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November 30, 1888
Schley, Winfield S.
to Mrs. Hausch [?] re: answering a letter
Written on Navy Department stationery. [Civil War generals from border states] One bust engraving of Schley incldued as collateral.
GLC02456.25
22 June 1863
Everett, Edward (1794-1865)
to Lady Belper of Derby, England
Thanks her for "sending me your likeness" and remembers a visit from twenty years ago fondly. Discusses his son, who went abroad for four years, and his happiness that he has returned. Closes his letter with a long comment on the Civil War: "The...
GLC00463
1862/08
Pywell, William R.
Marshall house, King and Pitt Streets, Alexandria, Virginia. August 1862.
Negative by William R. Pywell, positive by Alexander Gardner. Notice the ghosted image of a woman looking in the window of the dry goods store and the woman entering the store. Gardner's "Photo. Sketchbook of the Civil War," plate "No. 1"....
GLC05111.01.0281
6 September 1861
Hutson, Charles J. (1842-1902)
to William F. Colcock
Telegraph asking about the health of his fiancee Emmeline Colcock, who was William F. Colcock's daughter. She died of typhoid fever two days later. Hutson was a Corporal in the 1st South Carolina Infantry during the Civil War.
GLC08165.76
8 September 1865
Colcock, William F. (1804-1889)
to Charles J. C. Hutson
Telegraph stating that his daughter, Emmeline Colcock died today. See GLC 8165.77-.81. Emmeline and Hutson were engaged. She died of typhoid fever. Hutson was a Corporal in the 1st South Carolina Infantry during the Civil War.
GLC08165.78
9 December 1862
Lumsden, F. A. & Kendall, G. W.
Daily picayune. [Vol. 26, no. 272 (December 9, 1862)]
Articles about the Confederate Blockade Runner, Appointment of James Seddon as Secretary of War, Message of President Lincoln Concerning the Acts of General Butler at New Orleans, Fitting Out the Alabama in England. Speculation around foreign...
GLC05959.16.02
February 26, 1865
Dow, Neal (1804-1897)
to C. C. Leigh
Writes to Leigh in New York: "It occurs to me, that occasionally there may be colored servant girls- refugees- to be obtained, and that through the National Society, you may have something to do with finding places for them. I should like a good...
GLC05029
1892/04/25
Gibbes, William H. (fl. 1892)
to Isaac N. Roland re: an article on Fort Sumter, no bloodshed there, perception
Written on stationery of W. H. Gibbs, Jr. & Company. Gibbes writes about Fort Sumter, how the first battle of the Civil War saw no bloodshed and mentions the fear common among Charleston women and children "that all the 'mans' would be killed."
GLC04461.04
09 September 1861
Hutson, Hettie E. (b. 1833)
to Charles J. Hutson
A letter of condolence upon the death of Emmeline Colcock, Charles' fiance, with religious overtones throughout. Mentions Emmeline's siblings visiting from Grahamville, South Carolina. Hopes their is no sickness in Charles' camp and that the war...
GLC08165.37
7 September 1861
Telegraph stating that his daughter, Emmeline Colcock, is critically ill. See GLC 8165.77-.81. Emmeline and Hutson were engaged. She died of typhoid fever the next day. Hutson was a Corporal in the 1st South Carolina Infantry during the Civil War.
GLC08165.77
1861-1883
McParlin, Thomas A. (1825-1897)
[Collection of Dr. Thomas A. McParlin][Decimalized .01-.48]
Includes personal and professional letters and documents to and from Dr. Thomas A. McParlin, medical director of the Army of Virginia and the army of the Potomac during the Civil War. Among the individuals represented in this archive are Secretary of...
GLC02649
17 February 1876
Febiger, George Lea (1822-1891)
to Mrs. John D. Townsend
Febiger, who served as major and paymaster in the United States Army during the Civil War, informs Mrs. Townsend: "I regret exceedingly that it will not be in my power to accept your kind invitation for the evening of the 22d instant. With my best...
GLC00468.05
9 September 1861
Telegraph stating he received yesterday's dispatch and to telegraph him in the morning. See GLC 8165.77-.81. Emmeline Colcock, Hutson's fiancee and William F. Colcock's daughter, died of typhoid fever 8 September 1861. Hutson was a Corporal in the...
