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1861-1865

Confederate acts concerning prisioners of war and the use of slaves or free negroes for the war [Decimalized .01-.10]

GLC08979
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Printed document

15 February 1864

Confederate States of America. Congress

Joint Resolutions in reference to the treatment of colored troops

Confederate act resolves that the abolition of slavery is against the rules of war and that former slaves who are captured while fighting for the Union will be returned to their masters. States "emancipation of the negro slaves within the...

GLC08979.05
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Autograph letter signed

31 March 1864

Fleetwood, Christian, fl. 1864

to Mary Gibbs

Civil War letter of one of first African-American soldiers to be awarded the Medal of Honor, and the first honored by the Smithsonian, to "Mother Gibbs." "…the expedition brought in altogether 502 contrabands. I had the good fortune of being...

GLC09405
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Engraving

1883

Johnson, Fry, & Co., fl. 1825-1873

Thomas Jefferson

One print of President Thomas Jefferson dated 1883. Engraved by Johnson, Fry & Co.

GLC08878.1198
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Autograph letter signed

June 28, 1780

Home, James, fl. 1780

to William Home

James, a British soldier aboard the Europe, writes to his father. Discusses the mail. States he has been a week in [New] York and Long Island. Mentions that German mercenary General Wilhelm Knyphausen took Elizabethtown, New Jersey. Comments that...

GLC01450.045
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Autograph letter signed

1755-1763

Nourse, James, 1731-1784

to Horatio Gates

Discusses Major Gates' son, comments on the law requiring giving arms to the militia, and mentions Colonel George Washington twice.

GLC01450.264
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Autograph letter signed

1776

Johnston, Francis, 1749-1815

to Persifor Frazer

Says he should have waited for Frazer in the morning, but was indisposed. Did not sleep well last night because David Matthews "a Capital Tory (no less than the present Lord Mayor of N York" was quite loud next door. He was accompanying Matthews...

GLC01450.457.01
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Autograph letter signed

November 9, 1779

Warren, James, 1726-1808

to Elbridge Gerry

Discusses "A new Constitution of Government now forming by the Convention at Camebridge," referring to the debate over the Articles of Confederation. "The people seem convinced of the necessity of a new form of Government," but progress is slow....

GLC01450.528
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Photograph

1862/10/03

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

The President, General McClellan and suite on... Antietam [by Gardner]

GLC04346
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Typed letter signed

1903/06/15

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

to William P. Frye re: reinstating Dickey against principles of good government

"If I have stood for anything it has been for honesty in public life, and it would be a shameless betrayal of every principle of good government to reinstate [Senator] Dickey...."

GLC05913.03

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