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Autograph letter signed

to his family

March 20, 1862

Coit, Charles M., 1838-1878

Describes boarding "the Sentinel" and rowing to Newbern [North Carolina] to eat dinner at a hotel. Gives the death toll of the last battle as two dead and four wounded.

GLC03603.090

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Photograph

[General John Charles Frémont]

1861-1865 ca.

Carte de visite mounted on larger page. Carte measures 5.3 x 7.7 cm. Depicted as Major General. Appears to be sepia tinted.

GLC05032.02

Collection Item

Photograph

[Nathaniel Lyon]

1851-1861 ca.

Carte de visite of Lyon appears to be mounted on a larger page. Carte measures 7.6 x 4.8 cm.

GLC05040.02

Collection Item

Photograph

[General Joseph King Fenno Mansfield]

1861-1862 ca.

Mansfield does not appear to be wearing the uniform of Major General, a post to which he was promoted July 1862. Carte measures 8 x 5.1 cm. and is mounted on a larger page.

GLC05042.02

Collection Item

Autograph document signed

[Document authorizing the distribution of confiscated slaves from Tory plantations to veterans of the Revolution]

March 26, 1783

Hall, Lyman, 1724-1790

"Ordered that the Commissioners, of the Confiscated and Annexed Estates, furnish Mr. Henry Ellison with such Numbers of Negroes, as he is Entitled to Receive, by Virtue of his Certificates in Col. Jackson's Corps, agreeable to the Laws of this State...

GLC09104