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[Bench notes on the Whiskey Rebellion trial, United State v. John Barnet]

Supreme Court Justice Paterson's notes prepared while sitting as a judge of U.S. Circuit Court. Paterson's notes contain a detailed record of the rebellion and a discussion of the legal definition of treason, which this case helped to shape....

GLC01114

Appointing Holland Coffee agent of Texas for the Comanches

Sealed with green, yellow and white ribbons with paper seal. Republic of Texas. Document length does not include full ribbon lengths. Full measurement with document: 40.7 x 40 cm.

GLC01119.01

[Signed portrait of Schuyler Colfax]

Signed cabinet photograph of Schuyler Colfax in 3/4 bust profile as older man. Taken at McDonald studio.

GLC01120

[Stephen Austin's Securing a loan from Louisiana]

Printed document signed on page 3 by Austin with possible later notations, for the Republic of Texas. Signed by William Christy, public notary, and lenders, including William Triplett and others. The first Texas loan. Reference information:...

GLC01121

Certifying entrance of William Buzby into service as a Texas soldier

Docketed.

GLC01122

to Timothy Bigelow

Written aboard U.S.S. Constitution (Old Ironsides), Boston Harbor. Expresses pleasure in hearing of a vote of appreciation for the Constitution's victory over the British frigate H.M.S. Java. "To merit and receive the appreciation of our Country is...

GLC01125

An Act for regulating and governing the militia of the commonwealth of Massachusetts

Contains the laws and rules for the Massachusetts militia. Signed "Capt. Thomas Bigelow" on the cover. Published by Adams and Larkin, "Printers to the Honorable General Court." An "additional militia law" of 24 February 1796 is bound in at the...

GLC01125.02

[General Order no. 8 regarding African Squadron vessels' procedure for obtaining supplies]

One letter written by Commodore Matthew Perry dated October 29, 1843. Contains orders that fresh provisions and medicaid aid must be approved by the commanding officers before given to members of the African Squadron. Signed on behalf of the...

GLC01126

[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

to Robert Anderson

Pencil copy of Beauregard's letter to Anderson demanding that Fort Sumter be surrendered and evacuated. Will permit that the flag "may be saluted by you upon taking it down." Page two contains pencil drawn copy of the watermark, and page three a...

GLC01127.02

[Account of the surrender of Fort Sumter]

Firsthand account of the negotiations for the surrender of Fort Sumter. Details conversation between Major Robert Anderson and Captain Lee negotiating terms of surrender. Finishes Crawford's narrative begun in GLC01127.01. Recounts the...

GLC01127.03

Carte de visite by Brady, signed on mount

Signed on the mount "A. Lincoln" This image is O-49.

GLC00919.01

Carte de visite of Ulysses S. Grant

GLC00919.02

Carte de visite by Charles D. Fredricks & Co.

GLC00919.06

to friends at home

Provides descriptions of Baltimore and Washington, D.C., and discusses army life. Written from "Camp Lesley, Near the Navy Yard," in Washington, D.C.

GLC00919.10

[Draft orders and instructions for building bridges]

Clerically written on "Headquarters Engineer Brigade" letterhead, near Falmouth, Virginia.

GLC00919.12

[Draft report on a failed bridge building assignment]

Clerically written on "Headquarters Engineer Brigade" letterhead, near Falmouth, Virginia.

GLC00919.13

Draft of battle report on an engineering operation

Battle report on an engineering operation. Clerically written near Falmouth, Virginia.

GLC00919.14

to Francis Blair

Clerically written to General Blair. Discusses the plan for seizure of Charleston, South Carolina, to be presented to Lincoln camp at Rappahannock. Written from the Camp at Rappahannock, likely in Virginia.

GLC00919.15

to Joseph Totten

Clerically written from Washington, D.C. to General Totten, regarding plan for rebuilding bridges.

GLC00919.16

[Print of camp of H. W. Benham's engineering brigade]

GLC00919.18

Brady carte de visite

GLC00919.20

to unknown

Recommendation of Elias W. Beach by Asstistant Adjutant General Channing Clapp with a note and endorsement by General Benham.

GLC00919.22

to George Churchman and Jacob Lindley

Written by Adams in the last months of his presidency to the Quaker abolitionists Churchman and Lindley. Adams wrote in response to a letter and pamphlet that the two abolitionists had sent him. The pamphlet was by Quaker abolitionist Warner Mifflin...

GLC00921

to Jefferson Davis

Official report to the president, signed as Confederate secretary of war, tracing the state of the Confederacy's finances from 1861 to the present. Declares that the current abysmal state of the budget, and the consequent inability of the nation to...

