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1864
Richardson, W., fl. 1800-1810
[Battle map]
Hand-drawn battle map of the movements of the 23rd Army Corps during the siege of Atlanta, with positions of the Union and Confederate forces in Resaca, Marietta, and Atlanta.
GLC09321
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
[Campaign biography]
Scarce campaign biography, featuring bold image of Lincoln on front cover and vice presidential candidate Andrew Johnson on back cover.
GLC09322
9 October 1864
Hotchkin, W.S., fl. 1864
To Parenle
Soldier in the 1st New York Engineers: "One of our company was shot while at work on the parapet of the fort. He was shot through the heart by a Rebel Sharpshooter and instantly killed.… [Colonel] blamed the sergeant in command of the squad for...
GLC09323
circa 1860-1865
McSherry, Henry F., fl. 1837
[Collection of Henry F. McSherry] [Decimalized .01- .40]
37 letters and documents pertaining to Assistant Surgeon of Martinsburg, [West] Virginia, who served in the U.S. Navy throughout the war. Letters from his family contain good wartime content, from Union supporters in the South. Includes July 1860...
GLC09324
15 July 1865
Van Wyck, C.H., fl. 1865
General Orders No, 3
Brig. Gen. commanding Military District of Western South Carolina during the Southern Occupation period, orders equal rights for the newly freed black population. Recounts incidents of abuse of freedmen and threatens punishment if such acts continue...
GLC09325
29 May 1865
Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875
[Amnesty Proclamation]
Circular issued by the Department of State, signed in type by William H. Seward as Secretary of State: "A copy of the President's Amnesty Proclamation of this date is herewith appended. By a clause in the instrument, the Secretary of State is...
GLC09326.01
17 June 1865
Ordway, Albert, fl. 1865
[Transmittal notice]
Transmittal letter from Ordway, Lt. Col. 24th Mass., serving as Provost Marshal of the Department of Virginia, pertaining to the President's amesty proclamation.
GLC09326.02
1866-1868
Woodward, York A., fl. 1866-1868
[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
13 January 1812
Minutes of the Proceedings of the Thirteenth American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery...
"Minutes of the Proceedings of the Thirteenth American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and Improving the Condition of the African Race Assembled at Philadelphia..." Reports on schools for African-Americans, kidnapping, arrests of...
GLC09328
4 November 1874
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
to C.H. Howard
To C. H. Howard, an editor/publisher in Chicago, acknowledging receipt of six copies of a "little Letter" he had written. "I very rarely write anything for a newspaper. Almost all my articles appear first in Circulars." He cannot promise to write any...
GLC09329.01
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