02 May 1780

United States. Continental Congress.

Broadside

Title: Instructions to captains and commanders of private armed vessels...

Evans 17021. Printed broadside authorizing privateering. With Thompson's name printed at end

GLC00820

1861

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

Pamphlet

Title: Inaugural address of President Davis: delivered at the capitol, Monday, February 18, 1861, at 1 o'clock, P.M.

Printed by Shorter & Reid. First Printing. Accompanied by a short description (with price) form 1925.

GLC00822

22 January 1863

Wheeler, Joseph, 1836-1906

Broadside

Title: [Confederate circular regarding discipline issued after the Battle of Stones River]

Docket (in pencil) indicates that this was Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest's copy. Issued from the headquarters of the cavalry by E. S. Burford, Assistant Adjutant General, based on Wheeler's orders. Deplores the discipline of regimental and company commanders: "The disgraceful state of discipline which exists in certain portions of this command, has rendered them worse than useless appendages to the Brigade. Companies muster for duty not more than one-fourth or one-fifth their strength, and, even than, are allowed to scatter so as to be of but little or no use to the command.…

GLC00823

1864-1865

Longstreet, James, 1821-1904

Header Record

Title: Field orders of General James Longstreet [Decimalized .01-.02]

GLC00824

1864-1865

Longstreet, James, 1821-1904

Manuscript signed

Title: General Orders Confederate 1st corps Lt. Genl Jas. Longstreet

James Longstreet's general orders to the I Corps. Most of the orders are written and signed for by either Gilbert Moxley Sorrel or Osmun Latrobe. Both signed as Assistant Adjutant General. There are also twenty six printed orders interleaved, as well as six hand written orders on blue paper. Longstreet signs only once, Anderson twice. Orders relate to supplies, enlistment, rations, furloughs, transportation, and other subjects. Include marching orders and speeches to troops, such as: "Soldiers! Let us not go backwards! Let the 1st Corps be always true to itself. We have in the past a…

GLC00824.02

August 7, 1861

Walker, Leroy Pope, 1817-1884

Letter signed

Title: to Thomas Overton Moore

Walker, Confederate Secretary of War, discusses the Civil War with Moore, Governor of Louisiana. States "The War existing between this Government and that at Washington will, probably, be prolonged during the coming winter, and, in view of the rigor of the climate at that season on the line of the seat of War; it is desired that our soldiers shall be well supplied with clothing." Instructs Moore to order Louisiana's Department of the Quarter Master to create enough woolen clothing to supply the needs of the state's soldiers. Cites the difficulty of obtaining supplies and provisions due to…

GLC00831

June 24, 1863

Memminger, Christopher G., 1803-1888

Letter

Title: to George Schley

Memminger, Secretary of the Confederate Treasury, discusses an attempt to raise funds for the Confederacy (refer to GLC00832.01) with Schley. States that bonds in the form that Schley proposed cannot be issued, due to a recent act passed by the Confederate Congress. Discusses specific details related to domestic and foreign issuance of bonds, as well as their principal and interest. Docketed "For Mr. Washington." Marked as a copy. Schley was a prominent Georgia cotton manufacturer.

GLC00832.02

1864-1865

Longstreet, James, 1821-1904

Manuscript signed

Title: Special Orders Confederate 1st corps

Records orders related to various kinds of authorized troop movements. Lists movement of individual military personnel, leaves of absence for officers, and unit positions. The orders are given by Longstreet and Anderson, but signed by only Latrobe and Sorrel. Written during the East Tennessee campaign and the siege of Petersburg. Dated January 1, 1864 - April 1, 1865.

GLC00824.01

23 May 1864

Header Record

Title: Collection of 2 items related to Richard S. Taylor [Decimalized]

GLC00825

6 May 1865

Taylor, Richard, 1826-1879

Broadside

Title: Terms of capitulation

Printed General Order no. 54, the surrender agreement between Confederate General Richard Taylor and Union General Edward S. Canby on 4 May 1865 at Citronelle, Alabama. Under the terms of the surrender, officers retained their sidearms and horses, but property and equipment were to be turned over to the Federals, and the men were paroled to return home safely. The orders were issued from the headquarters of the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and Eastern Louisiana.

GLC00826

4 May 1865

Taylor, Richard, 1826-1879

Manuscript

Title: Memorandum

Manuscript copy of Confederate General Richard Taylor's surrender terms possibly written out by a clerk. Original manuscript signed by Union General Edward S. Canby, and signed as official by Stanhope Posey, captain and adjutant general. Lists the six points of agreement between Taylor and Canby.

GLC00827

May 2, 1865

Taylor, Richard, 1826-1879

Manuscript letter

Title: to Edward R. Canby

Written in the hand of Taylor's adjutant, Stanhope Posey. Requests a meeting with Union General Edward S. Canby at Citronelle, Alabama to discuss the terms of surrender. States he has heard of Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston's surrender under the same terms as Robert E. Lee's surrender and wants to prevent further unnecessary bloodshed. Requests some additions be made to the surrender terms presented by Canby in an earlier memorandum. These concern additional troops that should be included in the surrender and the transportation of the soldiers after the surrender. Retained…

GLC00828

3 May 1865

Taylor, Richard, 1826-1879

Manuscript document

Title: [Orders to Major General Dabney Herndon Maury]

Working draft, prepared by a secretary. Relays that the surrender of all other armies east of the Mississippi River leave him no choice but to surrender also, and he orders Maurey to explain the facts to his troops. Details the surrender terms. Drafted by adjutant with Taylor's corrections. The docket on p. 5, reads, "To Major Genl Maury -- What will probably be the terms of & what troops should do in the event of voluntary surrender, Recounts evils that would follow an unconditional surrender."

