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Louisville daily journal. [Vol. 33, no. 290 (September 7, 1863)]

Latest News From Charleston, Siege Progressing Favorable, Knoxville Captured, Kentucky Again Invaded by Rebels.

This issue contains the same front page articles as the previous paper, with an additional column of ads. A political editorial about the...

GLC05959.14.08

[Photograph of couple]

Collateral photo accompanied with autograph letter signed (See GLC07235.01).

GLC07235.02

[Blank Postcard]

One blank postcard dated circa 1940's based on a 1880's portrait of Frederick Douglass. Printed on the rear of the postcard is the text, "Frederick Douglass1818-1895 Born a slaveon the eastern shore of Maryland, but ran away to become a great anti...

GLC07926.02

New-York Semi-weekly Tribune.

Printing Lincoln's House Divided Speech, given on June 16th, at the Republican State Convention: "...'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free..." Also reporting on...

GLC09085

[Reciept for an enslaved woman]

New York Slavery. "...Received of Mr. Leffert Lefferts the sum of Thirteen Pounds, it being in full for a Negro Woman, Sold and Delivered him nam'd Mary."

GLC09086

The Quarterly Law Journal, vol IV, No 3, [163] - 202.

Circuit court case of United States v. Amy, re: slave stealing letter written by her master. Arrested under Section 22 of the Act of Congress which provides that "Any person shall steal a letter from the mail, the offender shall, upon conviction, be...

GLC09087

[Runaway slave]

A runaway slave in his own right, Pennington, while avoiding arrest in Liverpool, England, comments on the situation here in American and a fugitive slave case: "...My constant trouble of mind is the evils now pressing on my nation and people. What...

GLC09088

[Notice]

"Notice. I will give $5 for any one of my Servants who may be taken at or beyond Ellicott's Mills..."

GLC09089

To Davie Jeems

Threatening a Black office-holder. "Notice/To Jeems, Davie, you must be a good boy...at night I am a Ku Klux sent here to look after you and all the rest of the radicals and make you know your place. I have got my eye on you every day...[T]ell...

GLC09090

[Tribute to Lincoln]

His tribute to Lincoln; the original manuscript published in Osborn H. Oldroyd's "The Lincoln Memorial: Album-Immortelles," in 1882, [page 265]. "A great man: Tender of heart, strong of nerve, of boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no...

GLC09091

to Mary Moore Kelly

He refers to the Sanitary Commission's pretentious movement, and complains about their nurses. Laments the fact that while he and the Army medical department do all the work, and the government pays all the costs, they receive all the criticism while...

GLC04195.03

to Mary Moore Kelly

Lincoln and his wife have remained at the camp; they have gone riding, visited one of his hospitals, and reviewed the troops. They prepare to march soon. He was recently in Washington, where he had his photo taken. Written from the headquarters of...

GLC04195.10

to Mary Moore Kelly

He describes the surrender of Raleigh and the request for protection from looters. "The men here with few exceptions are anxious to come back into the Union; but as usual the majority of the ladies are rebellious, of course." He is optimistic of...

GLC04195.31

Banquet programme

Fragment of banquet program, probably for a celebration following the victory of the Civil War. Sherman presided. Poems, songs, and reports given for each army. Verso has illustration of Union flags with lists of victories. On May 24 a Grand...

GLC04195.33

[Speech delivered to the Great Central Fair of Buffalo]

Former President Fillmore notes historic inventions and developments, such as the rail road, steam engine, and telegraph, that have shaped Buffalo since the city's 1832 Centennial Celebration. Refers to the farewell addresses of Presidents George...

GLC04884.02

[Unidentified silhouette]

Accompanied a 1777 appointment of Nathaniel Dearing as a captain in the Massachusetts militia, signed by John Avery, Artemas Ward, and others (see GLC01450.520.01).

GLC01450.520.02

[Appointment for Thomas Hollier from the reign of King George I]

Appoints Thomas Hollier as a swordcutter for the office of ordnance. Affixed with seal. Written from the office of ordnance. Sent to Charles Wills and the officers of ordnance. Also signed by Leonard Smelt.

GLC01450.546.01

[Appointment for John Dukes from the reign of King George I]

Appoints John Dukes as one of the "Laborers in Ordinary" for the office of ordnance. Affixed with seal. Written from the office of ordnance. Sent to Charles Wills and the officers of ordnance. Also signed by Leonard Smelt.

GLC01450.546.02

Debit Report Capt. Amassa Keyes in [inscrutable] Jeremiah Wadsworth Esquire for his 1/16 of the cargo of the Sloop Liberty. Nathan Pettis Commander, Voyage from Connecticut River to Virginia, & back to Boston.

Includes account records signed in accordance with Colonel Jeremiah Wadsworth for 1/16 of the Liberty's cargo for a voyage from the Connecticut River to Virginia and back to Boston commanded by Nathan Pettis. Also contains account records signed in...

GLC01450.554.01

Inspection return of the 4th Massachusetts Regiment, commanded by Isaac Pope Esqr. Capt.

Signed by John Davis as lieutenant and adjutant. Docketed 16 September 1780 by E. Virront, Lieutenant Colonel commanding inspection. Docketed in a second location on verso with indecipherable signature. Created at Camp Steenrapie, which was a...

GLC01450.554.02

[Sketched plan]

Includes measurements in feet. Indicates the position of four tiers. Contains a sketched gate and building. Possibly a military document. Added measurements on verso, no indication as to what these are for.

GLC01450.554.03

Proposal for an establishment for the detachment in the island of Rattan upon major general Wentworth's memorial to the duke of Newcastle

Lists the expenses that would be entailed by a proposed regiment in the American colonies and says there is enough surplus in the American military budget to create this regiment.

GLC01450.556.01

[Pay order for numerous soldiers]

Orders Gashry to pay the debts owed to various military personel. Also signed by Signed by W.B. Earle and Charles Frederick. Written from the Office of Ordnance.

GLC01450.556.02

[Receipt for gold items bought from Nathaniel Jefferys]

Receipt for a snuff box, candlesticks, a frame and a necklace bought from Nathanael Jefferys by Captain Hervey. Signed by Paul Herbert stating he recieved the goods. Written on Jefferys stationary, which contains a stylized printed version of the...

GLC01450.556.03

to John Manners, Marquis of Granby

Petitioning Granby for a post as a carpenter in Quebec "in the room of Mr. Butler." He has just served as a carpenter for the army. Bottom states "Ordered to be recommended to the Master General" and is signed in an illegible hand.

GLC01450.556.04