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Letter from the Secretary of War

Title continues, "transmitting, in compliance with the law, certain information relative to the negotiation with the legal representatives of the late Confederate Generals Bragg and Polk for the purchase of certain papers relating to the late war."...

GLC00267.231

Major General Don Carlos Buell. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of March 1, 1872, relative to Major General Don Carlos Buell.

Report of an investigation into Major General Don Carlos Buell's military conduct during operations in Tennessee and Kentucky in 1862. House Executive Document No. 262.

GLC00267.233

Conduct of the war

Senate report from the "joint committee on the conduct of the present war" regarding Confederate indiscretions at Manassas. Committee was directed to "Collect evidence with regard to the barbarous treatment by the rebels, at Manassas, of the remains...

GLC00267.234

Dedication of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park

Created by the Joint committee on dedication of Chickamauga and Chattanooga national military park and compiled by H.V. Boynton. Printed by the Government Printing Office by order of the Senate in the 54th Congress. The military park was created...

GLC00267.239

[Claims of the state of Nevada]

Report submitted by William Stewart, Senator from Nevada and a member of the Committee on Military Affairs, to the Senate as a whole. Requests repayment of money spent during the Civil War by the territorial government of Nevada. Says most of the...

GLC00267.242

Letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, transmitting a statement of the accounts of the Colorado militia for 1864 and 1865

Report of the expenditures of the Colorado militia from 1864-1865 compiled by Grant as Secretary of War ad interim for the House of Representatives. Pages 1-14 of report consists of correspondence between assistant adjutant generals in the Colorado...

GLC00267.244

The volunteers' roll of honor. A collection of the noble and praiseworthy deeds performed in the cause of the Union by the heroes of the army and navy of the United States.

Brief sketches of the heroic acts of Union soldiers. Some of the stories are illustrated. "In this collection, the greatest care has been taken to obtain and record the proper name of each soldier or seaman who has, during the great rebellion...

GLC00267.223

The Life and adventures of Capt. Robert W. Andrews...

Dornbusch II, 863, Nicholson p. 21. Andrews was a veterinary surgeon.

GLC00267.224

"Old Abe!" the live war-eagle of Wisconsin

Tells the story of "Old Abe" the eagle who for years accompanied a Union Army Company into battle.

GLC00267.225

The Beleaguered city: Richmond, 1861-1865

II Nevins 212.

GLC00267.226

Muster out rolls for the 35th Regiment, United States Colored Volunteers. [Decimalized .01-.08]

GLC00267.228

[General orders no. 52 pertaining to members of the United States Colored Troops who were court martialled]

Issued by Captain Campbell, Assistant Adjutant General, based on the orders of Major General William Tecumseh Sherman. Discusses charges against and sentences dictated to members of the United States Colored Troops. Charges vary, including...

GLC00267.229

Woman's work in the Civil War : a record of heroism, patriotism and patience.

Co-authored by Mary C. Vaughan. Biographies of: Dorothea L. Dix, Clara Barton, Helen L. Gibson, Mrs. John Harris, Mrs. Eliza C. Porter, Mary A. Bickerdyke, Mrs. Stephen Barker, Amy M. Bradley, Arabella G. Barlow, Nellie M. Taylor, Mrs. Adaline Tyler...

GLC00267.232

Speech of Major-General Butler

An after dinner speech made in New York after Butler's return from New Orleans during the Civil War.

GLC00267.235

A chaplain's campaign with Gen. Butler

Critical of General Benjamin F. Butler. See GLC00267.237 for a response. Sabin 33493.

GLC00267.236

Official documents relating to a "Chaplain's campaign (not) with General Butler," but in New York.

An ironic response to Chaplain Henry N. Hudson's attack on General Butler by Butler's former assistant provost marshal, John I. Davenport. Printed by Charles Hunt. See GLC00267.236 for the pamphlet being responded to. Sabin 9618.

GLC00267.237

Official report of the History Committee of the Grand Camp, C.V.

Report read by committee chairman Christian at Newport News, Virginia on 28 October 1903. Published by order of the Grand Camp of Virginia. The other committee members include: R.T. Barton, Carter R. Bishop, R.A. Brock, Rev. B.D. Tucker, John W...

GLC00267.240

Drum-beat of the nation : the first period of the war of the rebellion from its outbreak to the close of 1862

First edition, published by Harpers & Brothers. Focuses on campaigns in the first half of the Civil War.

GLC00267.243

The story of the twenty-first regiment, Connecticut volunteer infantry, during the Civil War

From the Press of the Stewart Printing Co. Inside front cover signed by "Lucien F. Burpee," who appears to be related to Thomas F. Burpee, one of the colonels of the 21st Connecticut killed during the war. The book plate of Lucien Burpee partially...

GLC00267.245

History of the eighteenth regiment Conn. volunteers in the war for the Union

Written by Chaplain Walker. Published by the committee in charge of compiling the history of the 18th Connecticut. The committee consisted of: Walker, H.M. Durfey, Geo. C. Setchel, James McKee, Wm. Caruthers. Printed by Gordon Wilcox. Bookplate...

GLC00267.246

The Norwich memorial: The annals of Norwich,... in the Great Rebellion

History of Regiments and men from Norwich in the Civil War

GLC00267.247

Message of the President of the United States, communicating a constitution for Kansas as a State, and presenting his views in relation to the affairs of that Territory.

United States 35th Congress, 1st session, Executive Document no. 21, Senate. Second half of pamphlet includes a proposed constitution for the state of Kansas. Article VII, on slavery, states "The right of property is before and higher than any...

GLC00267.168

[Senate report to accompany bill 161, including the Lecompton Constitution]

35th Congress, 1st session, Senate. Rep. Com. No. 82. Opens with a report submitted by Senator Green from the Committee on Territories. Includes a Constitution for Kansas, submitted by John Calhoun, President of the Kansas Constitutional Convention...

GLC00267.169

Speech of Hon. L. F. S. Foster, of Connecticut, on the Lecompton Consitution; delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 8 and 19, 1858.

Untrimmed and unopened. Foster opposed the Lecompton Constitution.

GLC00267.170

Revolution in the law of the land. Speech of Hon. E. P. Walton of Vermont, on the bill for the admission of Kansas; delivered in the House of Representatives, March 31, 1858.

Printed at the Congressional Globe Office. Most pages uncut. Walton argues for the defeat of the Lecompton Constitution.

GLC00267.171