1840-1892

Simpson, Edward, 1824-1888

Header Record

Title: [Journals and log books of Edward Simpson Sr. and Edward Simpson, Jr.] [word processed inventory available] [Decimalized .01- .23]

Edward Simpson, Sr. was a member of the first class of "middies" to graduate from Annapolis after only nine months of study.  Over the following twenty years, Simpson followed a career that involved him in the Mexican War, had him working on the coastal survey, took him briefly to Canton and, finally back to the Naval Academy as an instructor in gunnery, until he was called to serve on both ironclads and frigates during the Civil War. He continued to serve at sea in the Gulf and Northern Pacific Squadrons until 1877. Simpson, author of the Treatise on Ordnance and Naval Gunnery (1859) and…

GLC05911

1903/05/22

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: to Senator William P. Frye re: not reinstating Col. Dickey

On White House stationery. "It is evidently out of the question for [Col.] Dickey to be reinstated."

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1838

Object

Title: [Metal slave tag for porter number 743]

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1840

Object

Title: [Metal slave tag for a servant number 94]

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1864 ca.

William S., & A. Martien, fl. 1864

Engraving

Title: Col. Berdan

Carte-de-visite engraved bust portrait of Himan Berdan. Inscribed on verso with name and rank, "H. Berdan Col. Commanding U.S.S.S."

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May 13, 1881

Black, J.W., 1825-1896

Photograph signed

Title: [Isaac Fitzgerald Shepard]

Carte de visite of the organizer of 1st U.S. Colored Infantry, vignette bust. Shepard later served as U.S. Counsel at Hankow, China.

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1864 February 12

McClees, J.E., fl. 1855-1865

Photograph signed

Title: [Julius Stahel]

Awarded the Medal of Honor in 1893 for distinction while commanding a cavalry division at the Battle of Piedmont (June 5, 1864).

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June 1864

Bartelle, Charles V., fl. 1864

Map signed

Title: Sketch showing defences and channels of Charleston Harbor.

This document is a map of Charleston Harbor depicting the major waterways and various forts in the area, among these is Fort Sumter. On the map it states that the map has been, "Copied by direction of Rear Admiral J. A. Dahlgren." The water on the map has been hand-colored in light blue ink. Signed "[Charles V. Bartelle], Asst. U.S. Comm. Survey." A note, "from the best information," is handwritten underneath the title (apparently not in Bartelle's hand).

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14 August 1897

Duke, Basil Wilson, 1838-1916

Typed letter signed

Title: to George A. Dary

Duke, a former Confederate lieutenant colonel and historian, acknowledges receipt of a letter from Dary, a Boston lawyer. Confirms that Dary's letter (not included) was accompanied by a copy of President Abraham Lincoln's correspondence with Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War, discussing Duke's parole.

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1863 ca.

Whipple, John Adams, 1822-1891

Photograph

Title: [Robert G. Shaw]

Carte de visite, 3/4 length standing portrait. Later reprint of a war-time photo.

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29 November 1859 - 2 December 1859

Header Record

Title: John Brown letter and broadside [decimalized .01-.02]

Letter written by John Brown shortly before his death, and broadside for a funeral service to him.

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29 November 1859

Brown, John, 1800-1859

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Stearns

Written three days before his execution. He asks to be "spared from having any mock; or hypocritical prayers made over me, when I am publicly murdered: & that my only religious attendants be poor little, dirty, ragged, bare headed, & barefooted Slave Boys; & Girls led by some old gray headed Slave Mother...Farewell, Farewell." Docket reads "please mail this to her." Addressed to "Mrs. George L. Stearns." Mary's husband George was a member of The Secret Six, the group that financed Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry.

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2 December 1859

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862

Broadside

Title: Martyrdom of John Brown

Program created by Thoreau for the funeral service for John Brown to be held in the Concord Town Hall on December 2nd. Event will include "Reading of pertinent passages. Selections from Brown's last words. Service for the death of a martyr." Also contains a "Dirge" in Brown's honor, written by Sanborn to the tune of "Auld Lang Syne" The first verse states "To-day beside Potomac's wave, Beneath Virginia's Sky, They slay the man who loved the slave, and dared for him to die." Concord was the home to many of Brown's most famous and ardent supporters. The dirge is misdated 30 December at…

GLC05925.02

1846/01/15

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Bennett re: lobbying support during his successful bid for Congress

Basler, Roy R. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. I 1824 - 1848, p. 355

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1855/03/03

Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874

Book signed

Title: An Essay to prove the contagious character of maligant cholera... .

