23 May 1863

Fred, fl. 1861-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his father

Written by a Union sailor aboard the USS "Morse". References his father's letter. Says that last Saturday "the mail boat was coming up and the rebels fired into her with field pieces and struck twice, and we got under way and went down and by the time we got there they had gone under[.] the captain was so mad he order us to shell all the houses on the bank of the river and we did to I tell you we fired all that afternoon ... then we went ashore and set all the buildings afire. I tell you we had some fun we burnt one house full of splendid furniture." Says he burned down 3 barns full of ham,…

GLC08658

1802

Callender, Tom, fl. 1802

Pamphlet

Title: Letters to Alexander Hamilton, king of the Feds

GLC08659

25 March 1864

Dielman, George W., fl. 1864

Document signed

Title: [Certificate in favor of a substitute soldier]

GLC08661

29 February 1776-6 March 1776

Hall, Samuel, 1740-1807

Newspaper

Title: New-England chronicle, or the Essex gazette. [Vol 8, no. 396, (February 29 to March 6, 1776)]

Includes a call for female nurses needed for the Continental hospitals. " ... Wanted for the General Hospital, a number of Nurses for the houses at Cambridge and Roxbury, the preference will be given to Boston and Charlestown women, and some men labourers, as assistant to nurses ... " Also prints the proceedings of the Admiralty Court and news from London including the, "Government Plan of Negotiation with America." Printed by Samuel Hall.

GLC08663

24 March 1864

Harris, Thomas H., fl. 1864-1865

Printed document

Title: [General order no. 31 regarding the designation of African American troops]

Lists numerical designations for troops of African descent. Issued by Thomas H. Harris, Lieutenant Colonel and Assistant Adjutant General, by order of Major General Stephen Augustus Hurlbut. Established by the order of Lorenzo Thomas, Adjutant General of the United States Army. Issued from headquarters of the 16th Army Corps.

GLC08664

1884

Pillsbury, Parker, 1809-1898

Book

Title: Acts of the anti-slavery apostles.

Printed by Cuppley, Upham & Co. Contains biographical chapters on William Lloyd Garrison and Nathaniel Peabody Rogers. Subsequent chapters cover a history of anti-slavery in America, including a discussion of other individuals active in the cause (including Stephen Symonds Foster and Frederick Douglass).

GLC08666

1861

Pamphlet

Title: The Constitution of the state of Texas.... [and] of the Confederate States...

Printed by John Marshall

GLC08669

1862

West Viriginia General Assembly

Book

Title: Acts of the General Assembly, Passed at the Regular Session, Held December Second, 1861, at the City of Wheeling

Printed at the Daily Press Book and Job Office. These acts were passed to set up West Virginia as a state. Pages 3-91 contain the various acts with descriptive summaries printed in smaller font in the margin next to the pertinent text. Each act is marked as a chapter and the book contains 89 of them with numbered sections describing the various parts of each act. Pages 93-98 contain 13 numbered joint resolutions. Pages 99-101 consist of a table for the various times and places of the circuit courts. Pages 103-111 contain an index. Original covers.

GLC08670

1861-1865 ca.

Charles Taber & Co., fl. 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: [Carte de visite portait of William Lloyd Garrison]

GLC08672

28 May 1864

Envelope

Title: Civil war patriotic envelope with cartoon: A Rebel attack on Pickin's

GLC08674

18 October 1773

Gill, John, 1732-1785

Newspaper

Title: The Boston gazette and country journal. [No. 667 (October 18, 1773)]

Contains a newspaper editorial probably written by Samuel Adams concerning Parliament's new tea tax and the plan to send tea ships of the East India Company to America. Signed by the pseudonym "Praedicus." Adams often used pseudonyms for the articles he wrote for the Gazette. Also includes a list of letters remaining unclaimed in the post office and other public notices and sales. Includes some news from London, Quebec, New York, and Boston.

GLC08675

circa 1863

Pamphlet

Title: An Appeal to the Federal Soldiers

Written by "A New Englander, Now A Confederate Soldier." Dated from first line: "Two years of our sanguinary conflict..." Says he is going to lay aside "weapons of strife" and reason together on the lessons the war can teach. Says it was ill-will and sectional prejudice that led to the South's secession. Claims "Slavery was the apparent, though not the real cause of the war. That real cause lay in the diveristy of our interests." Claims the differences between urban commercialism and agrarian staple production caused the war. Says "Your politicians seized upon abolitionism as a convenient…

GLC08676

1865

Confederate States of America

Document

Title: Negro passport

Blank form, printed for Richmond, Virginia. Includes sections for the names of the person passing and the official who issues the pass. Also includes space for age, height, and "color" of the person passing.

GLC08677

1 October 1863

Mason, E.E., fl. 1863

Document signed

Title: [Receipt regarding a slave named John]

Sheriff William H. Preas, from Bedford County, Virginia, sends a slave named John to work on fortifications near Lynchburg. By order of Colonel W. H. Stevens, Chief Engineer. Signed by Mason as First Lieutenant, Engineers.

