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circa 1864-1865
[Gardner Civil War photographs: Meade, Grand Review, etc]
Gardner-Ordway Collection. Picture of the Grand Review of the Army of Tennessee, May 24, 1865. Photograph 9, neg. number 1249.
GLC05508.012.09
Gardner-Ordway Collection. Picture of the Grand Review of the Army of the Tennessee, May 24, 1865. Photograph 10, neg. number 1253.
GLC05508.012.10
Gardner-Ordway Collection. Picture of the Grand Review of the Army of the Tennessee, May 24, 1865. Photograph 11, neg. number 1254.
GLC05508.012.11
Gardner-Ordway Collection. Picture of the Grand Review of the Army of the Tennessee, May 24, 1865. Photograph 12, neg. number 1257.
GLC05508.012.12
Gardner-Ordway Collection. Picture of the Grand Review of the Army of the Tennessee, May 24, 1865. Photograph 13, neg. number 1258.
GLC05508.012.13
Gardner-Ordway Collection. Picture of the Grand Review of the Army of the Tennessee, May 24, 1865. Photograph 14, neg. number 1259.
GLC05508.012.14
Gardner-Ordway Collection. Picture of the Grand Review of the Army of the Tennessee, May 24, 1865. Photograph 15, neg. number covered by a mount.
GLC05508.012.15
Gardner-Ordway Collection. Picture of the Grand Review of the Army of the Tennessee, May 24, 1865. Photograph 16, neg. number 1268.
GLC05508.012.16
Gardner-Ordway Collection. Picture of the Grand Review of the Army of the Tennessee, May 24, 1865. Photograph 17, neg. number 1282.
GLC05508.012.17
Gardner-Ordway Collection. Unknown photographer, "Wilderness #70. Charles City Va. View of Court House." Photograph 18, neg. number 778.
GLC05508.012.18
Gardner-Ordway Collection. Image of a bomb-proof with a man standing in the doorway. Photograph 19, neg. number 43.
GLC05508.012.19
circa 1852-1863
[Sheet music, broadsides, and advertisements relating to Uncle Tom's Cabin]. [Decimalized .01- .11]
See descriptions in GLC05508.013.01-.11
GLC05508.013
1852
Stannard & Dixon
Topsy's Polka.
Signed by Henry Lawful. Sheet music cover from the play Uncle Tom's Cabin. Lithograph image in color of a young African American girl with a patterned head scarf. Printed by Stannard & Dixon, lithograph by Louisa Corbaux.
GLC05508.013.02
The Tom-Tit polka.
Sheet music cover from the play Uncle Tom's Cabin. "Companion to the Topsy Polka, composed by Stephen Glover." Image of a young girl with short, dark, curly hair. Lithograph by A. Laby.
GLC05508.013.03
1838-1840
to Hugh Brady
Archive of 10 letters and 2 manuscripts sent to General Hugh Brady, U.S. Commander at Detroit, relating to an attempted overthrow of the Canadian government
GLC08104
10 February 1865
Smith's Brigade
A message from the army of the Valley of Virginia
"A message from the army of the valley of Virginia" "after four years of terrible war with a savage foe who seeks our subjugation, we are still firm in our determination to seek our independence"
GLC08105
16 March 1865
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
to George Meade
Arranging forces, including African-American regiments, for the final push on Petersburg
GLC08106
1864
Hascall, Milo, fl. 1864
Draft copy of the official report of the 2nd Division
Draft copy of the official report of the 2nd Division, XXIII Corp's operations during Sherman's 1864 Atlanta Campaign, Decateur, GA., 10 September 1864.
GLC08107
27 April 1865
Johnston, Joseph Egleston, 1807-1891
General Orders # 18
General orders #18, announcing terms of his surrender to Sherman: "sparing the blood of this gallant army and saving our country from further devastation": clerical copy, made in the field, signed by WD Gale
GLC08108
circa 1862-1864
Ricks, Augustus J., fl. 1862-1864
to his wife Emma and his brother
Marching with Sherman through Georgia: 17 letters of a staff officer, to his wife Emma and his brother. With Carte de visite, two printed general field orders, and a printed history of the 104 Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
GLC08109
04 May 1865
Schofield, John McAllister, 1831-1906
to William T. Sherman
Eight days after Johnston's surrender regarding situation in North Carolina. "Concluded satisfactorily all details with Genl Johnston." General James Wilson "had disregarded the order to resume hostilities it being of an earlier date than yours..."
GLC08110.01
to Henry Halleck
Two telegrams on one page "A number of officers and men of both Lee's and Johnston's armies whose homes are in the Western states desire to press through the Northern states...can they be permitted to do so?"
GLC08110.02
22 August 1865
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
to Henry W. Slocum
Offering to do whatever he can to make life easier for Slocum and his family
GLC08112.01
07 September 1865
Predicting a quick end to reconstruction: "The North cannot long afford to keep arms there for local police": "Still, as long as you do have the force and the state now you must of necessity control...my own opinion is that self interest will soon...
GLC08112.02
1889
Four letters + one photograph
GLC08113
09 February 1889
to Mrs. Henry Slocum
Thanking her for flowers sent on his 69th birthday: "If I can worry through another year...time with his scythe... may make a deep swath, but cannot cheat me of seventy years on this insignificant globe with a fair measure of life's pleasures and...
