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April 22, 1864

Gorsuch, Joseph B., 1834-1908

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph Curtis

Gorsuch, Captain and Provost Marshal 13th Corps, Army of the Tennessee, writes to his uncle. He states that he just arrived, on the ship Clinton, from Texas. He refers to mutual acquaintances (possibly from Butler County, Ohio) including Captain Cummins and Elisha Lesourd. He reports that General John Alexander McClernand is in Louisiana to help reinforce the Red River Campaign. He relates that much has been said regarding General Nathaniel Prentiss Banks's choice to order McClernand to Texas instead of to command active portions of the 13th Corps in the Campaign. He requests acknowledgment…

GLC00653.09.16

June 1, 1864

Unknown

Note

Title: Note regarding a case of malaria

In the collection of Joseph B. Gorsuch, Captain and Provost Marshal 13th Corps, Army of the Tennessee. Letter written in pencil. The author states "I have taken a fever from the poison of the southern malaria and become very weak. I am getting better now I have no idea when I will be able to go now, so it would barely be worthwhile for you to remain on my account... Tell Col [Warmouth] that I tried to write a letter to the General but was unable..." A note on verso, also in pencil, indicates that the author should return to his regiment, and that the Provost Marshal will send him there if his…

GLC00653.09.17

20 August 1864

Lesourd, Elisha, 1842-1888

Document signed

Title: [Resolutions passed at a meeting of Company I, 83rd Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry]

Sergeant Lesourd and Privates John Wilkinson and William A. Simpson draft resolutions following the death of Joseph Gorsuch, former Captain of the company and Provost Marshal, 13th Corps, Army of the Tennessee. Relate that Gorsuch died at Hamilton, Ohio 6 August 1864. Resolution II states "That in the death of Captain Joseph B. Gorsuch we sustain the loss of a faithful friend, a bright example, And a brave and efficient Officer. Our Country, a well tried and true Soldier and Officer. Our Flag, a devoted admirer and gallant defender..." The committee notes that a copy of the resolutions…

GLC00653.09.18

August 22, 1864

Kearns, Joseph V., fl. 1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph Curtis

Kearns, commanding Company I, 83rd Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, writes to Curtis in Hamilton, Ohio. He encloses resolutions expressing the Company's sentiments regarding the death of Captain Joseph B. Gorsuch (refer to GLC00653.09.18). He intends the enclosed resolutions for Laura Gorsuch, possibly Joseph Gorsuch's sister. Includes news of the company.

GLC00653.09.19

circa 1862-1864

Gorsuch, Joseph B., 1834-1908

Envelope

Title: unknown

The two envelopes held correspondence sent from Gorsuch, Captain and Provost Marshal of the 13th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to his aunt and uncle in Hamilton, Ohio. One envelope indicates a date of July 30, though no year is cited. On the other envelope, the date is obscured.

GLC00653.09.20

1861-1865

Unknown

Envelope

Title: Envelope addressed to Joseph Curtis of Hamilton, Ohio

Curtis was the uncle of Joseph B. Gorsuch, Captain and Provost Marshal of the 13th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee. Indicates a date of August 30, though no year is included. Firm of Shafer, Curtis & Patten is written at the bottom of the envelope.

GLC00653.09.21

circa 1864

Engraving

Title: [Print of General Philip Henry Sheridan]

Depicts Sheridan seated in military uniform, hat in hand, with a sword leaning against a table beside him. He appears to be in a tent. Possibly based on an 1864 photograph by Mathew Brady, though the tent and chair have been slightly altered in the engraving.

GLC00653.12.02

20 September 1864

Day, Albert A., 1840-?

Map

Title: Rough sketch of Richmond & Petersburg and surrounding works & railroads

Author is Captain Albert A. Day of Company K, 20th Michigan Infantry, 9th Corps. The map notes rail roads, General Ulysses S. Grant's supply train, Jerusalem Plank Road, Deep Bottom, Jones's Neck, Malvern Hill, Chickahominy River, the fortifications of Richmond and Petersburg, Union lines surrounding Petersburg, the Weldon Rail Road, Reams Station, Confederate works surrounding Petersburg, and the Appomattox and James Rivers, among other features. Possibly drawn in Virginia.

GLC02249.02

6 July 1863

Hodges, George P., fl. 1863-1894

Printed document signed

Title: [Parole for Hodges, a Confederate Prisoner of War]

Partially printed document created at Vicksburg, indicating that Hodges, "a Prisoner of War…in virtue of the capitulation of the City of Vicksburg," vows not to take up arms against the United States. Also signed by Captain Jonathan O. [Dun?] of Illinois Volunteers as paroling officer. Docketed by M. F. Berry, Major and Assistant Adjutant General, Captain [T. C. McMakin?], and E. [R.?] Early. Berry's docket grants Hodges furlough.

GLC02386.01

2 April 1894

Bruster, Joe, fl. 1894

Document

Title: [Certification card for George P. Hodges's delegation to the United Confederate Veterans Reunion]

Reunion to be held at Birmingham, Alabama 25-26 April 1894. Authorized by Commander Joe Bruster and H. E. Bradford, Secretary. Card created at Bell County United Confederate Veterans camp number 122.

GLC02386.02

circa 1917

Jones, J.C., fl. 1917

Printed document

Title: An act providing for the return of pension warrants where the pensioner dies during the quarter for which the warrant was issued...

... (title continues) the cancellation of the same, and the issuance of a Mortuary Warrant to pay the funeral expenses of the deceased pensioner, etc., and declaring an emergency. Enacted by the Texas State Legislature. Authorized by J. C. Jones, Commissioner of Pensions for Texas. Indicates that this act takes effect 1 April 1917.

