Slaves--Emancipation--United States
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
William R. Jones papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0095
Abstract
The papers contain three items related to William R. Jones. Includes is a handwritten will (amendment?) for Jones, which provides for the emancipation of his slaves after his death. Also included is a letter from Captain Daniel Woodall to Mrs. Jones, outlining the movements of the Delaware First Regiment from the time they left Norfolk, Virgina, through the Battle of Antietam, and descrbied the type of conditions the troops endured on the march and in battle. A letter from Jones to his wife...
Dates:
1858-1863
Autograph Abraham Lincoln documents from the Lincoln Collection at the University of Delaware
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0465
Abstract
Documents in the University of Delaware’s Lincoln Collection that contain Abraham Lincoln’s original signature or other autograph writing, including rare signed copy of “A Resolution,” submitting the Thirteenth Amendment to the States. Part of a much larger collection of Lincolniana that came to the University from the Lincoln Club of Delaware in 1972.
Dates:
1855-1887