1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: [Items pertaining to Confederate General Dabney Herndon Maury]

GLC05012

12 October 1862

Pegram, John, 1832-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Carter L. Stevenson

Orders Stevenson to try to hold his ground as the Confederate army makes preparation to retreat from Kentucky "Gen Smith wishes you to obstruct the road if possible...In case you are forced to abandon the present position, fall back to the nearest good position, but it is hoped you will be able to defend the crossings...Gen. Bragg thinks it is of vital importance that the position should be maintained as arrangements are being made for falling back to East Tennessee." Written at 2:40 p.m., four days after the Confederate defeat at Perryville halted the Confederate invasion of Kentucky.…

GLC05013

22 July 1864

Price, Sterling, 1809-1867

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas C. Reynolds

Confederate General Price replies to a letter from Reynolds, Governor of Missouri, in which Reynolds asked whether Price would command an expedition into Missouri. Writes, "I consider such an expedition practicable, and in the contingency you suggest desirable and important." Price agrees to take command of the expedition if General Smith (possibly Edmund Kirby Smith) does not intend on taking possession of the Arkansas Valley. Transmits a copy of the St. Louis Democrat (not included) reporting Confederate possession of Platte City, Missouri. Of the possession, writes "It is significant…

GLC05014

17 February 1864

Roddey, Philip Dale, 1820-1897

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Braxton Bragg

Confederate General Roddey, commanding a cavalry brigade in the Army of Tennessee, reports that most of his brigade is at camp, and the remainder are in the Tennessee Valley. Informs Bragg, conducting Confederate military affairs in Richmond, Virginia, of the size and strength of his cavalry regiments. Urges Bragg to assume active command. Reports on the extensive distribution of several circulars urging Alabama citizens to support the Union. One circular is distributed by a Huntsville, Alabama citizen names D. C. Humphries (possibly David C. Humphreys, a known Union supporter from…

GLC05015

22 April 1864

Thompson, Meriwether Jeff, 1826-1876

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary G. Rogers

Thompson, a Confederate general taken as prisoner at Fort Delaware, writes to thank Rogers for a basket of "'goodies' such as only sweet ladies can make. ... which remind us of our dear homes in the days of 'piping peace' when Plenty and Happiness overspread our land, and before red-handed War had scattered Ruin and Desolations round our hearthstones." Petition style document signed by 11 Confederate officers (colonels) including Basil W. Duke, Hart Gibson, C.H. Morgan, Jas. J. Andrews, R.C. Morgan, Jno. A. Tomlinson, Cicero Coleman, Lucius H. Smith, W.W. Ward, Jas. Shecker, and Robert Vance…

GLC05016

4 May 1861

Ingraham, Duncan N., 1802-1891

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Captain Ingraham writes to a general who remains unnamed in this letter. States "I drop you a line to say we are all quiet here... Lincoln seems determined to carry it on..." Predicts that the Union will not attempt to invade the location of the recipient. Reports that he will soon travel to Charleston, South Carolina, to visit his family. Writes "I wish you could trick up a few more deserters, they will demoralize the command of our genialBrown..." Relates that a mutual acquaintance, Warden, is still held as a prisoner of war. Docket states "About Pensacola." Accompanied by paper…

GLC05017

5 January 1863

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

Broadside

Title: An Address to the People of the Free States by the President of the Southern Confederacy.

Contemporary fake on emancipation. Imprint, "Richmond Enquirer Print." A fictitious response of Jefferson Davis to the Emancipation Proclamation, threatening retaliation by enslaving Black people. It says in part "All negroes who shall be taken in any of the states in which slavery does not now exist, in the progress of our arms, shall be adjudged, immediately after such capture, to occupy the slave status, and in all states which shall be vanquished by our arms, all free negroes shall, ipso facto, be reduced to the condition of helotism...."

GLC05018

March 1862

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Incidents of the war. Fortifications on Heights of Centreville. No. 3. March 1862.

One photograph entitled, "Incidents of the war. Fortifications on Heights of Centreville. No. 3. March 1862," taken by Alexander Gardner dated March 1862. Image shows two Quaker guns and several men posed near the interior wall of the fort. View looking out toward a field. Federal troops took the position after the Confederates evacuated it. See GLC 5111.01.0374 for another view of Quaker guns at Centreville.

