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to James L. Botsford

Colonel Paxton of the 2nd West Virginia Cavalry writes to Captain Botsford of the 23rd Ohio Infantry stating he has started L. Shurtliff of the 23rd Ohio in care of Captain Hill by orders of the General [Eliakim P. Scammon]. Written in Camp Piatt

GLC02414.167

to James B. McPherson

Invites McPherson to go sailing to "Acatraz...this young Gibralter." McPherson was in charge of the erection of fortifications on Alcatraz island. Date inferred.

GLC03746.03.02

to James B. McPherson

Invitation to the "Oriental Party," hosted by Mr. Jaffy. Signed simply "Kellogg."

GLC03746.03.03

to James B. McPherson

Invitation to the burial of Haven's brother. Date inferred.

GLC03746.03.07

to James B. McPherson

Invitation to dine with "Col. C's daughters." Date inferred.

GLC03746.03.08

to James B. McPherson

Invitation to dinner. Date inferred.

GLC03746.03.09

to Valentine Baxter Horton

General Pope, commander of the Department of the Northwest, writes to father-in-law. Notes that his mother's health is better than it has been for the past two years. States, "I find the whole public mind in the West possessed with the belief that...

GLC04385.01

to Benjamin Rush

Lengthy discussion of virtue and politics, reflecting on "slander" from his opponents. Tacitus' adage: "Posterity gives to every man his true honor," " has some Truth in it... but it is by no means an universal Aphorism; nor do I believe it to be...

GLC09107

to John M. Schofield

Has received desired information, but wishes to know the recipients full name. "Your very complete sketch came to hand this morning and contains all the information desired with the single exception of your full name, which you will oblige me by...

GLC03477.07

to unknown

Small Card, text is very faded and hard to read

GLC03523.18.61.01

Commission for Captain Charles C. Morey.

Commission for Captain Charles C. Morey by J. Gregory Smith, "Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the State of Vermont."

GLC03523.18.63

to Lieutenant Colonel J. Condit Smith

Major General Logan writes from the field near Gordon's Gap. Instructs Smith to send food for General Osterhaus, who has not received forage since he left Rossville, Georgia (often referred to as Rossville Gap). Will send his own cavalry tomorrow...

GLC04385.03

to John A. Dix

Marvels at the Gatling Gun: "an ingenious piece of Mechanism and will recommend itself to Ordinance and Artillery officers." To General John A. Dix on behalf of General John Love.

GLC09092

to General George McClellan

Seeking U.S. help for the struggle for independence from France. "My friend General Ghilardi...plans to go to Mexico and serve the cause of that nation." With autograph envelope to Gen. McClellan.

GLC09093

to R.R. Ward, Esq.

On residual actions of the R.I. Dorr Rebellion. "That some rascality is to be attempted toward R. I. can scarce be doubted, but in what shape, we have no means of judging save for Burke's Resolution or Petition presented last week..."

GLC09094

to Phoebe Hathaway

Updating a fellow Abolitionist on his busy schedule. "It is too bad that I cannot come to Farmington on the first of April after that winsome little note of yesterday. But I cannot and cannot now, see any chance of visiting the kind of Domicile of...

GLC09097

to the Senate and the House

Inflation and the cost of living. "How far the system of cooperative organization which flourishes in various European countries may be adapted to our highly organized and individualistic social organization may perhaps only be determined by...

GLC09098

to his daughter

"I expect to see you. I except to see you very good; very sweet temper'd; & very fond of your Mother, & myself: and in return you shall find us very kind, very tender, and very affectionate to you. This is a fair Bargain my dear Child; come, let us...

GLC09106

to Henry Fox, Lord Holland

Condemns Britain's "new crusade" against Napoleonic France: "Our countries are now at peace and I am satisfied that you will unite with me, in a strong desire, that they may long remain so. I well know the interest which you take, in the...

GLC09109

to unidentified General [possibly Lewis Cass]

"We have been actively opposed to each other in the last political contest and ... will probably be so for the rest of our lives. I want you once for all to understand that differences of that character between men whom I otherwise respect does not...

GLC09110

to Charles J. Faulkner

Discusses divisions with Virginia, the South Carolina Nullification Crisis, and Andrew Jackson and the National Bank: "I have been called in the Enquirer 'the chief of Nullifiers' in Virginia--and yet I have not in 20 years changed my principles one...

GLC09111

to J.J. Grindall

Discusses the Fugitive Slave Law and his failed bid for 1852 Democratic nomination: "It would be a strange spectacle indeed if the Slave-holding state most interested in the maintenance of faithful execution of the Fugitive Slave Law should yield...

GLC09112

to Elihu Washburne

"The very flattering interest you have taken in my personal welfare and advancement I know of but one way of repaying... I promise the country my undivided time and exertions and any fault shall be from an error in judgment, not of heart. The battle...

GLC09113

to Honorable Thomas Ewing

On Grant, Halleck, and floods. "I have not the control & direction of affairs which you suppose... Gen. Buell is assembling a very large force at Nashville. Gen. Halleck will and is now transferring Gen. Grant's Army over to the Tennessee...And...

GLC09114

to General Ethan Allen Hitchcock

On retaliation for treatment of Union prisoners at Libby Prison: "I read her [Mrs. Horace Mann] opinion against retaliating in kind, and said 'Certainly that is right.' I read her proposition to shoot or hang a number of selected officers as a...

GLC09115

to William Starke Rosecrans

Requests that General Rosecrans approve pay for a Mrs. Shart, who worked in the hospital with two doctors of the 23rd Ohio Regiment. Informs that the doctors were called away before they could submit the correct vouchers for her. With endorsement...

