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Photographs of Atlanta and environs during occupation by Federal Troops

Unmounted photographs of Atlanta, Kennesaw, Resaca and environs during Union occupation in the Fall of 1864. Nos. 1 and 2 are a composite photograph of Kennesaw Mountain, taken shortly after the battle (illustrated in Voices of the Civil War: Atlanta...

GLC04610

Circulars regarding the Great Central Fair, a benefit for the United States Sanitary Commission. [Decimalized .01, .02]

GLC04643

Letter and receipt regarding a contribution to the Great Central Fair [Decimalized .01-.02]

GLC04644

Collection of Charles E. Walbridge, US volunteers quartermaster's department [Decimalized .001-.126]

The collection contains 125 letters of Charles E. Walbridge, of Buffalo, New York, to his mother. Two stray items are at the end of the inventory: an undated letter to his mother and a letter to Minnie Walbridge, his sister (#126). The letters...

GLC04662

[Collection of John G. Scurry, A company, 11th regiment, Virginia, infantry][Decimalized .01-.81]

Collection of letters belonging to John G. Scurry dated 1861-1865. Consists of 81 letters sent to various recipients, two of which are incomplete. The letters describe the battles of Chickahominy, McClellan's claim of victory in the Penninsula...

GLC03957

[Diaries of Henry Cook, K company, 9th regiment, New Jersey, infantry]

Henry Cook discusses his infantry and Signal Corps service at Roanoke Island, NC and New Bern, NC.

GLC03958

Greenback Party: pieces of campaign ephemera including Br, circulars & "money" [Decimalized .01- .21]

Also, numerous handbills in the form of currency, many quite humorous. Some items are second copies.

GLC03972

[Collection of John H. Worcester, H company, 7th regiment, New Hampshire, infantry] [Decimalized .01- .41]

The collection includes documents and letters written to the Worcester family, especially the father, John, from Lieutenant John H. Worcester and his younger brother Charles H. Worcester. John was wounded at Fort Wagner, South Carolina, and taken...

GLC03974

Collection of important printed treaties [decimalized]

GLC03985

Collection of treaties between Great Britian and foreign powers

Blind stamp of "Foreign Office." Volumes contain first official British editions of twenty-eight treaties concluded with foreign governments from 1762 to 1795.

GLC03985.11

[Collection of two documents of Captain J. S. James] Decimalized

GLC03988

Collection of 23 letters pertaining to the Red Cross [Decimalized .01- .27]

Greely was a Polar Explorer.

GLC04033

Collection of items pertaining to John C. Tidball [Decimalized .01-.03]

Date inferred based in Tidball's service as Commander of the District of Alaska.

GLC04041

Civil War collection [decimalized]

GLC04042

[Documents pertaining to the service of Assistant Surgeon John W. Henly] [Decimalized .01- .05]

Documents pertaining to the service of Assistant Surgeon John W. Henly in the Union Army of the Tennessee. Included are his commission, a certificate for his leave of absence, and two circulars from the Medical Director of the Army of the Tennessee.

GLC04042.03

Four notes to be telegramed to Pierre G. T. Beauregard [Decimalized .01-.04]

Four autograph copies of notes that were sent to Beauregard as telegrams. Telegrams relate to various preparations for military action and the defense of Confederate positions in Mississippi. All telegrams were sent to Beauregard in Tupelo...

GLC04057

History of the origin, progress, and termination of the American war...

SABIN 91057. JCB II:372. HOWES S914. Bound with Clinton's "Observations on Mr. Stedman's History of the American War." Includes 15 maps. According to Sabin, this is "generally considered the best contemporary account of the Revolution written from...

GLC04062

Collection of election tokens and tintype [Decimalized .01-.07]

3 tokens from 1860 with Hamlin & Lincoln, 1 from 1860 with Douglas & Johnson, 1 from 1860 with Bell & Everett, 1 from 1864 with Lincoln and Johnson, and 1 unframed tintype (?) of Lincoln c. 1864.

GLC04102

Collection of William S. Stevenson, K company, 9th regiment, Texas, infantry [Decimalized .01-.04]

GLC04114

[Diaries of James D. Hannegan] [decimalized]

Collection includes two diaries of James D. Hannegan, who enlisted in September 1861 in the 5th Ohio Cavalry.

GLC04129

Horn's overland guide, from the U.S. Indian sub-agency, Council Bluffs, on the Missouri River, to the City of Sacramento, in California... [with map] [Decimalized .01- .02]

GLC04152

Diary of a journey from the Mississippi to the coasts of the Pacific with a United States government expedition

Introduction by Alexander von Humboldt. Published by Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts. First English edition. Inscribed to Master R. Dymoke as "2nd Prise for School work. Woodbourne House. Christmas 1861." Describes western territories...

GLC04156

Collection of 101 albumen prints of men of Co. D, 31st Mass. Vols.

All photographs are trimmed cartes de visite.

GLC04185

[Correspondence of McKean Family] [Decimalized .01- .18]

Collection of the descendants of Thomas McKean, with genealogy. Includes a report of a "contraband" working on Mississippi fortifications during the Civil War. Most letters are correspondence with Flag Officer William W. McKean (who performed...

GLC04188

[Collection of G. W. Buntly, A company, 41st regiment, Tennessee, infantry] [Decimalized .01-.11]

The George W. Buntly collection of Civil War correspondence is primarily composed of letters written by Confederate infantryman Buntly to his brothers, William and Jacob. For most of the war both brothers are located in Lincoln County, Tennessee, but...

GLC04190