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1861-1864
McLaughlin, John, ?
to Eliakim P. Scammon
"Have arrested Father Parke and taken charge of his papers what shall I do with him" Dated Apl 18 186
GLC02414.304
to James L. Botsford
" . . . the expedition under Major Mahon to Logan County has just returned the result we have 20 prisoners one Q. M. - we killed 3 men & wounded two we lost no man . . ." Dated 11 1863. No second page. Written in Camp Piatt
GLC02414.300
Toland, John T., fl. 1863-1864
"No news. Rebel scouts from Lewisburg and some of Thurmans men are reported as having been at Sewell on the 12th Cavalry have been coming in one at a time there now remains oout one Lt & seven (7) men missing It is reported two or three wounded..."...
GLC02414.337
September 18, 1864
Williams, W.F., fl. 1863-1864
[List of articles seized from traders]
List of articles seized from men who were trading across enemy lines. Also lists the men captured.
GLC02233.55.02
21 April 1863 or 1864
Parke, J., fl. 1863
[Scammon endorsement on a telegram from J. Parke]
Telegram to Brigadier General Scammon in which Parke states that he is "innocent of having given aid & comfort to the Rebels." Asks for an immediate trial. With pencil note from Scammon (possibly in his hand) asking Parke "Did you not negotiate or...
GLC02414.071
circa spring 1862
Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894
to G. M. Bascom
Colonel Scammon of the 23rd Ohio writes to the Assistant Adjutant General in Charleston, West Virginia. Reports that a Dr. Naughter is so ill that he doesn't feel he can detain him any longer. Mentions that he can only approve the leave of two...
GLC02414.094
19 September 1861
William Lloyd and Co. (Richmond, Va.), fl. 1861-1865
Daily Richmond examiner. [Vol. 14, no. 174 (September 19, 1861)]
Our forces in the vicinity of Williamsburg - sketch of General Magruder and his headquarters, Skirmishing on the Potomac, Capture of General Reynolds.
GLC05959.72.008
1862/04/14
Morris, Charles F., fl. 1861-1862
to: Susannah L. Morris.
Charles reports that they fought last Friday and "whip[ped] the rebells and took 25 prisoners" which they sent to Washington.
GLC06451.009
8 May 1863
Camden Confederate. [Vol. 2, no. 28 (May 8, 1863)]
Additional Details of the Battles Around Chancellorsville, Grand Capture by General Forrest.
GLC05959.41.15
27 May 1862
Hanleiter & Adair (publishers), fl. 1861-1865
Southern Confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 86 (May 27, 1862)]
Includes articles about the Escape of General Morgan's Men, the Proposition of the Northern Government for Exchange of Prisoners, and the Southern Feeling and Spirit in Baltimore. Miscellaneous advertisements throughout issue for goods and services...
GLC05959.09.021
12 May 1863
Miller, Jacob, fl. 1863
to Mr. Baker
In Baton Rouge, he was to take charge of the guns in defence. His wife arrived in New Orleans, only to lose all her luggage and escape with one dress. Later they went to Pattersonville where the fighting was severe. They mangaed to get some artillery...
GLC07205.019
30 November 1863
Richmond weekly enquirer. [Vol., no. 100 (November 29, 1863)]
Details of the Battle of Chickamauga, Yankee disaster reported at Matagorda Bay.
GLC05959.73.11
1865/03/05
Armstrong, Halleck (fl. 1865)
to: Mary [Armstrong].
Discusses his commanders & their religiosity, his preaching & religious ministering at the camp.
GLC06734.08
1865/03/14
to: Mary [Armstrong]
Describes battle in detail. Also: "…The good news from Sheridan was read to the boys at inspection in the form of a dispatch from Gen. Grant. It was received with loud cheers. Surely the end draws nigh…"
GLC06734.17
1865/03/16
Describes feeling of impending battle. In part: "…Everything is quiet this morning, but it may be the calm before the storm. Sheridan is here, & his wonderful cavalry are not far off…"
GLC06734.19
2 July 1862
Ing, John H., 1819-1901
to Edwin M. Stanton
Ing, a Baltimore attorney, offers a plan to bring the Maryland militia into the service of the Union. Indicates that 5,000 volunteers and 10,000-15,000 "Home Guards" could be ready in 30-60 days. Also states that he suggested the same plan to...
