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to Mary

Comments on camp news, picket duty & drilling. Written from Camp Co. H 5th Alabama Regiment, twelve months volunteers near Orange C.H., Virginia.

GLC02082.47

to Mary

Provides camp news. Believes that 1864 will be a desperate year for the South.

GLC02082.48

to Mary

Discusses visiting Richmond. Reports that Gen. Rodes wants Brigade to go back to Rapidan.

GLC02082.49

to Mary

Discusses his return to old winter quarters. Mentions marching in the cold weather. Reports that the Yanks seized Tuscaloosa. Also Tate also worries about the seizure of Tuscaloosa and wishes for a furlough to "bush whack them." Also describes an...

GLC02082.50

to Mary

Mentions making a bone ring from bone found at Seven Pines.

GLC02082.51

to Mary

Reports sending the bone ring.

GLC02082.52

to his mother

The first page is overwritten. Mentions various engagements with Yankees including the Battle of Plymouth, North Carolina.

GLC02082.53

to Mary

Discusses battle action in the Wilderness Campaign, and mentions Yankee losses.

GLC02082.54

to his sister

Written in pencil. Provides more information on the Wilderness Campaign and reports heavy losses in own company.

GLC02082.55

to Mary

The letter is written faintly in pencil on foxed paper. The third page is written in his code. Mentions still being on hospital duty.

GLC02082.57

to Mary

Written in pencil. Reports that he went back to his regiment. Mentions the Battle of Cedar Creek.

GLC02082.58

to Mary

Written in pencil on a large legal sheet. Provides news about skirmishing. Mentions boys suffering from sore feet.

GLC02082.59

to Mary

Written in pencil. Mentions leaving the Shenandoah Valley on 14 December. Discusses the cold weather.

GLC02082.60

to Mary

Continuation of GLC02082.60. Mentions citizens giving dinner.

GLC02082.61

to Mary

Written in pencil. Mentions that little mail has arrived from Alabama since Sherman captured that city.

GLC02082.62

[to Elihu B. Washburne]

Souvenir document presented by Grant to loyal supporter and fellow Galena townsman, Elihu B. Washburne, who served as Secretary of State and Ambassador to France during Grant's presidency. Informs that Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia on...

GLC02084.01

[Appomattox ink well]

Small, ceramic, bell-shaped, brown bottle, glazed, with cork. Label affixed to the bottom, inscribed by Hempstead Washburne: "This is the ink bottle used in signing the Treaty [underscored] at Appomattox by Gen. Lee & Gen. Grant. It was presented...

GLC02084.02

[Muster roll of Captain Andrew Irvine's Company, 7th Pennsylvania Regiment of Foot]

Harmar signs as Lieutenant Colonel of the 7th Regiment. Signed and examined by William Alexander. Irvine signs on verso 4 May, attesting to the validity of this document. Lists officers divided into categories of sergeant, private, corporal, and...

GLC02085

[Diary of a Union soldier in the 7th Iowa Vols.]

GLC02088

to Benjamin F. Butler

Written by Flag Officer Farragut to Major General Butler as commander of the Department of the Gulf. Farragut says he has just returned from an official visit with the Spanish commander of a steamer of war who had been detained for lack of proper...

GLC02092

Collection of signed materials, pamphlets and Civil War-related items of Charles Sumner [Decimalized .01 - .41]

Collection of signed materials, books, letters and documents related to the coming of the war, Sumner's career and Reconstruction. Includes: 17 ALSs (30 p.) 1847-1874, 6 AQS on themes of liberty and equal rights, 3 cartes de visite (2 signed), 2...

GLC02095

to William Pinkney

Monroe, Joint Minister to Great Britain with Pinkney, sends to Pinkney an enclosed commission and letters of credence (not included) to the British King and Queen. States that the United States government hopes that Pinkney will take Monroe's place...

GLC02098

to Nicholas Cooke

Also signed by James Clarke. Apologizes for their delay in providing Governor of Rhode Island Cooke with accurate records of recent imports and exports that they are compiling. Thinks a more extended accounting would be more useful, and if Cooke...

GLC02105

Statement before Subcomm. on Criminal Justice re: his pardon of Nixon

Statement by the President released by the White House Press Secretary and signed by Ford on the upper right corner of the first page.

GLC02109

to Munn & Company

Written by Ericsson, the Swedish immigrant inventor responsible for building the first Union ironclad ship, to the Munn & Company as proprietors of the magazine "Scientific American." Writes that he is returning their article "on the subject of my...

GLC02106