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Letter of the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 6th instant, relative to the purchase of extracts of coffee for the use of the troops

Report submitted to the Senate by Secretary of War Cameron extols the advantages of Professor H.A. Tilden's coffee extract, apparently a synthetic or ersatz coffee and condensed milk mixture. Claims "[t]he coffee and sugar ration for 100,000 men for...

GLC00267.255

Instructions to the commanders of private ships or vessels of war, which shall have commissions or letters of marque and reprisal, authorizing them to make captures of British vessels and cargoes.

Printed as a broadside. Signed by Hancock as President of the Second Continental Congress. Contains eleven articles created by Congress authorizing private American ships to capture British vessels. Instructs American captains to bring captured...

GLC00038.01

Instructions to the commanders of private ships or vessels of war, which shall have commissions or letters of marque and reprisal, authorizing them to make captures of British vessesl and cargoes.

Broadside with printed date of 3 April 1776. Signed by Laurens as President of Congress (indicating that signature and printed date do not coincide). Contains eleven articles created by Congress authorizing private American ships to capture British...

GLC00038.02

Instructions to the commanders of private ships or vessels of war, which shall have commissions or letters of marque and reprisal, authorizing them to make captures of British vessels and cargoes.

Broadside with printed date of 3 April 1776. Signed by Jay as President of the Continental Congress (indicating that the signature and printed date do not coincide). Contains eleven articles created by Congress authorizing private American ships to...

GLC00038.03

Instructions to the commanders of private ships or vessels of war, which shall have commissions or letters of marque and reprisal, authorizing them to make captures of British vessels and cargoes.

Broadside with printed date of 3 April 1776. Signed by Huntington as President of the Continental Congress (indicating that the signature and printed date do not coincide). Contains eleven articles created by Congress authorizing private American...

GLC00038.04

Report of the Secretary of War, communicating, In answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 10th instant, a copy of Major General Rosecrans's report of the Battle of Murfreesboro', or Stone River, Tennessee.

Cover is missing. Contains a report transmitted to the Senate by Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War, concerning the Battle of Stones River, or Murfreesboro. Comprises the full report of the battle, issued by General William Starke Rosecrans. Among...

GLC00267.330

Report of Major-General John Pope. Letter from the secretary of war, in answer to resolution of the House of 18th ultimo, transmitting copy of report of Major General John Pope.

Popes's report to the House of Representatives with accompanying documents and a foldout map. Concerns "the operations of the army of Virginia, while under his command." HED Doc. 81. Sabin 64116.

GLC00267.311

(Senate bill, no. 16.) . . . Joint resolution defining the position of the Confederate States, and declaring the determination of the Congress and the people thereof to prosecute the war till their independence is acknowledged.

stamp of record division

GLC06745.019

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

The St. Clair papers: The life and public service of Arthur St. Clair: Soldier of the Revolutionary War; President of the Continental Congress; and Governor of the North-Western Territory with his correspondence and other papers

Published by Robert Clarke & Co., 1882. Signed by former President Rutherford B. Hayes on 11 February 1882. Includes some of St. Clair's addresses and correspondence. Contains ordinances and treaties related to the Northwest Territory. This is...

GLC05106

Claims Under the Cherokee Treaty of 1835-36: Letter from the Secretary of War Transmitting in Pursuance of a resolution of the House of Representatives, of April 26 1848, a copy of the repot of Messrs. Harden and Brewster, late commissioners...

appointed to the adjudicate claims arising under the Cherokee treaty of 1835-'6

GLC09885.02

[Envelope addressed to John M. Everhart]

One envelope addressed to John M. Everhart from the War Department.

GLC10048.01

Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains : performed in the years 1819 and '20, by order of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Sec'y of War ; under the command of Major Stephen H. Long / from the notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and other gentlemen of the exploring party

Published by H.C. Carey and I. Lea. Contains a separate folio atlas volume with two maps, eight plates (1 colored), and 1 plate of geological cross-sections. James was the botanist and geologist for the expedition.

