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May 1853
Jones, William E., 1824-1864
Muster roll of Mounted Rifles at Fort Ewell, Texas
Muster roll of the Mounted Rifles at Fort Ewell, Texas, signed by Lt. "Grumble" Jones, later Confederate general and cavalry commander.
GLC09244
November 1863
Sickles, Daniel Edgar, 1819-1914
[Address at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art]
Address at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, mapping the path to Union victory. Powerful congressman in the New York Democratic Party, with ties to senior Union political and military leadership, assesses the war: "We cannot...
GLC09245
circa 1860-1869
Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882
[General Hooker's staff in mock battle]
Albumen print of Alexander Gardner photograph showing General Hooker's staff in mock battle. With notes by Capt. Benjamin H. Ticknor, 45th Mass. Infantry and 2nd Mass. Heavy Artillery, identifying "Mock fight over the body of A. R. Waud, artist" and...
GLC09247
6 May 1863
Longstreet, James, 1821-1904
to Daniel H. Hill
To Daniel H. Hill re plans to send Hood's cavalry in pursuit of Union troops retreating from Chancellorsville, asking citizens to delay the enemy's movements: "We have reports from scouts and persons from Maryland that Hunter's and Fosters Armies are...
GLC09248
16 March 1863
Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870
to James Longstreet
To James Longstreet, ordering preparations to engage Union army when it crosses the Rappahannock, noting strategy of mobility to counter the union's greater numbers: "It is also reported that it is Genl. Hooker's intention to cross the river &...
GLC09249
15 July 1862 - 2 August 1862
Wise, Henry A., 1806-1876
[Recommendation for Thomas H. G. Poulson]
Recommending a private in the 46th Regiment, Va. Vols., who was "captured at Roanoke Island as [sic] is now on parole. He is poor and needs & desires employment." This letter is adhered to a letter dated 2 August 1862 from Thomas H. G. Poulson to...
GLC09250
11 June 1863
[Report of disposition of forces]
Gen. Wise reports to Major Gen. Arnold Elzey, head of the Department of Richmond, on his troop placements north and east of Richmond. "The great consideration is forage. There are 2000 tons at least in this neighborhood calling for scythe's & reaping...
GLC09251
28 August 1862
Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 1806-1873
to C.C. Memminger
Asking Confederate Secretary of the Treasury C. C. Memminger to find an appointment for "Mr. Caldwell of Fredericksburg…a respectable citizen," who has been discharged from the Army after being injured. Endorsed by R.M.T. Hunter and L. C. De Jarrette...
GLC09252
26 December 1870
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889
to Charles Stoess
To his brother-in-law Charles Stoess, Bavarian Consul in Liverpool. From Memphis, relating family and business news: "The fall has been the most favorable for gathering the cotton crop ever seen by 'the oldest inhabitant'. The low price has acted...
GLC09253
21 February 1850
to George W. Crawford
To Secretary of War George W. Crawford, asking assistance in obtaining promotion. "I do not hesitate to say that I can furnish ample proof, from every Officer under whom I have served, of as much service as any Officer of my grade could have rendered...
GLC09254
circa 1860s
Lee, Sydney Smith, 1802-1869
to Charles Carter Lee
To his brother, Charles Carter Lee, giving news of his son Fitzhugh Lee's serious wound at the Third Battle of Winchester on 9/19/1864. "My dear Fitz was slightly wounded in the fight near 'Winchester,' Fitz has been sick for 11 days and was not well...
GLC09255
6 June 1860
to Anna Fitzhugh
To cousin Anna Fitzhugh, an intimate letter written on the eve of the Civil War, reporting on family news and revealing his personal anxieties and troubles: "A divided heart I have too long had, & a divided life too long led. That may be one cause of...
GLC09256
30 June 1848
to Sidney Smith Lee
Having returned from service in the Mexican War just a day before, Lee writes to his brother Sidney Smith Lee of his homecoming and other family news. "Here I am once again, my dear Smith, perfectly surrounded by this Mama & her precious children...
GLC09257
circa 1870
Lee, Fitzhugh, 1835-1905
to Ellen Bernard
An exuberant letter to Ellen Bernard "Nellie" Fowle of Alexandria, VA, whom he married on April 19, 1871. "God bless you Miss Nellie I had no idea you were such a woman as you are. I feel as if I really know you for the first time." With small card.
GLC09258
12 October 1897
Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908
to Fitzhugh Lee
To Fitzhugh Lee as U.S. Consul General to Havana, asking Lee to aid a New York doctor in obtaining legal proof of his brother's death in Cuba.
GLC09259
7 October 1864
Clark, John B., fl. 1864
to Sterling Price
Former Confederate congressman and brigadier general in the Missouri State Guard writes to Major Gen. Sterling Price, giving Northern Press reports of Price's Missouri Expedition: "it appears that you have penetrated within twenty miles of St. Louis...
GLC09260
24 May 1861
Garnett, Robert S., fl. 1861
Special Orders No. 110
"Special Orders No. 110," ordering Col. Moore's regiment of Virginia Volunteers to Manassas Junction, immediately prior to the First Battle of Bull Run. Issued by order of Maj. Gen. Lee, signed by Garnett, the first general officer killed in the...
