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Series I. Civil War Correspondence 1861-1869

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Letter regarding Battle of Shepherdstown September 16

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Fractional currency, Fifty cents 1863

 

The Union

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Letter from Jay Cooke 1861 September 21

General

Jay Cooke was an American financier who helped finance the Union war effort during the American Civil War and the postwar development of railroads in the United States. Cooke opened the private banking house of Jay Cooke and Company in Philadelphia, which the state of Pennsylvania borrowed $3,000,000 to fund its war efforts.
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Letter to General Randolph Barnes Marcy 1862 November

General

Randolph Barnes Marcy (1812–1887) was an officer, and later Inspector General, in the United States Army. He is known for his frontier guidebook, the Prairie Traveler (1859), based on his own experience of pioneering the West.
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Letter from General William T. Sherman 1862 December 23

General

William Tecumseh Sherman (1820 – 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. He served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, known for his "hard war" military strategy of total war against the Confederacy.
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Civil War correspondence- Union transcription and invoices 1862-1863

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General O. O. (Oliver Otis) Howard engraving 1863 July

General

Engraving with printed facsimile signature.
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Letter from Major General O. O. Howard to Major General Daniel Adams Butterfield 1863 July 1

General

Daniel Adams Butterfield (1831 – 1901) was an Union General in the American Civil War and Assistant U.S. Treasurer.
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Letter from Brig. General Walter Chiles Whitaker to Major General George Henry Thomas 1863 November 24

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Union Civil War Letters 1863

General

Letters sent to family by Wilbur M. Clifford.
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Letter from Ulysses S. Grant to Major General Benjamin F. Butler 1864 July 27

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Letter from Ulysses S. Grant to Major General Ambrose Everett Burnside 1864 October 17

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Letter from General William T. Sherman 1869 May 25

 

The Confederacy

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Signed letter from Robert E. Lee, San Antonio, Texas 1860 September 15

General

A special order in secretarial hand and signed by Robert E Lee.
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Letter from Wilcox Young, Charleston, South Carolina 1861 April 5

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Quartermaster Virginia forces, reimbursement letter 1861 May 16

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Letter from T.J. Jackson (Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson) to Colonel S. Bassett French 1862 March 28

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Letters from T. J. Jackson to Mrs. Osborne 1862 September 29

General

A thnk you letter to Mrs. Osborne and mention Bunker Hill.
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Confederate Civil War letters and transcripts 1862-1863

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Letter to Duke of Somerset 1863 July 9

General

Letter selling autographs enclosed with the signatures of Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson.
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Letter from General James Longstreet to General D. H. (Daniel Harvey) Hill 1863 March 23

General

Both confederate generals and known personal friends.
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Confederate Correspondence, copies of letters, transcriptions, invoices, and Confederate money 1863

General

Correspondence and transcripts collected in a booklet.
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From General Joseph Wheeler to General Braxton Bragg 1864

General

Braxton Bragg (1817-1876) was a Confederate General. The letter contains a discussion of the enemy's strategy.
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Robert E. Lee photograph and autograph 1864 June 15, 1869 March 20, 1994 September 19

General

Engraving with printed facsimile signature.
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Confederate bond 1865 March 9

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Letter signed by Admiral David Dixon Porter, engraving by U.S. Mississippi Squadron 1863 March 28

General

Letter issuing orders to go to Memphis, Tennessee.
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Confederate dollar bills circa 1860s

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Letter to Major General D.H. (Daniel Harvey) Hill undated

 

Series II. Assorted Correspondence 1805-1979

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Letter from R. Morris to Cary and Tilghman, Baltimore, Maryland 1789 October 29

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Letter "My Dear Lord," from Horatio Nelson to Lord Gardner 1805 April 19

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Letter from Duke Wellington to Lady Salisbury 1813 August 3

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Abstract of bonds for securing duties on goods 1817 April 2

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Expense account of Lieutenant W.S. Rosecrans, Corps of Engineers 1847

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Personal letter 1860 July 14

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Bowdoin College Class of 1861 1861

General

A yearbook with photographs and signatures of Bowdoin College Class of 1861.
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Letter about the Maddox Fleet 1868 March 8

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Letter from Jay Gould to H.N. Smith, Erie Railway 1868 September 3

General

Jason "Jay" Gould (1836–1892) was a leading railroad developer and speculator during America's Gilded Age.
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Letter to Colonel R.H. Ramsey 1869 April 19

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Horace Greeley 1871 August 17

General

Horace Greeley (1811–1872) was the founder and editor of New York Tribune.
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Letter from Military Division Headquarters of the Missouri, General P.H. Sheridan 1877 December 7

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Letter from Charles George Gordon to Sir Richard Burton, Cairo, Egypt 1877 December 26

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Letter from Lord Woseley to Sir Thomas[?] Kaken, War Office stamp 1885 February 6

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Letter about Ezekial Clark 1886 June 18

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Proclamation from Queen Victoria circa 1800s

General

Proclamation from Queen Victoria granting Order of Saint Michael and Saint George to Percy Sanderson, Esquire.
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Letter from Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 1900 May 30

General

Letter to Hermann Kallenbach from Gandhi thanking him for a donation.
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Letter from the Transvaal Prime Minister's Office to H.R. Nicholson 1919 October 11

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Monaco (French) stock certificate 1948 November 18

General

Societe Anonyme Monegasque stock certificate.
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Letter from John F. Kennedy circa 1950-1960s

General

Letter of inquiry.
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Letter from Stephen King 1979 August 8

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Letter to Minister of War undated

General

Signed by Napoléon Bonaparte.
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Le Comite De Salut Public, signed by Lazare Carnot undated

General

Committee of Public Safety of the National Convention to the Administration for Portable Firearms.
box 5

Letter about the Duke of Wellington undated

Collection Contents
Series I. Civil War Correspondence
The Union
The Confederacy
Series II. Assorted Correspondence
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