Scope and Contents Consists of one certificate of emancipation of Joe, a slave. The document was signed by slave owner Andrew Armstrong and witnessed by James B. January and Robert Holmes.

Scope and Contents Letter to Gideon Welles re: General Fremont's emancipation proclamation and the possibility of his resignation due to Lincoln's dissatisfaction with the proclamation and him. Feels public response would be very unfavorable to his resignation and that enlistment numbers would drop.

Scope and Contents One letter gives a list of resolutions he believes the Park County girls should abide by and include "tender services as clerks, mechanics and tillers of the soil" while the men are serving, and "withhold friendship and love from every able bodied young man who will not enlist". He gives his account of the battles at Fort Henry and Donelson, Pittsburgh Landing and Corinth. In the beginning his letters tell how happy he is to be a soldier and that he could lead that life with no problem. After...

Scope and Contents Letter to "editor of the New York Tribune" re: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the legality of it. Written in response to the editor's (Horace Greeley) position that the southern states could save slavery by ending the rebellion.