BRIG-GENERAL BRADLEY T. JOHNSON ~ ALS ~ TO BATTLE OF NEW MARKET VMI WOUNDED CADET
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Born: 09/29/1829 in Frederick, MD Died: 10/05/1903 in Amelia, VA
Promotions
Date
To Rank
Full/Brevet
Army/Vol
Comments
Major
Full
Vol
1st MD Inf
Colonel
Full
Vol
06/28/64
Brig-Gen
Full
Vol
Residence ALEXANDRIA VA;
Enlisted on 5/15/1864 at Lexington, VA as a Private.
On 5/15/1864 he mustered into "B" Co. VA VMI BATTN INFANTRY
(date and method of discharge not given)
He was listed as:
* Wounded 5/15/1864 New Market, VA (Wounded in chin & shoulder)
Other Information:
born 10/6/1845 in Alexandria, VA
died 8/25/1916 in Alexandria, VA
(Parents: Francis Lee & Sarah Gosnell Smith. Post
war, lawyer in Alexandria, VA)
After the War he lived in Alexandria, VA
This is a group of 3 Iowa State Military Commissions, appointing "William B. Humphrey" to the rank of Second Lieutenant, Captain and Colonel, in the National Guard Infantry. Effective dates are December 30, 1889; June 2, 1890; and April 20, 1904 (retroactive from April 13, 1897, as Colonel - 56th Regiment). The Commissions are signed by 3 different Governors.
SIGNED BY LEWIS CASS~SECRETARY OF WAR~REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION~MASSACHUSETTS SOLDIER
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AUTHENTIC REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION CLAIM ~ OLIVER WALTON OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS WHO WAS A PRIVATE IN THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION AND ENTITLED TO RECEIVE EIGHTY DOLLARS ~ DATED NOV. 13, 1833~ SIGNED BY SEC OF STATE, LEWIS CASS ~ FRAME 15" X 12 1/2" ~
Lewis Cass (October 9, 1782 – June 17, 1866) was an American military officer and politician. During his long political career, Cass served as a governor of the Michigan Territory, an American ambassador, and a U.S. Senator representing Michigan. He was the nominee of the Democratic Party for President of the United States in 1848.
During the War of 1812, Cass served as a brigadier general and participated in the Battle of the Thames. As a reward for his service, he was appointed Governor of the Michigan Territory by President James Madison on October 29, 1813, and served until 1831. He was frequently absent, and several territorial secretaries often served as acting governor in his place. In 1817, he was one of two commissioners (along with Duncan McArthur) who negotiated the Treaty of Fort Meigs, which was signed September 29 of that year with several Native American tribes.[2] In 1820, he led an expedition to the northern part of the territory, in the northern Great Lakes region in present-day northern Minnesota, in order to map the region and discover the source of the Mississippi River. The source of the river had been unknown until then, resulting in an undefined border between the United States and British North America. The expedition erroneously identified Cass Lake as the source of the river. The source of the river was correctly identified in 1832 by Henry Schoolcraft, who had been Cass's expedition geologist, as nearby Lake Itasca.
On August 1, 1831, Cass resigned as governor of the Michigan Territory to take the post of Secretary of War under President Andrew Jackson, a position he would hold until 1836. Cass was a central figure in formulating and implementing the Indian removal policy of the Jackson administration. Next, Cass was appointed ambassador to France, which he remained until 1842. Cass represented Michigan in the United States Senate from 1845 to 1848. He served as chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs in the 30th Congress. In 1848, he resigned from the Senate to run for President. William Orlando Butler was his running mate.[3] Cass was a leading supporter of the Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty, which held that the people who lived in a territory should decide whether or not to permit slavery there.[4] His nomination caused a split in the Democratic party, leading many antislavery Democrats to join the Free Soil Party. He also supported the annexation of Texas. After losing the election to Zachary Taylor, he returned to the Senate, serving from 1849 to 1857. He was the first non-incumbent Democratic presidential candidate to lose an election. From 1857 to 1860, Cass served as Secretary of State under President James Buchanan.[2] He was sympathetic to American filibusterers and was instrumental in having Commodore Hiram Paulding removed from command for his landing of Marines in Nicaragua and compelling the removal of William Walker to the United States.[5] Cass resigned on December 13, 1860, because of Buchanan's failure to protect federal interests in the South and failure to mobilize the federal military, actions that might have averted the threatened secession of Southern states.[6] Cass died in 1866 and is buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Detroit, Michigan. His great-great grandson Cass Ballenger was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina.
MAJOR GENERAL DARIUS NASH COUCH * 7th MASS. INFANTRY COLONEL ~ AUTOGRAPHED
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Backmark : "JNO. HOLYLAND / WASHINGTON, D.C."
