Citation: Parker’s Photograph Gallery, photograph of unidentified sitter. n.d. 2006.631.4
October 24, 1861: Photograph of Unidentified Woman
October 22, 1861: Photograph of Jenny Craig Warner
Jennie Craig Warner lived in Gettysburg with her husband Rev. John Riddle Warner. She would be the grandmother of poet Marianne Moore. The photograph is undated, but her hairstyle and bodice suggest a date in the early 1860s. Jennie would die of typhoid in 1863.
Citation: Unknown photographer, photograph of Jennie Craig Warner. ca. 1860. Moore XII:01:12.
October 19, 1861: Home Importation for the Troops vs. Imports
Transcript:
New York Oct. 19th 1861
Dear Sir
Please see to the children. I have just arrived from Washington, & shall be detained until to-morrow night trying to to find my baggage, which has “slipped up” somewhere between here & Washington. Cant find it yet; & think it may be at Philadelphia. Mrs. Andrew has remained in New York, during the week. Give my best love to the babies.
I wish you would inform some of the newspaper folks; that I have been looking into the subject about which the Northern newspapers are very much disturbed; viz. the sending abroad by the gov’t for soldiers clothes. Tell them that I have presented a statement of the capacity of the New England mills for the manufacture of these clothes, & the insistence of the views of our manufacturers of clothes and the substance of the views of our manufacturer or [illeg.] men to Quartermaster General Meigs, who is very frank, manly & clear in his business methods, listened attentively, explained his views & proceedings, without any withholding: regrets the necessity which has compelled him for temporary purposes to invest some money abroad. But the statements I have seen in the newspapers are a most absurd and monstrous over statement of what he has done. He fully acceded to all my notions of employing home manufacturing &c &c. But he must have an immediate stock on hand, & be kept ahead of the demands made by the troops on his department [& not] remain [astern?] [or he would] a long ways. He will doubtless want all that the New England mills will make, at fair prices; & will need all that he is buying abroad to enable him to keep up a proper stock distributed in the various depots over the country.
Please let some person like Wm Din of the Journal, or Mr. Dunbar of the Adv, see the foregoing statement, in order to make a letter agreeable for the Monday morn’g papers.
Yours Truly,
John A. Andrew
October 15, 1861: Portrait of Jennie Craig Warner
Jennie Craig Warner lived in Gettysburg with her husband Rev. John Riddle Warner. She would be the grandmother of poet Marianne Moore. This portrait is undated, but her hairstyle and bodice suggest a date in the early 1860s. Jennie would die of typhoid in 1863.
Citation: Unknown artist, portrait of Jennie Craig Warner. n.d. 2006.3007.1
October 12, 1861: Ambrotype of Jennie Craig Warner
Jennie Craig Warner lived in Gettysburg with her husband Rev. John Riddle Warner. She would be the grandmother of poet Marianne Moore. The photograph is undated, but her hairstyle and bodice suggest a date in the 50s or early 1860s. Jennie would die of typhoid in 1863.
Citation: Unknown photographer, ambrotype of Jennie Craig Warner. n.d. 2006.7633
October 9, 1861: Henry and Mary Warner letter to John Warner
Henry and Mary Warner lived in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, now part of Pittsburgh. They are the great-grandparents of poet Marianne Moore. By the 1860s they had three surviving children: John, Henry, and Anne. Their letters to John, a Presbyterian minister living in Gettysburg, are preserved as part of Marianne Moore’s family papers.
Transcript:
Back kitchen 10 ½ A.M.
Allegheny City Wednesday October 9th 1861
Our Dear Children—your Welcome letter we received last Saturday—we are all well satisfied with your arrangement, experience has taught us, that business must be attended before pleasure. We are all in excellent health & spirits, have no news to communicate since this day week. Robert is still with us, kind remembrance to Jennie—expect to see you Tuesday morning bet 15th if nothing turns up to prevent your welcome arrival—after much rain the weather here to day is cold & clear
Am much pleased with the resolutions passed here last week, and adopted by the U.P. Synod in this city, in reference to Slavery as it exists under the government of The U.S. of America, you will no doubt see it published in U.S. Newspaper
As we expect soon to see you, will conclude and Remain
Your affectionate father & mother
Henry & Mary Warner
Citation: Henry and Mary Warner, autograph letter signed to John Riddle Warner. Allegheny City [Pittsburgh], 9 October 1861. Moore VI:04:23
October 4, 1861: Abraham Lincoln Warrant to Affix Seal to Treaty
Transcript:
I hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of State to affix the Seal of the United States to the Treaty or Agreement between the United States and the Delaware Tribe of Indians, dated this day, and signed by me, and for so doing this shall be his warrant.
Abraham Lincoln
Washington, October 4th, 1861
Citation: United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) Warrant. Washington, D. C., 4 October 1861. AMs 563/24.1
October 4, 1861: James Garfield to J. H. Jones
Future U.S. President Garfield was lieutenant-colonel and then colonel of the 42nd Ohio Volunteers; he would become a brigadier general in 1862 before resigning to serve as a Congressman in 1863.
Transcript:
Camp Chase, Oct. 4, 1861
Dear Rev. Jones,
Jefferson is here—has been mustered into the Hiram company & is well—I expect a large deputation of friends & brethren here—from Hiram—to visit us next Saturday week—and to spend Lord’s Day—how I want you to come with them—and preach to our boys on Sunday—I will pay your Expenses at least—
The friends will leave on the first train from Cleveland Saturday morning—and you must come down with them—I presume they will buy some thing in the Eating way– & want you all to have a touch of camp life—May be you will conclude to stay—
Cant the Dr come down also & bring some others with him?
Truly Your Brother
J. A. Garfield
P.S. Answer me soon—J.A.G.
Citation: James A. Garfield (1831-1881), autograph letter signed to J. H. Jones. Camp Chase, Ohio; 4 October 1861. AMs 774/4
October 2, 1861: John and Mary Warner letter to John Warner
Henry and Mary Warner lived in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, now part of Pittsburgh. They are the great-grandparents of poet Marianne Moore. By the 1860s they had three surviving children: John, Henry, and Anne. Their letters to John, a Presbyterian minister living in Gettysburg, are preserved as part of Marianne Moore’s family papers.
Transcript:
2 ½ P.M.
Allegheny City Wednesday October 2nd 1861 Front Bed Room
Our Dear Children. We are all in excellent health & Spirits. Hope by this day week, one or the other of you, will be in the midst of us, perhaps both. On last sabbath, when we came home from meeting in the afternoon, got in by means of my night-key, wondered to see the parlour door half open, I walked in, when lo! I behold! here was Henry squatted in the large armchair, he also had a night key, and by that means gained admittance, Joe & him came down in a Skiff, Henry looks right well—did not get any old, thinks they will not go back, Henry left here this morning to go to John McMasters by Rail Road, will be home this evening;
We are happy to inform you, we escaped the effects of the flood, in Mrs Whites cellar across the street, the water from the canal was up to the cellar door—in Kingons house in rear of us, the water was five feet deep, and notwithstanding all this, our cellar floor which is a good depth was as dry as a bone. Yesterday I mailed a Dispatch for you giving an account of the flood in our three rivers hope you have received it. Robert is still with us, as the war prospect is still more gloomy he will not of course leave—
kind remembrance to Jennie, and as we expect soon to see you, will conclude & remain
Your affectionate father & mother
Henry & Mary Warner
Citation: Henry and Mary Warner, autograph letter signed to John Riddle Warner. Allegheny City [Pittsburgh], 2 October 1861. Moore VI:04:23