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[Collection of 3 letters written and received by Montgomery Meigs regarding the Capitol Dome]. Decimalized.

See descriptions in GLC08246.01-.03

GLC08246

to A.H. Bowman

Justifies the use of an ornate molding of the Capitol Dome.

GLC08246.01

to J. Glancy Jones

Meigs allays concerns over the Capitol Dome's stability: "There were plenty of people, who when Michel Angelo was building the Dome of St. Peter's thought it would never stand..." Jones was on the House Ways & Means Committee.

GLC08246.02

to Montgomery Meigs

Franklin, the superintendent of construction, writes to Meigs regarding the construction costs of the Capitol Dome.

GLC08246.03

[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

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

[Presidential pardon of Richard Hayden, who was convicted of destroying letters stolen from the mail].

Pardon signed by Lincoln and countersigned by Secretary of State Seward. Hayden was in an "advanced stage of pulmonary consumption" at the time of the pardon.

GLC08253

[Collection of 2 printed rebus poems]. Decimalized.

GLC08255

to George, Prince of Wales

British hand-colored, printed rebus poem. "On War" depicts a miniature battle scene along with the lines: "How furious is the Battles rage/When foes with fire and swords engage...".

GLC08255.01

to George, Prince of Wales

British hand-colored, printed rebus poems. "On Peace" shows the Goddess of Peace along with the lines: "While gentle peace alike invites/All ranks to share in her delights...".

GLC08255.02

[Certificate of marriage for Mingo and Dinah Night]

Records the marriage of Mingo and Dinah Night, "free black people."

GLC08257

to his mother

Vinton, a captain of a northern regiment assisted in the suppression of Nat Turner's slave rebellion: "I doubt if any active movement against the slaves will be necessary...[They] however are irresponsible and reckless and it is difficult to foresee...

GLC08258

Don't Buy A Ford Ever Again. From the New Orleans Citizens Council: To All White Citizens.

Racist New Orleans broadside promoting a boycott of Ford Motor Co.'s support of the Civil Rights movement.

GLC08259

to F. B. Sanborn

Transmittal letter returning proofs not included to John Brown's biographer, correcting events and names of participants at Pottawatomie Creek. He states that his brother, Frederick, "did not have a hand in the execution of those men, though thought...

GLC08260

to Jason Brown and Ellen Brown

John Brown's wife writes to her son and daughter from the family homestead. She comments on erecting " a good iron fence...around...the memorial to your father's grave...." Also details sibling activities and spring livestock.

GLC08261

to F.B. Sanborn

John Brown's daughter assisting his biographer in locating various siblings of Brown because "yours is a perfect truthful history of him and his deeds."

GLC08262

to F.B. Stanton

John Brown's son and "Bleeding Kansas" companion apologizes for lack of funds because of hard times and asks for additional advance for Brown family land purchase.

GLC08263

to Jefferson Davis

Recommends to Confederate President Davis the appointments for Henry Heth, John Pegram, Alexander W. Reynolds and Gabriel C. Wharton, all of whom became Confederate generals. Docketed "Confidential, Genl Cooper."

GLC08264

to unknown

Walker, a Confederate Private, 7th Tennessee Infantry, was stationed at Centerville, Virginia. He describes the Union defeat at Ball's Bluff (Leesburg, Virginia), and the justification for the Southern cause: "we routed them completely...we sunk...

GLC08265

to unknown

Describing relocation of hospital facilities from Mt. Jackson to Staunton, Virginia, reporting Lee's military reinforcement of General Imboden and Colonel Jackson's protection of the General Hospital. "We have had a great deal of excitement here...

GLC08266