22 September 1862

Morgan, John Hunt, 1825-1864

Broadside

Title: Proclamation! To the people of Estill and adjoining counties

Printed broadside published by Confederate Calvary General Morgan and Assistant Adjutant General R.A. Alston. Proclaims that he has not come among the people to disturb them of their rights of person or property. Says the Home Guards are required to come in at once and those that do not will be considered enemies of the government "and treated accordingly." Says those who comply will be treated as non-combatants and private citizens. Those "who seek opportunity to ambush our soldiers commonly known as 'Bushwhackers' will be regarded as outlaws, and orders will be issued to shoot them."…

GLC06012

1862-1863

Baum, A. Clark, 1832-?

Header Record

Title: [Three manuscript Civil War maps of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Rappahannock Station] [Decimalized .01-.03]

Maps of battles at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Rappahannock Station by A. Clark Baum of the 50th New York Volunteer Engineers.

GLC06013

April 1864

Gilmer, John H. (John Harmer), 1812-?

Broadside

Title: Substance of the argument delivered by John H. Gilmer, before Judge J.B. Halyburton

Gilmer was a lawyer from Virginia. Printed speech on Congress suspending Writ of Habeas Corpus, Sequestion Act, Conscription Act, and Substitute Act. Speech is generally about civil liberties in a time of war. Remarks made in Virginia District Court. Addressed on verso to the Governor of Virginia, John Letcher, with a cancelled 2 cent Andrew Jackson stamp.

GLC06014

18 August 1863

Cushing, Edward H., 1829-1879

Newspaper

Title: Tri-Weekly telegraph. [Vol. 29, no. 65 (August, 18, 1863)]

A rare postmarked issue with Civil War news, including a report of the surrender of Vicksburg. There is also an article advocating conscripting slaves to fight for the Confederacy and fugitive slave ads. Contains foreign news as well as news from around Texas and New Orleans. Reports on local elections. Cushing was the editor.

GLC06015

1864

Gurney, Jeremiah, 1812-1895

Photograph

Title: Photograph of Ulysses S. Grant

Salted paper print with applied media. Imprint of Gurney, NY. Incorrectly dated on recto "1862" with long note from 1888 on verso dating (also incorrect) the photograph to 1863. Current dating based on Grant's presence in the East and the three stars on his shoulder.

GLC06018.01

1864-1866 circa

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

Signature

Title: [Ulysses S. Grant clipped signature]

Grant's clipped signature matted in front of a photograph of Grant, GLC06018.01. Signed "U. S. Grant Lt. Gen." Signature must date between 1864, when Grant first became a Lieutenant General, and 1866, when he was promoted to full General.

GLC06018.02

16 March 1814

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Bentley

Thanks Reverend Bentley for his sermon given upon the death of General John Fiske, which Jefferson has just read. Praises Fiske as "a model of merit." Contains Dove watermark. Bentley's sermon, delivered in the East Meeting-House, Salem, Massachusetts, was published in 1797. Written in Monticello

GLC06021

18 March 1826

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robley Dunglison

Mentions a draft in progress for the dispensary with proposed amendments for the University of Virginia. Inquires about a list of periodicals requested for annual renewal by the faculty.

GLC06022

23 May 1864

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Edwin M. Stanton

Written prior to the campaign for New Hope Church, Georgia as General Sherman maneuvered around General Joseph E. Johnston's left flank. Sherman reports to Stanton that he will speak to the Governors as requested. He will continue to telegraph daily the results of his conquests. Comments that Ulysses S. Grant's work impressed the Virginians, "with the knowledge that the Yankees will fight them fair and square...must precede all main advantages of strategic movements." This contrasts with his efforts in Georgia, where "the enemy knows we can and will fight like the Devil, & therefore,…

GLC06023

26 August 1847

Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850

Letter signed

Title: to the Adjutant General of the Army

In response to a request, discusses and encloses (not included) a report re discharged foot volunteers from the Company of Texas. Mentions General Winfield Scott's capture of Mexico City.

GLC06024

1826

Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885

Broadside

Title: The drunkard's progress, or the direct road to poverty, wretchedness, & ruin

Four woodcut panels showing the decline of man through drink: The Morning Dram, The Grog Shop, The Confirmed Drunkard, Concluding Scene. Each panel is accompanied by a written description of each stage of drunkenness.

GLC06025

1854

Mann, Horace, 1796-1859

Pamphlet

Title: Dedication of Antioch College, and Inaugural address of its president

[title continued] "Hon. Horace Mann; with other proceedings." Printed by O. S. Dean. Education reform.

GLC06027.01

January 1854

Hastings & Green

Broadside

Title: Catalogue of Antioch College for 1853 - 1854

List of faculty by "class" (of knowledge), with admissions, course requirements and information on preparatory school and coeducation.

GLC06027.03

1913

Hornaday, William Temple, 1854-1937

Book signed

Title: Our vanishing wild life its extermination and preservation, by William T. Hornaday ... with maps and illustrations

Published by the New York Zoological Society. Printed by Clark & Fritts, New York. With inscription by Hornaday to William Edward Coffin dated 17 January 1913.

GLC06028

1914

Hornaday, William Temple, 1854-1937

Book signed

Title: Wild life conservation in theory and practice; lectures delivered before the Forest School of Yale University, 1914, by William T. Hornaday, Sc.D. ...

