13 May 1864

Martin, R.L., fl. 1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to family

Mentions Grant's refusal of Lee's flag of truce, the weather, and taking Richmond within a month. On verso of printed poem "The Battle of Gettysburg" by G.P. Hardwick. Written at Camp Stoneman.

GLC08447

January 22, 1862

Hickman, George, fl. 1862

Autograph letter signed

Title: [Letter on song sheet: "If I should fall in the glorious cause of liberty"]

Written on red, white and blue songsheet. Accompanied by two clippings.

GLC08448

14 December 1858

Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873

Document signed

Title: [Appointment of Representative John Sherman to Congress]

Partially printed document signed by Chase as Governor of Ohio. Certifies that Sherman was elected as a Representative in the 36th Congress of the United States from the 13th congressional district. Countersigned by A. P. Russell as Secretary of State. With orange seal of the state of Ohio. On blue paper.

GLC08449

4 July 1863

Harding, William W., 1830-1889

Newspaper

Title: The Philadelphia inquirer

Contains a map depicting events of the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, along with various reports on the battle, which took place 1-3 July 1863, ending with a Union victory. Includes reports on the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, which had continued through May and June of 1863, finishing 4 July 1863 with a Union victory. Reports on various Civil War generals and events. Also contains a map entitled "Carlisle, Pa. Bombarded by the Rebels, July 1st."

GLC08451

9 November 1864

Newspaper

Title: The World. [Vol. 5, no. 1367 (November 9, 1864)]

Reports on the re-election of Abraham Lincoln as president. Contains New York election results by county and reports from other states. Also makes reference to "Republican misrule." Prints an article on the capture of the pirate ship Florida by the U.S. steamer Wachusett. Includes news from Louisiana on white schools giving way to black schools, and a report on the Army of the Potomac.

GLC08456

30 August 1793

Varick, Richard, 1753-1831

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Alexandre Hauterive

Reports the seizure of three French deserters but is compelled to discharge them due to a lack of sufficient evidence.

GLC08457

1 September 1863

Graham, Harvey, 1827-?

Document signed

Title: to General John Alexander McClernand

Written from Benton Barracks, then on the outskirts of St. Louis. Graham, Lieutenant-Colonel of the 22nd Iowa Infantry Regiment, recalls events that took place 22 May during Union operations against Vicksburg, Mississippi. Relates that he had been on the right of Michael Kelly Lawler's Brigade, and that together they led an advance against the city. Writes "It is my firm conviction and belief, that had the 13th Army Corps been reinforced by a few brigades, thus enabling you to send support to the front, the success of your command would have been complete. As it was, success was achieved…

GLC08458.01

1888

Kurz & Allison

Print

Title: Siege of Vicksburg

Depicts the 13th, 15th, and 17th Corps, Army of the Tennessee, commanded by General Ulysses S. Grant, during the Battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi. The Mississippi River serves as background. Notes that Grant was assisted by Admiral David Dixon Porter. Copyrighted by Kurz and Allison in 1888.

GLC08458.02

18 September 1774

Hodge, Thomas, fl. 1774

Document signed

Title: [Transportation of convict to Virginia]

Assigns convict Thomas Morgan to serve a term of seven years beginning on 17 September 1774, the day the ship transporting him, the Taylor, arrives in Virginia.

GLC08459

1828

Binns, John, 1772-1860

Pamphlet

Title: Monumental Inscriptions.

8 images of fictitious funeral monuments, each to a man executed by Jackson. The first six are for Tennessee militiamen executed in February 1815, after the Battle of New Orleans, for being deserters. The last two are for John Woods, a mutineer Jackson had executed during the Creek War. The imagined tombstones bear inscriptions detailing how each was a good man and soldier, and regardless of this, was "By the Orders of General Andrew Jackson, Shot to Death." Each monument was supposedly erected on 4 July, 1828. One reminds the reader "Let not the splendor of Military renown Blot out…

GLC08460

30 September 1874

Kellogg, Willliam Pitt, 1831-1918

Pamphlet

Title: Address of Governor Kellogg to the people of the United States on the condition of affairs in Louisiana, with official facts and figures.

Reconstruction address as Republican governor of Louisiana defending his administration from charges of mismanagement.

GLC08462

September 1865

Jumbo, Pluto, fl. 1865

Newspaper

Title: Black republican and office-holder's journal. [No. 4 (September 1865)]

Racist newssheet from New York, handwritten in dialect ridiculing republicanism, reconstruction and the freed slaves. Referring to President Andrew Johnson's reconstruction policies, states "De party must be up and stirring to head off Johnson's reconstruction. De highest price will be paid for new radical lies to be dewoted to dat loyal purpus."

GLC08463

1868

Republican Party

Broadside

Title: Vote the Flag [Mississippi election ticket]

GLC08464

1 July 1842

McKerny, John, fl. 1842

Document signed

Title: [Permission for slaves to work for their own profit]

Legal document permitting his two slaves, Samuel and Andrew, to work for themselves or any other person on Saturdays.

