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[Notice for the enlistment and impressment of slaves into military service]

Captain Ridgely informs slave owner G. N. Jones that the "Confederate Government has made requisition on this State for five hundred Slaves ... by the enrollment of free negroes and slaves in certain capacities, approved February 17, 1864. Your...

GLC02889

[American Revolution orderly book of the 2nd New York with garrison orders for Fort Schuyler]

Orderly book with orders issued by Lieutenant Colonel Cornelius Van Dyke and Major John Graham, some signed and in their hand. Notable orders relate to a Fourth of July celebration and General Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga. Many others concern...

GLC03158

[General order congratulating officers and soldiers of the 15th Army Corps after the fall of Vicksburg]

Major General Sherman issues General Orders from the Department of the Tennessee, camped on the Black River. Declares "Your Commander, in thus briefly reciting the events of the past seven months, thinks, in them, every officer and man has good...

GLC03828

[Collection of Frederick W. Wilkinson] [decimalized]

Also includes a roster and an ambrotype photograph of Wilkinson. All but four letters were written by Wilkinson to his wife. The letters mention First Bull Run, General George McClellan's Peninsula Campaign, Antietam, the replacement of McClellan...

GLC03523.13

to Caroline Flagg Foote

Written by Foote as commander of the Mississippi River Squadron to his wife. Written from Island No. 10, the day after Foote's Squadron captured it. Says he can barely lift his pen to write after the recent fight and the "intense mental anxiety for...

GLC03910

[draft account of cavalry operations of Army of Northern Virginia]

Draft account of cavalry operations sent to Robert E. Lee, detailing actions of Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry division during May through June 1864, from Grant's crossing of the Rapidan River through the death of General J.E.B. Stuart. Details movement of...

GLC03917

Quincy semi-weekly dispatch [Vol. 2, no. 1 (June 25, 1862)]

Necessity newspaper from Florida, with accounts of J.E.B. Stewart's ride around McClellan's army, Benjamin Butler's atrocities in New Orleans, Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley, also discussion of an "Emancipation Measure" on page 4...

GLC06063

to Josiah Bartlett

Discusses Continental troop movements, specifically regarding Fort Ticonderoga and New Jersey. Also, rising cost of living and collapsing currency, taxation, Franklin's reception at Versailles, and New Hampshire politics.

GLC05878

to Henry Knox

Discusses the education of the son of a mutual friend [possibly named Sumner or Summer], whose legitimacy is suspect. Writes, "I am afraid whether I have any thing in writing that acknowledges him as his Son & that he ment [sic] to consider him as...

GLC02437.04386

to Henry Knox

Recently heard news that their mutual friend, James Swan, arrived in France. His wife, Hepzibah Clark Swan, is still in America and hopes James will send for her. Jackson doubts he will be able to, noting "...I am sure his Finances are not...

GLC02437.03852