GLC04143

A report to the Secretary of War of the United States, on Indian Affairs, comprising a narrative of a tour performed in the summer of 1820 , under a commission from the President of the United States, for the purpose of ascertaining, for the use of the government, the actual state of the Indian tribes in our country: Illustrated by a map of the United States; ornamented by a correct portrait of a Pawnee Indian

Printed by S. Converse, published by Howe & Spalding. Signed by M. H. White on the title page. Reverend Morse presents a detailed study on Native American Tribes to John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War. Information in this work is based on Morse's...

GLC04135

Appointment no. 47 of Thomas Ward Cadet

Blue sheet folded, signed by Floyd as Secretary of War.

GLC00778.02

Appointment of Thomas Ward as cadet at West Point with instructions

Signed on front by John Floyd as Secretary of War. Blue paper. With instructions for qualification for admissions, exercises and extract of regulations.

GLC00778.01

[Receipt of salaries]

Signed by nine War Dept. employees including John Stagg Jr. Written from the War Office of the United States to the "Secretary for the Department of War," [Henry Knox]. Receipt of paid salaries for the months of April, May, and June.

GLC02437.06130

[Receipt of salaries]

Contains Knox's copied signature. Written from the War Office of the United States to the "Secretary for the Department of War" [Henry Knox]. Receipt of paid salaries for the months of October, November, and December. Signed by 12 War Department...

GLC02437.06288

[Receipt of salaries]

Written from the War Office of the United States to the "Secretary for the Department of War," [Henry Knox]. Receipt of paid salaries for the months of January, February, and March.

GLC02437.06071

General Orders, no. 23.

With manuscript notes of Paul Semmes on front page. Statement of costs for clothing, camp and garrison equipment for the Army of the United States for the year starting on 1 July 1859. From the Adjutant General's office, S. Cooper. With fold out...

GLC00508.01

[Reports of explorations and surveys for a railroad route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean]

Thirteen volumes bound as twelve. Volumes 1 through 11 were issued in the Congressional series of U.S. public documents as 33d Cong., 2d sess. House ex. doc. 91, and also as Senate ex. doc. 78. Volume 11 was issued also (1861) as 36th Cong., 2d sess...

GLC04963

to Major Philip R. Ward

Signed by Adjutant General Henry P. McLean, with Ward's signed note at bottom. The letter discusses transmitting commission to Major of Coast.

GLC00778.21

[Map of French coast from Cherbourg to Rouen]

A first edition European road map published by the War Office in 1941, showing the French coast from Cherbourg to Rouen.

GLC09557.01

to Mother

One postcard addressed to Mrs. Leonard Baudoux from the War Department pertaining to Albert Baudoux's address change.

GLC10001.214

to Mother

One v-mail addressed to Marie Baudoux from the War Department pertaining to Albert Baudoux's address change.

GLC10001.220

Sex Hygiene and Venereal Disease

A pamphlet issued by the War Department that gives facts and advice about sexual hygiene and venereal diseases.

GLC09414.1640

General Orders

10 volumes of General Orders of the War Department from 1861-1869.

GLC08646

to George, Prince of Wales

British hand-colored, printed rebus poem. "On War" depicts a miniature battle scene along with the lines: "How furious is the Battles rage/When foes with fire and swords engage...".

GLC08255.01

General Orders

Printed by Government Printing Office. General Orders for 1864, but published in 1865. Book plate on inside front cover: "Library Army War College." Purple stamp says "War Department, Received Apr 9 1913 Library." Printed orders no. 1-150 for January...

GLC08646.05

General Orders

Printed by Government Printing Office. General Orders for 1864, but published in 1865. Spine has name "J.W. Barriger U.S.A." Book plate on inside front cover: "Library Army War College." Purple stamp says "War Department, Received Apr 9 1913 Library...

GLC08646.06

Certificate of Training

Certifies that Eugene W. Williams 2nd Lt. Air Corps completed Instrument Ground Training at Lockbourne Army Air Base in Columbus, Ohio. Signed by William A. Campbell Major, Air Corps, Commanding. Stamped with United States War Office Seal and a...

GLC09587.157

Possible Enemy Chemical Warfare Agents

War Department issued Possible Enemy Chemical Warfare Agents training aid pocket card. Printed by the U.S. Government Printing Office. Includes instructions for first aid and decontamination when exposed to gas and care of gas masks. On reverse is a...

