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1833/04/29
Ogden, Thomas L., fl. 1833
New Arkansas & Texas Land Co. grant to Sylvester Davis (cos. Jackson & Curtis)
Numbered 3895. Cosigned by Daniel Jackson and Edward Curtis. Streeter, Texas Rev. 1138.1.
GLC02933
1846/04/17
De Cordova, Jacob, 1808-1868
[Receipt for $25 from W. Rhodes for surveying headright of James O. Rice]
Records the payment by De Cordova and James O. Rice to W. Rhodes, "administrator on the Estate of J.P. Kimball," for locating and surveying Rice's headright.
GLC02935
8 January 1800
Russell, Benjamin, 1761-1845
Columbian centinel and Massachusetts federalist. [Vol. 32, No. 37 (January 8, 1800)]
Includes a report from James Craik and Elisha C. Dick, physicians from Alexandria, Virginia, present at the 14 December 1799 death of George Washington. Contains a detailed description of funeral honors dedicated to Washington by the inhabitants of...
GLC02960
1851
Douglas, Stephen Arnold, 1813-1861
to Emanuel Bernard Hart
Douglas writes to Hart, a United States Representative from New York: "A thousand thanks for your letter & for the efforts of our friends in the empire city. If I had a few such friends everywhere the battle would be soon won" (possibly referring to...
GLC02975
1839/10/16
Kendall, Amos, 1789-1869
to Mark Healy
Wishes to know why his desire to purchase land in Arkansas and Mississippi should be related to Mr. Moore's actions, and hopes to have the situation resolved soon. On verso, what appears to be Healy's draft of a response, written in pencil. Free...
GLC02976
1885
Sartain, John, 1808-1897
The Battle of Gettysburg
Headline reads "From the Original Picture painted for the State of Pennsylvania under award of Commission appointed by the Legislature." Caption reads "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1872 by P. F. Rothermel in the office of the...
GLC02980.01
1796/04/12
Adams, Thomas B., 1772-1832
to Joseph Pitcairn re: Mediterranean sailing for American ships, Algiers
GLC02961
22 January 1856
Tracy, Edward Dorr, 1833-1863
to Ellen Steele
Expresses his love to his fiance, and discusses the date of their upcoming wedding.
Excerpts: "... You say if it will suit my convenience better you will postpone our wedding to the 26th ult instead of consummating it on the 19th. In such matters...
GLC02963
4 May 1884
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
to John E. Tourtelotte
Addressed to Tourtelotte as Major, 7th U.S. Cavalry. Comments upon his retirement three months earlier. " ... I feel that the End which we have so long contemplated has at last come, and looking at it in a Common Sense view it is better this than a...
GLC02964
11 September 1865
Edgerton, R. W., fl. 1865
[Oath of allegiance to the United States]
Also signed by Hope Bain and Edmund [Cross], both Justices of the Peace.
GLC02966
circa 1861
[Arkansas handout supporting the Confederacy]
Possibly a secession handout created in Arkansas. Consists of a color print of a man climbing a flagpole displaying a United States flag; the motto "We have nailed our colors to the mast," evoking a nautical term signifying defiance; the state seal...
GLC02967
1863/08/23
Van Devalls, A., fl. 1863
re: a deserter
Transcript available.
GLC02969
1863/08/29
Bogart, Abram, fl. 1825-1865
to his wife re: Morris Island
GLC02971
1864/10/24
Edinborough, C. J., fl. 1864
Union soldier's letter re: battle of Cedar Creek
GLC02972
1866
Hamlin, Augustus C., 1829-1905
Martyria, or, Andersonville Prison
Printed in Boston by Lee & Shepard, with a signed presentation note dated 10 October 1866 by the author to Ulysses S. Grant. The book documents the conditions at Andersonville Prison. Illustrated by the author.
GLC02982
1853
Bache, Alexander Dallas, 1806-1867
Galveston entrance, Texas, from a trigonometrical survey under the direction of A.D. Bache superintendant of the survery of the coast of the United States
Map of the Galveston entrance in Texas from 1853. Sailing directions written on righthand side of document, including information about tides. Harbor shown is the Gulf of Mexico. Includes compass. Scale noted on bottom. Triangulation by R.H...
GLC02941
15 October 1861
Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894
to Samuel Hooper
Written from camp near Damstown. Banks, commanding a division, Army of the Potomac, replies to a note from Hooper, a United States Representative from Massachusetts. Relates that he has been busy organizing his staff, and will soon make...
GLC02944.01
17 October 1862
Banks, commander of the Military District of Washington, Army of the Potomac, writes to Hooper, a United States Representative from Massachusetts. Discusses the court martial of Lt. Goodrich (possibly the son of John Goodrich, former Representative...
GLC02944.02
1863/06/19
Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870
to Jefferson Davis
Written as Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia. Describes his forces advancing across the Potomac towards Pennsylvania. Lee mentions problems procuring supplies; Harpers Ferry. Was written near Millwood, Virginia.
GLC02948
23 December 1837
Buchanan, James, 1791-1868
to Peter Wager
Buchanan writes as a United States Senator from Pennsylvania. Discusses a possible mistake regarding the price of wine he ordered from Wager. Writes, "We have nothing new here except what you see in the papers. I think a deeper & stronger feeling...
GLC02949
15 December 1835
McFarland, William, fl. 1835
[Sale of land to Archibald Hotchkiss]
Sale of land document from John Davidson to Archibald Hotchkiss. Handwritten note in pencil on top of document: "Galveston Bay: Texas Land co. 450." Docket on verso.
GLC02938
1849/09/03
Lamar, Mirabeau B., fl. 1839-1849
Land grant [1840] to Levi Jones & Edward Hall of 18215 acres on Galveston Island
Certified copy signed by George W. Smyth as Land Office Commissioner.
GLC02939
1819/09/02
Madison, James, 1751-1836
to Spencer Roane
Responds to Judge Roane's critical comments on the Supreme Court's decision in McCulloch v. Maryland. Contends that the case "did not call for the general & abstract doctrine interwoven with the decision," preferring that the court evaluate the...
GLC02945
12 December 1838
Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841
to John Brown Dillon
Harrison offers his opinion to Dillon, who is publishing a pamphlet on the subject of slavery: "our Union is a Union of Sovereign Independent States &... in every particular where power is not expressly surrendered by that instrument to the General...
GLC02946
21 January 1865
to James H. Wilson
Celebratory discussion of union victories in the South. Sherman writes that he "knocked the daylight through Georgia," that General Wilson and General George H. Thomas gave confederate Generals "Hood & Forest a taste of what they have to Expect by...
GLC02947
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