GLC09261
27 July 1861
Reagan, John H. (John Henninger), 1818-1905
[Appointment]
Appointment of a postmaster in Virginia, signed as Confederate Postmaster General. With 5-cent Confederate postage stamp.
GLC09262
14 July 1861
Donnellan, George, fl. 1861
[Confederate spy letter]
Important Confederate spy, one week before the Battle of Bull Run: "Should any sealed dispatch be handed into your possession without any superscription, and as coming from me, you will please address the same (after satisfying yourself of the...
GLC09263
28 April 1865
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
to General Howard
Asking General Howard to protect the wife of Confederate General Robert Ransom: "I take great pleasure in committing this lady and her family to the care & protection of Gen. Howard, and beg he will let one of his staff officers see the family and...
GLC09264
20 May 1861
Lyon, Nathaniel, 1818-1861
to Colonel D. Hassendeubel
To Colonel D. Hassendeubel of the 3rd Missouri Volunteers: "In respect to your report upon Arms and the movements of the secessionists, in your vicinity and at Manchester, it is important that you keep us fully advised as possible." Written ten days...
GLC09265
20 June 1864
Schofield, John McAllister, 1831-1906
to Jacob D. Cox
During the Atlanta Campaign: "Genl Sherman is here and has given me his plans. We must force the passage of Noyes Creek today. Four o'clock is the hour set for you to begin, and you will be supported by a general demonstration along the whole line."...
GLC09266
22 September 1862
Shaw, Robert Gould, 1837-1863
Professor Rogers
Re Antietam: "We had a terrible battle last week. May we soon see the last of them and of the war. You can hardly imagine the horror of that battle field the following day." After Antietam, Shaw commanded the all-black 54th Mass. Volunteer Infantry...
GLC09267
31 October 1887
Averell, William W., 1832-1900
[Recount of Battle of Bull Run]
Union general vividly recounts his first battle, at Bull Run in 1861: "My feeling on entering the battle was, as I saw the enemy hastening to their positions, that there was a great and useless Crime about to be Committed; - the second as I can...
GLC09268
28 August 1863
Ransom, Thomas Edwin Greenfield, 1834-1864
to James B. McPherson
To Gen. James B. McPherson, reporting on disloyalty of W.W. Shaw, who plans to ship cotton, and attacks Col. B. G. Farrar of the 30th Missouri: "...his men and officers can not be trusted in the country alone. They pillage and plunder and destroy...
GLC09269
26 February 1863
Berdan, Hiram, fl. 1823-1893
to Horatio Seymour
Colonel of the first regiment of Union marksmen, "Berdan's Sharpshooters," to NY Governor Horatio Seymour, supporting requests for promotion for several of his men. [Berdan personally demonstrated his marksmanship to President Lincoln when requesting...
GLC09270
1865
Whitley, Albert, fl. 1865
[Collection of 5 letters written during Sherman's March to the Sea] [Decimalized .01- .05]
Five letters written during Sherman's March to the Sea and the subsequent pursuit of the Confederates up into North Carolina until the end of the war. Including: 1-1-1865, from Savannah, Georgia: "We entered this City Dec. 21st the rebels having...
GLC09271
1863
Nichols, Ambrose S., fl. 1863
Diary belonging to a Civil War soldier
A war-weary soldier's diary provides contemporary eyewitness accounts of the entire Gettysburg Campaign, including the march from Maryland up into Pennsylvania, the battles at Brandy Station and Gettysburg, and the later push in pursuit of the...
GLC09272
August 1864-June 1865
Hammond, Horace J., fl. 1862-1865
[Collection of 50 letters of a soldier in the 189th regiment NY volunteers] [decimalized]
This collection consists of fifty letters from Horace J Hammond to his wife, Eleanor. Hammond enlisted on August 17, 1864 at Avoca, NY as a Private. He served largely at City Point, Virginia, the headquarters for General Ulysses S. Grant. While at...
GLC09273
1 September 1863
Mallory, Stephen R., 1813-1873
As Confederate Secretary of the Navy, to C. C. Memminger, Secretary of the Treasury, cancelling a requisition for nearly three million dollars "Captain Samuel Barron C. S. Navy, having returned to the treasury department the drafts drawn in his favor...
GLC09274
1856-1859
Jackson, George E.G., 1856-1859
[2 ship's logs]
The HMS Antelope, on anti-slavery duty off the West African coast. Two ship's logs,"From 3rd Dec 1856 till 20th March 1859, Commanded by Lieutenant John Wm. Pike, Kept by Geo. E. G. Jackson, Master's Asst." Text and hand-drawn pencil sketches...
GLC09275
26 April 1865
Laurence, A.B., fl. 1865
[Certification of authenticity of flag fragment]
Lt. Col. and Quartermaster of the U. S. Army 24th Corps certifies "That the accompanying is a fragment of the Rebel Flag that floated over the Capitol of the Confederacy in this city, and was taken by the troops of this command. The flag- made it is...
GLC09276.01
[3 April 1865]
[three fragment of Confederate flag]
Three attached fragments of the last Confederate flag to fly over the Richmond Capitol.
