circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Portrait photo of General Fitzhugh Lee CSA [cabinet card]

The image shows Confederate General Fitzhugh Lee with a long beard, and wearing a sash and epaulettes. He is looking to his right of the camera. Inscription on recto: "C.M. Bell, Washington, D.C." Inscription on verso: "Gov. Fitz H. Lee" and "Va."

GLC05111.01.1356

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Portrait photo of James Longstreet [cabinet card]

The image shows a close-up of James Longstreet, looking to his right of the camera. Inscription on recto: "Longstreet."

GLC05111.01.1339

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Portrait photo of William Mahone [cabinet card]

The image shows a close-up of William Mahone, turned to his right, but looking directly at the camera. Inscription on recto: "A. Bogardus Sherman & Mchugh, successors 11 East 42d Street, New York." Inscription on verso: "Hon. Wm. Mahone CSA."

GLC05111.01.1340

August 1893

Photograph

Title: Portrait photo of General Jubal Early [cabinet card]

The image shows General Jubal Early seated with his hat between his knees in front of a porch. Inscription on recto: "Darnell Photographer Radford, VA." Inscriptions on verso: "Genl. Jubal A. Early taken at the Yellow Sulphur August 1893" and "Courtesy Ridgway Holt pwpr[?]." Picture taken at Yellow Sulphur Springs Resort.

GLC05111.01.1344

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Portrait vignette of General Fitzhugh Lee [cabinet card]

The image shows a close-up vignette of General Lee, looking to his right. Inscription on image: "Gen. Fitzhugh Lee," "If used, credit Moreno 420 Fifth Avenue, New York" and "Recd. March 31. 1897."

GLC05111.01.1347

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Portrait photo of General Fitzhugh Lee [cabinet card]

The image shows close-up of General Fitzhugh Lee, looking to his left. Inscription on recto: "A. Bogardus Sherman & McHugh, Successors 11 East 42d Street, New York." Inscription on verso: "Fitz Hugh Lee."

GLC05111.01.1349

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Portrait photo of General Wesley Merrit [cabinet card]

The image shows General Merritt with sash, medals and epaulettes. He is looking to his left of the camera. Inscriptions on verso: "Gen. Merritt" and "Reynolds Photograph Co. Photographs Wholesale and Retail 291 S. Clark St., Chicago, Catalogue Free." Numeric notation on verso: "50."

GLC05111.01.1351

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Portrait photo of Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner CSA [cabinet card]

Image shows Lieutenant General Buckner in a civilian suit, looking to his left of the camera. Inscription on recto: "A. Bogardus, Sherman & McHugh, Successors 11 East 42d Street, New York." Inscriptions on verso: "Gen. S. B. Buckner" and "S. B. Buckner."

GLC05111.01.1362

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Portrait photo of General Jubal A. Early CSA [cabinet card]

The image shows General Jubal A. Early in a close-up profile. He is wearing a civilian suit, has a long white beard, and is looking to his right of the camera. Inscription on recto: "Plecker Lynchburg, Va. Extra Finish." Inscriptions on verso: "Gen. Jubal A. Early" and "A.H. Plecker Lynchburg, Va."

GLC05111.01.1374

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Portrait photo of General Fitzhugh Lee CSA [cabinet card]

The image shows a close-up portrait of General Fizthugh Lee. He is wearing a civilian suit, and is looking to his left of the camera. Inscription on recto: "A. Bogardus, Sherman & McHugh, Successors. 11 East 42d Street, New York." Inscription on verso: "Hon. Fitz Hugh Lee."

GLC05111.01.1375

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Portrait vignette of Zebulon B. Vance CSA [cabinet card]

The image shows a close-up vignette of Zebulon B. Vance. He is wearing a civilian suit and is looking directly at the camera. Inscriptions on recto: "Hon Zebulon B. Vance N.C." and "C.M. Bell, Washington, D.C." Inscription on verso: "C.M. Bell Artist 459, 461, 463 & 465 Penn Avenue, Washington, D.C. Negatives Preserved."

GLC05111.01.1377

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Portrait photo of Honorable Lucius Q.C. Lamar CSA [cabinet card]

The image shows Lucius Q. C. Lamar seated. He is wearing a judge's robe and is looking to his right of the camera. Inscription on recto: "C.M. Bell 465 Penn Ave. Washington, D.C." Inscription on verso: "Hon. Lucius Q. C. Lamar."

GLC05111.01.1378

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Portrait photo of Brigadier General Eppa Hunton CSA [cabinet card]

The image shows General Eppa Hunton. He is wearing a civilian suit and is looking to his right of the camera. Inscription on recto: "Eppa Hunton, Va. Brady."

GLC05111.01.1380

17 September 1862

Bragg, Edward Stuyvesant, 1827-1912

Autograph quotation signed

Title: Colloquy under fire!

Quote from Antietam battlefield. Reads "Aid-de Camp Haskell (riding on to the field & raising his cap) 'Genl Gibbons' compliments: Press the enemy as far as it is safe' Col Bragg. 'raising a [] hat' 'Col Bragg's compliment to Genl Gibbons - It has been d--d unsafe here for fifteen minutes' ----- 'Steady six- forward.'"

GLC06181

1862-1864

Stuart, James, fl. 1862-1869

Header Record

Title: [Collection of James M. Stuart, C company, 94th regiment, Ohio, infantry] [decimalized]

Includes 22 letters from Stuart, and one letter to Stuart. Mentions General Nathan Bedford Forrest, playing ball and anti-black sentiment. Also discusses Sherman's March to the sea: "I suppose we will stop at Savannah, Ga. It will take us 30 or 40 days to go through. Sherman calculates to burn up everything as they go."

