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[New York Post over 300 issues].

Includes complete printing of Marbury v. Madison in two issues, complete printing of the Louisiana Purchase Treaty and Conventions, a fire in New York, a slave rebellion, etc.

GLC08231

[Poulson's American Daily Advertizer].

Extra edition printing Jefferson's State of the Union Address in which he discusses the Louisiana Purchase, Indian affairs, and foreign relations.

GLC08232

Carte de visite [Portrait of Frances Clalin].

GLC08233

[Jury verdict signed by all twelve jurors, including Dennis Hanks, a relative of Abraham Lincoln].

Signed by Dennis Hanks, and eleven other jurors. Hanks and Lincoln lived together in 1818.

GLC08234

Carte de visite [Portrait of Richard Yates].

Inscribed on verso: "to W. H. H. Alden from the Governor".

GLC08235

[Collection of 2 letters written by the Sherman family]. Decimalized

See descriptions in GLC08326.01-.02

GLC08236

to B. W. Belscher

Taylor, a captain in the Sussex Light Dragoons, relays an order from General Walter Gwynn regarding administrative actions in preparation for the next day's secession vote by the Virginia Convention.

GLC08237

[Dispatch of 27 July 1861].

Reporting that Union troops were between him and General Jones. Countersigned by General Pierre G. T. Beauregard, who adds a pemcil note that forces were sent against the Union troops, who unfortunately already were retreating 4

GLC08238.01

[Materials associated with General Pierre G. T. Beauregard].

Penciled notes on the verso of an autograph document signed with a secretarial letter written to Jefferson Davis from the Second Battle of Bull Run. With a carte-de-visite of Beauregard and a pair of partly printed checks, dated 1869 and 1870, signed...

GLC08239

[Discussion of troop returns with Confederate Generals James Chesnut and Beverly H. Robertson].

Penciled notes on an ADS of troop return.

GLC08239.01

[Carte de visite of General Pierre G. T. Beauregard].

GLC08239.02

[Signed checks].

Pair of partly printed checks, dated 1869 and 1870, signed on verso by Miles

GLC08239.03

to Jefferson Davis

Secretarial letter to Jefferson Davis reporting on his need for reinforcements during the Battle of Second Bull Run. Signed by Beauregard.

GLC08239.04

[Hiram Berry materials].

Berry's eyewitness report of the Battle of Yorktown and a carte de visite of Berry.

GLC08240

to R. H. Sawyer

Brigadier General Hiram Berry writes to Captain R. H. Sawyer to tell him of the Battle of Yorktown, where he was commander, 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 3rd Corps, Army of the Potomac.

GLC08240.01

Carte de visite [Portrait of General Hiram Berry].

Accompanied letter from Berry to Captain R. H. Sawyer (GLC08240.01).

GLC08240.02

to Jefferson Davis

Written as Governor of Virginia to Jefferson Davis to send him details on the guages and capacity of the Danville Rail Road and other Virginia lines.

GLC08241

[Collection of 3 letters regarding Lieutenant Frank Williams of the 13th North Carolina, a Confederate parolee captured at Gettysburg]. Decimalized.

See descriptions in GLC08247.01-.03

GLC08247

to Conrad Baker

Meriweather writes to Colonel Baker about the 7 March 1864 arrest of Lieutenant Frank Williams of the 13th North Carolina, a parolee captured at Gettysburg, for disloyal conduct, including "using the most obscene and vulgar language towards the...

GLC08247.01

to Edward M. Stanton

Senator Harlan requests that Secretary of War Stanton make sure the case of Lieutenant Frank Williams be given special consideration. He was captured at Gettysburg and provided information that prevented the escape of some other Confederates,...

GLC08247.03

to his wife

Discussing Sherman's order to cut civilian rations and expressing some sympathy for its impact on "secesh women": "it is hard for the authorities to see women starve." Analyzing the upcoming presidential election: "we hope to elect Lincoln again and...

GLC08248

[Broadside recruiting African Americans for military service]

Color recruitment broadside depicting a Union soldier holding a United States flag with an attached banner declaring "Freedom to the Slave." In the background on one side, African American troops march holding a United States flag bearing the words...

GLC08249

to F.B. Sanborn

Acknowledging that his father, John Brown, sometimes offered remarks from the audience at religious assemblies, but refuting accounts that his father ever preached. Also discusses his brothers Jason's attempt to sell Sanborn's biography of their...

GLC08250

[Document attesting the free status of Richard Jackson].

One document dated April 29, 1813. Pertains to Richard Jackson, a freedperson. The form is partially printed and filled out by Thomas Blake as a character witness. It states, "the said Richard became free in or before the year 1800." Validated by New...

GLC08251

to William B. Lewis

Requisitioning lead and powder prior to the Battle of New Orleans: "A few more attacks...will soon exhaust my supplies..."

GLC08252