1864

Pamphlet

Title: The Lincoln catechism wherein the eccentricities & beauties of despotism are fully set forth. A Guide to the Presidential Election of 1864.

A vitriolic racist attack on Lincoln in the form of a mock catechism. A list of sarcastic questions and answers which accuse Lincoln of tyranny and the Republicans of destroying the Constitution. Title page proclaims the pamphlet is "A guide to the presidential election of 1864." Questions and answers include "By Whom hath the Constitution been made obsolete? By Abraham Africanus the First." and "What is a President? A genral agent for negroes." States the first commandment of the Republicans is "Thou shalt have no other God but the negro." Includes comments about miscegenation and…

GLC08632

30 August 1864

Elmore, Edward Carrington, fl. 1861-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George H. Poindexter

Elmore, Confederate Treasurer, discusses the activities of G. W. Butler, a late Teller in the Treasury. Informs Poindexter, a Lieutenant and Enlistment Officer, that Treasury clerks have had little time to work on Butler's accounts. States that several million Treasury notes related to these accounts are held in Columbia, South Carolina, and have been shipped to Richmond based on the request of George Alfred Trenholm, Confederate Secretary of the Treasury. States that due to the busy condition of the Treasury, he can offer no estimate regarding the settlement of Butler's accounts.…

GLC08633

December 1864

Yates, Richard, 1815-1873

Printed document signed

Title: [Certification of Illinois electors for U.S. President and Vice President]

Signed by Yates as Governor of Illinois and countersigned by O.M. Hatch as Secretary of State. For the presidential election of 1864.

GLC08635

1796

Paine, Thomas, 1725-1802

Pamphlet

Title: Decline and fall of the English system of finance

Printed by John Page and B.F. Bache.

GLC08637

1 September 1861

Dawes, Rufus Robinson, 1838-1899

Printed document signed

Title: [Invoice of ordnance and ordnance stores, 6th Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry]

Signed by Dawes as Captain of Company "K" in the 6th Wisconsin Volunteers. Printed form filled out by hand listing ordnance stores Dawes turned over to Colonel Lysander Cutler. Written at Camp Kalorama.

GLC08638

1753-1755

Massey, Samuel, fl. 1753-1755

Manuscript signed

Title: Samuel Massey's version book

Page 1, which is dated 5 March 1753, notes that he has shipped sixteen barrels of bread to Barbados on board the Rebecca, a ship under the command of James Lowther. The shipment is consigned to Jonathan and John Mifflan. Exact title reads "Saml Masseys version book."

GLC08639

1860

Bell, John, 1797-1869

Object

Title: Political token: Ferrotype portrait of Bell and Edward Everett

GLC08641

1836

Grimke, Angelina E., 1805-1879

Pamphlet

Title: Appeal to the Christian women of the south

Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society. Among other arguments, Grimke denounces Biblical justifications of slavery. Loosely bound with string.

GLC08642

1793

Paine, Thomas, 1725-1802

Book

Title: Common sense [with seven other pamphlets from the 1790s]

Paine, Thomas. COMMON SENSE, bound with seven other tracts by Paine. Altogether eight works (in nine parts, one title consisting of two separately issued parts.) A fine collection bound in a single volume, contemp. sheep rubbed, crudely but neatly rebacked early in sheep; in very good condition throughout. These are all (with the possible exception of #4) reprints but they are early, generally within the first or second year of the original; some are rare according to NUC; the various publishers, Symonds, Williams, Jordan, and Ridgeway, represent (with the notable absence of D.I. Eaton)…

GLC08643

1867

Boutwell, George Sewall, 1818-1905

Book

Title: Speeches and Papers Relating to the Rebellion and the Overthrow of Slavery

Published by Little, Brown & Co. in Boston. Stereotyped and printed by John Wilson and Son in Cambridge. Dedicated to the citizens of Groton, who supported Boutwell in his career as a public servant. Contains 35 chapters, each one a different speech by Boutwell from the years 1861-1867. Contains 4 appendices on pages 605-615 with copies of various Congressional Acts and Constitutional amendments. Index at pages 619-628. Green pebbled cloth cover.

GLC08645

30 December 1860

Cadwalader, George, ?-1884

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Sherman

Cadwalader, a Sacramento lawyer, discusses California politics with Sherman, a United State Senator from Ohio. Reports that the California presidential election will be held on the following day, with Lincoln holding a 134 count majority over Stephen A. Douglas. Referring to a different election, reports that James William Denver, a former United States Representative from California, "is the only person who can be elected." Discusses the postponement of an election in California in order to find a Republican associate for Colonel Edward Dickinson Baker, a United States Representative from…

GLC08647

7 November 1849

Hutchinson, James P., fl. 1849

Document signed

Title: [Hutchinson's deposition regarding the theft of slaves] [fragment]

Location inferred from content. Hutchinson relates the theft of slaves by a group of armed men in Montgomery County, Texas, 1847. Hutchinson claims a group of men with Mr. Stoneum stole slaves from the Fowler plantation "by force of arms." First and last pages are written on quarter sheets. Second-fifth pages numbered 19-22; portion of a larger court document.

