A Fine Selection of Manuscripts and Documents - Session 1

MATHEW THORNTON: (1714 - 1803) Signer of the Declaration of Independence and a pre-Revolution agitator. Bold signature "M. Thornton" on a ...

FRIEDRICH WILHELM VON STEUBEN: (1730 - 1794) American Revolutionary general who reported to Washington at Valley Forge to undertake the training of tr

FRIEDRICH WILHELM VON STEUBEN: (1730 - 1794) American Revolutionary general who reported to Washington at Valley Forge to undertake the training of tr

(REVOLUTIONARY WAR MUSTER ROLL): War-date manuscript D.S. 2pp. folio [Albany?], May 4, 1778, the muster roll for Capt. Adam Wheeler's Company in...

(SARATOGA PRISONER LIST): Manuscript D.S. 3pp. legal folio, [n.p., n.d.], a list of members of Burgoyne's army captured at Saratoga. The list is...

(SARATOGA CONVENTION ARMY): Manuscript D.S. 2pp. legal folio, [near Charlottesville, Va.], Nov. 14, 1780 "A List of balances due the Convention...

(CANADIAN SARATOGA PRISONERS): Manuscript D.S. 2pp. oblong folio, [Fort Frederick, Md.] July 13, 1781 a "Return of the Canada Companies" l...

(SARATOGA PRISONERS): Manuscript D.S. 2pp. legal folio, [n.p., n.d., 1781, likely Frederick County, Maryland] entitled "A List of British priso...

(SARATOGA CONVENTION ARMY): Manuscript D.S. 1p. oblong legal folio, Frederickstown, Dec. 26, 1780 listing the "Present State of the British Tro...

(SARATOGA PRISONERS): Manuscript D.S. 1p. 4to., [n.p. Maryland?], June 17, 1781 a "Role of the 24th. Regt...." listing approximately 84 im...

(SARATOGA PRISONERS): Manuscript D.S. 1p. oblong legal folio, Fredrick Town, Feb. 24, 1781, a return detailing the "Present State of the Britis...

(BURGOYNE`S CONVENTION ARMY): A.L.S. 1p. 4to., Philadelphia, Dec. 12, 1778 by one James Young, probably an officer in the Quarter Master's Depar...

(COLONIAL TAX COLLECTOR ATTACKED BY AN ANGRY MOB): A fascinating D.S. 1p. legal folio, March 21, 1767, in which Deputy Marshall George Beasley accuses

THE WARTIME CORRESPONDENCE GEN. DANIEL RUGGLES: (1810 - 1897) Confederate brigadier general. Ruggles served with distinction in the Mexican War, winni

JEFFERSON DAVIS: (1808 - 1889) President of the Confederacy who led his armies beyond the surrender at Appomattox. Probable war-date S.P., a carte-de-

GEORGE G. MEADE: (1815 - 1872) Union major general who commanded brilliantly at Gettysburg, leading to a Union victory and the turning point of the Ci

ROBERT E. LEE: (1807 - 1870) Confederate General and commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, arguably the most brilliant commander of field armies

(THOMAS J. JACKSON): (1824 - 1863) "Stonewall", Confederate lieutenant general and a brilliant yet somewhat eccentric tactician, he gained...

JUBAL A. EARLY: (1819 - 1894) Confederate major general who fought throughout the war, leading a division at Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg an

LEONIDAS POLK: (1806 - 1864) Confederate lieutenant general who was a Bishop of Louisiana before the war, led with distinction at Belmont and Shiloh a