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1878 Diary of Thomas Rogers Booth

All entries take place in Pennsylvania and Deleware. Back used for accounting.Mentions weather, whther he has received any letters or has written any. The Episcopal church is also mentioned in several entries.

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1879 Diary of Thomas Rogers Booth

All entries take place in Kitanning and Bethlehem Pennsylvania. On May 23rd, he tells a story of how they accidentally set the chimney on fire. He tells another anecdote on July 5th in which someone's cat keeps killing the chickens so he poisoned a...

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1880 Diary of Thomas Rogers Booth

All entries take place in Pennsylvania, Deleware and Maryland. Records his small journeys from town to town. We learn he likes to attend philosophical meetings and lectures as well as church. Back used for accounting.

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1881 Diary of Thomas Rogers Booth

All entries take place in Pennsylvania and Virginia. Mentions the details of his work frequently. Faithfully records the weather. Back is used for accounting.

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1882 Diary of Thomas Rogers Booth

All entries take place in Virginia and Maryland. Records the weather in each entry. Talks about contracts and different projects connected to his job. Very little information about his personal life.

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1883 Diary of Thomas Rogers Booth

All entries take place in Virginia. On April 12th, the clerk of the hotel he was staying in attempted suicide by overdosing on laudanum. He resisted efforts to save him. Back is used for accounting.

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1884 Diary of Thomas Rogers Booth

All entries take place in Virginia, Pennsylvania and Maryland. Discusses business, weather, planting. Written in pencil and purple ink.

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1885 Diary of Thomas Rogers Booth

All entries take place in Maryland, Deleware and Pennsylvania. Mentons the death of his Aunt Mary and her funeral on March 3rd. Mentions chores around the house. Talks of collegues and business.

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1886 Diary of Thomas Rogers Booth

All entries take place in Pennsylvania, Deleware and Maryland. The weather is recorded in most entries. Sister Lizzie is mentioned in several passages. Back is used for accounting. Writeen in purple ink.

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1887 Diary of Thomas Rogers Booth

All entries take place in Pennsylvania, Deleware and Maryland. Back used for accounting. Records the weather. Periodically records the events of his day.

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1888 Diary of Thomas Rogers Booth

All enries take place in Pennsylvania and New York. 2 newspaper clippings included: "Mechanics and Laboring Men" and "A November Reminder" both having to do with taxes. Recors the weather. Accounting in back.

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1889 Diary of Thomas Rogers Booth

All entries take place in Pennsylvania and Deleware. On August 16th he mentions Hugh McKinney, a candidate for governer. J Duval Rodney died on Sept. 17 and his funeral was held the 29th. Back is used for accounting.

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to Dear Sister

He is glad Tyler won the election. The city was illuminated in celebration. He once stayed with William S. Masey and his wife. Their uncle is in debt and he would like to help him.

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[Diary of James Hannegan of the 5th Ohio Cavalry]

Diary is an autograph manuscript signed, neatly written in pencil, covering 1 January 1862-31 December 1862. Writes about the battle being raged at Fort Donelson in his entry of 15 February, reporting that the "citizens are in a terrible state of...

GLC04129.01

[Diary of James Hannegan of the 5th Ohio Cavalry]

Diary is an autograph manuscript signed, neatly written in pencil, covering 1 January 1863-15 March 1863. At the end of the book Hannegan includes some accounting pages. Enclosed within the diary is a bookmark depicting an eagle and a shield, with...

GLC04129.02

Journal of the Southern campaign

The manuscript consists of 2 volumes (total 414 p.) Battle content on Antietam, Fredericksburg and Vicksburg. Also mentions contrabands and General Ambrose Burnside. Pope belonged to Co. I, 35th Massachusetts Volunteers.

GLC06266.01

[Scrapbook of Maria Webb]

Bound collection of letters from leading abolitionists of the period, including Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe, among others.

GLC08360

to Joseph B. Varnum

Massachusetts Congressman Samuel Dana introduces William Whittemore to Varnum, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Informs Varnum that Whittemore will be travelling to Washington, D.C. in order to preserve the patent for "the exclusive use of...

GLC03845.07

Circular to the Consuls and Commercial Agents of the United States.

Discusses an act passed by Congress on 27 March 1804 pertaining to the registering of sea vessels. Mentions that the treasury department has no judicial authority in regards to disputes over lost vessels except that expressly given by United States...

GLC08151

[Pardon of John Nicholas for transporting a stolen vehicle].

Countersigned by Acting Attorney General James W. Morris. Nicholas, an alien, transported a stolen car across state lines and was sentenced to 2 years in prison on 18 April 1924. He served eight months at the Missouri Reformatory, Booneville...

GLC08152

to Edwin Stanton

Recipient inferred because Stanton served as the Secretary of War under Lincoln. States that U.S. Representative from West Virginia, Kellian Whaley, called to know if General Robert Milroy might report to General Franz Sigel. Whaley says that Sigel...

GLC08153

to Hannibal Hamlin

Requesting name of Maine man to appoint Brigadier General. With Hamlin's note on bottom that Hiram Berry was appointed, served ably, but was killed at the battle of Chancellorsville on 3 May 1863.

GLC08157

[Authority to affix the Seal of the United States to the pardon of William J. Porter.]

GLC08159

[Petition to President Abraham Lincoln to arrange for the release of Union prisoners held in Richmond, Virginia].

Mary Morrison, Amanda Morrison, and Mary Wheeler, two wives and a sister of Union supporters imprisoned by the Confederate Army request that the Union Army take seven Confederate supporters living in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and arrange to have a...

GLC08160

[Special order]

Setting up the orders of the day for the 1st New York Fire Zouaves. Gives orders about breakfast and duties. States a police guard should be posted at 5 o'clock and allow no one to pass. Charges the quartermaster with inspecting the guns, and...

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