circa 1866

Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878

Autograph manuscript

Title: to unknown [incomplete]

Welles, United States Secretary of the Navy, writes to an unknown recipient regarding the suffrage and governmental representation of freed enslaved people. States "But Slavery has been abolished ... not by the voluntary act of the States in which it existed, but by the events of the War, and it is now proposed by those who have overthrown 'the institution' in these states to deprive them their due ... representation according to population unless the blacks are enfranchised." Only page three of this document survives.

GLC02713

13 October 1871

Conkling, Roscoe, 1829-1888

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Sherman

Congratulates Sherman on his election to the Senate, taking Salmon P. Chase's resigned position. Mentions the influence of Tammany Hall preventing people from voting and the criticism of his supporters by the New York Tribune.

GLC02761

18 November 1874

Cushing, William Barker, 1842-1874

Document signed

Title: [Naval pass]

Issued from the Navy Yard. Pass for one ton of coal, private property of R. T. Hieston. Cushing signs as commander, one month before his death. Two names appear on verso (possibly signatures): John P. Cahill, watchman, and John O'Neill.

GLC02463.04

7 September 1872

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

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mr. Eastin

Written as President, Grant asks Eastin to reconsider his resignation from the office of Special Sergeant of the Police Department. Grant's father, Jesse, constantly sought advantage from his son's positions and placed him in difficult positions.

GLC02793.041

1 June 1868

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

Document signed

Title: [Appointment of George Stoneman]

Lists military retirements and promotions of John M. Schofield and George Stoneman. Signed as President. Docketed on verso by Secretary of War John Schofield (who had replaced Stanton).

GLC02780

19 July 1870

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

Document signed

Title: [Permission for John Lothrop Motley]

President Grant authorizes John Lothrop Motley "to exchange the ratifications of the [Addition] Convention to the Convention of April 7. 1862 between Great Britain & the U.S. for the suppression of the African Slave Trade." One engraving, "H.M. Gun-boat 'Teaser' Capturing the Slaver 'Abbot Devereaux,'" and one bust engraving of President Grant included.

GLC02781

7 September 1875

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

Autograph letter signed

Title: to J.W. Vance

Writes, "Your note of the 23rd of August inviting me to attend a reception and banquet to be given in Paris, Ill. on the 21st of Oct. by the members of my old 31st Ill. Vols. was duly received. I do not know a reception that it would be more gratifying for me to attend than this. But I must forego the pleasure. My private interests compel me to be in St. Louis about the end of this month, and it will be impossible for me to extend my visit so late as to the 21st of August [August is crossed out and "Oct." written in pencil]." Wishes them a gratifying reunion and hopes they will remember the…

GLC02782

26 December 1868

Johnson, Badley T., 1829-1903

Autograph letter signed

Title: to L. L. Smith

Discussing legal business and collection of debts. Written on Johnson's stationary.

GLC02878.03

1866

United States. Congress

Pamphlet

Title: Final report of the congressional committee upon the question of reconstruction

Report of the Joint Committee of the two Houses of Congress on reconstruction. The legislation contains a draft of the 14th amendment, and two bills providing for the restoration of the rebellious state to their full political rights.

GLC03465

8 December 1875

Hill, Benjamin H., 1823-1882

Autograph letter signed

Title: to G. M. Adams

Recommending Mike L. Woods based on the recommendation of Thomas H. Watts. G. M. Adams may be George Madison Adams, 1837-1920, a Congressman from Kentucky. Mounted on paper 29.5 x 20 cm.

GLC03468.03

11 August 1867

Humphreys, Andrew Atkinson, 1810-1883

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Campbell D. Emory

States that he visited Emory's house, but Emory was not there. Recipient inferred, based on letter being addressed to "Campbell." Emory was a Union Lieutenant Colonel who served alongside Humphrey's on General Meade's staff, and lived in Washington after the war.

GLC03469.04

1876

Evarts, William Maxwell, 1818-1901

Autograph manuscript

Title: Working draft of the "Centennial oration" delivered at Philadelphia

Original working draft of his speech at the Exposition, accompanied by William M. Evarts ALS to Joseph R. Hawley 3 p. 12/1/1875 and Joseph R. Hawley DS 7/6/1876 officially thanking Evarts for the oration. [Delivered at exposition celebrating the centennial of the Declaration of Independence.]

