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CIVIL WAR MANUSCRIPTS

A Guide to Collections

in the

Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress

Compiled by John R. Sellers

LIBRAR Y O F CONGRES S

WASHINGTON 1986
Cover: Ulysses S. Grant

Title page: Benjamin F. Butler, Montgomery C. Meigs, Joseph Hooker, and

David D. Porter

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Library of Congress. Manuscript Division.

Civil War manuscripts.

Includes index.

Supt. of Docs, no.: LC 42:C49

1. United States—History—Civil War, 1861-1865—

Manuscripts—Catalogs. 2. United States—History—

Civil War, 1861-1865—Sources—Bibliography—Catalogs.

3. Library of Congress. Manuscript Division—Catalogs.

I. Sellers, John R. II. Title.

Z1242.L48 1986 [E468] 016.9737 81-607105

ISBN 0-8444-0381-4

The portraits in this guide were reproduced from a photograph album in the

James Wadsworth family papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.

The album contains nearly 200 original photographs (numbered sequentially

at the top), most of which were autographed by their subjects. The photographs were collected by John Hay, an author and statesman who was Lincoln's private secretary from 1860 to 1865.

For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402.
PREFACE

To Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War was essentially a

people's contest over the maintenance of a government dedicated to the elevation of man and the right of every citizen to

an unfettered start in the race of life. President Lincoln believed

that most Americans understood this, for he liked to boast that

while large numbers of Army and Navy officers had resigned

their commissions to take up arms against the government,

not one common soldier or sailor was known to have deserted

his post to fight for the Confederacy. Unfortunately, secessionist leaders also believed that their cause was just, if not God

ordained. Confederate apologists argued that in seceding from

the Union the Southern States had only exercised their constitutional right to withdraw from a voluntary combination of

states after the authorized government of those states demonstrated it was bent on a course destined to disrupt the South's

established institutions. Any attempt to coerce the newly independent states back into the Union was both an act of aggression and a violation of individual liberty. This ideological

impasse resulted in the bloodiest war ever fought by the American people.

Nowhere is the story of the Civil War better told than in

the papers and records of the participants held by the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. But even the most

talented researcher must have access to a specially prepared

subject guide to survey effectively the Civil War manuscript

holdings of a repository that contains over 40,000,000 original

items in 10,000 separate collections.

Civil War Manuscripts evolved from a checklist prepared

between 1965 and 1967 by Lloyd A. Dunlap, a specialist in

American history in the Manuscript Division. After Mr. Dunlap's death in 1968, various individuals, including Gayle

Thornbrough, Margherita E. Pryor, Frank J. Tusa, and Oliver

H. Orr, expanded the checklist. Continuing public interest in

the Civil War and the consequent demand for information about

the Library's manuscript holdings suggested the production of

a more comprehensive, annotated Civil War guide, using as a

foundation the Dunlap manuscript, which was compiled largely

from catalogs, finding aids, and other administrative tools.
Eventually, this task was placed in the hands of John R. Sellers,

an expert in 18th- and 19th-century American military history

who personally examined each collection, with the following

results. It is hoped that with its expanded format the guide

will satisfy the needs of present and future generations of Civil

War scholars and contribute to a better understanding of the

single most important challenge to our national form of government.

James H. Hutson

Chief, Manuscript Division

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INTRODUCTION

On the morning of April 20, 1861, a large hydrogen-filled

balloon drifted serenely over the South Carolina countryside,

the tranquillity of its noiseless flight belying the boisterous

calls to arms then echoing throughout the Palmetto State. In

the gondola the pioneer aeronaut, Prof. Thaddeus S. C. Lowe,

looking strangely out of place in a long Prince Albert coat and

black silk top hat, was listening anxiously to trailing sounds of

gunfire, slightly muffled by the sea of green below, as he

searched for a place to land. Professor Lowe had been in free

flight from Cincinnati, Ohio, since 3:30 a.m., in an attempt to

test a theory that he could cross the Atlantic Ocean in a gas

balloon by entering the steady eastward flow of air in the middle atmosphere. To prove that he actually had traveled in the

jet stream, Lowe had made his ascent while the ground wind

blew toward the west, and true to expectations, at an altitude

of about 7,000 feet, he was wafted eastward on currents of air

that followed the undulations of the land like an invisible highway in the sky.

Professor Lowe's flight was supposed to have ended somewhere along the New Jersey coast; unfortunately, when his rudderless craft cascaded down the eastern slope of the Appalachian Mountains, it was caught in a deep and fast-moving

southerly flow of air and set adrift several hours later over

South Carolina. Lacking enough buoyancy to sail back over

the mountains and unprepared for an ocean crossing, Lowe

was forced to the ground, ironically, in Union County, S.C.,

near the town of Unionville. The scenes that followed are worthy of a tale by Charles Dickens or Samuel Clemens, for it

taxed the imagination of local officials and dignitaries to convince the thousands of suspicious secessionists who poured into

the county seat to witness a Yankee hanging that the young

scientist was not a spy or saboteur. The whole experience so

exasperated Lowe that within a few weeks of his return to the

free states he was again sailing over the southern landscape,

this time as the chief aeronaut of the Army of the Potomac.