GLC05111.01.0037

March 1862

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Incidents of the War. Ruins at Manassas. No. 1. March, 1862.

One photograph entitled, "Incidents of the War. Ruins at Manassas," taken by Alexander Gardner dated March 1862. This page was taken from "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War." Image is of a young boy, a dead horse, and a Federal soldier posed amid the ruins of an enflamed Confederate building and numerous broken wagons left behind from the ensuing evacuation. An abandoned Confederate freight train remains on the tracks on the left side of the photograph.

GLC05111.01.0038

March 1862

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Incidents of the War. Ruins of Stone Bridge, Bull Run. No. 2. March, 1862.

One photograph entitled, "Incidents of the War. Ruins of Stone Bridge, Bull Run," taken by Alexander Gardner dated March 1862. This page was taken from "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War." Image is of debris from bridge lying in the Bull Run creek below. A copse of trees and a snake-rail fence visible in the background. See GLC 5111.01.0802 for a view of the bridge's foundation before it was destroyed and GLC 5111.01.0562 for another view of the ruins of the bridge.

GLC05111.01.0039

March 1862

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Ruins at Manassas Junction. No. 9. March, 1862.

One photograph entitled, "Ruins at Manassas Junction," taken by Alexander Gardner dated March 1862. Image is of ruins of several buildings used by the Confederate railroad company, Orange and Alexandria, as a depot. The remains of a few mud huts, destroyed train cars, an engine, and numerous broken wagons fill the picture. In the right foreground stand three men and in the far left background are several horses. This page was taken from "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War."

GLC05111.01.0040

circa 1861-1865

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph

Title: [Sassacus-class gunboat]

A print of a photograph taken of a US Navy riverine patrol boat during the Civil War. It is a steam double-ended sidewheel gunboat of what is popularly referred to as the "Sassacus"-class. Built for patroling rivers, many were deployed to Virginia where photographer Matthew B. Brady would have had access to them. Below the image "Brady" and "Washington" are written in black ink.

GLC05111.01.0043

1862

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph

Title: Incidents of the War. No. 203. General Johnston's Headquarters, Centreville.

One photograph entitled, "Incidents of the War. No. 203. General Johnston's Headquarters, Centreville," taken by Mathew Brady dated 1862. Image is of uniformed men in front of Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston's Headquarters.

GLC05111.01.0047

circa 1861-1865

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph

Title: [Portrait of Major Sidell]

A salt print of a photographic portrait of a man identified as Maj. Sidell. Heavily touched-up by Brady studio artists. Posibly an original painting and not a photograph. Research brings up a William Henry Sidell, born 1810 in New York, NY. Sidell graduated from West Point in 1833, and was comissioned Major and put in charge of the 15th Infantry Regiment upon the start of the Civil War in 1861. Promoted to Liutenant Colonel at some point, then full bird in 1863. As shoulder straps of Maj. and Lt. Col. are the same except for coloration, photograph can be placed between 1861 and 1863. Sidell…

GLC05111.01.0054

1861

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph

Title: [Col. E. D. Baker, in civilian dress]

A salt print of a photographic portrait of Edward D. Baker. With the following note: "Given to me by Father 2/10/1955 in his store room as we examined the negatives together. This is a Brady photograph which had been extensively touched up by a Brady artist, for re-photographing." Edward D. Baker was a senator from Oregon and an old friend of Lincoln's. He helped to raise a regiment and then led it to destruction at Ball's Bluff on 21 October 1861. He was killed in battle and made into a martyr for the nation. This might explain the dramatic touch-up done to this photograph, the deteriorated…

GLC05111.01.0055

circa 1861-1865

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph

Title: [Colonel Keith, in civilian clothing, touched-up by Brady]

A salt print of a photographic portrait of Colonel Keith. Research has not identified him. On verso in graphite: "No 24," "Col Keith," and "This salt print which was made in Brady's gallery and touched up for reproduction. F.H. Meserve."

GLC05111.01.0056

circa 1861-1865

Fawx, Egbert Guy, fl. 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Falles [sic] Church in VA

A print of a photograph of a two-story brick building. Union officers posed on horses in front of Falls Church, VA where George Washington once worshipped. It was a favorite tourist site for soldiers passing through. On the inside of the church's walls, soldiers often wrote down their names and units. It became a catalogue of sorts for Union regiments passing by. Title from graphite inscription below photograph: "Falles [sic] Church in va." "Falls Church" is written below that. Print is in an oval shape on a rectangular sheet of albumen.

