circa 1853-1897

Header Record

Title: Collection pertaining to John and Nathaniel Collins McLean [Decimalized .01-.04]

GLC01740.05.01 and .02 were previously attached together with metal clips. These two letters discuss Nathaniel McLean's participation in the Battle of Second Manassas (McLean outlines events which took place under his command on Bald Hill, 30 August 1862). Contains a leave of absence granted to N. McLean during the Civil War (.03), and a biographical sketch of John McLean (.04).

GLC01740.05

1 September 1862

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Lyons

Informs Lyons that General Robert E. Lee sent a dispatch indicating that General William B. Taliaferro was slightly wounded at Manassas Junction (during the second Battle of Manassas, AKA Bull Run). He does not want Lyons to be alarmed by "exaggerated reports." Lyons was a representative from Virginia in the Confederate Congress.

GLC01651

3 November 1862

Benjamin, Judah Philip, 1811-1884

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Louis Janin

Informs his friend Janin, who is in Paris, of the death of his son Eugene Janin at the battle of Antietam. "He fell in the battle of Sharpsburg...doing his duty to his country in the front ranks...He was wounded so severely...it was found impossible to convey him and he was left...with not a hope of recovery." Eugene is buried "with numbers of the other victims to the Carnage now which the insensate ferocity of the accursed and demoniac Yankees now wage against us." Written on "Confederate States of America, Department of State," stationary. Military records indicate that Janin was…

GLC01697

1862-1864

Moseley, Josiah, 1862-1864

Diary

Title: [Diary of Josiah Moseley]

Autograph manuscript. Moseley served in K company of the 6th regiment, Virginia infantry, in the Confederate Army. Describes the Battles of White Oak Swamp, Brandy Creek Station and Gettysburg, Malvern Hill, Second Manassas, and Chancellorsville.

GLC00653.18

1862-1863

Smalley, Herbert L., fl. 1862-1863

Diary

Title: [Diary of Herbert L. Smalley]

Autograph manuscript. Smalley served in Company A of the 7th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Consists of a small black pocketbook. A note inside the diary says it was found on a battlefield by another soldier. Includes entries Second Bull Run and Antietam.

GLC00653.14

30 August 1862

Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873

Manuscript document signed

Title: to Abraham Lincoln

Petition to President Lincoln recommending "the immediate removal of George B. McClellan from the Command of any army of the United States," signed by Chase, Stanton, and Smith. These three members of Lincoln's cabinet feel "constrained to urge this by conviction that after a sad and humiliating trial of twelve months and by the frightful and useless sacrifice of the lives of many thousands of brave men and the waste of many millions of national means he has proved to be incompetent for any important military command." Also cites "recent disobedience" and a failure to aid General Pope at…

GLC00776

1861-1864

Figures, Henry Stokes, 1844-1864

Header Record

Title: [Collection of Henry S. Figures, F company, 4th regiment, Alabama, infantry] [Decimalized .01- .33]

Figures was a member of Law's Brigade, Longstreet Division, of the 4th Alabama Infantry. Letters mention prisoners from the "Star of the West," the Battles of Manassas, Yorktown, Fredericksburg and Gettysburg, enslaved people, etc. Figures was killed at Battle of the Wilderness on 4 May 1864. Two of the letters (10 April 1861 and 25 April 1861) are on "Confederate States of America, War Department" stationery. Also includes 1867 burial card and a 6 page biographical manuscript (ca. 1890).

GLC00653.01

1862

Porter, Fitz-John, 1822-1901

Letter

Title: to Henry Jackson Hunt

United States Military Telegram. Requests an officer to assist Hazlett. Porter graduated from West Point in 1845, then was posted to the artillery. McClellan appointed him to command one of two provisional corps, and at Beaver Dam Greek, Gaines' Mill, and the start of the Seven Days battle, Porter displayed excellent generalship in defensive fighting. At Malvern Hill he played a leading role in covering the withdrawal of the army, and was subsequently awarded a second star and brevetted regular army brigadier. At 2nd Bull Run he was ordered to attack the flank and rear of Stonewall…

GLC02382.014

23 October 1883

Porter, Fitz-John, 1822-1901

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Jackson Hunt

Thanks Hunt for his recollections regarding Manassas. Mentions Generals John Fulton Reynolds, Robert Cumming Schenck, Irvin McDowell, John Alexander Logan, and John Pope, among others. Notes that another writer is tackling the topic of Manassas, and that Hunt will soon received the work in pamphlet form. Recently sent copies of some notes on Second Manassas to the War Department. Discusses controversy regarding his conduct at Second Manassas. Writes that McDowell was "so blind to his own interests in the effort to harm me that he could not see the effect of his acts when before the…

GLC02382.076

1863

Holt, Joseph, 1807-1894

Pamphlet

Title: Review by the judge advocate general of the proceedings, findings, and sentence of a general court martial held in the City of Washington...

(title continues)... for the trial of Major General Fitz John Porter, of the United States Volunteers. Includes a record of Porter's court-martial.

GLC00267.312

1879

Gardiner, Asa Bird, 1839-1919

Book

Title: Argument of Asa Bird Gardner, counsel for government, after conclusion of the evidence in the case of Fitz-John Porter before the Board of Army officers at West Point, January, 1879.

Discusses the reevaluation of General Porter's conduct during the Battle of Second Manassas. Includes a fold-out "Letter-press descriptive of illustrative map no. 1 of counsel for the government." Fold-out has been partially detached from binding.

GLC00267.313

1880

Randolph, Theodore F. (Theodore Fritz), 1826-1883

Pamphlet signed

Title: Speech of Honorable Theodore F. Randolph of New Jersey, in the Senate of the United States, Monday, March 1, 1880...

