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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
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
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
1 April 1862
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889
to Thomas Bocock
Text written for Davis by his private secretary, Burton Harrison. Indicates he is sending a communication from the Secretary of the Navy (not included) related to the budget for prosecuting the Civil War. "I herewith transmit to the House of...
GLC02950
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