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10 August 1864
George. (fl. 1864-)
to my dear cousin
Frank had a painful day yesterday. But now he is doing better. He plans to slip into New York Saturday. For he must get his signature for his monthly returns.
GLC08291.14
8 November 1864
Bundy, E. B. (fl. 1864-)
to Ira Cole
Letter for which the certificate for $106.80 is enclosed.
GLC08291.24
27 November 1864
to John Cole
Letter acknowledges receipt of $10.60 and says they could not find anyone who knew whether or not he had a servant,
GLC08291.25
21 September 1861
Unknown
to Caf
The author would be happy to hear from Frank but supposes he is angry with women. Hopes they both return safe to Washington.
GLC08291.29
28 March 1864
Lowrie, James Addison (fl. 1862-1864)
to Mother
it has been reported that there are 30,000 yankees at Washington. sooner or later they will have to face the music
GLC08300.30
18 July 1864
left Richmond last month and have been marching ever since. are now on their way back from Maryland within 4 miles of Washington.
GLC08300.38
15 February 1864
Wells, Edmund C. (fl. 1864-)
to Maria
planning to go to Cinncinatti for a week. has been writing a letter for the Captain's "darky" to his sweetheart. would like to be in Washington if they get orders to leave Cumberland.
GLC08311.13
1846
Ross, John, 1790-1866
Memorial of John Ross and others [Cherokee Indians]
29th Congress., 1st session. Senate document 331. Bound in modern adhesive-style.
GLC08402
1887
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Fifth annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology [Indians]
Includes text of treaties with Cherokee Indian Nation.
GLC08403
1862
Moore, George Henry, 1823-1892
Historical notes on the employment of Negroes in the American army of the Revolution.
Published by Charles T. Evans. Discusses the involvement of African Americans in the American Revolution. Includes a return of African American soldiers on page 17 (lists numbers of African Americans by state for 1778). Discusses the opinions of...
GLC08405
8 June 1865
Hanscom, Alfred A., fl. 1833-1865
Lizzie Wilkins and Annie
Written by Hanscom as a private in Company L, 1st Heavy Artillery Regiment New Hampshire. Writes to his friends informing that they are waiting to be discharged soon, hopefully by June 11 or 12. States that he heard many Massachusetts troops have...
GLC08407
15 September 1864
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
[Certificate of thanks to Corporal Samuel Francis of the 133rd Regiment of the Ohio National Guard]
Signed in print by Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton. Certificate of the President's thanks for honorable service given to Corporal Samuel Francis, Company F, 133rd Ohio National Guard Volunteer Infantry as a "token of his having honorably served as a...
GLC08408
1861-1865
Civil War patriotic envelopes
.01="Stand by Flag" .02="Liberty's Defender" (Columbia-G.Washington) .03="Union" (NYC origin)
GLC08412
31 March 1864
Rooms of the Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair, Under Lindell Hotel, St. Loius, MO
dark yellow
GLC08413.01
10 October 1861
Union
features George Washington on a horse
GLC08413.09
1861-1877
Why Don't You Take It?
features one dog looking down at a piece of meat that says Washington on it as another dog walks by.
GLC08413.15
12 November 1862
features woman in dress with American flag holding a flag that says Union.
GLC08413.31
features tree filled with flags
GLC08413.41
One Nation--One Government
features arc with all the states written in it. eagle sits on top with flags.
GLC08413.44
Union-State of Vermont-Freedom and Unity
light blue. features woman holding flag against circular picture of Vermont.
GLC08413.53
Headquarters, Pennsylvania State Agency
GLC08413.54
26 September 1861
Major Gen. George B. McClellan
picture of McClellan on the morning of July 26, 1861
GLC08413.55
features picture dog wearing collar that says Scott and another dog wearing collar that says Jeff looking at a piece of meat that says Washington
GLC08414.4
1865/05/06
Harper, James, 1795-1869
Harper's weekly. [Vol. 9, no. 436 (May 6, 1865)]
Includes articles on the late President Lincoln's funeral and various engravings of scenes of the funeral in New York. ALso includes scenes from the funeral procession in Washington D.C., Lincoln in his deathbed, and other assassination related...