By Bernard M. Byrne. Published by Childs & Peterson. Second edition. Signed by Millard Fillmore and inscribed to Fillmore by the author. Book plate of Abram T. Kerr and Agnes Kerr.

GLC05928

1872

Book

Title: Proceedings in the Klu Klux Klan trials at Columbia, S.C. in the United States circuit court, November term, 1871.

Published by the Republican Printing Company, State Printers. Contains detailed court proceedings regarding cases of Klan members versus the United States. Index, beginning on page 1 following page 835, organizes the book by case, noting the names of participating defense and prosecution. No creator is listed, though the title page indicates that this book was printed from government copy. The initials B.P. and L.F.P. follow a brief introduction. First edition.

GLC05929

circa 1925

Ku Klux Klan

Pamphlet

Title: The Klan in action leadership responsibilites organization methods: a manual of leadership for officers of local klans.

Published by American Printing & Manufacturing Company. Contains detailed instructions on leadership, Klan policies, and local Klan organization for officers. Begins by stating "The one human quality which, more than any other, makes a man stand out above his fellows, which can make him most useful to himself, his brother men, his country and his God, is the power of leadership." First edition.

GLC05930

1800

Cheetham, James, fl. 1800

Pamphlet

Title: A Dissertation concerning political equality, and the corporation of New York

Pencil inscription "S. H. [?] Parsons" on cover. Discusses New York City politics and the Declaration of Independence. Printed by D. Denison. First edition.

GLC05931

1795 ca.

United States. Congress (3rd : 1793-1795)

Book

Title: Acts passed at the second session of the third Congress

Full title: "Acts passed at the second session of the third Congress of the United States of America, begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, on Monday, the third of November, 1794." Includes pages AAA and 572 -640.

GLC05932

1776

Lind, John, fl. 1776-1778

Book

Title: An Answer to the declaration of the American Congress

Disbound. Printed by T. Cadell, J. Walter & T. Sewell. 1st edition. Response to the Declaration of Independence.

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1843

Allen, George, 1792-1883

Pamphlet

Title: The Complaint of Mexico, and conspiracy against liberty [Texas]

Anti-Texas annexation tract. Printed by J. W. Alden.

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circa 1864

Pamphlet

Title: Copperhead Conspiracy in the North-West

Title continued: "An Exposé of the Treasonable Order of the 'Sons of Liberty.' Vallandingham, Supreme Commander." Published by the Union Congressional Committee. Printed by John A. Gray & Green in New York. Pages are uncut at the top of the pamphlet. Details the investigation into the Northern anti-war Democrats, known as the Copperheads, who formed "secret, oath-bound, treasonable associations throughout the Northern States to act in concert with those already existing in the States in rebellion." Says the group was known as the Knights of the Golden Circle in Indiana in 1863. Relates…

GLC05936

circa 1837

Southard, Nathaniel, fl. 1837

Pamphlet

Title: The American Anti-Slavery Almanac, for 1838, being the second after Bissextile or Leap-Year, and the 62nd of American Independence. Adapted to most parts of the United States.

Labeled Vol. 1 no. 3. Southard serves as editor. Published by D. K. Hitchcock. With front paper engraving depicting William [Lloyd] Garrison attempting to chop down a tree labeled "Slavery" while a minister, soldier, businessman and President Van Buren attempt to support the tree. Contains many illustrations showing the injustices of slavery. Closes with Garrison's address opposing the annexation of Texas to the Union as a "slaveholding country." Edges are extremely delicate.

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1872 ca.

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

Pamphlet

Title: Proceedings of the Liberal Republican Convention, in Cincinnati

Title continued: "May 1st 2d and 3d, 1873. Horace Greeley's letter of acceptance. Address of the New York State Committee to their fellow-citizens." With obituary of Reverend Charles Brooks .

GLC05940

1803

Murray, John Jr., fl. 1803

Pamphlet

Title: [To the Citizens of the United States of America].

Agreed upon at a meeting of Quakers on March 1, 1803 in New York City and issued by the clerk to the meeting, John Murray, Jr. The pamphlet attacks alcohol consumption, taverns, theatres, horse racing, cockfighting, and duels. Printed by Isaac Collins and Son.

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