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Fortifications at Fort Wagner, Morris Island, SC [split stereocard]

The image shows two large tents inside fortifications with two people in the foreground, and another group of people on top of the fortifications in the distance. Inscription on image: "Photographic History." Numeric notations on verso: "362," and...

GLC05111.01.1262

[extracts from the President of William and Mary College]

Two extracts from the President of William and Mary College. Also signed by the Secretary of the Faculty. The first extract bestows a Bachelor of Arts degree on Frank H. Alfriend of Richmond. The document notes that Alfriend would have received...

GLC05344.05.01

to Charles Cutts

Near the beginning of the outbreak of the War of 1812, Gerry describes and criticizes Federalist politics as an attempt "to place in the executive departments of the Nation & States, men devoted to the interest & Government of Great Britain."...

GLC03240

to Mary Magie

He hopes to make enough money in the army to pay off his debt with Randolph. Most people think the war will be over before the end of the summer. He urges Charley to return to the army before he gets in trouble. His newspaper business has been...

GLC05241.23

to Mary Epperly

Says his legs are swollen. Reports that the Confederates drove the Yankees back to the Chicahominy River. Believes they fought five or six battles in the last eight to ten days. Says his unit still has not fought in a "regular battle." He...

GLC02715.019

to Renee Stockdale re: news that Patton will be crippled from car accident

Conveying a surgeon's opinion that Patton would survive the injuries suffered in a car accident, although without the ability to walk. Gaffey writes in part "It seems unfair that a man who had gone through as much as he had during the war should be...

GLC06760.13

[Appointment of Samuel C. Crafts as Commissioner for fifth division of Vermont]

Countersigned by Secretary of State Timothy Pickering. Crafts was given power to act as one of the five commissioner in Vermont under "An Act provide for the valuation of lands and dwelling-houses and the enumeration of slaves within the United...

GLC04426

to Frank H. Alfriend

Marked "Private" at the top. Davis has not been able to obtain a copy of the biography which Alfriend wrote. The book is available only through subscription. He heard the book was "the best work on the subject which had been produced." He...

GLC05344.02

Full Employment, National Political Action Committee

One pamphlet entitled, "Full Employment, National Political Action Committee," published by the CIO Political Action Committee in January 15, 1944. Reports on a conference on full employment as part of the labor movement. Includes speeches from...

GLC09640.031

to Mrs. Stowe

Writes to the mother of a patron of the YMCA and reports that he is happy and healthy. Discusses the mission of her organization. Includes the importance of letters and mail from home. Adds a note that she is also from Wisconsin and is proud of...

GLC07810.004

The Field at Antietam [stereoview]

Stereoview (perhaps made up to be mounted on cardstock) of the same image shown in #887, with the bodies surrounding it clearly visible. Five soldiers' bodies lay on the camera side of the piece, with two horses visible behind and to the right...

GLC05111.01.0889

Address of Maj. Gen. N.B. Forrest to His Troops.

Congratulations to troops for all their victorious battles. Issued by Union Major General Forrest to his troops during the last year of the war. Forrest signs in print as Commanding District of Mississippi and Eastern Louisiana. Pencil inscription...

GLC05987.03

to Edward S. Ruggles

Partially-printed document signed by Confederate Secretary of War Seddon. Appoints Ruggles as Signal Officer with the rank and pay of Second Lieutenant in the Provisional Army (Ruggles had previously served in the Navy), effective 19 August 1863...

GLC00571.02

to Braxton Bragg

General Beauregard, commander of the Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia, gives his opinion to General Bragg (at this point in the war in Richmond, Virginia, and functioning as Confederate chief of staff) concerning the proper...

GLC00913

to Samuel Phillips Savage

Secretary of War Knox tells Savage he read of the death of Savage's son Captain Joseph Savage. As he is fairly certain this is untrue, Knox wonders how that misinformation appeared in a Worcester newspaper. Knox tells about hearing from the port...

GLC02437.04693

to Stephen Sayre

Knox tells Sayre despite several letters sent to him, he still has not heard from Sayre. Says he presented Sayre's plan to the president. The magnitude of the plan was such that the president could not give an explicit answer. Talks about the...

GLC02437.04715

Victory - now you can invest in it!

One poster entitled, "Victory - now you can invest in it!" printed by the United States Government Printing Office, dated 1945. Poster features a bald eagle perched on a stack of war bonds with his wings spread. The background is three stripes; one...

GLC09654.52

[Estimates of clothing from Genl Maunsell]

Written in the hand of Henry Knox. Brett encloses "an estimate of the expence of clothing from one man to eight hundred..." for Maunsell to forward to General Henry Knox, Secretary at War. Notes that Maunsell recommended him as an agent for...

GLC02437.03786

Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1858 Vol 1

Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company and The Riverside Press Cambridge of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Details the life of Abraham Lincoln. Divided into sections based on time and location. Beveridge meant this work to be a companion to his...

GLC00267.274.01

Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1858 Vol 2

Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company and The Riverside Press Cambridge of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Details the life of Abraham Lincoln. Divided into sections based on time and location. Beveridge meant this work to be a companion to his...

GLC00267.274.02

to John Reeser

Informs Reeser that he received the money, stamps, boots, and gloves that were sent to him but has not received the tobacco. Writes of a man named Polk being in the hospital. Speaks of this "god dam war," General [William T.] Sherman, and other...

GLC03523.43.22

Daily dispatch. [Vol. 26, no. 73 (March 25, 1864)]

News from East Tennessee - Yankees only 20 miles east of Knoxville, Congressional voting of the Peace Party in the North, Enemy fire bombarding Charleston, Millard Fillmore's opinion of the War as spoken to a large crowd at Central Fair in Buffalo...

GLC05959.56.151

[Words and music for the song "John Brown's Body"]

Transcription of the verses and the chorus for the song "John Brown's Body," with music. Also lists three Civil War regiments in which Jenkins served. One of these, the Twelfth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, was the unit that invented the song....

GLC02484.01

to Lile Miller

Discusses his ordeal trying to obtain leave, including a friend's recommendation to General [Samuel] Heintzelman. Of the war, writes, "...I have saw enough of Blood to last me my life time..." References a Confederate attack on a train, and...

GLC02155.105

to Rufus King

Knox discusses his appointment as Secretary at War. Informs King, a Continental Congressman, "It is true I was fully of opinion that the salary was considerably inadequate to the honorable support of so confidential an officer, but I thought it...

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