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[Financial document of the Society of Cincinnati, State of Massachusetts]

Lists various expenses, including "cash paid by Marquis de Lafayette for orders presented the French officers", and to L'Enfant for ribbons.

GLC04379.16

[Officers of the Society of Cincinnati, State of Pennsylvania]

Lists officers and their positions.

GLC04379.17

[Officers of the Society of Cincinnati, States of Massachusetts, Delaware, and New Jersey]

Lists officers and their positions.

GLC04379.18

[Alphabetical member list of the Society of Cincinnati, State of Massachusetts]

Lists member names, and for some, provides the county and town they are from. A tally on the back shows that there were 323 members, and also mentions the number that are living in other states, removed but accounted for, dead, in France, or in the...

GLC04379.19

to A.B.

Directs the recipient (identified as "Correspondent") to appoint a member of the Massachusetts Society of Cincinnati from each county to keep the secretary informed of local affairs through regular correspondence. Through such correspondence...

GLC04379.20

[Officers of the Society of Cincinnati, State of South Carolina]

Lists officers and their positions.

GLC04379.21

[Note pertaining to the Society of Cincinnati]

Very briefly indicates that officers in the Continental Army instructed the society, while in cantonment on the Hudson River, 10 May 1783.

GLC04379.22

[Proposal for establishing the Society of Cincinnati and founding records]

Copy of a report on deliberations on "proposals for establishing a Society, upon principals therein mentioned, whose members shall be Officers of the American Army" during the cantonment of the army on the Hudson River. Includes a copy of the...

GLC04379.23

[Ink wash drawing of eagle medal for the Society of Cincinnati]

Ink wash drawing of the eagle medal L'Enfant proposed for the society. In his letter to Baron von Steuben at the founding convention, he described two medals and recommended the one drawn here (see GLC04379.23). The actual medal issued resembles...

GLC04379.24

[Pierre L'Enfant's expenses on behalf of the Society of Cincinnati]

Lists expenses related to L'Enfant's ten-week trip to France as an emissary of the Society of Cincinnati, during which time he arranged to have the society's diploma engraved and eagle insignia made. Some non-specific calculations appear on the...

GLC04379.25

["Deposition of Edwin M. Stanton"].

Stamped as pages 86-92. Signed by Stanton ("Edwin M Stanton") on the seventh page (p. 92). Also signed vertically on the left margin of each of the seven pages by Commissioner A.B. Olin, whose autograph endorsement signed appears below Stanton's...

GLC00720.01

[Printed War Department Order issued by Edwin M. Stanton].

Stamped as page 93. Signed by Stanton vertically along the left-hand margin. (Not signed by Olin.) Labeled "Exhibit 'A'" (possibly in Stanton's hand). A printed copy of Stanton's 8 August 1862 "Order authorizing arrest of persons who discourage...

GLC00720.02

[Printed War Department Order No. 94 issued by Edwin M. Stanton].

Stamped as page 96. Signed by Stanton vertically along the right-hand margin; also with an autograph endorsement signed by E[dward]. D. Townsend certifying that the foregoing order is a true copy of the original. (Not signed by Olin.) Labeled...

GLC00720.03

[Partially-printed attestation of Edward D. Townsend's credentials]

Stamped as page 98. Labeled "Exhibit C," in support of Secretary of War Stanton's deposition (GLC00720.01).

GLC00720.04

[Order to issue a commission to A.B. Olin; defendant's interrogatories; plaintiff's cross-interrogatories]

Stamped as pages 102-108. Pages 102-103 comprise the New York State Supreme Court order to issue a commission to A.B. Olin to examine Edwin M. Stanton. Noted, and signed, as "A copy" by John Wood, clerk, on page 103. A 18 March 1865 note written...

GLC00720.06

[Furlough granted to Brigadier General N. C. McLean]

Written on printed Head Quarters, Department of North Carolina, Army of the Ohio stationery. Grants General Nathaniel Collins McLean a leave of absence, "with permission to proceed to Cincinnati and await the action of the War Dept on the tender of...

GLC01740.05.03

Life and public services of Hon. Abraham Lincoln

Published by H. Dayton. A work encompassing the political life of Abraham Lincoln up to 1860. The book is divided into four main chapters: early history, Congress, the senatorial race, and the Republican National Convention of 1860. Bartlett was a...

GLC02913.01

to John S. Barriault and Elsie M. Barriault

A letter of condolence for the death of the Barriault's son, Dr. Roland J. Barriault. Accompanied by a printed document certificate (GLC05508.155.02). Written on the day Kennedy ordered the naval blockade of Cuba.

GLC05508.155.01

[Carte-de-visite of Henry W. Halleck]

Carte-de-visite of Henry W. Halleck, printed by D. Appleton & Co.

GLC00664.02

[Carte-de-visite of Major General George B. McClellan and his wife]

Carte-de-visite of McClellan and his wife Ellen Marcy McClellan. Titled "Maj. Gen. Geo B. McClellan and Lady."

GLC00664.03

[Partially-printed appointment of A.B. Olin as commissioner to examine Edwin M. Stanton as a witness for the defense in Benjamin v. Murray and Perkins.]

Stamped as pages 99-101, with paper seal on first page (p.99).
Signed by John Wood as clerk of the New York Supreme Court. With clerical signatures of New York Supreme Court Justice John A. Lott and Murray's attorneys Vail & Sedgwick as witnesses...

GLC00720.05

to William T. Sherman

Writes an inscription to Major General Sherman on a blank flyleaf apparently removed from the "History of Julius Caesar" presenting this "brochure." Hopes that Sherman will be induced to write a similar history about the Civil War. " ... this...

GLC00955.01

[Statement declining a suggestion to write his memoirs of the Civil War]

In response to a suggestion from Charles McMillan (see GLC00955.01), Sherman states that he has no intention of writing a memoir. "Where Caesar may have succeeded and it may be one or two others, the greater majority of military men have signally...

GLC00955.02

[Comment on his decision to publish his memoirs]

Inscription written by Sherman on the title page and an illustrated plate removed from the book "History of Julius Caesar." Explains that though the book was given to him by Ingram McMillan (see GLC00955.01, Sherman is possibly referring to Charles...

GLC00955.03

to John Codman Ropes

McLean writes to historian John C. Ropes on the topic of the Battle of Second Manassas. GLC01740.05.01 and .02 were originally bound together. Accompanied by a docketed wrapper. In a letter from October 6, McLean, who was a Union General during the...

GLC01740.05.01