19 February 1863

Clark, Rufus H., fl. 1862-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: [Special orders no. 50 regarding the honorable discharge of Joseph C. Oliver]

Signed by Clark as Adjutant, Third Regiment Louisiana Native Guards. States that Oliver, Captain of Company E, Third Regiment of the Louisiana Native Guards was mustered into the service by Major [Grotius Reed] Giddings 26 November 1862 and has received pay. Marked as an extract and written at Headquarters Department of the Gulf.

GLC08474.01

19 February 1863

Clark, Rufus H., fl. 1862-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: [Special orders no. 50 regarding the honorable discharge of Ernest Longpre]

Signed by Clark as Adjutant Third Regiment, Louisiana Native Guards. States that Longpre (spelled in the letter as "Longprie"), of French Creole descent, served as First Lieutenant, Third Regiment, Louisiana Native Guards.

GLC08474.02

3 March 1863

Hoyt, Albert H., 1826-1915

Document signed

Title: [Reciept of payment for one private servant]

Signed by Hoyt as United States Army Paymaster. Signed by Ernest Longpre, of French Creole descent, who served as First Lieutenant, Company H, Third Regiment, Louisiana Native Guards. Longpre confirms that he received payment (possibly for the service of a servant James Johnson) from Major M. Vedder, also an army paymaster. Describes Johnson's physical characteristics. "Vedder" is written in blue crayon above docket. This document is partially printed.

GLC08474.04

1864

Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )

Ephemera

Title: Union Ticket

Union ticket for the 1864 presidential election. Lists Abraham Lincoln for President and Andrew Johnson for Vice President. Lists electors for districts in California. Printed in orange. Printed on verso is an engraving of the ships, the Alabama the Kearsarge, and the Deerhound in battle.

GLC08498.01

1864

Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )

Ephemera

Title: Before Election. After Election.

Cartoon type anti McClellan ballot. Humorous scenes of before and after General George McClellan is defeated in the presidential election of 1864. He ran on the Democratic ticket.

GLC08498.02

1864

Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )

Ephemera

Title: [National Union nomination ticket]

Ticket for Massachusetts listing nominations for Governor, John A. Andrew, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary, Attorney General, etc. With flag and eagle emblem and engraving of bust of Abraham Lincoln, "Honest Abe."

GLC08498.03

1864

Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )

Ephemera

Title: Lincoln and Johnson. Union and Liberty.

Union ticket from Massachusetts for the 1864 presidential election. Lists John A. Andrew for Governor and Joel Hayden for Lieutenant Governor, along with the nominations for other political offices in the state. Eagle emblem at top.

GLC08498.04

1864

Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )

Ephemera

Title: National Union Nominations

Union ticket for the 1864 presidential election from Maryland listing Abraham Lincoln for President, Andrew Johnson as Vice President. Also lists Thomas Swann for Governor, Christopher C. Cox for Lieutenant Governor, and other nominations for political posts in the state. With flag at top.

GLC08498.05

1864-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: [Carte-de-visite of a black soldier in the Civil War]

Photograph of a First Sergeant in the U. S. Colored Troops.

GLC08976

26 May 1846

Kirby, Edmund, 1794-1849

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Silas Wright

Asking Governor Wright to approve his plan to raise and command a New York regiment in the Mexican War. Claims he can raise enough men for his own regiment, is experienced in command, and has already "asked the sanction of the Secretary of War and President to my tender of service to yourself." Promises "my faculties would be devoted with zeal to the endeavor to render the corps of New York volunteers a credit to the Empire State."

GLC08977

January 1884

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

Manuscript letter signed

Title: to Tiffany and Co.

Requesting a contribution of $5,000 towards completing the base of the Statue of Liberty. "You will no doubt deplore with us the marked indifference of the citizens of New York to the munificent gift of the French People to the People of the United States - A colossal Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World...We know that this is hardly a time to make an appeal for money, but the necessity is imperative." If the remaining half of the needed $250,000 is not raised soon, work must be halted, which would "produce the most unfavorable comments upon our patriotism and spirit." Therefore…

GLC08978

1861-1865

Header Record

Title: Confederate acts concerning prisioners of war and the use of slaves or free negroes for the war [Decimalized .01-.10]

GLC08979

21 May 1861

Confederate States of America. Congress

Printed document

Title: An act relative to prisoners of war

Confederate act concerning prisoners of war during the Civil War. With war department stamp on verso.

