1 January 1861-21 October 1861

Averell, William W., 1832-1900

Diary

Title: [William Averell Civil War diary]

One of three of Union General Averell's Civil War-era diaries (see GLC06581.02-.03). The entries are highly detailed with a great deal of battle content, particularly cavalry actions. Also contains content related to his conversations with military and political figures, including Abraham Lincoln, that offer insight into many significant events of the war. Averell also jotted down small snatches of poetry and made several drawings. Memoranda sheets at ends have notes on them as well. Accompanied by three war-era notes from 1862 and three pressed flowers, originally contained in the…

GLC06581.01

1870

United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.

Book

Title: Organization of the bridge equipage of the United States Army, with directions for the construction of military bridges.

Signed by George W. Goethals, the engineer of the Panama Canal and dated December 1881. Printed by the Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. Contains six folding illustrations. With bookplate of Goethals on inside cover.

GLC06254

1900

Eldridge, W. C., fl. 1900

Book

Title: Elementary manual of practice. Civil war claims.

Manual regarding Civil War pension claims published by the Government Printing Office. Compiled by Eldridge and L. R. Ginn for the office of F. H. Morris, Auditor for the War Department. Includes information on Bounty Acts, veteran's status, heirship in bounty, desertion, death after discharge, recruits, volunteers, drafted men, substitutes, and instructions to African American soldiers, among other topics. Contains a sticker and imprint from Dover Public Library, Dover, New Hampshire. Includes handwritten numbers and letters underneath the title on page three.

GLC06264

25 October 1856

Miller, Daniel L., fl. 1856

Broadside

Title: ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD. Let every Voter Examine and Judge for Himself!

Election broadside focusing on the extension of slavery. Compares the Presidential platforms of James Buchanan/John C. Breckinridge and John C. Fremont/William L. Dayton. Buchanan/Breckinridge attest that "Congress has no Constitutional right to prohibit slavery in the territories, and that such prohibition would be inexpedient." Fremont/Dayton argue that "Congress has the Constitutional right, and that it is expedient, to prohibit both slavery and polygamy in the territories belonging to the people of the whole Union." Contains quotes from former United States leaders, including Thomas…

GLC06275

12 February 1897

Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Clara Hammond McGuigan

Bell writes to Superintendent of the Mystic Oral School McGuigan about current issues in deaf education. He is waiting in Washington because he may be called to testify before a Congressional Committee concerning a bill supported by both of them. Advises her how to respond to confusion about and criticism of the "oral method" of schooling deaf children. Includes his evaluation of the effectiveness of English, French, and German sign language.

GLC06277

10 July 1830

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Document signed

Title: [Patent for Enoch Honeywell's improvement, entitled the Water Elevator]

Signed by Jackson as President. Countersigned by Martin Van Buren as Secretary of State and John MacPherson Berrien as Attorney General. Honeywell's description of his invention is signed by F. R. Mudge and Marcellus Weston as witnesses. Contains a seal and blue ribbon.

GLC06279

1836/11/20

Houston, Sam, 1793-1863

Manuscript document

Title: Copy of Santa Anna's release as prisoner of war

Granting Santa Anna safe passage to Washington D.C.

GLC06284.01

January 1777- June 1778

North, Benjamin, fl. 1777-1778

Autograph manuscript

Title: [Receipt book noting supplies for the Continental Army]

Includes the faint signature of [Robert E. Turner?] on the outer front cover. The first entries are recorded at Peekskill; subsequent locations include White Plains, Fishkill, and Continental Village, New York; Stamford, Connecticut; Morristown and Bound Brook, New Jersey, among others. North, possibly a Quartermaster in General George Washington's army, record amounts paid for supplies. Records the purchase of hay, horses, oxen, carts, and horseshoes, among various other items. Also records payment for services, such as for driving oxen.

GLC06300

1801

Eddy, Thomas, fl. 1801

Book

Title: An Account of the state prison or penitentiary house [New York]

[Title continued] "In the state of New York. By one of the Inspectors of the Prison."

GLC06252

1849-1908

Van Valkenburgh, Franklin Butler, 1835-1924

Header Record

Title: Lawyer's papers [Decimalized .01- .23]

Collection of 23 letters to and by Van Valkenburgh, a Milwaukee lawyer, regarding developments of his family and country for 50 years. Related to GLC 686, Van Valkenburgh collection, which includes some letters written by and to him. See especially GLC 686.33-35, photographs of Franklin Butler Van Valkenburgh.

GLC06253

1806

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

Pamphlet

Title: Mr. Adams's Oration.

Elongated title on title page: "An Inaugural Oration, Delivered at the Author's Installation, as Boylston Professor of Rhetorick and Oratory, at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. On Thursday, 12 June, 1806." Adams explains "the immeasurable superiority of ancient over modern oratory...The assemblies of the people, of the select councils, or of the senate in Athens Rome were held for the purpose of real deliberation. The fate of measures was not decided before they were proposed. Eloquence produced a powerful effect, only upon the minds of the hearers, but upon the issue of…

GLC06255

2 November 1842

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James S. Irwin

Writes that he and Stephen T. Logan, his law partner, will attend to any business in the Supreme Court Irwin sends to them. States that it is impossible to establish fees that will apply to all cases and makes it clear that they will require payment in advance. "We believe we are never accused of being very unreasonable in this particular; and we would always be easily satisfied, provided we could see the money -- but whatever fees we earn at a distance, if not paid before we have noticed we never hear of after the work is done -- We therefore, are growing a little sensitive on that part…

GLC06256

1781/04/24

Wetherill, Samuel J., Jr., fl. 1781

Broadside

Title: Address to those... people called Quakers

Calls upon them to join together and bear arms during the Revolution. Printed by Francis Bailey.