GLC00915

to Jonathan Dayton

One future signer of the U.S. Constitution to another. Brearly (also: "Brearley"), writing as Chief Justice of New Jersey, sends Dayton, then a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, a scale (not included) determined by the New Jersey legislature...

GLC00916

to Confederate governors

Circular letter in which Davis asks the Confederate governors to change the alien expulsion laws for mechanics and laborers. He wants to lift the requirements in many states that all aliens render military service or leave, instead permitting...

GLC00917

to Thomas J. Wharton

Harris, Governor of Tennessee, replies to a letter from Wharton, Mississippi's Commissioner to Tennessee. States that when Tennessee Representatives confer again, they will be pleased to meet with Wharton "as the Representative of a sister state...

GLC00918

E & H.T. Anthony Carte de visite

GLC00919.03

E & H.T. Anthony Carte de visite

GLC00919.04

Carte de visite

GLC00919.05

E & H.T. Anthony Carte de visite

Humphreys, Andrew Atkinson (1810-1883)

GLC00919.07

E & H.T. Anthony Carte de visite

GLC00919.08

E & H.T. Anthony Carte de visite

GLC00919.09

to friends at home

Includes a description of army life.

GLC00919.11

Signature on verso of letter by George Percival

War date signature of George Meade on verso of letter by George Percival requesting the autograph.

GLC00919.17

Benjamin Franklin Butler carte de visite, in uniform

GLC00919.19

E & H.T. Anthony carte de visite in uniform

GLC00919.21

[Diaries of Elias W. Beach] [decimalized]

Seven diaries, including 5 covering the Civil War years. Diary 1 contains the years 1858 and 1861; diary 2 contains 1862; diary 3 contains 1863; diary 4 contains the years 1863-1864; diary 5 contains the rest of 1864; diary 6 contains 1865; and...

GLC00919.23

55 unidentified miscellaneous cartes de visite [decimalized]

Collection consists of 55 photographs, largely dating from the Civil War period, and primarily connected with the N.Y. Volunteer Engineers. The majority of the images are carte de visite portraits, although the collection also includes several...

GLC00919.24

[Collection of Elias W. Beach] [decimalized]

Contains documents related to Beach, who served in Company F of the 50th regiment, New York engineers. Includes 16 autograph letters or autograph notes signed, 8 autographs from military notables, a land contract, a typed genealogical document...

GLC00919.25

General Benham's winter camp near Poplar Grove Church, Va., with photo of troops

Printed map, "Winter Camp, Detachment 50th N.Y.V. Engineers" Brevet Colonel I. Spalding Commanding, near Poplar Church, Virginia, Army of the Potomac, 1865. Has been partially hand colored. An original albumen photograph of soldiers with musical...

GLC00919.26

Introduction to the History of America [first book printing of the Constitution]

Printed by Young & McCulloch. Student's textbook, heavily annotated. The Constitution appears in back with separate titlepage and pagination.

GLC00920

to Caesar Augustus Rodney

re: revolutions in South America, mentions memories of James Otis. Rodney had just returned from South America

GLC00922

to James Bridge

Adams chronicles a trip to New York to visit the first United States Congress. Adams describes his interactions with a man named Atkins and another named Mr. Mayer in Newport. He also describes various passengers on the ship he took to New York. In...

GLC00958.05

to James Bridge

Apologizes for delay in notifying Bridge that President Washington has appointed Adams minister to the Netherlands. Adams will not be able to attend to business Bridge had given him. Adams left much of his unfinished business to a former classmate at...

GLC00958.10

to James Bridge

Adams wishes to become reacquainted with his old friend from Harvard. Adams provides an outline of his history abroad since he last wrote Bridge in September 1794. Discusses travel to Holland, England, and Prussia, while serving the Unites States...

GLC00958.11

to Elias Shipman & others

An important letter responding to their protest about the dismissal of Elizur Goodrich in favor of Samuel Bishop. Goodrich was a "midnight" appointee of Adams, two weeks before leaving office. An important letter defending the care with which he...

GLC00964

to David B. Campbell

Replies to Illinois Attorney General Campbell and discusses his unpopular stand on the Mexican War. Mentions a speech on internal improvements and another in support of Zachary Taylor that would constitute the close of his Congressional career....

GLC00965

to Simon Cameron

Writes to Secretary of War Cameron to express his desire to accept a fifth regiment from Michigan. He is referring to the 16th Michigan Volunteers, under Colonel T.B.W. Stockton. Lincoln seeks Cameron's approval of this action.

Basler, Roy P. The...

GLC00966