20 November 1863

Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876

Manuscript letter signed

Title: to Ulysses S. Grant

Confederate commander Bragg tells Grant that "As there may still be some non-combatants in Chattanooga, I deem it proper to notify you that prudence would dictate their early withdrawal". Grant received this brief letter while preparing to attack Bragg's nearby forces at Chattanooga. Grant's endorsement reflects his obvious skepticism of Bragg's motives. In his memoirs Grant discussed this particular letter. He immediately realized Bragg sent the letter to deceive him, and eventually decided the letter was sent to stall Grant and allow Bragg to perform other military maneuvers. The letter…

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28 August 1864

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Oliver Otis Howard

Sherman, commander of the Military Division of the Mississippi, writes to General Howard during the Atlanta campaign. Instructs Howard to join forces with General George Henry Thomas. Writes "I dont think the enemy yet understand our movement. They had made no effort to stop us..." Relates that General Schofield (possibly John McAllister Schofield) reported a possible enemy threat. Instructs Howard to go up the Newman Road in case of heavy battle. Written in pencil.

GLC04209

1862-1886

Header Record

Title: Confederate officer documents [Decimalized .01-.05]

Five documents relating to Confederate officers, including an autograph endorsement signed by General Robert H. Chilton.

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1792

Cotton, Charles, fl. 1792

Book signed

Title: Extracts from the treaties between Great-Britain and other Kingdoms...

GLC04212.01

1810/05/24

Hallowell, Ben, fl. 1810

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Charles Cotton re: British treaty with Dey of Algiers (tipped into book)

GLC04212.02

15 December 1861-30 December 1861

Goldsborough, John Rodgers, 1808-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mrs. J. R. Goldsborough

Commander Goldsborough writes to his wife from the U.S. Steamer Florida, on blockading duty near Charleston, South Carolina. Notes the arrival of the stone fleet, comprised by ships filled with stone, sand, and other heavy materials sent to blockade Charleston Harbor (page 13). Mentions other captains and steamers. Comments on the arrival of the Confederate ship Lady Davis (20 December), which remained beyond Union fire to observe events taking place in the harbor (page 27). Dreads their first Christmas apart. Reports sailing to Port Royal, South Carolina, 28 December 1861. Includes…

GLC04216

1 May 1789

Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Invites the unknown recipient to inspect a new iron bridge he designed. "We have erected our Experiment Rib and Struck the Center." With engraving.

GLC04218

2 June 1865

Gardner, W. W., fl. 1865

Manuscript document signed

Title: [General Order No. 21 regarding the education of African American troops]

Issued by W. W. Gardner as Assistant Adjutant General based on the orders of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Stone. Orders that school will be held instead of company drills. States that classes will be taught by men within each company, and that soldiers may buy their books individually, or the company commander will purchase the books from the company fund. Declares "the surest and only step to a respectable life as Freemen, is intelligence. The best way to win the respect of all and to render themselves worthy of the right which Freemen confers, is for every man to acquire the best Education…

GLC04219.01

19 April 1865

Stone, Henry, fl. 1864-1865

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Orders regarding the 100th United States Colored Infantry's observance of Abraham Lincoln's funeral]

The first part of this document relates official orders issued by Thomas S. Sexton, Acting Assistant Adjutant General, based on the orders of Colonel Charles R. Thompson. Provides guidelines regarding activity during Lincoln's funeral, including the suspension of work, displaying flags at half mast, and firing of guns at all ports in which artillery exists. James T. Essex (possibly an assistant adjutant general) issues a statement for Lieutenant Colonel Henry Stone on the bottom half of the page. Stone relates that he will not issue an official order regarding the observance of Lincoln's…

GLC04219.02

6 August 1864

Straight, D. E., fl. 1862-1865

Document signed

Title: [Clothing receipt roll for Company I, 100th United States Colored Infantry]

Clothing issued by Captain D. E. Straight. Includes the names of 39 soldiers, all of whom signed with an "x." Signed by James F. Essex as a witness.

GLC04219.03

1552

Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1474-1566

Book

Title: Aqui se Contiene una Disputa, o Controversia [Second Edition]

The fifth tract on the conquest of the New World and rights of the Indians. In Spanish.

GLC04220

1787/09/27

Adams and Nourse (Boston, Mass.), fl. 1783-1789

Newspaper

Title: Independent chronicle and the universal advertiser. [Vol. XIX, no. 987 (September 27, 1787)]

Prints a copy of the Constitution and reports activities at the Constitutional Convention. Also contains an article on "the Means of promoting Federal Sentiments in the United States," various news items, and advertisements. This was a special printing of the newspaper, although it was not labeled an Extra. Published by Adams and Nourse.

GLC04221

1718

De L'Isle, Guillaume, fl. 1718

Map

Title: Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississippi [map of North America]

Based on the notes of M. le Maire by Guillaume del'Isle. The first detailed map of the Gulf coast region and the Mississippi, and the first printed map to show Texas. With an insert of Mobile Bay. This map was also the first to show the land routes of earlier explorers: Desoto in 1539 and 1540 and his successor Moscoso in 1542, Cavelier in 1687, Tonty in 1702 and the recent routes of Denis in 1713 and 1716. The map's political implications outraged the English by laying claim to Carolina. Mapping of America 43.

