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to Sylvia Weiner

Moe says he is still in need of cigarettes. He says he enjoyed reading about the rally at Madison Square Garden. He also sympathizes with all the problems Sylvia has with the ration board, and says some of the boys act like they will go mad without...

GLC09414.1260

to: Wilmor W. Morris.

Miller is at the "most delightful camp" at a former summer resort. Bernie's headquarters are at the springs and "his kids have their women and they enjoy themselves highly." Samuel Pedan has been sick and is in Washington. He wants to know when...

GLC06451.063

President Lincoln and Gen. McClellan in McClellan's tent [Antietam] [stereocard]

From Photographic History series no. 602. M-104.

GLC00242.16

to his aunt

Written to his aunt, Mrs. George A. Frick (Rebecca Frick). Writes that most of the people of the town are beginning to reconcile with the "new state of things" with the exception of the women. There are many women left (many widows), but few men...

GLC02016.087

Southern cultivator. [Vol. 22, no. 1 (January, 1864)]

Cotton at Home and Abroad, The Wounded as Overseers of Plantations While Owners are Gone, Farmers Not Extortioners.
An editorial upholds the freedom of the press, while another encourages farmers not to hoard provisions, and another implies that...

GLC05959.11.07

A Harvest of death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania by T. H. O'Sullivan

From Gardner's Photographic History, "No.36. July 1863"

GLC00244

The Work of the Afro-American Woman

One book entitled, "The Work of Afro-American Woman" by Gertrude Bustill Mossell dated 1894. The title page lists Mossell and Mrs. N.F. Mossell. The book is a collection of eight essays and seventeen poems concerning African American women in a...

GLC09874

Confederate Baptist. [Vol. 1, no. 17 (February 19, 1863)]

In "Army Correspondence," a soldier's letter describes conditions in Virginia and reminisces. "The Dying South Carolinian" describes the pious death of a soldier. Editorials examine topics including treatment of Blacks ("A Disciple in a Blaze"),...

GLC05959.39.12

to Stockton Bates

Has spent the last three days on picket, near a widow with 21 contraband slaves who refuse to leave her. "They are a careless, happy set singing and dancing from sunrise to sunset; their enslaved condition affecting them but little." Men are...

GLC03523.23.30

to Henry Glen

Schuyler, then a major general in the Continental Army, reports to Glen, an agent for Indian affairs, complaints from Indians that they cannot mend their axes for want of iron and that "their women are almost naked and Incapable to fetch a...

GLC01406

to Henry Knox

The wives and children of soldiers in the New York Artillery regiment who are living in camp are to be provisioned by the army, in order to make sure they do not leave and take their soldier husbands with them. This provision only applies to women...

GLC02437.09364

Autographs for freedom

An anthology of signed articles, poems, etc., by men and women prominent in the anti-slavery movement. Includes Frederick Douglass's "The Heroic Slave." The signatures are in facsimile. Published by John P. Jewett and Company for the Rochester...

GLC08949

to his friends

Reports on his health and on the weather. Notes he received a letter from Mrs. Perot a few days ago and requests the addresses of some of the other women from the hospital. Informs Ogden that the rest of his regiment will return home by April to...

GLC06559.062

The free citizen. [Vol. 1, no. 40 (May 15, 1875)]

Reports on the iron industry in the South, gambling as a vice among noble women in Great Britain, the effects of heat on the human body, and Catholicism among freedmen, among other topics. Includes advertisements and market reports. Fragile and...

GLC05959.40.02

to Edward H. Ogden

Writes his health has improved since he returned home because of the care given by the women from the Broad and Cherry Hospital. Reports on the state of his garden, and concludes by repeating a request made in a previous letter (GLC06559.010) for a...

GLC06559.011

The United States Sanitary Commission: A Sketch of its purposes and work

First edition published by Little Brown. Inscribed in pencil on the titlepage by S. W. Bridgham to "Mrs. Ives." Wormeley was a prominent organizer of women's aid societies in New England during the Civil War. She also served on U.S. Sanitary...

GLC06820

Voters Guide

One booklet entitled "Voters Guide" dated 1938. Includes a list of the candidates for State Senate, State Representative, and Congressman that is running in each district, including their platforms. It also includes information on the District...

GLC09923

to Mary Moore

He has been anxious to hear about health problems. His scholarship and reputation have expanded, and he has become a "very conspicuous character among the good people of Alabama." He expects to attend a local Baptist revival meeting. He also plans to...

GLC04191.06

to the Mayor & Aldermen of Albany re: settlement at Catskill for the Winter

The document orders that the 5 Nations bring their women, children, and old men to Catskill on Robert Livingston's land for the winter, where they will receive any assistance they may need. It also requests that they bring as much corn and...

GLC03107.02008

to Estelle Spero

Diamond runs through the month's expenses with Estelle.

GLC09120.166

[Scammon endorsement on an autograph letter signed from John H. Groce]

Writes to Scammon, Colonel commanding the 1st Prov. Brigade in Camp Jones, West Virginia, about Confederate informers. Informs Scammon of "a suspicious looking man skulking along the road" whom they brought with them into camp but escaped on route....

GLC02414.004

[Provision return]

A provision return for eight men and two women employed in the ordinance department at one ration per day from July 1st to July 4th 1783, for a total of fifty-six rations. Noted and signed: "By order of the Comd. S. Shaw [Samuel Shaw]." Also signed...

GLC02437.02212