circa 1880-1890

Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912

Print

Title: Albert S. Johnston crossing the desert to join the Southern army

Depicts Albert Sidney Johnston in the right foreground, dressed in deerskin garb with a Native American guide and a ragtag group of men following behind. Like many other Confederate leaders, Johnston was serving in the United States army when war broke out in 1861. Johnston resigned his commission in April 1861 and hastened east from California, crossing the deserts of Arizona and Texas, to offer his services to the Confederacy. The allusion to crossing the desert may be Biblical in nature. Johnston was killed at the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862. Size in extent is for the mount. The actual…

GLC00493.20

24 September 1862

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

Newspaper

Title: Southern confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 187 (September 24, 1862)]

Reports multiple Confederate victories; articles include "From Cumberland Gap," "Fight at Corpus Christi--Enemy Beaten Off," "Expedition in Louisiana," and "Quantrell in Missouri." Shorter pieces include "Mr. Buchanan's Position," about ex-President James Buchanan, and "John Ross the Cherokee," about the Union-sympathizing Chief of the Cherokee Nation. Includes accounts of troop movements and battle reports, advertisements, local news, and reports on a congressional vote regarding conscription and exemption.

GLC05959.09.073

1966

Streeter, Thomas W. (Thomas Winthrop), 1883-1965

Book

Title: The celebrated collection of Americana formed by the late Thomas Winthrop Streeter...

[title continued]... Morristown, New Jersey sold by order of the trustees. Volume one of a seven volume collection, plus index. Includes: discovery and exploration, atlases, New France, Spanish Southwest, Mexico, the Mexican War, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Indian Territory, and Oklahoma. Public auction 25 and 26 October. Published by Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. (affiliated with Sotheby & Co. in London). Contains images of items in the collection.

GLC03261.01

1967

Streeter, Thomas W. (Thomas Winthrop), 1883-1965

Book

Title: The celebrated collection of Americana formed by the late Thomas Winthrop Streeter...

(title continues)... Morristown, New Jersey sold by order of the trustees. Volume two of a seven volume collection, plus index. Includes: New England, the American Revolution, the Middle Colonies, the French and Indian War, the Continental Congress, the War of 1812, Southern Colonies and States, the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida. Public auction 19 and 20 April. Published by Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. (affiliated with Sotheby & Co. in London). Contains images of items in the collection. Pages numbered 427-984.

GLC03261.02

29 October 1782

Drury, Luke, fl. 1782

Manuscript document

Title: to Jonathan Ward

Complaint to former commander, now Worcester Co. J.P., Jonathan Ward, about public slander by Joseph Perry. Quotes Perry as saying he was never fit to be a colonel, that he cowardly ran from battle at Bunker Hill, and that he committed adultery with an Indian squaw.

GLC09049.01

19 December 1755-1 July 1756

Header Record

Title: Papers of British Secretary of War Henry Fox relating to Braddock's defeat near Fort Duquesne and the recall of William Shirley due to the "Intercepted Letters Scandal" [Decimalized .01-.22]

Official papers relating to the conduct of Major-General William Shirley (1694-1771), who served briefly as Commander-in-Chief until he was dismissed and nearly court-martialled. The most serious charge against him was that he was the source of secret information which a spy had attempted to send to the French government in letters intercepted in England and gathered by the Secretary of War, Henry Fox. As the autography letters in the present collection were sent to Fox, and many of the fair copies are of letters sent by Fox, it seems reasonable to suppose that the archive was formed by him…

GLC09054

16 April 1788

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Letter signed

Title: [Orders to Lt. John Pratt]

Orders Lt. John Pratt to return to Connecticut to fill state's quota of recruits, and to deliver the letter below to Gov. Huntington. "You will be careful to recruit men of the best characters for the honesty and sobriety...well formed in his body and limbs - perfectly sound in his organs and health and sufficiently robust to bear the fatigues of the military life...Neither Negroes Molatoes or Indians are to be recruited." Authorizes a half a month's pay to each new recruit as well as shelter and fuel. Once 20 men were enlisted, they were to be sent on to West Point to be outfitted.

GLC09055.01

16 April 1788

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Letter signed

Title: to Governor Samuel Huntington

Informs him of Lt. Pratt's orders. See GLC09055.01.

GLC09055.02

12 August 1788

Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824

Manuscript document signed

Title: [U.S. Congress orders]

U.S. Congress orders for militia to prepare to join Federal troops in NW Territory Indian conflicts by sending 1500 men.

GLC09056

9 January 1789 circa

St. Clair, Arthur, 1734-1818

Manuscript document

Title: [Treaty of Fort Harmar]

Fair copy of original treaty by Arthur St. Clair and several chiefs of the Six Nations.

GLC09057

12 March 1812

St. Clair, Arthur, 1734-1818

Book signed

Title: Narrative of the Manner in which the Campaign Against the Indians...

"Narrative of the Manner in which the Campaign Against the Indians [1791] was Conducted, under the Command of Major General St. Clair, together with his observations...and the Reports of the Committees appointed to Inquire into the Causes of the Failure thereof." Presentation copy of St. Clair's attempt to vindicate his bloody defeat at the hands of the Ohio Indians: Philadelphia: Aitken, 1812. 1st edition. Lengthy inscription speaks of congressional investigation into the failed campaign.

GLC09058

30 November 1784

Printed document

Title: Hartford Connecticut Courant, and Weekly Intelligencer NW.

Covering the opening of the Treaty of Ft. Stanwix.

GLC09059.02

29 March 1790

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Letter signed

Title: to paymaster Joseph Howell

Authorizes two month's pay for two artillery companies, one infantry company, and an account of monies due to officers at West Point on 1 April 1790, stationed at St. Mary's River, Georgia.

