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to [Genet?] re: "measure consequence to Citizen Genet"

GLC06706

to James Duane re: naval battle of Enterprise and Boxer, with FF

Discusses the naval battle of Enterprise and Boxer. "No heart is more rejoiced than mine at these mortifications of English pride." Docketed. Written in Monticello

GLC06708

to Patrick K. Rogers re: University of Virginia opening delayed

Jefferson writes that the general opening of the University will be delayed to 1821. Dr. Cooper may open a school of philosophy, chemistry, mineralogy and law. Written in Monticello

GLC06709

Bill for his ride to New York and Philadelphia announcing the Suffolk resolves

The document, "The Town of Boston to Paul Revere," lists travel from Boston to New York, New York to Philadelphia, and his time, for a total of 55 pounds, 3 shillings and 6 pence. There are two pen-strokes of letters at the top of the document.

GLC06711

to Gov. of Virginia re: transmitting acts of Congress

Acts involve land grants, protection of frontiers, militias, debt relief, duties on spirits, national defense, altering Treasury and War Departments, copper coinage, governing territories, etc.

GLC06712

to Persifor F. Smith re: Mexican War, brevets, discusses his role in the battles

Discusses Beauregard's role in Mexican War battles. He complains about only receiving two brevets saying: "Give unto Caesar what is Caesar's."

GLC06715

to Frank J. Kozicki re: Anfa hotel plans, Casablanca conference site Jan. 1943

The printed plan of the hotel, signed simply "Winston Churchill." Accompanied by a cover letter from Churchill's secretary, Kozicki's (damaged) request to FDR and a negative response from FDR's secretary, Grace Tully.

GLC06716

to Mr. Clemint re: an obituary

"Please keep my impressionistic prose as it is."

GLC06718

to John H. Houston re: political turmoil in Tenn. after election of 1824

Describing the turmoil in Tennesse (his home state), he comments "Political firment at home." He also notes that "Miss M." concluded to defer matters until fall.

GLC06719

to Judge Peters re: thanks for Biddle's address on agriculture

A wonderful letter written in the third person, signed at the beginning and in initials at the end. "Mr. Biddle has justly noticed their mass of excellent sense and admirable practice disfigured by a fantastical mixture of superstition and...

GLC06720

to Mr. Bayley re: plan to liberate his slaves, colonization, personal matters

Written to Mr. Bayley in England. Discusses his plans for colonizing his freed slaves in Haiti or Liberia. Lafayette also mentions the Catholic emancipation bill, etc.

GLC06721

Cavalry tactics: or Regulations for the instruction... of the cavalry

[Full title] "Cavalry Tactics: or regulations for the instruction, formations, and movements of the cavalry" by Philip St. George Cooke. Edition printed by Lippincott, 1862. Signed by Brown as member of Co. K., 1st Cavalry, 7th regiment Kansas...

GLC06724

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

GLC06726

Archive relating to the Freedman's Bureau, in Beaufort, SC [decimalized. 01-.11]

GLC06727

G.O. no. 3 re: taking advantage of freed slaves

GLC06727.01

Circular re: freed slaves and the evils of idleness

Signed by George Merrill.

GLC06727.02

G.O. no. 6 re: freedman's claims on plantation property owned by former master

Claims made by freed slaves on the plantation property owned by their former masters. Signed by George Merrill.

GLC06727.03

Circular re: no rations to freed slaves who refused to work

Signed by E.W. Hooper

GLC06727.04

G.O. no. 1 re: court martial of Union captain who attacked a freed woman

Countersignature is illegible.

GLC06727.05

Circular no. 6 re: law concerning captured plantations operated by former slaves

GLC06727.06

Circular to freed slaves, thanksgiving for victory at the Battle of Gettysburg

GLC06727.07

Blank form for plantation purchases

Regarding Negro wages etc.

GLC06727.08

Circular no. 7 re: shelter for colored refugees

GLC06727.09

Circular no. 3 re: distribution of property of newly freed slaves

GLC06727.10

Circular no. 4 re: regulations dealing with the labor of former slaves

GLC06727.11

[Collection of John F. Weeks, K company, 36th regiment, Illinois, infantry] [decimalized .001-.143]

The John F. Weeks collection consists of approximately seventy-five letters written by Weeks to his family during his service. These letters include accounts of the battles of Pea Ridge, Perryville, Stone River, and Mission Ridge. Along with...

GLC06728

to Sarah [Mason]

Writes that she attended a New Year's Eve party. Reports that she has been employed as a second cook for the Newburg Asylum and is enjoying her employment.

GLC06728.001

to his parents

Writes that seven confederate spies have been caught and are being held in the guardhouse. Reports that General Fremont has left to cut off reinforcements from Price and McCulloch at Lexington. Writes that he is at the location where Col. Franz...

