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1862-1865
Parrott, Family, fl. 1862-1865
Letters, some wardate with post-war collateral, 15th Mich. Vols.
Collection includes 29 letters, 5 receipts, 1 drawing, 1 carte-de-visite, 3 news clippings and 10 envelopes.
GLC03858.03
September 26, 1812
Madison, James, 1751-1836
Privateer's commission for the sloop Union during the War of 1812
Signed by Madison as president and countersigned by James Monroe as secretary of state. Partly printed document commissioning the privateer, under the command of Captain Oliver Hicks and Lieutenant William Rust, to "seize and take any armed or...
GLC00053
1960
Werstein, Irving, fl. 1960
1861-1865 The Adventure of the Civil War Told with Pictures
GLC08880.059
January 1863
[Manuscript Civil War map of Dover, Tennessee, showing battlefield and artillery]
Shows Confederate line of batteries, roads, rivers, and ravines. Also shows the town layout with gun placements and building locations. Approximately forty buildings appear, including the headquarters of the 83rd Illinois Regiments, Colonel A.C...
GLC04042.01
4 January 1782
[Copy of a letter from Captain Jones adjutant to the Commissioner of War]
Writes, "Copy of a letter from Captain Jones adjutant to the Commissioner of War - We have eleven Boats at Westham at present unmanned. There are twelve Canoes under the direction of Nathaniel Anderson properly equiped. I have a sum of Specie...
GLC02437.01324
February 1865
Stephens, Ashbury L., 1843-?
[Manuscript Civil War map of the siege of Columbia, South Carolina]
Circular map showing the position of the 4th Division of the 13th Army Corps, rivers, railroads, and roads around Columbia. General Sherman's siege was on 16-17 February 1865. Drawn in brown and pink ink.
GLC04498.06
1846-1888
Civil War generals from border states: 33 letters and documents [decimalized]
[decimalized 02456.01-02456.33]
GLC02456
1900
Wilson, Herbert Wrigley, 1866-1940
The downfall of Spain: Naval History of the Spanish-American War
With long note of James E. Carr, Jr., regarding his receiving this book on loan. Carr's bookplate affixed to front cover.
GLC05642
1758/12/29
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
to William Lyttelton re: raising troops for French and Indian War
GLC07889
1815
Simickson, Henry, fl. 1863
[Article honoring those who lost their lives in the Civil War]
Title torn from article. "These men fought to maintain and perpetuate the rights of human nature. These men fought, not for themselves alone--they struck the chains from the limbs of four millions of bondsmen..."
GLC03131.16.18
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