19 November 1847

Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866

Document

Title: General orders: No. 353

Order requesting semi-monthly field reports and returns from the senior surgeon and brigade commanders to the Adjutant General.

GLC00911.33

20 November 1847

Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866

Document

Title: General orders: No. 355

Signed by H.L. Scott. Trials of four Mexicans before a Military Commission for theft and riotous conduct toward Americans.

GLC00911.34

1847-1848

Santa Anna, Antonio López de, 1794-1876

Header Record

Title: [Decimalized .01- .19]

GLC06293

12 September 1850

Quincy, Edmund, 1808-1877

Newspaper

Title: National Anti-Slavery Standard. [Vol. 11, no. 16, whole no. 536 (September 12, 1850)]

With previous owner's signature (John Russell) signed along right margin of first page. Contains the "Speech of Mr. Brooks on the Wilmot Proviso," articles on the slave trade in Washington, D.C. and the Texas Boundary Bill, and miscellaneous other reports. Edited by Quincy and James Russell Lowell. Published weekly by the American Anti-Slavery Society.

GLC08875.31

29 August 1850

Quincy, Edmund, 1808-1877

Newspaper

Title: National Anti-Slavery Standard. [Vol. 11, no. 14, whole no. 534 (August 29, 1850)]

With previous owner's signature (John Russell) signed along right margin of first page. Contains the "Speech of Mr. Giddings Upon The Texas Bill And The President's Message," coverage of a fugitive slave bill debated the previous week in Senate, and miscellaneous other reports. Edited by Quincy and James Russell Lowell. Published weekly by the American Anti-Slavery Society.

GLC08875.29

26 June 1848

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

Manuscript document signed

Title: Proceedings of a Board of Survey

Signed by Major Francis Lee. "Lt. U.S. Grant, Commissary & Regimental Quartermaster, 4th Infantry, had deposited in the trunk of Capt Gore, 4th Infantry, for safe keeping, the sum of $1,000 public money...and the trunk [was] stolen...[N]o blame can attach to Lt. U.S. Grant,... that the place he deposited it was the most secure in the camp, and they exonerate him from all censure."

GLC09136

5 January 1846

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Harriette Story Paige

Informs his sister-in-law that he left two items at the Paige's residence in Boston: a "tin pail or box of bristles intended for Mrs. Curtis," and his "breach pin, commonly called Mrs. Perkins." Instructs Paige to send the pail to Mrs. Edward Curtis in New York, and requests that she send his breach pin to Washington, D.C., using his free frank. Refers to Mr. Adams (possibly John Quincy Adams) in Congress as a "man who sometimes confounds his enemies; but quite as often his friends." Hopes the squall Adams raised in Congress will blow over. Records that this document was written at 11 o'…

GLC01946.32

4 March 1848

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Daniel Fletcher Webster

Written during the 1846-1848 United States War with Mexico. Webster updates his son on arrangements to receive the body of Webster's other son, Major Edward Webster, who had died in camp near Mexico City in January. Reports that General Roger Jones wrote to a friend in New Orleans requesting that the "Remains" of Major Edward Webster continue from New Orleans to New York or Boston. Notes the Court (possibly the Supreme Court) has adjourned and that there is nothing before Congress of a pressing nature to him, except the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which he opposed. Refers disapprovingly…

GLC01946.41

January 10, 1848

Manuscript letter

Title: to Daniel Webster

An unknown author informs Webster that the "Government and Country are approaching a crisis." Reports that the United States will face great financial difficulty by the end of 1848. Complains of the financial strain placed on the United States caused by the Mexican War (1846-1848) and the Revenue Tariff of 1845. States that the market of the United States is deprived of food and predicts closures in French ports and changes in the British economic market. Complains about Secretary of the Treasury Robert J. Walker's Tariff of 1846 which moderately lowered many rates, but which many…

GLC01946.67

1844

Gibbons, James Sloan, 1815-1892

Broadsheet

Title: Humanity's last appeal to the abolitionists of the United States, against the increase of slave territory

