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Halleck, Fitz-Greene.

Photograph by A.A. Turner. Appleton imprint on verso. Identified in pencil on verso. Vignette bust portrait. Photograph from engraving. White mount with gold border.

GLC06391.18

Lowell, James Russell.

Tilton imprint on recto. Identified in ink on verso. Vignette half length seated portrait, holding cane. White mount with gold border.

GLC06391.19

Truth, Sojourner.

Printed inscription on recto: "I sell the shadow to support the substance. Sojourner Truth." Blue two-cent tax stamp and pencil inscription "11902" on verso. Full length standing portrait with walking stick. White mount with gold border.

GLC06391.20

Andrew, John A.

Identified on recto (imprint) and verso (pencil). Anthony imprint on verso. Vignette half length portrait. [Photograph from painting or engraving?] White mount with gold border.

GLC06391.21

Mitchel, Ormsby M.

Identified on verso. Half length portrait in uniform. White mount.

GLC06391.22

[Unidentified]

Anthony imprint on verso. Vignette bust portrait of an older man in civilian dress. [Photograph from painting or engraving?] White mount with red border.

GLC06391.23

Bonheur, Rosa.

Identified on verso. Three quarter length portrait of Bonheur standing next to a large cow. [Photograph from painting or engraving?] White mount with Tilton imprint on verso.

GLC06391.24

[Unidentified ]

From negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Anthony imprint in verso. Three quarter length portrait of a middle-aged man in civilian dress. Shown in Napoleonic pose. [Photograph from painting or engraving?] White mount with gold border.

GLC06391.25

[Unidentified]

From negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Anthony imprint on verso. Three quarter length standing view of an older man in civilian dress with long white beard. White mount with gold border

GLC06391.26

[Unidentified]

From negative in Brady's Natioal Portrait Gallery. Anthony imprint on verso. Vignette bust portrait of a woman. [Photograph from painting or engraving?] White mount with gold border .

GLC06391.27

[Carte de visite of Horace Greeley]

From negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Anthony imprint on verso. Three quarter length standing portrait of a bald, heavyset man in civilian dress. White mount with gold border

GLC06391.28

Bright, John.

Photograph by A.A. Turner. Appleton imprint on verso. Identified in pencil on verso. Three quarter length seated portrait. Photograph from engraving. White mount with gold border.

GLC06391.29

Subdun[?], Benj[amin]

With Charles Taber imprint on verso. Identified in pencil on verso. Oval vignette bust portrait. [Photograph from painting or engraving?] White mount

GLC06391.30

[Unidentified ]

Oval bust portrait of a middle-aged man. White mount.

GLC06391.31

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Lyman Beecher, and Henry Ward Beecher.

From negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Anthony imprint on verso. Identified in pencil on verso. Full length seated portrait of all three. White mount with red border.

GLC06391.32

Bryant, W[illia]m Cullen.

Photograph by A.A. Turner. ; Appleton imprint on verso. Identified in pencil on verso. Half length seated portrait of Bryant as an old man. White mount with gold border.

GLC06391.33

Von Humboldt.

Identification printed on verso. Vignette bust portrait. Photograph from engraving. White mount with Taber imprint on verso.

GLC06391.34

Burns, Robert.

With Taber imprint on verso. Identification printed on verso. Vignette bust portrait. Photograph from engraving. White mount .

GLC06391.35

Fessenden, William.

Fredricks imprint on verso. Identification in pencil on verso. Vignette bust portrait in profile, facing proper right. White mount with gold border.

GLC06391.36

[Unidentified]

Photograph by Duchochois & Klauser. With Schaus imprint on verso. Three quarter length seated portrait of bearded man in profile, facing proper left. Photograph from engraving. White mount

GLC06391.37

"Our Protection. Rosa, Charley, Rebecca. Slave Children from New Orleans."

With printed identification on recto; imprint and copyright on verso.Portrait of three children wrapped in what appear to be flags. White mount

GLC06391.38

"Rebecca: A Slave Girl from New Orleans."

With printed identification on recto; imprint and copyright on verso. Vignette bust portrait of a young girl. White mount

GLC06391.39

Lincoln, Abraham.

With gold border; Fredricks imprint on verso. Vignette bust portrait. White mount

GLC06391.40

[Unidentified]

With gold border; Bylerly imprint on verso. Oval seated half length portrait of an old woman. White mount

GLC06391.41

Shaw, [?].

With Whipple imprint on verso. Ink inscription on recto: "Col. Shaw, 54th Masstts Regt." Half length seated portrait in uniform. White mount.

GLC06391.42

Carte de visite of B.F. Butler

With gold border; Fredricks imprint on verso. Half length seated portrait of an older man in civilian dress. White mount.

