circa 1862

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite [Portrait of Frances Clalin].

GLC08233

22 May 1861

Hanks, Dennis, fl. 1861

Document signed

Title: [Jury verdict signed by all twelve jurors, including Dennis Hanks, a relative of Abraham Lincoln].

Signed by Dennis Hanks, and eleven other jurors. Hanks and Lincoln lived together in 1818.

GLC08234

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite [Portrait of Richard Yates].

Inscribed on verso: "to W. H. H. Alden from the Governor".

GLC08235

22 May 1861

Taylor, Tazewell, fl. 1861

Autograph letter signed

Title: to B. W. Belscher

Taylor, a captain in the Sussex Light Dragoons, relays an order from General Walter Gwynn regarding administrative actions in preparation for the next day's secession vote by the Virginia Convention.

GLC08237

21 July 1861

Rhett, Thomas G. (Thomas Grimke), 1821-1878

Autograph note signed

Title: [Dispatch of 27 July 1861].

Reporting that Union troops were between him and General Jones. Countersigned by General Pierre G. T. Beauregard, who adds a pemcil note that forces were sent against the Union troops, who unfortunately already were retreating 4

GLC08238.01

1864 - 1870

Header Record

Title: [Materials associated with General Pierre G. T. Beauregard].

Penciled notes on the verso of an autograph document signed with a secretarial letter written to Jefferson Davis from the Second Battle of Bull Run. With a carte-de-visite of Beauregard and a pair of partly printed checks, dated 1869 and 1870, signed on verso by Confederate legislator William Porcher Miles. Two black and white bust engravings of Beauregard included. 1 engraving ; b&w ; 26.5 x 20.1 cm + 1 engraving ; b&w ; 25.4 x 20.4 cm

GLC08239

10 December 1864

Beauregard, G.T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893

Autograph document signed

Title: [Discussion of troop returns with Confederate Generals James Chesnut and Beverly H. Robertson].

Penciled notes on an ADS of troop return.

GLC08239.01

circa 1861

Photograph

Title: [Carte de visite of General Pierre G. T. Beauregard].

GLC08239.02

1869-1870

Miles, William Porcher, 1869-1870

Document signed

Title: [Signed checks].

Pair of partly printed checks, dated 1869 and 1870, signed on verso by Miles

GLC08239.03

August 1862

Beauregard, G.T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893

Autograph document signed

Title: to Jefferson Davis

Secretarial letter to Jefferson Davis reporting on his need for reinforcements during the Battle of Second Bull Run. Signed by Beauregard.

GLC08239.04

17 April 1862

Berry, Hiram Gregory, 1824-1863

Header Record

Title: [Hiram Berry materials].

Berry's eyewitness report of the Battle of Yorktown and a carte de visite of Berry.

GLC08240

17 April 1862

Berry, Hiram Gregory, 1824-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to R. H. Sawyer

Brigadier General Hiram Berry writes to Captain R. H. Sawyer to tell him of the Battle of Yorktown, where he was commander, 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 3rd Corps, Army of the Potomac.

GLC08240.01

08 June 1861

Letcher, John, 1813-1884

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Jefferson Davis

Written as Governor of Virginia to Jefferson Davis to send him details on the guages and capacity of the Danville Rail Road and other Virginia lines.

GLC08241

20 December 1783

Revolutionary War poems

Header Record

Title: [Collection of 2 printed rebus poems]. Decimalized.

GLC08255

06 October 1795

Adams, Thomas, fl. 1795

Autograph document signed

Title: [Certificate of marriage for Mingo and Dinah Night]

Records the marriage of Mingo and Dinah Night, "free black people."

GLC08257

15 October 1831

Vinton, John, fl. 1831

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his mother

Vinton, a captain of a northern regiment assisted in the suppression of Nat Turner's slave rebellion: "I doubt if any active movement against the slaves will be necessary...[They] however are irresponsible and reckless and it is difficult to foresee to what a blind desperation might prompt them...."

GLC08258

circa 1960

New Orleans Citizens Council

Broadside

Title: Don't Buy A Ford Ever Again. From the New Orleans Citizens Council: To All White Citizens.

Racist New Orleans broadside promoting a boycott of Ford Motor Co.'s support of the Civil Rights movement.

GLC08259

5 April 1884

Brown, John Jr., 1821-1895

Autograph letter signed

Title: to F. B. Sanborn

Transmittal letter returning proofs not included to John Brown's biographer, correcting events and names of participants at Pottawatomie Creek. He states that his brother, Frederick, "did not have a hand in the execution of those men, though thought it right and just they should be killed."

GLC08260

January 15, 1873

Brown, Mary Ann Day, 1816-1884

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Jason Brown and Ellen Brown

John Brown's wife writes to her son and daughter from the family homestead. She comments on erecting " a good iron fence...around...the memorial to your father's grave...." Also details sibling activities and spring livestock.

GLC08261

January 24, 1895

Thompson, Ruth Brown, 1829-1904

Autograph letter signed

Title: to F.B. Sanborn

John Brown's daughter assisting his biographer in locating various siblings of Brown because "yours is a perfect truthful history of him and his deeds."

GLC08262

February 2, 1885

Brown, Jason, 1823-1912

Autograph letter signed

Title: to F.B. Stanton

John Brown's son and "Bleeding Kansas" companion apologizes for lack of funds because of hard times and asks for additional advance for Brown family land purchase.

GLC08263

31 May 1861

Floyd, John Buchanan, 1806-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Jefferson Davis

Recommends to Confederate President Davis the appointments for Henry Heth, John Pegram, Alexander W. Reynolds and Gabriel C. Wharton, all of whom became Confederate generals. Docketed "Confidential, Genl Cooper."

GLC08264

26 October 1861

Walker, Daniel, fl. 1861

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Walker, a Confederate Private, 7th Tennessee Infantry, was stationed at Centerville, Virginia. He describes the Union defeat at Ball's Bluff (Leesburg, Virginia), and the justification for the Southern cause: "we routed them completely...we sunk several of their boats. Our loss was very few...we will survive on our laws...for it is just holy and true."

GLC08265

29 August 1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Describing relocation of hospital facilities from Mt. Jackson to Staunton, Virginia, reporting Lee's military reinforcement of General Imboden and Colonel Jackson's protection of the General Hospital. "We have had a great deal of excitement here about the Yankees, Oh, I tell you most every thing in the shape of a man has been out with his musket ready for them...". Incomplete.

GLC08266

07 December 1863

Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870

Autograph document signed

Title: General Orders No. 133

Proclaims the following Thursday as a day of fast and "sincere prayers for future guidance and protection."

GLC08267