(title continues)... on the bill for the restoration of General Fitz John Porter to the United States Army. Argues in support of Porter. Signed by Randolph on the front cover.

GLC00267.314

September 1878 - June 1887

Porter, Fitz-John, 1822-1901

Header Record

Title: Collection of Porter letters [Decimalized .01-.14]

Most of the letters in this collection are to Captain (sometimes Colonel) Julius Walker Adams, a noted engineer and cousin of President John Quincy Adams. Porter discusses the reevaluation of his conduct at Second Manassas by a special commission in 1878 and 1879. The commission, headed by General John M. Schofield, submitted a report 19 March 1879, exonerating Porter from previous charges. In the 1880s, Porter's sentence was officially reversed, and under a special act of Congress, his commission was restored (with no back pay due). Fitz John Porter (1822-1901) fought in the Mexican War…

GLC00214.02

1861-1862

Ladd, George, fl. 1861-1862

Header Record

Title: [Collection of George W. Ladd, B company, 2nd regiment, New Hampshire, infantry] [Decimalized .01- .08]

Collection of 7 letters including commander's letter regarding his death at the Second Battle of Manassas.

GLC03057

1862/03 ca.

Photograph

Title: Ruins of Bull Run stone bridge, Manassas, Va. [March 1862 ca.]

View looks down the stream and shows the ruined stone bridge at Manassas battlefield. The structure is mostly intact on both banks of the water, middle span has collapsed. A pile of rubble is visible in the water below. A covered wago, perhaps belonging to the photographer, is in the far left background. Inscription on verso: "Bull Run Bridge."

GLC05111.01.0559

1862/03

Photograph

Title: Confederate Quaker Guns at Centreville, Va. [March 1862]

Inscription on verso: "Battle of Bull Run. Confederate Quaker guns at Centreville, Va." Inscription in another hand "F. H. Meserve Collection" Numeric notation: "5430G/2" Image of Union soldiers posed inside a fort with "Quaker guns." The position was taken by the Federals after the Confederates evacuated it. "Quaker guns"--logs-- were often employed in deserted sections of a line to deceive the enemy into thinking a postion was more heavily defened than it really was. Zoauve in the foreground holds a bed roll [blanket] wrapped in a gum blanket that is slung over the shoulders. Crop…

GLC05111.01.0374

1862/03 ca.

Photograph

Title: The Robinson House at Manassas Battlefield [Henry Hill]. [March 1862 ca.]

A view of the Robinson House and front yard. Numeric Notation: "319 I"

GLC05111.01.0405

circa 1861-1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Ruins of Stone Bridge on Manassas battlefield.

Stone bridge foundation remains in right foreground and sparse vegetation. The bridge once spanned Bull Run--site of fierce fighting in 1861 and 1862. Numeric notation on verso: "3/0." Taken by Barnard & Gibson in March 1862. (Photographic History of the Civil War, Vol. 1, p. 829). See GLC 5111.01.0039 [also of Stone Bridge].

GLC05111.01.0802

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Soldiers and Cannon, at Bull Run [stereocard]

Inscription on verso: "War Views. No. 2060. Soldiers and part of a Battery, on the Battlefield of Bull Run." Numeric notation on verso: "44."

GLC05111.01.0830

circa 1861-1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Bridge span over Bull Run

This image shows a single soldier standing on a bridge just a few days before the second battle at Bull Run. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notation on verso: "IV" and "547."

GLC05111.01.0968

circa 1861-1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Bull Run monument

The image shows a soldiers monument on which the plaque states: "In Memory of the Patriots Who Fell at Bull Run." The monument is surrounded by a wood fence, and in the distance cows are grazing. Inscriptions on verso: "Gardner" and "Bull Run Monument." Numeric notation on verso: "11.94."

GLC05111.01.1100

9 November 1862

Pope, John, 1822-1892

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Benjamin Welch

Discusses his relief from command of the Army of Virginia and the political maneuverings that have undermined his reputation and led to his relief. "Whether the impression already made upon the public mind by this cause of designed and persistent malice & misrepresentation, can ever be eradicated by the truth is doubtful, but if such sacrifice of my personal reputation will advance the cause in which we are all enlisted, I shall submit to it cheerfully and silently." Pope, who had been put in charge of all the Armies in the East not under McClellan was relieved of this command after his…

GLC04704

21 March 1862

Raymond, Henry J. (Henry Jarvis), 1820-1869

Newspaper

Title: The New-York Times. [Vol. 11, no. 3274 (March 21, 1862)]

Mostly contains news from various theatres of war. Most articles are short updates on skirmishes, but there are several larger ones. News from Washington: an inquiry into censorship of the press, report of the House Judiciary Committee, bridges destroyed by the rebels as they retreated from Manassas, increased railroad facilities between New York and Washington,and debates on the tax bill in House of Representatives. Other articles on fighting in Eastern Kentucky and Island Number Ten. Articles dealing with issues on the Southern coast, including Florida and New Bern, North Carolina. Includes…

GLC08726.17

1862

Lumsden, F.A., & G.W., fl. 1862

Header Record

Title: Daily picayune. (New Orleans, La.)

Vol. 26, nos.199 and 272. 4 p. each. 1862/09/14 and 1862/12/09. Volume 272 is printed on darker paper.

GLC05959.16

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: The Battlefield of Bull Run

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. Caption: "Soldiers and part of a Battery, on the Battlefield of 'Bull Run.'" One cannon in place and it appear

GLC05137.207