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Recollections of the early days of the national guard comprising the prominent events in the history of the famous seventh regiment New York militia

Published by J.M. Bradstreet & Son. Image of the regiment's seal opposite the title page. By "an ex-orderly sergeant" named John Mason. Publisher advertisement before the text says the manuscript, which had been disregarded for "two or three years...

GLC00267.296

A history of three of the judges of King Charles I: Major-General Whalley, Major-General Goffe, and Colonel Dixwell. . .[Inscribed by William Ellery].

Title continues: "who, at the Restoration, 1660, fled to America, and were secreted and concealed, in Massachusetts and Connecticut, for near thirty years; with an account of Mr. Theophilus Whale, of Narragansett, supposed to have been also one of...

GLC00111

History And Evidence of the Passage of Abraham Lincoln from Harrisburg, PA., to Washington, D.C. on the 22d and 23d of February, 1861

JB00123

Speech of Hon. Garrett Davis, of Kentucky, in Committee of the Whole; in which He Gives a Sketch of the Political History of Massachusetts

Published by L.Towers & Co. Speech delivered in U.S. Senate on February 16-17, 1864. Includes a detailed account of a resolution of expulsion brought against Davis by a Massachusetts senator.

GLC01265.25

Return of recruits inlisted and sworn to serve for three years and during the war in the second regiment of artillery commanded by Colonel John Lamb - By Captain Thomas Machin in the Month of April 1782

List of recruits to serve under Colonel John Lamb and under Captain Thomas Machin, with the date of their enlistment and the term of service. List includes Stephen Thacher, John Nicholas Villery, John Neale, Gardner Hopkins, Jon Wilson Beth, John...

GLC02437.01403

Return of the Women & Children at the Post of West Point & its Dependencies, that would have drawn Rations under the late Regulations, and also of the number of Extra Rations drawn under the new Contract

Lists number of women and children by regiment and includes the amount of extra rations they will receive under the new regulations.

GLC02437.01809

History and evidence of the passage of Abraham Lincoln from Harrisburg, Pa. to Washington, D. C. on the 22d and 23d of February, 1861

Documents the attempted assassination of then President-elect Abraham Lincoln on his way to his inauguration. Written in response to a published letter by John A. Kennedy, who claimed, along with his detective force, the responsibility of...

GLC00267.276