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[Appointment of Eleazer Sarsons as a volunteer sergeant in the Civil War]

Signed by Colonel Whipple and countersigned by Adjutant Henry W. Fuller. Partially printed document appointing Sarsons the third sergeant in Company C of the 4th Regiment of the New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry.

GLC03953.05

[Speech on Declaration of War on Mexico in the House of Representatives]

Concerning the constitutionality and necessity of Polk's declaration of war with Mexico. Printed by J.& G.S. Gideon. See also GLC02025.

GLC01638

An act relative to prisoners of war. . .Approved May 21, 1861

GLC06745.003

Where Hell Was Loosed; War's Indescribable Desolation and Unburied Victims, Lens.

A desolate, ravaged battlefield with the bodies of dead soldiers in Lens, France.

GLC09584.040

[Note certifying the Revolutionary War service of a man, possibly named Joseph Scavitt]

Short note certifying the Revolutionary War service of Joseph Scavitt. He fought with a regiment in Rhode Island in 1776 under Captain Augustus Stanton and Colonel Henry Babcock.

GLC02150.15

Reminiscence of Frances Ormsbee regarding the Vermont regiments during the Civil War

One document written by Frances Ormsbee dated July 8, 1895. The document is a reminiscence of Vermont regiments during the Civil War.

GLC03523.09.58

Group portrait of Civil War officers at the front by Gardner

19 men seated and standing in two rows in various poses.

GLC00557

re: response to rebel threats of shooting black prisoners of war

Incomplete letter from Corporal 10th VT., Co. H.: "...[O]ur Generals sent them word that every Black Prisoner they [the Confederates] shot they would pick out A rebel Prisoner...that had owned the most slaves and shoot him."

GLC07610

Group of documents re: French and Indian War [Decimalized .01- .05]

Collection of letters from Governor of Massachusetts Thomas Pownall to various recipients and in a number of official capacities.

GLC07901