Civil War date and post civil war letters and documents [decimalized]

to William Pitt Fessenden

Hooper, a United States Representative from Massachusetts, discusses the prospect of obtaining bank loans for the United States Treasury. He informs Fessenden, Secretary of the Treasury, that "... I have become strongly impressed with the idea that...

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to Alexander Woodruff Buel

Letter regarding passage of U.S. ships on the St. Lawrence river. In response to a letter from Buel, Clayton writes, "[I]t is believed the Canadian Government has recently announced its determination not to grant this privilege [of American ships...

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[Document signed by Union generals Daniel Ullman, Michael K. Lawler, and Joseph J. Reynolds]

Signed in Louisiana on September 24 by Ullman; forwarded to Lawler, who signed on September 25; forwarded to Reynolds, who signed ion September 30. The verso is a note transmitting "a list of all officers and enlisted men of 62nd Regt U.S. Col'd Inf...

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to Clara Pope

John Pope writes to his wife about family matters at length.

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to Henry T. Tackerman

Badeau thanks Tackerman for his photographs of President Ulysses S. Grant and for a pleasant note Tackerman wrote, and declares that Grant was gratified and appreciative. Letter written on Executive Mansion stationery.

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to C.G. Burke

Discusses their friendship and his "political fate." Mentions a speech that Burke said was "passionately condemned" which related to the Civil War: "the preservation or partition of a great empire, the fate of a nation the greatest in the future, the...

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[Rejection of a Canby's resignation]

Canby, as Major General in command of the infantry in New Orleans, has his resignation rejected and returned to him in "the interest of the service." Made by order of the Secretary of War and signed by C.W. Foster, the Assistant Adjutant General of...

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