC02094

1861/07/15

Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870

Letter signed

Title: to Col. A.C. Moore re: organizing defenses of Virginia

Written as Major General to Moore, commander of the 29th Regt. Va. Vols., during the week before first Manassas. (Written before his assignment as commander in South Carolina and later as commander in chief of the Army of Northern Virginia.)

GLC02314

1862/05/16

Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph E. Johnston re: defense of Richmond, troop positions, etc.

Written as commander in chief of the Army of Northern Virginia.

GLC02348

1862/11/03

Peck, John J., 1821-1878

Autograph letter signed

Title: to E. L. Crete? re: discharging a man, capturing supplies & home guard men

GLC02465.19

1861 ca.?

Timrod, Henry, 1828-1867

Document signed

Title: Signed cover of his book of poems, inscribed to his sister Emily T. Goodwin

Timrod, the "laureate of the Confederacy." Undated. Date assigned without authority.

GLC02453.35

February 28, 1861

Wigfall, Louis T., 1816-1874

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Reagan

Possibly to John Henninger Reagan, a former Texas Representative who served several posts in the Confederate Government. Relates that a Dr. [Work?] plans to leave Washington, D.C., for Montgomery, Alabama, and that he desires work in the confederate government. Writes "You know him well & I have no doubt that you will do all in your power for him, I do not know what places are to be filled."

GLC02459.33

5 December [1861]

Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Charles S. Hamilton

Authorizes Hamilton to make his Brigade Head Quarters with his Wisconsin regiment. Must have been written during 1861, since this was the only year during which Hamilton would have been in the vicinity of Maryland and under Bank's command during the month of December. Banks resigned from the army in April 1863, and in December 1862 he was serving in the Western theater.

GLC02459.02

1861/01/02

Pickens, Francis Wilkinson, 1805-1869

Manuscript document

Title: to Gen. James Simons re: defense of Charleston Harbor (retained clerical copy)

Retained clerical copy of Pickens letter, as governor of South Carolina, regarding the defense of Charleston harbor.

GLC02277.02

1861/01/14

Arthur, B.F., fl. 1860-1863

Document signed

Title: Official extract of minutes... re: notifying foreign nations of independence

Written as clerk of the South Carolina Seccession Convention. Resolves telling the Governor to forward copies of the secession Ordinance to other states in the union and foreign nations.

GLC02279