GLC05111.01.0069

circa 1861-1865

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph

Title: [Assistant Adjutant-General DeGarmo Jones]

A print of a portrait of Assistant Adjutant-General Colonel DeGarmo Jones, 3/4 length sitting, wearing epaulettes and holding sword. Jones, born ca. 1833-1835 Wayne, MI, was the son of DeGarmo Jones, Mayor of Detroit in 1839 as well as a businessman and industrialist. Grave and genology records record Jones the younger dying in the summer of 1864. Jones had served as Assistant Adjutant-General of Michigan (likely the militia or reserve army). Biographical information regarding rank as colonel seems accurate as portrait shows single breasted officer's uniform with saber, field and general…

GLC05111.01.0041

September 1864

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph

Title: Headquarters U.S. Engineers Battalion Sept. 1864. (Petersburg Campaign)

A print of a photograph taken of a large group of soldiers standing in front of a small house. There are various small tents to the left and right. Two soldiers hold bundles of telegraph wire in the center of the image. The house, presumably the main building of the headquarters, stands shaded by trees in the background. The U.S. Engineers Battalion was attached to the Army of the Potomac and helped breach the fortifications at Petersburg. Title taken from graphite inscription on verso, also inscribed is "XI-II 65." A mounted albumen print.

GLC05111.01.0042

circa 1861

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph

Title: Brady's Incidents of the War. Harpers Ferry & Vicinity, VA. 22nd Regt. N.Y.S.N.G.

One undated photograph entitled, "Brady's Incidents of the War. Harpers Ferry & Vicinity, VA. 22nd Regt. N.Y.S.N.G.," taken by Matthew Brady. Image is of 12 soldiers of the 22nd Regiment of the New York State National Guard. Pictured with them is a Black boy posed in front of tents at a Union campsite. The soldier sitting on the far left is cleaning his rifle. Some soldiers are in uniform, while others are in civilian dress. Ink inscription on verso reads "Edie with his Aunt Mary's Core."

GLC05111.01.0044

June 12, 1864

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph

Title: [General George Meade and 35 staff members at Cold Harbor]

One photograph taken by Mathew Brady dated June 12, 1864. According to Photographic History of the Civil War Vol. 2, p. 1067, image is of Union General George Meade who is seated at center with legs crossed, surrounded by his staff. Major General Andrew A. Humphreys is seated on Meade's right, and seated to the right of Humphreys is the army's provost marshal, Brigadier General Marsena Patrick. Standing immediately on Meade's left is his quartermaster, Brigadier General Rufus Ingalls. Second to Ingall's left is Meade's artilleryman Brigadier General Henry J. Hunt. Pencil inscription on recto…

GLC05111.01.0045

1865

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph

Title: Views In and Around Richmond, VA.

One photograph entitled, "Views In and Around Richmond, VA," taken by Mathew Brady dated 1865. The image shows a large number of soldiers, sailors, civilians, freedmen, and women posed in front of the U. S. Sanitary Commission (USSC) building in Richmond.

GLC05111.01.0046

September 1863

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph

Title: [General French and 14 staff members]

A print of a photograph taken of a group of Union Army officers taken in September 1863. Major General William H. French stands fifith from the left among his 3rd Corps staff officers (10 standing and four seated, not counting French). In 1864, the 3rd Corps was reorganized and amalgamated with the 2nd Corps, while French himself was mustered out of active service. Graphie inscription on rear: "Genl. French & staff." Unmounted.

GLC05111.01.0048

1862

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph

Title: [Gen. Ambrose Burnside and 20 staff members, 9th Corps headquarters]

A print of a photograph of General Ambrose Burnside and his staff in 1862. A wood carving copy of this photograph was printed in Harper's Weekly on July 23rd, 1864. Graphite inscriptions on verso: "Burnside, Hancock" and "9333." Brigadier General John Buford is standing last on the right.

GLC05111.01.0049

circa 1862

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph

Title: [Oval portrait of Admiral Andrew Hull Foote in dress uniform]

One undated photograph of Admiral Andrew Hull Foote. Foote is wearing a dress uniform including epaulettes and sword.

GLC05111.01.0050