GLC08113.01
11 February 1889
"We three will go down to history as the leaders of 'The March to the Sea'." Requesting photos of Slocum and Howard
GLC08113.02
21 May 1889
Declining invitation to her daughter's wedding
GLC08113.03
01 March 1889
Howard, Oliver Otis, 1830-1909
Enclosing requested photograph (with photo). "Though the main honor of the work crowns our chief, yet in helpful planning & executing, our part will not be forgotten."
GLC08113.04
21 March 1873
Order to affix the seal
Order to affix the seal to a warrant for the pardon of Leon McLemon
GLC08114
circa 1776
Hancock, John, 1737-1793
Congress's proposed ship's passport
Certifying Congress's proposed ship's passport, which became part of the 1778 Treaty of Amity and Commerce with France, the Nation's first treaty with a foreign power in the hand of Charles Thompson
GLC08115
12 July 1837
Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841
to Silas m. Stilwell
Ours is a "Civil War" for the White House: "The glory to be gained is not from the victory we may achieve but from the use we make of it," warning that "confidence in the weakness of an enemy has produced the most disatrous defeats on record."
GLC08116
03 March 1791
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Act of Congress
Act of Congress calling upon President Wahsington to "cause an estimate to be laid before Congress at their next session, of the quantity and situation of the lands not claimed by the Indians, nor granted to, nor claimed by any citizen of the United...
GLC08117
09 December 1806
1806 State of the Union Address
1806 State of the Union Address, announcing the return of Lewis and Clark, who have "traced the Missouri nearly to its source." Burr's conspiracy discussing calling for prohibition of the slave trade in 1808, as son as allowed under the Constitution...
GLC08118
23 November 1769
Johnson, William, 1715-1774
to Thomas Gage
Re: Indian policy in the wake of mounting troubles on the frontier, fed by spanish and French agents
GLC08119.01
28 February 1798
Johnson, John, fl. 1798
Proposed sale of land
From exile in Canada, the loyalist son of Sir William writes on the proposed sale of land
GLC08119.02
02 July 1703
Dudley, Joseph, 1647-1720
to Secretary Addington
Re: The Indian Conference at Casco, seeking allies in Queen Anne's War
GLC08121
18 October 1666
John Richbell and his wife sell...
[Long Island] John Richbell and his wife sell "all that neck or tract of land commonly called & known by the name of Horse Neck lying & being upon the sound on the North side...bounded to the West with Oyster Bay, to the East with [Huntington] Boro...
GLC08122
May 1765
Duche, Jacob, fl. 1765
"Amicus Pennsylvaniae"
"Amicus Pennsylvaniae." Manuscript of Duche's blank-verse history of the colony of Pennsyvania (published by Franklin & Hall, 1766), here entitled "an attempt (by way of amusement) to sketch out some of the particulars." Content includs William...
GLC08123
17 October 1785
Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829
to Henry Glen
Arranging a shipment of supplies to the Six Nations, complying with the Treaty of 1792
GLC08124
26 March 1803
Madison, James, 1751-1836
to William Marbury
Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court's landmark decision on "Mandamus": establishing judicial review. Printed in New-York Herald
GLC08125
29 October 1778
Adams, John, 1735-1826
to Elbridge Gerry
Draft of Genet's letter to Adams planning to ask French to reinforce D'Estaing, copied by Adams and sent to Elbridge Gerry
GLC08126
23 August 1818
to Joseph Mulligan
Re: New edition of the Federalist, which will be esteemed "as long as our national constitution and the language in which it is written shall endure. I mean not by this however to approve everything in it." Also to Jacob Gibson
GLC08127
30 July 1864
To the citizens of Macon...
"To the citizens of Macon...the enemy is now in sight of your houses. We lack force. I appeal to every man, citizen or refugee, who has a gun of any kind, or can get one, to report at the court house with the least possible delay.""
GLC08128
07 September 1793
to Vice Consul Moissonier
[Re: Genet Affair] Warning French Vice consul about violation of American neutrality, by trying to raise Naval forces in America.
GLC08130
30 November 1804
to James Oldham
Re: avoidance of involvement in other's quarrels: "I generally presume them to flow from the indulgences of too much passion of both sides" (this dispute about contractor for Monticello Greenhouse).
GLC08131
circa 1876-1880
[Letters belonging to Hugh Judson Kilpatrick, 1876-1880][Decimalized .01-.22]
Collection of letters belonging to Hugh Judson Kilpatrick dated 1876-1880. Consists of 21 items sent primarily to Luisa Kilpatrick and William T. Sherman. Recounts events of the campaign, Sherman's March to the Sea and other Civil War historical...
GLC08133
11 October 1779
Witherspoon, John, 1723-1794
Requisition of a quarter cask of spirits
GLC08136
1905
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Henry Wellington Wack
Henry Wellington Wack: "The story of the free Congo State..." signed by Clemens with autograph note above frontpiece portrait: "A bucket of whitewash for the miscreant King Leopold."
GLC08137
30 October 1864
Clanton, James H., fl. 1864
Summarizing a scouting report
GLC08138
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