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28 November 1864
Trenholm, George Alfred, 1806-1876
Communication of Secretary of Treasury…November 28, 1864. [Transmitted with:] Message of the President…Nov. 29, 1864.
stamp of record division
GLC06745.220
12 December 1865
Letter of Secretary of Treasury…December 12, 1864. [Transmitted with:] Message of the President…Dec. 15, 1864.
GLC06745.235
20 September 1864
Office of Board of Claims/For Slaves enlisted in U. S. service...
State of Maryland. Compensation claim by Joshua Johnson for a slave, Thomas Johnson, he manumitted and enlisted as a USCT, United States Colored Troops. Partially printed document.
GLC09130.01
25 June 1796
Cary, Lydia, fl. 1796
[Receipt of Lydia Cary]
Receipt stating Cary received $50 from Gideon Savage. This document originally housed in Gideon Savage's wooden chest (GLC01450.013.02) with others decimalized in GLC01450.013.
GLC01450.013.10
1836/12/31
Kimball, Joseph Horace, 1813-1838
Herald of freedom. [Vol. 2, no. 44 (December 31, 1836)]
Anti-slavery, Civil War, Lincoln, War of 1812.
GLC08430.02
1860
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872
The Life of Lincoln
Tribune Tracts no. 6. Extra-illustrated biography with engravings of Lincoln, the Executive Mansion, the Capitol, and a Lincoln-Hamlin electoral ribbon depicting Lincoln pasted in first few pages. Published by Horace Greeley & Co.
GLC03012
2 November 1781
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Return of Cannon Sent to the Head of Elk, subject to the orders of Robert Morris Esq.
Lists quantities of supplies being sent to Head of Elk, Maryland. Clerical copy written by Samuel Shaw from a Park of Artillery. A note at the bottom from Colonel Edward Carrington, written in Samuel Shaw's hand, on 3 November 1781 indicates that he...
GLC02437.01281
1863
French & Co.
One of the parks of captured artillery Vicksburg captured after surrender
A print of a photograph of several artillery pieces [Parrott Rifles] and many limbers. The cannon in the center foreground has been spiked with a solid shot. Several soldiers are posed at various places amongst caissons. A large road passes through...
GLC05111.01.0088
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
National politics: Speech of Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, delivered at the Cooper Institute, Monday, Feb 27, 1860.
Published by the New York Tribune as Tribune Tracts No. 4. Lincoln addresses the most pressing issue of the day, slavery, and attacks the view put forth by Stephen Douglas and others that slavery was founded by the forefathers of the country. He...
GLC04471.01
14 January 1829
Georgia. General Assembly
Report adopted by the Legislature of Georgia on the resolutions of South Carolina and Ohio ...
Title continues, " ... in relation to the powers of the general government and state rights, and to the subject of slavery." 20th Congress, 2nd session. Report concludes that the writers of the Constitution did not intend all power to be...
GLC00267.016
11 September 1783
Sherburne, Benjamin, fl. 1777-1783
[Return of American prisoners]
People listed by name, home town, state, where and when they were taken prisoner and gender. Noted as a true copy in the docket. Place written taken from docket.
GLC02437.10710
24 September 1895
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
[Not one throb of anguish...]
A quote from chapter 12 of Uncle Tom's Cabin: "Not one throb of anguish/ Not one tear of the opposed/ is forgiven by the Man of Sorrows/ the Lord of Glory/ In his patient generous bosom/ He bears the anguish of a world."
GLC05508.238
17 January 1788
Wildbore, Charles, fl. 1788
Summons to a court of Trinity House
Summon to elect an Elder Brother and to conduct special affairs of the corporation. Partially printed.
GLC03902.327
2 March 1863
Rhett, James M., fl. 1863
[Receipt for sale of slaves]
With: PDS, 3-2-1863, receipt printed specifically for use in slave sales: "Received from Charles H. Rhett Seven thousand two hundred & fifty Dollars… for the purchase of Seven Negro Slaves named Caesar, Catherine, Flora, Ben, Stepney, Dora & Sue."...
GLC09380.2
20 November 1863
Receipt for $40,000 paid by James M., Charles H. and Roland Rhett, "being the cash payment on the purchase of one hundred and seven negros, leaving a balance due secured by Bond and Mortgage of Eighty eight thousand and four hundred dollars." Signed...
GLC09380
1865/05/23
Grand Review of the Armies of Grant and Sherman. Reviewing stand
E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. Caption: "Grand Review of the Great Veteran Armies of Grant and Sherman at Washington, on the 23d and 24th May, 1865. The Army of the Potomac. The stand in front of the President's House occupied by the President...
GLC05137.253
circa 1880-1890
Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912
Enlistment of Sickles Brigade
Shows the duplicitous agents of Daniel Sickles recruiting the brigade he raised and equipped himself at considerable expense. A throng of bedraggled men congregate around a Federal officer who holds out a medal and wears a "Colonel Sickle's Brigade"...
GLC00493.06
20 April 1813
Snell, Robert, fl. 1812-1815
Monthly Return of a Company of Volunteers Commanded by Capt Robert Snell
A monthly return list from April of 1813, which detailed by rank how many soldiers were present, sick, and absent.
GLC02669.035
1779/11/25
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
to Edward Thurlow re: directions to give Hillsborough seals of Sec. of State
Discusses importance of mollifying Lord North to continue the war in America.
GLC07003
4 July 1789
[Minutes for the Society of the Cincinnati meeting of 4 July 1789]
Docket suggests that this copy of the minutes was created by a Thomas Jainson on 25 January 1836. Minutes for an annual meeting of the Society of the Cincinnati held 4 July 1789 at the Bunch of Grapes Tavern in Boston, Massachusetts. Topics...
GLC02437.04270
August 1956
Nesbitt, George B., 1912-2002
"Dispersion of Nonwhite Residence in Washington, D.C.: Some of Its Implications"
One article entitled, "Dispersion of Nonwhite Residence in Washington, D.C.: Some of Its Implications," by George B. Nesbitt dated August 1956. Item is a reprint from the journal Land Economics, Volume XXXII, Number 8, August 1956 issue. Nesbitt...
GLC09640.335
22 September 1863
McCook, John J., fl. 1863
The Battle of Chickamauga
11 page letters
GLC08042
4 February 1793
to the President and Directors of the [bank] of the U.S.
Asks for the favor of a discount for the enclosed $2,500 note "as a renewal in part of a note of 3375 Dollars due the 7th instant."
GLC02437.05805
21 June 1763
Budden, Robert, fl. 1763
A Value of Timber on Warborne Estate
Account of trees on Warborne & other Lands belonging to Mr. Robert Budden. Includes categories: "No of trees," "what sort," "measure," "amount of money." Docket on verso
GLC03902.334
GLC09380.1
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