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Parade of the Grand Army of the Republic

Color drawing of a parade along the national mall in Washington, D.C., with the capitol building visible in the distance. "Sparks from the Camp Fire" is written at the bottom right. The date is that of the parade.

GLC08442.09

Map of the Battle Ground of Greenbrier River

Wood and copper engraving of a battle in the Cheat Mountain Campaign, Robert E. Lee's first field command of the Civil War. This document is of Confederate origin and shows Camp Bartow, the Confederate position, in great detail, marking buildings...

GLC02875

Communication of Secretary of Treasury…Nov. 23, 1864.

stamp of record division

GLC06745.219

Weekly return of Massachusetts Corps of Artillery

Signed by Cooper as adjutant. Cosigned by Captain Henry Burbeck. Includes a chart with number of officers and their corresponding rank and status. Contains additional notes pertaining to officers on command, sick, on the staff, and on extra duty.

GLC02437.10157

Pardon of Frank Lucas, convicted of counterfeiting.

Convicted of passing counterfeit silver dollars; sentenced to four years hard labor, and to pay a $500 fine and court costs. Pardoned since his innocence had been corroborated by the U.S. Marshall, deputies, and clerk. (c/s James G. Blaine)

GLC00173.09

Panorama of the Seat of War. Birds Eye View Of North And South Carolina And Part Of Georgia.

One of Bachman's six lithographic views of the Confederate States in the series: "Panorama of the Seat of War." Shows the Atlantic coast from Albemarle Sound south to Savannah and inland to the Blue Ridge Mountains. All the major towns of the...

GLC02003

Memorandum of condition of the Army of Tennessee, Jan. 17/19th 1865

A report on the general condition of Confederate General Stephen D. Lee's corps of the Army of Tennessee. Documents corps, divisions, brigades, number of soldiers, supplies needed by soldiers, health, and general remarks following Confederate losses...

GLC00841.01

to "The Gentlemen of the House of Representatives"

Hancock argues that the bill making Sunday a day of Sabbath in Congress was improperly passed. The Constitution provided a set amount of time to rebuke a bill's passing, and others in Congress accused Hancock of sending his letter of rebuttal too...

GLC07917

Territory of Nebraska Council Documents no. 2

Begins with an act prohibiting slavery in the Territory of Nebraska. Black, Governor of the Nebraska Territory, returns the act unsigned with a message to the House of Representatives: "You have assumed the power and asserted the policy of an...

GLC06178

[Copy of Knox's draft on the formation of the Society of the Cincinnati]

Later copy of GLC02437.02090, which is the original. This copy is easier to read than the original. Says the Society was created to perpetuate "the remembrance of this great event [victory in the Revolution], as the mutual friendships which have been...

GLC02437.02089

Map of Antietam

Goes with item GLC02198.38. Includes line of advance.

GLC02198.39

View of the southwest face of Fort Sumter

Osborn stamp on verso. View of the southwest face of Fort Sumter showing damage from the guns of the Iron Clad Battery.

GLC04509.29

to the Committee of Safety of Massachusetts

Says agreeable to the resolves put forth by the Committee that he gave directions for Captain Davis to travel southward. Wants them to send whaling ships to Plymouth to help with its defenses. Thomas, who was eventually named a Major General, died on...

GLC02498.15

Eyewitness account of sinking of the Titanic

Written by a first-class passenger on Carpathia stationery: "Awakened about 11:40 by a violent jar....I went out to the promenade deck and soon learned that we had run into ice...and I had heard a passenger state that he saw an iceberg pass the...

GLC07640

View of the southwest corner of Fort Sumter

Osborn stamp on verso. View of the southwest corner of Fort Sumter showing damage from guns at Morris Island and the Floating Battery.

GLC04509.32

[Summaries of Council Meetings]

3 summaries of council meetings discussing cases. 1891/03/04, 1890/07/28, 1890/04/28

GLC05756.049

[Summaries of Council Meetings]

3 summaries of council meetings discussing cases. 1890/09/01, 1890/09/20, [1890]/09/29

GLC05756.050

A General return of military Stores State [of] Virginia.

Chart enumerating various types of ordnance held in Irvins Store, Charlottesville, Staunton, New London, Richmond and West Ham. The ordnance was needed for the siege of Yorktown, which began later that month. O'Hannan's name is signed in a...

GLC02437.01171

[Requisitions of cannons]

Four requistions of cannons written by Jacob Bailey.

GLC02669.057

Order of excercises, at the celebration of the fifty-first anniversary of American independence

Inlcudes a reading of the Declaration of Independence along with hymns and prayer.

GLC06143.23

Seige of Vicksburg

One engraving entitled "Seige of Vicksburg" dated 1864. Depicts Union forces during the Battle of Vicksburg, May 18-July 4, 1863. At the bottom of the image Union soliders rest under cover of a small shelter, above them soliders continue to fire upon...

GLC08878.0161

[Pair of abolitionist slave tokens]

One token, dated 1838, depicts a kneeling, shackled female slave, accompanied by the words: "Am I not a woman & a sister." Verso depicts a laurel wreath surrounding "Liberty 1838." Other token depicts a male figure with inscription "Am I not a man...

GLC08551

[Description of a piece of property belonging to John Briggs of Dartmouth Township].

Tripp adds the names of the members of the committee: himself, Nathaniel Soule, and [illegible] Sanford. Attested as a true copy and signed as Proprietor's Clerk of the Township of Dartmouth.

GLC02924.040

Commission of Thomas Ward, Major in army of the Republic of Texas

Signed as President of the Republic of Texas and countersigned by S. F. Sawyer, acting Secretary of War.

GLC02145.08

Plan of the investment of York and Gloucester

Drafted at Washington's request, shortly after the battle of Yorktown, Virginia. Nebenzahl, Battle Plans of the American Revolution, 189, with references.

GLC01869