1919/04/20 - 1919/08/05

Shepp, William, fl. 1917-1919

Diary

Title: Willaim Shepp Diary 1919

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GLC06888.04

[n.d.]

Armstrong, Halleck, fl. 1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: Wife, Daughters & Son.

Marked "No 1"; seemingly first letter sent to family while on post. Reports on news about Sherman & Charleston having fallen.

GLC06734.001

1865/02/24

Armstrong, Halleck, fl. 1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: Mary [Armstrong, his wife].

Reporting on his arrival at the headquarters of the 9th Corps.

GLC06734.002

1865/02/24

Armstrong, Halleck, fl. 1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: Wife.

Reports that he is now at the front, describes conditions at front & shells bursting in air around him, spreads news of capture of Wilmington.

GLC06734.003

1865/02/27

Armstrong, Halleck, fl. 1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: Mary [Armstrong].

Describes being under enemy fire, ill health due to cold.

GLC06734.004

1865/03/01

Armstrong, Halleck, fl. 1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: Mary [Armstrong].

Describes how he felt being under fire.

GLC06734.005

[1865]/03/02

Armstrong, Halleck, fl. 1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: [?wife?].

GLC06734.006

1865/03/04

Armstrong, Halleck, fl. 1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: Mary [Armstrong].

Reports on rumor that Sherman has been defeated, hopes it isn't true, talks about great number of dead and burial procedures, remarks on slavery as the sin of the South.

GLC06734.007

1865/03/05

Armstrong, Halleck, fl. 1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: Mary [Armstrong].

Discusses his commanders & their religiosity, his preaching & religious ministering at the camp.

GLC06734.008

1865/03/07

Armstrong, Halleck, fl. 1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: Mary [Armstrong].

Talks about systematic pilfering of the Sanitary Commission by high ranking soldiers; also reports on seeing black troops: "Today for the first time I saw whole regiments of black troops…They appear quite as well on parade as their more thoroughly bleached 'brudders.' As soldiers they are not to be sneezed at I tell you…"

GLC06734.009

1865/03/08

Armstrong, Halleck, fl. 1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: Mary [Armstrong].

Reports various rumors about Sheridan's maneuvers. Also reports on nearby black uprising: "Our allies, the darkies, are evidently burning out their beloved Masters…"

GLC06734.010

1865/03/09

Armstrong, Halleck, fl. 1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: Mary [Armstrong].

Describes army medic routines & ambulances, describes desolation of landscape due to war.

GLC06734.011

1865/03/10

Armstrong, Halleck, fl. 1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: Mary [Armstrong].

Reports on troop maneuvers, Sheridan's whereabouts, etc.

GLC06734.012

1865/03/12

Armstrong, Halleck, fl. 1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: Mary [Armstrong].

Reports on rumors that "Sherman, & Schoield, and Sheridan are working up, & Grant has Lee by the throat." Also describes in detail his work as a Chaplain & what it consists of.

GLC06734.015

1865/03/13

Armstrong, Halleck, fl. 1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: Mary [Armstrong].

"I keep no diary of events, so I guess I had better send my diary home in the form of letters."

GLC06734.016

1865/03/14

Armstrong, Halleck, fl. 1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: Mary [Armstrong]

Describes battle in detail. Also: "…The good news from Sheridan was read to the boys at inspection in the form of a dispatch from Gen. Grant. It was received with loud cheers. Surely the end draws nigh…"

GLC06734.017

1865/03/15

Armstrong, Halleck, fl. 1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: Mary [Armstrong].

Describes impending battle plans .

GLC06734.018

1865/03/16

Armstrong, Halleck, fl. 1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: Mary [Armstrong].

Describes feeling of impending battle. In part: "…Everything is quiet this morning, but it may be the calm before the storm. Sheridan is here, & his wonderful cavalry are not far off…"

GLC06734.019

1865/03/17

Armstrong, Halleck, fl. 1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: Mary [Armstrong]

Describes widespread desertion by Confederate troops, intra-troop Confederate violence.

GLC06734.020

1818/04/15

Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William C. Bradley

Discusses the appointment of a congressional committee to investigate expenditures made in executing the fifth, sixth, and seventh articles of the Treaty of Ghent and their report. The committee was formed in response to reports of waste. Comments on the efforts of a Mr. Allen to have negative parts of the report pertaining to the fifth article removed. Discusses the reading of a confidential letter to the committee by John Holmes that was critical of the expenditures, which Crafts made a copy of (see GLC05634.03). Believes Holmes wants to supplant the man originally appointed…

GLC05634.04

1814/03/06

Wilson, John, 1777-1848

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Aaron Hobart

Discusses his efforts to obtain a presidential appointment to an unspecified post for Hobart.

GLC06313.04.033

1860/01/07-1860/12/29

Newspaper

Title: Harper's weekly. [Vol. 4, no. 158 (January 7, 1860) - no. 209 (December 29, 1860)] [bound]

Issue number 207 has been removed.

GLC01733.02

1861/04/17 ca.

Osborn & Durbec

Photograph

Title: "No. 3."

View of the Trapier Mortar Battery on Morris Island, with Osborn & Durbec's portable darkroom visible in the background.

GLC03919.02

1861/04/[17]

Osborn & Durbec

Photograph

Title: "No. 12."

Caption label on verso: "…Ending of Solders' [sic] Barracks seen in No. 11, and commencing and continuing with Officers' Quarters up to Gateway on the right. This completes the whole circuit in sections."

GLC03919.04

[1861/04/17]

Osborn & Durbec

Photograph

Title: "[No.] 15."

View of the cannons from inside Fort Sumter, probably on the parapet.

GLC03919.06