26 June 1861

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his sister

Written in pencil from Fairfax Court House, Virginia. Comments on the possibility of battle if the Yankees don't run. Expresses desire to capture Yanks and kill them. Describes a hard march to Fairfax.

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27 July 1861

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his mother

Written in pencil. Discusses First Bull Run, 10,000 fighting against 800, and 15,000 killed and wounded

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8 August 1861

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his sister

Written in pencil. Discusses First Bull Run.

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8 September 1861

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Dorcus

Written in pencil to his cousin Dorcus. Writes with great optimism about his regiment being the best. Discusses camp life. Written from "Sanksters Cross Rodes."

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12 September 1861

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary

Written in pencil to his sister Mary. Discusses some skirmishes and camp life. Written from "Sanksters Cross Rodes."

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20 November 1861

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary

Writes to his sister Mary about illnesses and camp news.

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20 November 1861

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to S. M. Smith

Written in pencil. Discusses illnesses and camp news.

GLC02082.11

1 November 1776

Hawkes, W., fl. 1776

Map

Title: The Country twenty-five miles round New York

Irregular shaped paper. Engraving with letterpress chronological table of events from 1773-Oct. 1776, engraved by J. Barber and printed by W. Hawkes. Irregularly shaped. Nebenzahl, Battle Plans of the American Revolution, 110, who notes that a later state is printed by Sayer & Bennett; Streeter Sale 2: 786.

GLC02005

1776

Ratzer, Bernard, 1700-?

Map

Title: Plan of the City of New York in North America

Engraved by Jeffrey and Fagan. Oversize engraving showing lower Manhattan Island, part of Brooklyn and Hoboken, N.J. A cartouche extending across the bottom has a panoramic "South West View of the City of New York." Based upon the survey of 1766-1767. The map shows city blocks, streams and shallows. Dedicated to Sir Henry Moore, Governor in Chief of New York. The survey was commissioned because of the Stamp Act riots but not published until just before the British invasion. Stokes and Haskell, B-82, pl. 20, call this "one of the most beautiful, important, and accurate early maps of…

GLC02006

1811

Bridges, William, fl. 1811

Book

Title: Map of the City of New-York and Island of Manhattan; with explanatory remarks and references

Inscription reads "Presented by the Common Council of the City of New York to Hon. Governeur Morris." The book contains the report of the Commissioners with reasons for various decisions. Collateral book to Commissioner's Map of New York (GLC02007.01).

GLC02007.02

1829

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Broadside

Title: President's message

An Extra of the Hartford Times, reporting from telegraph the text of Jackson's first State of the Union. The address discusses what will be many of the major issues during his Presidency. Discusses removal of Native Americans, questions the constitutionality of the Bank, and decries corruption in governmental office. Suggests an amendment to keep close Presidential elections from being decided by Congress. Also covers foreign affairs, the tariff, finances, military and other domestic matters.

GLC02009

21 May 1863

Morgan, John Hunt, 1825-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph Wheeler

General Morgan writes to Wheeler, Commander of Cavalry Corps, Army of Tennessee. Reports that Lieutenant [Cull?], sent to obtain wagons from McMinnville, Tennessee, has returned empty handed. Requests Wheeler's assistance in acquiring wagons. Remarks, "I need these wagons greatly. My Division has not, including these wagons, near the amount of transportation allowed, and you will readily see to what inconvenience I am put to get along without them." Transmits a letter (not included) from a correspondent in Kentucky. Contains water stains.

GLC02012

20 November 1863

Longstreet, James, 1821-1904

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph Wheeler

Possibly written in Tennessee. Marked "Confidential." Longstreet, commander of the Department of East Tennessee, writes to Wheeler, commanding cavalry corps, Army of Tennessee. Orders Wheeler to send half of General John Austin Wharton's force to Kingston, and half to cover the Union's escape route. Notes "Keep us advised hourly and send two couriers with each dispatch." Written in pencil.

GLC02013

23 August 1865

Hatch, Edward, 1832-1889

Document signed

Title: [General orders no. 4, transmitted to Captain Hervey A. Colvin, Assistant Adjutant General]

Hatch, Brevet Major General of United States Volunteers, writes on Headquarters, District of Talledega stationery. Reports, "Orders have this day been received directing me to report to another department for duty which compels me to part with the officers and men... with whom I have been so long and so pleasantly associated... I desire to express my sincere and heartfelt thanks for the cheerful cooperation with me in the performance of kindred duties, for your gallantry, self denial, and untiring energy... I will ever cherish among the brightest passages of my life, the memory of our…

GLC02014

1862/12/10

Van Cleve, Horatio P., 1809-1891

Letter signed

Title: to Joseph Wheeler re: flag of truce for captured Union soldiers, surgeons

Clerical docket on verso.

