1863/03/23

Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870

Manuscript document signed

Title: Draft General Order re: Fredricksburg

Announcing day of fasting and prayer in wake of victory at Fredericksburg; "Soldiers! No portion of our people have greater cause to be thankful to almighty God than yourselves. He has preserved your lives amidst countless dangers..." and pray that God "will scatter our enemies and set at naught their evil designs"

GLC07057

1863/04/02

Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870

Letter signed

Title: to Joseph Hooker re: release of injured Union prisoner

GLC07058

[1850 ca.]

Meigs, John R., fl. 1850-1864

Header Record

Title: Family Archive [Decimalized .01- .75]

Includes Lincoln and Johnson DS, photographs, ALS, commissions, and hand drawn maps.

GLC07059

1863/10/27

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

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John E. Smith re: movements during Chattanooga Campaign

Written in Junka, possibly in Tenneesse.

GLC07061

1863/11/03

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

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John E. Smith re: directions and advice on route to be used by troops

Written in pencil. For troops going enroute to Chattanooga.

GLC07062

1861/08/23

Grant, H. R., fl. 1861

Autograph letter signed

Title: to J. T. Van Diver re: the ladies of Richmond; on Confederate Flag stationery

GLC07063.01

[1863/08/24]

Autograph letter signed

Title: Anonymous civilian report re: difficulty of communication, running blockade

GLC07063.02

1865/02/11

Oldham, Williamson S., fl. 1865

Letter

Title: to Jefferson Davis re: burning Union shipping towns

Copy. Per correspondence with Lynda Crist at the Jefferson Davis Papers, 3/16/2001, Oldham was a Confederate senator from Texas.

GLC07063.03

1865/09/05

Grifman, William H., fl. 1865

Letter

Title: re: Reconstruction, illustrated letter

Letter illustrated with two stick figures on p. 4 (one, shouldering a gun, and one waving a flag) that talks about the end of the war and mentions "Killing Niggers"; "Oh what a happy time it will be for me when we pack our knapsacks for the last time."

GLC07064.01

1864/11/08

Autograph letter signed

Title: From "I.D.S." (member of Genl. William Quarles Staff)

re: gossip about General's movements.

GLC07064.02

1862 ca.

Waud, Alfred R., fl. 1862-1865

Painting

Title: Charge of Meagher's Irish Brigade... Fredericksburg

Black and white ink and gouache painting of the Battle of Fredericksburg on 13 December 1862. It depicts Meagher's Irish Brigade (the 63d, 69th and 88th NY, 115 PA and 28 Mass.; shown carrying a battle flag with Irish harp) charging Marye's Heights. The flag was carried in this battle by the 28th Mass. In the upper right on a crest, Marye's house can be discerned (with the columns). At the base of the house are smoke and gunfire flashes, marking the location of the Confederate infantry in the sunken road. Meagher's brigade was shattered in the charge. The painting also shows Brig. Genn.…

GLC07065

20 September 1865

Waud, Alfred R., fl. 1862-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Josephine Waud re: experiences with Army of the Potomac; Chancellorsville

A long letter to his sister concerning his experiences in the Army of the Potomac. "We fought for three days against Lee and 50,000, and owning to the stupidity of our General 'Fighting Joe Hooker' lost the Battle and between 30,000 and 40,000." He also adds: "I took the train to Frederick where our party exchanged the iron for flesh blood horses and rode to the Battle of Gettysburgh." Includes envelope [from another letter?] and albumen photograph of Waud.

GLC07066

1864

Barnard, George N., 1819-1902

Photograph

Title: Gen. W.F. Barry [&] Gen. W.T. Sherman Before Atlanta

Image of Generals William Farquhar Barry and William Tecumseh Sherman and their staff gathered around an artillery piece at Federal Fort No. 7 near Atlanta, Georgia. The background is blurred and composed of rolling, empty fields. According to the Library of Congress the men pictured are, from left: Major L.M. Dayton, Lt. Colonel E.D. Kittoe, Colonel A. Beckwith, Colonel Orlando M. Poe, General Barry, Colonel W. Warner, Colonel T.G. Baylor, General Sherman, Captain, G.W. Nichols, an unidentified major, Colonel C. Ewing, and Captain J.E. Marshall. A note on the mount reads "M.O.L.L. Mass from…

GLC07067

1861 ca.

Cook, George S., 1819-1902

Photograph

Title: Nathan G. Evans

Title on mount. Photograph inlaid on cabinet card sized mount, possibly cut out of an album. Evans is a Brigadier General in this photograph.

GLC07068.01

1861 ca.

Cook, George S., 1819-1902

Photograph

Title: W. C. Wickham, Brig. General

Quarter length bust portrait of William C. Wickham on cabinet card sized mount.

GLC07068.02

1861 ca.

Cook, George S., 1819-1902

Photograph

Title: C. M. Wilcox, Brigadier General

Half length portrait of Cadmus M. Wilcox.

GLC07068.03

1861 ca.

Cook, George S., 1819-1902

Photograph

Title: Samuel McGowan

Quarter length bust portrait in uniform. Photograph on cabinet card sized mount.

GLC07068.04

1861 ca.

Cook, George S., 1819-1902

Photograph

Title: Harry T. Hays, Brig. General

Bust portrait of the bearded Confederate General Harry Thompson Hays. Photograph on cabinet card sized mount.

GLC07068.05

1865/04 ca.

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Tredegar Iron Works, Richmond, Va

Shows factory buildings, with two men standing (facing away from the camera), in the center foreground

GLC07069.01

1865/04 ca.

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: View of Crenshaw's Mill, [Richmond, Va.]

Shows mill on a river, with a masonry bridge at the center of the image. Ruins of buildings on banks of river.

GLC07069.02

1864 ca.

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: View of Chimborago Hospital, Richmond, Va.

Distant view showing barracks, with Black man holding crutches sitting in the left foreground, facing away from the camera. Title from pencil note on verso.

GLC07070

1865/03/02

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph signed

Title: Oval albumen bust portrait of Ulysses S. Grant

Signed on the mount and dated by Grant as Lt. General. at City Point, Va. However, the vignetted image probably may have been taken 1862-63 because it shows Grant as a Major General with only two stars. (Image dimensions 20.4 x 15.7 cm.)

GLC07071

1862 ca.

Photograph

Title: John B, Hood, General

Photographic bust portrait of "the Iron Boar" John Bell Hood showing three stars. Photograph likely taken while Hood was in command of the Army of Tennessee. Photograph on cabinet card sized mount.

GLC07072

1863 ca.

Photograph

Title: Fitzhugh Lee

Bust portrait of Fitzhugh Lee as a Major General. Photograph on cabinet card size mount.

GLC07073

April 1865

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph

Title: [Photograph of General Robert E. Lee]

3/4 length bust portrait of Lee. Variant of Meredith p. 61 (which has full image). This photograph is one of the series which Brady took at Richmond after Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, Virginia.

GLC07075