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[Wartime excerpt from the Emancipation Proclamation].

Possibly used for dissemination by the United States military.

GLC08217

to Mr. Gibson

Listing areas of continuing unrest in the Philippines. Written as Secretary of War and Military Governor of the Philippine Islands.

GLC08218

to unknown

Discuss making a claim to Congress for the remaining salary of her late husband, Vice President Elbridge Gerry. Efforts include contacting John Quincy Adams, a longtime family friend.

GLC08219

to Christopher Gore

Written to Governor of Massachusetts Christopher Gore. Explains his opposition to a proposed Constitutional amendment that would limit the life of an embargo act to 30 days after Congress enacted it. Countersigned by James Lloyd.

GLC08220

to Thomas Brattle

Encloses the resolves of the Connecticut Assembly in support of Boston's struggle against the Townshend Acts and the King's Commission of Customs and recommends that they be printed.

GLC08221

to Luin K. Thacher and Henry Flesher

Two dispatches alerting Union officers of Confederate General Joseph Shelby's raids into Missouri: "I haven just received information that the rebels took Warsaw... & marched out from there on the Sedalia Road..."

GLC08222

to John M. Schofield

Alerting him about Confederate Joseph Shelby's raids in Missouri.

GLC08223

to Egbert Brown

Update on Shelby's raid in Missouri.

GLC08224

to George Hall

Mentions writing both to Brigadier General Egbert Brown and to himself to request an update on any further information they might have on Shelby's Missouri raid, but has not heard from either.

GLC08225

to William H. Seward

Discusses the failed attempt to unseat him from the United States Senate: "the combination to destroy by mutiny and treason the advantages which the Whigs of New York won in the open field was a fearful one. But we have prevailed."

GLC08226

[An act concerning letters of marque, prizes, and prize goods].

Addressed to the commander of the Brig Argus, Edward Howe, Jr.

GLC08230

[New York Post over 300 issues].

Includes complete printing of Marbury v. Madison in two issues, complete printing of the Louisiana Purchase Treaty and Conventions, a fire in New York, a slave rebellion, etc.

GLC08231

[Poulson's American Daily Advertizer].

Extra edition printing Jefferson's State of the Union Address in which he discusses the Louisiana Purchase, Indian affairs, and foreign relations.

GLC08232

Carte de visite [Portrait of Frances Clalin].

GLC08233

[Jury verdict signed by all twelve jurors, including Dennis Hanks, a relative of Abraham Lincoln].

Signed by Dennis Hanks, and eleven other jurors. Hanks and Lincoln lived together in 1818.

GLC08234

Carte de visite [Portrait of Richard Yates].

Inscribed on verso: "to W. H. H. Alden from the Governor".

GLC08235

to William T. Sherman

Accepting an invitation.

GLC08236.02

to B. W. Belscher

Taylor, a captain in the Sussex Light Dragoons, relays an order from General Walter Gwynn regarding administrative actions in preparation for the next day's secession vote by the Virginia Convention.

GLC08237

[Dispatch of 27 July 1861].

Reporting that Union troops were between him and General Jones. Countersigned by General Pierre G. T. Beauregard, who adds a pemcil note that forces were sent against the Union troops, who unfortunately already were retreating 4

GLC08238.01

[Materials associated with General Pierre G. T. Beauregard].

Penciled notes on the verso of an autograph document signed with a secretarial letter written to Jefferson Davis from the Second Battle of Bull Run. With a carte-de-visite of Beauregard and a pair of partly printed checks, dated 1869 and 1870, signed...

GLC08239

[Discussion of troop returns with Confederate Generals James Chesnut and Beverly H. Robertson].

Penciled notes on an ADS of troop return.

GLC08239.01

[Carte de visite of General Pierre G. T. Beauregard].

GLC08239.02

[Signed checks].

Pair of partly printed checks, dated 1869 and 1870, signed on verso by Miles

GLC08239.03

to Jefferson Davis

Secretarial letter to Jefferson Davis reporting on his need for reinforcements during the Battle of Second Bull Run. Signed by Beauregard.

GLC08239.04

[Hiram Berry materials].

Berry's eyewitness report of the Battle of Yorktown and a carte de visite of Berry.

GLC08240