7 May 1839

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Promisory note to Seth Hall for one dollar]

Promissory note to Seth Hall for one dollar. Signer may have the last name North, but it is hard to tell.

GLC02542.32.28

1763-1783

Note

Title: [Incomplete]

Fragment of a note or letter. The only legible words read "my Uncle of...Isiah Arnold Esq...Aged 83. born in...for Paul Collin...my Father James..."

GLC02542.32.29

16 June 1862

Ruggles, Daniel, 1810-1897

Autograph document signed

Title: [Note to be telegramed to Pierre G. T. Beauregard]

Reports that "It is important to secure the plantation boats on both banks of the Mississippi. Shall I have it secure so as to prevent their destruction by the enemy?"

GLC04057.01

17 June 1862

Ruggles, Daniel, 1810-1897

Autograph document signed

Title: [Note to be telegramed to Pierre G. T. Beauregard]

Informs Beauregard that "Col. Shelby reports the Enemy in considerable force at Holly Springs." While the Western front was relatively quiet at this time, Holly Springs would be the site of a major battle in September.

GLC04057.02

17 June 1862

Ruggles, Daniel, 1810-1897

Autograph document signed

Title: [Note to be telegramed to Pierre G. T. Beauregard]

Wonders whether or not he should "establish the Holly Springs repairing machinery at Newtown." While the Western front was relatively quiet at this time, Holly Springs would be the site of a major battle in September.

GLC04057.03

17 June 1862

Ruggles, Daniel, 1810-1897

Autograph document signed

Title: [Note to be telegramed to Pierre G. T. Beauregard]

Requests railroad cars to move his forces and supplies.

GLC04057.04

January 19, 1863

Maury, Dabney Herndon, 1822-1900

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sterling Price

General Maury informs General Price he was disappointed that Price recently failed to visit Vicksburg. Reports on marching with General Lee (possibly Stephen Dill Lee). Relates that due to a railroad accident, the 35th Mississippi lost an estimated 70 men. States "I have never been on a Battle Field where the ground was so easy to learn as this about here, our positions being much elevated above those of the enemy, we could see and understand the operations far better than he." Possibly referring to Stephen Dill Lee, writes "There was nothing left for me however; Young General Lee, of…

GLC05012.01

circa 1863-1890

Hall, Charles Bryan, 1840-?

Print

Title: [Print of General Dabney Herndon Maury]

Etched by Hall. Circa dates inferred based on the dates of some of Hall's other etchings. Depicts Herndon, a Confederate General, in military uniform.

GLC05012.02

1863

Printed document

Title: [Summary of the military service of Confederate Generals John Horace Forney and Dabney Herndon Maury]

A page removed from a biographical work.

GLC05012.03

2 October 1780

Chew, Joseph, fl. 1780

Autograph note signed

Title: [Joseph Chew's discussion of a letter from Benedict Arnold]

The note, signed by Chew, explains how the accompanying letter (no longer present) was kept undercover, "This Letter was delivered as a Blank Sheet of Paper put over one or two newspapers - which by wetting with a Proper Composition made it Legible." Also describes the writer of the letter and how he has been persecuted, claiming, "... the writer was a Colo. in his Majestys Service during the War that Ended in 1763... Since which he has been thoroughly persecuted." Benedict Arnold, who served in the French and Indian War, may have been the writer Chew was referring to. The date is written…

GLC05533.02

28 August 1862

Marshall, Humphrey, 1812-1872

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Braxton Bragg

Short on men and supplies, and requests reinforcements. Discusses his movements and explains that his lack of troops is responsible for his slow progress.

GLC06311.01

1862-1865

Engraving

Title: [Carte de visite of Confederate Genereal Humphrey Marshall]

Engraving of General Humphrey Marshall in the form of a carte de visite.

GLC06311.02

1862

Binney, Horace, 1780-1875

Pamphlet

Title: The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus under the Consitution.

Printed by C. Sherman & Son. Second edition. The first part, 58 pages in length, discusses "The right of the President of the United States, in time of rebellion, and when the public safety in his judgment requires, to arrest and detain a freeman, in temporary denial or delay of bail, trial, or discharge ... of his privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus ..." A second section, 50 pages in length, examines "a doctrine of certain writers, that the Habeas Corpus clause in the Constitution does not give power to anybody to suspend the privilege of the Writ, but is only restrictive of the…

GLC08599.01

1862

Bullitt, John Christian, 1824-1902

Pamphlet

Title: A review of Mr. Binney's pamphlet on "the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus under the Constitution."

Published by John Campbell. Bullitt seeks to examine the legal aspects of Horace Binney's argument, based on his opinion that Binney's "premises were not well taken, and that his inferences or conclusions were erroneous." Expresses hope to "present the great constitutional question involved in its true light." Cover is missing.

GLC08599.02

1862

Gross, Charles H., 1838-1902

Pamphlet

Title: A reply to Horace Binney's pamphlet on the habeas corpus.

States "The Constitution, assuming that the privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall exist complete and universal, and thus authorizing it, authorizes it to be suspended on certain conditions" (page 39). Indicates that this essay was written 22 February. Cover is missing, and Gross's name is written in pencil on the title page.

GLC08599.03

1862

Jackson, Tatlow, fl. 1862-1873

Pamphlet

Title: Authorities cited antagonistic to Horace Binney's conclusions on the writ of habeas corpus.

