1865/07/09-1867/03/16

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

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: Major General E.O.C. Ord

Reconstruction of Arkansas and Mississippi. Seven ALS's and one Telegram.

GLC08012

1869/03/22

Wise, Henry A., 1806-1876

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: Beverly Tucker

Reconstruction: "...the enemy is taking slack rope enough to hang themselves."

GLC08013.02

1869/03/21

Breckinridge, John C. (John Cabell), 1821-1875

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: Beverly Tucker

Return from his exile in England and meeting with General Lee.

GLC08013.03

1868/07/24

Rosecrans, William S. (William Starke), 1819-1898

Letter

Title: To :Governor Horatio Seymour

The letter details the "problems" of the country under Republican rule including: the impossibility of "Wholesome government in the South under the rule of Negro voters"; and an "undue exaggeration of States Rights" which will destroy national unity and the Republic. He asks that Seymour refuse the Democratic nomination for President. "I beg you to do an act of rare magnanimity only to be expected from a statesman and a patriot. I beg you to decline your nomination and to throw your influence in favor of the candidate for whom we can create a fervor of enthusiasm . . . . ." He adds: "…

GLC04360.049

1868/02/12

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

Letter signed

Title: To: Ulysses S. Grant

Directing Grant to issue an order creating the Military Division of the Atlantic, to be commanded by William T. Sherman. (12 days before impeachment)

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1869/05/19

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

Document signed

Title: Affix the seal to the proclomation concerning the eight hours law

Affix the seal to the proclomation creating eight hour work day.

GLC07998

1865/07/14

Archer, Edward R., fl. 1830-1917

Autograph letter signed

Title: to W.W. Dungan

Letter seeking to renew friendship with W. W. Dungan, one of Archer's friends from his service in the U. S. Navy before the war. "Now since the war is ended and the South has returned her allegiance to the United States, are feelings of wrath, envy, hatred or malice...should vanish without a record for the future..." Ends with a plea for a return to an ante-bellum status quo: "An acknowledgement of the receipt of this letter will assure me that we still remain old friends and are willing to forget and forgive." Marked "copy."

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1866/12/20

Archer, Edward R., fl. 1830-1917

Autograph letter signed

Title: to friend Paddon

Requesting information about the process of pressing and refining the surplus coal at the Tredegar Iron Works into a saleable product for steamers through compression into blocks that burn longer and produce more steam than unrefined bituminous coal. Archer also gives Paddon information on mutual acquaintances within associated with the Virginia Volunteer Navy. Letter also contains the interesting contention that the spirit of rivalry between North and South has grown sharper since the end of the war and that far from "harmonizing," relations between the two sections are "as mixing oil with…

GLC01896.084

14 [July] 1869

Gibson, Randall Lee, 1832-1892

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his father Tobias Gibson

He has managed to pay an additional $290.25 on their debt, which should be paid off next year. Written on "Gibson & Austin, Attorneys at Law" letterhead from Randall Lee Gibson's law office.

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1867/01/15

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

Document signed

Title: Pardon of John Letcher for rebellion (c/s William H. Seward)

Accompanied by collateral transmittal letter from Henry Stanberry, the Attorney General's office 23 Jan. 1867. Letcher had been Confederate govenror of Virginia.

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1865/08/28

Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Letcher re: urging concilatory attitude towards Yankees

Concening President's Johnson's Reconstruction Policy. Lee asks "to calm feelings which have too long existed... the interest of the state are... the same as those of the U. States" Written near Centreville, Virginia.

GLC06776

1865/05/02

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown re: President Johnson and black suffrage, Johnston's surrender

Apparently written to an unknown governor. "President Johnson means to do right on the great question of Negro suffrage." Discusses Johnston's surrender.

GLC06704

1890 ca.

Colston, Raleigh Edward, 1825-1896

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: re: former Confederate general admits Union victory was a "blessing"

A Confederate general admits Union victory was "an incommensurable blessing to the whole country and especially to the people of the South. The consequences would have been continual wars, standing armies, fortifications on every frontier and military borders such as the European nations have to bear...." Apparently a manuscript or letter fragment.

GLC06695.03

1867/05/18

Underwood, John C., fl. 1867

Autograph letter signed

Title: to "Alice" re: explaining why he set Jefferson Davis free on a $100,000 bond

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1865, 1890 ca.

Photograph signed

Title: [John S. Mosby]

Original photograph was taken ca. 1865 but this half-tone (from a book?) was signed ca. 1890.

