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1860 ca.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Abraham Lincoln cartes-de-visite (2)
.1= Portrait: "Abe Lincoln/Honest Long Cut Chewing and Smoking/ W. Duke Son & co., NY. .2= President and Cabinet (ca. 1862, not after 1863).
GLC00732
1876, 1890
Hancock, Winfield Scott, 1824-1886
Collection of 3 legal documents with W.S. Hancock photograph [decimalized]
GLC00733
28 December 1876
[Deed of trust for land sale in St. Louis]
Partially printed deed with blanks filled in by hand. Cosigned by Hancock's wife Almira Russell Hancock and Adaline Russell (possibly Almira's sister) as sellers. Also signed by John F. Lee as a buyer (Thomas T. Turner, Trustee for Elizabeth W...
GLC00733.01
Hancock, George, 1819-1876
[Promissory note for $104]
Cosigned by Adaline Russell (possibly Hancock's sister). Payable to Thomas T. Turner, Trustee (see GLC00733.01). Drawn upon Lucas Bank in St. Louis, Missouri. The amounts owed to trusts Turner was in charge of are specified by Turner on the verso...
GLC00733.03
1861-1865 ca.
Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896
Cabinet card portrait of Winfield Scott Hancock
Unsigned, identified on back
GLC00733.04
December 9, 1861
Van Valkenburgh, David H., ?-1862
to his father
Written at Camp Barry near Washington D.C. References his father's earlier letter. Says he has not written often because he knows the letters he writes to his wife are read by everyone. Is glad to hear that he might visit Washington. Wishes he could...
GLC00686.06
March 15, 1862
to Mary B. Van Valkenburgh
Written by David to his mother. Says he has not written lately because he knows the letters to his wife were "Common property with you all." Adds that he has marching orders and wanted to write "for when next and in what shape I shall turn up the...
GLC00686.07
June 4, 1865
Van Valkenburgh, Edward Porter, fl. 1865-1908
Written by Captain Edward Van Valkenburgh of the 107th New York regiment to his mother. Has not heard from her directly in some time, but has heard through his brother Robert that she is in good health. Says he has not written in a long time, but...
GLC00686.18
18 April 1865
Johnson, Joseph E., 1807-1891
[Draft of the surrender agreement between Union General William Tecumseh Sherman and Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston]
Copy made, certified, and signed by Colonel Alexander Robert Chisolm, Confederate General Pierre T. Beauregard's aide-de-camp. Details the terms of the surrender of the Army of Tennessee.
GLC00689
11 January 1865
[Note allowing John Swisher to take the oath of 8 December 1863]
Lincoln autograph endorsement signed on a letter from Edward McPherson to President Lincoln requesting clemency for a man, dated 10 January 1865. Lincoln's endorsement reads, "Let this man, John Swisher take the oath of Dec. 8, 1863 & be discharged...
GLC00693.03
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