GLC06268

28 August 1862

Marshall, Humphrey, 1812-1872

Header Record

Title: Letter about reinforcements and engraved carte de visite [Decimalized .01-.02]

GLC06311

21 May 1865

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

Autograph letter signed

Title: to H. Copper

Sherman defends the terms of surrender he gave to General Joseph Johnston, discussing his "Memorandum" (i.e., Johnston's surrender agreement), and claiming the document was written "quickly." Sherman writes that "Sam [U.S. Grant] never saw or heard about it." He further notes that it was "a mere naked memorandum for the new President [Andrew Johnson] to manipulate and give me what I had a right to ask some definite idea of the status of the surrendered army." Sherman claims that he didn't think it would be publicized. Written in a camp near Alexandria, Virginia, on stationary marked "Head-…

GLC06334

20 October 1861

Benjamin, Judah Philip, 1811-1884

Document

Title: [Regulations concerning substitutes in the army]

From Acting Secretary of War Benjamin. Unsigned printed small broadsheet on blue paper. Lists five requirements for obtaining discharge when a non-commissioned officer or a soldier finds a substitute. They are: soldier seeking to leave needs written consent of the Captain of his company, the substitute must obtain from some surgeon a certificate of fitness to serve, when a person is being discharged from the army by reason of a substitute the Captain of the company must provide a certificate, if a soldier leaving the army because of a substitute owes the government money the debt is put on…

GLC06371.05

20 September 1863

DeSaussure, Wilmot Gibbes, 1822-1886

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Milledge Luke Bonham

DeSaussure, possibly a member of the South Carolina General Assembly, discusses a proposed Assembly meeting. Informs Bonham, Governor of South Carolina, "The command under me is of such a character that were I to leave here... I believe they could not be held together in any harmony or concert whatever, and that it would lead to much confusion at a time when concert of action is so greatly needed. This is not said from any egotism or vanity... but simply arises from the fact that having for over two years been regarded by whatever militia organization there has been in Charleston as a…

GLC06373

14 March 1864

Crenshaw, O. A., fl. 1845-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Alexander Seddon

Crenshaw, a surgeon, requests that Seddon allow James Bolling, a free African American from Charles City, Virginia, to remain in Crenshaw's employment as a fisherman. Informs Seddon, Confederate Secretary of War, that "Fish are necessary to the support of my remaining negroes most of the valuable ones having been ... taken by the enemy." Declares that "If all the free negro fisherman are taken for govt service, then the people in and around Richmond must suffer greatly for want of food." Includes several dockets dated March 1864. One docket indicates that Bolling's services are necessary…

GLC06374

6 November 1861

Snowden, E., Jr., fl. 1861-1862

Newspaper

Title: The local news. [no volume or number information (November 6, 1861)]

Union occupation newspaper. Also published by W.F. Carne (fl. 1861-1862). Short item says the body of "the negro lad Sam," who had drowned in Hunting Creek during a previous storm, had been found. Report on the popularity of "Foot-ball" -- says it is played everywhere by both boys and men but "We suggest, however, that the game be discarded in all the business streets - so that passers-by - especially ladies, be not incommoded by dashing balls and gangs of lads running at full tilt." Quick line says General Winfield Scott is leaving for Europe. News items from the South, including remarks on…

GLC06107.02

4 March 1863

Charlotte, J.C., fl. 1863

Newspaper

Title: Weekly gazette and comet. [Vol. 45, no. 21 (March 4, 1863)]

Union occupation newspaper. Mediation between the Southern commissioners and Secretary of State Seward, sinking of the U.S. Gunboat "Kinsman," News from Washington - the Negro Soldier Bill rejected, capture of the "Queen of the West," Charleston under siege, printing of General G.T. Beauregard's February 18, 1863 order for noncombatants to evacuate and calling for support from Carolinians and Georgians, printing of Seward's letter to the British minister regarding the blockade of Galveston. 22nd Connecticut Volunteers soldier's name written on heading.

GLC06107.18

5-12 July 1861

Broadside

Title: The Star-Extra

An extra sheet of the Washington D.C. "Star." Contains three articles: first one from West Virginia on General Morris's attack against a division of Wise's army near Buckanon. Second article on the Tennessee disunionsts seizing the railroad between Nashville and Louisville. Third article states that General McClellan's army was fighting in western Virginia. Name in pencil on verso says "Hayden." Sheet is thin and has a partial tear along a fold line. Edges are frayed as well.

GLC06107.37

25 June 1862

Shober, William A., fl. 1862

Newspaper

Title: Quincy semi-weekly dispatch [Vol. 2, no. 1 (June 25, 1862)]

Necessity newspaper from Florida, with accounts of J.E.B. Stewart's ride around McClellan's army, Benjamin Butler's atrocities in New Orleans, Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley, also discussion of an "Emancipation Measure" on page 4. Mentions that Jubal Early was made a major general and that Abraham Lincoln visited Fredericksburg. Includes the latest news by telegram on page 2-3 as well as a call for volunteers for a partisan group. Page 4 has an article titled "Who is 'Gov.' Johnson?" which provides a short biography of Andrew Johnson. Advertisements on last two pages. Signature…

GLC06063

circa 1920

Callaway, James, fl. 1920

Broadside

Title: [Character of Robert E. Lee defamed by Susan B. Anthony...].

A response to Anthony's accusation in her History of Woman Suffrage that Robert E. Lee banished his youngest daughter, Annie Carter Lee (1839-1862) during the Civil War because of her Unionist sentiments. The author explains that Lee protected his daughter by sending her away and did not bring her body home for burial as a tribute to the people who took care of her.

GLC06073