GLC02386.03

15 December 1931

Lockhart, Charley, fl. 1898-1941

Typed letter signed

Title: [to Texas pension recipients]

Lockhart relates that since the pension fund is exhausted, he has been acquiring funds from the State Highway Investment Fund to pay pensioners. Writes "This fund is also exhausted, but as the Christmas holidays are nearing and I am desirous of assisting you in getting the cash on your hands in time to add a little sunshine to your Christmas cheer, I have asked that an additional amount be invested in your December warrants."

GLC02386.04

1861-1865

Photograph

Title: [Mom's Dad]

With the collection of George P. Hodges, who served in the Civil War as Sergeant in Company B, 37th Mississippi Infantry Regiment. Serves as a post card, depicting an old man seated in front of a brick wall.

GLC02386.05

circa 1861-1865

Object

Title: [George P. Hodges's First Lieutenant bars]

Hodges served in the Civil War as Sergeant in Company B, 37th Mississippi Infantry Regiment. Includes five bars of gold colored thread. Bars are mounted on cardboard, apparently by paste. Housed with a tan-colored envelope measuring 6.5 x 10.5 cm.

GLC02386.06

1861-1865

Object

Title: [Metal Civil War pin]

Possibly belonged to George P. Hodges. Indicates that Hodges served in Company B., 37th Mississippi Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. Contains four plates, each separated by one chain link. The back of the first (top) plate contains a pin.

GLC02386.07

1866

Johnson, Fry, & Co., fl. 1825-1873

Engraving

Title: [Engraving of Jefferson Davis]

Engraving based on the original painting by Alonzo Chappel.

GLC03384.02

8 April 1895

Grant, Frederick D., 1850-1912

Autograph letter signed

Title: to W. H. H. Llewellyn

Grant, eldest son of Ulysses S. Grant, writes to Llewellyn, a lawyer. Assures Llewelyn of the authenticity of a U.S. Grant letter (refer to GLC04907.02). Of the order, Frederick writes "In this order is directed one of the movements, which brought about the capture of Petersburg, Va, in 1865, referred to in Chapter LXIV p.p. 436-453. Voll II, Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant." Appreciates Llewellyn's decision to place the letter in the care of an unspecified historical society. Accompanied by two collateral maps; one depicts the Siege of Petersburg 31 March- 3 April 1865, and the other…

GLC04907.02

29 November 1861

Boughton, Nisbet & Barnes

Newspaper

Title: Daily federal union. [Vol. 4, no. 19 (November 29, 1861)]

Subjects include Lord Lyons and the capture of the Confederate commissioners Mason and Slidell, admission of Missouri to the Confederacy, 11 November 1861 proclamation from the governor to the volunteer militia companies of the state. This issue includes minutes of the gubernatorial and senatorial reports, and lists of elected senators, representatives, and war tax collectors. Inclues small sections of Southern news, including the secession of Missouri and an update of war events in Pensacola. Selected correspondence between Governor Joseph E. Brown and General William H.T. Walker highlights…

GLC05959.01.01

1 December 1861

Boughton, Nisbet & Barnes

Newspaper

Title: Daily federal union. [Vol. 4, no. 21 (December 1, 1861)]

Subjects include the advancing of General Price, Proclamation by Gov. Brown urging Georgians to fight, Affairs in Pensacola. This issue includes a story on a prisoner of war, Major Vodges, taken at the battle of Santa Rosa Island, and the account of a young soldier's last hour, dying from typhoid fever. Mrs. General Hansell of Marietta, known for her excellent housewifery, submits recipes for tallow candles and corning beef or pork. Papers are extremely frayed and the ink is fading.

GLC05959.01.02

3 December 1861

Boughton, Nisbet & Barnes

Newspaper

Title: Daily federal union. [Vol. 4, no. 22 (December 3, 1861)]

Subjects include proclamation by Gov. Brown urging Georgians to fight, Evacuation of Tybee, Our Defenses on Islands. This issue contains fragments of local war news stories, including information about the Richmond Dispatch, a report of the burial of a local war casualty, a report on island defense tactics, and an editorial criticizing the governor's lack of action to protect the coasts against attack.

GLC05959.01.03

5 December 1861

Boughton, Nisbet & Barnes

Newspaper

Title: Daily federal union. [Vol. 4, no. 24 (December 5, 1861)]

Gen. Bragg's congratulatory order. This issue reports the results of the electoral college electing Jefferson Davis and Alexander H. Stephens as president and vice president of the Confederacy. Various reports describe the state of war events at Pensacola, Paducha, Bowling Green, and Missouri. The issue contains a report from the Richmond Dispatch with the details of Colonel M. Cogswell, a prisoner of war. An article from the Knoxville Register describes the necessity of preparing for a feared Southern blockade by buying a crop of hogs, and another article describes the fear of a Mississippi…

GLC05959.01.04

6 December 1861

Boughton, Nisbet & Barnes

Newspaper

Title: Daily federal union. [Vol. 4, no. 25 (December 6, 1861)]

Proclamation by Joseph E. Brown. The capture of Montgomery and the surrounding of Siegel occupy the front page of this issue. Separate reports from Tennessee, Pensacola, and the Mississippi River detail war events. The Ladies Relief Society of Eatonton and Putnam County publish a statistical account of all their recent work, namely coats, shirts, pants, and socks made and sent to various locations. News from Europe is also included. Document has several watermarks and the ink is fading.

GLC05959.01.05