GLC08465

25 June 1744

Raymond, Joshua, fl. 1744

Document signed

Title: To the sheriff of New London County

Arrest of a Native American named Ben Garrit for disturbing the peace. Requests the sheriff search for Garrit and bring him before Raymond or another of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace within the County of New London to be properly dealt with according to the law. On verso is a note dated 25 July 1744 signed by Samuel Crandall stating that he has arrested Ben Garrit and brought him before Isaac Huntington, Justice of the Peace for New London County, Connecticut.

GLC08466

24 July 1863

Broadside

Title: Don't unchain the tiger!

Signed "A Democratic Workingman." German-American broadside supporting the Union cause, pleading with the public to keep peace in the north. Discourages lashing out at public officers and falling into the depths of crime and violence. Printed during the New York City Draft Riots. Sold by Sinclair Tousey at 121 Nassau Street, NYC. Refer to GLC08468 for German version.

GLC08467

24 July 1863

Broadside

Title: Entfesselt der Tiger nicht! = Don't Unchain the Tiger! [in German]

Signed "Ein Demokratischer Urbeiter," "A Democratic Worker." German-American broadside supporting the Union cause, pleading with the public to keep peace in the north. Discourages lashing out at public officers and falling into the depths of crime and violence. Printed during the New York City Draft Riots. See GLC08467 for English version.

GLC08468

circa 1880

Bogardus, A. (Abraham), 1822-1908

Photograph

Title: [Three-quarter seated portrait of Ulysses S. Grant]

Three-quarter length seated portrait of Grant in civilian dress. Ornately decorated column visible on his left and carved table on his right. Albumen print on thick black mount with rounded corners and gilded edges all around. Type inscribed on bottom of mount reads, "A. Bogardus & Co. 872 Broadway, corner 18th Street, New York." Alternate, clearer copy of GLC07808.044.

GLC08469

27 December 1864

Blair, D.F., fl. 1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his mother

Written on board the U.S.S. Mohican near Wilmington, North Carolina. Replies to his mother's letter from 11 December. Discusses the Mohican's participation with Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter's North Atlantic Blockading Squadron at the close of the Battle of Fort Fisher (24 and 25 December). Refers to a large gunpowder explosion. States that he does not know the extent of damage done to Confederates, whom he calls "the Secesh." Writes "It was the heaviest Bombardment that ever happened. Our continual Roar like the heaviest thunder & the smoke so thick at times to completely hide…

GLC08470.01

1865

Greeley & McElrath, 1841-1866

Pamphlet

Title: The border ruffian code in Kansas

A pro-Republican, free-soil pamphlet published by Horace Greeley's Tribune. "The character of the Code of pretended Laws enacted by the bogus Territorial Legislature of Kansas- a Legislature notoriously forced upon the people of that Territory, at the hands of invading ruffians from Missouri, using the persuasive arguments of the Bowie-Knife and Revolver- may be judged from the following extracts..." Many pages are disbound. Last page, on verso of fifteen, consists of a map of free and slave states.

GLC08471

14 February 1865

Confederate States of America. Congress

Printed document

Title: Amendment to the negro soldier bill

Invests the Confederate General-in-Chief with the power to call slaves in to military service. States that clothing and rations will be provided to slaves impressed or voluntarily offered for service by their owner. States "By Mr. Swan" (likely Confederate Congressman William Graham Swan). Contains a Rebel Archives stamp. Possibly created in Richmond, Virginia.

GLC08472

1863

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

Pamphlet

Title: [Message regarding govermental liability for the value of slaves who escaped while impressed]

Confederate President Davis's statement, issued 21 April 1863, reports "Whether the liability of the Government shall be extended to such cases is a question to be determined, not by the Executive, but by Congress." Includes communications from various Confederate governmental officials discussing the necessity of impressment and governmental liability for escaped slaves. The earliest statement is dated 14 February 1863. This printing includes no publisher information and was possibly previously bound within a larger volume.

GLC08473

19 February 1863-3 March 1863

Header Record

Title: Items pertaining to the 3rd Regiment, Louisiana Native Guards. [Decimalized .01-.04]

GLC08474

1864

Paxson, Charles, fl. 1864

Photograph

Title: Learning is wealth. Wilson, Charley, Rebecca, and Rosa

Subtitled "Wilson, Charles, Rebecca and Rosa. Slaves from New Orleans." Shows an older black man reading with three fair-skinned slave children. No. 6. Published by Charles Paxson, NY. Trimmed. (Other cartes in this series appear in the Brady album of cartes de visite, GLC04609.)

GLC08475

January 25, 1837

Taylor, E. W., fl. 1837

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Jeremiah Wilbur

Taylor, a Northerner who had moved to South Carolina and became a slave owner, explains his views on slavery and his willingness to fight for it. "If these matters are going to be carried so far as to the separation of the Union and blood must be spilt I fight for the South, & feel as though I could plunge the dagger to the heart almost of a brother in such a glorious cause. It would be for Liberty, Liberty." Believes abolitionists should leave well enough alone or the result might be the dissolution of the Union. Accuses abolitionists of being hypocrites and relays the story of a…

GLC08476