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circa 1895-1910
56th Pennsylvania volunteers
[Contracting the raising of a monument]
Contracting the Bureau Brothers to erect a bronze monument, with a scale architectural rendering.
GLC09180.04
July 1863
Manuscript map of Gettysburg battlefield
With annotations describing the battle and its aftermath. "Perfect desolation everything shot away dead reables [sic] & horse trees bushes & fence & posts all gone a perfect valley of death."
GLC09181
1863
Various
Collection of 16 Union army soldiers' letters[Decimalized .01- .17]
Content includes detailed descriptions of camp life, provisions, Battle of Rappahannock Station, etc. With four original transmittal covers. Letter from Emerson Opdycke dated 30 April 1862: "We expect an immense fight down there [Corinth] which I...
GLC09182
10 April 1865
Mahone, William, 1826-1895
[Special Order providing for safe passage of Confederate troops through Union lines]
Personal copy. "All officers and men of the Confederate service paroled at Appomattox C. Ho. Va. who to reach their homes are compelled to pass through the lines of the Union Armies will be allowed to do so and to pass free on all Government...
GLC09183
1 May 1865
[Parole of General Joseph Johnston's personal escort during the Carolina Campaign]
Also the surrender to William T. Sherman. "Private Felix P. Webster of Genl. Johnston's escort has given his solemn obligation not to take up arms against the Government of the United States...and is permitted to return to his home..." Signed by...
GLC09184
4 May 1865
Army of Shenandoah parole of William Bowman, 12th Virginia Cavalry
Confederate army.
GLC09185
12 June 1864
[Field orders for General Joseph Wheeler's Cavalry harassing Sherman near Atlanta]
Confederate army. "When marching, or arriving at a fork of the road, or any point where it is possible for a command to mistake the route, the commanding officer of each regiment, will leave a courier to inform the commanding officer who follows...
GLC09186
circa 1864
Journal
Journal with signatures, poems, and notes written by Johnson's Island prisoners of war. Including poem, "The Prison on Lake Erie."
GLC09187
circa 1860s
[Corn cob black doll]
With black dyed muslin head and hands, printed cotton dress, belt, and scarf.
GLC09188
20 December 1863
Smith, Martin, fl. 1863
To Mother
A Southerner writing about "Divine Institution of Negro Slavery" and "old Abe and his abolition crew."
GLC09189
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