12 September 1865

P., Charles, fl. 1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James McElroy

requests Sergeant McElroy to send a Descriptive List to the hospital at Camp Denison. Written at Camp Dennison .

GLC02750.038

16 September 1865

Connell, John, fl. 1865

Letter signed

Title: to G.D. Palmer

Requests Descriptive Lists from Palmer Written at Camp Dennison .

GLC02750.039

18 May 1885

Johnson, William H., fl. 1885

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Ethan A. Jenks

First Lieutenant Johnson requests information regarding surgeons working in the Portsmouth Grove, Rhode Island Hospital during the years of 1864 and 1865 from Captain Jenks. Johnson requests this information for the widow of Sergeant [Dennis J.] Scannel.

GLC02750.041

2 September 1893

Bliss, Zenas Randall, 1835-1900

Typed letter signed

Title: to Ethan A. Jenks

Colonel Bliss declines an invitation for the annual meeting of the Seventh Rhode Island Veterans Association from Jenks, the Association's President.

GLC02750.042

31 June 1900

Hopkins, William P., fl. 1973

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Ethan A. Jenks

Hopkins, who previously served in the Seventh Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers, transmits blank paper and stamps to Jenks, requesting Jenks to record the details of his service during the Civil War. Based upon his research, Hopkins wrote The Seventh Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers in the Civil War, published in Providence, Rhode Island by Snow & Farnham, Printers, 1903.

GLC02750.043

22 December 1900

Hopkins, William P., fl. 1973

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Ethan A. Jenks

Hopkins sends Captain Jenks a block made from a picture of General Zenas Randall Bliss (not included). Informs Jenks of his plans to visit Civil War sites in Virginia.

GLC02750.044

6 April 1863

Rex, George, fl. 1861-1877

Autograph document signed

Title: [certificate of disability for discharge of James A. Briggs]

Surgeon George Rex certifies that James A. Briggs was enlisted by Ethan A. Jenks for military service on 18 August 1862. States that for the past two months, Briggs has been unfit for military service.

GLC02750.045

17 April 1863

Schenk, Robert, fl. 1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lorenzo Thomas

Schenk, writing from the Middle Department, encloses a Certificate of Disability for Private James A. Briggs (not included). Attention is invited to surgeon George Rex.

GLC02750.046

2 July 1863

Bliss, Zenas Randall, 1835-1900

Autograph document signed

Title: to John Sullivan

Obeying special orders from the War Department, Colonel Bliss relieves Captain Ethan A. Jenks from duty.

GLC02750.047

2 July 1863

Bliss, Zenas Randall, 1835-1900

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lorenzo Thomas

Colonel Bliss informs Adjutant General Thomas that Captain Ethan A. Jenks knew nothing of "Fraudulently enlisting a Private in his Company who served but one Month and drew bounty." Bliss attests to Jenks' character and requests reconsideration of Jenks' dismissal.

GLC02750.048

2 July 1863

Bliss, Zenas Randall, 1835-1900

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Parke

Colonels Arnold and Bliss inform Major General Parke that guards will accompany Captain Ethan A. Jenks to Cairo, Illinois

GLC02750.049

2 July 1863

Members of Seventh Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers

Autograph document signed

Title: [members of the seventh regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers express regrest regarding the dismissal of Captain Ethan A. Jenks]

Members of the Seventh Regiment praise Jenks' service and object to his dismissal, stating that "His career has been marked by patient endurance and fair answering devotion to the cause of Our ... Country."

GLC02750.050

3 July 1863

Manuscript document

Title: [dates related to Ethan A. Jenks' dismissal]

Written on a small notebook, this sheet lists the chronology of Jenks' dismissal.

GLC02750.051

7 July 1863

Swayne, Wagner, fl. 1863

Printed document signed

Title: [certificate granting Jenks permission to ride as a passenger on any steamboat in Cairo, Illinois not exclusivley in governmental service]

Also signed by Deputy [?] Swenney. Wagner Swayne signs as Provost Marshal.

GLC02750.052

16 July 1863

Smith, James, fl. 1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Edwin M. Stanton

Smith, Governor of Rhode Island, informs Stanton, Secretary of War, that "the first notice Captain Jenckes [Ethan A. Jenks] received of the commission on the charge made against him was the order dismissing him."

GLC02750.053

16 July 1863

Smith, James, fl. 1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Abraham Lincoln

Smith, Governor of Rhode Island, informs President Lincoln that "the first notice which Captain Ethan A. Jenks received of the commission on the charge made against him was the order dismissing him from Service, while on duty at the Siege of Vicksburg, and also that the charge is untrue."

GLC02750.054

21 July 1863

Sanford, A., fl. 1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John G. Nicholay

Sanford, U. S. Marshal, requests that General Nicholay, Private Secretary of President Lincoln, assist Captain Ethan Jenks in delivering an Executive Communication from Rhode Island Governor James Y. Smith. States that the Communication (not included) accompanies this document.

GLC02750.055

3 August 1863

Smith, James, fl. 1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Edward Davis Townsend

Smith, Rhode Island Governor, requests the original or certified copy of the enlistment of Private James A. Briggs to be used in the trial of Captain Ethan A. Jenks from Townsend, Assistant Adjutant General.

GLC02750.057

7 August 1863

Briggs, James A., fl. 1863-1864

Autograph document signed

Title: [Private Briggs' statement regarding his health and enlistment in the Seventh Regiment of the Rhode Island Volunteers]

Briggs states that several doctors' examinations' found him fit for military service before he was sworn in.

GLC02750.058

19 June 1885

Barrett (photographer)

Photograph

Title: Grant, Ulysses S. Cabinet Card

White mount with imprint Barrett and printed caption below image: "General U.S. Grant and Family, at Mt. McGregor, Taken June 19th, 1885." Verso contains pencil inscriptions "78" and "43." View of Grant and his family gathered on the front steps of their home at Mount McGregor.

GLC07808.045

20 July 1885

Photograph

Title: Grant, Ulysses S. Cabinet Card

White mount with printed inscription below image: "Gen. U.S. Grant, Taken at Mt. McGregor Three Days Before His Death." Pencil inscriptions on verso: "Nelli[es?]," and "42." Image shows an elderly Grant reading on the porch of his home.

GLC07808.046

1941 - 1943

Various

Header Record

Title: US and Japanese photos of the attack on Pearl Harbor [Decimalized .01- .17]

GLC09547

1941 - 1943

Photograph album

Title: Log album US Navy Air Station Pearl Harbor [empty]

The album has a decorated suede upper cover and card lower cover, 5 printed leaves ("memory leaves," "my log and diary"), 28 blank leaves.

GLC09547.01

07 December 1941

United States. Navy

Photograph

Title: [Wrecks of USS Downes & Cassin, 7 December 1941]

Naval History & Heritage Command attributes image to Navy Photographer's Mate Harold Fawcett. Taken during attack in 1941 and printed and released in 1942 for the one-year anniversary. From Naval History and Hertiage's online catalog: "The wrecked destroyers USS Downes (DD-375) and USS Cassin (DD-372) in Drydock One at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, soon after the end of the Japanese air attack. Cassin has capsized against Downes. USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) is astern, occupying the rest of the drydock. The torpedo-damaged cruiser USS Helena (CL-50) is in the right distance, beyond the crane.…

GLC09547.02

1941 - 1943

Photograph

Title: [Hickam Field]

Inscription on back of photograph: "Hickam Field"

GLC09547.03