27 May 1858

Johnston, Joseph Egleston, 1807-1891

Autograph letter signed

Title: to the Assistant Adjutant General

A report for the general commanding. Describes the numbers, condition and discipline of the troops preparing to march towards Utah. Docket reads: "marched on the 28th. [illegible]." Signed as Lieutenant Colonel and Acting Inspector General.

GLC04685

February 5, 1849

Buchanan, James, 1791-1868

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Obliges recipient's request to be introduced to Colonel Fremont and General Smith if he decides to travel to California. Assures him that the reports of abundant gold resources are true. Buchanan is unable to suggest the best route to California over land, but suggests taking a boat to Chagres, Panama, and crossing the isthmus to board the steamer for San Francisco.

GLC04575

18 April 1882 - 16 May 1882

Guthrie, John B., fl. 1868-1900

Autograph manuscript

Title: [Record of events during the expedition under Lieutenant Colonel George A. Forsyth, 4th U.S. Cavalry, ...against the hostile Apache Indians]

Lieutenant Guthrie's field notes kept while serving as acting Adjutant to Forsyth during an expedition against the Apache Indians in New Mexico. Describes pursuit that left from Fort Cummings and battle with Geronimo during the spring of 1882. Title from envelope.

GLC04589.01

1799-1835

Header Record

Title: [Collection of 15 items related to the Mississippi territory, the Smith family, and the treason trial of Aaron Burr] Decimalized

GLC04601

22 December 1868

Custer, George Armstrong, 1839-1876

Manuscript document

Title: [Report on the Battle of Washita]

Written in the hand of Custer's Sergeant Pierre A. Bunker of the 7th Cavalry, prepared for Custer's signature. Custer reports at length and in graphic detail on his military activities and observations at the Battle of Washita against Chief Black Kettle's village of Southern Cheyenne. The battle also involved the Arapahoe, Kiowa, and Apache. Provides "extracts...from Dr Sippincott's report" listing deaths and injuries sustained by the soldiers. Explores the possible consequences of the battle and the effort to cripple Indian resistance. Estimates the "entire loss of the Indians in killed…

GLC04606

12 August 1826

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

Printed document signed

Title: [Ohio land grant to Robert Parks of Harrison County, Ohio]

Partially printed document granting Robert Parks seventy nine acres in Steubenville, Ohio. Signed by John Quincy Adams as President and countersigned by George W. Graham as Commissioner of the General Land Office. Certificate No. 1251. Recorded in Vol. 3, p. 207. Features remnants of a paper and wax seal.

GLC04900.03

21 April 1792

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Printed document signed

Title: An Act authorizing the grant and conveyance of certain Lands to the Ohio Company of Associates

Grant of land from the Second Congress of the United States to Rufus Putnam, Manasseh Cutler, Robert Oliver, and Griffin Green of the Ohio Company of Associates. Authorized by Jonathan Trumbull, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Richard Henry Lee, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved by President George Washington on 25 April 1792.

GLC04939

January 12, 1849

Hunter, B.B.B., fl. 1849

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Young Mason

Writes from the Border Post Office about the effect of gold in California and announces his plans to be among the miners shortly. Asks Secretary of the Navy Mason to put in a good word with the President so he may receive an appointment once he arrives in California. With note by Mason on address leaf, replied on 16 February 1849.

GLC04897.04

25 August 1778

McIntosh, Lachlan, 1725-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lieutenant of Berkeley County, Virginia

Conveying instructions of Virginia Governor Patrick Henry to contribute militia for McIntosh's expedition into Indian Territory. Asks for three hundred fully armed men and requests that they be enlisted for the longest possible duration because the distance and obstacles are uncertain. Written from Fort Pitt.

GLC04818

23 August 1783

Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794

Letter signed

Title: to George Clinton

Reports on an unsuccessful conference in Canada concerning assuming control of the western forts. Indicates that General Frederick Haldimand, the governor of the province of Quebec, refused to agree on any terms until there was a definitive treaty, although he did observe a cessation of fighting. Claims that Haldimand will limit communication and attempt "to hinder any overtures, being made from the United States to the Indians."

GLC04843

1803

Brown, Charles B., fl. 1803

Pamphlet

Title: An Address... on the cession of Louisiana to the French...

Manifest destiny and the Louisiana territory. Printed by H. Maxwell. Howes B831, Thompson 974, S&S 33881. Stamps on titlepage. Signature of Elihu Chauncey.

GLC04959.01

1855-1860

United States War Department

Book

Title: [Reports of explorations and surveys for a railroad route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean]

Thirteen volumes bound as twelve. Volumes 1 through 11 were issued in the Congressional series of U.S. public documents as 33d Cong., 2d sess. House ex. doc. 91, and also as Senate ex. doc. 78. Volume 11 was issued also (1861) as 36th Cong., 2d sess. Senate ex. doc. [no number]. Large folio volumes with modern leather binding.

GLC04963

1885

International Polar Expedition, 1882-1883

Book signed

Title: Report of the International Polar Expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska [by Lt. P.H. Ray] in response to the resolution of the House of Representatives of December 11, 1884.

