25 September 1864

Johnson, Bushrod Rust, 1817-1880

Endorsement signed

Title: Endorsement on petition requesting that Scout E. Walker be held

Endorsement on verso of a 2 September petition written in Pitch County. In the petition, twelve men request that Colonel George Wortham allow Elijah M. Walker, Company F., 49th North Carolina Infantry, to remain as a scout for Bertie County. Petitioners cite that during Walker's service there, "Bertie has ceased to be a rendezvous for Buffaloes and deserters as it formerly was," and that Walker suceeded in checking "a large and unlawful blockade trade in cotton." Petition signed by Captain Edward Payson George, J. S. Wiggis, Colonel J. J. Rhodes, Aaron O. Askew, A. J. Askew, Etherton…

GLC02396

1792/11/18

Wayne, Anthony, 1745-1796

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Elliott and Williams

Explains that while he had suggested a certain level of meat rations for the recipients troops, the Secretary of War has chosen a different amount. Though he disagrees with the Secretary, he advises the recipients to follow this higher authority. These orders are part of the planning for battle against the Indians.

GLC02397

January 20, 1828

Houston, Sam, 1793-1863

Document signed

Title: [Land grant for James Gillispie]

Land grant for James Gillispie for a land grant in Tennessee. Docketed on verso. Signed by Sam Houston as governor of Tennessee. Also signed by secretary Daniel Graham. Red tinted seal on top left.

GLC02398

1838/04/08

Houston, Sam, 1793-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Albert S. Johnston re: preparing for attack on San Antonio

Signed as General. Commanding Johnston to have all militia in readiness for a possible attack, and giving permission to organize a military court. Houston also asks that Johnston inform the Comanche Indians and, if possible, to allow their chiefs visit the seat of government.

GLC02401

1825/10/15

Robertson, Felix Huston, 1839-1928

Document signed

Title: Leftwich grant of stock in Texas Association

Also signed by J.P. Erwin. Streeter 1087, locating only two copies.

GLC02402

1860/02/21

Ford, John S., 1815-1897

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Samuel Houston re: attempts to restore order on Rio Grande

Retained copy of correspondence. Written at Camp Ronsano on the Rio Grande

GLC02404

circa 1870

Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant, 1818-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: Testimonial regarding eyeglasses

Testimonial, also signed by former Confederate generals Simon B. Buckner, William J. Hardee, Jubal A. Early, and William Mahone. Signers claim "Hurtz V. [Leja] has supplied us with spectacles which suit out eyes far better than any we have ever before used. He requires but a single glance at the eye to enable him to tell all it needs in the article of spectacles." Circa date previously inferred.

GLC02405

1865 ca.

Photograph signed

Title: [Carte de visite of Edmind K. Smith]

Signed on mount as commander of the Trans-Mississippi Dept.

GLC02406

1864/09/02

Allen, Henry Watkins, 1820-1866

Letter signed

Title: to Texas Confederate Cotton Office re: trading 1000 bales for $70,000

Signed as Governor of Lousiana. Colonel Hutchins was Chairman of the Texas (Confederate) Cotton Office. Mentions that the deal has been approved by Gen. Smith (E.K. Smith)

GLC02407

January 23, 1865

Trenholm, George Alfred, 1806-1876

Letter signed

Title: to Charles Clark

Trenholm, Secretary of the Confederate Treasury, discusses the preparation and transmission of bonds from the Register. Informs Clark, Governor of Mississippi, that it will be impossible to furnish bonds smaller than $500. Written on Confederate States of America Treasury Department stationery. "The Register has been instructed to prepare the bonds, and transmit them as early as possible to Mr. Whitfield. It will not be possible, I think, to furnish any bonds of smaller denominations than $500...."