GLC09276.02
12 October 1862
Morgan, John Hunt, 1825-1864
to John Pegram
To Col. John Pegram, Chief of Staff, re orders for his cavalry near Lexington, Kentucky. "I sent out scouts to Shakertown & also Col. Duke's Regt. with orders to hold the enemy in check in case they were advancing until I could go to his assistance...
GLC09278
15 January 1856
Fenno, Edward, fl. 1856
to Josiah Drummond
About an upcoming lecture tour by Frederick Douglass in Maine: "I have guaranteed him fifty dollars for this city-twenty five dollars in each of the other towns-I shall entertain him while here." To Josiah Drummond.
GLC09279
26 August 1861
Clark, Edward, fl. 1877
Proclamation to the People of Texas
Recruitment Broadside by Governor of Texas: "You require no appeal to animate your patriotism.... Then should every man be up and doing. If you want a speedy peace, you must be prepared to conquer it."
GLC09280
12 October 1846
Dupont, Samuel F., 1803-1865
to Stevens
Mexican War naval and land operations while in command of the Cyane: "there is no hope whatever of a peace & we will have to conquer the whole country or form lines of occupation of what we already have taken."
GLC09281
15 July 1847
Plummer, Joseph B., fl. 1847-1862
to Mr. Clark
Conditions in Vera Cruz in the Mexican War: "the Guerillas are becoming more and more bold.… They have even sent word to the Col. that they are going to pay him a visit and that they shall hang him.... There is little prospect of peace. Santa Anna is...
GLC09282
8 April 1848
Wheeler, Frank, fl. 1848
to his mother
Lt. of 2nd Illinois Volunteers, re dining with former Mexican president General Santa Anna in Puebla: "His opinion of the war is this, he said he thought that the Mexican people would send for him again and as to peace there would be none."
GLC09283
2 May 1846
Hunter, Nathaniel Wyche, fl. 1846
to Sarah R. Golding
Capt. of 2nd U.S. Dragoons, Galveston, Texas writes about the opening of the Mexican War: "There will be ten thousand troops on the Rio Grande in two weeks....I shall go directly to Point Isabel and if not in the hands of the enemy shall land and...
GLC09284
December 1860
to newspaper editor
Letter to newspaper editor, intended for publication, calling to prepare for coming Civil War: "With the old and the young, rifle practice should be the order of the day for we may have to meet the enemy abroad and at home.…the devil in the shape of...
GLC09285
25 October 1815
Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836
To Jacob Gurby
Counsels a client on the best way to recover a slave: "If a Slave be brought from another state to the state of N York & there sold, such slave is by the laws of N York declared free. It is therefore of Moment to establish that the sale was made at...
GLC09286
25 March 1832
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
to L. Jones
Cancelling a purchase of four young slaves on behalf of his adopted son, Andrew (Donelson) Jackson, Jr.: "If the negroes have not been bought and sent on…give yourself no further trouble on the subject.… I wish him now to attend to & manage his own...
GLC09288
28 January 1865
Circular
Circular concerning the long delay in the payment of troops: "I know the character of the men of this army too well, to doubt that they can be excelled in patience under a disappointment occasioned by the necessities of the country, & not by the...
GLC09289
circa 23 April 1775
Muster Roll for the 10 Companies of the 34th Regt of Foot in the Service of the United Colonies 1775
2nd Massachusetts regiment. "Muster Roll" for the 10 Companies "of the 34th Reg't of Foot in the Service of the United Colonies 1775" [General John Thomas's 2nd Massachusetts Regiment, organized on April 23, 1775, drawn from members of the original...
GLC09290
1776
Sharp, Granville, 1735-1813
The Law of Retribution...
The Law of Retribution; Or, A Serious Warning to Great Britain and her Colonies, founded on unquestionable examples of God's Temporal Vengeance against Tyrants, Slave-holders, and Oppressors. First edition, printed in London.
GLC09291
1848-1858
Boomer, Susan B., fl. 1848-1858
Susan B. Boomer Diary 1848-1858
Diary of a young woman who left Massachusetts to settle in Bristol, Illinois, with opinions on slavery, patriotism, the Compromise of 1850, and the Fugitive Slave Act. "I spent the night at Uncle James's. During the evening a fugitive slave was...
GLC09292
July 11 1780
Paine, Robert T., 1731-1814
[Gov and people vs. Henry Laughton]
As Massachusetts Attorney General, authorizes the seizure of properties belonging to an absentee Tory, Henry Laughton, "late of Boston."
GLC09293
1782-1789
Lawrence, John, 1719-1802
[Revolutionary war pay warrant for African American soldier]
Connecticut Line Continental Army, Revolutionary War pay warrant issued to African American soldier Jupiter Stevens, for thirteen pounds, one shilling, and two pence. Signed by John Lawrence, treasurer of the State, and docketed every year to 1789...
GLC09294
Connecticut Line Continental Army, Revolutionary War pay warrant issued to African American soldier Prince Duplex, for four pounds, seventeen shillings, and one pence. Signed by John Lawrence, treasurer of the State, and by Duplex in full, and...
GLC09295
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