GLC08678

5 November 1862

Myers, Frederick, fl. 1862

Letter signed

Title: to Captain [Pitkins]

Mentions [General George] McClellan and "fatigued horses."

GLC08679

30 August 1831

Woodward, Thomas Green, 1789-1850

Newspaper

Title: Connecticut herald. [Vol. 28, no. 41 (August 30, 1831)]

Includes excerpts of letters regarding Nat Turner's Rebellion, claiming that more than 58 whites have been killed, and that the uprising consists of between 150 and 300 participants armed with "fowling-pieces, clubs, &c." A list of white victims is included. A commentary opines that northern enouragement of such revolts can do no good and will only "render one portion of our country a vast aceldma of blood." Also: a lengthy statement by Vice President John C. Calhoun regarding "the Tariff" and its division of the United States into two separate sections, North and South.

GLC08681

28 July 1864

Cobb, Thomas, fl. 1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to dear Friends

Cobb was a captain in the Union Army and participated in the Battle of Atlanta. Describes the military activities occurring from 22-28 July 1864. Writes that there is more and more fighting everyday but that his division has not yet been closely engaged. Informs that the Army of the Tennessee, the 15th, 16th, and 17th artillery, have done the most fighting and fought on 22 July. The Army of the Cumberland fought the battle of the 20th. Writes that Union General Oliver O. Howard has taken command from General James B. McPherson who was killed on 22 July. Believes that Confederate…

GLC08683

circa 1864

Object

Title: [Election of 1864 Abraham Lincoln campaign shield]

Heraldic gold shield with photograph of Abraham Lincoln in center. With loop at top for hanging.

GLC08684

1863 ; 1940s

War Photograph & Exhibition Company

Photograph

Title: On the battlefield at Gettysburg

A stereocard of the Patriot Publishing Company. Description of the photograph reads "A group of Union dead on the right of the federal lines on the first days' fight, July 1, 1863. These soldiers were killed by one discharge of "cannister" from a Rebel gun during a charge. "Cannister" is a tin can filled with small balls about the size of a marcle. When the cannon is fired the force of the discharge bursts open the can, and the shower of canniseter balls sweeps everything before it." This stereocard reproduced is the 1940s

GLC08685

1779

Hamilton, A. Jr., fl. 1769-1785

Magazine

Title: Town and country magazine or Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction and Entertainment for the Year 1779. [Vol 11, (1779)]

11th annual volume of a periodical journal that resembles the Gentleman's Magazine and London Magazine in format and style. 12 monthly issues plus supplement for 1779 containing reports on the War of Independence. Issues are not bound together. Includes many engraved plates. Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr. The March issue reprints the Declaration of Independence (p.148-150), and the April issue the Articles of Confederation (p. 206-209).

GLC08686

1781

Henry, David, 1710-1792

Magazine

Title: The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle. [Vol. 51 (1781)]

Accounts of historical news and occurrences throughout the empire, the world and the American colonies. 12 issues plus supplement for 1781 containing reports on the war and news from America, plus a report with fold-out copper plate of "American Stoves" invented by Benjamin Franklin (p. 453-454). Issues are not bound together.

GLC08687

January 17, 1774

Dunlap, John, 1747-1812

Newspaper

Title: Pennsylvania Packet or the general advertiser. [Vol. 3, no. 117 (January 17, 1774)]

Prints on page two an account on the manumission of slaves calculating what the estimated costs would be to pay for the manumission of all slaves in the Colony. Also includes news from New York, Boston, and Philadelphia and public postings.

GLC08689

January 24, 1778

Wilkie, J., fl. 1757-1823

Newspaper

Title: The London chronicle. [Vol. 43, no. 3298 (January 24, 1778)]

Contains new of the Revolutionary War, debates in the House of Commons, the House of Lords, literary essays, and local London news.

GLC08690

30 November 1782

Dunlap, John, 1747-1812

Newspaper

Title: Pennsylvania packet or the general advertiser. [Vol. 11, no. 970 (November 30, 1782)]

Prints a proclamation made by the President and Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania concerning keeping Sunday as a holy day, the "Lord's Day." Reports on new regulations for the Quartermaster's department on p. 2 including officers to be appointed, and the pay and supplies given for the different ranks. Also prints "An Act to Prevent any New Independent State within the limits Commonwealth," on p. 3, first column, which states that any attempt to form a new government within the state will be considered treason.

GLC08691

12 April 1792

Freneau, Philip, fl. 1791-1793

Newspaper

Title: National gazette. [Volume 1, no. 48]

Reprints the 24 October 1791 act of Congress entitled "An act establishing a mint, and regulating the coins of the United States." This act specified the coinage that would be provided by the newly established United States Mint and the salaries of each of the employees of the Mint.

GLC08692