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to Victor Howard Metcalf

Writes as President to Secretary of Navy Metcalf regarding a meeting designed to take stock of America's natural resources. Also invited were the justices of the Supreme Court, both houses of Congress, and his cabinet. Includes a stamp of receipt...

GLC01619

[Sentence commutation for Charles Manfri, convicted of selling heroin in New Jersey 19 December 1918, and sentenced to four years imprisonment]

Charles Manfri, alias Charles Mansfield, was convicted of violating the Harrison Anti-Narcotic Act in the U.S. District Court of New Jersey and sentenced to four years in the State penitentiary in Baltimore, Maryland. Wilson commuted his sentence to...

GLC01622

Instructions of the Secretary of War to Governor William H. Taft in the matter of the purchase of the Friar Lands in the Philippines.

Because Congress has not yet acted on recommendations of the commission in regards to the Friar Lands of the Philippines and Taft cannot delay his return there, the President authorizes Taft to travel to Rome to determine which authorities of the...

GLC01625.04

[Discharging a boy volunteer upon the refund of bounty money].

GLC01630

to C. E. Potts

Replies to a letter from Potts in Troy, New York. Thanks Potts for a copy of the "Wide Awake Vocalist," an 1860 Presidential campaign song book for the Republican Party candidates (Abraham Lincoln and Hamlin). Reminisces about the campaign, and...

GLC01595.02

to Clara Pope

Writes to his wife about family matters at length.

GLC01596.04

[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...

GLC01596.07

to George W. Brent

Confederate General Humes discusses his request for 1,000 yards of cloth from the Army of Tennessee to distributed for sale among the officers of his division. Explains that his officers have never before drawn clothing from the government and that...

GLC01643

to James Lyons

Informs Lyons that General Robert E. Lee sent a dispatch indicating that General William B. Taliaferro was slightly wounded at Manassas Junction (during the second Battle of Manassas, AKA Bull Run). He does not want Lyons to be alarmed by...

GLC01651

to Frances Lucretia Thomas

Addressed to Mrs. Thomas (possibly Frances Thomas, formerly Kellogg), wife of Union General George H. Thomas. Tower, chief engineer of the defenses of Nashville, describes the 15-16 December Battle of Nashville. Thomas, commanding Union forces at...

GLC01654