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To: Ulysses S. Grant.

Re: Troop movements at Port Stedman at the end of the war: "From what direction did the enemy come?"

GLC08089

Edict.

Granting amnesty to a group of confederate prisoners provided they take oath (one of the last official acts before his assisination), under Andrew Johnson, ES,4/12/1865.

GLC08091

To: Gideon Welles.

Condemning Reconstruction. "There has never been a greater outrage perpetrated...since the formation of the government."

GLC08092

Funeral ribbon for William H. Harrison.

Silk ribbon has picture of Harrison, birth place, birth and death dates, and dying words: "Sir,--I wish you to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more."

GLC08096

to Alexander Hamilton

Proposing meeting to discuss fallout from Maria Reynolds Affair

GLC08097

to unknown

Recalling the Boston political clubs, where "the independence of America originated"

GLC08098

to unknown

French Revolutionary War officer, re: searching for food for troops' horses

GLC08099

to his wife

French commander's description of the victory at Yorktown, surrender of Cornwallis' army

GLC08100

to Abraham Ten Broeck

Ordering the capture of St. Leger and his "party of savages and tories under the command of Brandt" [Col. Joseph Brant]

GLC08101

to William A. Rowson

First hand account of the British attack on Fort Mercer

GLC08102