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29 April 1863
Benham, Henry Washington, 1813-18884
[Draft report on a failed bridge building assignment]
Clerically written on "Headquarters Engineer Brigade" letterhead, near Falmouth, Virginia.
GLC00919.13
May 1, 1863
Benham, Henry Washington, 1813-1884
Draft of battle report on an engineering operation
Battle report on an engineering operation. Clerically written near Falmouth, Virginia.
GLC00919.14
October 5, 1863
to Francis Blair
Clerically written to General Blair. Discusses the plan for seizure of Charleston, South Carolina, to be presented to Lincoln camp at Rappahannock. Written from the Camp at Rappahannock, likely in Virginia.
GLC00919.15
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
Hancock, Winfield Scott, 1824-1886
E & H.T. Anthony Carte de visite
GLC00919.04
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