Still Image Grand concert for the benefit of the widows and orphans of the New York Volunteers, Academy of Music, Feb. 22, 1862, at 8 o'clock P. M. under the auspices of the Seventh Reg't, National Guard, page [2]. View Item
Still Image Grand concert for the benefit of the widows and orphans of the New York Volunteers, Academy of Music, Feb. 22, 1862, at 8 o'clock P. M. under the auspices of the Seventh Reg't, National Guard, page [1]. View Item
Still Image Grand concert for the benefit of the widows and orphans of the New York Volunteers, Academy of Music, Feb. 22, 1862, at 8 o'clock P. M. under the auspices of the Seventh Reg't, National Guard, page [4], blank. View Item
Still Image Grand concert for the benefit of the widows and orphans of the New York Volunteers, Academy of Music, Feb. 22, 1862, at 8 o'clock P. M. under the auspices of the Seventh Reg't, National Guard, page [3]. View Item
Text Ulysses S. Grant letter to Robert E. Lee, Appomattox Court House, April 9, 1865 The terms of surrender of General Robert E. Lee's army at Appomattox Court House, April 9, 1865. One of the original impressions from the manifold on which General U.S. Grant wrote the terms of surrender, with interlinear revisions by Ely S. Parker, a Tonawanda Seneca man who had been Grant's military secretary since 1863. Parker's inscription below reads: "The above is an original in Gen. Grant's own handwriting of the terms of surrender given by him to Gen. Lee at Appomattox Court House. View Item
Text Ulysses S. Grant letter to Robert E. Lee, Appomattox Court House, April 9, 1865 The terms of surrender of General Robert E. Lee's army at Appomattox Court House, April 9, 1865. One of the original impressions from the manifold on which General U.S. Grant wrote the terms of surrender, with interlinear revisions by Ely S. Parker, a Tonawanda Seneca man who had been Grant's military secretary since 1863. Parker's inscription below reads: "The above is an original in Gen. Grant's own handwriting of the terms of surrender given by him to Gen. Lee at Appomattox Court House. View Item
Image Still Image 4 Items Grand concert for the benefit of the widows and orphans of the New York Volunteers, Academy of Music, Feb. 22, 1862, at 8 o'clock P. M. under the auspices of the Seventh Reg't, National Guard. View Item
Image Text 2 Items Ulysses S. Grant letter to Robert E. Lee, Appomattox Court House, April 9, 1865 The terms of surrender of General Robert E. Lee's army at Appomattox Court House, April 9, 1865. One of the original impressions from the manifold on which General U.S. Grant wrote the terms of surrender, with interlinear revisions by Ely S. Parker, a Tonawanda Seneca man who had been Grant's military secretary since 1863. Parker's inscription below reads: "The above is an original in Gen. Grant's own handwriting of the terms of surrender given by him to Gen. Lee at Appomattox Court House. View Item
Text By the president of the United States. A proclamation. … That on the first day of January ... one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves ... shall be then, thenceforward, and forever, free ... Souvenir copy of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, with autograph signatures of Lincoln, William Seward, Secretary of State, and John Nicolay, Private Secretary to the President. This is known as the Leland-Boker edition of the Emancipation Proclamation, after the two men who arranged for its printing by Frederick Leypoldt and subsequent sale at the Philadelphia Great Central Sanitary Fair of June 7-29, 1864. The Sanitary Fairs were created to raise money for sick and wounded soldiers, and to improve conditions in military camps. View Item