The military career of Professor Lowe, the manufacture

and use of aerial reconnaissance balloons, and the organization

and function of the U.S. Aeronautic Corps, which was first

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established as a branch of the Army's Department of Topographical Engineers, are all possible subjects of Civil War

research in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics collection in the Manuscript Division of the Library of

Congress. Interesting as such studies may seem, however, they

constitute only a fraction of the research opportunities on the

Civil War in 1,064 separately identifiable collections in the

Manuscript Division's holdings. For example, the collections

provide an abundance of information on the basic motivations

and political attitudes of early volunteer soldiers on both sides

of the war, Union and Confederate military and political organization and reorganizations, war finance, inflation, and

diplomacy. Civil War scholars can also study the organization

and service of philanthropic societies such as the United States

Christian Commission, the United States Sanitary Commission,

and the National Freedmen's Relief Association; follow hundreds of soldiers to their respective enlistment centers, training camps, bivouacs, battlefields, and graves; examine the performance and service records of companies, regiments, brigades,

and divisions; trace the changing attitudes of Union soldiers

toward noncombatants and "contrabands" in the South; assess

the ability and contributions of individual political and military leaders; investigate the relationship between Union and

Confederate soldiers both as prisoners of war and during their

occasional peaceful encounters in the field; cringe at 19thcentury medical practices; inquire into the role of women in

the war; and refight a seemingly endless array of battles and

skirmishes.

Also represented in the collections are the often baleful

effects of Federal, State, and local bounty systems. Sometimes

devoted family men such as Corp. John C. Arnold sought to

avoid financial ruin by obtaining a bounty for joining the U.S.

Army. Corporal Arnold, a laborer from Snyder County, Pa.,

enlisted in the 49th Pennsylvania Regiment for the support of

his wife Mary and their three children. Arnold demonstrated

his love for his family in regular letters of encouragement and

instruction, which he occasionally closed with a careful drawing of his and Mary's joined hands. But Arnold's dreams of a

better future ended at the Battle of Sayler's Creek, the last

major engagement of the war. Less conspicuous in the competition for enlistment bounties were the bounty agents who pocketed thousands of dollars intended for soldiers, presumably for

worthwhile services, and enterprising clerks like Orra Bailey,

who was able to forward a considerable amount of money home

to his wife in Hartford, Conn., through his association with the

office of the provost marshal and the Board of Enrollment in

the District of Columbia.

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Many documents in the collections of the Manuscript Division highlight the early enthusiasm for war, North and South.

Both military and civilian observers commented on the flood of

volunteers, the growth of enlistment centers and musters, and

the establishment of new training camps. Some observers also

noted, albeit shamefacedly, the cooling effect on this war fever

of casualty reports and the sight of sick and wounded soldiers.

In addition, scholars can study the adoption of and reaction to

conscription and perhaps uncover fresh examples of the extreme

methods adopted by a few officers to fill their ranks. One Confederate officer was not above immediately forcing into line

any eligible young man who strolled to the roadside to watch

his unit march past. Somewhat surprising are the large number of letters from commissioned and noncommissioned Union

officers to northern Congressmen and officials soliciting higher

rank in a black regiment.

The contribution of Confederate women to the war effort

is another well-documented subject in the collections. Most references of this type concern the traditional role women played

as seamstresses, nurses, and hostesses, but careful and imaginative researchers will find numerous comments on the emotional or psychological support Confederate women gave their

soldiers. Military and civilian observers described the women

of the South as the heart and soul of the Confederacy. One

Kentucky cavalryman, writing just after the war, was so

impressed with the determined spirit of his female acquaintances that he was persuaded the South would have won the

war had there been a metamorphosis of the sexes. Paradoxically,

many plantation mistresses powdered two faces, so to speak,

one gray and the other blue, for they seemed unable to deny

enemy officers the hospitality of their homes and tables. Doubtless in most instances their invitations were designed, at least

in part, to guarantee the protection of property, but all too

often the visits appear to have been mutually agreeable.

Although the parties debated the issues of secession and States

rights, they obviously enjoyed the argument. In any event, the

feigned friendliness of true Yankee haters was easily detected

by their already suspicious guests, who would not tarry long at

hostile tables or trouble themselves unduly about the depredations of their troops. Similarly, quite a few southern belles

attended Federal military balls during the war, rationalizing

their blatant unfaithfulness to their own soldiers by dancing

only cotillions, firmly refusing the more intimate contact of the

waltz.

Other facets in the behavior of Confederate women puzzled soldiers on both sides. For example, the gaiety of a group

of well dressed ladies who climbed Kennesaw Mountain during

the peak of the battle to enjoy the carnage between the armies

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of Gen. William T. Sherman and Gen. Joseph E. Johnston surprised and dismayed the participants, some of whom were

within easy rifle shot of the women. Then there was the abrupt

about-face in the conduct of more than a few Confederate women

at or near the end of the war. In Charleston, S.C., female socialites somehow managed to transfer much of the anger they

harbored toward the U.S. Navy, which had blockaded the harbor and bombarded the city and its outlying defenses for four

years, to the Union Army, whose presence had scarcely been

felt. Union naval officers expressed amazement at the welcome

they received at important social functions in Charleston after

the capitulation, particularly with the all-absolving remark as

they were introduced, "He's navy." Nor can the enthusiastic

response of the women of Savannah, Ga., to General Sherman's

conquering army, oft reported in the correspondence of his

soldiers, be ignored.

Materials relating to the contributions of northern women

to the war effort portray many of the same sacrifices made by

their counterparts in the South, especially in the reactions to

the death or crippling of fathers, brothers, husbands, and sons.