GLC08426
1849/01/25
Gales & Seaton
National intelligencer. [Vol. 50, no. 7191 (January 25, 1849)]
US Coinage, D.C. Slave trade petition, Bill for admission of California.
GLC08430.03
1857/10/14
Daily Illinois state journal. [Vol. 10, no. 75 (October 14, 1857)]
Announcement of a mass convention against the 'National Administration.' The death notice of Washington Park Custis (last member of George Washington's family and father-in-law to R. E. Lee.). Front page includes an add for law firm of (Abraham)...
GLC08430.07
January - February 1861
Buchanan, James, 1791-1868
South Carolina. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting correspondence in relation to Fort Sumter, &c.
Marked House Executive Document, No. 61, 36th Congress, 2nd Session. Buchanan transmits to Congress correspondence concerning Fort Sumter. Printings of seven letters, including ones by or to Jefferson Davis, John Slidell, Colonel Isaac W. Hayne...
GLC08438
18 March 1850
Gwin, William M., 1805-1885
Memorial of the senators and representatives elect from the state of California...
Title continues "asking permission of said State into the Union, together with the credentials of said representatives, and a certified copy of the constitution of said State." House of Representatives Misc. No. 44. Plea signed by William Gwin...
GLC08439
1 February 1864
[General Order No. 35 to draft 500,000 men]
Signed in print by President Lincoln. Orders the draft of 500,000 men to serve for three years or the duration of the war.
GLC08441.05
1884
Brewster, Benjamin Harris, 1816-1888
Opinion of the Attorney-General on the act entitled "An Act For The Relief of Fitz-John Porter."
Brewster examined the bill for the restoration of Fitz-John Porter to the Army. In conclusion, states: "The bill is subject to objection, upon the ground that it is to be filled by a particular individual named. If this principle were adopted...
GLC08444
1860
Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874
The barbarism of slavery. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, on the Bill for the admission of Kansas as a free state.
Disbound. Printed by Buell & Blanchard. Senator Sumner declares, "When last I entered into this debate, it became my duty to expose the Crime against Kansas, and to insist upon the immediate admission of that Territory as a State of this Union...
GLC08445.01
1867
United States. Supreme Court
Review of the Decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, in the cases of Lambdin P. Milligan and others, the Indiana Conspirators.
Original printing of the Supreme Court's April 3, 1866 decision in Ex Parte Milligan, rejecting the military's claim of legal jurisdiction to try and sentence Lambdin P. Milligan and other so-called "Butternuts," Confederate supporters in southern...
GLC08445.02
Greenleaf, Halbert S., 1827-1906
Speech of Hon. Halbert S. Greenleaf of New York, in the House of Representatives, Saturday, January 19, 1884.
Representative Greenleaf discusses the court-martial of General Fitz-John Porter. In support of Porter, concludes "Why, then, in view of these clearly established facts, should we longer delay this simple act of justice to a most meritorious but...
GLC08445.04.01
1809
Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849
Letter from the Secretary of Treasury...
Submitted by Albert Gallatin as Sec. of Treasury. With fold-out "Statement" of salaries for the Department
GLC08445.06
1974/08/20
Rodino, Peter W., 1909-2005
Impeachment of Richard M. Nixon President of the United States
Report of the Committee on the Judiciary House of Representatives, chaired by Congressman Peter W. Rodino during the 2nd session of the 93 congress. Report No. 93-1305. A table of contents appears on page 5.
GLC08445.09
5 May 1866
Foster, Lafayette Sabine, 1806-1880
to Senor Abraham L. Dovale
Co-signed by Schuyler Colfax as Speaker of the House. Invitation to a memorial ceremony for Abraham Lincoln to be held at the Hall of the House.
