April 11, 1842

Houston, Sam, 1793-1863

Manuscript letter signed

Title: to Edward Burleson

Houston, as President of the Republic of Texas, writes to Edward Burleson, the Vice President of Texas, about the security of Austin as Texas's capital. Considers the vulnerability of the archives of the Republic to attack, while they are kept in Austin. Advocates the removal of the Texas government from Austin to Houston, because Houston is much easier to defend, especially in the case of a war with Mexico. Declares that the "Constitution has reserved to the Executive the right to remove the offices when he may deem proper in time of war, for the security of the archives of the Government…

GLC01171

20 December 1836

Houston, Sam, 1793-1863

Document signed

Title: Republic of Texas land scrip for 320 acres [land grant]

Partly printed document on paper, numbered 95, for 320 acres, to Thomas Toby, a land agent. Countersigned by Secretary of Treasury Terry Smith. Houston, as noted in the printed document, has affixed his personal seal. With two dockets on verso by former owners: one 1837/04/18 New Orleans (illegible signature) assigning the scrip to Samuel Hewes and one 1837/04/23 New Orleans by Hewes assigning it to Edward Hay [?].

GLC01173

October 2, 1835

Austin, Stephen Fuller, 1793-1836

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Commander of Volunteers

Addressed to the Commander in Chief of Volunteers or to the Committee at Gonzales.

GLC01174

1865 ca.

Various

Header Record

Title: Carte de visite portrait of Richard Taylor, with later enlargement [Decimalized .01-.02]

Two bust portraits of Richard Taylor.

GLC01176

January 1865

Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant, 1818-1893

Manuscript document signed

Title: Special field order No.

Relieves General John B. Hood of his command of the Army of Tennessee at his own request. Assigns Lieutenant General Richard Taylor in his place. Written on printed stationery of the Head-Quarters, Military Division of the West. With pencil docket on verso possibly added at a later date.

GLC01177

January 23, 1865

Taylor, Richard, 1826-1879

Letter signed

Title: to George William Brent

Informs Colonel Brent of his appointment to the command of the Army of Tennessee and sends a copy of the orders. Informs that General John Bell Hood, the former commander of the army, left for Richmond.

GLC01178

26 November 1864

Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant, 1818-1893

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Special orders sent to William J. Hardee]

Indicates that Lieutenant General Richard Taylor will report to General Hardee in Savannah, Georgia until the "present emergency shall have passed." Taylor is ordered to inspect the condition of Major General Wheeler's cavalry.

GLC01179.01

1777/04/14

Hancock, John, 1737-1793

Broadside

Title: Resolution [revising act of Congress for governing troops]

Printed by Dunlap. Signed in type by John Hancock.

GLC01182

1777/09/28

Howe, William, 1729-1814

Broadside

Title: Proclamation offering protection to those who remain peaceably at home

Printed by James Humphreys, Junr. Printed at Philadelphia but issued from Howe's Head Quarters at Germantown.

GLC01183

1778/02/03

United States. Continental Congress.

Broadside

Title: Act: re: requiring officers to take oath of office

Signed in type by Charles Thomson. Prints the oath to be taken and describes the circumstances for taking the oath.

GLC01184

1863-1864

Leslie, Joseph, fl. 1863-1864

Diary

Title: [Diary of Joseph Leslie 18th regiment, Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company D]

Several pages in the diary have names and regiments of different officers from New York, Ohio, Michigan, etc., who were prisoners with him. Includes several pages of Libby Prison expenses/accounting of what he paid for crackers, paper, tobacco, bread, onions, soap, and other items. There are nine pages of Union and Confederate generals who died or were killed in action with their place of death including, Chantilly, Antietam, Gettysburg, Wilsons Creek, Shiloh, Manassas, Vicksburg, Corinth, Perryville, etc. At the back are 12 pages of poetry and verse Leslie composed while in Libby…

GLC01185

4 March 1861

J.A. Cowardin & Co., (publishers), fl. 1853-1880

Newspaper

Title: Richmond daily dispatch--extra. [no volume or number information (March 4, 1861)]

Same-day "Extra" printing of Lincoln's first inaugural address; the concluding portion of the speech is not printed. Also: Paragraph criticizing Lincoln for secretly passing through Baltimore (dubbed "Lincoln's pass over"). Report from Capt. Foster at Fort Moultrie; another report of 2 Dahlgren guns arriving in Charleston from Richmond, with more munitions on the way. On verso "Lincoln inaugural" is written in ink.

GLC01186

8 April 1865

Newspaper

Title: Selma union. [Vol. 1, no. 1 (April 8, 1865)]

Occupation newspaper printed by Union soldiers W.W. Van Antwerp and Theo. T. Scribner. Reports the capture of Selma and of the Chattanooga "Rebel" (newspaper) printing press.

GLC01187

13 December 1780

Pelkin, William, fl. 1770-1780

Autograph document signed

Title: to John Lawrence, Esq.

Countersigned vertically by Samuel Wyllys. Instructions to pay Colonel Elysha Sheldon five hundred continental dollars out of the public treasury for the expense of an express to General Washington. Numbered 5737 on verso. Endorsed by Sheldon on the verso.

