1876

Forbes, Edwin, 1839-1895

Print

Title: Newspapers in camp

Marked "Plate 28." The newsman is sitting on horseback, surrounded by men in camp who are buying and reading the latest news from the front as it comes from the rear. Actual size of the image without the margins is 27.9 x 40.3 cm. Outline from matting is faintly visible. Title and image information taken from the table of contents from GLC 02199. Paper is brittle and edges are damaged.

GLC08653.16

7 June 1864

Keslar, Christopher, fl. 1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Edward H. Ogden

Writes from camp near "Bever Damn." Believes that Ogden knows more about the war than the soldiers because she is able to obtain an overview of the various battles through newspapers, while the army cannot. States that the army is staying in "The Rifel [sic] Pits," waiting for the Rebels, that the Army of the Potomac has had "hard times," and that Richmond "must fall before the Summers Campaigning is over." Believes that if Richmond does fall into Union hands, the Rebels will evacuate the state of Virginia. Says he does not know what the country will come to if the war continues for…

GLC06559.057

December 13, 1861

Mortimer, Caleb C.E., 1835-1862

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his wife

Mentions being in General Fitz-John Porter's division. Read a piece in the Boston Herald about Porter's Battery being in a skirmish and Sargeant Barnes shooting a rebel but says it was all a lie. Describes meeting Abraham Lincoln at Captain Griffin's wedding in Washington. "... it was a big time I had the honor of being introduced to old Abe and several members of the cabinet..."

GLC01898.08

5 January 1862

Miller, Michael Murray, fl. 1861-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lile Miller

Written at Camp Pierpont to his wife. Discusses the difficulty of obtaining wood and the possibility of acquiring a small sheet iron stove. Complains that soldiers from New York receive more press than the Pennsylvania troops: "...i see your Sunday New Yorkers or Porter guards as they are called there wants a Barracks to live in if they come here we will give them a Barracks and some thing else to do than Box and Play Ball in the dimond [sic], not that i Blame the Soldiers themselves, But every Paper and letter that comes from there is filled with their doings [while] the men from there who…

GLC02155.027

January 17, 1862

Miller, Michael Murray, fl. 1861-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lile Miller

Written from camp near White Oak Church. Writes, "...when the Inquirer came yesterday it put a damper on the Boys to see that the Secretary of War had refused to let the Reserves go Back to the State... i never felt like deserting Before But if ever i get Back across the Potomac again i shall studdy awhile Before i Return..."

GLC02155.029

22 June 1863

Newspaper

Title: The black hawk chronicle. [Vol. 1, no. 3 (June 22, 1863)]

Union newspaper with tongue-in-cheek war reports, mentioning Grant at Vicksburg and Naval Operations in the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers.

GLC08308

circa 6 November 1860

Moore, John, 1826-1907

Autograph letter signed

Title: to editor of the Bloomington Republican

Copy of a letter to the editor of the Bloomington Republican that Moore included in a 6 November 1860 letter to his sister in Bloomington, Indiana (GLC04194.34). Written at Camp Floyd.

GLC04194.35

circa July 1859

Moore, John, 1826-1907

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Discusses Election Day in the territory. The gentiles have formed an opposition party, and since Judge Eckles has no opposition to the army voting, Moore believes the Mormons will be surprised and angered by the election results. Mentions that Horace Greeley recently visited Salt Lake City on a journey to California in July 1859.

GLC04194.41

1862-1893

Russell, Samuel, 1835-1896

Letterbook

Title: [Samuel Russell, Letter Book].

Copybook of outgoing correspondence contains twenty letters to newspapers and individuals defending the Mormon faith. Topics include politics, anti-polygamy legislation, Church affairs, railroad right of way. Several were written and published (per Russell's notes) in the Richmond Conservator. Russell was a prominent church leader.

GLC05493.08

October 1862

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Header Record

Title: Collection of two Lincoln endorsements. See decimalized entries.

See descriptions in GLC02086.01-.02

GLC02086

6 October 1862

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph endorsement signed

Title: [Abraham Lincoln endorsement of William Cole].

Lincoln recommends, possibly to Secretary of War Stanton, that William Cole, Esq., editor of the "Irish American," be appointed to a paymastership in the U.S. Army. Originally written on p. 4 of an integral blank leaf of the letter of recommendation from J.W. Forney that prompted this endorsement (GLC02086.01).

GLC02086.02

circa 1871

Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George William Curtis

Requests details on Curtis's interview with Grant. Asks if he has heard anyone besides Grant assert that Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner was removed from chairmanship of the Committee on Foreign Relations because of negligence. Curtis was political editor of Harper's Weekly.

GLC03998.07

01 November 1861

Hutson, Charles J., 1842-1902

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Emily McLeod

Discusses life at Camp Huger. Reports that Alston's men are in bad condition due to inactivity. Talks about his philosophy that educated men who lived inactive lives and are unprepared for hardships make better soldiers. Remarks they read only newspapers, the Charleston Mercury or the Richmond Examiner, and discusses his views on them. Explains that although he knows this war will benefit men, the next generation will suffer because education is being neglected and the young are allowed to leave home too early. Gives love to everyone at home. Emily McLeod is the daughter of Charles'…

GLC08165.43

25 June 1886

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

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: [Comment on his decision to publish his memoirs]