GLC03407

circa 1872

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

Autograph manuscript

Title: The British counter claims

This editorial examines American responsibility to compensate for destroyed British property during the Civil War. British citizen George Adlain had considered staying in America but his property on Missionary Ridge had suffered damage during the battle.

GLC03409

8 September 1875

Spinner, Francis Elias, 1802-1890

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Alexander J. Sheldon

States that he is receiving countless letters on the subject of the currency. Agrees that banks are quite powerful, "in truth they are the throne," and the banks have a hand in Congress and control over newspapers, but concludes that "this can't last always."

GLC03410.01

November 1876 - December 1876

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

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: [Fragment of a report on the war against the Sioux]

Concerns the campaigns against Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, commenting on the activities of generals Nelson A. Miles, George Crook, and Philip H. Sheridan. Last four pages of a document, numbered 50-53, possibly of an annual report. Crazy Horse surrendered in May of 1877, after 3 months of inactivity. The Winter expedition Sherman mentions, leaving Fort Letterman on 27 October, attacked Crazy Horse on 7 January 1877, making it likely that this report was written in the intervening months.

GLC03444

January 12, 1875

Terry, William, 1824-1888

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas M. Alfriend

Encloses twenty dollars regarding the insurance policy on his house.

GLC03467.07

18 September 1867

Butterfield, Daniel, 1831-1901

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James G. Wilson

Thanks Wilson for an invitation, and hopes to attend, if his health permits him. Mounted on paper 25.5 x 16.5 cm.

GLC03469.01

January 24, 1868

Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence, 1828-1914

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James B. Swain

Approves of the idea to "establish a campaign paper in the city of New York." Written on State of Maine Executive Department Stationary.

GLC03469.02

07 October 1868

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

Endorsement signed

Title: Directing Secretary of War to release records. On verso of ALS from Wm. Reid

Intended to exonerate President Buchanan from the charge of colluding with Gen. David Twiggs in surrendering Federal posts in Texas.

GLC03178

1 May 1866

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

Document signed

Title: [Presidential pardon of George W. Hays, who had been convicted in the District of Columbia of larceny in April 1866].

Pardoned by Andrew Johnson after he had been assured by the District Attorney who prosecuted the case that Hays was a proper object of executive clemency. Coutersigned by Secretary of State William H. Seward.

GLC03183

7 June 1871

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

Document signed

Title: Pardon of Robert Carswell and Harvey McGallierd, convicted of illicit distilling

Convicted of illicit distilling; sentenced to each pay a $10 fine and court costs. Pardoned because Governor Caldwell, Supervisor Perry, Deputy Marshall Foote and U.S. Attorney Starbuck claimed that they were innocent of any intentional violation of the law. (c/s Hamilton Fish)

GLC03184

February 2, 1868

Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Wallace J. Ford

Thanks him for his letter. Inquires after Hiram College and tells him to ask Mr. Mott of the Cleveland Herald to send the newspaper to him in Washington. "I shall make a speech on the currency and its relation to our hard times before long -- in which I shall commit myself fully & take a position on which I am willing to stand or fall. I have been studying the subject very closely, & have gone over the whole ground." Written on Fortieth Congress Stationery. Garfield, who had been president of Hiram College, favored the principle that all paper money issued by the government had to…

GLC03207

1866

Marshall, William Edgar, 1837-1906

Engraving Signed

Title: [Engraving of portrait of Abraham Lincoln]

Artist's proof signed in lower right corner, "Wm. E. Marshall."

GLC03201.01

28 July 1872

Mosby, John S., 1833-1916

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Edward Turner

Mosby misspells Greeley's name.

GLC03334

9 January 1876

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

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Conness

Commander in Chief of the Army Sherman writes to Conness about the quarrel he had with Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton over the terms of Confederate General Joseph Johnston's surrender in 1865. Sherman suggests that he may have acted wrongly. " ... I do not profess to be infallible, or more than mortal. I have made some fearful mistakes in life which in a retrospect would be corrected, among them in regard to Mr. Stanton." Admits that he felt Stanton was trying to destroy him, " ... because he supposed I was not acting in full harmony on the then policy with the Negros - And failing…

GLC03341.01