9 April 1847

Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866

Broadside

Title: [General orders no. 101 regarding the trial of a free African American man]

Isaac Kirk, referred to as "a free man of color" and "a resident and citizen of the United States," is charged with, convicted of, and sentenced to hang for the rape of Maria Antonias Gallegas, a Mexican woman. Duplicate of GLC00911.02.

GLC06366.02

11 April 1847

Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866

Document

Title: Al pueblo sensato de Mexico. Proclama [in Spanish]

"To the sensible town of Mexico. A Proclamation." States that Americans are not enemies of peaceful Mexicans and respect their religion. Discusses martial law and the power of the army to prosecute offenders. Also mentions that all food and supplies needed by the soldiers will be paid for in full, as opposed to how guerillas have ransacked villages and stolen property. Adds that vendors will have the protection of the U.S. Army. Duplicate of GLC04070.

GLC06366.03

15 July 1846

Bowman, George W., fl. 1846

Broadside

Title: General Orders: No. 5

Orders from Adjutant General George W. Bowman to the Volunteers of Pennsylvania requesting the enrollment of six regiments of infantry. Reply from Francis R. Shunk, governor of Pennsylvania, complies with orders and includes a list of companies, officers, numbers of soldiers, and place of enlistment. Printed by J.M.G. Lescure, printer to the state of Pennsylvania.

GLC06366.04

16 September 1847

Scott, H.L. (Henry Lee), 1814-1886

Document

Title: General orders: No. 286

Signed by H. L. Scott. Thanks the army for a job well done in fighting its way through Contreras, San Antonio, Churubusco, Molino del Rey, Chapultepec, San Cosme and Tacubaya to Mexico City. Imprinted seal partially visible in bottom right corner. Duplicate of GLC00911.14.

GLC06366.05

15 August 1847

Santa Anna, Antonio López de, 1794-1876

Document

Title: [Rewards to deserters of the U.S. Army]

Offers the rewards of happiness, beautiful land, and friendly people to soldiers who desert from the U.S. Army. Says that the Americans have earned nothing but contempt from Mexicans and Europeans by fighting, unprovoked, in Mexico.

GLC06366.06

27 May 1846

Quitman, John Anthony, 1798-1858

Document

Title: [Printed correspondence between John A. Quitman and Mississippi's delegates to Congress]

Mississippi officers request a copy of the communication between Quitman and their state delegates consigning them to serve in the war. The officers are concerned that the patriotism and excitement of Mississippians will be overlooked when compared to the high numbers of Louisianans enlisted. Delegates include Jacob Thompson, Jefferson Davis, and Stephen Adams.

GLC06366.07

8 June 1864-17 November 1864

Shankland, William F., fl. 1862-1866

Manuscript

Title: Log of W. F. Shankland commanding the U.S. Monitor Winnebago

There are two log books. This file was dated using the first book covering Acting Master Shankland's time on the USS "Winnebago," while the second book covers his time as a lieutenant on the USS "Guard" from March 1866 to May 1866. The USS "Winnebago" log: Note written on a preliminary leaf says that information on engagements can found on pages 9, 39, 44, 45, 46, 49, 50, 53, 57, 58, and 75. Says he reported for duty on the "Chickasaw" on 16 May 1864, but was given command of the "Winnebago" on the Red River on 24 May 1864 instead. Took command on 8 June 1864 and reported 28 sick men.…

GLC06368

January 26, 1862

Smith, John, fl. 1862

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas Smith

Reveals his anti-Lincoln sentiment, and discusses hardships due to war. Smith, an ardent secessionist, writes to his son Thomas. Mentions hardship, the number who have died for "The Cause," scarcity of money and provisions from "Lincoln's war." He says that he does not have long to live. "Times are hard here, money scarce, provisions high but plenty. I think we have passed through the tightest place in Lincoln's war but if we have not I for one am willing to suffer on, even unto death rather than submit. But to be conquered and have no fears they may and doubtless will do us a vast injury…

GLC06370

circa 1861-1865

Various

Header Record

Title: [Collection related to substitution in the Confederate Army] [Decimalized .01-.05]

Collection includes five documents and envelopes mainly pertaining to substitution in the Confederate Army. Included is a printed Confederate broadside signed by Judah Philip Benjamin, Acting Confederate Secretary of War, which features the rules and regulations that must be followed in providing a suitable substitute for the Confederate Army.