GLC09060

18 September 1779

Brodhead, Daniel, 1736-1809

Manuscript document

Title: to Doonyontat, Principal Chief of the Wyandots (Huron Indians)

Speech by Maghingwee Keeshuch [Daniel Brodhead] to the Huron Indians demanding that they cease attacks against American settlers and troops, and that they aid in the Revolution against the British, "casting off that bad father the King of Britain over the great lake." Alternately conciliatory and threatening, he warns them of the potential consequences should they refuse to obey: "though I love peace and could wish to save the lives of my country men of this island I am not afraid of war."

GLC09029

16 June 1815

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Maury Esq.

"...what is incomprehensible to me is that the Marquis of Wellesly...says that 'the aggression which led to war was from the US, not from England.' is there a person in the world who, knowing the circumstances, thinks this? the acts which produced the war were, 1. the impressment of our citizens by their ships of war, and 2. the orders of council forbidding our vessells to trade with any country but England without going to England to obtain a special license...these categorical and definitive answers put an end to necessitation, and were a declaration of a continuance of the war in which…

GLC09077

circa 11 August 1790

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Manuscript document

Title: [Draft of address to the U.S. Senate]

A complete draft, in the hand of Henry Knox, and with the addition of the word "Senate" in the hand of Alexander Hamilton, of Washington's August 11, 1790 address to the Senate regarding the Treaty with the Creeks.

GLC02437.08080

1790-1791

Nourse, Joseph, 1754-1841

Manuscript document

Title: [Various documents related to Arthur St. Clair's 1791 Western expedition]

Copies of documents written by various persons related to Arthur St. Clair's failed 1791 Western expedition. Pages 1-5 contain the copy of a report written 10 January 1793 by Joseph Nourse, Register of the Treasury. Discusses the enlistment of levies and the debts and rations owed to officers who participated in the "March of the Army from Fort Washington into the Indian Country." Pages 6-7 contain letters from General Arthur St. Clair and Josiah Harmar to Henry Knox, Secretary of War. Page 6 contains a preface to the correspondence: "The report states the delay of furnishing the…

GLC02437.10357

21 May 1792

Fleming, George, 1748-1822

Manuscript document

Title: [Copies of documents related to Arthur St. Clair's 1791 Western expedition]

Pages one and two consist of a letter written by Fleming to Henry Knox 21 May from West Point. Defends his management of stores sent from West Point (a Congressional report recently cited mismanagement of the quartermaster and military stores departments as the main reason for the failure of St. Clair's Western expedition). Contains John Stagg's 14 January 1793 verification of Fleming's letter and an oath related to the same matter. Page 3 contains an "Abstract of the militia in the service of the United States on the frontiers of the State of Pennsylvania... May 1791" and an "Abstract of…

GLC02437.10358

1791

Parker, J., fl. 1791

Autograph document signed

Title: [Remarks on the trade and country of Illinois]

Discusses the opportunities for business, trade and settlement in the upper Mississippi region, such as the animals for pelts, and the friendliness of the natives. Date previously inferred, written in pencil.

GLC02437.08089

April 1792

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: [Records]

Notes on Indian activity by date including Indian and white depredations, treaty activity, etc. Discusses opinion of governor [William Blount?] regarding a possible attack. Possibly incomplete.

GLC02437.08098

circa 1792

Manuscript document

Title: Some hints and observations concerning the civilization of the Indians or Aborigines of America

Packet of thoughts and observation concerning the Native Americans. Discusses European interactions with the Indians and advocates a more peaceable relationship with them than what has been the case and is presently. Date added in pencil in another hand.

GLC02437.08117

1791

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: [Thoughts on Georgia's right to negotiate with Native Americans] [incomplete]

Discusses issues in Georgia with the Creek Indians. Estimates $1,152,836 as the cost of the campaign, with troops for three years. Date previously inferred, written in pencil.

GLC02437.08152

circa 1789-1795

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: Indian Expedition & Indian affairs generally

Knox's report as Secretary of War: "Congress were informed in their last Session of the efforts which had been made to accomplish a peace with the hostile Indians north of the Ohio. These having failed it became a duty of the Executive to take such measures, authorized by the laws as should exhibit our power to punish the depredations of the refractory tribes... Humanity however dictates the desire that the deluded Indians may be convinced of the destructive consequences of their obstinacy in persisting to wage war against the United States..." Emphasizes the importance of "an energetic and…

GLC02437.10354

24 December 1755

Shirley, William, 1694-1771

Manuscript letter

Title: Additional Instructions to Major Genl. William Johnson, relative to the Indians of the Six Nations under his Command.

Copy of a letter instructing General William Johnson to ask the Six Nations to help fight against the French and their Indian allies. He requests that they "be engaged by private applications, and the offer of Rewards to take up the Hatchet against the French & their Indians, who have fallen upon the Provinces of Virginia, Maryland and Pensylvania." Wants them to muster in Pennsylvania by way of the Susquehanna river to join the others and bring as many people as possible. Instructs that the Indians should know they will be well supplied and rewarded for taking prisoners. Would like…

GLC09054.01

19-20 December 1755

Shirley, William, 1694-1771

Manuscript letter

Title: Abstracts from Gov. Shirley's Letters of Dec. 19th & 20th.

From December 19th: Discusses the minutes of the Council of War at Albany, New York on December 12th. Outlines a plan to attack Niagara and that "3000 Troops should, at the same time be marching to Fort Duquesne from Willis Creek to attack that Fort." Note lists those present at the Council of War and that no account has been received of the plan. From December 20th: Writes that William Johnson was given a new commission and mentions the letter "regarding engaging the Six Nations to the assistance of Pensylvania..." Discusses a possible treaty with the southern Indians to assist the…

GLC09054.02