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circa 1880
Moss Engraving Company
Engraving of Charles Pomeroy Stone
Biographical note is adhered below image.
GLC02459.61
Engraving of Nelson Appleton Miles
Engraving is a page torn from a book and mounted on paper.
GLC02459.64
27 May 1863
Miller, Michael Murray, fl. 1861-1864
to Lile Miller
Thinks Lieutenant Kitzmiller will be able to obtain a leave of absence. Discusses the complicated process of obtaining a furlough, noting that the request ultimately has to meet the approval of General [Samuel] Heintzelman.
GLC02155.103
18 December 1862
[to Lile Miller]
Possibly written from camp at Brooks Station. Miller encloses money for his wife and comments on the high price of goods. Location and recipient inferred based on date and accompanying letters.
GLC02155.073
11 June 1862
Miller writes near White House, Virginia, to his wife. Describes his journey from Fredericksburg, Virginia. Heard that his division will travel toward Richmond to join General George McClellan.
GLC02155.052
27 February 1862
Written at Camp Pierpont to his wife. Writes that the whole division is preparing to move, and "where we are to go, we do not know, or any person else i suppose excep [sic] Genl McClellan..." Post script is written in pencil.
GLC02155.037
15 September 1862
Davis, William B., fl. 1861-1862
to his sister
Written on patriotic stationery.
GLC02160.05
18 September 1862
Hash, Byron B., fl. 1862
to L. D. Wood, A. Pugh, J. B. Hash and Eli Pugh
re: skirmishing in Fayetteville, Va.; Charleston, Va.; and the Kanawha valley.
GLC03135.06.007
2 April 1864
to "Dear Brother"
re: desire to return home.
GLC03135.06.022
January 9, 1865
Jackson, Edwin, fl. 1862-1865
to William Jackson
re: He wishes Bill a happy New Year and talks about how happy and hopeful he is. He remarks that, after his last seven months are up, he will be proud to have been in the army and will be able to look at the cowardly Copperheads with contempt. He...
GLC00203.17
21 April 1864
Cranor, Franklin, fl. 1862-1865
to Delia Slocum
Cranor reports his return to Chattanooga by train. He came through as a guard and didn't have to march. Despite the comfortable passage he reports that most want to return home but he himself does not with to go: "I would not take a discharge if...
GLC03791.011
13 November 1863
McQuigg, fl. 1863
to Capt Avery
"....Capt Lipscim 8th Va Rebel Cavalry passed through Wyoming county with forty five men en route for Jackson County...."
GLC02414.246
2 December 1863
Kelley, Benjamin Franklin, 1807-1891
to Eliakim P. Scammon
Marked "Cifer." "Get your command in readiness to move on Lewisburg. The enemy must not be permitted to occupy that place. Averell is about ready to move in the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad at or near Salem…."
GLC02414.255
22 April 1864
Potter, James A., fl. 1864
[Invoice of ordnance and ordnance stores turned over by Captain James N. Potter to Captain Jenks]
GLC02750.248
27 April 1864
Jenks, Ethan A., fl. 1825-1901
[Invoice of ordnance and ordnance stores turned over by Captain Theodore Winn to Captain Jenks]
GLC02750.250
5 May 1864
GLC02750.251
14 November 1863
Tomlinson, W. H., fl. 1863
"One hundred (100) Rebel Troops infantry were Coal last night fifty crossed the Kanawha & are now on the lower side the other squad of 50 are on the upper side & have gone up Poca"
GLC02414.240
8 June 1865
[Account of military funds received by Captain Jenks]
GLC02750.270
1861-1877
Rhode Island Volunteers, Company J
[Officers of Company "I," Rhode Island Volunteers, confirm their receipt of Company funds upon being mustered out of United States Service]
Signed by members of Company "J."
GLC02750.271
Rhode Island Volunteers, Company I
GLC02750.272
1861-1864
Paxton, J.C., fl. 1863
to James L. Botsford
"Last night at Dark Major McMahn with 20 out of each of seven Companies crossed the river by steamer …they expect to meet Capt Walker at Daylight this morning then Scout both ways…" Dated Mch 13 186
GLC02414.281
4 July 1864
Dewey, Orville S., fl. 1861-1902
to Mary "Mollie" McLean
He feels sorry for Burns. All the old officers are gone from the old 5th. The new ones are strangers. The captain of his old company has been dismissed.