GLC02408

6 April 1861

Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876

Autograph letter signed

Title: [General Bragg discusses military matters in the Pensacola area]

Bragg (Confederate) states "Our truce remains in force, 'They are not to reinforce, We are not to attack.' It is being carried out by both parties so far. All kinds of supplies ... were being furnished the enemy when I got here. I have stopped that process after much trouble, and now only allow officers stores." Reports that Andrew Barry Moore, the Governor of Alabama, and Colonel Hardee (possibly William Joseph Hardee) "have given permission for a continuance of this trade from Mobile, but my orders are to scuttle all vessels captured in it, and my volunteers will do it. There is no law…

GLC02409

4 December 1861

Lovell, Mansfield, 1822-1884

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Major General Lewis

General Lovell, in charge of Confederate defenses at New Orleans, writes to General Lewis (possibly John Lawson Lewis, of the Louisiana militia). Reports that he has placed two heavy guns in Lafayette Square, and hopes to place two more in the battery near the mint "for the purpose of instructing the volunteers in the heavy gun drill." Wants to coordinate plans with Lewis. Written on Confederate States of America, Head Quarters, Dept. 1 stationery.

GLC02410.01

12 July 1863

Cleveland, Thomas P., fl. 1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Emily J. Semmes

Cleveland, Emily and Paul Semmes's nephew, describes in detail Semmes's death. General Semmes was mortally wounded in Longstreet's charge at Gettysburg and died in the retreat. Sends the letter care of Captain Cody. Emily Semmes wrote a note on the envelope reading "This package dearest of all. E.J.S." "…I tried to get leave of absence to come home with the corpse, but failed. But as we will not be able to send it at this time perhaps it is all for the best. Oh! how I long to see you all & tell you how noble, brave & patriotic he was while living...above all, how happy & serene…

GLC02411

5 July 1863

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

Manuscript document

Title: [General orders regarding military strategy after the surrender of Vicksburg, Mississippi]

Instructs the 13th, 15th, and 9th Army Corp in the route each should take to reach Clinton in an attempt to capture Confederate forces retreating from Vicksburg. Sherman orders, "All commanders will hold their troops in perfect order for Battle at all times, and on encountering the enemy will engage him at once." Warns against pillage and plunder. "the people of the country should be protected as far as possible against the cruel and wanton acts of irresponsible parties." Docketed on top of first page, "Original Orders - found near Clinton [Miss.] on the 8th of July, 1863" Written from…

GLC02412

27 December 1863

Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894

Letter signed

Title: to M. S. Worth

General Banks informs Miss Worth of Albany, New York that "The Ladies of the North were gratefully and enthusiastically remembered by the soldiers in the Hospitals of this Department on Christmas Day ... The sweetest earthly solace that a stricken soldier can receive is to know that the women of his Country appreciate his sacrifices and are willing to give their hours of leisure and luxury to his care and comfort ... "

GLC02413

1862-1866

Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894

Header Record

Title: [Collection of Eliakim P. Scammon, 23rd regiment, Ohio, infantry] [decimalized]

Documents pertaining to the Civil War in West Virginia consisting of letters, telegrams, documents, drafts, notes, etc. Scammon saw duty in West Virginia (and briefly captured Feb. 1864-Aug. 1864) and, after the war, was assigned duty in South Carolina and Florida on the Military Examining Board (deciding which officers remained in the army). The collection includes: three ALSs of future President Rutherford B. Hayes, and correspondence with him, Gettysburg-related material (Scammon was ordered to attack Lee's retreating forces), correspondence to and from Scammon, telegrams while in…

GLC02414

5 July 1863

White, Julius, 1816-1890

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Eliakim P. Scammon

Reports cavalry attacks on Confederates after Gettysburg.

GLC02414.001

5 July 1863

David, T. B. A., fl. 1862-1863

Autograph document signed

Title: Telegraph to Eliakim P. Scammon

Written by the Assistant Superintendent of Military Telegraphs to Union Brigadier General Scammon. Informs Scammon that the news from Gettysburg is that General Robert E. Lee has sent in the flag of truce. "Lee sent in Flag of Truce, asking cessation hostilities to enable him bury his dead. [General George] Meade replied only conditions was unconditional surrender." States that Meade captured 15,000 prisoners and 118 guns.