GLC04222

1812/04/01

Austin, Moses, fl. 1802-1819

Manuscript document signed

Title: to Hezekiah Jackson writ of attachment issued by St. Louis Court of Common Pleas

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circa 1867

Autograph album

Title: Autograph album signed by 4 Presidents, members of the Supreme Court, etc.

Signers includes: four men who became president: Andrew Johnson, U.S. Grant (as General), James A. Garfield and Rutherford B. Hayes. Eight justices of the Supreme Court: Justices R. M. Waite (Chief Justice), W. H. Swampe, S. F. Miller, Nathan Clifford, Stephen Field, W. Strange, James P. Bradley and Ward Hunt. Two ministers of China have signed in Chinese with transliteration, and six members of the Embassy have signed. In addition, there are statesmen including: Henry S. Lane, Richard Yates, James Dixon, Jacob D. Cox, Lyman Trumbull, Gideon Welles, Elias S. Spinner, Benjamin F. Wade, Lot…

GLC04224

1864

Autograph album

Title: [Prisoner of War autograph album]

Includes signatures of Union generals captured during the siege of Charleston: Eliakim Scammon, Henry Wessells, Truman Seymour, Alexander Shaler, as well as many soldiers and officers. Also signed by Confederate Stephen D. Mobley, Capt. 32nd Georgia Volunteers, possibly guarding the prisoners.

GLC04225

24 January 1861

Dupont, Samuel F., 1803-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Harwood

Says he heard from his family that the "eldest member of our present generation had died." Says the woman was like a second mother to his wife. Goes on to proclaim her goodness. Went to the funeral and had to return quickly to the navy yard. Wrtites, "What a blot on our naval escutchion that Pensacola affair! Not so much for old [Commodore] Armstrong, but...traitors [Commodore Ebenezer] Farrand & Renshaw; and our poor miserable way of doing things, accepting...when such an event as the capture of a Navy Yard is announced before waiting to hear a single circumstance! These men will all…

GLC04226

1842/05/05

Dorr, Thomas Wilson, 1805-1854

Printed document signed

Title: [Commission of Daniel N. Paine as Lieutenant Colonel, 6th Regiment of 2nd brigade of the Rhode Island militia]

Partially printed document also signed by Dorr as governor and William H. Smith as secretary. Each use of "his Excellency" were struck and replaced by "Thomas W. Dorr" or "the Governor." The word "Company" was also struck to identify the armed force as a militia. Issued while Dorr was acting illegally as governor at the time of the Dorr rebellion.

GLC04227

30 November 1873

Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Dabney H. Maury

Discusses the Southern Historical Society, its publications, and the disqualification of Confederate Army and Navy Officers from Virginia State Office under the 14th Amendment.

GLC04228

1740

Book

Title: [Geography anatomiz'd; or, The geographical grammar. Inscribed by William Ellery].

Signed by William Ellery and dated as his property "1744/5." Also signed by George Wanton Ellery. The sixteenth edition, corrected and somewhat enlarged; and a set of new maps, by Mr. Senex. William Ellery graduated from Harvard College in 1747. A Member of the Continental Congress from 1776 until 1785, William Ellery was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. George Wanton Ellery was the son of William Ellery.

GLC04229

1742

Watts, Isaac, fl. 1742

Book

Title: [Philosophical essays on various subjects; viz., space, substance, body, spirit. Inscribed by William Ellery].

Also signed by William Ellery and George Wanton Ellery. Title continues: "the operations of the soul in union with the body; the production and operations of plants and animals; with some remarks on Mr. Locke's Essay on the human understanding. To which is subjoined A brief scheme of ontology, or the science of being in general, with its affections." A Member of the Continental Congress from 1776 until 1785, William Ellery was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. George Wanton Ellery was the son of William Ellery.

GLC04230

9 December 1868

Galloway, Samuel, 1811-1872

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Kinsman

Discusses the possibility of being named to Ulysses S. Grant's cabinet and mentions that this is "strictly of a personal and confidential nature. " Talks about his reputation and mentions his opposition to Salmon Chase's ambitions by saying, "One reason why I have been so long in private life is that as Early as 1857 I felt it to be my duty as a patriotic citizen to oppose the ambition of Salmon P. Chase." Comments on his support of Abraham Lincoln in 1859, as well as his responsibility in bringing Lincoln to speak in Ohio and in securing the publication of the Lincoln-Stephen Douglas…

GLC04231

1925

Photograph signed

Title: [Meeting of the World War Debt Commission]

Signed by all twenty delegates pictured. Stamped a "National Photo" on the verso. Herbert Hoover, who was among the delegates, is seated near the center left.

GLC04233

13 June 1843

Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Spencer

Writes to the Secretary of the Treasury about saving $920 in making telegraph wires with colored varnish instead of colored thread. Asks permission to sell the unnecessary colored thread.

GLC04235

12 May 1854

Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872

Autograph letter signed

Title: to E.H. Sanford

States that Amos Kendall is his agent for the management of his telegraphic business and he cannot answer Sanford's inquiry about the sale of telegraph patent rights in Oregon and California until consulting with Kendall. Comments that he believes that no definite sale has been made yet but advises on Kendall's whereabouts and states he will send Sanford's letter to him.

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