1866/03/24

Photograph

Title: Fortress Monroe, The Gun Yard

With tax stamp

GLC05137.114

1866/08/31

Photograph

Title: Stereocard of Ulysses Grant, Gideon Welles, and Andrew Johnson

Posed on porch of Enos Throop in Auburn, New York.

GLC05137.149

1869 ca.

Rocher, H., fl. 1875-1880

Photograph signed

Title: [Philip Henry Sheridan]

3/4 length portait, seated pose in uniform.

GLC05672

1868 ca.

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Fort Laramie peace council with Northern plains tribes, no. 39 [stereocard]

On yellow mount. Shows William T. Sherman, Winfield S. Hancock and Harney, with others plus small Indian girl.

GLC05686

1870 ca.

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph signed

Title: [William Tecumseh Sherman]

An "Imperial Carte" portrait of a seated W.T. Sherman. Signed on mount. Imprint on verso. The lower right corner is slightly bent.

GLC05735

1873/12/18-20

Thomas, W. N., fl. 1873

Manuscript document

Title: [1873 Army Letters and Telegrams]

The retained copy book record of army officers' letters and telegraphs concerning the affairs of the Twentieth Infantry. Discusses the removal of the Winnebago tribe of Indians, the plan to capture a chief named Big Hawk, and the training and rations for soldiers. Most of the letters were composed by W.N. Thomas, with a signature at the bottom. It is possible that he wrote and signed these copies himself, since those letters from other men are written in different hands, making it possible that each man was putting his own entries into the book and signing them. Also contains letters from E…

GLC05731.01

1868/05/18

Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885

Document

Title: Congressional subpoena of W. S. Huntington re: impeachment of Andrew Johnson

Countersigned by Edward McPherson.

GLC05908.01

1868 ca.

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: [Andrew Johnson]

Imprint on verso.

GLC05908.02

1872/07/27

Pillow, Gideon Johnson, 1806-1878

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Horace Porter re: claim against Government, support for Grant

The claim against the government should be paid but not publicized in order to preserve his support and influence for Grant in the upcoming election.

GLC05852

February 17, 1866

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

Document signed

Title: [Presidential pardon of Philip D. Roddey for his participation in the rebellion]

This document is a Presidential pardon in which President Andrew Johnson granted Philip D. Roddey a full pardon and amnesty from crimes committed during the rebellion. Roddey was nicknamed "the Swamp Fox of Tennessee." The pardon was countersigned by the Secretary of State William H. Seward and accompanied by a paper seal.

GLC05921

1866 circa

Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870

Autograph document

Title: An act donating public lands to the several state & territories, which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture & the mechanic arts

A copy of the Morril Land Grant act, granting public lands to individual states for the building of agricultural colleges, written by Robert E. Lee. The act, passed in 1862, offered states 30,000 acres of public land per Congressman from that state, to be used as an endowment to build agricultural and mechanical schools. Lee, who following the war became the President of Washington College (now Washington and Lee), was heavily engaged in trying to raise funds to rebuild education in the decimated South. In January of 1866 Lee met with the Committee on Education of the Virginia Legislature…

GLC05926

1872 ca.

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

Pamphlet

Title: Proceedings of the Liberal Republican Convention, in Cincinnati

Title continued: "May 1st 2d and 3d, 1873. Horace Greeley's letter of acceptance. Address of the New York State Committee to their fellow-citizens." With obituary of Reverend Charles Brooks .

GLC05940

February 27, 1875-August 21, 1875

Webster, E.A., 1849-?

Header Record

Title: The free citizen.

E. A. [Eugene Alonzo] Webster is listed as publisher of the "Free Citizen," and A. [Alonzo] Webster is listed as editor. States that the Citizen is published weekly, and is devoted to "Temperance, Literature, and Politics."