GLC06728.002

to his parents

Reports that some of the soldiers of the company are ill but not dangerously. Describes his uniform equipment, and food at camp. Writes that a prisoner, a lieutenant of Brig. General James McBride was brought in. Prisoners are often brought in and...

GLC06728.003

to his parents

Writes that there are fifty prisoners digging trenches to place cannons in. Also includes a letter written October 31st. Hs just returned from regimental review. Writes that he would like to become a member of the Free Masons; and would welcome...

GLC06728.004

to his sister Etta

Reports that fifteen prisoners were caught and sent to headquarters for examination. Describes how picket guard is done. Writes that it will cost one dollar to get his picture taken. Written at Camp Rolla

GLC06728.005

to his parents

Writes that he is just recovering from the measles and is feeling "morbid". Reports that General Sigel is camped close by with six thousand men. Also reports that Major General Alexander Asboth is at Gasconade with many men. Written at Camp Rolla

GLC06728.006

to his family

Writes that he is feeling better, though he still can't speak aloud. Reports that three companies of infantry went to Salem to clear a band of rebels. There is rumor that General Price has been replaced but the rumor has not been confirmed. Writes...

GLC06728.007

to his parents

Feels it will be impossible for him to get furlough or discharged. Reports that the colonel is under arrest for fraud and the chaplain for collecting two months wages more than was due to him. Two lieutenants and the Quarter Master are also under...

GLC06728.008

to his brother Edgar Wright and sister Lydia Wright

Writes that General Wyman of the 14th Illinois has command of the post. Reports that Sigel and Asboth's divisions are also there. Describes how he spent New Year's Eve with lots of food sent to the soldiers from Illinois.Written at Camp Rolla

GLC06728.009

to his parents

Writes that the regiment has received two six-mule teams per company, some of which are secesh property. Had a New Year's feast of courtesy of the friends of Illinois. Compares prices of produce in Illinois to produce prices in Rolla, Mo. Writes...

GLC06728.010

to his parents

Writes that he will be marching to Springfield, about 70 miles from his present location, to "bag old Price". Also includes a newspaper clipping reporting that the 36th Illinois has left for the West.

GLC06728.011

Letters of soldier in 9th Alabama infantry

111 wardate plus 62 reconstruction and postwar letters.

GLC06729

to Samuel Barron re: U.S.S. Kearsage off the port side

"The Kearsage is off the port, which I understand of course, as a challenge." Also he deposited four and a half sacks of gold sovereign in Cherbourg.

GLC06730

to Edward E. Preble re: letter of recommendation for him, praising his bravery

Praising Preble for action under fire in the battle between Kearsage and Alabama.

GLC06731

re: criticizing the KKK but without it the no white lady would be safe in Ala.

With envelope.

GLC06732

to Craig Langford re: Kentucky master negotiating sale of family to former slave

The former slave wants to buy his wife and daughter out of slavery. According to GLC 6733.04, Liberty may be Craig's father.

GLC06733.01

to Craig Langford re: negotiating sale of family to former slave

"I would give you more time... but I do not know at what time James may be here and run some of them off and sell them..."

GLC06733.02

Extending deadline to raise the money

GLC06733.03

to Jesse Stubbs re: helping fugitive slaves escape (the Langford family)

GLC06733.04

Printed biography mentioning the Langford story

Some details vary.

GLC06733.05

[Collection of Halleck Armstrong, field and staff, 50th regiment, Pennsylvania, infantry]

Civil War date letters, including span during time of Lincoln's assassination

GLC06734

Resolutions by the Mississippi legislature on the advent of secession

GLC06735

The Public laws of Georgia passed in the extra session in March 1864

This is the "Waters" pamphlet.

GLC06736

Pardon of former Confederate naval pirate, John N. Maffit

Countersigned by William H. Seward. Accompanied by a Certification of Maffit's oath taking

GLC06737

Diaries while serving in the Union Army Telegraph Corps [photos in .02 for cons] [decimalized .01-.09]

Diaries housed in Primary: Range 3B, Shelf 1-2.

GLC06738

Large albumen photographs taken by Memphis photographer Taft

Photographs taken from life by Memphis photographer Taft, beginning with Admiral Porter's flagship U.S.S. Blackhawk, also the U.S.S. Tyler, U.S. Navy gun Bat Brown, the Memphis & St. Louis packet boat "The City of Alton," the U.S.S. Fawn, the U.S...

GLC06739

Photograph album of British General Sir Charles Hastings Doyle

General U. S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac at Cold Harbor and City Point in 1864. Album of Large photographs all taken in the field by Mathew Brady's studio. The album was assembled by British General Sir Charles Hastings Doyle, who was sent...

GLC06740

to Matthew Buckle re: requesting meeting to prevent war between Cherokee peoples

Attempting to stop war between two Cherokee tribes.

