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[Pickering's letterbook]

Inventory attached. Contains two alphabetical lists of recipient's names. One eight page list is attached to the inner front cover by string and measures 23.2 x 19 cm. The other list is bound in as part of the letterbook. Contains letters to...

GLC03425

to unknown [incomplete]

Welles, United States Secretary of the Navy, writes to an unknown recipient regarding the suffrage and governmental representation of freed enslaved people. States "But Slavery has been abolished ... not by the voluntary act of the States in which...

GLC02713

to John E. Wool re: slave girl who followed the 20th Indiana regiment

Was returned to Charles A. Jessup of Maryland. With John Wool endorsement on p. 3.

GLC06969

Daily Journal Extra... "2 P.M. Richmond is taken. The city is on fire"

Double column broadside prints Stanton's telegraph.

GLC06809

to Marsena R. Patrick

Halleck writes as Union Major General Commanding to Brigadier General Patrick. "The Secty of War wishes proof of the fact ... that Libby Prison was mined at about the time of [General Hugh J.] Kilpatrick's raid for the purpose of blowing up our...

GLC05457

to Joseph M. Maitland

Shares with his son that his grandmother has died recently. Notes that he does not know whether or not Joseph participated in the 16 May 1863 battle "West of Jackson," (the Battle of Champion Hill, an engagement in the Vicksburg Campaign). Includes a...

GLC03523.10.068

to Thomas McParlin

Printed letter, with a stamped signature of Sec of War Edwin Stanton, informing McParlin of his appointment to Brevet Brigadier General "for meritorious services during the war." With some writing in an unknown secretarial hand. Asks for his...

GLC02649.34

The Conscription

Includes several speeches given by Honorable William D. Kelley (of Pennsylvania) before members of the House of Representatives on February 24, 1863, December 19, 1862, and January 1863. His speeches vary in topic including the Conscription Act...

GLC01265.21

to Edward M. Stanton

Senator Harlan requests that Secretary of War Stanton make sure the case of Lieutenant Frank Williams be given special consideration. He was captured at Gettysburg and provided information that prevented the escape of some other Confederates,...

GLC08247.03

[Printed War Department Order issued by Edwin M. Stanton].

Stamped as page 93. Signed by Stanton vertically along the left-hand margin. (Not signed by Olin.) Labeled "Exhibit 'A'" (possibly in Stanton's hand). A printed copy of Stanton's 8 August 1862 "Order authorizing arrest of persons who discourage...

GLC00720.02