GLC08165.79
Telegraph stating he just received Colcock's dispatch and that he leaves at three. See GLC 8165.76-.81. Emmeline Colcock, Hutson's fiancee and William F. Colcock's daughter, died of typhoid fever 8 September 1861. Hutson was a Corporal in the 1st...
GLC08165.80
18 February 1871
Lee, John F. (1813-1884)
to Henry Jackson Hunt
Requests information from Hunt regarding Robert E. Lee's heroic crossing of the pedregal (a lava field) during the Mexican American war. This inquiry is for Emily V. Mason, who is writing a pictorial school book on the life of Lee. Mentions...
GLC02382.086
circa 29 April 1965
Johnson, Andrew (1808-1875)
Documents relating to Andrew Johnson and Eliza C. Skidmore [decimalized .01-.04]
Three documents related to Eliza C. Skidmore's passage across battle lines during the Civil War. She received permission from President Andrew Johnson to cross from the Union side to the Confederate side to obtain supplies and bring them back to...
GLC02779
22 January [1870]
Lee requests Hunt's presence, but notes "The stage [inserted: U. S. mail coach] is slow, & regulated on the plan of Sumner's civil rights bill. (crowded with niggers) You might be wanting in some gallant attentions to a colored lady, & be legislated...
GLC02382.083
circa 1920
Callaway, James (fl. 1920)
[Character of Robert E. Lee defamed by Susan B. Anthony...].
A response to Anthony's accusation in her History of Woman Suffrage that Robert E. Lee banished his youngest daughter, Annie Carter Lee (1839-1862) during the Civil War because of her Unionist sentiments. The author explains that Lee protected his...
GLC06073
13 July 1864
Reynolds, J. L. (James Lawrence), 1814-1877
Confederate Baptist. [Vol. 2, no. 40 (July 13, 1864)]
Several letters to the editor on page 1 mark conversions and religious undertakings for soldiers. An editorial proclaims Jesus "Christ as a Reformer." An article examines the revolutionary heroine "Molly Stark," compared to brave Civil War women....
GLC05959.39.57
1946
Graham, Lorenz (1902-1989)
How God Fix Jonah
Published by Reynal & Hitchcock. Illustrated with prints from wood engravings by Letterio Calapai, an American painter, muralist, and printmaker. Signed by Graham on the dedication page; dedicated to Graham's sister Shirley Graham Du Bois, an...
GLC06121
31 December 1860
Lincoln, Mary Todd (1818-1882)
to Fanny Barrow
Thanks Barrow for the box of books she sent for her sons and states it arrived the day after her son William's birthday. She then writes of the impending Civil War, "Trusting that the gloomy cloud which hangs over our beloved country may soon be...
GLC04030
24 April [1871]
Mason, Emily Virginia (1815-1909)
Year inferred from content. Mason has received Hunt's account of Robert E. Lee's passage through the pedegral (a lava field), during the Mexican American War. Intends to obtain more information on Lee from McClellan, whom Lee served with in Mexico...
GLC02382.088
1920
Consumers' League of Eastern Pennsylvania
Colored Women as Industrial Workers in Philadelphia
One pamphlet entitled, "Colored Women as Industrial Workers in Philadelphia," dated approximately in 1920. Pertains to completing a study on a low number of African American women employed before World War I outside of domestic service. Provides...
GLC09777
May 1864
Unknown
[Pay and Muster roll with wages for former slaves]
Lists approximately 100 freedmen by name on the "Mdme. Rosts Hermitage Plantation, Parish St. Charles," Louisiana, who were under the charge of Federal officer Henry B. Fitch. Next to their names are their ages and wages. In some cases there are...
GLC08912
5 May 1864
Van Valkenburgh, Gerrit S. (fl. 1860-1866)
to Mary B. Van Valkenburgh
Written by Gerrit, a transplanted Northerner fighting for the South, to his mother Mary. Begins by asking "Can the years that have passed since I saw you last - can the position that I have taken in this Civil War, have alienated me entirely from...
GLC00686.10
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