GLC02161.133
21 August 1864
He tells her to have a badge made for him. He gives explicit instructions. Written at Fort Pocahontas
GLC02161.138
5 October 1864
There is no real news today. Everyone is sleeping in the fields. He has his tent up.
GLC02161.143
1 January 1863
Jackson, Richard H., fl. 1861-1865
to Father
The officers headed by Col. Hawkins were taken to the headquarters of Major Gen. Sumner and Gen. Wilcox as well who praised the 9th regiment.
GLC07705.125
14 June 1862
He is anxiously awaiting a decision on whether or not he will get furlough. John Davis said he will not let any more men go on furlough until he sees Burnside.
GLC07705.071
17 June 1862
He is glad he called on Mrs. Milligan. He wants him to call on Janey as well. Burnside has made several trips to Norfolk.
GLC07705.072
29 June 1862
He writes of how "Him who ruleth above, that judeth of all men, entreating Him to hold the guiding hand over me while engaged in the dreadful courage of battle..."
GLC07705.074
26 July 1862
He lists all the regiments comprising the division of Gen. Burnside. He asks his father to see Evarts and procure a comission for him.
GLC07705.085
2 August 1862
He received orders to pack up and leave within a half hour. He got paid and will send $25 or $30.
GLC07705.087
4 August 1862
He expected to go up to Harrison's landing but ended up anchored to Fortress Monroe.
GLC07705.088
20 August 1862
He is glad his father received the $22 and glad he heard from Mr. Evarts even though his attempts were not successful.
GLC07705.094
11 October 1862
He writes that Mr. Hallow received his father's letter informing him the money written for by him had been sent on.
GLC07705.105
29 October 1862
He left encampment at Pleasant Valley and marched onward until they crossed the Potomac into Virginia. He is now in charge of some 40 men.
GLC07705.108
9 November 1862
The army has been cracking down on "stragglers." but says the Ninth has no stragglers and they can march longer than anyone else and Burnside himself has complimented them.
GLC07705.111
ca. June 1862
Jackson, Henry, fl. 1861-1864
to Richard H. Jackson
Read in the paper that several thousand of Burnside's troops have landed at Newport News, which led him to believe Richard was among them.
GLC07705.219
6 February 1863
He thinks they may go to North Carolina next. a violent snow storm raged the other day through which he rode his horse. He thinks he may have been in New York if it wasn't for the movement that countermanded the order which granted furloughs.
GLC07705.135
10 February 1863
He arrived in New Port News, Va. The Major told them he had been detailed Provost Marshall.
GLC07705.137
11 February 1863
He tells him to buy green shoulder straps which denote rifleman or blue ones which denote infantry.
GLC07705.138
18 February 1863
He asks his father what Martha Watson thinks of him since he has been writing to her frequently.
GLC07705.141
13 March 1863
Everyone is being shipped out to Suffolk. He writes about the Conscription Law that makes no provision for the 2 year troops after their time has elapsed. He admonishes the people that have stayed home and done nothing.
GLC07705.150
19 March 1863
Everyone has been ordered to Tennessee to reinforce Rosencrane.
GLC07705.152
1 April 1863
Gen. Dix has given orders for their regiiment to be ready at all hours to pack up and leave. He may go on to RIchmond
GLC07705.154
25 November 1863
He hopes his father will find his new position satisfactory. The bombardment is progressively slowing and there are signs of Charleston soon succumbing
GLC07705.187
9 December 1863
One of their monitors sank and the cause is unknown. There is not much firing going on at present.
GLC07705.189
29 December 1863
He requests another diary,a pocket book and postage stamps.
GLC07705.192
25 August 1862
Martha Watson has been away which explains why Richard hasn't heard from her. He saw Mr. Austen the other day who asked about his son.
GLC07705.226
16 October 1862
He is worried about money he has sent to his son by Adams Express. He is concerned that he knows nothing about his son's movements. He heard of a second regiment of the Hawkin's Zouaves under the auspices of his chaplain.
GLC07705.232
Duplicate of GLC07705.232.
GLC07705.233
28 November 1862
He prays for his safety and writes that Marcy visited with her younger sister and is disppointed not to have received any letters from Richard.
GLC07705.242
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