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March 1, 1819
Sharpe, Charles Kirkpatrick, 1781-1851
to Thomas Pringle
Thanks Pringle for a book of verse about which he positively critiques. Encourages Pringle to continue cultivating his muse.
GLC00496.220
1863 ca.
Meade, George Gordon, 1815-1872
Carte de visite of George G. Meade bust portrait
Appears to be a photograph of an engraving.
GLC00559.09
December 8, 1812
Adams, John, 1735-1826
to Dr. Benjamin Rush
"The history of the hobby horse" -p.4 (Adams's humorous name for the story he tells in this letter.) Free frank on p.4
GLC00599
December 9, 1861
Pendleton, Alexander S., 1840-1864
to Rose
Writes to his sister. Discusses personal news, a skirmish, and General Rosecrans at Cumberland. Requests she send him a song. Written on blue paper.
GLC00835
December 25, 1864
Tower, Zealous Bates, 1819-1900
to William P. Fessenden
General Tower, chief engineer of Union defenses at Nashville, describes the Battle of Nashville to Fessenden, Secretary of the Treasury. Relates the strategies of Union Generals George Henry Thomas, Andrew Jackson Smith, James Harrison Wilson, and...
GLC00849.01
circa 25 December 1864
[Pencil illustration depicting the area near Nashville, Tennessee]
Autograph map depicts roads, rivers, fortifications and estimated troop numbers and locations near Nashville. Tower, chief engineer of Union defenses at Nashville, possibly transmitted this map with a letter (refer to GLC00849.01) to William P...
GLC00849.02
1844
The Negro forget-me-not songster, the only work published, containing all the Negro songs, that have ever appeared.
Signed on free front endpaper by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "H. W. Longfellow." Original cloth spine laid onto modern leather. Title on spine: "Nigga forget-me-not songster." Published by Turner & Fisher. Songs written in "dialect," and some are...
GLC00796
13 April 1868
Hunt, Henry Jackson, 1819-1889
to [Henry Knox Craig]
Writes from Fort Sullivan. Asks if Craig received a copy of a play-bill he previously transmitted. Complains about the cold Eastport winter. Discusses the abrupt departure of Captain Wilson from Fort Sullivan. Discusses Wilson's actions, and...
GLC02382.041
6 September 1884
Gibbon, John, 1827-1896
to Henry Jackson Hunt
Signed "JG." Describes the Gettysburg Cyclorama, a large painting by Paul D. Philippotteaux, ca. 1882. Mentions, "I send you a rude sketch..." (not included). The first copy, made in Chicago is now (1993) in private hands. The second copy, made...
GLC02382.053
6 March 1885
Refers to military decisions providing post-war funds to soldiers. Comments on Democrat leadership. Invites Hunt to Chicago to see the Gettysburg painting.
GLC02382.055
24 May 1885
Refers to the sale of the Gettysburg painting and to Hunt's Gettysburg article. He refuses to work any further for promotion: "I contend I have already done all my work for promotion & if this does not promote me, I am afraid I shall have to live &...
GLC02382.057
24 April 1806
Ellery, William, 1727-1820
to George Wanton Ellery
Written to his son at Captain Barney's School in Wickford, Rhode Island. Thanks him for his letter. He has no objection to his learning to dance, for it will make him easy and graceful. If the fee is to be paid at entrance to dancing studies...
GLC02300.22
1864
Kimmel, & Forster, fl. 1864-1865
The Defenders of Our Union.
Lithograph print with touches of white gouache added by hand. Five ovals in which there are portraits of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Andrew Johnson, Naval officers David Porter, David G. Farragut (spelled Faragut), John A. B. Dahlgren...
GLC02434
1880-1895
Jackson, William Hicks, 1835-1903
Selected western views [Yellowstone] [some with U.S. Dept. of Interior imprints]
21 large and 29 smaller photographic prints.
GLC02436
1847/01/31-1848/03/23
Lincoln, Solomon, fl. 1847-1848
2 letters to Francis Bassett concerning Mexico
1. ALS. Solomon Lincoln to Francis Bassett re: Congressional elections, Texas, Gen.s. Taylor & Scott . Hingham, Mass. 3 p. (29x30 cm) Mentions Governor Young pardoning 18 anti-rent (riot) convicts as well as Generals Taylor and Scott....
GLC02390.01
12 July 1863
Cleveland, Thomas P., fl. 1863
to Emily J. Semmes
Cleveland, Emily and Paul Semmes's nephew, describes in detail Semmes's death. General Semmes was mortally wounded in Longstreet's charge at Gettysburg and died in the retreat. Sends the letter care of Captain Cody. Emily Semmes wrote a note on the...
GLC02411
17 April 1930
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
to Arthur Carpenter
Thanks the manager at Warm Springs, Georgia for the update on activities. Advises that Carpenter can rent his cottage from 31 May until 5 September. Hopes Doyle can sell vegetables at the stand as he did last summer. Mentions that he is glad there...
GLC02433
1849-1856
Histed, William, fl. 1849
Journal of a whaling voyage on board ship Cortes of New Bedford, [Massachusetts]
Includes five separate pages of watercolors that were possibly previously bound in the log. Includes daily entries of the whaling voyage and numerous miscellaneous newspaper clippings, poems, and songs. Many entries are accompanied by an ink stamp...
GLC02212
6 March 1849
Madison, Dolley, 1768-1849
[Collection of two items, quotation signed by Dolley Madison and engraving] Decimalized
GLC02231
1861-1864
Ward, Edward K., 1837-1864
[Collection of Edward Ward, 4th regiment, Tennessee, infantry] [decimalized]
The collection consists of thirty-four letters written by Edward K. Ward to his sister Elmira Ward. Edward enlisted in Company A of the 4th Tennessee as a Second Lieutenant. He writes of his experiences at Murfreesboro, Shiloh, Nashville...
GLC02232
July 1864
Sneden, Robert Knox, 1832-1918
Plan of Andersonville Prison
Plan of the prison camp drawn by Sneden, a member of the 40th New York Volunteers imprisoned there in 1863-1864. Completed in ink and colored pencil. Sneden's map differs from other contemporary sketches.
GLC02244
25 October 1864 - 24 July 1865
Pope, A. Fred, fl. 1864-1865
[Confederate Officer prisoners of war poem and sentiment album]
Inscribed on the title page by Fred Pope, Bargetown, Kentucky, and dated October 1864. Signed by over 100 Confederate prisoners of war at Prison No. 1, Camp Chase, Ohio, with rank. Includes poems, songs, quotations, and sentiments by imprisoned...
GLC02259
1864 - 1 February 1865
Penfield, James Allen, ?-1910
[Union Prisoner of War autograph album]
Contains over 900 prisoner of war officer signatures and their ranks. Ornate hand drawn title page, "Autographs of U. S. Officers, Prisoners of War confined at Richmond, Virginia, Macon, Georgia - Savannah Georgia - Charleston, South Carolina -...
GLC02262
1876
Forbes, Edwin, 1839-1895
Life studies of the Great Army
Print portfolio of 40 copperplate etchings made by Forbes while accompanying Union armies. All the etchings have been separated and put in individual folders. Created by Forbes, a member of the French Etching Club, while he travelled with the Union...
GLC02199
circa 1875
Gaul, Gilbert William, 1855-1919
[Oil painting of General Ulysses S. Grant on horseback overlooking a battlefield]
Depicts Grant writing in a notebook while overlooking a battlefield. Several Confederate soldiers lay dead and dying in the foreground. Other Union leaders confer on horseback. Completed in black, white, gray, and brown. Signed by the artist in...
GLC02201
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