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1836
Collection of fifteen documents signed by eleven of the signers of 1836 Texas Declaration of Independence [Decimalized GLC06624.01-.15]
Most documents pertain to land or legal matters in Texas in the 1830s and 1840s.
GLC06624
1836/06
Stapp, Elijah, 1738-1843
to Thomas Rusk re: asking for help in supporting his family, rallying for Texas
Also, "getting men to rally to the standard and fight the battles of Texas."
GLC06625
1843/10/18
Thurmond, Alfred Sturgis, 1816-1873
to Mary A. Willis
Writing from inside the walls of the "Castle of Perote" (Perote Prison), Thurman informs Willis that her husband, O.R. Willis, has died. Praises her deceased husband as a "Patriot and a Gentleman," telling her that he "was highly esteemed" and his...
GLC06626
July 1861- July 1865
Collection of letters between a Union soldier and family in New York and New Jersey [decimalized .01-.03]
Collection includes 48 letters and envelopes; also includes 4 photos and 124 envelopes with patriotic covers.
GLC06627
circa 1861-1865
Various
to Adolphus Crans [Decimalized .01- .22]
Collection includes 22 signed letters and envelopes.
GLC06627.02
1861-1865 ca.
Album of patriotic covers and envelopes
Envelopes (patriotic covers) with various Union cartoons. Some unusual images.
GLC06627.03
Alberger, William C., 1837-1925
[Collection of William C. Alberger, 49th regiment, New York, infantry] [word processed inventory available] [Decimalized .01- .08]
Collection features a bound scrapbook and various documents relating to the military and civilian life of William C. Alberger. An inventory exists for the documents separated from the scrapbook, which are housed in a folder with the scrapbook....
GLC06628
[1870 ca.]
Custer and Rosecrans items from the Alberger Collection
Visiting card of G. A. Custer / U.S.C.C. An army circular issued by Major General Rosecrans to the Army of Cumberland re: congratulations for victory over rebels of Tennessee.
GLC06628.01
6 March 1865
William, fl. 1865
to his brother
Discusses camp life and playing baseball.
GLC06630
1866/02/25
Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878
Letters and poems of Bryant and Holmes [Decimalized .01-.07]
GLC06631
23 February 1866
to Bradford R. Wood
Bryant, editor of the New York Evening Post, replies to a letter from Wood, former Representative from New York. Discusses Black suffrage: "I utterly detest the narrow principles of that party which denied equal rights to any of our fellow men on...
GLC06631.01
21 January 1878
[Last lines of Bryant's poem Thanatopsis]
"So live, that when thy summons comes to join/ The innumerable caravan which moves/ To that mysterious realm where each shall take/ His chamber in the silent halls of Death,/ Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night,/ Scourged to his dungeon, but...
GLC06631.02
18 May 1878
[Verse from William Cullen Bryant's poem, The Battlefield]
Verse from Bryant's poem, "Truth crushed to earth, shall rise again/The eternal years of God are here. But Error, wounded, writhed in pain/And dies amid his worshippers." Signed and dated, New York, May 18th, 1878.
GLC06631.03
1892 March 18
Oliver Wendell Holmes
GLC06631.04
1891/03/13
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
to unknown re" appreciative letter to a reader
GLC06631.05
18 May 1891
The Chambered nautilus.
The last seven lines of his poem on immortality.
GLC06631.06
15 May 1888
Union and liberty.
This is the next to the last stanza of his poem on divine protection for humanity.
GLC06631.07
9 February 1781
Bee, Thomas, 1725-1812
to unknown
Bee writes as a Continental Congressman from South Carolina with news of the American victory in the state (most likely the Battle of Cowpens, 17 January 1781). Also informs that the troops are very low on supplies. Mentions that Benedict Arnold is...
GLC06633
10-31 October 1775 circa
Arnold, Benedict, 1741-1801
to unknown [incomplete]
Possibly written to Benjamin Church. Apparently incomplete, this part being the conclusion. Arnold closes by addressing "Gentlemen." He expresses his dismay at Congress' plan to abandon Fort Ticonderoga, "which being the only post of this country...
GLC06634
16 April 1783
North, Frederick, 1732-1792
to Friedrich Riedesel
Orders Riedesel, the commander of Hessian troops in Canada, to prepare to return to Europe in accordance with the provisional peace treaty made to end the American Revolution. Written at Whitehall.
GLC06635
6 September 1762
Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797
to Sir William Johnson
Written by Amherst as Governor-General of British North America, a title he earned after his forces captured Fort Ticonderoga and Montreal during the French and Indian War, to Johnson, a subordinate of Amherst's. Passing along information on British...
GLC06636
10 December 1778
to Jacob Thompson
Updates Thompson on family news. States that his sister has told him that Fitch has not paid his debt yet and advises Thompson to consult a lawyer to recover the money owed. Asks him what price he can get for selling his house. Hopes to see...
GLC06637
2 May 1863- April 6 1865
Nominal Lists Casualties, Company Orders, Detailed officers and enlisted men, officers absent and present not on duty
Roster of 120th regiment New York Volunteer Infantry. Written on inside cover, in pencil, "The Regiment enlisted 2000 men but returned home unable to muster more than 350 - such had been the work of bullet and desease." First thirteen pages list...
GLC06638
8 January 1862
Ericsson, John, 1803-1889
to editor of the New York World
Wants to correct an "erroneous impression" from an article in his newspaper on his superintending of construction of an ironclad ship (the USS "Monitor") on behalf of Bushnell & Co. Says he is in fact making the ship "to my own plans approved by a...
GLC06639
1892/04
Fontaine, Lamar, 1829-1921
to Mary C. Day
"Lines suggested, while standing over the dead body of a loved comrade, killed by a bullet fired from across the Potomac, by a treacherous hireling foe, Leisburg Va. Augt 9th 1861." A fair copy of his ballad "All Quiet along the Potomac tonight."...
GLC06640.01
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