Published by John Campbell. Jackson states "Having carefully read Mr. Horace Binney's pamphlet 'The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus under the Constitution,' and conscientiously believing the doctrine therein inculcated to be of an anti-Republican tendency, and the conclusion- 'The President being the properest and the safest depository of the power (to suspend the Writ of Habeas Corpus) and being the only power which can exercise it under real and effective responsibilities to the people'- to be untrue, and not safe ... I feel it to be a duty ... to make public the result of such…

GLC08599.04

1862

Montgomery, John T., 1817-?

Pamphlet

Title: The writ of habeas corpus and Mr. Binney.

Published by John Campbell. Referring to Binney, Montgomery states "At a time like this, when the United States professes to be contending for the Principles of Free Government under the Constitution, it is unfortunate that a gentleman of great attainments and reputation, and of an experience of rare maturity, should come from his honorable retirement to give the world his reasons for humbling from its hitherto proud position one of the dearest principles of liberty known to free institutions." Cover is missing, and back page is detached from binding.

GLC08599.05

1862

Wharton, Geo. M., 1808-1870

Pamphlet

Title: Remarks on Mr. Binney's treatise on the writ of habeas corpus...

Published by John Campbell. Second edition. Wharton, a lawyer from Pennsylvania, states "It is as undoubtedly, however, no part of the office of an American Chief Executive to suspend, at his discretion, the privileges of the humblest citizen, whether arising from Common or Statute Law. The poorest man that walks has an equal right with the proudest, to the full protection and enjoyment of the Constitution and laws. It is, or has been, the boast of American liberty, that the rights of the citizen were clearly defined, and placed far above arbitrary estimation or interference. It has been…

GLC08599.06

1862

Wharton Geo. M., 1808-1870

Pamphlet

Title: Answer to Mr. Binney's reply to 'remarks' on his treatise on the habeas corpus.

Published by John Campbell. Wharton, a lawyer from Pennsylvania, states "Mr. Binney contends- That it is a lawful and a praiseworthy act, in the present crisis to seize a citizen in a peaceful State, where law and justice are openly and constantly administered and dispensed by the Courts, and without a responsible accuser, without oath or warrant, and without a hearing, by the mere will of the President or one of his subordinates, to hurry him to a distant fortress, and keep him confined there indefinitely, without bail or trial. The advocates of freedom content- That all this is sheer…

GLC08599.07

1862

Myer, Isaac, 1836-1902

Pamphlet

Title: Presidential power over personal liberty. A review of Horace Binney's essay on the writ of habeas corpus.

Includes inserted errata notes. States "we have shown that the normal condition of the English, and we their descendants, is freedom, subject to the law; that it was against encroachments upon their liberty, our ancestors have been contending for centuries; that the President has not and should not have the right to arrest outside of the courts of justice; that the word 'privilege' in the clause in the Constitution we have been discussing, means the right of citizens of this country to ask for the Writ of Habeas Corpus, a Writ known only to us and our ancestors, a right to a legal Writ;…

GLC08599.08

1862

Johnston, James F., fl. 1862

Pamphlet

Title: The suspending power and the writ of habeas corpus.

Published by John Campbell. Johnston states "it has been said that the 'President has no power that can be abused, except with more danger to himself than to the community,' and that ... ours is 'the most feeblest Executive perhaps ever known in a civilized community.' Is it not plain that the inference from all that is against the President's having the power to suspend the Habeas Corpus?" (page 48). Cover is missing.

GLC08599.09

1862

Kennedy, William M., fl. 1862

Pamphlet

Title: The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus under the Constitution of the United States. In what it consists. How it is allowed. How it is suspended. It is the regulation of the law, not the authorization of an exercise of legislative power.

Possibly published by John Campbell. Referring to the clauses within Article I of the United States Constitution, Campbell states "Omit the second sentence of the Clause, and we have 'The privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall NOT be suspended,' expressed. But it is subject to the implication, 'unless the public safety require it,' or 'it be herein otherwise ordained.'" Cover is missing.

GLC08599.10

1862

Parker, Joel, 1795-1875

Pamphlet

Title: Habeas corpus and martial law. A review of the opinion of Chief Justice Taney, in the case of John Merryman.

Published by John Campbell. Second addition. Parker reviews the decision of Justice Roger B. Taney regarding the seizure of John Merryman, who was allegedly imprisoned without due process. Cover is missing. Back page is detached from binding.

GLC08599.11

1862

Taney, Roger Brooke, 1777-1864

Pamphlet

Title: Decision of Chief Justice Taney, in the Merryman case, upon the writ of habeas corpus.

Published by John Campbell. Second addition. Taney states "The Constitution provides, as I have before said, that 'no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law.' It declares that 'the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effect, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated' ... It provides that the party accused shall be entitled to a speedy trial in a Court of justice. And these great and fundamental laws, which Congress, itself, could not suspend, have been disregarded, and suspended, like the…

GLC08599.12

1893

United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands

Broadside

Title: [Reconstruction broadside]

Reconstruction broadside re: compensation for lost property. Urges reply " ... the time is fast approaching when it will be impossible to obtain an authentic record of slaves owned and recognized as property by law at that time ... "

GLC09019