Collection Search

to: Mary [Armstrong].

Reports on rumor that Sherman has been defeated, hopes it isn't true, talks about great number of dead and burial procedures, remarks on slavery as the sin of the South.

GLC06734.07

to: Mary [Armstrong].

Discusses his commanders & their religiosity, his preaching & religious ministering at the camp.

GLC06734.08

to: Mary [Armstrong].

Talks about systematic pilfering of the Sanitary Commission by high ranking soldiers; also reports on seeing black troops: "Today for the first time I saw whole regiments of black troops…They appear quite as well on parade as their more thoroughly...

GLC06734.09

to: Mary [Armstrong].

Reports various rumors about Sheridan's maneuvers. Also reports on nearby black uprising: "Our allies, the darkies, are evidently burning out their beloved Masters…"

GLC06734.10

to: Mary [Armstrong].

Describes army medic routines & ambulances, describes desolation of landscape due to war.

GLC06734.11

to: Mary [Armstrong].

Reports on troop maneuvers, Sheridan's whereabouts, etc.

GLC06734.12

to: Mary [Armstrong].

Describes wounding of his troops, & ministering to soldiers.

GLC06734.13

to: Mary [Armstrong].

Describes the death of soldiers, his inspection of their graveyards.

GLC06734.14

to: Mary [Armstrong].

Reports on rumors that "Sherman, & Schoield, and Sheridan are working up, & Grant has Lee by the throat." Also describes in detail his work as a Chaplain & what it consists of.

GLC06734.15

to: Mary [Armstrong].

"I keep no diary of events, so I guess I had better send my diary home in the form of letters."

GLC06734.16

to: Mary [Armstrong]

Describes battle in detail. Also: "…The good news from Sheridan was read to the boys at inspection in the form of a dispatch from Gen. Grant. It was received with loud cheers. Surely the end draws nigh…"

GLC06734.17

to: Mary [Armstrong].

Describes impending battle plans .

GLC06734.18

[Diary of World War I army nurse Ella Jane Osborn] [word processed inventory available]

Ella Jane Osborn, originally from Wainscott, Long Island, New York, departed as an Army Nurse in January of 1918 and spent the majority of her assignment stationed near Toul and Nancy, in the Lorraine region of northeastern France, near the German...

GLC06570

Communications from several states... respecting the Alien & Sedition Laws

(Virginia Resolves) [Full title] "Communication from Several States, on the Resolutions of the Legislature of Virginia, Respecting the Alien and Sedition Laws...." First edition printed by Meriwether Jones by order of the Virginia Assembly. Old...

GLC05770

Profiles in Courage

First edition, published by Harper & Brothers. Inscribed "To Sam Houston Allred - a distinguished bearer of a great Texas name -" and signed by Kennedy. Written during a period of convalescence, Senator Kennedy highlights the great courage and...

GLC02530.01

Notes on the state of Virginia. Written by Thomas Jefferson. [with Map]

First English (London) edition with folding Fry-Jefferson map. This book is the first PUBLISHED edition in English (the first English language edition being privately printed by Jefferson in Paris). It was largely written in 1781 and first...

GLC02592

War of 1812 documents and correspondence including muster rolls

Mostly receipts, militia muster rolls, etc. relating to the Bailey family. With some legal documents before and after the war.

GLC02669.01

War of 1812 documents and correspondence including muster rolls

Correspondence of the Flitner family (1850s) and a single letter concerning the Union blockade off the North Carolina coast.

GLC02669.02

List of distances between Burlington and New Gloucester

GLC02699.028

List of names, including six women

GLC02699.038

to Richard Edmonds

Acknowledges to Edmonds, the founding editor of the Manufactures Record, that their unemployment was high but contends "it is fantastic for the Englishman you mention to talk about five million." Also notes that he needs to hear from Edmonds...

GLC02346.01.01

[White House card signed by Hoover]

Accompanied 20 December 1929 letter from Hoover to Richard Edmonds (see GLC02346.01.01).

GLC02346.01.02

A topographical map of the North part of New York Island establishing the plan of Fort. Washington, now Fort Knyphausen

Depicts northern Manhattan's Fort Washington which was captured by British forces on 11/16/1776. Copper engraving with older contemporary color. Describes and maps the four attacks by General Knyphausen on Fort Washington. "Hudsons or North River"...

GLC02394

Cartel for the exchange of prisoners of war

Broadside reprinting terms of prisoner exchange agreed to by the American and British governments.

GLC01403

Mammoth Trees, California

GLC04183.035