December 11, 1790

Harrisson and Purdy, fl. 1790

Newspaper

Title: New York weekly museum. [No. 135 (December 11, 1790)]

Includes President George Washington's second State of the Union Address (page 3). Among other topics, Washington discusses the condition of public credit, the Western frontier, independence from foreign commerce, and the appointment of consuls to foreign countries. Contains various news and advertisements.

GLC03130

19 May 1860

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

Newspaper

Title: New York daily tribune. [Vol. 20, no. 5950 (May 19, 1860)]

Discusses the nomination of Abraham Lincoln as President by the Republican National Convention, which convened May 1860 in Chicago, Illinois. Reports on the reaction of citizens in New York City to the announcement of Lincoln's nomination, including the firing of guns in several public squares. Contains an article describing the nomination of Hannibal Hamlin as Lincoln's Vice President. Also advertises the printing of such materials as "The Life and Public Services of the Hon. Abraham Lincoln" and "The Life and Speeches of the Hon. Abraham Lincoln", with a steel portrait. Among various other…

GLC03127

16 April 1791

Newspaper

Newspaper

Title: Gazette of the United States. [Vol. 2, no. 101 (April 16, 1791)]

Contains "Discourse on Davila. No. 30."; article discussing the right of state legislatures to instruct their state's senators in Congress; extract of a report from the London Humane Society; opinions of Delaware representative John Vining on the bank bill under consideration in the House of Representatives; poem, "To Ella"; extracts from letters from London, Paris, and Dublin, discussing trade and markets; report on an act passed in Congress providing pensions for invalids, and supporting lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and public piers; and, an epitaph for Voltaire.

GLC03128

circa 1861-1865

Header Record

Title: Union soldiers diaries [decimalized .02-.16]

GLC03131

1863-1865

Widdifield, Charles T., fl. 1863-1865

Diary

Title: [Diaries of Charles T. Widdifield, K company, 12th regiment, Pennsylvania, cavalry]

Autograph manuscripts signed. The 1863 and 1865 diaries (approximately 150 and 122 pages, respectively) contain entries written under printed dates, while the 1864 diary (approximately 71 pages) is in a notebook with days and months written by author. All three are mostly written in pencil and signed by the author. Also included are four loose note sheets that originally were stuck within the diary pages from 1864. Widdifield's unit served in Western Virginia near Martinsburg, Winchester, and Charles Town. His unit did not fight at Gettysburg, having retreated from the Valley in June…

GLC03131.02

1863-1864

Moore, Isaac H., fl. 1863-1864

Diary

Title: [Diary of Isaac H. Moore, B company, 138th regiment, Pennsylvania, infantry]

Autograph manuscript signed of Isaac H. Moore, a sergeant in 138th regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 6th Corps. Diary is written largely in pen. Discusses the campaign of the Army of the Potomac from May to August 1864, as well as Sheridan's Valley campaign of August to October of 1864. Also contains accounts of clothing bills from September 1863-February 1865, a list of camps and places of rendezvous for 1862-65, and a list of casualties in B Company from November 1863 to July 1864.

GLC03131.03

1864

Stiles, Milo B., fl. 1864

Diary

Title: [Diary of Milo B. Stiles, F battery, 11th regiment, Vermont, 1st heavy artillery]

Autograph manuscript signed. Written mostly in pencil, with some entries in pen. Stiles served in a 3-month regiment, in the 11th Vermont until December 1862, and joined again for service in the 11th Vermont heavy artillery. His unit served in West Virginia for the first part of year and joined the Army of the Potomac in May.

GLC03131.04

1862-1864

Tosh, George T., fl. 1862-1864

Diary

Title: [Diary of George T. Tosh, Iowa,1st light battery]

Autograph manuscript signed. Diary written by George T. Tosh, a soldier in lst Iowa Battery.