Urges Northerners to vote for the Whig ticket, and oppose the Democrats, who favor the annexation of Texas. Argues that annexation is planned only to increase slavery and the power of the slave states. Texas is large and suitable for slavery and thus annexing it "would encircle Africa with slave-ships, and under the stimulus of insatiable avarice, penetrate farther into the interior of the devoted country." Annexation would also lead to war with Mexico. Argues slavery can be defeated steadily through the vote, and urges Northerners to show their increased support of abolition and vote…

GLC08997

June 1845

Newspaper

Title: [Maine newspaper with full page announcement the pro-emancipation "State Liberty Convention" on 3-4 July 1845]

The masthead of the paper is torn off. Contains articles on slavery, religion, African colonization, and short blurbs on Mormons and possible declaration of war by Mexico. The Liberty Convention (for emancipation) announcement appears on p. 4, and was to be held in Portland, Maine. Also contains many advertisements and announcements. Published in Maine, probably in Hallowell (inferred from many ads from there). Date inferred.

GLC08442.08

26 May 1846

Kirby, Edmund, 1794-1849

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Silas Wright

Asking Governor Wright to approve his plan to raise and command a New York regiment in the Mexican War. Claims he can raise enough men for his own regiment, is experienced in command, and has already "asked the sanction of the Secretary of War and President to my tender of service to yourself." Promises "my faculties would be devoted with zeal to the endeavor to render the corps of New York volunteers a credit to the Empire State."

GLC08977

December 21, 1847

Anna, Antonio Lopez de Santa, 1794-1876

Letter signed

Title: to the Minister of War

Complaining about criticism of his conduct in the Mexican War. He received most of the blame for critical defeats leading to the loss of the Mexican - American War and soon after retired to Tehuacan.

GLC08327

February 12, 1852

Gallaher, John S., fl. 1848

Manuscript letter signed

Title: [Report] of 3rd Auditer on Claim of Lt. Grant

Letter to Secretary of the Treasury Thomas Corwin. States that in a previous letter, Secretary Corwin had referred to a report by Congressman Seymour regarding the alleged loss of $1000 by Ulysses S. Grant. Responds that he examined the accounts and correspondence, and no mention has been made in them of any monies Grant reported lost or stolen, so no action could be taken in that regard. His money returns acknowledge receipt of the $1000 and that this amount still appears on his balance sheet.

GLC02305.05

February 16, 1852

Corwin, Thomas, 1794-1865

Manuscript letter signed

Title: to Origen Storrs Seymour

Responds to Congressman Seymour's request for information on the Grant case. Replies, "no credit can be given on account of such alleged loss unless expressly authorized by Act of Congress. I am not aware of any case where this Department has undertaken to decide the complicated questions of vigilance, fidelity, and the possibility of fraud and connivance, which arise in most of such cases. The accounting officer only settle such accounts upon the proper vouchers. If these are not produced, it has always been held that relief could only be given by Act of Congress."

GLC02305.06

26 June 1848

Jones, Del. Floyd, fl. 1848

Manuscript letter signed

Title: Affidavit of Lieutenant D. F. Jones 4th Infantry

Swears that he assisted Ulysses S. Grant in counting a bag of money that Grant brought into his quarters in early June. It was exactly $1000. They put it in a bag and Grant said he would place it in the trunk of Captain Alvord, but Jones understands that he later placed it in the trunk of Captain Gore. Signed by DeL. Floyd Jones and by 1st Lieutenant H.D. Waller, Judge Advocate of the General Court Marshall.