But Confederate women could not duplicate the elaborate fairs

and expositions sponsored by benevolent societies in the North

for the benefit of soldiers. Nor could they provide the same

comforts and services available to Federal soldiers enroute to

the war zone at strategically located soldiers' homes. The services of many northern women as nurses, teachers, missionaries,

and agents, and occasionally as disguised or unofficial soldiers,

are also represented in the collections; however, the records

are surprisingly silent about the ever-present horde of camp

followers and prostitutes on both sides.

Many Civil War soldiers felt compelled to recount their

experiences as prisoners of war through letters, diaries,

memoirs, and reminiscences. Most such records in the Manuscript Division concern Union soldiers, perhaps because of their

higher numbers and better writing skills. Whatever the reason,

the result is a wealth of information on Confederate military

prisons (particularly Richmond's famous "Libby Hotel" and

Belle Isle, and the notorious stockade prison at Andersonville,

Ga.), prison escapes and attempted escapes, cartels for the

exchange of prisoners, and the morale, diet, diseases, sufferings,

and deaths of prisoners.

The manuscript collections also provide an opportunity for

scholars to reexamine the performance of individual soldiers

and military units in the war. For example, the widespread

belief in an almost universal dread of Col. John S. Mosby's

Partisan Rangers among Union soldiers stationed in northern

Virginia is called into question by the comments of a Federal

cavalryman who likened the nocturnal chases after Mosby's
raiders to coon hunts. The exercise appears to have involved

little danger and is presented as a welcome intrusion into the

camp routine. Perhaps another unfounded belief concerns the

discipline and prowess of Gen. John C. Fremont's famous

"Pathfinders." After observing the actions of General Fremont's

troops during their march into the Shenandoah Valley in the

spring of 1862, one disgusted Federal officer remarked that

these German soldiers marched off the road most of the way;

the paths they followed led chiefly from one farm to the next,

which they plundered in turn.

In the area of religion, extensive reading in the collections

seems to lead to the conclusion that, at least during the height

of the war, the militant Christian was a contradiction in terms.

Moreover, if comments in the collections about professional

men of faith who entered the army can be trusted, chaplains

seem often to have failed in their mission. Occasionally, a particularly devout recruit would gather a half dozen followers for

evening prayers and Bible study, but the sessions did not continue long and excited little interest among the rank and file.

Delegates of the U.S. Christian Commission and Sanitary Commission visiting Federal troops in the war zone were greeted

eagerly if they had food and clothing to distribute, but piety

was at a discount. Some observers testified that the men fought

mechanically, without malice, just as they would sift grain or

saw wood. They might be moved greatly by jealousy of each

other or become enraged at some petty encroachment by a

comrade, a deficiency in their rations, or some insult or unfairness on the part of an officer, but of God and his worship—

nothing at all. This regression in religious interest and observance is neatly outlined in the postwar remarks of William

McDonald, a surgeon with the Army of the Potomac: "The chaplains were often called upon to hold Service on Sundays regularly during the winter of 1861 and 1862, not at all during the

Peninsular Campaign, now and then during the winter of 1862

and 1863, and never after as far as my knowledge and observation went."

Few aspects of the war are better represented in the collections than its effects upon southern blacks. The hopes and

achievements, the disappointments and sufferings of freedmen,

appear in diverse and sundry ways: in the unlearned scrawl of

a grateful black recruit, in the sharp rebuttal of a black officer

defending the performance of his troops, in the compassionate

observations of missionaries and volunteer teachers, in the

casual but telltale remarks of officers and soldiers, and in the

recollections of escaped Federal prisoners of war. The backdrops against which the lives of freedmen were acted out range

from the newly established schools and freedmen's camps to

ravaged towns and plantations, from smoking battlefields to

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long winter encampments, from plowed fields to massive

earthworks, from coaches to military supply wagons, and from

loading docks to the decks of northern ships of war. Many

Union soldiers had never been in contact with blacks, free or

slave, before they entered the South, and their unacclimated

eyes caught nuances of black life and culture often overlooked

by more experienced observers. It was also difficult to predict

the reactions of individual white soldiers to blacks. Among

officers, adverse feelings toward blacks sometimes outweighed

the responsibility of their position, while common soldiers like

Joseph Lester, an artisan with the 6th Wisconsin Battery, displayed a statesmanlike understanding of racial and political

problems.

In the field of Civil War medicine, the Manuscript Division holds the correspondence and papers of Frederick Law

Olmsted, general secretary of the United States Sanitary

Commission; Ninian Pinkney, fleet surgeon and medical adviser

for the Mississippi Squadron (USN); Daniel B. Conrad, chief

surgeon at the Brock House Hospital in Richmond, Va., and

later fleet surgeon attached to the C.S.S. Tennessee; and various field surgeons, medical assistants, regular and volunteer

nurses, and sick and wounded soldiers. There is even a collection of original letters and photographs from a national postwar left-handed penmanship contest that was designed to boost

the morale and employability of disabled Union veterans. The

kind of information available in medically oriented collections

concerns the contraction and treatment of diseases among combat troops and prisoners of war, treatable and untreatable

wounds, the distribution of convalescents among hospitals

throughout the northeast, medical facilities (surgical tents,

emergency field hospitals, and departmental hospitals), medical conveyances (field ambulances, deep water transports, and

hospital ships), hospital diets, and the attitude of soldiers toward

doctors. Particularly diligent researchers may occasionally

glimpse the frustrations of Civil War doctors whose medicine

chests were pilfered by alcoholics and drug addicts, who were

obliged to stand helplessly by while politically connected,

though well intentioned, humanitarians like Clara Barton distributed apples to soldiers with serious stomach and intestinal

wounds, or who were deserted by medical impostors they

entrusted to seal the wounds of new amputees.

