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June 12, 1865
Benham, Henry Washington, 1813-18884
to unknown
Recommendation of Elias W. Beach by Asstistant Adjutant General Channing Clapp with a note and endorsement by General Benham.
GLC00919.22
January 24, 1801
Adams, John, 1735-1826
to George Churchman and Jacob Lindley
Written by Adams in the last months of his presidency to the Quaker abolitionists Churchman and Lindley. Adams wrote in response to a letter and pamphlet that the two abolitionists had sent him. The pamphlet was by Quaker abolitionist Warner Mifflin...
GLC00921
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
December 17, 1860
Harris, Isham G., 1818-1897
to Thomas J. Wharton
Harris, Governor of Tennessee, replies to a letter from Wharton, Mississippi's Commissioner to Tennessee. States that when Tennessee Representatives confer again, they will be pleased to meet with Wharton "as the Representative of a sister state...
GLC00918
1865 ca.
Meade, George Gordon, 1815-1872
E & H.T. Anthony Carte de visite
GLC00919.03
Hancock, Winfield Scott, 1824-1886
GLC00919.04
Warren, Gouverner K., 1830-1882
Carte de visite
GLC00919.05
February 1862
E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm)
Humphreys, Andrew Atkinson (1810-1883)
GLC00919.07
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