GLC02305.01

26 June 1848

Gore, John H., fl. 1848

Manuscript letter signed

Title: Affidavit of Captain John H. Gore 4th Infantry

Swears that Ulysses S. Grant asked his permission, on about 7 June, 1848, to "place a bag of public money in my private trunk, saying at the time, that he considered it the most safe place for its conveyance on the march which we were preparing to commence in a few days." Describes the events that transpired: He at first denied the request, but assented because Grant had no trunk or box with a lock to carry the money himself. The same day Grant placed a bag of silver dollars which he knew to be the $1000 belonging to the Quarter Masters Department. He kept the trunk in his room until 11…

GLC02305.02

27 June 1848

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

Manuscript letter signed

Title: Statement of Lieutenant U. S. Grant Regiment Quarter Master

Swears he took the sum of $1000 to Captain Gore's room on June 6 "to be locked up in his trunk for safe keeping, my own chest having previously had the lock broken. I also deemed it safer to have public money in the room of some officer who did not disburse public funds, because they would be less likely to be suspected of having any conciderable [sic] amount about them." Asserts that the trunk was stolen from the tent of Captain Gore while he and Lieutenant De Russy were sleeping, as shown by the accompanying affidavits. Signed by Ulysses S. Grant and 1st Lieutenant H.D. Waller, Judge…

GLC02305.03

27 June 1848

DeRussy, John, fl. 1848

Manuscript letter signed

Title: Affidavit of Lieutenant DeRussy 4th Infantry

Swears that Ulysses S. Grant deposited $1000 in the trunk of Captain Gore in early June. Comments that on the night of June 16, "the trunk containing said funds was stolen from the tent of Capt. Gore, this whilst Capt. Gore and myself were both sleeping in the tent." Swears that he "heard Lieut. Grant say that he was going to put it [the $1000] there and afterwads hearing Capt. Gore say that it was there." Signed by Lieutenant John DeRussy and 1st Lieutenant H.D. Waller, Judge Advocate of the General Court Marshall.

GLC02305.04

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

03 March 1847

Massachusetts Legislature

Printed document

Title: Resolves of the legislature of Massachusetts, concerning slavery.

29th Congress, 2d session, Senate document # 219. Resolves that the Massachusetts legislature is opposed to the existence of slavery and the extension of it into new territories.

GLC00267.119.03

2 September 1890

Ramsay, F.M., fl. 1890

Typed letter

Title: to Joseph M. Maitland

Letter from Bureau of Navigation (Navy Department) replying to Maitland's request for a certificate in lieu of the discharge for John Reedy. Refers to the act of Congress approved 7 February 1890, which "...prescribes that whenever satisfactory proof is furnished that any commissioned officer, appointed or enlisted man who served in the Navy or Marine Corps of the United states in the War of 1812, the Mexican War, or the War of the Rebellion, has lost his discharge, or the same has been destroyed without his privity or procurement, a certificate in lieu of such discharge shall be furnished to…

GLC03523.10.211

9 March 1854

Gadsden, James, 1788-1858

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Cripps

Scolds his Secretary for not writing by the last mail. Expresses disappointment over the Committee on Foreign Affairs' slowness in passing the treaty due to the "absorbing" Nebraska debate. Feels that the President's amendments will return an unfavorable vote from the committee, which he will not take lying down. Continues in this vein and links this possible outcome to Ward, who he feels is continuing to betray him. Postmarked 8 March (differs from Gadsden's dating), Washington, DC. Imprint in upper left corner depicts a capitol building surrounded by "Congress, Platmer & Smith."

GLC03587.10

22 March 1854

Gadsden, James, 1788-1858

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Cripps

Tells his Secretary that the treaty is still being decided upon by the Committee on Foreign Relations and hopes for a speedy decision. Rants about politics and opines as to the way things should be done. Discusses personal news. Postmarked 22 March, Washington, DC., and 5 April, Vera Cruz, Mexico. Imprint in upper left corner depicts a capitol building surrounded by "Congress, Platmer & Smith."

GLC03587.11

7 May 1856

Gadsden, James, 1788-1858

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Cripps

Writes about his voyage back to Charleston and how the sea air reminds him of home. Reports having received a letter from Washington discussing "angry correspondence on both sides-this must either be Marcy or Pickett." Asks Cripps to store his belongings. Encloses letters for Mrs. Monk (Cripps' mother) and Mr. Cavallier (not included). Imprint in upper left corner reads "G&F, Vera Cruz."

GLC03587.16