1865

Photograph

Title: The Ruins of Charleston, S.C., showing the Sister Churches [stereocard]

Published by Anthony

GLC00242.09

February 4, 1863

Medary, Samuel, 1801-1864

Newspaper

Title: The crisis. [Vol. 3, no. 2 (February 4, 1863)]

Discussing the military service of African Americans, states "The very act of arming them, of equalizing us with them ... is a lawless, revolutionary act, subversive of all these distinctions of races, which have saved us Anglo-Saxons, Celts, and Teutons of the North from the amalgamation and fraternity of the Latin races of the Southern part of this continent, and which there have been destructive to both." Contains numerous letters to the editor. Includes various articles covering local and national politics, as well as Civil War events. Includes several articles discussing Clement Laird…

GLC08786

February 15, 1872

Woodruff, George B., fl. 1872

Autograph letter signed

Title: to the Singer Manufacturing Company

Written to The New York Singer Office, enclosing an invoice of the "Pearl" amounting to slightly over 136 pounds (not included). Says he has been busy "flying" all over the United Kingdom completing business. Is pleased that their offices are being organized efficiently. Says business is good except for "those bug-bear Alabama claims." American claims against Great Britain for outfitting the CSS "Alabama" privateer had gone to an international arbiter, which will hurt their bottom line and might lead to war between American and Britain.

GLC08682

February 13- February 14,1850

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

Pamphlet

Title: Speech of Mr. Davis, of Mississippi, on the subject of slavery in the territories.

Senator Davis, future President of the Confederacy, speech made while a member of Congress. Responds to resolutions introduced by Senator Henry Clay pertaining to the Compromise of 1850. Davis asks, "...is there such incompatibility of interest between the two sections of this country that they cannot profitable live together? Does the agriculture of the South injure the manufactures of the North? On the other hand are they not their life-blood?"

GLC08461

February 14, 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

February 25, 1862

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

Pamphlet

Title: [Message of the Confederate President to the Confederate Congress]

State of the Union-like address to the Confederate Congress made in accordance with a constitutional provision. Admits that since the start of the Civil War they had "been so exposed as recently to encounter serious disasters." Discusses their limited manufacturing capability, arms procurement in Europe, the humiliating "surrender at Roanoke Island," and exaggerated "losses at Fort Donelson." Also discusses problems with the short enlistment periods occasioned by the popular belief that the war would not be long. Praises the financial system. Mentions reports being prepared by several…

GLC08503

1894

Johnson, Rossiter, 1840-1931

Book

Title: Campfire and battlefield : an illustrated history of the campaigns and conflicts of the Civil War

With contributions of J.T. Morgan, O.O. Howard, W. B. Howard, John B. Gordon, James Tanner, George Kilmer and Mrs. L.C. Pickett. First edition, published by Bryan, Taylor & Company. SIgned by Clark Hine on 11 November 1896. Heavily illustrated with photographs. The final chapter is "Woman's contribution to the cause." Reprinted by Trident Press International in 1999.

GLC00267.267

February 5, 1839

Thompson, Waddy, 1798-1868

Pamphlet

Title: Speech of Waddy Thompson of South Carolina, in the House of Representatives of the United States, being in Committee of the whole on the state of the union.

Favors states' rights and criticizes former President Andrew Jackson as "a man who has done more to break down all the landmarks of the Constitution, and to consolidate all power in this Federal Government, than every other man who has preceded him." Opposes all programs favored by the industrializing North and West. Printed at the Madisonian Office, Washington, D.C.

GLC00267.024

February 5, 1780

Paine, Robert T., 1731-1814

Autograph document signed

Title: [Legal document pertaining to the confiscation of William Walter's property]

On behalf of the states of Massachusetts, Treat, the state attorney general, writes to the Justices of the Superior Court to argue the case for confiscating a tory's property in Boston. Claims Walter "levied War and Conspired to levy War against the government and People of this Province Colony and State." Describes him as an absentee loyalists whose messuage and land in Boston were confiscated on 20 April 1775 according to "An Act for Confiscating the Estates of certain persons Commonly called absentees." Argues that the property should "accrue to the sole use and benefit of the…

GLC00133

February 16, 1833

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

Pamphlet

Title: Speech of Mr. Webster, in the senate, in reply to Mr. Calhoun's speech on the bill "Further to provide for the collection of duties on imports."

Response to John C. Calhoun's bill "Further to provide for the collection of duties on imports," which opposed the tariff bills passed. Webster attacks the states' rights language underlying Calhoun's resolutions, analyzes their language (and that of the Constitution) and argues that nullification is not provided for in the Constitution. First edition. Printed by Gales and Seaton.

GLC00267.018

February 16, 1847

Missouri, Legislature

Printed document

Title: Memorial of the general assembly of Missouri, requesting that efforts be made by negotiation with the British government, to procure the restoration of fugitive slaves.