GLC08406
1865/04/19
Raymond, Henry J. (Henry Jarvis), 1820-1869
New-York times. [Vol. 14, no. 4233 (April 19, 1865)]
News of the funeral preparations for Lincoln in New York. Also includes reports of the capture of Raleigh by Sherman. Two letters, one between Edwin Booth and Judge Edmonds, the other between Booth and Mr. Henry Jarrett are published. Edwin Booth...
GLC08428.07
1865/04/28
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872
New-York semi-weekly tribune. [Vol. 20, no. 2079 (April 28, 1865)]
News of capture of John Wilkes Booth and David Herold. Booth was found and killed, Herold was arrested. Includes a commentary on the unnecessary shooting of Booth; it is felt by the general public that he should have been tried and hanged....
GLC08428.10
3 June 1862
New York semi-weekly tribune. [Vol. 18, no. 1776 (June 3, 1862)]
Richmond battle with map
GLC08429.04
1864
Election of 1864 Union party ballots [Decimalized .01-.05]
GLC08498
1860 circa
Lincoln and Hamlin election 1860 campaign tokens [Decimalized .01-.02]
GLC08499
1862 ca.
Letter from union soldier including 11th Massachusetts Regt. Patriotic cover with battle of Williamsburg, Va
GLC08502
3 June 1863
Wheeler, Joseph, 1836-1906
[General Joseph Wheeler's General Orders No. 7]
Contains Wheeler's orders transmitted by D. G. Reed, Assistant Adjutant General. Wheeler, commanding cavalry corps, Army of Tennessee, states "...The commanding General of this Army relies solely upon information received from Cavalry, to make his...
GLC08604
1 September 1861
Dawes, Rufus Robinson, 1838-1899
[Invoice of ordnance and ordnance stores, 6th Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry]
Signed by Dawes as Captain of Company "K" in the 6th Wisconsin Volunteers. Printed form filled out by hand listing ordnance stores Dawes turned over to Colonel Lysander Cutler. Written at Camp Kalorama.
GLC08638
1862
West Viriginia General Assembly
Acts of the General Assembly, Passed at the Regular Session, Held December Second, 1861, at the City of Wheeling
Printed at the Daily Press Book and Job Office. These acts were passed to set up West Virginia as a state. Pages 3-91 contain the various acts with descriptive summaries printed in smaller font in the margin next to the pertinent text. Each act is...
GLC08670
September 12, 1862
Smith, Edmund Kirby, 1824-1893
to John Hunt Morgan
Ordering Morgan to defend Nicholasville and Bryantsville, near Lexington, Kentucky. Written in pencil.
GLC01049
September 12, 1861
Zollicoffer, Felix K., 1812-1862
to Tazwell W. Newman
Discusses Colonel Newman's request for supplies and supply issues more generally. Also comments on the movements of a few regiments. With a brief postscript noting supplies taken by Major J.L. Brown. Zollicoffer was a brigadier general in the...
GLC00991
September 18, 1862
Custer, George Armstrong, 1839-1876
to Colonel Colburn
Pencilled letter written during the Battle of Antietam on stationary marked "Head Quarters, Army of the Potomac." States "We have just captured one three inch gun and its Caisson on the road from the Hagerstown Pike to Sharpstown. Col. Hunt had...
GLC00932
13 April 1861
Crawford, Samuel Wylie, 1829-1892
[Copy of Crawford's notes regarding surrender of Fort Sumter]
Walker's "true copy" of Crawford and Seymour's first hand account of the meeting between Colonel Louis Wigfall and Major Robert Anderson, during which Fort Sumter was surrendered. Walker copied, in pencil, Crawford and Seymour's written account...
GLC01127.01
May 11, 1863
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Curtis was replaced with Schonfield in the Dept of the Missouri. Written on Executive Mansion stationery. Docketed on p. 4 by Stanton
Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol...
GLC01211
23 November 1862
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
General order no. 94
Written by order of General Sherman but signed by J. H. Hammond as Adjutant General. Assigns Brigadier General Jacob Gartner Lauman commander of 6th Brigade. Provides for the garrisoning of Fort Pickering by three regiments of regulars and one or...
GLC01258
12 December 1863
Polk, Leonidas, 1806-1864
to Mrs. Thrasher
Confederate General Polk writes to the wife of a man identified as Colonel Thrasher to inform her that he has began an inquiry into the affairs of a man she wrote to Polk about. In an initialled post script, he comments on the removal of Braxton...