GLC06371

20 October 1861

Benjamin, Judah Philip, 1811-1884

Document

Title: [Regulations concerning substitutes in the army]

From Acting Secretary of War Benjamin. Unsigned printed small broadsheet on blue paper. Lists five requirements for obtaining discharge when a non-commissioned officer or a soldier finds a substitute. They are: soldier seeking to leave needs written consent of the Captain of his company, the substitute must obtain from some surgeon a certificate of fitness to serve, when a person is being discharged from the army by reason of a substitute the Captain of the company must provide a certificate, if a soldier leaving the army because of a substitute owes the government money the debt is put on…

GLC06371.05

20 September 1863

DeSaussure, Wilmot Gibbes, 1822-1886

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Milledge Luke Bonham

DeSaussure, possibly a member of the South Carolina General Assembly, discusses a proposed Assembly meeting. Informs Bonham, Governor of South Carolina, "The command under me is of such a character that were I to leave here... I believe they could not be held together in any harmony or concert whatever, and that it would lead to much confusion at a time when concert of action is so greatly needed. This is not said from any egotism or vanity... but simply arises from the fact that having for over two years been regarded by whatever militia organization there has been in Charleston as a…

GLC06373

14 March 1864

Crenshaw, O. A., fl. 1845-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: 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 support of my remaining negroes most of the valuable ones having been ... taken by the enemy." Declares that "If all the free negro fisherman are taken for govt service, then the people in and around Richmond must suffer greatly for want of food." Includes several dockets dated March 1864. One docket indicates that Bolling's services are necessary…

GLC06374

August 1863

Walker, T.A., fl. 1863-1865

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Teacher's payroll for African American schools in Memphis, Tennessee]

Signed by Walker, Captain of the 63rd U.S. Colored Infantry and Superintendent of the Freedmen, District of West Tennessee. Lists the amount of pay received by 14 teachers of African American schools in Memphis, Tennessee, 22 July 1863- 24 August 1863. Signed by A. E. Matson, S. A. Sprague, J. B. Johnston, F. A. Kiddoo, William Bailey, P. W. Bailey, S. A. Bailey, S. G. Bailey, T. N. Stewart, R. M. Stewart, S. E. Vaughn, L. F. Randolph, E. Randolph, and G. A. Graham, all teachers in Memphis. Rates of pay for the month range from $20-$29.95.

GLC06376

1840-1891

Header Record

Title: Slavery archive [decimalized]

Duley Family Papers, mostly by Enoch Duley and his son Enoch M. Duley. The papers consist of correspondence, deeds, land grants, genealogical material, land surveys and maps, a hymn book, and photographs, including cabinet cards, tintypes, and cartes de visite. These materials document the acquisition and division of land by the Duley family; genealogy of the Duley, Wood, and Underwood families; and serve as photographic documentation of a number of Duley family members over a range of years. For instance, the collection contains several photographs of Eva (Duley) Underwood, the youngest…

GLC06377

9 May 1860

Duley, Enoch M., 1773-1864

Broadside

Title: $200 Reward!

Offered for "my boy Manuel," a runaway slave described as 35 years old and enterprising. Includes a physical description: "He has a shrewd expression of the eye, and has a scar on one of his thighs occasioned from a burn, is well dressed and has in his possession a figured, plush carpetbag." Offers $200 if he is apprehended outside Kentucky and $50 if he is captured within the state. From the Duley family papers.

GLC06377.01

8 October 1855

Fort, David, 1775-1855

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Land indenture for four tracts in Livingston County, Kentucky]

Signed by David Fort and countersigned by J.V. House and Jesse Ramage, Jr. as witnesses. Sold for $6,500 by Fort to Enoch M. Duley. Outlines the location of the tracts, which together comprised approximately 571 acres. An autograph note signed by James W. Cade as county clerk indicates the sale was recorded on 19 November 1855. Includes a smaller, loose page with a map of the four tracts.

GLC06377.11

22 April 1852

Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874

Document signed

Title: [Presidential authority to the Secretary of State to affix the seal to the pardon of Johanna Foley, alias Johanna O'Conne, convicted of bigamy].

GLC06048

1861

Ives, Joseph Christmas, ?-1868

Book

Title: Report upon the Colorado River of the west, explored in 1857 and 1858 by Lieutenant Joseph C. Ives, coprs of totgraphical engineers, under the direction of the office of explorations and surveys, A. A. Humphreys, captain of topogrpahical engineers, in charge.