GLC02015

1860-1866

Painter, Heber, 1841-1900

Header Record

Title: Collection of Heber Painter, I company, 58th regiment, Pennsylvania, infantry [Decimalized .001-.182]

The collection mostly consists of correspondence from Painter to his aunt and sisters. His letters contain descriptions of camp life, his feelings towards slavery, and anti-Yankee sentiment in Virginia shortly after the war. More specifically he witnesses fighting between the Monitor and Merrimac, the Battle at Batchelder's Creek, the Battle of Fort Harrison/Chaffin's Farm, the fall of Richmond, and the Union occupation of Petersburg. A collection inventory is available.

GLC02016

1847/12/05

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852

Manuscript letter signed

Title: to Adam Beatty

Discusses whether or not he will run for president again, remarking that he has "not made up my mind whether I would accept or decline a nomination." Also comments on his recent speech in Lexington, Kentucky, in which he presented some unspecified resolutions, and expresses appreciation for the support he received. Address leaf is in Clay's hand.

GLC02018

26 September 1862

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

Manuscript document signed

Title: Special order No -

Unnumbered special order commanding Colonel William Hillyer to Memphis to meet with General William T. Sherman on "special business" and return quickly. Statement of payment scrawled horizontally on the recto.

GLC02020

December 10, 1786

Stephen, Adam, 1718-1791

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Horatio Gates

Describes his visions of lava flows, overflowing oceans and ghosts (sounds almost Blakean). Mentions places all over the globe and gives strange account of manufacturing snowshoes from a pattern from Greece. Stephen as Major General in the Revolution led a division which accidentally fought troops of Anthony Wayne at Germantown, was accused of intoxication, and was subsequently dismissed in 1777. Seller's description says he apparently became insane after this.

GLC02021

10 October 1778

Gaylord, Moses, Mrs., fl. 1778

Autograph letter signed

Title: Mrs. Moses Gaylord

Connecticut Revolutionary War soldier's letter to his wife in West Hartford. Mentions that there is not much news. Says a flag of truce was flown after a packet of materials came in from Congress. Suspects that it involves the exchange of 500 French troops in New London. Describes the fortifications at Fort Griswold and Fort Trumbull. Says he saw several privateers and captured ships in the harbor. Says they will fire their cannons from the forts on 17 October in remembrance of Burgoyne's surrender on 17 October 1777.

GLC02023

22 October 1862

Parsons, Mosby Monroe, 1822-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Alexander E. Steen

General Parsons writes to General Alexander E. Steen: "I am desirous of meeting you and Col. Shaver at my room this evening... " (possibly referring to Colonel Robert G. Shaver).

GLC02026

13 June 1865

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

Endorsement signed

Title: [Endorsement authorizing U.S. Navy to store munitions at Fort Mifflin]

Document signed by Commodore Henry K. Hoff as Inspector of Ordnance. Written to Commander Henry Alexander Wise as the Chief of Bureau of Ordnance. Marked "No. 272" Says there is enough room for 500 barrels of powder in the magazine at Fort Mifflin. Contains several dockets on the recto of second page. There is a second signature of Hoff as well as a note with the illegible signature R. Julick of the Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance that says General Alexander B. Dyer was asked about storing powder in Fort Mifflin. There is a note dated 14 June and signed by General Dyer saying the…

GLC02027

1862

Holmes, fl. 1862

Broadside

Title: Attention! Company! [Recruiting broadside for New York 156th Infantry]

Announcment made by Lieutenant Holmes, the recruiting officer of the regiment. His first name could not be discovered. Printed by Hommel's Power Press Printing in Kingston, New York. Depicts large eagle holding scroll reading "The Union must be preserved." Recruits are asked for Captain P.H. Decker's company of Colonel Erastus Cooke's regiment. Headquarters is at the Ulster County House, in Kingston. Dated from the first year the regiment was mustered into the Union Army. Was previously folded into quarters. Small hole at the bottom was repaired.

GLC02028

21 June 1865

Lee, Samuel Phillips, 1812-1897

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Mercer Brooke

Written by Acting Rear Admiral Lee as Commander of the Mississippi Squadron to Brooke, a former Confederate naval officer seeking amnesty. References that the preceding page of this letter was a copy of the letter he sent to the president on his behalf. Says he would have lauded his abilities as a seaman, navigator, and hydrographer, but thought to dwell too much on them would be a cause of complaint against him. Claims that "I have felt that if I had not been sent out of the country in the fall of 1860 that I might have helped to save some of my honest Navy friends who were so cruelly misled…

GLC02029.02

15 April 1865

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

Broadside

Title: Announcement of death of Lincoln

Announces the death of President Lincoln to the soldiers at the U.S. General Hospital. Signed on verso by Jacob Campbell, Company S, 2nd Regiment, PA with a short note bidding farewell to the "sacred evil of old Virginia."

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