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to Winfield Scott

Discusses the field tactics of Generals Twiggs, Quitman, and Scott. Written as major general of volunteers.

GLC02732

to my dear wife

He is sorry to hear the baby is sick. He is currently in the book house, just killing time. The Rebels currently have to keep shooting across lines all night to prevent deserters.

GLC02740.34

to Stockton Bates

Complains about recent useless parades and reviews, preliminary to reorganization of the army into three corps, similar to Lee's army, under Sedgwick, Hancock, and a third General. Notes malcontent, particularly with the Army of the Potomac....

GLC03523.23.32

to James Orne

Writes that she has been suffering from an illness this winter which her doctor believes is an inflammation of the spine brought on by great mental stress. He has advised her to go south, but she admits candidly that she does not have to money to do...

GLC03651

to Emily Corbin [Incomplete]

Lists some of the men and their injuries, all of which came from the 1st Regiment, Light Artillery, N. Y. S. Volunteers (Pettit's Battery). Also lists supplies lost, repairs made, patching up a Lieutenant Sheldon, and being left there "in care of...

GLC03685

to Joshua Mauger

Indicates that there is still no mail from England. Reports (falsely) that the Congress has dissolved and the American people desire to reunite with England but, without word from England, his commander can do nothing to take advantage of this...

GLC03902.030

to Joshua Mauger

He needs to borrow £ 105 to pay off Miss Durell's debt.

GLC03902.086

to John Pownall

GLC03902.276

to Sarah

She has joined her husband at the hospital. He was wounded in the lower abdomen. The wound appears fatal and he seems resigned to die. She hopes to move him to a better hospital. She comments on her fate and "right hard trouble every spring."...

GLC04197.25

to Edward P. Fry

Complains about mail he has sent that has failed to reach its destination, including a recent letter to Fry. Includes a transcript of the earlier note that was never received in which he thanks Fry for information sent to him proving that Morse was...

GLC04503.07

to Louise Walbridge

Weather: winter in Buffalo, spring in camp. Believes the fighting will be over by mid-summer, possibly June. News concerning Sherman, Sheridan, and Grant. He has been "brevetted" to the rank of a major, "Brevets I suppose you know are a kind of...

GLC04663.59

Petition to Maj. Gen. Stephen A. Hurlbut

Petition to Maj. Gen. Stephen A. Hurlbut re: defence of existing clergy.

GLC04813.03

to James Alexander Seddon

Crenshaw, a surgeon, requests that Seddon allow James Bolling, a free African American from Charles City, Virginia, to remain in Crenshaw's employment as a fisherman. Informs Seddon, Confederate Secretary of War, that "Fish are necessary to the...

GLC06374

[A soldier's poem]

Writes from Camp Stone. Includes a poem entitled, "Lines on the death of my friend Louis Mitchell of Co. I 1st Regt Minnesota Vols: who was killed in a skirmish on the Virginia side of the Potomac. Oct. 21st 1861." Gordon's friend, Lewis Mitchell...

GLC06559.038

to his wife

Asks why his wife does not write more frequently so he does not need to be as worried for her safety. He writes that he was unable to get a leave of absence. He thought up an idea to ask the Secretary of War to station troops in Culpeper to serve as...

GLC06582.13

Under the recent act of Congress to reduce the currency, it is provided that….

stamp of record division

GLC06745.236

to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations. Followed by blank half leaf. envelope date 19 March.

GLC06762.078

[Cased daguerreotype of Abraham Lincoln]

Quarter-plate daguerreotype by Christopher S. German, probably taken from an albumen on or about 23 September 1858. Original leather case with 2 hooks intact. Three-quarter view of Lincoln, beardless and seated, at the time of the Lincoln-Douglas...

GLC07088.01

to Sister

GLC07205.076

to Emily J. Semmes re: death of Gen. Paul Semmes (to his widow)

Written from his deathbed nurse, on the day he died with postscript: "A few moments before the General died, he asked for his sword, laying it across his arm, he asked again for his testament." Page 5 is a smaller, additional sheet.

GLC07225

to John Kennedy and Thomas W. Wilson

Written at Fort Gibson Cherokee Agency

GLC07562.03.12

to Parents

GLC07687.075

The Old Bull Dog on the Right Track

Published by Currier & Ives at 152 Nassau Street in New York. Depicts a very short and hostile General George McClellan and a very tall and confident Abraham Lincoln, both candidates in the 1864 presidential election, on the left side of the...

GLC08594

to brother

Is well and enjoying good health. Hopes this letter finds him in a similar condition. Has not received a letter from home in four weeks. "What the reason is I do not know." Expects to receive one the next time the mail arrives. Has not been paid...

GLC08914.017

to Sarah W. Nichols

This letter is about his daughter Sarah, who became ill in late January. They discovered that she was vomiting and had a high fever, and by the time the doctor arrived, it was too late. He was not sure what to call the disease, though Thomas...

GLC08934.041