GLC02414.002

30 July 1864

Smith, Austin, fl. 1864

Manuscript

Title: [Copy of report to William P. Fessenden about the first Federal income tax Florida]

Reports the results of his inquiry into the "practices & procedures & acts of the Tax Commissioners of the Insurrectionary Districts..." Informs that the Florida Direct Tax Commissioners were appointed in October 1862, and that since then, they have made two land sales, at Fernandina and St. Augustine, both of which have been alleged to be illegal. He states that if this is the case, "the Tax Commission has so far proved an entire failure...the salaries of the Commissioners & other expenses have more than consumed the amount of money received." Blames Commissioner S. D.…

GLC02414.003

11 July 1862

Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894

Autograph endorsement signed

Title: [Scammon endorsement on an autograph letter signed from John H. Groce]

Writes to Scammon, Colonel commanding the 1st Prov. Brigade in Camp Jones, West Virginia, about Confederate informers. Informs Scammon of "a suspicious looking man skulking along the road" whom they brought with them into camp but escaped on route. Groce sent men in pursuit. He learned today that a group of Bushwhackers is forming six miles from here and that they have "a route some where between here and Flat Top by which information is carried backward and forward to the enemy, women being the messengers." On verso is a lengthy autograph endorsement signed by Scammon reacting to this…

GLC02414.004

15 December 1862

Cox, Jacob D., 1828-1900

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Eliakim P. Scammon

Union Major General Cox writes to Brigadier General Scammon commanding the 2nd Kanawha Division in Fayette County, West Virginia. Discusses a disagreement about the detailing of medical officers to batteries.

GLC02414.005

15 December 1862

Ewing, Hugh B., 1826-1905

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Eliakim P. Scammon

Ewing writes to Scammon, Brigadier General commanding the 2nd Division, Kanawha in Fayette, Virginia, to state that he saw Scammon's family in Cincinnati, Ohio. Encloses a letter from them (not present). Says he urged Mrs. Scammon to come with them but she declined. Written shortly before Scammon was promoted to Brigadier General in December 1862, and before Ewing was promoted to Brigadier General in November 1862. Ewing, foster brother William Tecumseh Sherman, became his most trusted subordinate. He serve at South Mountain, Antietam, in the Second Vicksburg campaign and Missionary Ridge.…

GLC02414.006

18 December 1862

Ewing, Hugh B., 1826-1905

Letter signed

Title: to Eliakim P. Scammon

Writes to Brigadier General Scammon, commanding 2nd Division Kanawha. Introduces an informant named Henry McGlaughlin, a citizen of Virginia and a former scout for the 30th Regiment O.V.I. [Ohio Volunteer Infantry?]. There is an autograph endorsement on the verso, possibly by Scammon but unsigned, noting the location of Confederate Generals John B. Floyd and Humphrey Marshall.

GLC02414.007

December 31, 1862

Bascom, G. M., fl. 1862

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Eliakim P. Scammon

Writes to Brigadier General Scammon commanding Kanawha division in Fayetteville, West Virginia. Transmits the private papers of General Beckley [possibly Alfred Beckley]. By command of Major General Jacob Dolson Cox. Bascom signs as Major and Assistant Adjutant General.

GLC02414.008

January 13, 1863

Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Eliakim P. Scammon

Discusses the deployment of three companies to Gauley Mount, West Virginia. Gives his ideas on what the troops should do and comments, "I mention this because I doubt the safety and the utility of posting a small force at Gauley Mountain." Mentions that a Colonel Hatfield has claimed an older commission than Hayes and he says this is not true. "No new Colonel must be put over me without a full Consideration of sundry matters..." Written at Camp Reynolds

GLC02414.009