23 October 1883

Porter, Fitz-John, 1822-1901

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Jackson Hunt

Thanks Hunt for his recollections regarding Manassas. Mentions Generals John Fulton Reynolds, Robert Cumming Schenck, Irvin McDowell, John Alexander Logan, and John Pope, among others. Notes that another writer is tackling the topic of Manassas, and that Hunt will soon received the work in pamphlet form. Recently sent copies of some notes on Second Manassas to the War Department. Discusses controversy regarding his conduct at Second Manassas. Writes that McDowell was "so blind to his own interests in the effort to harm me that he could not see the effect of his acts when before the…

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30 December [1883]

Porter, Fitz-John, 1822-1901

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Jackson Hunt

Mentions the 27 December 1883 death of General Andrew Atkinson Humphreys. Writes that Humphrey's death "... was a shock to me. It is a reminder of the uncertainty of life at our age." Refers to John Alexander Logan, a General and Senator, and mentions an unspecified action Logan must take to assist Hunt. Date inferred from content.

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circa 10 November 1883

Porter, Fitz-John, 1822-1901

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Jackson Hunt

Laments the death of his friend Randolph. Encourages Hunt to befriend John Alexander Logan in the Senate. Mentions [Lord's?] pamphlet and Slocum (possibly General Henry Warner Slocum). Refers to a letter written by Ulysses S. Grant, which benefited him (possibly referring to the controversy over his military dismissal). Remarks, "Grant is true of heart when he knows he is right." Accompanying envelope is postmarked 14 October 1883, but docketed 23 November. A pencil note on the envelope indicates that it accompanies this letter.

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11 January 1887

Long, A.L., 1827-1891

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Jackson Hunt

Responds to Hunt's Gettysburg article as the "best" he has read and notes he is writing his own account. Long was a veteran artilleryman promoted from military secretary for Lee to the command of the 2nd Corps artillery. Promoted to 2nd Corps guns in 1863 at the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor. Surrendered with the main army at Appomattox. Civil engineer after the war for five years. Wrote "Memoirs of Robert E. Lee" despite being completely blind.

GLC02382.079

16 January 1870

Johnston, Joseph Egleston, 1807-1891

Letter

Title: to M. S. Worth

Letter copied by "M.S.W" (possibly General William Worth's daughter, Margaret. Worth's wife, Margaret Stafford Worth, died in 1869). Describes events of the Mexican War, including General Winfield Scott's march toward Mexico City via Cerro Gordo and Puebla. Discusses whether Scott issued an order that was received by the Mexican army. William Jenkins Worth served in the War of 1812, and was a General in the Mexican American War. Johnson, a Confederate general, had served under Scott during the Mexican War.

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4 October 1865

Document

Title: [Indenture between Henry Jackson Hunt and John F. Lee regarding care of Hunt's filly]

Assures that Hunt's filly "was honestly come by, by the said Hunt, and was not captured, or taken as a prize of war, or as abandoned rebel property, or on any other customary and larcenous pretext, Now, therefore, said Lee out of Natural love and affection for said Hunt, and from considerations of patriotism... doth consent & agree to take said Filly, and tend her carefully, in like manner with his own blooded colts, free of charge to said Hunt... " Possibly created by Lee. Lee was an ordnance officer in the war.

GLC02382.081

October 1854

Jay, John, 1817-1894

Broadside

Title: Free Democratic Address to the People of the State of New York.

Anti-slavery broadside signed in type by John P. Hale, Hiram Barney and John Jay, the New York Politician and descendant of the earlier John Jay, as a committee appointed by the State Convention of the Free Democracy. Urges support for anti-Nebraska candidates in forthcoming elections. "The Nebraska bill passed the senate at midnight, amid oaths and drunken insolence desecrating that once august chamber...With the passage of the bill that removed the landmark of freedom, and opened our western territories to the curse of slavery..."

GLC02383

22 November 1819

King, Rufus, 1755-1827

Pamphlet

Title: Substance of Two Speeches, Delivered in the Senate of the United States on the Subject of the Missouri Bill

Printed pamphlet written by King as an anti-slavery U.S. Senator from New York. King also signed the U.S. Constitution in 1787. King was asked to write the pamphlet, which summarized his two anti-slavery speeches given before the U.S. Senate during the Missouri Compromise debates of 1819. This is the only record of the speeches, as they were not recorded for the official records of Congress. King was the floor leader of the Federalist Party in the Senate during the debates, but his views were held by both Federalist and Republican Party members in the North. The pamphlet's main thesis is…

GLC02384

9 May 1865

Dow, John L., fl. 1865

Printed document signed

Title: [Parole pass of A. J. Brane]

Document reads in full: "This is to certify that A. J. Brane of Rockingham County, and State of N. C. a Private of the Army of Northern Virginia, has this day given his parole in accordance with the terms agreed upon by Lieutenant General U. S. GRANT, commanding U. S. Army, and General ROBT. E. LEE, commanding C. S. Army." The parole is signed by J. L. Dow.

