15 April 1782

Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Muster roll for the 3rd Company, 7th Massachusetts Regiment]

Signed by Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben as Major General and Inspector General of the United States Army, certifying the muster roll as valid. Signed by Gamaliel Bradford as Lieutenant. Plus five collateral newspapers clippings that seem unrelated.

GLC03847

May 1782

Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794

Document signed

Title: Roll and muster of the 3rd company 7th Massachusetts regument taken for the month of May 1782

General Von Steuben signs as Inspector General of the Army of the United States. Captain Rufus Lincoln signifies that the muster roll is accurate on the 30 June 1782. Lists the names of soldiers in Lincoln's company. Small tear in the top center.

GLC03848

1813-1820

Hewson, John, 1744-1821

Header Record

Title: Letters to Rufus Lincoln [Decimalized .01-.08]

Includes personal news and an account of his escape from the British in New York in 1778. Accompanied by a sheet of paper that appears to have originally stored the documents, stating "Capt Hewsons Letters to my Father Rufus Lincoln." Includes a modern envelope that the letters may have been stored in. There are eight letters total.

GLC03849

1869

Valentine, Edward V., fl. 1866-1869

Photograph signed

Title: Carte de visite of Matthew Fonatine Maury

ANS of Edward V. Valentine, who took picture, on verso

GLC03850

1869

Peck, Jesse T., 1811-1883

Book signed

Title: The history of the great republic, considered from a Christian stand-point.

Signed by Joshua L. Chamberlain as Governor of Maine. Printed by Broughton and Wyman. Apparently a salesman's mock-up copy, containing binding samples and list of subscribers following the printed text. Chamberlain is one of 32 signers who were allowed the choice of extra cloth, library style, or half Turkey Morocco binding. Contains 36 pages of printed text and four pages of signatures. The final 15 pages, intended for signatures, are blank besides printed text indicating binding styles and the title of the book. Contains 10 plates of American historical figures. Bound in green cloth…

GLC03851

1898

Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence, 1828-1914

Book

Title: Maine at Gettysburg.

Title continues, Report of Maine Commissioners, Prepared by the Executive Committee. Chamberlain's presentation notice pasted onto the front flyleaf. Includes maps, photographs, narrative reports, rosters, monument dedications, and casualty reports.

GLC03852

28 June 1858

Ericsson, John, 1803-1889

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Letter to an unknown recipient that tells of a successful test of an engine. Says "The engine proved perfect on the first go off on Saturday and near worked for 7 hours without stopping."

GLC03855

January 1865 - December 1865

Vaughn, Charles E., fl. 1865

Diary

Title: Soldier's diary, Co. I, 7th Regt. Vermont Vols. re: Mobile, with photograph

The diary is about 65 pp. Includes a postwar cabinet photograph of an elderly Vaughn in uniform.

GLC03856

17 November 1861 - 1866

Eveleth, George M., 1837-1879

Header Record

Title: [Collection of George M. Eveleth, H company, 25th regiment, Massachusetts, infantry]

The correspondence concerns Roanoke Island, the Union advance on Richmond, joining Sherman's army. Also includes non-wartime letters.

GLC03857

1862-1864

Parrott, John A., fl. 1861-1877

Header Record

Title: [Collection of John A. Parrot, B company, 34th regiment, Illinois, infantry] [decimalized]

This is a collection of the Civil War letters of John A. Parrott to his family at home. 34th Illinois. Father is C Parrot Esqr. Emma? Wife Sarah. William? Most of John's letters are addressed to one of his sisters, though it is often unclear which sister he is writing to, Margaret or Sophia. There appear to be six letters from John to his sister Sophia Parrott (#2, #5, #11, #14, #17, #22). There appear to be four letters to Margaret Parrott (#6, #9, #16, #24). In addition, there are twelve ambiguous letters from John that are simply addressed to "Dear Sister" (#1, #7, #10, #12-13, #…

GLC03858.01

1861-1865 ca.