GLC03131.05

1862-1863

Stout, Frank C., fl. 1862-1863

Header Record

Title: [Collection of Frank C. Stout, D company, 34th regiment, Pennsylvania, infantry] [Decimalized .01- .11]

Collection of Frank C. Stout (full name Benjamin Franklin Christian Stout) of the 129th Pennsylvania Volunteers, a nine month regiment. Collection includes two diaries, both of which are signed and primarily written in pencil. The first diary is approximately 140 pages and covers August-December 1862. The second diary is approximately 193 pages and covers December 1862-May 1863. Housed with the second diary is an unused postage stamp. Collection also contains miscellaneous documents, including a baptism record and medical information; a pamphlet relating an address delivered in 1897 by a…

GLC03131.07

1861-1862

Rome, William O., ?-1863

Header Record

Title: [Collection of William O. Rome] [Decimalized .01- .03]

Diary in pen, tintype, and two letters of William O. Rome, soldier in Co. K, 56th New York. The two letters (21 December 1862 and 24 December 1862) are written from Yorktown, Virginia and one contains a list of all the men in Company K and whether they are on duty, sick, discharged, or dead. The diary contains some of Rome's writing from 1861 to 1862.

GLC03131.09

1864-1865

Pratz, William, fl. 1864-1865

Diary

Title: [Diary of William W. Pratz]

Autograph manuscript signed. Diary in pencil. Writes about camp life and the weather. Notes the number of letters he writes and receives in a day. Approximately 112 pages.

GLC03131.11

1862-1865

Richie, Joseph, 1862-1865

Diary

Title: [History of 157th regiment Pennsylvania volunteers]

Autograph manuscript. Noted as a copy and signed "Thomas E. Carter" on page one. Not really a diary, although first three pages contain information that Richie received the book on 5 September 1864, the day Private Joseph Richie Co. C, 157th Pennsylvania Volunteers was appointed "Acting Quartermaster Sergeant of this Battalion" and next two pages may have real diary entries. The substance of the book is a seventeen page "History of the 157th Penna Vols." The history begins on 5 October 1862 and continues to 3 July 1865. Describes the methods of recruitment used, movements of the…

GLC03131.13

1847-1912

Wells, Hiram C., fl. 1825-1900

Manuscript

Title: [Collection of Hiram C. Wells]

The collection includes his 1863 diary, military papers and personal and legal papers (mostly pre and post-war). Gives good view of life in cavalry with skirmishes, scouts, etc. Regiment took part in siege of Knoxville. Wells was later captured, imprisoned at Andersonville, and on the Sultana when it exploded, subjects covered in manuscript written in 1880s (includes typed transcript). The diary is approximately 106 pages and spans over the year 1863.

GLC03131.15

1861

Campbell, James M., fl. 1861

Diary

Title: [Diary of James M. Campbell, B company 5th regiment, Virginia, infantry]

Diary in pencil except for 9-10 and 25-27 of August 1861. Campbell was in the "Rockbridge Rifles." He lived in Lexington, Virginia. Contains entries for most days from 1 January to 14 April 1861, and from 18 July to the end of the year. Many of the intervening pages, however, are not blank, for "the entries Made from 18th of April up to this 17th of August are Made from Memory I believe them to be Very Near true." Included among the entries drawn from memory are the accounts of his joining and first days in the Rockbridge Rifles (18-24 April), list of men in Rockbridge Rifles (27 May - 2 June…

GLC03132

1859-1907

Clegg, William, fl. 1859-1907

Header Record

Title: [Collection of William Clegg, I company, 2nd regiment, Louisiana, infantry] [decimalized]

Collection includes nine letters, one newspaper clipping with ribbon, one diary, one ledger, and one photograph. Four envelopes are included. Letters are written from various people and include recommendations for Clegg, reflections of the War, and various other topics. Diary mostly consists of entries on camp life, marching, and some fighting.

GLC03133

1862-1863

Baker, T. Otis, 1844-1910

Header Record

Title: [Collection of T. Otis Baker, B company, 10th regiment, Mississippi, infantry] [Decimalized .01- .03]

Lieutenant T. Otis Baker served in Co. B, 10th Mississippi Infantry, C.S.A. The diary covers 9 October 1862 -2 August 1863. Diary is primarily written in pencil and has some touch-ups. In addition to the diary, this collection includes one photograph and one calling card. The diary contains entries for the period 24 June-14 July 1863, covering Rosecrans' Tullahoma campaign and its aftermath.