AUTOGRAPHED ON OBVERSE : "D.N. Couch / Maj Gen /
USA".
Couch, Darius N., major-general, was born in South East, Putnam county, N. Y., July 23, 1822, and was graduated at the United States military academy at West Point in 1846, entering immediately thereafter upon active service in the Mexican war. He was brevetted first lieutenant for gallantry at Buena Vista, and was later, upon the promotion of Capt. Washington to the command of the artillery battalion of Gen. Taylor's army, made adjutant. After service in the Seminole war, at various artil- lery posts, and in the department of natural history in the Smithsonian institution, he resigned from the army in 1855, and engaged, until 1857 in business in New York city, and after- wards, until the Civil war, in manufacturing in Norton, Mass. In 1861 he offered his services to Gov. Andrew, and was ap- pointed colonel of the 7th Mass. volunteers. He was given a commission as brigadier-general, dating from May 17, 1861, and was promoted major-general of volunteers July 4, 1862. On the reorganization of the Army of the Potomac, he was assigned a division in Gen. Keyes' corps, with which he distinguished him- self at Fair Oaks, Williamsburg and Malvern hill, and later commanded a division in the retreat from Manassas to Washing- ton, Aug. 30 to Sept. 2, 1862, and took part in the battle of Antietam in Franklin's corps. He took a prominent part in the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, being twice wounded in the latter engagement and having his horse killed under him. He commanded the Department of the Susquehanna from June 11, 1863, to Dec. 1, 1864 and was then at the head of the 2nd division of the 23d army corps until May, 1865. He was present at the battle of Nashville, and took part in the opera- tions in North Carolina in Feb., 1865. He resigned May 25, 1865, was the unsuccessful candidate for governor of Massachu- setts that year, and in 1866 was appointed by President Johnson collector of the port of Boston, serving from October of that year until March 4, 1867, when he was forced to vacate the of- fice, the senate having refused to approve the appointment. He became president of a Virginia mining and manufacturing company in 1867, but subsequently moved to Norwalk, Conn., and was quartermaster of the state from 1876 to 1878 and adjutant- general in 1883 and 1884. He died in Norwalk, Conn., Feb. 12, 1897.
Autographed in pencil "Wm. W. Belknap" on obverse.
On reverse what also appears in his hand, "New York /
Feby. 20, 1869". He was Secretary of War when this was signed.
In ink on reverse bottom by unknown hand : "To Jas Green Jr /
Worcester".
Belknap, William W., brigadier-general, was born in Newburgh, N. Y., Sept. 22, 1829. In 1848 he was graduated from Princeton university, afterwards studied law, and in 1851 moved to Keokuk, Ia., to practice his profession. While residing there he was elected, in 1857 as a Democrat, to the state legislature. When the Civil war broke out he joined the Union forces as major of the 15th Iowa volunteers, fought at Shiloh, Corinth and Vicksburg, and distinguished himself during Sherman's Atlanta campaign. He was promoted to brigadier-general on July 30, 1864, and on March 13, 1865, was given the brevet rank of major-general of volunteers. After the war he was collector of internal revenue from 1865 to 1869, when he was appointed secretary of war. He held this office during the entire administration of Gen. Grant until March 7, 1876, when, on account of charges of official corruption, he resigned. He was impeached on charges of accepting bribes, but, as his resignation took effect before the trial was actually begun, the proceedings were dropped for lack of jurisdiction. He died in 1890.
MARY LIVERMORE~CIVIL WAR NURSE~AUTHOR~SUFFRAGE~TEMOERANCE~ABOLITIONIST
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SIGNED IMAGE OF MARY A. LIVERMORE.
Suffrage worker, Sanitary Commission organizer and hospital worker, reporter, editor, and writer, Mary Rice Livermore was married to a Univeralist minister and was active in the woman's rights movement as well as temperance and abolitionist movements.
Admiral Thatcher was relieved of the command of the West Gulf Squadron and ordered north in early 1866. His last duty was that of port admiral, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, from 1869 to 1870. He was placed on the retired list on 26 May1868 and died at Boston, Massachusetts.
New Jersey Senator Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen
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Measures approx. 2 3/4" x 4 5/8"
Reported to have benn clipped from a 1867 Senate Chambers Autograph Book.
Birth
He was born was born in Millstone, New Jersey to Frederick Frelinghuysen (1788–1820) and Mary Dumont. His father died when he was just three years old, and he was adopted by his uncle, Theodore Frelinghuysen (1787–1862).