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1868/07/23

Meade, George Gordon, 1815-1872

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Samuel W. Crawford re: election of 1868, abolishing the office of General

"If Grant resigns after the election, Congress will abolish the office of General."

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1865/05/04

Printed document

Title: [Confederate Parole]

A pledge taken by officers of the Confederate Army to cease from taking up arms or giving aid against the United States Government until exchanged as prisoners of war.

GLC04522.01

1867/02/22

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

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: Major General E.O.C. Ord

Letter to Ord discussing his post-war [Reconstruction] duties, the deployment of troops in Arkansas and out west to fight in the war with the Sioux: "General Grant has answered me emphatically that he cannot give me more troops. And balancing all the calls from...Montana and the Great Plains I would not thinnk of drawing troops from them for Arkansas. Even if I knew you were drifting to an actual outbreak, because I don't see how we are to avoid war with some 10,000 Sioux, and half as many Cheyennes & Arapahoes..." "Headquarters Military Division of the Missouri " letterhead.

GLC08012.05

1867/03/12

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

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: Major General E.O.C. Ord

Letter to Ord discussing Ord's difficult and undesirous post-war [Reconstruction] duties in Arkansas, and the approaching war out west against the Sioux and other Indians: "...In case you become military Governor of Mississippi & Arkansas with inadequate form & scarcity of money--Grant and the President unable to help you with money, men, orders, or advice, the [People] pitching into you as a tyrant, satrap & monster, & Congress holding you officially & personally responsible for every row in which a darkey gets worsted, you will wish you were back at Detroit, California…

GLC08012.06

1867/03/16

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

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: Major General E.O.C. Ord

Letter to Ord advising Ord on his difficult and undesirous post-war [Reconstruction] command in Arkansas and Misssissippi: "...your new command...will be excedingly vexatious, more especially, as now you have in addition to military duties civil functions...You will have all sorts of enemies round you: And Congress ready to take off your head..." "Headquarters Military Division of the Missouri " letterhead.

GLC08012.07

1867/10/31

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

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: Major General E.O.C. Ord

Letter to Ord about conflicts past and present: "...I hope the worst is past...what with Indians, Negroes etc., etc., Ex Rebels we all seem doomed during one life time to constant war. Like the Eel, we must get used to it..." "Headquarters Military Division of the Missouri " letterhead.

GLC08012.08

1865/05/04

Barnes, James, 1806-1869

Printed document signed

Title: [Travel pass]

"Paroled prisoner of the Army commanded by Gen. J.E. Johnston." A pass granting permission for Ivy to return home on parole, signed by A[sst?] Provost Marshal Major Barnes in New Orleans. Two endorsements on verso: 22 May 1865, Montgomery, Alabama, signed by [Charles Holt, Jr.?]; 27 May 1865, New Orleans, signed by P. L. Van Rensselaer. On "Headquarters U.S. Forces" letterhead. Partially printed.

GLC04522.02

1865/05/22

Orme, William W., 1832-1866

Printed document signed

Title: Agreement of registry

Signed by Orme and Isham G. Bailey; and by John C. Holland as a witness. Approved by C.C. Washburne as major general commanding and by his AAG, Major [W.H. Mayer?], brevet brigadier general. Bailey registers his plantation in an agreement made with Special Treasury Agent Orme regarding "abandoned and confiscable lands and the employment and general welfare of Freedmen." Accompanied by a 7-page print document, "Freedmen: regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury…Providing for the Employment and General Welfare of all Persons within the Lines of National Military Occupation with…

GLC04522.07

1865/08/07

Printed document signed

Title: [Oath of allegiance]

An oath of allegiance pledging to defend the Constitution of the United States, the union of the states, and to abide by all laws passed to emancipate slaves. The document is signed by Isham Bailey and witnessed by Andrew B. Conly. With 5-cent revenue stamp. Partially printed.

GLC04522.08

1867/01/01

Bailey, Isham G., fl. 1867

Document signed

Title: [Sharecropper's contract between Isham Bailey and freedman Alie Bailey]

Alie Bailey is to receive half of the corn, cotton, and fodder cultivated in return for providing all the work necessary to keep up the farm, assisting in putting up fences, and cultivating forty acres of cotton and corn. Amongst other things, Isham Bailey is responsible for providing farming tools, furnishing two mules and forage for the mules, and land sufficient to cultivate six hundred pounds of meat. With three 2-cent revenue stamps.

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