1865/05/04

Steele, Frederick, 1819-1868

Document

Title: General Orders no. 3 [inability of government to help black refugees]

Informing people that "destitution and distress is likely to arise from the influx of the colored population into this city. People of this class are informed that it is impossible for the United States Government to feed them and they are advised to remain of the plantations and assist to raise crops to keep themselves and their children from starving." Signed by Joseph Lymun as Adjutant General to Major General F. Steele.

GLC07293

1862/04/30

Halleck, H.W. (Henry Wager), 1815-1872

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Maj. Gen. George Thomas re: orders during the battle of Shiloh

Directing Thomas that he "will immediately advance one division to Monterey to occupy that place, supporting it by you other divisions so far as may be necessary." Came with carte-de-visite.

GLC07294

1798

Manuscript

Title: A Colloquy on the Necessity of Energy of Government (attached to newspaper cover)

Anonymous pro-federalist manuscript (bound within a newspaper), a dialogue between "Grenville- A Monarchist, Belmont- A Democrat, Lawrence- A Federalist," describing the direction of a new governement.

GLC07295

1797

Sampson, Deborah, 1760-1827

Book

Title: The Female Review or memoirs of an American Young Lady / by Herman Mann

Romanticized biography of Deborah Sampson, a soldier during the Revolutionary War in the 4th MA regiment. With frontispiece portrait of her, and list of subscribrs.

GLC07296

1822

Melish, John, 1771-1822

Book

Title: A geographical description of the United States, with the contiguous countries, including Mexico and the West Indies, intended as an accompaniment to Melish's map of these countries.

Collateral to GLC)4319, the 1823 edition of Melish's Map of the United States. Contains many unpaginated plates, including a center plate that folds out. In the preface, Melish notes that the first edition of this work was published in 1816.

GLC07297

1798-1813

Stanford, John, fl. 1798-1813

Autograph manuscript

Title: Diaries of itinerant Baptist preacher and humanitarian

Stanford was a Baptist preaching working in New York, Connecticut and Pennsylvania at the beginning of the Second Great Awakening. The diaries are dated 1) February-March 1798; 2) January-July 1799; 3) September-December 1799; 4) January-December 1800; 5) January-December 1801; 6) January-December 1807; 7) January 1812-June 1813. The diaries chiefly record Stanford's spiritual reflections and his activities as a preacher.

GLC07298

1876/04/27

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

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: Joseph C. Audenreid.

Discusses moving back to Washington after establishing his role in government. On "Headquarters Army of United States" stationary.

GLC07925

1896/01/31

Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915

Typed document

Title: Address of Booker T. Washington, principal of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama, before the Hamilton Club, Chicago

With autograph corrections. Washington's address establishes that he believes in the African American to be the glue that holds and can hold the North and the South together. He believes that African Americans in both the North and South struggle to better themselves as individuals and as a people, and that this can help improve both regions.

GLC07934

1775/09/06

Arnold, Benedict, 1741-1801

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: Mr. Deane.

Account of Ticonderoga.

GLC07938

1863/01/15

Bates, Edward, 1793-1869

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: Barton Bates.

Lincoln's mismanagement of war and weak leadership.

GLC07939

1954/05/17

Warren, Earl, 1891-1974

Pamphlet signed

Title: Brown v. Topeka Board of Education. Inscribed to Peter H. Brandt.

The Supreme Court's Decision declaring segregated schools unconstitutional.

GLC07940

1864/02/16

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Document signed

Title: Order.

Punishment of deserter William J. Chandler of Penn. Vols. on Executive Mansion stationary.

GLC07942

1864/04/12 ca.

Powell, Governor L., fl. 1864

Autograph note signed

Title: To: Abraham Lincoln.

Kentucky Governor Powell requested allowance of Confederate POW's to take the oath of Dec. 8th, including prisoners at Camp Chase, Johnson's Island, Camp Douglas, etc. With note and signature from Lincoln: "Excepting commissioned officers... let the within mentioned prisoners take the oath of December 8th, 1863 and be discharged." List of prisoners on verso.

GLC07943

1866/08/20

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

Document signed

Title: Authority to affix the seal to proclamation declaring the end of war in Texas.

Ending of the Civil War.

GLC07950.01

1867/10/07

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

Document signed

Title: Instructing William Seward to affix the seal to a proclamation

Correcting a previous proclamation of 20 August 1866.

GLC07950.02

1811/06/21

Madison, James, 1751-1836

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: Elbridge Gerry.

Growing crisis between the U.S. and Great Britain-marked "private."

GLC07951

1810/01/14

Ellery, William, 1727-1820

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: William Stedman.

Ellery feels that there should be no war with Great Britain.

GLC07922

1862/06-1863/05

Johnson, E. Emory, fl. 1862-1863

Autograph manuscript

Title: Journal of caseworker and surgeon's assistant with Sanitary Commission

Detailing medical care of Civil War patients. Notebook is housed with diary key.

GLC07923

1864/02/23

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Letter signed

Title: To: Anson Burlingame.

Authorizing Anson Burlingame to negotiate with Chinese to modify treaty article.

GLC07924

1871 ca.

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

Autograph quotation signed

Title: "We are sometimes asked in the name of patriotism..."

Quotation in full: "We are sometimes asked in the name of patriotism to forget the merits of this fearful conflict and to remember with equal admiration those who struck at the nation's life and those who struck to save it--those who fought for slavery and those who fought against it..."

GLC07926.01

1851/11/06

Buchanan, James, 1791-1868

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: James M.H. Beale.

Forney, a pro-slavery candidate, was "in favor of the maintenance and faithful execution of the fugitive slave laws...and of the suppression of all further agitation of the slavery question."

GLC07927

1776/11/15

Phillips, William, 1731-1781

Letter

Title: To: John Schank.

Phillips' reaction to a truce at Fort Ticonderoga

GLC07928

1815/02/13

Broadside

Title: Treaty of Ghent

Announcing the Treaty of Ghent. This broadside contains the news from both New York and London that peace between the United States and Great Britain had been signed..

GLC07929

1801/05/15

Ellery, Elmund, fl. 1801

Manuscript document signed

Title: Rhode Island issued warrant for seizure of the Schooner "Orange"

Schooner seized for trafficking slaves.

GLC07930

1833/08/28

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Tilghman Ashurst Howard

Constitution, slavery, banking, methods of electing the President: "If I can...only succeed in banishing...corrupting influences...on the Constitution and [attempts] to make the government an engine of oppression to the people instead of the agent of their will..."

GLC07931