01 July 1857

Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879

Autograph letter signed

Title: to TJ Seward

Seeking support for petition favoring "compensated emancipation" and a call for a national convention: "If you would send also one influential name from each of the other two political parties, you would do a valuable service to the movement..."

GLC08294

January 4, 1891

Brown, John Jr., 1821-1895

Autograph letter signed

Title: to F.B. Sanborn

W.P. Garrison has defamed Brown family in "The Prelude of Harper's Ferry 11: John Brown, Guerrilla" by contradicting their claims: "Father early cherished a purpose to make war upon slavery by Force and arms...war as understood by us meant war."

GLC08295

19 July 1853

Thompson Brown, Ruth, fl. 1853

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary A. Brown

Re: activities at family home in NY, missing her parents, and the possilility of John Brown joining the Congregational church: "father is just such a man as we want in our church."

GLC08296

circa 1861

Broadside

Title: Epitaph on the United States Of America.

Confederate Broadside published by Evans & Cogswell commenting on the Union, Freedom , Equality, etc., and listing nearly every argument for Secession. "Here lie the mutilated and disjointed remains of the noblest form of Government." A main target is "a 'government of black men' being the chief ill of the social ties between two races' never designed by Providence to live together."

GLC08297

1861

Wallis, Severn Teackle, 1816-1894

Document signed

Title: Report of anti-war Maryland lawmaker detailing his opposition to doctrine of military necessity, and his subsequent imprisonment.

"Committee on Federal Relations in regard to Calling of a Sovereign Convention." Report of anti-war Maryland lawmaker detailing his opposition to doctrine of military necessity, and his subsequent imprisonment. Several editing marks on inside.

GLC08298

15 April 1861

Tilghman, Lloyd, 1816-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to General P.G.T. Beauregard

"Allow me...to congratulate you on your brillant success on Sumter. The news came yesterday and has a most glorious effect on the "shreikers.' They to a man, yeild like men to their duty, and Kentucky is a unit from this time. She will go out of the Old Union for certain." [CSA General, KIA, 1863]

GLC08299

August 1862 - April 1864

Lowrie, James Addison, 1843-?

Header Record

Title: Confederate Private, 57th NC, Archive of 51 letters. to mother and brother, some with Confederate patriotics. [Decimalized .01- .52]

Confederate Private, 57th NC, Archive of 51 letters. To Mother and Brother, some with Confederate patriotics. Fought the Army of Northern Virginia from Fredericksburg to Mine Run, Drewery's Bluff, Cold Harbor and around Appomattox. Wounded at Fredericksburg and Meyers Cave, lost a leg.

GLC08300

01 May 1861

Goldsborough, Louis Malesherbes, 1805-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Captain A. Harwood

On board USS Congress, Montevideo, Uruguay, re: on -board experiments with sponges and the ship's guns; attacking secession: "no country on earth can stand universal Suffrage and secession.... The idea, too, that with us, one owes a higher and holier allegiance to his state than to his country is enough to destroy nationality and patriotism, and to disqualify anyone from holding a Federal trust."

GLC08302

24 September 1861

McKenzie, Duncan, fl. 1861

Document signed

Title: Patent, Camp Cooking Apparatus

Patent, Camp Cooking Apparatus. An early "portable and convenient device" for Union soliders cooking in the field.

GLC08303

01 May 1863 - 30 June 1863

Jewett, William Henry, fl. 1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: Observations composed in journal form by soilder, 47th Ohio volunteer Infantry.

"Notes from my Napsack," observations composed in journal form by soilder, 47th Ohio volunteer Infantry, Co. B. Reports on Vicksburg Campaign, prisoners for Camp Douglas, skirmishing along heights of Walnut Hills. Observes that "About two hundred of the "piculiar institution" dragged their somber forms up the levee to the landing this afternoon on their way to Millikins Bend, the contraband rendeavous..." [escaped slaves]"

GLC08306

04 May 1863

Hunter, David, 1802-1886

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Governor Andrew Curtain

Requests that several regiments of "colored troops" being raised in PA be sent to the Dept. of the South: "These regiments are very generous, temperate, patient, strictly obedient, possessing great natural aptitude for arms and deeply imbued with that religious sentiment - call it fanaticisim such as like, which made the soldiers of Cromvell invincible. They believe that now is the time appointed by God for their deliverance and under the heroic incitement of this faith I believe them capable of showing a courage and persistency of purpose which must in the end extort both victory &…

GLC08307

22 June 1863

Newspaper

Title: The black hawk chronicle. [Vol. 1, no. 3 (June 22, 1863)]

Union newspaper with tongue-in-cheek war reports, mentioning Grant at Vicksburg and Naval Operations in the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers.

