1865

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

Pamphlet

Title: Protection of Freedmen: Actual Condition of the Rebel States. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts ...

Title continues, "... on the bill to maintain the freedom of the inhabitants in the states declared in insurrection and rebellion by the proclamation of the President of July 1, 1862; delivered in the Senate of the United States, December 20, 1865." Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, Washington, D.C.

GLC02095.23

1861-1890

Phillips, George W., fl. 1861-1890

Autograph letter signed

Title: Letters of soldier in 9th Alabama infantry

111 wardate plus 62 reconstruction and postwar letters.

GLC06729.01

1861-1890

Phillips, George W., fl. 1861-1890

Autograph letter signed

Title: Letters of soldier in 9th Alabama infantry

111 wardate plus 62 reconstruction and postwar letters.

GLC06729.02

22 August 1865

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

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry W. Slocum

Offering to do whatever he can to make life easier for Slocum and his family

GLC08112.01

07 September 1865

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

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry W. Slocum

Predicting a quick end to reconstruction: "The North cannot long afford to keep arms there for local police": "Still, as long as you do have the force and the state now you must of necessity control...my own opinion is that self interest will soon induce the present people of Mississippi to...manage in a kind of [system] that will, like in Maryland & Missouri, change the whole public opinion. They certainly will not again tempt the resistance of the U.S. nor will they ever reenslave the negro.

GLC08112.02

08 December 1869

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: Gideon Welles.

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

GLC08092

1866

United States War Department

Book

Title: General Orders

Published by the War Department and printed by the Government Printing Office. Orders are for 1866, but the book was published in 1867. Name on spine: "Col. E. C. Mason." Contains 75 page Index of General Orders at the front of the book. Orders No. 1-100 for the year are printed; several are very long. Shelf ware at edges of cover and spine.

GLC08646.08

1867

United States War Department

Book

Title: General Orders

Published by the War Department and printed by the Government Printing Office. Orders are for 1867, but the book was published in 1868. Name on spine: "C.E. Morse." Contains 84 page Index of General Orders at the front of the book. Orders No. 1-104 for the year are printed; several are very long. Some handwritten notes and corrections throughout. First 6 orders signed by "A.S.M. Sayers." Order No. 103 has note in pencil: "Only copy on hand. G.O. Clark." Contains a foldout chart at the back of the book. Shelf ware at edges of cover and spine.

GLC08646.09

1869

United States War Department

Book

Title: General Orders

Published by the War Department and printed by the Government Printing Office. Orders are for 1869, the same year it was published. Contains 35 page index of names and subjects at the front of the book. Spine says "C.Q.M.O. Dept. Platte. Alex J. Perry." Orders No. 1-86 for the year are printed; several are very long. Shelf ware at edges of cover and spine; corners are slightly damaged. A few of the documents are signed but the signatures are illegible. Shelf ware at edges of cover and spine.

GLC08646.10

1 April 1865

Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869

Manuscript document signed

Title: ["Deposition of Edwin M. Stanton"].

Stamped as pages 86-92. Signed by Stanton ("Edwin M Stanton") on the seventh page (p. 92). Also signed vertically on the left margin of each of the seven pages by Commissioner A.B. Olin, whose autograph endorsement signed appears below Stanton's signature on the seventh page. The first page (p. 86) introduces the document as Stanton's deposition (note: it is written in a different hand than the remaining pages). The ensuing six pages contain Stanton's answers to five interrogatories and five cross-interrogatories regarding the 1862 recruitment order that attempted to institute a draft, and…

GLC00720.01

19 July 1865

Bramlette, Thomas Elliott, 1817-1875

Broadside

Title: Kentucky election call for white mail Union citizens over 21 years old who have not "expatriated" themselves by aiding the Confederacy.

GLC08315

1874

Mosby, John S., 1833-1916

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Oliver P. Morton

Opposes Civil Rights bill a written: "I very much fear that its passage will utterly destroy our Free School System."

GLC08333

8 November 1866

Hutson, Charles J., 1842-1902

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Theodora Colcock Hutson (incomplete)

Discusses a visit with C.W., possibly Charles Woodward Hutson, his nephew, at the University of South Carolina. Reminisces about his time as a student there eight years earlier. Reports attending a convention also attended by "many men of influence from the State" of South Carolina. Discusses speeches made by Chancelor John Inglis, James Chestnut, Jr., and Wade Hampton. Mentions meeting Livingston and Sallie Wigg. Hutson was a Corporal, 1st South Carolina Infantry, during the Civil War. Theodora was his wife. Inglis attended the South Carolina Secession Convention and chaired the…

GLC08165.14

January 8,1866

Shellabarger, Samuel, 1817-1896

Document signed

Title: [Speech of the Hon. Samuel Shellabarger of Ohio].

Speech on Reconstruction. Signed, with the number of copies requested, by Senators Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, William Windon, Thaddeus Stevens, and others.

