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United States. Adjutant-General's Office. General orders, 1863.

Title: General orders, 1863.

Two general orders issued by the Adjutant General's Office of the United States War Dept. The first concerns the case of William T. Smithson, a resident of Washington, D.C., who wrote letters under an assumed name to an unnamed person in the Confederate government providing information about alleged plans of Union loyalists Andrew Johnson and Emerson Etheridge to burn bridges and mills and destroy property in Tennessee as part of an effort to subdue the breakaway state. The order, which reproduces the text of the inculpatory letters, concludes by sentencing Smithson to five years in prison. The second order concerns charges against four soldiers, three of them Maryland natives taken prisoner in the ranks and uniform of the Confederate army, the fourth an infantryman in the U.S. Army charged with the rape of an African American woman in Rectortown, Va. The order notes that the three men apprehended in Confederate uniforms were sentenced to death but were later deemed prisoners of war subject to exchange. The man charged with rape was sentenced to life in prison.

ArchivalResource: 2 orders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/214282950 View

Subscription list for printing of Emerson Etheridge speech : manuscript, 1856.

Title: Subscription list for printing of Emerson Etheridge speech : manuscript, 1856.

List to obtain subscribers for the printing by the Congressional Globe Office, Washington, D.C., of the speech delivered by Representative Emerson Etheridge, originally titled: Assault on Mr. Sumner. Speech of Hon. E. Etheridge of Tennessee, in the House of Representatives, July 12, 1856. Printed version later titled: The assault by Mr. Brooks on Mr. Sumner ... Speech concerns Rep. Preston S. Brooks' assault on Rep. Charles Sumner and Etheridge's attempt to act as peacemaker as he expounds on the issues of whether the House had jurisdiction to expel and/or censure Brooks.

ArchivalResource: 1 item : in 1 v. ; 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612748553 View

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875. Letter, 7 August 1861.

Title: Letter, 7 August 1861.

The collection consists of a letter written by Emerson Etheridge and signed by Andrew Johnson. The letter was addressed to the following prominent men of Indiana: H.S. Lane, W.M. Durms, A.G. Porter, J.A. Crarens, John Law, J.P.C. Shanks, Geo. W. Julian, Wm. Mitchell, Albert S. White, Schuyler Colfax, R.W. Thompson, J.P. Usher, Jno. D. Defrees, and Geo. W. Ewing. The men had written a letter to Johnson and Etheridge inviting them to visit Indiana. Etheridge responds that they cannot visit at that time and talks at length of the "unhappy period in our country's history" and the need to maintain and obey the Constitution.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61191621 View

Hayes, Mary. Letters, 1851-1860 and n.d.

Title: Letters, 1851-1860 and n.d.

Two of the letters (1851 & 1852) were sent to Jack Hayes from his brother, William F. Hayes, who was then residing in Hickman, Kentucky; the remaining six letters are addressed varyingly to "Mrs. Hayes," "Loved Sister," "Dear Friend," and "Dear Mary," all of which apparently refer to the wife of Jack Hayes, presumably Mary Hayes. Most of the letters deal with courtship, marriage, and consolation following the deaths of loved ones. In one of the letters, dated 1860, Congressman Emerson Etheridge of Dresden, Tenn., the last Whig to serve in Congress, reflects on the social life led by women of Washington, DC.

ArchivalResource: 8 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39920181 View

Forney, John W. (John Wien), 1817-1881. Letter signed : Washington, to William Pitt Fessenden, 1863 Nov. 10.

Title: Letter signed : Washington, to William Pitt Fessenden, 1863 Nov. 10.

Concerning Mr. Etheridge's "attempt to cheat us in the organization of the House."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270482790 View