Parrott, Henry C., fl. 1861-1877

Header Record

Title: Lieut. in 75th Illinois Vols. [decimalized]

GLC03858.02

1862-1865

Parrott, Family, fl. 1862-1865

Header Record

Title: Letters, some wardate with post-war collateral, 15th Mich. Vols.

Collection includes 29 letters, 5 receipts, 1 drawing, 1 carte-de-visite, 3 news clippings and 10 envelopes.

GLC03858.03

1862-1865

Churchill, Byron, 1846-?

Header Record

Title: [Collection of Byron E. Churchill, A company, 15th regiment, Michigan, infantry] [decimalized]

Sometimes signs as "Biron." Churchill's mother was Drazilla of St. Joseph Co., Burr Oak, Mich. His regiment served at Shiloh, Corinth, Vicksburg and in the Atlanta campaign. His last letter in the field is dated Atlanta 8/24/1864 (#25); he was captured sometime after. In letter #26 of 4/11/1865 dated from General Hospital, David's Island, NY, a nurse writes that Byron was imprisoned "in that awful southern prison" at Florence SC for the winter, was exchanged 3/1/1865, spent a month in Hospital at Wilmington and was sent to NY. (No letters were written from prison.) Letters #26-32 were…

GLC03859

23 January 1862

Fitch, Alvah, 1828-?

Manuscript document

Title: Petition of inhabitants of Scipio and Venice to the Congress of the U. States

Inhabitants of Cayuga County, New York, ask Congress to pass a law "reducing all the rebellious States to Territories declare all the slaves free and as soon as the rebels can be drove out of a State or subdued give each resident of the State without regard to color a certain number of acres of land and so of legal Persons who will become occupants from other parts arm the men declare every male inhabitant 21 years of age or over a legal voter and give the inhabitants a right to form a State upon free republican principles." Signed by Fitch and 22 other residents of Scipio and Venice.

GLC03860

12 June 1789

Adams, John, 1735-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Cotton Tufts re: political matters: state debts, excise bill

Written as Vice President. In closing, Adams writes "[t]he Note inclosed in your Letter I burned as you directed as soon as I had read it: but not untill it had made too deep an Impression on my heart as well as Memory. -- What shall I do, with that tender hearted Fool?" Adams closes: "When will Mrs. A. come on? I suffer, very much for want of her assistance."

GLC03861

2 January 1851

Adams, Charles Francis, 1807-1886

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Edward Augustus Stansbury

Adams writes to Stansbury, editor of the "Free Soil Courier" in Burlington, Vermont. Attests "the report of what I said at the Convention in the eighth District, which nominated Mr. Mann, is misrepresented, as every thing is misrepresented which comes from the free soil men" (possibly referring to Horace Mann). Seeks to explain his position to Stansbury, arguing that he did not denounce the Democratic Party, but "I did intimate very distinctly that with the other class in both parties, the old, resolute, proslavery set, who consider the maintenance of the country to depend upon the…

GLC03863

15 November 1775

Adams, John, 1735-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Richard Henry Lee

Adams outlines the government that he envisions for America, that it should have executive, legislative and judicial branches, similar to the colonial government of Massachusetts. He also argues for a bicameral legislature and insists that judges not have overlapping offices in the other branches. Adams draws to an end with comments about human nature and tyranny. He concludes "if such a Trifle will be of any service to you or any gratification of Curiousity, here you have it...." On the evening of 14 November 1775, Lee, a delegate to the Continental Congress from Virginia, visited Adams…