Famous family
His grandfather, Frederick Frelinghuysen (1753–1804), was an eminent lawyer, one of the framers of the first New Jersey constitution, a soldier in the American Revolutionary War and a member (1778–1779 and 1782–1783) of the Continental Congress from New Jersey, and from 1793 to 1796 a member of the United States Senate. His uncle, Theodore Frelinghuysen (1787–1862), was Attorney General of New Jersey from 1817 to 1829, was a U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1829 to 1835, was the Whig candidate for Vice President of the United States on the Henry Clay ticket in the U.S. presidential election, 1844, and was Chancellor of New York University from 1839 until 1850 and president of Rutgers College from 1850 to 1862.
Education
He graduated from Rutgers in 1836, and studied law in Newark with his uncle, to whose practice he succeeded in 1839, after he was admitted to the bar. He became attorney for the Central Railroad of New Jersey, the Morris Canal and Banking Company and other corporations.
Marriage
He married Matilda Elizabeth Griswold and had several children including: George Griswold Frelinghuysen (1851–?), who was born in Newark, New Jersey.
Politics
He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention from New Jersey in 1860 and from 1861 to 1867 was Attorney General of New Jersey. In 1861 he was a delegate to the Peace Congress at Washington, and in 1866 was appointed by the Governor of New Jersey, as a Republican, to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate. In the winter of 1867 he was elected to fill the unexpired term, but a Democratic majority in the New Jersey State Legislature prevented his re-election in 1869. In 1870 he was nominated by President Ulysses S. Grant, and confirmed by the Senate, as United States minister to England to succeed John Lothrop Motley, but declined the mission. From 1871 to 1877 he was again a member of the United States Senate, in which he was prominent in debate and in committee work, and was chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs during the Alabama Claims negotiations. He was a strong opponent of the Reconstruction measures of President Andrew Johnson, for whose conviction he voted (on most of the specific charges) in the impeachment trial. He was a member of the joint committee which drew up and reported (1877) the Electoral Commission Bill, and subsequently served as a member of the commission. He was a member of the Electoral Commission that decided the 1876 Presidential election. As a Republican, he voted with the eight-member majority on all counts. On December 12, 1881, he was appointed United States Secretary of State by President Chester Arthur to succeed James G. Blaine, and served until the inauguration of President Grover Cleveland in 1885.
Retirement and death
He retired from work and moved back to his home in Newark. Frederick died there in May less than three months after retiring. He was buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Newark. Preceded by: William WrightU.S. Senator from New Jersey 1867–1869Succeeded by: John P. Stockton Preceded by: Alexander CattellU.S. Senator from New Jersey 1871–1877Succeeded by: John McPherson Preceded by: James G. BlaineUnited States Secretary of State 1881–1885Succeeded by: Thomas F. Bayard
Reported to have benn clipped from an 1867 Senate Chambers Autograph Book.
DRAKE, Charles Daniel
a Senator from Missouri; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, April 11, 1811; attended St. Joseph’s College, Bardstown, Ky., in 1823 and 1824, and Patridge’s Military Academy, Middletown, Conn., in 1824 and 1825; appointed midshipman in the United States Navy in 1825 and served four years, when he resigned; studied law; admitted to the bar in Cincinnati in 1833; moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1834 and continued the practice of law; member, State house of representatives 1859-1860; member of the State constitutional convention in 1865; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1867, to December 19, 1870, when he resigned to accept a judicial position; chairman, Committee on Education (Forty-first Congress); appointed chief justice of the Court of Claims 1870-1885, when he retired; died in Washington, D.C., April 1, 1892; remains were cremated and the ashes interred in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
Reported to have benn clipped from an 1867 Senate Chambers Autograph Book.
CRAGIN, Aaron Harrison,
a Representative and a Senator from New Hampshire; born in Weston, Windsor County, Vt., February 3, 1821; completed preparatory studies; studied law; admitted to the bar in Albany, N.Y., in 1847 and commenced practice in Lebanon, N.H.; member, New Hampshire house of representatives 1852-1855; elected by the American Party to the Thirty-fourth Congress and as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1859); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War (Thirty-fourth Congress); resumed the practice of law; member, State house of representatives 1859; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1864; reelected in 1870 and served from March 4, 1865, to March 3, 1877; chairman, Committee on Engrossed Bills (Thirty-ninth Congress), Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expense (Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses), Committee on Naval Affairs (Forty-first and Forty-third Congresses), Committee on Railroads (Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses); appointed by President Rutherford Hayes as one of the commissioners for the purchase of the Hot Springs Reservation in Arkansas and served as chairman 1877-1879; died in Washington, D.C., May 10, 1898; interment in School Street Cemetery, Lebanon, N.H.