GLC03134

circa 1861-1865

Header Record

Title: Collection of 716 Confederate letters from various soldiers [decimalized .01-.13]

Letters are decimalized.

GLC03135

1844-1920

Nugent, 1844-1920

Header Record

Title: [Letters of Nugent family members, including one member in the Louisiana Volunteers, and another in the Mississippi Volunteers] [Decimalized .01- .36]

Includes correspondence of J. Perry Nugent, Co. K of the 16th and 25th Louisiana Volunteers, and C. J. Nugent of Co. D, 28th Mississippi Volunteers. Collection of thirty items, twenty-nine letters and one excerpt from an 1855 lecture. One undated letter at end of the collection is incomplete. Collection contains five wardate letters; one written by Perry Nugent from Texas, three by J. P. Nugent in the 16 Louisiana Volunteers, and one by C. (Clarence?) J. Nugent of the 28th Mississippi Volunteers. The C. J. Nugent letter (30 September 1862) is not an original, but a typescript. A 22 May…

GLC03135.01

August 30, 1804

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Document signed

Title: [Appointment of Benjamin Morgan as member of Legislative Council for Louisiana]

Countersigned by Secretary of State James Madison. Says the appointment was made in light of Congressional division of the Louisiana Purchase into two sections in 1804, Orleans Territory and the District of Louisiana. Morgan was appointed to the Legislative Council for the Orleans Territory, which consists of the modern day state of Louisiana. Given a one year term to begin on 30 September 1804. Large Seal of the United States on recto.

GLC03871

14 March 1805

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Isaac Briggs re: reports on formation of government & surveying of Louisiana

With three drafts of letters by Briggs to Jefferson.

GLC03872

16 April 1806

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Jarvis

First page contains Jefferson's letter to Jarvis acknowledging the receipt of Iberian wines for Monticello. Also briefly discusses U.S. foreign relations with European nations. Pages three and four contain Jarvis drafted response to Jefferson, dated July 22, 1806. Jarvis expresses satisfaction that the wines were well received and comments on foreign relations, including the prospect of the United States acquiring Florida. A Bostonian, Jarvis served as the Charge d'affaires at Lisbon from 1802 to 1811. Docketed on the second page.

GLC03873.01

8 May 1863

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Document signed

Title: Proclamation relative to liability to military service

Partially printed document authorizes the Secretary of State to affix the seal of the United States to Lincoln's proclamation permitting the conscription of foreigners. This was under the Enrollment Act of Congress, March 3, 1863, for foreigners who had declared their intention to become United States citizens, "in certain cases." Title from docket.

GLC03877

19 August 1863

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Benjamin B. French

Reports the results of a meeting with Secretary of War Stanton, "who...will return to the Trustees their own building now in control of the Surgeon General." Lincoln is referring to a Washington, D.C. school house that the War Department took control of to convert into a Medical Museum. Written on Executive Mansion stationary.

GLC03878.01

3 March 1812

Madison, James, 1751-1836

Letter signed

Title: to Congress

Transmits the proceedings of a convention assembled in New Orleans pursuant to an act "for the admission of the said State into the Union on an equal footing with the original States." Louisiana became a state on 30 April 1812.

GLC03879

circa February 1817

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

Autograph manuscript

Title: [Draft of first inaugural address]

First draft of president-elect Monroe's inauguration address. Monroe gave the address, with substantial changes, on 4 March 1817, beginning the Era of Good Feelings. The speech was the first outdoor inauguration since Washington's in 1789. Monroe's draft has a generally positive tone, expressing happiness and confidence with America's present and future prospects. It was written to appeal to everyone and avoids confrontation. Begins by thanking his fellow citizens for their trust in him and says he hopes to be a useful public servant. Following in the footsteps of Thomas Jefferson's ideas on…

GLC03880