Published by the Government Printing Office. Contains a printed note from John B. Floyd, Secretary of War, transmitting Ives' report John Cabell Breckinridge, Vice President and President of the Senate 1857-1861. Includes a printed resolve of Asbury Dickens, Secretary of the Senate, authorizing 10,000 extra copies of Ives' report. Ives includes an introductory letter stating "The main object of the work being to ascertain the navigability of the Colorado." Ives cites the movement of troops into the territory of the Mohave Tribe as the main obstacle in navigating the Colorado during his…

GLC06051

9 January 1831

Lincoln, Thomas, 1812-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Bela Lincoln [incomplete]

Writes to his brother in Dennysville, Maine. Briefly mentions sleigh riding in the winter. Informs that he went to Washington on the railroad [Baltimore and Ohio Railroad] and describes how the trains run, "the difference between a rail-road and any other is that the carriages run on a bar of iron or rail instead of running on the ground." Includes illustrations of train tracks, a wheel, and a train crossing a bridge on page two. He is happy to hear that Bela's town is setting up a small library and he has some books to give. Another brother named Ben [Benjamin] continues the letter on…

GLC06052

26 April 1853

Darbee, L. & Son, fl. 1853

Newspaper

Title: Williamsburgh Daily Gazette [Vol. 18, no. 290, whole no. 1675 (April 26, 1853)]

Includes preview of a work soon to be published called "The Narrative of Solomon Northrop, a Citizen of New York, Kidnapped and Sold into Slavery in Washington City, in 1844, and Rescued in 1853 from a cotton plantation, near the Red River, in Louisiana." Also shows an image of women running a printing press on the last page. Other local news, ads, and announcements.

GLC06069.01

22 July 1863

Gillmore, Quincy Adams, 1825-1888

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George Washington Cullum

General Gillmore, Commander of the Department of the South (Union), writes to Cullum, chief of staff for General Henry Wagner Halleck. Describes recent operations against Fort Wagner, stating "I have taken the first step here and have had some pretty hard knocks in trying to take the second. My losses will foot up 1000.- They appeared greater the day after the last fight, but many men struggled back to their camps on Folly Island, & have since joined. Fort Wagner is a hard nut to crack. I shall push matters- but at the same time shall erect heavy batteries against sumter at 3500 yards…

GLC06075

February 13, 1815

United States. Congress

Pamphlet

Title: Resolutions reported by the military committee, expressive of the high sense entertained by Congress, of the patriotism and good conduct of the people of Louisiana and New Orleans, during the late military operations before that city.

Published by Roger Chew Weightman, congressional printer. States that Senator William Branch Giles, a member of the committee on military affairs, read the included resolutions, expressing the patriotism of Louisiana citizens in the Battle of New Orleans. Praises New Orleans citizens for offering accommodation to their own and enemy soldiers. States that President James Madison will be requested to inform William Charles C. Claiborne, Governor of Louisiana, of the meritorious conduct of New Orleans citizens.

GLC06078

1879

Pamphlet

Pamphlet

Title: Mr. Wadleigh, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following report to accompany bill S. Res. 12.

Committee rejection of a proposed amendment that would have granted women the right to vote, issued as Senate Report No. 523 (45th Congress, 3rd Session). Collateral with this is the minority report in support of the proposed amendment, with title that reads "Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following as the views of the minority (to accompany the foregoing report)."

GLC06081

27 February 1828

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Pamphlet

Title: President Jefferson's Library: A Catalogue

Compiled by the auctioneer, Nathaniel P. Poor. Title continues, "of the extensive and valuable Library of the late President Jefferson, (copied from the original MS., in his hand-writing, as arranged by himself,) to be sold at auction, at the Long Room, Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington City,... on the 27th February, 1829." Printed by Gales & Seaton in Washington D.C. Catalog of the sale of Jefferson's retirement library at Monticello which includes 931 items to be sold. Jefferson's classification system is printed on page 2. Catalog priced at 12 1/2 cents.

GLC06094

25 September 1862

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Document

Title: General Orders No. 141

Signed as official by Assistant Adjutant General, E.D. Townsend. States that "all persons discouraging volunteer enlistments, resisting militia drafts, or guilty of any disloyal practice, affording aid and comfort to rebels against the authority of the United States, shall be subject to martial law ... " Also informs that the writ of habeas corpus is suspended for all persons arrested.

GLC06099