GLC05959.40

1872/09/05

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph R. Jones re: a "blackmailing operation", re-election campaign

Jones identified by the U.S. Grant papers. Discusses a "blackmail operation" and the "soreheads and thieves who have deserted the Republican party have strengthened it by their departure." Grant refers to the reform Republicans like Greeley, Carl Schurz, Lyman Trumbull, Andrew Curtin, David Davis, Charles Francis Adams, and others, who bolted the Republican Party because of corruption. Grant observes that "[t]he few Greeley Republicans buzzed like so many mosquitoes immediately after the nominations.... [However] [t]here was to[o] much time between nominations and elections to keep it up." (…

GLC05975

1876 ca.

Ingersoll, Robert G., 1833-1899

Broadside

Title: Soul stirring speech. Glowing Words Spoken to the Defenders of the Union.

This document is a reprinted copy of a newpaper page by the Indianapolis Journal. It is a transcript of a speech given by Colonel R.G. Ingersoll that is aimed at attacking Tilden's "Reform Democracy", which he associates closely with the rebellion.

GLC05778

1867/09/11

De Smet, Pierre J., fl. 1867

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Orville H. Browning re: accepting appointment as peace envoy among Indians

Written at St. Louis University

GLC05788.02

1867/03/12

De Smet, Pierre J., fl. 1867

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lewis W. Bogy re: outlining Smet's services to U.S. as mediator

With docket and stamp of Dept of Interior 9/16/1867 and assorted newsclippings.

GLC05788.03

1876/02/02

Gordon, G. A., fl. 1876

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Theophilus Rodenbough re: Indians as skirmishers

"The Indians are the best skirmishers in the world." Gordon says he received orders from Sheridan to join the regiment in Chicago. He says that fighting Indians is hard and dangerous since they are frequently better armed, better shots and better horsemen than his own men.

GLC06008

1875 ca.

Goff, O.S., fl. 1875

Photograph

Title: Fort Lincoln, Dakota Territory

Cabinet card photograph by O. S. Goff. View of Fort taken from adjacent hill. Inscription on verso: "Fort Lincoln. Dakota Territory. It was from Fort Abraham Lincoln on May 17, 1876 that the fateful Yellowstone Expedition under command of General Alfred H. Terry, the Department Commander, marched out to the music of "Garry Owen" played by the band of the 7th Cavalry. Gen. Terry's headquarters were at that time at St. Paul, Minn."

GLC06185

[1876]

Document

Title: "Bloody Colfax"

Distributed during the hotly contested Louisiana gubernatorial election of 1876, "The Colored Chiefs testify. . .The Hellish plot by which, through the slaughter of the negroes, the Kellogg usurpation secured Northern sympathy. . ."

GLC08396

1869/07

Hine, L.A., fl. 1867-1869

Pamphlet

Title: Hine's quarterly: devoved [sic] to political, financial, labor, land and moral reforms [Vol. 1, no. 3 (July 1869)]

Discusses the "new danger", referring to the emergence of financial tycoons such as Commodore Vanderbilt and the concentration of wealth and power amongst a few. Also discusses other issues such as the elimination of land monopoly and opposition to income tax. The pagination is a continuation of a previous issue. Number of pages reflects numbered pages, not the number of physical pages.

GLC01265.36

February 28, 1880

Pope, John, 1822-1892

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations.

GLC06762.060

February 10, 1881

Pope, John, 1822-1892

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Force [Judge Manning Ferguson Force]

with annotations. Followed by blank half leaf.

GLC06762.076

1866 circa

Wilson, James Harrison, 1837-1925

Diary

Title: Volume I. Extracts from Military Writings, (Compiled at West Point 58-59-60) Recollections of the Great Rebellion, taken from Diary, & written during the War

Bound manuscript contains copies of notes taken while a student at West Point, copies of personal letters written from 1861-1862, and later recollections of the Civil War. Letters sent to Stephen A. Douglas and Simon Cameron among others. Recollections focus on service during 1862. On Antietam says, "From a lack of manly constancy and tenacious intrepidity in some of the generals, and a lack of Ilan in the soldiers, what might have been made a conclusive victory was at best a drawn battle." Relates conversation with McClellan about McClellan's possible removal from command. Troops have a…

GLC04096

[1866 ca.]

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

Autograph note signed

Title: to Gideon Welles re: introduction for P. B. Fonda of Illinois with autograph env

GLC04282