Researchers can pursue the design and construction of Civil

War vessels (monitors, ironclads, rams, gunboats, mortar boats,

torpedo boats, transports, hospital ships, and submarines) and

ordnance (floating, submarine, and on-board torpedoes, and

improved Dahlgren, Columbiad, and Parrott cannons) in the

massive Naval Historical Foundation collection. Scholars interested in military intelligence, particularly during the early

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part of the war, will find the papers of the Pinkerton National

Detective Agency and the papers of John C. Babcock, who was

one of Pinkerton's operatives during the Peninsular and Antietam campaigns, extremely useful. And anyone studying the

military postal service, the military telegraph, and military

engineering and mapmaking will be rewarded by a careful

perusal of the collections herein described. In fact, the list of

possible research topics can be expanded in so many directions

that the number of new or creditable studies on the war is

limited largely by the searcher's own imagination.

The most noticeable weakness in the Manuscript Division's

Civil War holdings is the imbalance in materials from the

opposing sides, the ratio being at least three or four to one in

favor of the North. The reasons that this situation exists cannot all be addressed here, but the larger number of Union

soldiers, the higher literacy rate among northerners, and the

survival of personal and public papers in a region relatively

untouched by the war are obvious factors. At least Civil War

scholars can be thankful that most secessionists accepted defeat

more gracefully than one southern statesman who so hated the

thought of a forced reunion with the North that on his deathbed late in the war he extracted a promise from his daughter to

have a plow run over his grave if the South were subjugated.

John R. Sellers

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HOW TO USE THIS

GUIDE

Library of Congress manuscript collections consist largely

of the personal papers of prominent Americans, as opposed to

official government records, which are held by the National

Archives and Records Administration. Civil War Manuscripts

is a guide to the collections of the Manuscript Division that are

made up of materials—either whole or in part—relating directly

to the Civil War. The guide does not cover original materials in

the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, the Prints and

Photographs Division, the Music Division, the Geography and

Map Division, or the general collections. Although it is focused

on the period of the war, it does include a few significant postwar items, such as materials concerning the assassination of

President Lincoln, the trial of the Lincoln conspirators, and the

Fitz-John Porter and Henry Wirz trials. No attempt has been

made to survey collections concerning prewar politics and the

secession controversy. Also, it is not a guide to entire collections unless those collections are composed wholly of materials

relating to the war, which is why National Union Catalog of

Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) numbers have not been included. Users will not necessarily be led to all of the material

on any one subject; however, if they possess a good knowledge

of the war and basic research skills, they can be reasonably

certain of having been directed to most of the relevant items.

In no case are all the papers of or about a single campaign,

battle, individual, place, or topic contained in the Library of

Congress. It is indeed rare when additional information on any

subject cannot be found in other major libraries and archives.

The entries in the guide are arranged alphabetically by

collection title. Collections entered under personal names

include the individual's birth and death dates, if known, and a

brief statement of identification emphasizing occupation or

profession, rank, and military unit or command. General officers of whatever grade are identified only as "Gen., USA" or

"CSA." No effort has been made to cite each rank held by

individual soldiers; rather, in most instances the rank mentioned will have been the highest attained during the war or

the rank held during the period of service herein described.

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Only an individual's war-related activities and career are

discussed. The term "Volunteer" as applied to regiments and

companies is used rather indiscriminately, but apparent discrepancies are usually the result of reorganizations and consolidations, temporary reassignments, and misunderstandings.

The second line in each entry contains a brief statement on

the nature of the collection, such as personal or family papers,

letters, diaries, and memoirs, which is followed by the inclusive dates and approximate size of the collection. The figures

on collection size are for the collection as a whole and not for

that portion relating to the war. Next is a statement on the

kind or kinds of material involved other than originals, i.e.,

facsimiles, transcripts, photocopies, and microfilm. This in turn

is followed by a description of the collection or pertinent items

in the collection and an alphabetical list of the principal correspondents where applicable. The final line for many entries

contains information on available finding aids, indexes, guides,

and microfilm copies. The figure on the number of reels of

microfilm refers to everything in the collection that has been

filmed, not just the items from the period of the Civil War. In

instances where the Library has purchased the collection on

microfilm, the final line of the entry identifies the institution

holding the original materials. Almost all materials on microfilm are available on interlibrary loan. No effort has been made

to identify published items, though occasionally such references appear.

The Naval Historical Foundation, which is the source of 75

of the collections in the guide, is a nonprofit organization which

was chartered in the District of Columbia in 1926. The purpose

of the Foundation is to promote the study of the U.S. Navy

through the collection and preservation of private documents,

papers, and artifacts of naval historical interest. So successful

in its endeavors that it soon was forced to seek larger facilities,

the Foundation reached an agreement, in 1949, with the Library

of Congress to place its materials on deposit in the Manuscript

Division. These collections subsequently were cataloged and

indexed with the support of the Foundation. Its deposits now

number about 357,000 items in 267 separate collections, which

are maintained as a unit.

