![Item #8926 [Manuscript notice regarding the ownership of three escaped and captured slaves.]....](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8926_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1722442036)
An unusual notice penned by a Virginia slave owner announcing his claim over three slaves—named and likely a family—evidently held by a slave catcher/thief who was refusing to release them. The notice reads in full:This is to Certify that I have in my Possession three negroes viz Anderson Lucinda &.....
Five letters, all written in 1853, supporting future Confederate Brig-Gen. Richard Griffith’s (successful) effort to be appointed U.S. Marshall of Mississippi, including some Mexican War and Jefferson Davis content. A native of Pennsylvania, Richard Griffith (1814–1862) moved to Mississippi around 1840, where he lived until the outbreak of the Mexican.....
An apparently unpublished “brown-water navy” diary by a volunteer officer aboard the USS Kineo, attesting to the chaotic battles, intricate maneuvers, mishaps, and other remarkable episodes experienced while executing the Union’s “Anaconda Plan” on the Mississippi River. Latham Allyn Brown (1829–1901) of Ledyard, Connecticut was appointed Acting Master of the.....
A compelling narrative by a Confederate officer documenting two months of his service with the 38th North Carolina Regiment less than a year before his election to the North Carolina State Legislature. Born in Richmond County, North Carolina, Major Sanders Meredith Ingram (1819–1905) was a planter, lawyer, officer, and politician.....
A compelling group of letters, all retained copies, written in response to the upcoming election of 1848 by a supporter of Democratic presidential candidate Gen. Lewis Cass. Marshall argues for the removal of the Quartermaster General of New Orleans, Major Daniel D. Tompkins (1798–1863), whose scheming on behalf of Whig.....
A Reconstruction-era archive including a vitriolic anti-Reconstruction letter and a plea for character reference from a white banker embroiled in a bribery scandal with South Carolina’s first prominent Black politician. Thomas J. Robertson (1823–1897) was a South Carolina plantation and slave owner who supported the Union during the Civil War.....