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July 18, 1880
Hancock, Winfield Scott, 1824-1886
to Sarah Ward Smith
Written as Democratic presidential candidate against Garfield. SWS was wife of Gen. W.F. Smith. Also the conflict between the parties.
GLC00859
July 22, 1869
Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870
to Mattie Ould
Lee as matchmmaker. Custis Lee never married. Flattering letter to a beautiful woman, daughter of Judge Robert Ould, Confederate Prisoner Exchange agent.
GLC00860
5 August 1905
Underwood & Underwood, fl. 1888-1930
[Photograph of Theodore Roosevelt, Sergei Witte, Roman Romanovich Rosen, Jutaro Komura, and Kogoro Takahira]
One group portrait of President Theodore Roosevelt with foreign diplomats dated August 5, 1905. From left to right, photograph of Count Sergei Witte (Russian diplomat and Minister of Finance), Baron Roman Romanovich Rosen (Russian Ambassador to Japan...
GLC00861.01
17 May 1864
Wirz, Henry, 1823-1865
[Endorsement of a request for medical leave for M.E. Sperry]
Signed by Wirz, Sperry, J.W. Hails, and "Jno. S. Bransford." Sperry, a clerk in the Adjutant's Office, writes to Captain Chapman, the Adjutant of the Post, to request a leave of seven days. An autograph note below his request by a surgeon, J.W...
GLC00862
12 November 1863
Longstreet, James, 1821-1904
to Joseph Wheeler [Decimalized .01- .02]
Letter written by Gen. Longstreet, Commander of the Department of East Tennessee and leader of the Knoxville Campaign. With accompanying photograph
GLC00863
18 May 1864
Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876
Military telegram requesting Daniel H. Hill be assigned to command one of Pierre G. T. Beauregard's divisions
Also with autograph endorsement signed by Samuel Cooper, Adjutant and Inspector General of the Confederate Army. Recipient's copy of a telegram from Beauregard to Bragg. Beauregard had requested that General Hill be assigned to his department as a...
GLC00864
July 24, 1839
Dresser, Amos, 1812-1904
to Hiram Wilson
Writes to Reverend Wilson who is expecting two enslaved people seeking emancipation in Canada through the underground railroad. Writes, "I rejoice in the privilege of handing over to you two more Daughters of affliction who can tell you their own...
GLC00867
20 April 1775
Fullam, Phinehas T., fl. 1775
[Attesting to Battle of Concord]
Fullam apparently was a postrider for a Committee of Safety, who, like Paul Revere, was employed to spread the news of Lexington and Concord and bring reinforcements. Says he saw the Battle of Concord with his own eyes and that he confirms about 200...
GLC00869
March 22, 1921
Harding, Warren G., 1865-1923
to O. S. Rapp
Acknowledges how the "railroad situation" affects Rapp's business and indicates that he wants "the government policy to be one leading to the railway restoration" but admits a current discouraging outlook. Signed 18 days after his inauguration....
GLC00800
1792
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Extracts of letters written by the Secretary of War, to the Governor of Virginia, upon the defensive protection of the frontiers of that State
Contemporary clerical copy signed by chief clerk of the War Department, John Stagg, Jr. The letters concern protection of the Virginia frontier against Indians, emphasizing President Washington's view "that all parts of the union ought to be...
GLC00813
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