Authored by Lieutenant P.H. Ray of the Eighth U.S. Infantry, A.S.O., Commanding Expedition, Chief Signal Officer, United States Army, under the auspice of the International Polar Expedition, 1882-1883. Published by the Government Printing Office. Titlepage signed by George Davidson on 5 December 1885. Davidson was a geodesist, geographer, astronomer who served with U.S. Coast Survey from 1845-1895. Illustrated with color and duotone lithographs.

GLC04966

30 May 1797

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William C.C. Claiborne

Thanks him for his "favourable sentiments," noting that "If all our Citizens were actuated by the principles you profess, it would much promote the happiness and prosperity of our Country." In regard to some papers Claiborne requested, Washington claims that he is determined not to interfere "directly or indirectly - in recommendations to Office." Closes by stating that it was "very pleasing to me to learn from such good authority that the people of the state of Tennessee are well affected to the General Government & that your prospect of peace with the Indians is not likely to be…

GLC04877

October 21, 1944

Wayne, Anthony, 1745-1796

Header Record

Title: [Twenty-two orders of the day including pardon of all who were under sentence of death].

Written as general in command of the United States Army in Greeneville, Ohio.

GLC04864

21 June 1540

Coronado, Francisco Vásquez de, 1510-1554

Letter signed

Title: to Francisco Vásquez de Coronado [in Spanish]

Written on behalf of King Charles I of Spain (Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor), by the President of the Council of the Indies, Francisco García de Loaysa. Report of the Niza expedition. Authorizes Coronado's expedition to explore the heart of the North American continent.

GLC04883

6 August 1861

Fremont, John Charles, 1813-1890

Letter signed

Title: to Simon Cameron

Possibly written and signed by John's wife Jesse Benton Frémont. General Frémont, commander of the Western Department, writes to Cameron, Secretary of War. Frémont writes, "I am desirous of placing a force of three thousand men near the Southern part of New Mexico, from which to threaten Arkansas and Texas. In operating in the Indian Territory and Arkansas, we will be met and opposed by a large force of Texans, now encamped near San Antonio, unless we keep them idle by a force threatening them with attack... A force occupying El Paso, Texas, could be moved either upon San Antonio or into…

GLC05032.01

January 25, 1857

Lyon, Nathaniel, 1818-1861

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John A. Hasler

Location derived from content. Lyon writes from Fort Lookout, Nebraska Territory. Writes to his nephew John, including a partial letter on verso to Kate, John's sister. Facetiously comments, "the promises of the juvenile song are progressing to a substantial and happy realization. But my Dear Nephew, let me advise you, that in attaining to the size and strength of manhood, you also attain to its responsibilities, when, instead of finding in your little political play, but bright colours and gay images for youthful pastimes and sport, you must come to find it the sacred insignia of our…

GLC05040.01

8 July 1863

Sibley, Henry Hastings, 1811-1891

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John C. Pope

General Sibley writes to Major General Pope to report on his arrival at Camp Hayes and his preparations for a fight with the Eastern Sioux. THe Sioux were encamped at Devil's Lake and led by Little Crow. Describes the desolate country and preparations being made. Praises the soldiers under his command. Noted as "Personal." Written from Camp Hayes, west of Cheyenne River, on stationary of the "Head-Quarters, District of Minnesota, Department of the Northwest."

GLC05051

1849

Header Record

Title: Two issues of Fort Laramie's "The Chugg Water Journal" and a watercolor of Indians [Decimalized]

Written at Fort Laramie

GLC05067

1845

Fremont, John Charles, 1813-1890

Book signed

Title: Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842, and to Oregon and north California in the years 1843-'44

Published by Gales and Seaton. First edition. Inscribed to Samuel Marx by James Buchanan, with his signature. Recounts Frémont's 1842 expedition to Oregon, the second of his three expeditions. The folding map has been removed from the book (see GLC05103.02).

GLC05103.01

26 September 1878

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

Manuscript letter signed

Title: to David Douty Colton

Expresses gratitude to Colton, Vice President of the Southern Pacific Railroad, for the convenience the railroad offers transcontinental travelers. States that the railroad is "'a great civilizer', and will enable the Military Authorities to maintain peace and order among Indians as well as the equally dangerous clans of Robbers ... " Advises Colton on possible routes for continuation of the railroad through Arizona. Hopes that the railroad will increase trade and secure peace between the United States and Mexico.

GLC05095

1845

Fremont, John Charles, 1813-1890

Map

Title: Map of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842, and to Oregon and north California in the years 1843-'44

Lithograph by E. Weber & Co. of Baltimore, Maryland. Map part of Frémont's "Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842, and to Oregon and north California in the years 1843-'44" (see GLC05103.01). Outlines Frémont's route.

GLC05103.02

1882

Smith, William Henry, 1833-1896

Book signed

Title: The St. Clair papers: The life and public service of Arthur St. Clair: Soldier of the Revolutionary War; President of the Continental Congress; and Governor of the North-Western Territory with his correspondence and other papers

Published by Robert Clarke & Co., 1882. Signed by former President Rutherford B. Hayes on 11 February 1882. Includes some of St. Clair's addresses and correspondence. Contains ordinances and treaties related to the Northwest Territory. This is the second of two volumes.

GLC05106

circa 1830

Morgan, Louis M., fl. 1830

Engraving

Title: Engraving of Simon Kenton

One engraving of Simon Kenton dated circa 1830. Half portrait of Kenton based on the painting by Louis M. Morgan.

GLC08878.2066