Inscription written by Sherman on the title page and an illustrated plate removed from the book "History of Julius Caesar." Explains that though the book was given to him by Ingram McMillan (see GLC00955.01, Sherman is possibly referring to Charles McMillan), he must downsize his library as he is now residing in Rome. Gives the book to Major Henry Hitchcock, "my friend and former Staff Officer." Comments on his 1866 dismissal of the idea of writing memoirs of the Civil War written on the foregoing page (GLC00955.02). Writes that he decided to publish his two volume memoir in 1875 because…

GLC00955.03

7 August 1855

Raymond, Henry J. (Henry Jarvis), 1820-1869

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Directed to "Gentlemen." Agrees to deliver a lecture on slavery during the upcoming winter, noting, "I shall fail to say anything possessing either novelty or merit upon a topic which has been more profoundly and carefully discussed in Boston than in any other part of the Country." Will speak December 20. Includes an incomplete newspaper clipping attached to verso. The clipping contains Horace Greeley's praise of Raymond (Raymond initially served as Greeley's assistant, before starting the Times).

GLC05603.01.25

20 September 1852

Weed, Thurlow, 1797-1882

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Horace Greeley

Weed, a journalist active in politics, writes to Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune. Comments that Henry Wilson "ought to be at the Free Soil State Convention," to be held in Syracuse, New York.

GLC05603.01.33

1863

Manuscript

Title: A Few Scenes in the life of A "SOJER" in the Mass 44th

Illustrated Civil War diary by a soldier in the 44th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Written from camp at New Bern, North Carolina. Sketchbook illustrated with thirty-eight pencil editorial-type cartoon sketches satirizing the Northern press, former slaves, Confederate General Pierre G. T. Beauregard, and military life. Most sketches follow the life of a soldier named "Gorge," or "George," possibly a fictional character, possibly loosely autobiographical. Some sketches are about the Battle of Goldsboro. Page near the end states that the author had to end the sketchbook due to a lack of…

GLC08200

20 August 1862

Everett, Edward, 1794-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Turlow Weed

Explaining the anti-American bias of the English press during the Trent Affair.

GLC08216

28 November 1795

Wayne, Anthony, 1745-1796

Autograph document

Title: [General Orders]

Countersigned by John Mills, Adjutant General on p. 5. Report of the General Court Martial trial of Edwin L. Harris of the 1st Sub Legion held from 17-23 November 1795. Harris is charged with fraudulently obtaining money from the public. The orders list the specifications of the charges against him, including repeatedly charging and receiving money from the United States for his pay, rations, and subsistence as an Ensign in the Legion when he knew he was not entitled to it or had already received it. The court found him guilty of two of the charges, sentenced him to pay the government $64…

GLC04864.21

4 September 1862

Knox, Andrew, 1835-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sarah Knox

Knox writes to his wife from Fort Scott in Virginia. Expresses pleasure at receiving her letters, and the Herald and Danbury newspapers. Reports he has seen nephew George and he is very thin. States the rebels will have to capture the forts before they can take Washington, D.C. and is confident that will not happen due to the determination of the men in his company. Refers to the conflict between Union Generals George B. McClellan and John Pope. Remarks that "the troops of Gen. Pope when they came in look more like a mob than disciplined soldiers." Expresses confidence in the superiority of…

GLC03523.20.06

February 11, 1862

Terry, Robert B., fl. 1861-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Father

Reports to his father from Camp Pierpont, mentioning that Union General Charles Stone has been rearrested and sent to Fort Lafayette. "The following are the charges brought against him. 1st For misbeavior at the Battle of Balls Bluff. 2nd For holding correspondence with the enemy before and since the Battle of Balls Bluff and receiving Rebel officers in his camp. 3rd For treacherously suffering the enemy to build a fort or strong work since the Battle of Balls Bluff under his guns without molestation." Tells him that he will include an abstract which he cut out of the Sunday Mercury; however…

GLC03523.08.32

3 November 1862

Terry, Robert B., fl. 1861-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Father

Informs his father that he has gotten the position of Assistant Clerk at the hospital, and his health is much improved as he only has a "touch" of dysentery. Writes that he hopes Martha, possibly his sister, feels better soon. Reports that "they had quite a stir here on account of General [John] Wool arresting some of the leading men and sending them to Delaware, but they are released now and it is pretty much blowed over." Asks that she send him the New York Ledgers. Written on stationery with "US Army General Hospital, Newton University, Baltimore" letterhead.

GLC03523.08.48

11 November 1862

Terry, Robert B., fl. 1861-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Father

Reports that he has gained four pounds since he has been at the hospital, noting that "the night I left Uncle Jimmy's I weighed 120 pounds" and he now weighs 124. Asks for his father's opinion on General George McClellan's removal of the army from the Potomac. Remarks that he has seen in the papers here "that they censure both him and General Wool on this Harper's Ferry surrender." Written on stationery with "US Army General Hospital, Newton University, Baltimore" letterhead.

GLC03523.08.49

9 January 1863

Terry, Robert B., fl. 1861-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sister

Thanks his sister for the neck tie that she sent him. Requests that she send him some New York Ledgers. Reports that the weather is "clear and cold." Written on stationery with "US Army General Hospital, Newton University, Baltimore" letterhead.

GLC03523.08.56

January 28, 1863

Terry, Robert B., fl. 1861-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sister

Writes from the Headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia to his sister, mentioning that he has not heard from his friend Charlie Blackman for over six months. Comments, "the war will end 'sooner or later.' " Tells her that he has received his New York Ledgers. Written on blue stationery with image of a building at the top.

GLC03523.08.59