Henry Charles Lea Papers: Political Writings - Civil War

• Folder 2058: Supervisory Committee for recruiting colored regiments. Lea's notes and printed announcements. 1861-1865. 15 l.
• Folder 2059: "A Letter to the Honorable John Bell of Tennessee," 1861. Handwritten draft by H. C. Lea. John Bell, 1797-1869, was Senator from Tennessee, U. S. Secretary of War under President Harrison, and Constitutional Union Candidate for U.S. President, 1860. 1 item, 4 l., plus newspaper clippings.
• Folder 2060: "To his excellency Abraham Lincoln, President." Handwritten draft by H. C. Lea representing the Citizens of the 24th Ward in Philadelphia. September 12, 1862. List of resolutions re: formation of a home guard militia to defend Philadelphia. 1 item, 2 l.
• Folder 2061: United States Congress. House of Representatives Report No. 23, February 10, 1862, "Harbor Defenses on Great Lakes and Rivers." 1 item.
• Folder 2062: Lea's notes on canals. 1 item, 1 l.
• Folder 2063: Lea's notes on the army. 1 item, 1 l.
• Folder 2064: Citizens' Bounty Fund for Volunteers. Henry C. Lea, chairman. 1 small ledger book listing contributions to the fund, August 1862. Receipts for Lea's contributions to the fund, 4 leaves, August 1862. 5 items plus clippings.
• Folder 2065: Home Guard of the Twenty-fourth Ward. Announcements, "Provisions of an Act legalizing the Home Guard of Philadelphia," 12 leaves, plus 3 clippings.
• Folder 2066: National Union Party of the Twenty-fourth Ward. Henry C. Lea, chairman of the Finance Committee. 1 ledger book of contributions, 1863, plus report of contributions addressed to Theo. M. Willberger, October 10, 1864.
• Folder 2067: United States Sanitary Commission [for sick and wounded soldiers]. Great Central Fair held in Philadelphia, June 1864. Announcements, 2 items, 2 l. plus newspaper clipping.
• Folder 2068: Bounty Commission. "List of Warrants not called for, & handed over by the Bounty Commission appointed under Ordinance of December 12, 1863,..." Receipt signed by J. G. Rosengarten. 1 item, 3 l.
• Folder 2069: Philadelphia. Select Council. Appendix No. 67 to the journal of the Select Council. Re: Provost-Marshal General Fry, and Philadelphia's quotas of men. 1865. 1 item.
• Folder 2070: Draft of an affidavit, re: recruitments signed by Cyrus S. Detre, January 20, 1865 in H. C. Lea's hand.
• Folder 2071: To: Hon. F. W. Seward, assistant Secretary of State, signed Samuel Dutton, January 29, 1866. Re: General Charles H. T. Collis; Lieut. Col. F. F. Cavada, U. S. Consul at Trinidad; Major General David B. Birney; the battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. Printed item. 1 l.
• Folder 2072: "The Record of the Democratic Party 1860-1865." pamphlet.
• Folder 2073: "Democratic Frauds. How the Democrats Carried Pennsylvania in 1867." No. 178. pamphlet, 1 item.
• Folder 2074: "Repudiation," No. 180. 1 item, 1 l.
• Folder 2075: "The New Rebellion," No. 186. pamphlet, 1 item.
• Folder 2076: "Is This What We Fought For," illustrated broadsheet re: Ulysses S. Grant. 1 item.
• Folder 2077: "The Lives and Public Services of General U. S. Grant." No. 182. Union League pamphlet. Also includes, "Life of Schuyler Colfax." 1 item.