GLC08308

[ 23 September 1863 ]

Buckland, L.L., fl. 1863

Manuscript signed

Title: Ink and watercolor sketch of Fort Wagner, Morris Island, S.C. by 1st Lt, 1st NY Engineers.

Ink and watercolor sketch of Fort Wagner, Morris Island, S.C. by 1st Lt, 1st NY Engineers, two weeks after Fort's capture. Overview, with approaches, and positions of 16 guns and 2 mortars.

GLC08310

1864 - 1865

Wells, Edmund C., fl. 1864-1865

Header Record

Title: [Collection of Edmund C. Wells, 3rd regiment, Pennsylvania, heavy artillery] [Decimalized .01- .55]

Union soldier, PA Heavy Artillery, Archive of 48 letters, Jan, 1864 - June, 1865. Reports on prisoner taking, the battle of Cedar Creek, the action of "Moseby's men," fighting alongside "Zoaves", black troops,etc.

GLC08311

13 September 1864 - 25 September 1864

Githens, William, fl. 1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: Two letters from the Illinois surgeon on the burning of Atlanta and conduct of the war. 1st letter to his daughter & the 2nd letter to his wife.

Two letters from Illinois surgeon on the burning of Atlanta and conduct of the war: To Daughter: Confederate machine shops were burned and property destroyed; " I saw the flames rolling up mountains high, away off at Jonesboro nearly twenty miles away..." To Wife: "Our Army is very much elated at the cheering news from Virgina - we hope they will keep it up."

GLC08312

January 24, 1864

Thomas, Rile, fl. 1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Amanda Rile

Thomas Rile, Sergeant, Co. H. 13th United States Colored Troops, reports to his wife on his life in the infantry.

GLC08313

February 1865

Broadside

Title: Illustrated Philadelphia recruiting poster for "Major General Hancock's First Army Corps of Veterans" including "Union man and Woman."

Illustrated Philadelphia recruiting poster for "Major General Hancock's First Army Corps of Veterans" including "Union man and woman" who want the "accursed rebellion stopped."

GLC08314

19 July 1865

Bramlette, Thomas Elliott, 1817-1875

Broadside

Title: Kentucky election call for white mail Union citizens over 21 years old who have not "expatriated" themselves by aiding the Confederacy.

GLC08315

25 August 1779

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: Pass from Albemarle county to Medicinal Springs in Berkeley County, for Mr. Burchsdorff and Major General Riedesel, and family.

Pass from Albemarle county to Medicinal Springs in Berkeley County, for Mr. Burchsdorff and Major General Riedesel, and family (German mercenaries captured with Burgoyne at Saratoga).

GLC08316

1828

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Broadside

Title: Election poster with prominent Americans.

"Wellington's Invincibles: Jackson at New Orleans/Adams at Ghent" Election poster with prominent Americans.

GLC08317

May 1755 - March 1757

Document signed

Title: French and Indian War expenditures, detailing over 63,000 pounds from 1755-1757 to military men, arms purchases and other services.

GLC08319

1777

Manuscript signed

Title: The Capture of Burgoyne

Satirical "Proposals for an exchange of General Burgoyne - Ascribed to his excellency William Livingston esq. governor of the state of New Jersey." In unknown hand, possibly written by a group.

GLC08320

3 January 1912

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: to Samuel McChord Crothers

"We must get the Republican Party on the side of the progressives, and on the other hand we must keep the progressives sane....." Written on "The Outlook" letterhead.

GLC08321

21 May 1892

Crouch, Frederick Nicholls, fl. 1892

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: Civil war campfire song lyrics.

Fair copy of lyrics for popular Civil War campfire song, "Kathleen Mavourneen"

GLC08322

12 November 1885

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

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Lewis

Declines involvement in Grant - Johnson controversy over removal of War Secretary Stanton: "The matter was discussed to death at the time (1868) and I know of no good reason for reviving it."

GLC08323