GLC03864

7 July 1864

Winslow, John Ancrum, 1811-1873

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Charles D. Cleveland

Written from the U.S.S. Kearsarge by Commander Winslow, who replies to a congratulatory note from Charles Dexter Cleveland, the U.S. consul at Cardiff, Wales. Winslow had sunk the C.S.S. Alabama off the coast of France on June 19, 1864, one of the most vaunted naval successes of the war, and complains here of the adulation of the public. Winslow remarks, "I went to Paris, hoping for quiet, and found the reverse. I had become a Lion, & all the nonsense consequent on the position, followed and I ran away to my ship where I intend to stay… Now I have had hard service, on the Mississippi, but…

GLC03867.01

14 July 1864

Semmes, Raphael, 1809-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Captain Davies

Tells Captain Davies he will be unable to visit Cambridge for "some weeks," even though he would like to go. Says he will visit him if he finds the time to make it to Cambridge. Also thanks Mrs. Davies for the invitation. Semmes was writing from the "Parsonage, Belsize Park, London, N.W.," which was the home of the Rev. Francis W. Tremlett where he was staying. The parsonage was known locally as the "Rebel's Roost," from the number of Confederate naval officers, agents, and diplomats who visited. Semmes was not able to make it to Cambridge because he was about to embark on a six-week tour of…

GLC03867.02

2 April 1865

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

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Godfrey Weitzel

Grant telegraphs instructions for what he thought might be the final assault on the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia. "You need not assault in the morning unless you have good reason for believing the enemy are leaving. We have a good thing of it now and in a day or two I think I will be able to send you all the troops necessary." Weitzel, who commanded the XXV Corps of the Army of the James, comprising several brigades of U.S. Colored Troops, led the occupation of Richmond on the following day. Also addressed to A. James. Written in pencil on stationery of the Head Quarters Armies…

GLC03868

8 April 1833

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lewis Cass

Writes to Secretary of War Cass to inform him that the Reverend Mr. Campbell of the Executive Committee of the Board of Foreign & Domestic Missionaries, who delivered this letter, was coming to talk with Cass about extending their missions to the Indians west of the Mississippi. Indicates that he has already "made known to him, that the Government cannot give permission, this must be obtained from the Indians, & when this is done, we will freely give our assent."

GLC03870

29 April 1861

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Printed document signed

Title: [President Abraham Lincoln appoints William W. Ross as an agent for the Pottowatomie Indians in Kansas]

Countersigned by Caleb Blood Smith, Secretary of the Interior. Features embossed seal of the Department of the Interior.

GLC04206

9 August 1931

Carver, George Washington, 1864-1943

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Grady Porter

Carver, a celebrated agricultural chemist, requests peanut vines from Porter, a researcher from a peanut processing plant in Columbus, Georgia. In an attempt to assist Porter in peanut planting and diagnosing peanut disease, Carver states that wilted vines are acceptable. Requests that Porter bring the vines next time he travels to Tuskegee. Comments on the large quantity of rain Tuskegee recently received. Written on Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute stationery, with an envelope containing the printed return address of the Director, Research and Experiment Station, Tuskegee…

GLC04207

1 November 1836

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Document signed

Title: [Pardon of Richard W. Davis for cruelly and inhumanly beating a Negro in Georgetown].

Countersigned by Acting Secretary of State Asbury Dinkins. Pardoned by Jackson after serving his one-month prison sentence because Davis was unable to pay a fine of $10 and court costs, and on the recommendation of the judge and the district attorney that he was a fit subject for clemency.

GLC04211

1878

Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887

Book signed

Title: United States Commission of fish and fisheries. Part IV. Report of the Commissioner for 1875-1876.

Includes sections: A. "An Inquiry into the decrease of the Food-Fishes" and B. "The Propagation of Food-Fishes in the waters of the United States." Printed by the Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. An extensive history of fisheries (including the Grand Banks) and whaling from the earliest times. Includes in Part II, The History of The American Whale-Fishery from Its Earliest Inception to the Year 1876, by Alexander Starbuck, 768 pages. With "Public Document. Free Senate US." bookplate on inside front cover signed by Senator William B. Allison for G. C. Van Allen.

GLC04213