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November 23, 1863
Benham, Henry Washington, 1813-18884
to Joseph Totten
Clerically written from Washington, D.C. to General Totten, regarding plan for rebuilding bridges.
GLC00919.16
circa 1862
[Print of camp of H. W. Benham's engineering brigade]
GLC00919.18
1865 ca.
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
Brady carte de visite
GLC00919.20
June 12, 1865
to unknown
Recommendation of Elias W. Beach by Asstistant Adjutant General Channing Clapp with a note and endorsement by General Benham.
GLC00919.22
February 18, 1865
Breckinridge, John C. (John Cabell), 1821-1875
to Jefferson Davis
Official report to the president, signed as Confederate secretary of war, tracing the state of the Confederacy's finances from 1861 to the present. Declares that the current abysmal state of the budget, and the consequent inability of the nation to...
GLC00915
March 8, 1788
Brearly, David, 1745-1790
to Jonathan Dayton
One future signer of the U.S. Constitution to another. Brearly (also: "Brearley"), writing as Chief Justice of New Jersey, sends Dayton, then a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, a scale (not included) determined by the New Jersey legislature...
GLC00916
September 19, 1864
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889
to Confederate governors
Circular letter in which Davis asks the Confederate governors to change the alien expulsion laws for mechanics and laborers. He wants to lift the requirements in many states that all aliens render military service or leave, instead permitting...
GLC00917
December 17, 1860
Harris, Isham G., 1818-1897
to Thomas J. Wharton
Harris, Governor of Tennessee, replies to a letter from Wharton, Mississippi's Commissioner to Tennessee. States that when Tennessee Representatives confer again, they will be pleased to meet with Wharton "as the Representative of a sister state...
GLC00918
Meade, George Gordon, 1815-1872
E & H.T. Anthony Carte de visite
GLC00919.03
Hancock, Winfield Scott, 1824-1886
GLC00919.04
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