Title continues, "with a chapter on Private game preserves, by Frederic C. Walcott." With an inscription by Hornaday dated 23 November 1914 to William Edward Coffin, "To my Esteemed Friend." Mentions Coffin's dedication to wild life and forest protection. Published by Yale University Press.

GLC06029

2 March 1865

Custer, George Armstrong, 1839-1876

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown General

Brigadier General Custer reports on routing General Jubel Early from Waynesboro. His list of items captured includes three pieces of artillery, battle flags, a wagon train, ambulances, and over 400 prisoners. He is pursuing the enemy, with hopes of catching Early. Custer's loss was slight. Written in pencil, "One mile beyond Waynesboro Town."

GLC06033

2 June 1875

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

Autograph manuscript

Title: [Notes during a meeting with the Sioux Indians]

Comments on a treaty with the Sioux and rights to lands in Nebraska. A note in the margin by Benjamin R. Cowen, Grant's assistant secretary of the interior, identifies Grant's authorship and date. Another unattributed note identifies Cowen. Accompanied by an engraving (see GLC06035.02).

GLC06035.01

15 April 1790

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Letter signed

Title: to Samuel Huntington

Jefferson, Secretary of State, transmits two copies (not included) of the first Patent Act of the United States to Huntington, Governor of Connecticut. The U.S. Constitution empowered the Federal Government to issue patents by providing, in article 1, section 8, that Congress shall have the power "to promote the progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." The first act of Congress under that authority was passed April 10, 1790, giving complete power to grant patents to a…

GLC06036

27 August 1793

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Letter signed

Title: to merchants of Elizabeth Town, New Jersey

Written by Jefferson as Secretary of State. Assures merchants of Elizabeth Town, New Jersey that the government will do all it can to protect commerce on the high seas. Says "due attention will be paid to any injuries they may suffer on the high seas, or in foreign countries, contrary to the law of Nations, or to existing treaties." Claims the "just and friendly dispositions" of the belligerent powers in Europe will move them to take effective measures to stop abuses. Hopes merchants will send information to the government. Since there is no specific mercantile group that receives such…

GLC06037

2 July 1863

Swords, J. M., fl. 1863

Newspaper

Title: The Daily citizen. [July 2, 1863]

Misspelled title in masthead: "Ctizen." This is a variant issue of the newspaper printed with the last half column re-set by Union soldiers after the occupied Vicksburg on July 4. See the original Confederate printing, GLC 5988.05, and the Union printing (with correct masthead), GLC 5959.20. Wallpaper has blue and brown pastoral family scene.

GLC06043

16 April 1883

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

Pamphlet

Title: Address by Hon. Frederick Douglass, delivered in the Congregational Church, Washington, D.C., April 16, 1883 : on the twenty-first anniversary of emancipation, in the District of Columbia.

"What Abraham Lincoln said in respect of the United States is as true of the colored people as of the relations of those States. They cannot remain half slave and half free. You must give them all or take from them all. Until this half-and-half condition is ended, there will be just ground of complaint... Until the colored man's pathway to the American ballot box, North and South, shall be as smooth and safe as the same is for the white citizen, this discussion will go on..." Bound in a light blue cover.

GLC06116

1835

Gurley, Ralph R., 1797-1872

Book

Title: Life of Jehudi Ashmun, late colonial agent in Liberia. With an appendix containing extracts from his journal and other writings; with a brief sketch of the life of the Rev. Lott Cary.

First edition. Printed by James C. Dunn. Engraved portrait of Ashmun opposite title page. With note affixed to the front endpaper: "This book was presented to me by the Revd. R.R. Gurley as a token of his Friendly Regard. Washington City, D.C., Oct. 25th 1847. J.Y. Van Tyne." First part (396 pages) consist of Ashmun's autobiography. Appendix, numbered 1-160, contains some of Ashmun's writings. Accompanied by a small maple leaf, which was previously pressed between pages 4 and 5 of appendix. Pages 4 and 5 are stained from the leaf.

GLC06128

1855

Nell, William C., 1816-1874

Book

Title: The colored patriots of the American Revolution, with sketches of several distinguished colored persons: to which is added a brief survey of the condition and prospects of colored Americans.

Published by Robert F. Wallcut. Includes an introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Contains descriptions of African Americans' meritorious military service. Includes a printed fold-out leaf opposite page 132, which consists of George Washington's discharge for a soldier named Brister Baker. The first illustration depicts Crispus Attucks, a runaway slave and a sailor who died 5 March 1770 in the Boston Massacre. A second section includes information on the state of African American Civil Rights at the time of publication. This work is a duplicate of GLC06176.

GLC06132

January 1865-March 1865

Header Record

Title: Items pertaining to the 19th Regiment, United States Colored Troops, Companies A-I, K [Decimalized .01-.19]

Muster rolls cover August-December 1864. Written from various locations, including Bermuda Hundred, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

GLC06133

1840

United States. Congress (26th, 1st session : 1840)

Pamphlet

Title: Africans taken in the Amistad: congressional document, containing the correspondence, & c., in relation to the captured Africans.

This is a reprint by the New York Anti-Slavery Depository. A note inside the cover explains that there were no copies of this Congressional document available in Washington. Contains statements and correspondence from John Forsyth (Secretary of State 1834-1841), William S. Holabird (District Attorney for the State of Connecticut during the Amistad case), A. Calderon de la Barca (envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Spain) and various others involved in the Amistad case.

GLC06138