GLC02414.188

to John Saunders

Orders Saunders to report to him regarding a "manifest deriliction of discipline."

GLC02459.19.01

to Ephraim Fenno

Informing Captain Lieutenant Fenno that General Henry Knox is sending them a lock and key for the magazine to prevent further loss of goods and theft. Also notes that Knox would like a return of all of the stores as well, to keep track of what they...

GLC02437.01955

to Benjamin Lincoln

Discusses the conditions of the artillery, carriages and wagons. States they need to be cleaned, repaired and repainted before being stored in a proposed arsenal.

GLC02437.01973

to Benjamin Lincoln

Discusses anxiety within the Army and a mission of General Alexander McDougall, possibly in connection to a petition of Congress for payment for the enlisted men. States that " ... if they [the army] should be disbanded previous to a settlement...

GLC02437.01974

to Benjamin Lincoln

Praises the artificers and men of the artillery for their work throughout the war and discusses their sentiments in regards to commissions and pay, which they feel is unfair under the current system.

GLC02437.01976

to John Doughty

Wills, captain commanding Invalids on Constitution Island, discusses furloughs for men in his company. Written at Constitution Island.

GLC02437.02004

to Ephraim Fenno

Informs Captain Fenno that Captain George Fleming will be relieving him and his company from their post at Verplanck's Point.

GLC02437.02022

to Hawes

Requests Captain Hawes to "furnish for the use of the Artillery as many buttons as General Knox shall report to you are required for that Corps." Noted as written at the War Office. Originally enclosed with GLC02437.02047.

GLC02437.02046

to Henry Knox

Written by General Washington's aide-de-camp Colonel Humphreys to Major General Knox. Says Washington is pleased with the arrangements Knox has made. Asks that the party from the lines follow in the manner he proposed. Tells him General Howe (Robert...

GLC02437.02183

to Samuel Shaw

Asks Shaw to help him to apply to General Henry Knox to aid him with his debts that he incurred while still in the service and that he would have paid if he had received the half-pay due to soldiers who leave the army. "Free" stamped on address leaf...

GLC02437.02143

to Mr. Forsyth

Countersigned by Samuel Shaw, aide-de-camp to General Henry Knox. Orders provisions for one sergeant and seven men belonging to General von Steuben's barge. A docket note regarding rations is signed by John Prescott.

GLC02437.02255

to Thomas Cogswell

Orders to travel to Fort Putnam and await further orders.

GLC02437.02400

to Richard Frothingham

Informs Frothingham that William Richards, the deputy field commissary of military stores, has been discharged and wishes to have his accounts settled. Noted as a duplicate.

GLC02437.02416

to Michael Jackson

Asks to allow the bearer, [Horris] Olds, to see his mother as she is unwell. Countersigned by Michael Jackson.

GLC02437.02418

[Request for goods]

Order for one barrel of flour and twenty pounds of beef for Henry Knox and his family. Apparently addressed to Mr. [William] Bell. Docket signed by Jacob Johnson.

GLC02437.02471

to Silas Holmes

Asks for information about the treatment of prisoners at a hospital "at flat bush on Long Island." Has heard that Holmes was a prisoner of the British army and while held as a prisoner worked under Dr. Bayley. Wonders about Dr. Bayley's treatment...

GLC02437.02489

to Albert Gillett

Writes to his father about school tax, informing him that it is $1.70, which he would like him to pay. Reports to him about a number of deaths that have occurred. Envelope addressed to A. Gillett in Ravenna, Ohio.

GLC03523.05.30

[Collection of York Woodward] [Decimalized .01- .18]

15 letters written by a Freedman's Bureau Superintendent, from January 1866 to February 1868. Many are from Abingdon, VA, and reveal the personal responses and official actions of a Pennsylvania veteran who served throughout the Occupied South as a...

GLC09327

The Woman's Tribune [Vol. 5, No. 35 (July 7, 1888)]

One issue of "The Woman's Tribune, Vol. V, No. 35," printed in Beatrice, Nebraska and dated July 7, 1888. This newspaper was established by Clara Belwick Colby. The item contains articles regarding women's suffrage. It includes printed copies of...

GLC09801.01

The Woman's Tribune [Vol. 5, No. 35 (July 7, 1888)]

One issue of "The Woman's Tribune, Vol. V, No. 35," printed in Beatrice, Nebraska and dated July 7, 1888. This newspaper was established by Clara Belwick Colby. The item contains articles regarding women's suffrage. It includes printed copies of...

GLC09801.02

The Whig charge of intolerance against the New Hampshire Democracy and Gen. Franklin Pierce.

Written in response to rumors and allegations from the Whig party that Franklin Pierce is religiously intolerant. States that "[i]n American political contests the seraching questions out to be ever, as to a candidate, 'Is he honest? is he capable...

GLC00267.191

Annexation of Texas. Message from the President of the United States, In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 13th instant, respecting an Annexation of Texas to the United States.

Complies with the House of Representatives request for the President to report his opinion on whether or not Texas should be annexed to the United States, whether Texas has proposed anything and what the United States' response was, and, if so, to...

GLC00267.099

to Connor and Catherine Umbach Griffin

One undated greeting card from Mil to Connor and Catherine Umbach Griffin. The circa date is based on other letters sent Weslaco Texas.

GLC09952.056

Commission on Race and Equality Completes Projected Summer Projects in Birmingham

One document dated August 10, 1964 by the Commission on Race and Equality, from the journal "Ethical Culture Today." Lists inter-racial summer projects, such as, Play School, Camp Vacation, a college prepatory workshop and an adult seminar. Programs...

GLC09641.07