GLC08979.01

30 August 1861

Confederate States of America. Congress

Printed document

Title: An act to perpetuate testimony in cases of slaves abducted or Harbored by the Enemy, and other property seized, wasted, or destroyed by them

Confederate act concerning the official documenting of slaves and other private property taken by the Union. Listed as act number two hundred and seventy.

GLC08979.02

January 13, 1863

Confederate States of America. Congress

Printed document

Title: Resolutions endorsing the recent proclamation and order of the President on the subject of retaliation

Confederate act supporting Jefferson Davis' proclimation declaring Benjamin F. Butler and other Union officers as criminals deserving of death. Supports the President's order that Butler and his officers, as well as Brigadier General John McNeil, are to be executed upon capture. Also, "all Negro slaves captured in arms, be at onc delived over to the Executive authorities of the respective States to which they belong, to be dealt with according to the laws of said States. Confederate Congress "will at any time co-operate with the Executive, when requested, in any retaliatory measures which…

GLC08979.03

5 January 1864

Confederate States of America. Congress

Printed document

Title: A bill to be entitled an act to increase the efficiency of the army by the employment of free negroes and slaves in certain capacities

Confederate act stating "free negroes and slaves" shall be enlisted to work as teamsters for the Confederate army. "The efficiency of the army is greatly diminished by the withdrawal from the ranks of able-bodied soldiers to act as teamsters...therefore...all free male negroes resident in the Confederate States, between the ages of eighteen and fifty years, shall be held liable to perform such duties...in the way of work upon fortifications, or in Government works for the production or preparation of material of war, or in military hospitals, as the Secretary of War may from time to time…

GLC08979.04

February 15, 1864

Confederate States of America. Congress

Printed document

Title: Joint Resolutions in reference to the treatment of colored troops

Confederate act resolves that the abolition of slavery is against the rules of war and that former slaves who are captured while fighting for the Union will be returned to their masters. States "emancipation of the negro slaves within the Confederate States by the enemy, is not among the acts of legitimate war; but is...among such acts as 'putting to death all prisoners in cold blood.'" With war department stamp.

GLC08979.05

22 November 1864

Confederate States of America. Congress

Printed document

Title: An act to ammend an act entitled "An act to increase the efficiency of the army by employing free negroes and slaves in certain capacities," approved February 17th, 1864.

Confederate act increases the pay of "free negroes...to eighteen dollars a month," doubles the number of black workers the Secretary of War can impress., and orders slaves should be impressed out of dire neccesity should be taken from larger slaveholders. With war department stamp

GLC08979.06

12 December 1864

Confederate States of America. Congress

Printed document

Title: Amendment to Senate bill (S. 129) to provide for the employment of free negroes and slaves to work upon fortifications, and so to perform other labor connected with the defenses of the country

Minor ammendments to a Confederate act concerning the use of slaves or free negroes during the Civil War.

GLC08979.07

10 February 1865

Confederate States of America. Congress

Printed document

Title: A Bill to be entitled an act to increase the military force of the Confederate States

Confederate act allowing for the use of slaves as troops in the army. "In order to provide additional forces to repel invasion...the President be and he is authorized to ask for and accept from the owners of slaves the services of such number of able-bodied negro men as he may deem expidient, for and during the war, to perform miiltary services."

GLC08979.08

February 14, 1865

Confederate States of America. Congress

Printed document

Title: Amendment to the Negro Soldier Bill

Confederate act ordering that "the General-in-Chief commanding the armies of the Confederate States be and he is hereby invested with the full and complete power to call into serveice of the Confederate States, to perform any duty which he may assign them, so may of the able bodied slaves with the Confederate States, as in his judgement the exigencies of the public service may require." He may conscript these slaves as soldiers, with or without their master's consent.

GLC08979.09

3 March 1865

Confederate States of America. Congress

Printed document

Title: Report of the Joint Select Committee appointed to investigate the condition and treatment of prisoners of war

Confederate report defending the treatment of Union prisoners in Confedederate prisions, and attacking Northern treatment of Southern prisoners.

GLC08979.10

1862-1865

Header Record

Title: Ten printed Confederate Acts concerning military exemption, substitution, and conscription [Decimalized .01-.10]

GLC08980

11 October 1862

Confederate States of America. Congress

Printed document

Title: A bill to be entitled an act to amend the existing acts for the exemption of persons from military service

Confederate act detailing possible exemptions from military service, the purpose being "to secure the proper police presence."

GLC08980.01

January 20, 1863

Confederate States of America. Congress

Printed document

Title: A bill to be entitled an act to declare what persons shall be exempt from military service

Confederate act making all men between eighteen and forty-five not serving in the government eligible for military service.

GLC08980.02