Most of the abbreviations in the guide, including obsolete

military ranks, are self-explanatory, but "USA," "USN" and

"CSA," "CSN" refer to the respective armies and navies and not

to the countries involved. Duplicate names for individual battles have been avoided, and the most commonly recognized

names have been employed. Hence the Battle of 1st Cold Harbor or Chickahominy is consistently referred to as Gaines Mill,

and the Battles of 1st and 2d Bull Run are called by their

northern names of 1st and 2d Manassas.

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Many of the collections listed in the guide came to the

Library in the first half of the 20th century, roughly between

1900 and 1940, either as purchases or gifts. Occasionally, a

collection will have been placed in the Library on deposit at

some early date and subsequently converted to a gift. The collections continue to grow and readers are encouraged to inquire

about any recent acquisitions. The papers of Gen. Nathaniel

Banks, for example, were not acquired until 1964; those of

Frederick Douglass, which contain a few significant Civil War

items, came to the Library in 1972; and those of Orlando M. Poe

and Francis P. Blair, Jr., arrived in 1982.

The index is primarily a name index; however, it includes

a generous number of subjects. Essentially, the index reflects

the collection descriptions. It is keyed to entry numbers rather

than pages, and boldfaced numbers identify main entries. All

volunteer regiments are listed under their respective states,

but readers are advised that considerable additional information is available on military units in the accounts of the battles

and campaigns in which they participated. Also, a researcher's

study of a particular battle or skirmish should take into account

the campaign in which the action took place.

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CIVIL WAR MANUSCRIPTS
Defenses of Washington, 1865.

Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress
1

Abbe, Cleveland (1938-1916) Meteorologist, U.S.

Coast Survey

Papers, 1850-1916. ca. 9,500 items.

Contains four letters to Abbe from Albert S. Bickmore,

44th Massachusetts Volunteers, written while on special duty

as a nurse at Beaufort, N.C., Mar. 4-May 25, 1863.

Finding aid available.

2

Abbott, Asa Townsend

(1841-1923) 2d Lt., U.S. Signal Corps

Reminiscences, 1915—23.

Microfilm, 1 reel, and enlargements prints, 69 p.

Describes Abbott's service in northern Virginia with the

Army of the Potomac. Also includes an account of his military

service (4 p.) by Col. B. F. Fisher, chief signal officer, and two

undated letters describing an incident in July 1864 in which

President Lincoln came under fire at Fort Stevens during Gen.

Jubal Early's Washington raid.

3

Abbott, Samuel Warren (1837-1904) Asst. Surg., USN

Letterbook, 1861-80. 1 v.

Medical correspondence, reports, requisitions, and lists of

sick and wounded sailors sent by Abbott to fleet surgeons George

Clymer and William Johnson, U.S.S. Catskill, South Atlantic

Blockading Squadron, Feb.-Oct. 1863; observations on sanitary conditions aboard ironclads; inventory of medical supplies

received aboard the U.S.S. Niagara while outfitting in New

York Harbor, Feb.-May 1864; postwar descriptions of 40 Massachusetts veterans examined by Abbott for disability; and miscellaneous medical notes. Additional recipients are John A.

Dahlgren, Samuel F. Du Pont, George W. Rodgers, Gideon

Welles, and William Whelan.

4

Abert, Charles Lawyer, Montgomery County, Md.

Diary, 1861-63.

Microfilm, 1 reel.

Covers the period May 20, 1861-July 8, 1863. Concerns

claims by Abert's clients for transporting Federal troops from

Fort Sumter, S.C., to New York, and the movements of Gen. J.

E. B. Stuart in Maryland during the Gettysburg Campaign.

5

Adams Family

Papers, 1776-1914. ca. 225 items.

In part, photocopies.
Includes a copy of the draft of William H. Seward's instructions to Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886), May 21,1861, as

Minister to the Court of St. James; and a copy of an unfinished

and unsigned letter describing the position of British trade

unions on the American Civil War, London, Mar. 26, 1863.

Papers, 1639-1889.

Microfilm, 608 reels.

Contains the papers of Charles Francis Adams (1807-

1886), Minister to the Court of St. James during the Civil War.

Published finding aid available.

Originals in the Massachusetts Historical Society.

7

Adee Family

Papers, 1825-1953. ca. 300 items.

Includes a few clippings on the career of Maj. Gen. George

L. Hartsuff (1830-1874), a postwar photograph of Hartsuff,

and copies of general orders issued by Hartsuff at Danville, Ky.

(1863), and Petersburg, Va. (1865).

8

Aldrich, Nelson Wilmarth

(1841-1915) Sgt., 10th Rhode Island Volunteers

Papers, 1777-1930. ca. 42,500 items.

In part, photocopies.

Relates chiefly to Senator Aldrich's later career, but

includes a "Company Roll Book" (1863); minutes of the Senate

Finance Committee, Dec. 1863-June 1864; and copies of letters concerning Harris Hoyt's efforts to obtain information on

military affairs in Texas.

Published index and microfilm copy (73 reels) available.

9

Alexander, Edward Porter (1835-1910) Gen., CSA

Papers, 1854-65. 15 items.

In part, transcripts.