GLC08227

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

5 April 1865

Shepley, George Foster, 1819-1878

Document

Title: [Orders for the government of Union occupied Richmond]

Printed Order on wove paper accompanying a letter indicating the fall of Richmond (GLC03744.01). The document enumerates the regulations and orders given by Major General Godfrey Weitzel established for the government of Richmond and the preservation of public peace. Issued by Military Governor of Richmond George Foster Shepley.

GLC03744.02

26 July 1876

Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Expresses his belief that reconstruction would not end if a short term Democrat is elected to the presidency, but that it would be disastrous for the Freedmen. Rutherford B. Hayes served as President 1877-1881.

GLC08201

1866

Beach, Elias William, 1841-1921

Diary

Title: [Diary 1866]

Autograph manuscript. Written from various places. Beach provides information on his life as a former soldier after the war. Dated January 1, 1866-June 1, 1866.

GLC00919.23.07

circa 2 October 1866

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

Autograph manuscript

Title: [Parsons address]

Refers to the "sepulchre of Human Rights" and Andrew Johnson's "whiteing." Discusses states rights in regard to the rebellion. Refers to the legislation of former enslavers. Draft copy, with excerpts and pages pasted in. Pages are misnumbered. Unknown date assigned. Transcript available.

GLC00496.088.02

circa 1863

Pamphlet

Title: The Future of the Country

Proposes solutions for the reconstruction of the Union. Criticizes the idea of a national convention where rebel Southerners and Union victors can meet on equal terms. Concludes by stating that it is important for citizens to organize nation-wide and discuss the future of the country. To select a candidate who is a "recognized champion of those principles of liberty and progress."

GLC01265.04

September 22, 1863

Morse, N.S., fl. 1862-1864

Newspaper

Title: Daily chronicle & sentinel. [Vol. 27, no. 226 (September 22, 1863)]

One issue of the Daily chronicle & sentinel dated September 22, 1863. Includes articles of a letter from the newly-elected governor of Alabama who dispels rumors of his supposedly reconstructive agenda, reports from Virginia, north Georgia, trans-Mississippi, north Alabama, and Tennessee that give indications of the war and its impact on the surrounding areas. Also printed is a special notice of a grievance that the George Railroad Company supplies Black employees with meat and money because they believe these men will be tempted to steal. Contains articles listing the names of enslaved…

GLC05959.07.02

30 July 1864

Morse, N.S., fl. 1862-1864

Newspaper

Title: Daily chronicle & sentinel. [Vol. 28, no. 193 (July 30, 1864)]

Subjects include Evacuation at Williamsburg and Yorktown Confirmed, From Charleston - Bombardment of Fort Sumter Continues, Fighting Again at Atlanta, Yankees Driven Back, Democratic Peace Meeting Held in New York. An account of peace negotiations with the North is outlined, with a letter from Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley. Subsequent articles on Yankee capital and debt follow. Lincoln's proposed readmission of Confederate states is included. An editorial on peace enforces support for the Confederacy. A letter from Georgia Governor Joseph Brown reminds readers that civil and military…

GLC05959.07.08

19 May 1865

Allison, William A., fl. 1861-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Stockton Bates

Was a prisoner of war a year ago here; has visited his old prison. Local attitudes towards the Union have changed due to Grant. "The conduct of the soldiers has been remarkable, when we consider the bitterness, the cruelty, the fiendishness with which the Southrons waged war upon us. I ascribe it to influence which intelligence and Christianity has upon the Northern people." Confederate money is worthless and the people are destitute. Freedmen act in "mutinous conduct," and the soldiers must settle disputes.

GLC03523.23.40

circa 19 March 1867

Koontz, William Henry, 1830-1911

Document

Title: [List of orders for a printed Congressional speech]

Lists the names and corresponding number of copies ordered for a print of a speech delivered 19 March 1867 in the House of Representatives by William Henry Koontz, United States Representative from Pennsylvania 1865-1868. List includes eight signatures of Representatives: Koontz, Daniel Johnson Morrell (Pennsylvania), Ignatius Donnelly (Minnesota), James Lawrence Getz (Pennsylvania), William Darrah Kelley (Pennsylvania), and one illegible signature. Price per hundred copies cited as $1. Speech was delivered on "The relief of the destitue poor of the South." Includes the name "F. W.…

GLC03481.15.02

circa 30 May 1872

Stevenson, Job Evans, 1832-1922

Document

Title: [List of orders for a printed Congressional speech]

Partially printed. Lists the names and corresponding number of copies ordered for a print of a speech delivered 16 March 1872 in the House of Representatives. List includes three Representatives' signatures: Job Evans Stevenson (Ohio), Aaron Fyfe Perry (Ohio), and Charles Foster (Ohio). Speech was delivered on the topic of the Ku Klux Klan. The name of the person who delivered the speech is torn from document. Printed text relates that copies of the speech are to be printed at the Congressional Globe Office.

GLC03481.15.04