GLC06391.43

Francis Joseph, Emperor of Austria.

With Taber imprint and identification printed on verso. Vignette bust portrait. Photograph from engraving. White mount.

GLC06391.44

[Unidentified]

From a negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Anthony imprint on verso. Half length seated portrait of a middle aged man. White mount with gold border.

GLC06391.45

Carte de visite of [Ambrose Burnside]

Bust portrait. Photograph from engraving.

GLC06391.46

to: "Dear Brother."

Charles wishes his brother would write more as he barely gets two letters per month and asks his brother to thank their mother for the box she sent him. Written at Camp Pierpont

GLC06451.001

to: George M. Morris.

Charles received Elizabeth's letter and was glad to hear from George. He would like to know if Jesse is in camp.

GLC06451.002

to: George M. Morris.

Charles reports that a boy in his regiment was killed while on picket by an officer of his own company. His general had told the men they will be home by New Years but he does not believe it.

GLC06451.003

to: George M. Morris.

There was a fight and the men had to march 6 miles only to "drill quick" back to cross the "Chane Bridge." He tells his mother and brother that he is going to enlist for 15 years if they approve "for I like to sold[i]er."

GLC06451.004

to: Susannah L. Morris

Charles is enjoying himself, stating "I hafe [have] a grate [great] [deal] of fune [fun] hear [here] and I hop [hope] you hafe [have] as much at home." He hopes that Susannah is still good friends with William and that George and Mage "will not fall...

GLC06451.005

to: George M. Morris.

Charles is expecting "a bat[t]le hear [here] soon and I do not care how soon fore I would like to fight."
Written at Camp Pierpont.

GLC06451.006

to: George M. Morris.

[in another hand] Charles seems content declaring "I have a fine time here." He is cooking for the company and they only drill for an hour a day now. He promises to send Elizabeth and his mother his likeness. George has told him that there are no...

GLC06451.007

to: "Dear Brother."

Charles received and appreciated the box his brother sent to him. Written at Camp Pierpont.

GLC06451.008

to: "Dear brother."

Charles was not hurt but his hat was blown off and his gun knocked out of his hand in battle. The fight was hard and he hopes there won't be another like it soon.

GLC06451.010

to: brother.

Charles is unsure whether he will make it home this winter. He describes the meals the soldiers are served.

GLC06451.011

to: John Morris.

There was a fight and they were close enough to see the Confederates but they were unable to kill any of them.

GLC06451.012

to unknown

List of names with numeric notations written after each. [with Charles Morris' papers]

GLC06451.013

to: Wilmor W. Morris.

George tells Wilmor that he saw Tilley Wilson and Jones Stuart who "is s[u]ch a devel of a fool and it is good fun to watch him." George would like to know "if Matt Mitchel [got an] honorable discharge" as he so claims.

GLC06451.014

to: Wilmor W. Morris.

George reports that their father is getting better and promises to write Joseph very soon. He sends word to Joseph that "his purty girl Miss E. Talor had a litt[l]e one by old Hicky."

GLC06451.015

to: John Morris.

Jesse was wounded in the shoulder in the last battle. The steamer is headed for New York and then Pennsylvania but he will try to get a furlough to come home if his shoulder does not heal.

GLC06451.016

to: George M. Morris.

Jesse expects to leave soon but he is enjoying himself and knows that will end when he rejoins the army as it is no "pleasure to tote a heavy knapsack in warm weather." He believes all those who will volunteer already have and there will be a draft...

GLC06451.017

to: George M. Morris.

Jesse is getting better and his shoulder only hurts occasionally. He thinks "the girls will soon think different after the soldiers" return and if there are not enough, "two or three can take one in partnership." Joseph has not been well and is...

GLC06451.018

to: George M. Morris.

Jesse is sorry their brother Charles has died but says they must console themselves "as we know he died for a good cause." Jesse had a piece of bone removed from his shoulder and encloses it with the letter. He has heard that no more men will be...

GLC06451.019

to: Jesse M. Morris.

Trout's leg has gotten worse since Jesse left the hospital. A letter with five dollars came for Jesse from George and Wilmor and Trout distributed the money as Jesse had asked.

GLC06451.020

to Henry Knox

Invites Knox to join him for "Dinner to day at 2 o Clock." The year is not given, but has to be 1776 as Knox was a Colonel then.

GLC02437.00531

to Sam Houston Allred

Writes to his brother about a chat he had with Senator John F. Kennedy. Dave had mentioned Sam in their conversation and Kennedy remembered him from the previous summer. Kennedy commented on his namesake, Sam Houston, being featured in his book...

GLC02530.02