GLC06257

1777

Pemberton, Israel, fl. 1777

Pamphlet

Title: An Address to the inhabitants of Pennsylvania, by those freemen, of the city of Philadelphia, who are now confined in the Mason's lodge.

Title continues: "by virtue of a general warrant, signed in council by the Vice President of the council of Pennsylvania." Signed on p. 52 by Pemberton and twenty-one others. Includes copies of orders of the Supreme Executive Council, remonstrances addressed to the Council, and other papers upon the state's arrest of Quakers (including himself) on suspicion of Loyalist sympathies during the Revolutionary War, and their confinement without a hearing or trial. Printed by Robert Bell. Evans 15496.

GLC06258

1763

Book

Title: Laws of New York, 1691-1762

First complete, condensed compilation. vol. 1 created 1752, vol. 2 created 1762

GLC06259

1765

Rogers, Robert, 1731-1795

Book

Title: Journals of ... several excursions ... during the late war

[Complete title] "Journal of Major Robert Rogers containing an account of the several excursions he made under the generals who commanded upon the continent of North America, during the late war." Printed for the author. With 3 pages of advertisements. With manuscript bill of account pasted on front pastedown signed by Noah Smith and countersigned by Elijah Williams.

GLC06260

4 February 1835

Palmer, Hastings D., 1806-1879

Document signed

Title: [Receipt for payment for a slave named Eliza]

Adam Poole pays Palmer $500 for "a negro girl of dark complexion, about sixteen years of age, known by the name of Eliza or 'Lize,' which I warrant to be sound in body and mind as well as a slave for life." Attested to by [Jessi H. Cleveland?].

GLC06261.01.01

18 September 1852

Napier, John E., fl. 1852

Autograph letter signed

Title: [Bill of sale for a female slave named America and her child]

Napier sells America, a nineteen year old slave, and her six week old child to James Chambers for $675. Attests that the slaves are "sound and slaves for life..."

GLC06261.02

2 May 1797

Carondelet, Francisco Luis Héctor, barón de, 1748-1807

Document signed

Title: [Hand-drawn map and written description of land grant in Feliciana District of Louisiana along the Mississippi River] [in Spanish]

Countersigned by Carlos Trudeau. Hand-drawn map, marked No. 893, on top half of recto. Delineates land boundaries that the written part of the document seems to describe. Red wax stamp on page three. Note near docket says "Recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the Commissioner of the lands claims west of Pearl River and East of Mississippi."

GLC06262

23 December 1797

Lemos, Manuel Gayoso de, 1747-1799

Manuscript document signed

Title: [in Spanish]

Written by Gayoso de Lemos as Spanish Governor of Louisiana. Bound with string.

GLC06263

1908

Morton, Jack, fl. 1908

Postcard

Title: [Color reproduction of a photograph depicting the lynching of four African Americans]

Beside the photo on the front of the postcard, printed text indicates that the lynching took place at Russellville, Kentucky, and the photograph was taken 1 August 1908. Depicts several lynching victims hung on a cedar tree. Caption states that "[t]his is a multiple cedar tree and these four make a total of nine men lynched on this tree, some were white men." Photograph includes two witnesses watching the lynching. A warning sign hangs from the neck of one lynched man. On verso, printed text indicates placement of address and stamp. Copyrighted by Morton, a salesman in Nashville,…

GLC06265

1862-1864

Pope, Albert, fl. 1861-1864

Header Record

Title: Journal of the Southern campaign (2 v.) with album of 22 cartes de visite [Decimalized .01- .02]

Pope belonged to Company I, 35th Massachusetts Volunteers. The manuscript consists of 2 volumes (total 414 p.). Battle content on Antietam, Fredericksburg and Vicksburg. Also mentions contrabands and General Ambrose Burnside. The accompanying album has 22 cartes.

GLC06266

circa 1861

Pope, Albert, fl. 1861-1864

Photograph album

Title: [Collateral photograph album, with carte de visites]

GLC06266.02

31 July 1864

Hawkins, John P., 1830-1914

Autograph letter signed

Title: [Reprimand regarding delayed obedience to orders]

Brigadier General Hawkins instructs the commander of the 2nd Brigade, United States Colored Troops to inform the Colonels of the 50th and 52nd Regiment, and the Quartermaster of the 47th Regiment that their long delay in obeying orders "makes their conduct very much like disobedience of orders When an order is issued it is expected that it will be obeyed as soon as practicable ... " This note appears to have been clipped from another, larger document and contains unrelated handwritten text on the reverse side.

GLC06267

1862-1864

Stuart, James, fl. 1862-1869

Header Record

Title: [Collection of James M. Stuart, C company, 94th regiment, Ohio, infantry] [decimalized]

Includes 22 letters from Stuart, and one letter to Stuart. Mentions General Nathan Bedford Forrest, playing ball and anti-black sentiment. Also discusses Sherman's March to the sea: "I suppose we will stop at Savannah, Ga. It will take us 30 or 40 days to go through. Sherman calculates to burn up everything as they go."

GLC06268