GLC06741.01

to the Chiefs of the Cherokee Nation re: invitation to the national convention

Written by George Guess, Tobacco Wile, David Melton, and Looney Price on behalf of the Old Settlers.

GLC06741.03

to Cols. Waitie, Drew, and McIntosh re: "defence of the Indian County"

GLC06741.04

to John T. McKenzie re: Chickasaw women; prospect of marriage

"...I envy you not when I think of my charming little Chickasaw--a perfect paragon of beauty and excellence...the Queen of the forest....I think by properly managing the affair I can lur Miss Mattie into a marriage contract and thus complete my fame...

GLC06741.05

Proposals to engage waggons and teams to assist in the removal of the...

[title continued] Chickasaw Indians west of the Mississippi. With table containing list of names and numbers of horse/ox teams.

GLC06741.06

Tally of Indians moving from Little Rock to Fort Towson

Covers the period of May 4th through July 16th, with separate total for teamsters rations.

GLC06741.07

Account of Vanderslice's expenditures during Chickasaw emigration

Vanderslice was Assisant Superintendent and Conductor in the emigration of the Chickasaw Indians.

GLC06741.08

Certification re: delivery of 175 Chickasaw Indians and their belongings

Delivered via the ship "Itasca."

GLC06741.09

to Benjamin Rush re: support for US in War of 1812

Writing from retirement, Adams writes to his friend Rush on a variety of topics, especially the War of 1812. This letter was written one month after the United States declared war on Great Britain. "I believe with you that Wars are the natural and...

GLC06742

Boston evening post. Supplement [printing Boston Port Act]

Slight text loss to newspaper banner at top.

GLC06743

New York Journal. Supplement. "Last Night arrived an Express..."

Reprints an eyewitness account of the battle of Bunker Hill. Printed by John Holt.

GLC06744

Confederate imprints: mostly handbills and pamphlets, mostly Confederate laws [decimalized]

GLC06745

John Hancock and British Revolutionary letters [decimalized]

GLC06746

to unknown re: relaying Gage's opinion that 32,000 troops are needed

Relaying Gage's opinion that 32,000 troops are needed to suppress to suppress the rebellion in North America Written in Bushy Park.

GLC06746.01

to unknown re: ship construction in Philadelphia

Signed "Sandwich." Montague was Earl of Sandwich.

GLC06746.02

to unknown re: Burgoyne and Carleton

Germaine was Viscount Sackville.

GLC06746.03

Promissory note to Ms. Margaret Tidmarsh for 300 pounds

GLC06746.04

to Edmund Pendleton re: Russo-Turkish fighting, Adams & Jay [incomplete]

Incomplete and damaged letter. Oblong. Mentions departure of John Adams and John Jay for London.

GLC06748

to Thomas Jefferson re: requesting assistance [in French]

GLC06749.02

to Philip Mazzei re: introduction of Dr. Barton, promising news of War of 1812

Introducing Dr. Barton, then on a European tour, who "will be able to communicate to you the events of the late war." Mazzei was at that time residing at Pisa. Written just three weeks after the ratification of the Treaty of Ghent. Written in...

GLC06750

to [John Henry Sheburne] re: the art of portraiture

Returning a portrait of John Paul Jones by Charles Willson Peale (neither named in the letter) which he borrowed. Jefferson comments "I do not wonder that Commodore Dale and myself think differently of it's likeness to the same original. My opinion...

GLC06751

to John MacKay

A fine personal letter, written aboard the steamboat "Malta" on the Missouri River, commenting on various topics to his friend, Jack MacKay, whom he met at West Point. Lee comments on the Seminole War that "It is high time that they abandoned it...

GLC06752.01

[Carte de visite of General Robert E. Lee]

Photograph by Anthony, with McAllister & Bro,., Philadelphia logo. Imprint of Snyder, Black & Sturn, NY. Depicts a younger Lee in a retouched Virginia Volunteers uniform.

GLC06752.02

General Orders No. 102

Calling on the army to continue fighting, "A cruel army seeks to reduce ... [us] to abject slavery.... Let every man resolve... if need be, to die in defence of a cause so sacred, and worthy of the name won by this army on so many bloody fields."...

GLC06753

to Edmund Pendleton re: waiting foreign dispatches on peace talks; selling slave

Awaiting news of peace talks and personal advice regarding impossibility of selling a slave. Madison notes that while European newspapers "teem with paragraphs relative to pacific negotiations" but past British policy "should always restrain our...

GLC06757

to Stockdales re: Italian & German campaigns, Patton's death [decimalized]

Collection of materials written to Rene and Frank Stockdale, with a signed and dated 3-star general's flag (54 x 72.4 cm). The letters, written to two personal friends in Britain during the last eighteen months of World War II, chronicle Patton as...