GLC01696
2 December 1864
Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869
[Brevet appointment of William R. Smedberg]
Partially printed document appointing William R. Smedberg as "a Major, by Brevet," for "gallant services at the battle of the Wilderness." While the President has appointed Smedberg, he must also be confirmed by the Senate before assuming his new...
GLC08574
26 May 1863
Moore, Samuel P., 1812-1889
to "Sister"
The Confederate Surgeon General agrees to show the "sister's" friend around and pledges not to mention a word to him about her "Richmond scrapes." Discusses how bored he is there and his desire to get transferred to the staff of a general. Adds a...
GLC01880
1863/11/16
Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870
to Mrs. Grace Stevens
Mrs. Stevens's husband had been lost aboard the C.S.S. Ram. A very gracious letter.
GLC01882
17 January 1865
Foster, John Gray, 1823-1874
Rejoices in the news of General William T. Sherman's march to the sea and the capture of Fort Fischer. States that he thinks it is a good time to gather all their men together and instigate a "Union march." Instructs Scammon to "Select your point...
GLC01905
1861/04/29
Jackson, Thomas J. "Stonewall", 1824-1863
to John Letcher re: building railroad between Strasburg & Wincester
Jackson recommends building the railroad for military purposes.
GLC01979
29 November 1864
Roy, Thomas B., fl. 1864
to Gustavus Woodson Smith
Roy, Assistant Adjutant General, writes from Head Quarters of the Department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Relates the orders of the Department Commander, Lieutenant General William Joseph Hardee, to Smith. Hardee instructs Smith to...
GLC01937
28 July 1864
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
to George G. Meade
Grant, commander-in-chief of the United States Army, writes to Meade, commander of the Army of the Potomac. Writes that General Winfield Scott Hancock will return (possibly to City Point) and will be too fatigued for active operations against...
GLC01953
5 November 1864
Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877
to Mary
Written in pencil. Reports that he went back to his regiment. Mentions the Battle of Cedar Creek.
GLC02082.58
11 May 1862
to his sister
Written in pencil from the "Chickahominy River" on small sheet of paper (appears to have been taken from a pocket diary). Discusses marching 8 days and nights, and military action.
GLC02082.15
19 May 1862
Written in pencil on blue-lined notepaper. Discusses military action.
GLC02082.16
14 November 1862
Ewing, Addison Lee (fl. 1862-1879)
Addison Lee Ewing to his wife and the original letter from Mary
GLC03523.040.01
15 June 1864
Eveleth, George M. (1837-1879)
George M. Eveleth to Ellen
GLC03857.33
8 October 1863 - 25 March 1865
Bates, J. Anson (fl. 1865)
Permission passes
GLC03857.68
May 1861
Maslin, Thomas, 1808-1878
To the People of Hardy County.
Created by Hardy County, Virginia, citizens and officials including S. H. Alexander, J. W. F. Allen, George Fisher, A. A. Inskeep, Samuel McMechen, George McNeill, John C. B. Mullin, A. H. Scott, Alfred Taylor, Joseph Vanmeter, William C. Vanmeter, F...
GLC00724
11 January 1865
[Note allowing John Swisher to take the oath of 8 December 1863]
Lincoln autograph endorsement signed on a letter from Edward McPherson to President Lincoln requesting clemency for a man, dated 10 January 1865. Lincoln's endorsement reads, "Let this man, John Swisher take the oath of Dec. 8, 1863 & be discharged...
GLC00693.03
August 3, 1865
Van Valkenburgh, Robert B., 1821-1888
to Mary B. Van Valkenburgh
Signed "Robt" by Congressman Robert Van Valkenburgh. Writes to his mother to tell her he has just returned to Washington after a trip to Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, Virginia, and then to Elmira, Albany, and New York. Says his health is better than it has...
GLC00686.23
28 November 1864
Lee, Sydney Smith, 1802-1869
[Confederate States Navy Department orders to proceed to Richmond]
Partially printed document signed by Captain Sydney Smith Lee. Docket added 1 December 1864 reads: "Be pleased to assume command of the C.S. Iron-Clad 'Richmond'." Co-signed by John Mitchell aboard the Virginia. Sidney Smith Lee, older brother of...
GLC00684.13
11 March 1861
Cobb, Howell, 1815-1868
Constitution of the Confederate States of America
First printing, signed by Howell Cobb, President of the Constitutional Congress at end. Parrish & Willingham 8 is a variant with space for signing by Cobb, for private distribution (cf. Parrish 1)
GLC00759
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