GLC02385.01

1863-1931

Header Record

Title: Collection related to Confederate soldier George P. Hodges [Decimalized .01- .07]

Collection of George P. Hodges, Sergeant, Company B., 37th Mississippi Volunteer Infantry. Includes a parole pass for Hodges, who was a prisoner of war at Vicksburg, a document related to Hodges's participation in a United Confederate Veteran's Reunion, a document related to Hodges's pension, a photograph (possibly of Hodges's in later life), Civil War Lieutenant bars, and a metal pin (possibly from a military reunion). A collateral letter from the War Department 13 August 1909 to the Commissioner of Pensions in Texas (reproduced from the Texas State Archives) indicates that Hodges enlisted…

GLC02386

1861/02/09

Toombs, Robert Augustus, 1810-1885

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Francis W. Pickens re: announcing formation of Confederate States of America

GLC02283

3 February 1848

Dix, John Adams, 1798-1879

Document signed

Title: [Members of Congress agree on Washington D.C.'s need for an Episcopal Church]

Written and signed by Congressmen John A. Dix. Cosigned by George E. Badger, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, H. Johnson, (possibly either Henry or Herschel Johnson), Robert Winthrop, John Sergeant, William D. Dayton, John Macpherson Berrien, and Joseph R. Ingersoll. Supreme Court Justices Samuel Nelson, V. Daniel (possibly Peter V. Daniel), and Levi Woodbury signed the document 8 February 1848. States that members of the Episcopal Church temporarily in Washington, D.C., need accommodation. Acknowledges that a subscription is needed to build another Church; states that the Church is also…

GLC02288

29 November 1814

Adams, Abigail, 1744-1818

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Richard Rush

Addressed to Rush as Attorney General in Washington, D.C. Encloses a letter received from her son, John Quincy Adams, to the President, James Madison, and states that he may read the political parts to the President if he desires. States that the letter is John Q. Adams opinions on the "farce" of the peace negotiations with Britain during the War of 1812, and should not be made public. Comments upon the fate of Alexandria, Virginia. Finishes by saying, "I have not a word to say, in vindication of the conduct of my own native State, but much to deplore." Free frank of John Adams.

GLC02291

1793/10/02

Adams, John, 1735-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John [Jean] Luzac re: America should maintain neutrality

Written as Vice President, recommending Tobias Lear, former secretary to President George Washington. "This country is too happy in the enjoyment of that Liberty which cost them so dear to risque it, by medling in foreign wars." Luzac, a distinguished lawyer, philologist and journalist, was "Professor of Grecian Literature in the University of Leyden." Written on front of leaves only, with integral address leaf.

GLC02294

20 March 1866

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

Autograph document signed

Title: to Officers Commanding Troops in Southern States

Instructs troops in Southern States to welcome historian Benson J. Lossing. Lossing was visiting the South for the purpose of "seeing different battle fields and [illustrating] them for the benefit of the future reader of the scenes though which this country has passed." States that favors granted to Lossing will be appreciated by Lossing and himself. With original official envelope on which Grant has penned "Introducing Mr. B.F. Lossing Historian".

GLC02306

28 March 1861

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Document signed

Title: [Authority to the Secretary of State to affix the seal of the United States to the pardon of William Edwards].

Very early authority, dated three weeks after Lincoln's inauguration.

GLC02317

17 August 1861

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph note signed

Title: to James Wolfe Ripley

Lincoln requests that Brigadier General Ripley, the chief of ordnance, have a gun presented by an unknown Mr. Gallagher examined and tested.

GLC02318

8 March 1865

Prentiss, Mary Y., fl. 1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Abba

Written by a young girl to an unidentified recipient (apparently her sister), intermingling observations with gossip and flirtation. Exclaims enthusiastically about all the fun she is having. States that she attended Lincoln's second inauguration in Washington, D.C., on 4 March 1865, and describes Vice President Andrew Johnson's drunkenness when taking the oath. Comments that, "All the senators are more anxious to have Mr. Lincon [sic] live than they ever were before." Also states that people wanted Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin, Lincoln's first term vice-president, but not Mrs. Lincoln and…

GLC02319

15 June 1838

Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850

Autograph letter signed

Title: to David Hubbard

Written by Calhoun in blue ink, concerning his support for (and failure to get) a rail route from Georgia to the west, instead of through Ohio. He concludes that southern rail routes will unite the slaveholding states and change commercial and political affairs of the Union.

GLC02320.01

22 February 1850

Smith, Caleb B. (Caleb Blood), 1808-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas Ewing

Recommending William D. Shepherd for a clerkship, and enclosing a petition signed by many Indiana Whigs supporting this promotion.

GLC02320.02

9 March 1866

Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878

Document signed

Title: to unknown

Granting permission to visit Washington on legal business. On Navy Department printed stationery. Document has been trimmed, affecting the department name.

GLC02320.03

23 November 1864

Bates, Edward, 1793-1869

Autograph letter signed

Title: to E. C. Carrington

Invitation to dinner with Bates and the men in his office. Carrington is addressed as General.

GLC02320.05

November 28, 1863

Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869

Document signed

Title: [Promotion of George B. Drake]

Partially printed document promoting George B. Drake to the rank of First Lieutenant.

GLC02320.07

1783/05/20

Madison, James, 1751-1836

Autograph letter signed

Title: to [Gov. Benjamin Harrison] re: provisional peace treaty, Carleton & Washington

Signed by Madison as "James Madison Jr." Countersigned by Theodorick Bland and John Francis Mercer. Written to Governor Benjamin Harrison of Virginia, as state delegate (per Madison Papers and Library of Congress, Papers of the Members of Congress project). Madison makes mentions the controversy with slaves ("Negroes") fleeing with British loyalists to Canada. Carlton had argued that owner claims could be made through normal diplomatic channels once a peace treaty had been finalized.

GLC02321

1813/07/19

Madison, James, 1751-1836

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Appointment of Levett Harris to secretary to legation at St. Petersburg, Russia]

Signed by Madison as President, countersigned by Monroe as Secretary of State. The official appointment was as "Secretary of the Mission Extraordinary of the United States" and the diplomatic mission was for the purpose of "entering into negotiations at St. Petersburg, with Great Britain, of and concerning a Treaty of Peace and of Commerce." The Treaty of Ghent was negotiated and ended the war of 1812 in late 1814.

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