29th Congress, 2d session. Senate document no. 150. Missouri requests a measure for negotiations with England to prevent slaves escaping to Canada. Printed by Ritchie & Heiss, printers.

GLC00267.137

circa 1898

Field, Charles D., fl. 1898

Book

Title: Three years in the saddle from 1861 to 1865

I Nevins 87, Dornsbusch 64, Coulter 159. The 13th Illinois Cavalry in AR & MO

GLC00267.265

circa December 1870

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

Header Record

Title: Letters from Sumner to Frederick Douglass [Decimalized .01-.02]

GLC00470

December 1870

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Frederick Douglass

Sumner, a Senator from Massachusetts tried the previous day to locate Douglass at his office, but was too late. Writes "I beg to talk with you about the Republican party & its perils to which I fear you are not sufficiently sensible... Pray don't drive the wedge to split us. Let us try to leave the colored people in their rights..." Dated "Sunday." Not in Douglass's or Sumner's Papers and apparently unpublished.

GLC00470.01

11 August 1875

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

Document signed

Title: [Presidential authority to the Secretary of State to affix the seal to the pardon of James, Isaac, John W., and Lewis Back].

All members of the same family.

GLC00472

26 March 1918

Harding, Warren G., 1865-1923

Document signed

Title: Quit claim deed

Cosigned by Harding's wife Florence. Countersigned by Charles F. Pace and Eugene Colwell as witnesses. Pace signs twice as Notary Public of the United States Senate. Also signed by Auditor Harry E. Mason, citing the 6 April 1918 transfer of this document. The Hardings release their interest in the Harding Publishing Company, located in Marion, Ohio, for the sum of one dollar.

GLC00477.04

22 June 1769

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Autograph document signed

Title: [Land bond to increase acreage at Mount Vernon]

Cosigned by Robert Alexander. Washington refers to himself in the third person seven times. Alexander wants to sell 300 acres of Maryland land his wife inherited from her father to George Washington. Washington hoped to exchange the plot with Thomas Hanson Marshall for land adjacent to Mount Vernon. The agreement was contingent upon approval by Alexander's wife, who had not reached the age of 21. Alexander agreed he would not sell the land to anyone without Washington's approval, "this clause is expressly provided as a means to induce her Compliance because it is highly presumable that if…

GLC00479

January 13, 1864

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Edward Bates

Request to Attorney General Edward Bates for him to have made and sent to him a pardon for Benjamin C. Robertson of Dickson County, Tennessee.

GLC00482

08 August 1873

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

Document signed

Title: [Presidential authority to the Secretary of State to affix the seal to the pardon of Greene B. Horne].

GLC00484

January 15, 1873

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

Document signed

Title: [Presidential authority to the Secretary of State to affix the seal to the pardon of Joel Hughes].

GLC00485

30 September 1873

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

Document signed

Title: [Presidential authority to the Secretary of State to affix the seal to the pardons of John Register, William Ricks and William Horn].

GLC00486

25 July 1780

Reed, Joseph, 1741-1785

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Orders for John Moore, Wagon Master of Pennsylvania

Signed as President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania. Explains that the arrival of the French fleet has induced General George Washington and the Continental Congress to "call for a number of Teams and Horses." Seeks wagons and horses from Moore. Discusses how to obtain the horses and wagons and branding them. Explains that impressment is permitted. A post script asks for frequent updates on his progess. Written in the hand of Timothy Matlack, Secretary of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania.

GLC00490

circa June 1863

Donopley, D.W., fl. 1863

Broadside

Title: Men of the Keystone State, rally for its defence!

Recruitment broadside in Pennsylvania published during Lee's invasion of the North in 1863, seemingly before the Battle of Gettysburg. Created by Captain D.W. Donopley of Company L of the First Regiment of the Washington Guard under Colonel William F. Small. Printed by King & Baird of 607 Sansom Street in Philadelphia. References Pennsylvania's role as the site of the creation of the Declaration of Independence and claims it is imperative that recruits join because it was the place where "'Liberty' was first proclaimed 'throughout the land, and to all the inhabitants thereof,' must not…

GLC00492

March 25, 1793

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Gouverneur Morris

Discusses his non-involvement in foreign affairs. The death that called Washington to Mount Vernon was that of his nephew, George Augustus Washington, who died of tuberculosis.

GLC00494

March 12, 1823

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Stephen R. Bradley

John Quincy Adams explains his 1804 opposition to a bill supported by General Samuel Smith that would further protect U.S. sailors from British impressment. Refutes Smith's suggestion that Adams' position justifies British impressment. Argues that the legislation did not discriminate between U.S. and British sailors on American vessels and would strain the relationship between the two nations. Claims that the bill's passing would cause the question of war to arise immediately.

GLC00496.003