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1918
Keystone View Company
Captured German Machine Guns on Road from Villers-Cotterets to Soissons.
Two American soldiers man a German captured machine gun, kneeling behind a bush.
GLC09584.234
31 January 1863
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889
to John Letcher
Impressment of slaves for the Confederate War Effort. "I invite your attention to the enclosed communications from several members of Congress and of the Legislature, in reference to the propriety of exempting certain counties from my recent call...
GLC09096
1857
Chapel, Alonzo, 1828-1887
Battle of Camden--Death of De Kalb
One engraving entitled "Battle of Camden-Death of De Kalb" dated 1857. Depicts the death of Revolutionary War hero Johann DeKalb during the Battle of Camden, August 16, 1780. DeKalb was mortally wounded after his horse was shot from under him...
GLC08878.0071
1697/05/03
Livingston, Robert, 1654-1728
Census of inhabitants of Albany
Complying with orders from Governor Benjamin Fletcher, Livingston compiled a census of "Christians and Indians" at Albany, comparing the numbers of 1689 with 1697 to account for the number killed or carried away since the beginning of the war.
GLC03107.00369
1818/07/19
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852
to Joseph Gales
Discusses his "second speech on Internal Improvements," which Gales had copied down for him. Briefly comments on the activities at Pensacola during the first Seminole War, noting "that the Executive must feel embarrassed." Mentions expecting a good...
GLC04353.01
circa 1880-1890
Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912
Valiant men "Dat Fite Mit Siegel"
Depicts a house being plundered and burned while a woman kneels, begging Federal officers to spare her children from the flames. The officers appear haughty and indifferent to her pleas. The threat of sexual violation is implicit as an officer with a...
GLC00493.14
1 February 1864
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
[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
25 November 1847
Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866
General orders: No. 358
Signed by H.L. Scott. Announcement that the army will begin to raise money for the occupation of Mexico. Beginning in December, soldiers and officers are to demand necessary quarters from the civil authorities of the places occupied by the troops.
GLC00911.37
February 13, 1863
Shifflet, Hillary, 1823-1863
to Jemima Shifflet
Shifflet went out with a forage team today and they are "as tired as I am of the war." He declares that "this onholy war wood a bin over if oald Lincoln wood a let the negros alone I wish he had forty the blackest negroes in the South tide to him."...
GLC02174.08
circa 1861-1865
Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896
[Assistant Adjutant-General DeGarmo Jones]
A print of a portrait of Assistant Adjutant-General Colonel DeGarmo Jones, 3/4 length sitting, wearing epaulettes and holding sword. Jones, born ca. 1833-1835 Wayne, MI, was the son of DeGarmo Jones, Mayor of Detroit in 1839 as well as a businessman...
GLC05111.01.0041
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