GLC08450
1856-1857
State legislatures' resolutions regarding Kansas and slavery [Decimalized .01-.08]
34th Congress House of Representatives Miscellaneous Documents. Contains resolutions passed by the state legislatures of Kentucky, Ohio, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, Iowa, and Michigan. Apparently disbound from a larger volume....
GLC08452
1814/10/10
Madison, James, 1751-1836
Message from the President [re: conditions for peace]
Printed by C. Weightman
GLC08453
4 June 1860
The barbarism of slavery. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, on the bill for the admission of Kansas as a free state. In the United State Senate, June 4, 1860.
Printed by Buell & Blanchard. Sumner calls the Missouri Compromise "the fatal partition between Freedom and Slavery." Uncut. Accompanied by address leaf cut from this pamphlet's original transmission wrapper (GLC08454.02). Edges are brittle and...
GLC08454.01
February 30, 1815
Message from the President [transmitting Treaty of Peace]
Printed by Roger C. Weightman
GLC08455
13-14 February 1850
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889
Speech of Mr. Davis, of Mississippi, on the subject of slavery in the territories.
Senator Davis, future President of the Confederacy, speech made while a member of Congress. Responds to resolutions introduced by Senator Henry Clay pertaining to the Compromise of 1850. Davis asks, "...is there such incompatibility of interest...
GLC08461
20 November 1861
The Fence that Uncle Abe Built
features B&W picture of Abraham Lincoln and poem beneath
GLC08482.4
Jeff Davis Boasts that Cotton's King...
features color picture of man holding flag and standing by sign that reads To Washington Through Baltimore.
Rhyme about Jefferson Davis beneath.
GLC08482.5
20 August 1861
Washington
features picture of Washington and reads "A Southern Man with Union Principles."
GLC08482.6
19 April 1862
Adair, George Washington, 1823-1899
Southern confederacy [Vol. 3, no. 57 (April 19, 1863)]
Published by Adair and J. Henry Smith (1820-1897). B.C. Smith is the associate editor. Tag line below masthead says "The Public Good Before Private Advantage." Masthead vignette depicts an industrialized Southern Confederacy. Announces the beginning...
GLC08492
15 March 1864
Harding, Frank, fl. 1864
to Nathan Harding
Written at Camp Berry, possibly Washington, D.C. Written on Magnus "Dying soldier" stationery. A soldier's letter addressed to his parents. Written on color stationery showing a soldier being borne-up by an angel. Year inferred from date written in...
GLC08501
11 May 1855
Bryan, Francis Theodore, 1823-1917
to Mary Williams Shepard
Lieutenant Bryan, a topographical engineer, writes to his mother from the steamer Australia on the Missouri River. Relates visiting Washington, D. C., St. Louis, Missouri, and Indianapolis, among other locations. States that "the people all appear...
GLC08506
2 January 1863
General Orders no. 1: Emancipation Proclamation
Army printing of the final version of the Emancipation Proclamation, three pages, accompanied by General Orders no. 7, 10, 22, 24, 30 and 35. This is the first six pages of a compilation of General Orders for 1863. Printed in 1864.
GLC08525
10 August 1950
Meserve, Frederick H. (1865-1962)
Abraham Lincoln
Publishing dummy titled "Abraham Lincoln" (made for Meserve's daughter and editor Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt, 1950) with 12 photographs inserted by their corners into the leaves. Signed by Meserve. Sub-text on front of wrapper reads "Photographs from...
GLC08548.02
Virtue & Yoston
Washington' Headquarters Near Newburgh
One engraving entitled "Washington's Head Quarters Near Newburgh" circa 1861-1877. Depicts a view of Washington's Head Quarters Newburgh, New York. In the forefront of the painting three soliders relax near the bank of the Hudson River. In the...
GLC08878.0055
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