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to Aaron Hobart

Discusses bounty land for veterans of the American Revolution. Requests that Hobart obtain and send the warrant issued for Jonathan Bartlett's bounty, which had been approved but not issued. Also asks Hobart, if he can, to send the names of "1200...

GLC06313.04.126

to Aaron Hobart

Writing on behalf of William Pincers and Frances Joscelyn, Hobart reports mistakes in making their schedules, possibly for tax purposes or Revolutionary War benefits. Explains the adjustments that need to be made to the record to reflect the...

GLC06313.04.130

to Mary Noyes

Writes to his wife in Newbury, Massachusetts that he is well and hopes she is too. He thinks something is going to happen soon because some prominent families are leaving town for England (possibly Loyalists). Discusses a rifleman that was taken to...

GLC01450.056.02

to Samuel Holten

Letter signed with initials. Recipient inferred from context and by comparing the docket to others in the 1450.020 collection. Wants to relay intelligence from Europe but he is concerned about doing so because of an obligation to secrecy. Remarks...

GLC01450.020.16

to Nan [Maury]

Reports that prisoners returning from federal camps are frostbitten and ill. Notes that the court martial will convene on Friday, and comments that "hopes are entertained the soldiers will be better fed" since the appointment of the new Commissary...

GLC04572.31

The Conscription Act: a Series of Articles Communicated to the Journal of Commerce

Published by the Loyal Publication Society of New York. Number 7 in a series. Printed by William C. Bryant & Co. A.F. Warburton reported the text of Butler's speech. Major-General Butler refers to the Confederate States as "alien enemies" who are...

GLC01265.01

to Lile Miller

Miller describes the Virginia landscape, noting that Culpeper is "like all the towns nearby that I have saw in Virginia old fashioned looking and dilapidated nothing neat or tidy about it I wish you were here Dear Lile to go with me to see some of...

GLC02155.107

View from the front of the State House... Nashville, Tenn.

E. & H. T. Anthony, publisher. Caption: "View from the front of the State House looking over the field during the battle at Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 15th and 16th, 1864." Six men and one woman on a hill, looking down over the roofs of some houses and...

GLC05137.046

to her cousin

Written by his cousin Mary. She is very glad to hear from him. She apologizes for not having mailed a long letter she had written for him, she found it in her desk sealed. She hopes and prays that he will return home safely. She will write him a long...

GLC03523.42.45

to Henry Knox

Responds to a letter sent by Knox enclosing instructions issued by the Secretary at War (Benjamin Lincoln) regarding the construction of an arsenal and magazines at West Point. Calls the plan "an eligible one." Relates that as soon as he is...

GLC02437.09388

to George Weedon

Relays information related to the negotiation of the Treaty of Paris, ending the American Revolution. Discusses the possibility of a separate peace being brokered that does not include France. Also discusses the insincerity of some British...

GLC06491.03

Victory Songs

One pamphlet entitled Victory Songs published by the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) and the Department of the East National War Work Council. The pamphlet includes text of forty songs which are:
Smiles,
Oh! How I Hate To Get Up In The...

GLC10047.02.474

Charleston, South Carolina. 1865.

One photograph entitled, "Charleston, South Carolina. 1865" taken by Mathew Brady. Image is of Roper's Hospital in Charleston, South Carolina. The long, three story building, stands in the background. The foreground are high wooden fences with piles...

GLC03089.03

to Edwin M. Stanton

Lincoln writes to Secretary of War Stanton concerning the promotion of Colonel Charles H. Tompkins to Brigadier General. The Rhode Island Delegation and General Horatio G. Wright called upon Lincoln to make the appointment, and brought a favorable...

GLC06679

to Sister

Writes from the Headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia to his sister, mentioning that he has not heard from his friend Charlie Blackman for over six months. Comments, "the war will end 'sooner or later.' " Tells her that he has received his New York...

GLC03523.08.59

Slave Pen, Alexandria, VA., August, 1863. [Copy 1]

Title from text on recto. Taken from Gardner's "Photo. Sketchbook of the Civil War," plate "No. 2." Shows a large red brick building with a white brick addition: the slave pen. A sign on the red brick building reads: "Price, Birch & Co. dealers in...

GLC05111.01.0282

Slave Pen, Alexandria, VA., August, 1863. [Copy 2]

Title from text on recto. Taken from Gardner's "Photo. Sketchbook of the Civil War," plate "No. 2." Shows a large red brick building with a white brick addition: the slave pen. A sign on the red brick building reads: "Price, Birch & Co. dealers in...

GLC05111.01.0283

to Salmon P. Chase re: argument against accepting the negro as an equal

"I am not yet prepared to receive the Negro on terms of political Equality for the reason that it will arouse passions and predjudices of the North, which...might rekindle the war whose fires are now dying out and by skillful management may be kept...

GLC07680

South Carolina. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting correspondence in relation to Fort Sumter, &c.

Marked House Executive Document, No. 61, 36th Congress, 2nd Session. Buchanan transmits to Congress correspondence concerning Fort Sumter. Printings of seven letters, including ones by or to Jefferson Davis, John Slidell, Colonel Isaac W. Hayne...

GLC08438

Additional Instruction to the public and private armed vessels of the United States.

Signed as Secretary of State. In response to the repeal of British Orders in Council, instructs naval and privateering ships to assist, rather than obstruct, any American owned ships bringing British goods to the United States. Issued shortly after...

GLC01494

to Horatio Gates

Fears that he will have to miss the meeting of the Society of the Cincinnati as business will keep him in New York a few more days. Hopes to arrive in Philadelphia by Thursday or Friday to pay his respects. Will forward the papers of the Society if a...

GLC02437.03540

to Benjamin Lincoln

Later copy. Marked "Private." Letter from Major General Knox to Secretary of War Lincoln. Reports that the Massachusetts line has determined to apply to the state for its backpay. Says "It would be useless to detail the reasons why such a settlement...

GLC02437.01473

To the United States in Congress Assembled

Appears to be Knox's draft of his presentation of officers' grievances to Congress: "At this period of the War it is with peculiar pain, that we find ourselves constrained to address your august body in matters of a pecuniary nature." Agrees to half...

GLC02437.10074

to William Knox

Explains that his letters may be short, but he still loves his brother. Feels God has favourably turned "the tide of our affair." Knows that war is hard, and has prepared himself for losses either "public or personal." Hopes to hear from William...

GLC02437.00515