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to James Oldham

Re: avoidance of involvement in other's quarrels: "I generally presume them to flow from the indulgences of too much passion of both sides" (this dispute about contractor for Monticello Greenhouse).

GLC08131

[Letters belonging to Hugh Judson Kilpatrick, 1876-1880][Decimalized .01-.22]

Collection of letters belonging to Hugh Judson Kilpatrick dated 1876-1880. Consists of 21 items sent primarily to Luisa Kilpatrick and William T. Sherman. Recounts events of the campaign, Sherman's March to the Sea and other Civil War historical...

GLC08133

Requisition of a quarter cask of spirits

Requisition of a quarter cask of spirits

GLC08136

Henry Wellington Wack

Henry Wellington Wack: "The story of the free Congo State..." signed by Clemens with autograph note above frontpiece portrait: "A bucket of whitewash for the miscreant King Leopold."

GLC08137

Summarizing a scouting report

Summarizing a scouting report

GLC08138

to Henry W. Halleck

Union Major General, proposing a raid on Richmond

GLC08139

Satirical Union Broadside

"Chattanooga Sentinel-Extra...the Ladies of Selma are respectfully requested to preserve all their chamber lye..."

GLC08140

Extraordinary slave-related court document

Aa complex legal case in which a freed man of color is fraudulently sold as a slave to pay for a purchase of cattle.

GLC08141

to Mrs. M. S. Kell

Future Confederate Raider writes of first experiences on board ship a month after his entering the Navy.

GLC08142

to George W. Cullum

Prominent South Carolinian writes of the secession of that state and the dissolution of the Union

GLC08143