GLC01412.64.01

25 March 1861

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Printed document signed

Title: [Lincoln's appointment of Joshua Reed Giddings as Consul General]

Also signed by William Henry Seward as Secretary of State. President Lincoln appoints former Ohio Representative Giddings to serve as Consul General of the United States for the British North American Provinces. Has a seal on bottom left corner.

GLC01413

1805/05/25

Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849

Printed document signed

Title: [Notice of an amendment to "An act for the more effectual preservation of peace in the ports and harbours of the United States, and in the waters under their jurisdiction"]

A circular letter signed by Secretary of the Treasury Gallatin and sent to Dudley Hobart, the collector of Bath, Maine. Instructs Hobart to enforce the amendment to the fourth section of the March 3, 1805 act, which empowered the president "to permit or interdict, at pleasure" any armed vessels from foreign nations entering America's ports and required all such vessels to submit a report outlining the reason for their arrival. Signed in type, "Approved, TH: JEFFERSON".

GLC01420

May 1780

Sevier, John, 1745-1815

Autograph endorsement signed

Title: [Indictment of Samuel Tate for damning Continental money]

Endorsed by Sevier on verso and signed by Edward Dunlap as the state's attorney on the front. North Carolina authorities bring charges against Tate for exclaiming "Damn this money it has ruined me and I will have none of it."

GLC01422

14 October 1783

Jackson, Henry, 1747-1809

Document signed

Title: [Certificate of capture]

Written by Jackson as Colonel of the 4th Massachusetts Regiment (he was breveted a Brigadier General on 30 September 1783). Countersigned by Thomas Ivers, Massachusetts State Treasurer on verso. Note on verso written by Major Moses Ashley on 12 January 1784. Jackson certifies the capture of Asa Whitney, William Powell, and Nathan Smith (alias Wait), deserters from the 4th Massachusetts Regiment, by Ashley. Says Ashley is entitled to the reward for their captured. Note on verso is a reminder to the government "to pay what I am entitled to." There are several dockets, one of which says the…

GLC01412.46

14 January 1779

Grayson, William, 1736-1790

Document signed

Title: [Legal agreement for sale of land]

Co-signed with William Trent on verso. Witnessed by Francis Lee, Cornelius C. Roosevelt, and an illegible name. Legal agreement made for the transfer of ownership of Indian land. Made between Colonel William Grayson, a wealthy Virginia landowner and Revolutionary hero of the Battle of Monmouth (and a future Congressman) and Major William Trent of New Jersey in which Trent will sell "Nine Hundred Shares or three Votes and the Lands which the said Nine Hundred Shares or three votes entitles a Person to in the Retribution Grant made by the Six Nations to their Traders at Fort Stanwix" in 1768.…

GLC01412.47

May 1, 1778

Pecker, James, fl. 1768-1778

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his children

Reports that he recently returned from the country, where he was confined for five weeks while sick, in addition to being sick for three weeks before that with small pox. He is now healthy again and sends love and good wishes to his family. Pecker was a surgeon serving in the 10th Massachusetts in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.

GLC01412.48

June 30, 1777

Pecker, James, fl. 1768-1778

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his children

Remarks that he is in good health and never had small pox. Mentions he has sent his son, Billy, to safety at Mount Independence and describes the approach of the enemy to Fort Ticonderoga, expecting a bloody battle the next day. The enemy army made up of "Britains Canadeans, & Tories" is described as strong and Perker is preparing to care for the wounded. He believes that "the case will be decided at this place for this year." Perker was a surgeon serving in the 10th Massachusetts in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. The 1777 Battle of Ticonderoga occurred on 5-6 July.

GLC01412.49

1 February 1780

Ceary, Owen, ?-1780

Document signed

Title: [Oath of allegiance for enlisting Maryland soldier]

Partly printed document signed. Ceary enlists in the "7th Maryland Regiment, of Foot Commande by Col. John Gunby for three years. Also signs below in receipt of a $450 bounty. Printed part of document states that a $200 bounty should be paid, but this is crossed out, and $450 written over it. Printed document also says the bounty comes from Congress, but writing says it also comes from Maryland. Verso states that Ceary was paid and is signed by Benjamin Johnson, a lieutenant colonel. A pencil note indicates he was killed at the Battle of Camden.

GLC01412.50

2 November 1776

Sever, William, fl. 1766-1776

Document signed

Title: [Agreement and appointment of William Sever]

Cosigned by William Sever, John Avery, and Timothy Foster. Witnessed by Alexander Gray and Seth Loring. Agreement in which Sever, Avery, and Foster are bound to Henry Gardner (Treasurer of Massachusetts) in the amount of ten thousand pounds, unless Sever accepts appointment as agent of the Southern District (Massachusetts). As agent to the Southern District, Sever disposed of prizes taken from captured British vessels.

GLC01412.51

May 15, 1777

Hancock, John, 1737-1793

Free frank

Title: to Thomas Johnson

The docket has been separated from the Free Frank (address leaf). Johnson was the governor of Maryland.

GLC01412.52

10 October 1772

Gage, Thomas, 1718-1787

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Commission of John Phillips as Fort Major at Castle William in Massachusetts]

Includes a square paper seal on top left corner. Castle William was a British garrison in the Boston Harbor.

GLC01412.53