Copy of Alexander's "Personal Recollections of Knoxville

Campaign," notes exchanged with General Longstreet during

the Battle of Gettysburg, copies of notes from Alexander to

General Pickett at Gettysburg, and part of Gen. R. E. Lee's

pocket map showing an area along the lower James River.

10

Allen, Henry Watkins (1820-1866) Gov., Louisiana

Letter, 1865. 1 item.

Letter from Allen to Col. John T. Sprague, May 16, 1865,

Shreveport, La., concerning negotiations for peace.
11

Allen, Isaac Jackson (b. 1814) Editor; U.S.

Consul in China

Autobiography, 1904. 1 item.

Contains remarks on President Lincoln at Gettysburg (Nov.

1863) and on an interview with Lincoln in 1864 in which the

President expounded on the state of the war and the problems

he anticipated in disbanding the Army.

12

Allen, Samuel E. Pvt., USA

Letters, 1862. 2 items.

Letters from Allen to his cousin, Sallie Rettew, July 19

and 29, 1862, describing the Battle of Mechanicsville and hospital care at Jamestown and Fort Monroe, Va., and Annapolis,

Md.

13

Allen, William A. H. Asst. Eng., USN

Diary, 1863-84. 14 v.

Entries for Mar. 21, 1863-May 31, 1864, describe Allen's

voyage aboard the U.S.S. Circassian from New York to New

Orleans and subsequent service aboard the U.S.S. Cayuga, West

Gulf Blockading Squadron. Also includes an account of goods

and vessels seized along the coast of Texas, and a detailed plan

of Fort Jackson, La.

14

Allen Family

Papers, 1865-1965. ca. 300 items.

Includes personal reminiscences and autobiographical writings of Lt. Charles Julius Allen (1840-1915) describing life at

the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, during the war, troop

travel on the Mississippi River, conditions in New Orleans,

La., under the military governorship of Gen. Edward Canby,

the capture of Fort Gaines, Ala., the Siege of Mobile, particularly the attack on Spanish Fort, and an expedition to Texas

after the surrender of Gen. R. E. Lee's army. Also contains a

few maps and sketches.

15

Alston Family

Papers, 1735-1957. 50 items.

Includes an autobiographical letter by Jacob Motte Alston

(1821 — 1886?) containing reminiscences about the war in South

Carolina, particularly depredations by Federal troops and

"Tories" during General Sherman's march to the sea and the

burning of Columbia, S.C.
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Alvord, Augustus V. (1834-1904) Chaplain, 1st Connecticut

Heavy Artillery

Letter, 1864. 1 item.

Letter from Alvord to his brother, June 25, 1864, describing the repulse of a Confederate counterattack during the Siege

of Petersburg and the devastation of the Virginia countryside.

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Alvord, Jabez 2d Lt., 28th Connecticut Volunteers

Diary, 1862-63. 1 item.

Records the service of the 28th Connecticut from Nov. 15,

1862, to Aug. 28, 1863. Includes a detailed account of operations against Port Hudson, La., May 26-June 9, 1863, and

descriptions of voyages, marches, and camp life at Fort Barrancas, Fla., Ship Island, Miss., and Brashear City (Morgan

City) and Carrollton, La.

18

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Aeronautical archives, 1783-1962. ca. 30,000 items.

In part, photocopies.

Material from the former Institute of the Aerospace

Sciences. Includes the papers of Thaddeus S. C. Lowe

(1832-1913), "Chief Aeronaut of the Army of the Potomac,"

which comprise a memoir, "My Balloons in Peace and War," a

diary, Apr. 30 —May 5, 1863, correspondence, photographs,

military orders, telegrams, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous items. Contains information on the establishment of the

Aeronautic Corps, the design and operation of balloons, reconnaissance flights, the defense of Washington, D.C., the Peninsular, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville campaigns, Confederate morale at the beginning of the war, and Confederate

reaction to the use of balloons. Also includes sketches showing

Confederate troop positions at Bailey's Crossroads, Va., Aug.

27, 1861, and fortifications around Richmond, Va., June 14,

1862. Diary entries consist largely of notes made during reconnaissance flights and figures on pay for noncombatants in the

Aeronautic Corps. Principal correspondents include Joseph

Hooker, Andrew A. Humphreys, George B. McClellan, George

G. Meade, Fitz-John Porter, and Edwin M. Stanton.

Finding aid available.

19

Anderson, Frank Maloy (1871-1961) Historian

Papers, 1899-1954. ca. 40,000 items.

Includes research notes assembled by Anderson over a

20-year period for an unwritten history of the secession crisis.
Anderson's thesis and proposed organization of the work are

explained in a draft introduction.

Finding aid available.

20

Anderson, John Emerson Sgt., 2d Massachusetts Infantry

Memoir, 1861 — 65. 1 item.

Photocopy.

Detailed account of Anderson's service with the 2d Massachusetts Infantry in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862,

the Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Atlanta, Savannah, and Carolinas campaigns, and in operations against guerrillas and renegades in east Tennessee in the winter of 1863-64. Includes

information on recruitment, training, marches, discipline, camp

life, morale, depredations, foraging expeditions, the treatment

of prisoners of war, military paroles, disease, hospital care,

Federal spies, enlistment bounties, Union sentiment in the

South, the attitude of noncombatants, and crime in the U.S.

Army.

21

Anderson, Robert (1805-1871) Gen., USA

Papers, 1819-1919. ca. 5,000 items.