GLC06760

to Renee & Frank Stockdale re: thanks for "the many courtesies"

Thanking the Stockdales for "the many courtesies which you two have rendered me and... the Third Army."

GLC06760.01

to Renee Stockdale re: a battle involving 15 US Divisions

Written twenty days before being appointed commander of the Third Army. He notes concerning that battle, involving 15 United States Army Divisions "all but two attacking. Tonight... we may lick him."

GLC06760.02

to [Renee & Frank Stockdale] re: thanks for letter, secrecy in correspondence

Thanking Renee Stockdale for her letter received, and stating that "owing to the requirements of secrecy," he is "unable to write more."

GLC06760.03

to Renee Stockdale re: asking her to send his three stars

GLC06760.04

to Renee Stockdale re: sending piece of parachute silk

Sending Renee Stockdale a souvenir piece of parachute silk "given to me by a member of a crew of one of our bombers which was forced down"

GLC06760.05

to Renee & Frank Stockdale re: frustration at not being able to fight the enemy

"Just a note... to say that the Third Army is not dead just sleeping.... We are fed up with not fighting."

GLC06760.06

to Frank Stockdale re: beginning of major assault on the Seigfried line

"We have just started an assault on the Seigfried line this minute...." The "Seigfried line" protected the German homeland from the west. With written postscript.

GLC06760.07

to Frank Stockdale re: battle of the Bulge, expecting German withdrawal

A prophetic note, preceding by one day the German withdrawal of the 6th SS Panzer Division from the Battle of the Bulge. Patton writes in part: "We have been attacking him and I believe that we now have him on the run."

GLC06760.08

to Frank Stockdale re: latest operation, liberating towns and capturing Germans

Patton writes in part: "Our last operation has been the best... we have taken 6000 odd square miles of Germany, liberated or captured 3000 towns... captured over 140,000 prisoners and killed or wounded over 90,000 Germans, for the complete...

GLC06760.09

to Frank Stockdale re: progress of 3d Army, now at the Danube

Patton writes in part: "As usual, the 3rd Army has been wiggling around like a snake.... Whoever said the Danube was blue is a damn liar." He notes that a "whole division surrendered to us this morning." With envelope signed by Patton.

GLC06760.10

to Frank Stockdale re: dull peace; his request for transfer to Pacific rejected

Written shortly after the rejection of his request for transfer to the Pacific war (now that Germany had surrendered), Patton finds "Life here is very fatiguing, but not very exciting. I am going to... reviews and inspections... which takes a lot of...

GLC06760.11

to Frank Stockdale re: campaigning

(Out of order.) Patton writes that he cannot say where he is (due to confidentiality): "While it is impossible for me to give details... if you look carefully at a map you can guess damn well where it is." With envelope signed by Patton. With...

GLC06760.12

to Renee Stockdale re: news that Patton will be crippled from car accident

Conveying a surgeon's opinion that Patton would survive the injuries suffered in a car accident, although without the ability to walk. Gaffey writes in part "It seems unfair that a man who had gone through as much as he had during the war should be...

GLC06760.13

to Frank Stockdale re: thanks for gift

Expressing his gratitude for a gift from the Stockdales and wishing Renee a "speedy recovery." With envelope signed by Patton.

GLC06760.14

to Frank Stockdale re: tedium of waiting

Patton complains "this waiting has been tedious, but now we are about tot try to carry the ball some more." With envelope signed by Patton.

GLC06760.15

to Frank Stockdale re: unable to visit

Patton promises to come visit, but must delay because "something happened the other day which means that we will keep on fighting violently." With envelope signed by Patton.

GLC06760.16

to William Henry Harrison

Asks Harrison, then governor of the Indiana Territory, to help pass laws prohibiting the sale of alcohol to Indians, in hopes that it will remove a "great obstacle to their acquiring industrious habits." Also notes that the general government policy...

GLC07156

[John A. Gurley intends to establish a civil government for Arizona]

Signed by Lincoln on 11 July 1863. Brigadier General Edward Canby informs Major General Schofield that John A. Gurley, the Governor of Arizona, will be passing through the Missouri Territory. Requests that Schofield, stationed in Missouri, provide...

GLC07158

to Edmund Randolph

Signed with initials ("G.W.") President Washington states that a painful disorder prevented him from replying sooner to a letter from Randolph. Discusses the lottery of the deceased Colonel Byrd, stating that one of the associates of this lottery...

GLC07161

Appeal for prayer and thanksgiving "Union liberty and victory. Thanks to God"

Pottstown, Pa. printing by a local minister, rector George Latimer, of Lincoln's appeal for a day of prayer and thanksgiving after the fighting in the Wilderness

GLC07165

to Henry Knox re: Ordinance Department

Preparing for meeting between Washington and Knox. Three collateral engravings of Hamilton with letter.

GLC07167