GLC08648

1863-1865

Header Record

Title: Collection related to the Freedmen's Department of Memphis [Decimalized .01-.12]

Pertains to a project to aid freed slaves by the army. Most documents in this collection are related to T. A. Walker, who served as Superintendent of Freedmen, District of West Tennessee. Consists mostly of financial records, and contains documentation related to President's Island.

GLC08649

21 October 1789

Fenno, John, 1751-1798

Newspaper

Title: Gazette of the United States. [No. 55 (October 21, 1789)]

The Declaration appears on p. 2. Printed by John Fenno. French Declaration of Rights of Man

GLC08651

20 November 1834

Hall, Henry B., 1808-1884

Document signed

Title: Declaration

Includes the printed endorsements of James Madison, Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams and signed endorsement of Hiland Hall. Published in the December "Temperance Recorder," the statement urges all Americans, but especially young men, to stop the use of liquor. Also includes a short printed note at the bottom of the page written by Edward Delavan, "should you approve of the opinion in the above declaration, will you please give it the sanction of your signature..."

GLC08652

1876

Forbes, Edwin, 1839-1895

Header Record

Title: Life Studies of the Great Army [print portfolio -- incomplete set]

20 of 40 copperplate etchings made by Forbes while accompanying Union armies. Complete set under GLC02199. The condition of this collection is not as good as the complete set listed above.

GLC08653

5 July 1862

Laughton, Joseph B., fl. 1838-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John H. Laughton

Laughton, a Union soldier from New York taken prisoner at Libby Prison, writes about being captured on 3 July 1862. Reports that conditions are fairly good at the prison and he can finally rest from the fatigues of the campaign. "I was surprised to see how kindly they welcomed me & I must say that without any exception I have been used with respect by all - We get as good bread & meat as I could wish & are used as if we were their own people." States that the way he is treated is very different than what he was led to believe in the North, and that " ... if I ever get home…

GLC08654

6 February 1866

Dunphy, Richard D., 1824-1904

Letter

Title: to Gideon Welles

Letter written for Dunphy, who lost both his arms during the Battle of Mobile Bay in August 1864, to Secretary of the Navy Welles. Also includes a carte de visite (10.1 x 6.2 cm.) pasted to the letter of Dunphy in his uniform with no arms. Wants to know how he can get the medal of honor that was promised to him by Vice Admiral David Farragut. Was on board the flagship USS "Hartford" and says "I was one of the sailors who were wounded in that action and I believe I stand to day the only one in the American Navy who lost both Arms in the late Rebellion." Farragut said he would send the medal by…

GLC08655

17 May 1862-19 May 1862

George, fl. 1862

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Emma

Reports on the march to Richmond, Jefferson Davis's call for a 10-day truce, and the death of a favorite captain in his regiment. Written on stationery of the 2nd Regiment, New Hampshire volunteers. Written near Cumberland, Virginia, and Camp Grove.

GLC08657

23 May 1863

Fred, fl. 1861-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his father

Written by a Union sailor aboard the USS "Morse". References his father's letter. Says that last Saturday "the mail boat was coming up and the rebels fired into her with field pieces and struck twice, and we got under way and went down and by the time we got there they had gone under[.] the captain was so mad he order us to shell all the houses on the bank of the river and we did to I tell you we fired all that afternoon ... then we went ashore and set all the buildings afire. I tell you we had some fun we burnt one house full of splendid furniture." Says he burned down 3 barns full of ham,…

GLC08658

1802

Callender, Tom, fl. 1802

Pamphlet

Title: Letters to Alexander Hamilton, king of the Feds

GLC08659

25 March 1864

Dielman, George W., fl. 1864

Document signed

Title: [Certificate in favor of a substitute soldier]

GLC08661

29 February 1776-6 March 1776

Hall, Samuel, 1740-1807

Newspaper

Title: New-England chronicle, or the Essex gazette. [Vol 8, no. 396, (February 29 to March 6, 1776)]

Includes a call for female nurses needed for the Continental hospitals. " ... Wanted for the General Hospital, a number of Nurses for the houses at Cambridge and Roxbury, the preference will be given to Boston and Charlestown women, and some men labourers, as assistant to nurses ... " Also prints the proceedings of the Admiralty Court and news from London including the, "Government Plan of Negotiation with America." Printed by Samuel Hall.

GLC08663

24 March 1864

Harris, Thomas H., fl. 1864-1865

Printed document

Title: [General order no. 31 regarding the designation of African American troops]

Lists numerical designations for troops of African descent. Issued by Thomas H. Harris, Lieutenant Colonel and Assistant Adjutant General, by order of Major General Stephen Augustus Hurlbut. Established by the order of Lorenzo Thomas, Adjutant General of the United States Army. Issued from headquarters of the 16th Army Corps.

GLC08664

1884

Pillsbury, Parker, 1809-1898

Book

Title: Acts of the anti-slavery apostles.

Printed by Cuppley, Upham & Co. Contains biographical chapters on William Lloyd Garrison and Nathaniel Peabody Rogers. Subsequent chapters cover a history of anti-slavery in America, including a discussion of other individuals active in the cause (including Stephen Symonds Foster and Frederick Douglass).

GLC08666