Contains numerous personal and official letters received

by Anderson and copies of his outgoing letters during his commands at Fort Moultrie and Fort Sumter, S.C., the Department

of Kentucky, and the Department of the Cumberland. Also

includes plans of forts and batteries, newspaper clippings concerning Anderson and the Fort Sumter affair, and presentation

copies of the following books: R. Anderson, Within Fort Sumter

by One of the Company (1861), T. M. Anderson, The Political

Conspiracies Preceding the Rebellion or the True Stories of Sumter and Pickens (1882), and E. A. Lawton, Major Robert Anderson and Fort Sumter, 1861 (1911). Principal wartime correspondents are P. G. T. Beauregard, Simon Cameron, Samuel Cooper,

Richard B. Duane, W. W. Harlee, L. M. Hatch, David F.

Jamison, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew G. Magrath, Francis W.

Pickens, Winfield Scott, William T. Sherman, Edwin M.

Stanton, Charles Sumner, Lorenzo Thomas, and George L.

Willard.

Finding aid and index available.

22

Anderson—Moler Families

Papers, 1854-1931. ca. 140 items.

Includes about 30 letters written during the Civil War by

Nelia Moler of Columbus, Ohio, and relatives in Anderson

County, Kans., containing remarks on enlistments, training

camps, and acquaintances in the Union Army.
Robert Anderson
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Anglin, John S. Pvt., Iredell Blues; 4th

North Carolina Regiment, CSA

Letters, 1861-64. 17 items.

In part, transcripts.

Letters from Anglin to his family written from Fort

Caswell, N.C., and from various camps in Virginia concerning

casualties in the 4th North Carolina in the Battle of Seven

Pines, efforts by Confederate soldiers to avoid infantry duty by

volunteering for service in the Confederate Navy, and camp

life, morale, disease, troop movements, diet, supplies, and deaths

during the Manassas and Peninsular campaigns and the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864. Also includes comments on

inflation and the contribution of women in Virginia to the war

effort.

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Anonymous

Memoranda, 1864-86. 8 v.

Commentary on events in Jacksonville, Fla., and vicinity

by an ardent secessionist. Provides information on the movement of troops and supplies, ship arrivals and departures,

skirmishes, prisoners of war, and the behavior of black soldiers.

25

Arnold, John Carvel (1833-1865) Cpl., 49th Pennsylvania

Volunteers

Papers, 1856-1937. 192 items.

Includes about 40 letters from Arnold to his wife, Mar.

1864-Apr. 1865, concerning the Wilderness, Spotsylvania,

Petersburg, and Appomattox campaigns, Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign, and the movement of Federal troops

during Gen. Jubal Early's Washington raid. Provides detailed

accounts of the Battle of Cold Harbor (1864), the Battle of

Winchester (Sept. 1864), and the Battle of Hatcher's Run (Oct.

1864). Also contains letters by Sgt. W. Harman, John W. Snoke

(83d Pennsylvania Volunteers), and H. C. Shaffer.

26

Arthur, Chester Alan (1830-1886), Pres., U.S.

Papers, 1843-1938. ca. 4,400 items.

Contains the commissions of C. A. Arthur as inspector

general, New York State Militia, 1862, and Maj. William

Arthur, 4th New York Artillery, and two letters by C. A. Arthur

as quartermaster general in the State of New York, 1862.

Published index and microfilm copy (3 reels) available.
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Asbill, J. J. Pvt., 19th South Carolina Volunteers

Correspondence, 1861-62. 8 items.

Letters from Asbill to his wife, Dec. 29, 1861-Aug. 11,

1862, written from camps in South Carolina, Mississippi, and

Tennessee concerning skirmishes, the election of officers, military organization, camp life, morale, and supplies. Also includes

a letter from J. L. Morris to Asbill, Apr. 16, 1862, concerning

the movement of Confederate troops between Atlanta and

Chattanooga.

28

Associated Survivors of the Sixth U.S. Army Corps

Records, 1883-1930. 250 items.

Includes a list of members of the "District of Columbia

Association of Ex-Union Prisoners of War," compiled in 1883.

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Association of Acting Assistant Surgeons

Records, 1888-98. 250 items.

Contains lists of members for the period 1888-98.

30

Aston, Ralph (1841-1904) Asst. Eng., USN

Papers, 1861-1902. 8 v.

In part, transcripts.

Orders, notes and recollections, and the steam log of the

U.S.S. Cayuga, Mar. 1-July 1, 1863. Contains information on

the capture of New Orleans and routine naval affairs in the

West Gulf Blockading Squadron.

31

Averill, C. K.

Scrapbooks, 1863, 1874. 2 v.

Volume entitled "War Statistics" contains clippings from

various newspapers and magazines concerning military events

in November 1863.

Indexed.

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Ayers, George R. Merchant, New Orleans, La.

Letter, 1863. 1 item.

Photocopy.

Copy of a letter from Ayres to Isaac S. Waterman, Mar. 19,

1863, concerning the movement of Federal troops under Gen.

N. P. Banks up the Mississippi River, operations against Port

Hudson, La., and economic conditions in Louisiana.

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Babcock, John C. (b. 1836) Secret Service, USA

Papers, 1855-1913. ca. 60 items.

