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[Albumen portrait of Winfield Scott Hancock]

One undated half-length portrait of Union General Winfield Scott Hancock in Union uniform.

GLC00731.01

To the governor of the state of Nebraska

A printed a letter to the governors of Nebraska transmitting the Fifteenth Amendment.

GLC00788.02

to O. S. Rapp

Harding acknowledges how the "railroad situation" affects Rapp's business and indicates that he wants "the government policy to be one leading to the railway restoration" but admits a current discouraging outlook. Letter signed 18 days after his...

GLC00800

Extracts of letters written by the Secretary of War, to the Governor of Virginia, upon the defensive protection of the frontiers of that State

Contemporary clerical copy signed by chief clerk of the War Department, John Stagg, Jr. The letters concern protection of the Virginia frontier against Indians, emphasizing President Washington's view "that all parts of the union ought to be...

GLC00813

to Richard Varick

Letter discusses several wartime matters: George Washington's desire for Varick to build an unspecified fortification, a lack of intelligence from Nathanael Greene and the Marquis de Lafayette, and reports of "a partial action between the Marquis and...

GLC00816

to James Blood

Stevens, chairman of the National Democratic Executive Committee, garners support for the Democratic Party prior to the 1860 Presidential election. He informs Blood, a customs collector at Newburyport, Massachusetts, that the organizers of an...

GLC00817

[An act to establish the Judicial Courts of the United States]

Printed document signed by Jefferson as Secretary of State. Signed in type by Jonathan Trumbull as Speaker of the House, John Langdon as President pro tempore of the Senate, and George Washington as President. Results of the second session of the...

GLC00818

to James Wilson

Colonel Gibson writes from the Headquarters of General Daniel Weisiger Adams's Brigade. He informs Wilson, Assistant Adjutant General of John Cabell Breckinridge's Division, of the details of the recent Battle of Chickamauga. He reports that Adams's...

GLC00821

to unknown

Wilson, a Republican Senator from Massachusetts, replies to a previous note sent by an unknown recipient. Provides a list of Republicans who might be interested in anti-Democratic Party ideas, including Maine Governor Israel Washburn, Jr. Reports...

GLC00789

to Peggy Fabian

He writes to a young lady with his "hope that you grow up a staunch American woman - and a lady." Letter written on personal stationary.

GLC00793

[George H. Butler's Diary for 1865]

Autograph manuscript signed of George H. Butler, who served in G Company, 12th Wisconsin Infantry, 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 17th Army Corps. Signed and dated 28 January 1865 on free front endpaper. Discusses the march through the Carolinas and the...

GLC00794

[Order to pay troops protecting the southwest frontier]

Issues William Rickard, paymaster pro tem for the territory south of the Ohio River, $279 for payment "of a Detachment of Mounted Infantry" in Colonel Isaac Roberts' regiment, under the command of Sergeant John Childress. Pay was for work from 11...

GLC00795

The Negro forget-me-not songster, the only work published, containing all the Negro songs, that have ever appeared.

Signed on free front endpaper by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "H. W. Longfellow." Original cloth spine laid onto modern leather. Title on spine: "Nigga forget-me-not songster." Published by Turner & Fisher. Songs written in "dialect," and some are...

GLC00796

[Certification of duty payment on rum]

Partly printed document signed by Clymer as Supervisor of the Revenue for the district of Pennsylvania attests that the duties had been paid on "one Puncheon of Rum containing one hundred & fifteen gallons..." Marked "No. 3294." Clymer served as...

GLC00797

to Gideon Pillow

Letter written on patriotic Confederate stationery featuring a portrait of Jefferson Davis. Charles E. Cassitt, Captain of the "Shelby Rifles" under Colonel J. Knox Walker, writes about the incompetence and lying of his commanding office. Noted at...

GLC00798

to Levi Woodbury

The letter is introducing Henry Lee to the recipient, and requesting that Woodbury offer any possible assistance on his research of a recent war.

GLC00801

to J.B. Allen

McKinley appoints Allen to the Commission appointed by Congress to indicate the position of Ohio regiments in the battle of Antietam. Allen, 19 years old in the battle, fought with the 23rd Ohio Regiment. Letter written on State of Ohio, Executive...

GLC00802

[Veto of New York State Assembly Bill Introductory Number 833, Printed Number 875]

Veto of "an ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to punishment for receiving deposits in insolvent banks." Roosevelt vetoes the bill commenting, "I am unwilling to accept a bill that lessens the penalty for this peculiarly outrageous breach of...

GLC00803

to B. Rush Stoddard

Signs a letter with his title as "Brig. Genl. C.S.A. Prisoner of War on Parole," in compliance with Stoddard's request, possibly for an autograph.

GLC00805

Copy of telegram in cipher to Jefferson Davis

Recipient's copy of a telegram to Confederate President Jefferson Davis written in Confederate cipher, decoded above each line of the message in pencil. The telegram concerns military strategy and Beauregard's advice not to divide the Army of...

GLC00806

[Special requisition for bounty money]

Special requisition for bounty money for the one hundred and twenty six recruits. Lists names of soldiers of the 32nd Regiment, Mississippi Volunteers. Created by Colonel M. P. Laury and approved by Confederate Brigadier General Sterling A. M. Wood...

GLC00807

Collection of three letters of George E. Farmer [Decimalized .01- .03]

April 14, 1865 - May 4, 1865

GLC00808

Unconditional Union Ticket

Union ticket for Abraham Lincoln for President and Andrew Johnson for Vice President. Printed in blue and red inks. Lists presidential electors from Indiana for the Lincoln-Johnson ticket for the 1864. Printed with image of a canon and flag....

GLC00809

Cabinet portrait of Daniel Butterfield, signed

Signed and dated on mount. 3/4 bust profile

GLC00810

to George Clinton

Hamilton writes to Clinton in Poughkeepsie, New York to inform him that he wants to return to private occupations and will resign his office as a New York member of the Continental Congress within ten days.

GLC00812