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Items concerning John Cabell Breckinridge [Decimalized .01-.02]

GLC05007

Two issues of Fort Laramie's "The Chugg Water Journal" and a watercolor of Indians [Decimalized]

Written at Fort Laramie

GLC05067

Items related Mack J. Leaming [Decimalized .01-.06]

Includes Leaming's typed manuscript signed describing the Battle of Fort Pillow, family photographs, and the House of Representatives report on Fort Pillow.

GLC05080

Civil War era photographs

Includes 112 Gardiners, 19 Brady, 30 O'Sullivans, plus Faux, Armistead, French, Gessner and McPherson & Oliver. Includes many salt prints. Glass plate negatives #478-487; Cased images #488-507. Numbered separately and described in separate...

GLC05111.01

[Collection of Charles E. Walbridge, H company, 100th Regiment, New York, Infantry] [Decimalized .01-.74]

Collection contains the letters of Charles E. Walbridge, of Buffalo, New York, to his sister Louise. The collection consists of 71 letters to his sister, 2 letters of his sister to Charles Walbridge, and 1 letter from Leon Brown to Louise Walbridge...

GLC04663

[Collection of letters from a miner to his wife regarding California] [decimalized]

Written to his wife Ann (occasionally spelled Anne or Ruth Ann) in Chicago. Conger and his wife were both born in New York and lived in Chicago after 1860 and through the 1880 U.S. Census. Conger worked for the U.S. Police.

GLC04672

Collection of presidential letters and documents [decimalized]

GLC04675

Collection of Nicholas A. Dederer, E company, 114th regiment, New York, infantry [Decimalized .01-.12]

Letters written as Captain and Quartermaster. By end of his letters, Dederer was Provost Marshall. Rathbone seems to have been his son-in-law. The letters discuss Louisiana and New Orleans. There is much talk of arresting deserters. Brief mention...

GLC04703

[New York Civil War soldiers' archive, letters to Almira Winchell from four soldiers] [Decimalized .01-.26]

Letters to Winchell, from Belleville or Belle Isle, New York (Onondaga County). Winchell received letters from three soldiers, stationed mostly in Virginia: Thomas Donahue (1st NY Art., Batt. B), William Remington (101st NYS Vols.) and William...

GLC04706

Collection related to Gerrit Smith [Decimalized .01- .72]

Mixed collection of pamphlets, printed letters and other printed documents written by Smith. Pertains mostly to Smith's views on abolition, but also includes documents related to the temperance and women's suffrage movements, as well as his opinions...

GLC04717

Burgoyne-Kingston collection: papers concerning Convention Army after Saratoga [word processed inventory available] [decimalized]

Bulk 11/1777-04/1778. Papers retained by Lieut. Gen. John Burgoyne's Adjutant General, mostly his (frequently strained) communications with Maj. Gen. William Heath concerning the conditions of the British officer prisoners (41 items). The...

GLC04764

[Collection of two letters to William Phillips] [Decimalized]

Two letters by Heath to General William Phillips. See 4789.01 and 4789.02. Collateral engraving also included.

GLC04789

Item's related to Andrew Jackson's seventh annaul speech to Congress. [Decimalized .01-.02]

Jackson's seventh annual message to Congress and a note from his adopted son, Andrew Jackson Jr.

GLC04793

Petitions re: separation of church and state in Memphis, Tenn. [decimalized]

1) Second Presbyterian Church of Memphis. DS: [Memphis], [n.d.] Petition to Abraham Lincoln re: returning control of the church to Union clergy. 7 p. With AES of Abraham Lincoln (4 March 1864) re: necessity of separation between church and state...

GLC04813

[Lyman family letters] [Decimalized .01- .32]

The three Lyman brothers came from Delaware, Ohio. They enlisted in the 18th U.S. Infantry Regiment and served in the Army of the Cumberland in Tennessee and Mississippi. The collection also includes letters from Sergeant Nelson Pierce, a friend...

GLC03606

[Collection of George and Bart Brigham] [Decimalized .01-.08]

Letters are from George Brigham and H. B. Brigham to their sister Lucretia. With a hand-drawn "Plan of the Battle of Fredericksburg, VA."

GLC03607

Collection of three items related to Dighton Goddard [Decimalized]

GLC03608

[Collateral collection of 18 items containing mostly printed general orders detailing other commissions and appointments of General Reynolds.] [decimalized]

Includes official notifaction of Joseph J. Reynolds commission to major general of volunteers, dated November 29, 1862, signed by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. The only letter in the collection (#16) describes various improvements to the city of...

GLC03614.02

[Song sheets pertaining to the death of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth] [decimalized]

Includes 9 song sheets plus print on small card in one folder. Colonel Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth, a friend of Abraham Lincoln, was commander of the 11th New York Infantry, a unit of Zouaves from the New York City Fire Department. He was killed on 24...

GLC03617

Approx. 35 Civil War Items, including two David Porter [decimalized]

GLC03619

Various Civil War documents [Decimalized .01-.15]

Includes an address from The New England Women's Auxiliary Association encouraging women to assist in the efforts of the United States Sanitary Commission. Contains various letters, printed song sheets, and one military document regarding the War.

GLC03619.01

[Group of 21 Civil War letters, documents, and envelopes] [Decimalized]

Includes lists of supplies, President Jefferson Davis's message, prints of General Halleck, blank enlistment papers, provost marshal and quartermaster papers, military issues receipts, envelopes, and cards.

GLC03619.02

New Hampshire Revolutionary War documents, mainly dealing with draft, militia

1. King George III. D: Portsmouth, N.H. 4 November 1769. Legal writ to the sheriff of New Hampshire ordering the seizure of Richard Perkins for appearance in court. 1p. + docket + endorsement.

2. State of New Hampshire. D: Hillsborough, [N.H.]...

GLC03657

Journals of Congress v.3, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 10

Vols 3, 9 and 10 were printed by Dunlap while vols.5 and 7 were printed by Claypoole. All are uniformly bound in quarter leather with marbled paper boards.

GLC03672.02

[Collection of Asa Smith, K company, 16th regiment, Massachusetts, infantry] [decimalized]

The Asa D. Smith collection of Civil War correspondence includes letters written to his family in Massachusetts. Smith writes most of his letters from Camp Hamilton in Hampton, Virginia, with a few from Suffolk, Virginia as the regiment moves into...

GLC03696