GLC00829

November 3, 1869

Stephens, Alexander Hamilton, 1812-1883

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William O. Rogers

Expresses wishes for "the future welfare of our common country."

GLC00830

1863

Header Record

Title: Items related to the Confederate Congress' attempts to raise funds. [Decimalized .01-.03]

GLC00832

May 20, 1863

Memminger, Christopher G., 1803-1888

Letter

Title: to George A. Trenholm

Memminger, Secretary of the Confederate Treasury, requests the financial advice of Trenholm, Confederate agent in Europe. Reports a measure adopted by the Confederate Congress for "raising 250 millions by the issue of 20 year bonds, with Coupons payable at the pleasure of the Government in Coin or Cotton." Requests Trenholm's guidance on bringing these bonds into domestic and foreign markets, stating that the bonds' value in Europe "would be compounded of two elements, the value of Gold here and Cotton there." Written on Confederate States Treasury stationery. Marked as a copy. Trenholm,…

GLC00832.01

30 April 1863

Confederate States of America. Congress

Manuscript document

Title: An Act supplementary to "An Act to provide for the funding and further issue of Treasury notes."

Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to issue bonds "at a rate of six per centum per annum, payable at the pleasure of the owner in the currency in which interest is paid on the other bonds of the Confederate States, or in cotton of the quality of New Orleans middling, valued at eight-pense sterling per pound ... " Marked as "Copy No 70."

GLC00832.03

1861

Power, J. L., fl. 1861

Pamphlet

Title: The Merryman habeas corpus case, Baltimore. The proceedings in full and opinion of Chief Justice Taney. The United States Government a military despotism.

Prints the proceedings of the Merryman case and Chief Justice Roger B. Taney's decision that Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus was unconstitutional.

GLC00833

1861-1862

Talman, William H., 1842-?

Manuscript

Title: [Autograph album of the members of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, which was held in Montgomery, Alabama, then Richmond, Virginia]

Manuscript title page reads: "Members of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, Howell Cobb, President of the Congress, Athens, Georgia." "Athens, Georgia," on the manuscript title page and Cobb's signature there are in Cobb's hand. Collected by William H. Talman while he was a page to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States. With more than eighty-one autographs, including presiding officer Howell Cobb, his brother Thomas R. Cobb, Albert Rust, Thomas Neville Waul, and Louis Trezevant Wigfall. With Talman's occasional annotations in pencil. Wallpaper or embossed…

GLC00834

September 1775

Urban, Sylvanus, 1745-1826

Newspaper

Title: The Gentleman's Magazine

Printed for D. Henry at St. John's Gate, London. Includes the petition of Congress to King George. Also includes a copy of an intercepted John Adams letter to Abigail Adams 24 July 1775, copy of intercepted letter of Benjamin Harrison to George Washington 21 July 1775, summary proceedings of Parliament, plan of American entrechments at Bunker Hill, a continuation of a travel essay by Lithgow, and a continuation of "Account of the Proceedings of the American Colonies." Paginated 409-456. Seems to have been torn from original binding.

GLC02361

3 August 1861

Charleston Mercury, fl. 1860-1861

Newspaper

Title: The Charleston mercury. [Vol. LXXIX, no. 11244]

Contains detailed Civil War news from the front lines. Included is a lengthy front-page comparison of the treatment of prisoners of war by the North and the South. "While the LINCOLN Government is making numerous arrests of persons at Washington and at other places in the North who are suspected of sympathizing with the South, and incarcerating them in dungeons, sending them away from their homes to distant fortresses,...we are treating their people, who have fallen into our hands, with kindness, and in some cases giving them partial liberty. This, undoubtedly, is admirable Christian-like…

GLC02362

9 February 1777

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Manuscript letter signed

Title: to James Clinton

Ordering Clinton to go to Albany to "assist in the command of the Northern department" under General Schuyler. Warns Clinton that there is not time for delay. "General McDougal will take the direction of matters in the Highlands when you are gone."

GLC02366

22 November 1811

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

Letter signed

Title: to John Steele

Informs that he has shipped to Steele 29 boxes containing volumes of the laws of the United States passed by the 11th Congress. Asks him to forward them to the addressed governors of the states and territories. Encloses a receipt (not present).

GLC02367

29 April 1864

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Gen. Henry Benham re: stay of execution for Priv. Grey & Cusick

Accompanied by a forged Lincoln AES dated 3/22/1865, ordering an unnamed person be allowed to take the oath of Dec. 8 (clipped from a letter).

GLC02371.01

1865/03/22

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Note signed

Title: Ordering that "this man take the oath of Dec 8th" [written on back of letter]

GLC02371.02