Miscellaneous Civil War documents [Decimalized .01-.07]

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GLC#
GLC06452.05
Type
Header Record
Date
1861-1865
Title
Miscellaneous Civil War documents [Decimalized .01-.07]
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
7 items (6 documents, 1 photograph)
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War
Civil War
Military History

Showing 7 of 7 records

Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to Achsah M. Level

19 April 1861

Evans, W. L., fl. 1861

Discusses the Civil War with Level, stating "I have nothing of importance to write. onley the disturbance in our contry which is caused by the hot headed Northerans. who are working every day contrary to their own welfair if they only know it. but...

GLC06452.05.01
Collection Item
Photograph

[W. L. Evans]

1861 ca.

Possibly a carte de visite of Evans, a Civil War soldier. Accompanied by a letter from Evans to Achsah Level dated 19 April 1861 (GLC06452.05.01).

GLC06452.05.02
GLC06452.05.03
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to M. A. Hazen

28 August 1864

Yorke, J.P., fl. 1864

Yorke, a soldier, replies to a letter from Hazen, a reverend in Plymouth, New Hampshire. Discusses the death of Amanda, (possibly his wife), stating "It seems at times, the world looks so dark & dreary, to me, that I have nothing for which to live....

GLC06452.05.03
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to G. A. Pierce

February 20, 1865

Holabird, Samuel B., 1826-1907

Colonel Holabird, Chief Quartermaster of the Department of Louisiana, informs Colonel Pierce (possibly an inspector in the Department of the Quartermaster) that "The officer who superintended & made the sales of Cotton called for by you is imprisoned...

GLC06452.05.04
Collection Item
Document signed

[Bond regarding Bronson's response to Abraham Lincoln's call for volunteers]

February 23, 1865

Thomas, A. J., fl. 1865

Bronson citizens indemnify township trustees "to the amount of 2700 dollars against any loss, upon their issuing their bonds for the same amount for the purpose of procuring volunteers to fill the Quota of the Township under the late call of under...

GLC06452.05.05
GLC06452.05.06
Collection Item
Ephemera

[Aetna United States Mail Secret Protectors]

circa 1864

Cryptic document docketed with the initials of Aetna United States Mail Secret Protectors, described as a "banded organization." States, "This paper, being an exposure of the designs of rebel refugees from the South, banded for plunder and murder in...

GLC06452.05.06
Collection Item
Ephemera

[Ticket for "The War for the Union"]

circa 1864

Admits one school scholar to "Brady & Gardner's Gorgeous Tableaux of 'The War for the Union,' " (a photography exhibition compiled by noted Civil War photographers Alexander Gardner and Mathew Brady). Contains positive quotations reviewing the...

GLC06452.05.07