A fascinating list of captured freight—including guns, ammunition, equipment, and more—from the rebel steamer and transport Fairplay, which was seized by a Union operation. The captured freight is organized by cases and boxes, with numbers of cases/boxes on the left and the number of contents on the right. Below the.....
![Item #5294 [Indenture of a German Immigrant Woman at the New Orleans Jail.]. City of New Orleans](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5294.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1640810118)
An unusual indenture binding a young German immigrant woman to the chief warden of the New Orleans city jail, where she was employed for her “understanding of the household business.” This remarkable indenture specifies the financial arrangement and terms of employment for one Annah David of Anspach, Germany—aged twenty-three and.....
[with manuscript order on verso:] Johnson, Colonel Obadiah. To Capt. Joseph Raynsford. In consequence of orders from Genl. Douglas you are directed to inlist or peremptorily to detach from your company for the time & service mentioned in the within resolve…two private able bodied effective men… Canterbury, Connecticut, 26 June.....
A fascinating document recording the sale of whiskey to the Wyandotte, bearing the name of Christopher Miller, who was captured by Native Americans as a child and lived among them for many years, then rejoined the white community and fought in the Northwest Indian War. This document reads in full.....
An especially appealing military commission, signed by Abraham Lincoln, promoting Guido Norman Lieber to the rank of captain just two months after his father’s groundbreaking codification of the laws of war were issued as General Orders to the Union Army. Guido Norman Lieber was the son of Matilda Oppenheimer.....
Manuscript documents relating to the apprehension in New York of the thief who carried out the famous 1829 Prince of Orange jewelry heist. On the night of September 25th, 1829, chests of “court jewels” were stolen from the palace of the Prince of Orange in Brussels. The value of the.....
A fascinating document issued by an army captain serving in the Northwest Territory who attempts here to procure a soldier’s back-rations after the formerly-captured soldier was released by Native Americans in a prisoner exchange. One “A. Prior” certifies here that one of his former soldiers, Thomas Stephenson, was a prisoner.....
An evocative muster-out roll for the 96th U.S. Colored Infantry, Co. K, which was raised in New Orleans in 1863 and whose service extended until January 1866, discharging a total of eighty-two men from duty and including information on the service of forty-four additional Black privates who either deserted, died.....
![Item #7341 [Pledge not to provide alcohol to slaves or free people of color.]. Thomas Scott](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7341_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1663357120)
Tavern owner Thomas Scott’s formal pledge not to “barter, give away, sell or furnish, to any slave or slaves, any measure or quantity of distilled or spiritous or intoxicating liquors without the verbal or written consent of the owners or employees of such slave or slaves, or without the like.....
![Item #8669 Sales of Twenty three planks Mahogany rec’d of the Unity[,] Robert Norris Master...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8669.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1718808879)
A manuscript receipt documenting Benedict Arnold’s activity as a lumber merchant just a few years before the American Revolution. This document records the sale of twenty-three planks of mahogany wood (comprising 2,284 feet) from Jamaica, which were received in Liverpool on August 2nd, 1771. The wood was transported by the.....