1867/07/16 ca.

Meinerth, Carl, fl. 1867

Photograph signed

Title: Carte de visite "Mezzo-Tinto photograph" bust portrait of Caleb Cushing

Vignette image. Cushing wears an unusual tie which appears to be speckled and tied in the "four-in-hand" method.

GLC05596.05

February 8, 1867

Ewell, Benjamin S., fl. 1867

Autograph document signed

Title: [extracts from the President of William and Mary College]

Two extracts from the President of William and Mary College. Also signed by the Secretary of the Faculty. The first extract bestows a Bachelor of Arts degree on Frank H. Alfriend of Richmond. The document notes that Alfriend would have received the degree in 1861, had the college not suspended services because of the war. The second extract bestows a Masters of Arts on Alfriend to date from July, 1866.

GLC05344.05.01

1867/02/28

Harvey, John C., fl. 1823-1884

Document signed

Title: [Reconstruction era freedmen labor contract]

Spells out terms of work by former plantation slaves, including rules, regulations, wages, and punishments. Signed by ten freed slaves and by J.W. Eggleston as Justice of the Peace. Dated between 26 December 1866 and 28 February 1867.

GLC05531

1868 [?]

Republican Party

Pamphlet

Title: Paying Off the Democratic Public Debt

re: Civil War debts and "the legacy which the Democratic administration of James Buchanan bequeathed the Republican party."

GLC07722

1867/03/02

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

Pamphlet

Title: Message from the President of the United States... [Pardoned Confederates]

List of pardoned Confederates from 15 April 1865 to 2 March 1867.

GLC07723

1867/07/19

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

Pamphlet

Title: Message from the President of the United States... [Pardoned Confederates]

List of pardoned Confederates from 15 April 1865 to 8 July 1867.

GLC07724

1869/01/19

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

Pamphlet

Title: Message from the President of the United States... [Pardon proclamation]

Pardon proclamation justifying his constitutional right to pardon, noting similar proclamations from previous presidents.

GLC07725

1869/03/04

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

Manuscript document

Title: Memorandum for the Judges for Inauguration

GLC07685

1865/05/06

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Salmon P. Chase re: argument against accepting the negro as an equal

"I am not yet prepared to receive the Negro on terms of political Equality for the reason that it will arouse passions and predjudices of the North, which...might rekindle the war whose fires are now dying out and by skillful management may be kept down." Written aboard the Steamer "Russia" in Branford Harbor.

GLC07680

1869/03/04

Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873

Autograph endorsement signed

Title: Presidential Oath of Office administered to Ulysses S. Grant

Includes Chase's note: "The Oath from this paper was administered to General Grant on the 4th of March 1869."

GLC07682

1871/09/24

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

Print

Title: Engraving inscribed by Sherman

"If...you would take the trouble to examine the volume throughout, and to minute all the passages where your recollection or your notes would detect an error, it would confer a new and valuable obligation upon me...."

GLC07647

1869/12/15

Wilson, Henry, 1812-1875

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Editor of theTribune re: Cuban independence

GLC07759

[1866]/12/14

Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mrs. James White

Dreams as omens, her husband

GLC07750

1871/01/23

Rainey, Joseph Hayne, 1832-1887

Manuscript document signed

Title: re: subscriptions for G.W. Julian speech "The Land Question"

GLC07772

1872/07/24

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

Manuscript document signed

Title: Pardon of Jeremiah Hendricks (c/s Hamilton Fish) , convicted of murder

GLC07783

1870 ca.

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph signed

Title: Cabinet card of William T. Sherman

Oval bus portrait, in uniform. Signed in ink on recto. Imprint of Brady, Washington, D.C., on both recto and verso.

GLC07789

1870 ca.

Photograph signed

Title: [Vignette bust portrait of John William Hoffman in uniform]

Carte de visite-sized engraving of officer in 56th Penn., the infantry unit credited with firing the first volley in the Battle of Gettysburg.

GLC07788

1877/06/22

Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893

Letter signed

Title: Circular letter re: eliminating electioneering by civil servants

GLC07809

1875/04/27

Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert P. Kennedy re: possible presidential candidacy

GLC07822

1866/3/25

Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to mother

Plans to attend a big government auction in Macon, Georgia. Before he goes home, he must stop in Washington and settle his old quartermaster accounts. He advises his mother on financial affairs including rent houses, and an oil well.

GLC04662.121

1866/5/2

Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to mother

His quartermaster paper work is being inspected. He has met many of his army friends in the city.

GLC04662.123

1866/1/16

Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to mother

Describes the auctions which are occurring throughout the state. Discusses the weather, which is quite warm one day and cool the next. Also discusses the economic stagnation of the south.

GLC04662.117

1866/1/28

Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to mother

Does not think his family needs to worry about an outbreak of small pox near their house. He thinks his vaccination kept him from getting the disease, even though he was in the company of small pox victims on several occasions. He has been delayed from shipping goods that he bought in auction. The blacks in the area are contracting with the planters. He disliked a church service because it sounded a "little to[o] "Beechering' for my taste."

GLC04662.118

1866/02/13

Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to mother

He has purchased many items at auction, including 257 army wagons. He spilled a mixture of kerosene oil and lamp black all over his face and clothes and had a horrible time trying to clean up.

GLC04662.119

1866/3/3

Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to mother

He has a 22 hour lay over while waiting for a train. He plans to go to Macon, and Savannah, Georgia before catching a steamer bound for New York. The family oil well has made "a fair show." He can not wait to come home and work.

GLC04662.122