Military Affairs Items List
QUEEN ANNE'S WAR
1 item available
- Indian treaty signed at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 13 July 1713,
and addendum signed at same location, 28 July 1714 (Levi Woodbury Papers).
REVOLUTIONARY WAR
2 items available
- Enclosure, John Hancock to George Washington concerning the reading
of the Declaration of Independence to the Revolutionary army, 4 July 1776 (George Washington Papers).
- Letter, Benedict Arnold to George Washington pleading for mercy
for his wife, 25 September 1780 (George Washington Papers).
CIVIL WAR
10 items available
- Draft of Abraham Lincoln's instructions to Maj. Robert Anderson
in command at Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina, 4 April 1861 (Abraham Lincoln Papers).
- Civil War photograph album, ca.1861-65 (James Wadsworth Family Papers).
- Letter, Mary Todd Lincoln to Abraham Lincoln advising her husband
to remove the hesitant Gen. George B. McClellan from command, 2 November [1862] (Abraham Lincoln Papers).
- Letter, Gen. James Longstreet to Col. Edward P. Alexander; and copies
of Alexander's battlefield dispatches to Longstreet and Gen. George E.
Pickett during the battle of Gettysburg, 3 July 1863 (Edward P. Alexander Papers).
- Ulysses S. Grant's commission as lieutenant general signed by Abraham
Lincoln, 10 March 1864 (Ulysses S. Grant Papers).
- Letter, Abraham Lincoln to Charles Sumner outlining the president's
belief that the dependents of black and white soldiers should be treated
equally, 19 May 1864 (Abraham Lincoln Papers).
- Letter with colored sketch, James W. Duke to an unidentified cousin, written
from a Union prison camp, 31 August 1864 (Charles Buford Papers).
- Watercolors of Civil War ironclads by Ens. D. M. N. Stouffer, ca.
1864-65 (David Dixon Porter Papers).
- Letter (pages 13-20), Varina Davis to Montgomery Blair describing
the capture of her husband, Jefferson Davis, 6 June 1865 (Blair Family Papers).
- Charles Wellington Reed's pencil sketch of Abraham Lincoln at City Point, Virginia, 1865 (Charles Wellington Reed Papers).
WORLD WAR I
1 item available
- Woodrow Wilson's speech notes, in shorthand, for his "Fourteen
Points" address, [8 January 1918] (Woodrow Wilson Papers).
WORLD WAR II
4 items available
- Naval dispatch from the Commander in Chief Pacific (CINCPAC) announcing
the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941 (John J. Ballentine
Papers).
- Memorandum in Russian from Joseph Stalin about opening a second
front in Europe during World War II, with English translation of same, 13 August 1942 (W. Averell Harriman Papers).
- Gen. George S. Patton's diary entries for March 1943
(George S. Patton Papers).
- Letter, Franklin D. Roosevelt to J. Robert Oppenheimer thanking
the physicist and his colleagues for their ongoing secret atomic research,
29 June 1943 (J. Robert Oppenheimer Papers).
KOREAN WAR
1 item available
- Gen. Douglas MacArthur's "Old Soldiers Never Die" address to Congress, 19 April 1951 (Douglas MacArthur Collection).
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