GLC09567

[Receipt of salaries]

Written in the hand of Samuel Lewis. Issued from the War Office of the United States to the "Secretary for the Department of War," [Henry Knox]. Receipt of paid salaries for the months of July, August, and September. Document is signed by 14 War...

GLC02437.06215

to Henry Knox

Peters writes from the War Office on behalf of the Board of War. Informs Knox that 216 barrels of powder have been sent from Boston to West Point, and directs Knox to deposit the powder where he thinks most proper.

GLC02437.00982

California and New Mexico. Message from the President of the United States...

Title continues "transmitting information in answer to a resolution of the House of the 31st of December, 1849, on the subject of California and New Mexico." Documents furnished by the War department include pages 233-945. With 6 foldout maps....

GLC08579

General Orders

Handwritten table of contents at front. Inside front cover has a pasted piece of paper that says: "Col. Alex. J. Perry, Division C.C. and G. Equipage Quatermaster's Department, Washington, D.C." Contains 217 printed orders for the War Department in...

GLC08646.02

Survival

A manual for aircraft crews that are forced down during the war. Prepared and Published by Air Lines War Training Institute in Washington D.C. Describes what soldiers should do to survive in the artic, jungle, desert, and ocean.

Inscribed "to...

GLC09620.349

General Orders

Published by the War Department and printed by the Government Printing Office. Orders are for 1866, but the book was published in 1867. Name on spine: "Col. E. C. Mason." Contains 75 page Index of General Orders at the front of the book. Orders No. 1...

GLC08646.08

General Orders

Inscribed by "Rudolph Frey. Clerk at Hd Qrs. Dep't of the Mo. July 3d. 1863." Inside back cover has a faded signature of "Rudolph Frey." Pasted paper on inside front cover says "R.P. Studley & Co. Bookbinders, Printers and Lithographers S.W. Cor...

GLC08646.03

to Henry Knox

Orders Knox to send ordnance to General Nathanael Greene, who was "extremely destitute of Musket Ammunition." The Continental Army began to invest the British works for the siege of Yorktown the day before. Peters was the Secretary of the Board of...

GLC02437.01197

Camp Songs of the United States Army Ambulance Corps

Collected by Kenneth S. Clark representing the War Department Commission on Training Camp Activities. World War I song sheet with printed lyrics for 10 songs including "Battle Hymn of the Republic," "Kaiser Bill," and "When Sammy Comes Driving Home."

GLC09572

to Henry Knox

General Cornell, on the Board of War and Ordnance, encloses a list of articles ordered to New Windsor, New York (list not included). Reports that George Washington informed the Board in a letter that none of the heavy stores are to be sent from...

GLC02437.01033

General Orders

Published by the War Department and printed by the Government Printing Office. Orders are for 1869, the same year it was published. Contains 35 page index of names and subjects at the front of the book. Spine says "C.Q.M.O. Dept. Platte. Alex J...

GLC08646.10

to Henry Knox

Cornell writes on behalf of the Board of War. Informs Knox of the status of several supply orders, including spirits, paper, and linseed oil. Notes that [Samuel] Hodgdon, Commissary General of Military Stores, "has a fair prospect of being...

GLC02437.01015

Army Talks Orientation Fact Sheet 66

One pamphlet entitled Army Talks Orientation Fact Sheet 66 dated April 7, 1945.

GLC10047.03.284

Army Talks Orientation Discussion Guide 67

One pamphlet entitled Army Talks Orientation Discussion Guide 67 dated April 14, 1945.

GLC10047.03.285

Army Talks Orientation Fact Sheet 68

One pamphlet entitled Army Talks Orientation Fact Sheet 68 dated April 21, 1945.

GLC10047.03.286

Army Talks Orientation Fact Sheet 69

One pamphlet entitled Army Talks Orientation Fact Sheet 69 dated April 28, 1945.

GLC10047.03.287

Army Talks Orientation Fact Sheet 70

One pamphlet entitled Army Talks Orientation Fact Sheet 70 dated May 5, 1945.

GLC10047.03.288