August 1862

Beauregard, G.T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893

Autograph document signed

Title: 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

17 April 1862

Berry, Hiram Gregory, 1824-1863

Header Record

Title: [Hiram Berry materials].

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

GLC08240

17 April 1862

Berry, Hiram Gregory, 1824-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to R. H. Sawyer

Brigadier General Hiram Berry writes to Captain R. H. Sawyer to tell him of the Battle of Yorktown, where he was commander, 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 3rd Corps, Army of the Potomac.

GLC08240.01

08 June 1861

Letcher, John, 1813-1884

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Jefferson Davis

Written as Governor of Virginia to Jefferson Davis to send him details on the guages and capacity of the Danville Rail Road and other Virginia lines.

GLC08241

20 December 1783

Revolutionary War poems

Header Record

Title: [Collection of 2 printed rebus poems]. Decimalized.

GLC08255

06 October 1795

Adams, Thomas, fl. 1795

Autograph document signed

Title: [Certificate of marriage for Mingo and Dinah Night]

Records the marriage of Mingo and Dinah Night, "free black people."

GLC08257

15 October 1831

Vinton, John, fl. 1831

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his mother

Vinton, a captain of a northern regiment assisted in the suppression of Nat Turner's slave rebellion: "I doubt if any active movement against the slaves will be necessary...[They] however are irresponsible and reckless and it is difficult to foresee to what a blind desperation might prompt them...."

GLC08258

circa 1960

New Orleans Citizens Council

Broadside

Title: Don't Buy A Ford Ever Again. From the New Orleans Citizens Council: To All White Citizens.

Racist New Orleans broadside promoting a boycott of Ford Motor Co.'s support of the Civil Rights movement.

GLC08259

5 April 1884

Brown, John Jr., 1821-1895

Autograph letter signed

Title: to F. B. Sanborn

Transmittal letter returning proofs not included to John Brown's biographer, correcting events and names of participants at Pottawatomie Creek. He states that his brother, Frederick, "did not have a hand in the execution of those men, though thought it right and just they should be killed."

GLC08260

January 15, 1873

Brown, Mary Ann Day, 1816-1884

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Jason Brown and Ellen Brown

John Brown's wife writes to her son and daughter from the family homestead. She comments on erecting " a good iron fence...around...the memorial to your father's grave...." Also details sibling activities and spring livestock.

GLC08261

January 24, 1895

Thompson, Ruth Brown, 1829-1904

Autograph letter signed

Title: to F.B. Sanborn

John Brown's daughter assisting his biographer in locating various siblings of Brown because "yours is a perfect truthful history of him and his deeds."

GLC08262

February 2, 1885

Brown, Jason, 1823-1912

Autograph letter signed

Title: to F.B. Stanton

John Brown's son and "Bleeding Kansas" companion apologizes for lack of funds because of hard times and asks for additional advance for Brown family land purchase.

GLC08263

31 May 1861

Floyd, John Buchanan, 1806-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Jefferson Davis

Recommends to Confederate President Davis the appointments for Henry Heth, John Pegram, Alexander W. Reynolds and Gabriel C. Wharton, all of whom became Confederate generals. Docketed "Confidential, Genl Cooper."

GLC08264

26 October 1861

Walker, Daniel, fl. 1861

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Walker, a Confederate Private, 7th Tennessee Infantry, was stationed at Centerville, Virginia. He describes the Union defeat at Ball's Bluff (Leesburg, Virginia), and the justification for the Southern cause: "we routed them completely...we sunk several of their boats. Our loss was very few...we will survive on our laws...for it is just holy and true."

GLC08265

29 August 1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Describing relocation of hospital facilities from Mt. Jackson to Staunton, Virginia, reporting Lee's military reinforcement of General Imboden and Colonel Jackson's protection of the General Hospital. "We have had a great deal of excitement here about the Yankees, Oh, I tell you most every thing in the shape of a man has been out with his musket ready for them...". Incomplete.

GLC08266

07 December 1863

Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870

Autograph document signed

Title: General Orders No. 133

Proclaims the following Thursday as a day of fast and "sincere prayers for future guidance and protection."

GLC08267

10 July 1863

Weidemeyer, John, fl. 1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his wife

Confederate Captain Weidemeyer of the 6th Missouri Infantry describes the defeat and surrender at Vicksburg: "I am not satisfied that we should have surrendered...". He also describes offensive movement of troops under Lee.

GLC08268

17 October 1864

Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Pegram

Confederate General Early sends General Pegram an order for a two day delay of troop movements at Cedar Creek. Though Early routed the VII and XIX Army Corps two days later, the delay gave General Sheridan time to arrive and reinforce the Union position.

GLC08269

circa 1864

Schumpert, Amos K., fl. 1864

Header Record

Title: [Collection of 6 letters from a Georgia officer to his wife.] [Decimalized .01- .06]

Schumbert, a Georgia officer and plantation owner, writes six letters to his wife describing daily activities and detailing futile Confederate military efforts, under the command of General Meloy, to turn back Sherman's forces: "[I]t seems that we cannot check the Yankies anywhere."

GLC08270

September 1862

Frontz, William, fl. 1862

Broadside

Title: [Poster for missing Union officer].

Hughsville, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania "Information Wanted" poster for missing Orderly Sargent Richard A. Sanders, Co. F, 106th Pennsylvania Volunteers, wounded during the Antietam campaign at the Battle of Sharpsville.

GLC08271

28 July 1862

Satterlee, George, fl. 1862

Broadside

Title: [Army of the Potomac Volunteer Memento].

Multi-colored sheet music containing Union private Co. A 104th New York Volunteers soldier's letter regarding friendly fire deaths.

GLC08272

February 21, 1862

Loomis, Richard B., fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Private Loomis of Co. H. 21st Massachusetts Volunteers describes in detail the capture of Roanoke Island, North Carolina, under the command of General Foster.

GLC08273

10 April 1862

Angiers, Frank, fl. 1862

Autograph letter

Title: to Mrs. Frank Angiers

Union private, Co. B., 52nd Illinois Volunteers, describes the Battle of Shiloh: "Our loss is very heavy but the enemy's exceeds our 3 to 1."

GLC08274

09 October 1863

Barnum, Theodore H., fl. 1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lori

Barnum, of the Sutler Department, 8th Conn. Volunteers, Army of the James, Portsmouth, Virginia, writes about the local slave population and African-American troops: "There are two are three Negro Regts close by here. The white soldiers don't like them much...".

GLC08275

circa 1864-1865

Work, Henry Clay, fl. 1864-1865

Broadside

Title: Marching Through Georgia.

Famous anthem celebrating Sherman's 1864 march from Atlanta to Savannah. Publisher unknown.

GLC08276