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May 4, 1862
Lee, Charles, fl. 1862
to Artemas Lee
Written in pencil to his mother, Artemas Lee, in Templeton, Massachusetts. Reports fall of Yorktown and erroneously reports capture of Lee. Writes from a camp before Yorktown, Virginia.
GLC00334
May 20, 1776
Whipple, William, 1730-1785
to John Langdon
Whipple, a Continental Congressman, discusses the appointment of naval officers with Langdon, Congressman and Continental Naval Agent. Discusses Langdon's suggestion to appoint Captain John Roche, admitting his apprehension that Roche's appointment...
GLC00336
09 April 1798
Instructions to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, John Marshall and Elbridge Gerry
XYZ affair. Evans 34837. Sabin 34865. Disbound with paper wrapper. With date at top in ink: April 9, 1798
GLC00338
15 April 1865
Medill, Joseph, 1823-1899
Chicago tribune. [Vol. 28, no. 280 (April 15, 1865)]
Reports that president Lincoln has been assassinated and that an attempt was made on Secretary Seward's life. Also reports that Jefferson Davis has issued an edict at Danville. Article about reconstruction in Virginia on second page.
GLC00339.03
13 April 1813
Rhea, Jonathan, 1758-1815
[Manumission of a mulatto slave named Benjamin Harkimon (or Harkinson)]
Sends John B. Timberlake, bursar of the frigate United States commanded by Commodore Decatur, an official document freeing thirty-three-year-old Harkimon (or Harkinson), who was aboard the United States, with the stipulation that Harkimon pay $200...
GLC00340
7 February 1826
Armistead, John C., fl. 1826
[Legal document giving authorization to sell a slave named Marshall]
Legal document, probably a copy, for the Bruice (or Bruce) family and Mahlon Gibson appointing John C. Armistead as their attorney with the power to sue for and receive any money due them and to sell "a certain Negro man named Marshall" currently in...
GLC00341
June 9, 1779
Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794
to unknown
Lee, a Continental Congressman and signer of the Declaration of Independence, expresses disgust regarding political affairs to an unknown recipient. States "The demon of avarice, extortion, and fortune making seizes all racks- And now, to get into...
GLC00344
2 April 1796
Wilson, James, 1742-1798
[Receipt for salary as U. S. Supreme Court Justice]
Verifies receipt of $875 for a quarter term's salary ending on 31 March 1796. Received of Samuel Meredith, Treasurer of United States.
GLC00348
1867
United States. Congress
Acts of Congress, general orders, and instructions for the guidance of boards of Registration, in the third military district, (Georgia, Alabama, and Florida.)
Acts of Congressional reconstruction, centering on the registration of freedmen to vote, beginning with two Acts "to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel states," signed in type by Schuyler Colfax and Lafayette Foster; a second Act...
GLC00349
1987
Parrish, T. Michael, 1953-?
Confederate Imprints: A bibliography
The first definitive bibliography of Confederate imprints, this formidable reference work will prove indispensable to scholars, libraries, collectors, and bookmen interested in the Civil War era. Completely revising, correcting, and extending the...
GLC00350
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