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circa 1796-1806
[List]
Account of Henry Knox's and the estate of the late Thomas Flucker. Includes a list of person names and pounds possibly owing through 1794 to 1795. 1806 noted on the docket.
GLC02437.10620
8 September 1747
Morris, Charles, 1711-1781
[Muster roll]
Cosigned by David White. List of "effectives" [soldiers] in Captain Morris's Company of Brigadier General Samuel Waldo's regiment of Foot raised in the Province of Massachusetts Bay for the reduction of Canada.
GLC02437.10636
circa 1782-1783
Bauman, Sebastian, 1739-1803
[Map of Forts Ontario and Oswego and surroundings]
Docketed as "A rough sketch of Oswego by Major Bauman." Shows Fort Ontario (captioned), Fort Oswego (uncaptioned) and surrounding features (possibly earthworks).
GLC02437.10667
11 March 1864
Wheeler, Lysander, 1837-1917
to his parents, brother-in-law, and sister
Written at Camp of 105th Illinois Regiment, eight miles from Chattanooga, Tennessee. The regiment has marched from Bridgeport, Alabama to Chattanooga, Tennessee. He describes this as the hardest march the regiment has ever had. He also reports that...
GLC07460.071
2 April 1864
to his brother-in-law and all at home
Written at Lookout Valley, Tennessee. Thanks his friends and family for writing to him and remembering him. Notes that there has been a lot of rain and wind recently. Does not think his brother-in-law will be conscripted as Illinois is already ahead...
GLC07460.072
1861-1865
[Newspaper clippings]
A collection of three newspaper clippings including (1) an account of a steamer voyage of the New Bedford and New York Steamship line, (2) a poem entitled "The Liquor Seller", and (3) a poem advertising Mark Allen's balsamic cough lozenges. Only the...
GLC02016.179.03
1861 circa
Carte de visite of Heber Painter
A bust image of a young Heber Painter. The size given includes the frame in which the carte de visite is kept .
GLC02016.182
15 August 1864
to his brother-in-law Davis and all at home
He write that he is well but he cannot say so for other members of the regiment as they have just recently learned that Chas Tubbs has died. The report is that he died of the bloody flux [dysentery]. Details some of the other casualties received by...
GLC07460.093
22 August 1864
to his parents, brother-in-law and sister
Writes that one month and 15 days ago the Union army began the siege of Atlanta, Georgia. There are reports that the right of the Union Army is within a half-mile of the Macon Road. States that is difficult to find out what is really going on as each...
GLC07460.094
August 25, 1864
Writes that the weather is very nice even though the country is filled with rebel shoulders. He thinks it would be a nice place to visit if the inhabitants "were what they ought to be." He has received a hat from his sister Martha and some tobacco...
GLC07460.095
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