Letters from Babcock to relatives in Illinois, 1861-64, concern his work as a confidential agent in the provost marshal's

office in Washington, D.C., the incarceration of female prisoners at "Prison Greenhough" in Washington, reaction to the

Trent affair, secessionist sentiment in Alexandria, Va., the

gathering of intelligence and mapmaking in the service of E. J.

Allen during the Peninsular and Antietam campaigns, and

Babcock's personal ideas on blacks and slavery. Letters from

Gens. George G. Meade, Andrew A. Humphreys, and Winfield

S. Hancock concern intelligence gathered from prisoners and

deserters and mapping of enemy positions during the Petersburg Campaign. Also includes a record of Babcock's service in

the Sturges Rifles (McClellan's bodyguard) and as a confidential agent for Gens. Daniel Butterfield, George G. Meade, and

Ulysses S. Grant, and an outline of the organization of the

Army of Northern Virginia.

34

Bache, Alexander Dallas (1806-1867) Superintendent,

U.S. Coast Survey

Papers, 1828-63. ca. 2,000 items.

Contains letters to Bache from Adms. John A. Dahlgren

and Charles H. Davis concerning the southern blockade, from

Gen. Isaac I. Stevens concerning military affairs in South Carolina and Georgia, and official policy toward blacks, and from

Maj. W. R. Palmer concerning the Peninsular Campaign. Additional correspondents are Lt. Comdr. Henry Preble and Col.

George E. Waring. Miscellaneous items include a list of regiments in the Missouri Cavalry, a plan for the defense of

Philadelphia, Pa. (1863), and proposals for the conduct of the

war by Gen. I. I. Stevens.

Finding aid, partial index, and microfilm copy (5 reels)

available.

35

Badger, Alfred Mason (1808-1868) Merchant-Contractor,

Rochester, N.Y.

Papers, 1830-68. 3 v.

In part, transcripts.

Includes copies of letters from Badger's son, Frank Appleton Badger (1842-1864), 140th New York Volunteers, and

nephew, Hamlet F. Richardson (1842-1911), 108th New York

Volunteers, Dec. 1862-Feb. 1863, concerning campaigns in

Maryland and Virginia.

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Bailey, Orra B. 7th Connecticut Volunteers;

Invalid Corps

Papers, 1862-64. ca. 70 items.

Letters from Bailey to his wife from camps in Florida and

South Carolina discussing camp life, morale, disease, desertions,

the treatment of prisoners of war, economic conditions in the

South, and land purchases by Federal soldiers. Includes a

detailed account of the siege and capture of Fort Wagner, S.C.

Letters from Bailey to his wife written from Washington, D.C.,

in 1864 concern profiteering from the draft.

37

Baird, Samuel John (1817-1893) Presbyterian Clergyman,

Woodbury, N.J.

Papers, 1834-92. ca. 650 items.

Contains a few letters concerning Baird's efforts to establish an evangelistic ministry for soldiers and to assist wounded

soldiers and prisoners of war.

38

Baldwin, John Brown (1820-1873) C.S. Representative,

Virginia

Papers, 1863, 1865. 2 items.

Letter from Baldwin to William Crawford, Apr. 24, 1863,

denying reports that he had voted in favor of flogging soldiers

as a means of discipline and expressing his opposition to an

increase in military pay; pardon signed by President Johnson

and William H. Seward, Sept. 28, 1865.

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Ballou Family of Virginia

Papers, 1736-1889. ca. 30 items.

Microfilm, 1 reel.

Contains three letters from soldiers in the 13th Mississippi Volunteers written from Leesburg, Va., Oct. 1861, concerning the health of the regiment and the death of James E.

Ballou in the Battle of 1st Manassas; and four letters from

Rebecca Ballou to her mother, 1863-64, Jackson, Tenn.,

describing the occupation and evacuation of Jackson, depredations by Federal soldiers, skirmishes in the area, and the suffering and problems of blacks.

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Bancroft, George (1800-1891) Historian; Diplomat

Papers, 1811-1961.

Microfilm, 7 reels.

Contains a few letters from Bancroft to his wife written

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from Washington, D.C., during the war. Includes remarks on

interviews with President Lincoln, a visit to the Freedmen's

village and the encampment of black troops, Mary Todd

Lincoln's influence over her husband, and the generalship of

George B. McClellan, Winfield Scott, and Samuel P. Heintzelman.

Finding aid available.

Originals at Cornell University.

41

Bancroft—Bliss Families

Papers, 1788-1928. ca. 5,800 items.

In part, microfilm, transcripts, and photocopies.

Includes official and personal correspondence of Lt. Col.

Alexander Bliss (1827-1896), quartermaster of Volunteers and

assistant quartermaster, U.S. Army, concerning the procurement, transportation, and distribution of supplies, and problems relating to promotions, pay, and rank. About 15 letters

from Bliss to his mother, 1864-65, describe conditions in New

Orleans, La., under Gen. Edward Canby, the movement of troops

and supplies on the Mississippi River, and expeditions to Arkansas and Fort Gaines, Ala. Also includes a "Narrative" (16 p.) of

scenes in the Peninsular, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and

Gettysburg campaigns, an undated report on the "Organization

and Strength of the Army of the Potomac, and other troops in

Department of Virginia," "Claims for hire & value of Western

Rivers Steamboats & Barges," and miscellaneous quartermaster reports and accounts. Correspondents include Nicholas

Bowen, DeWitt Clinton, Louis Delafield, Charles Griffin, James

A. Hamilton, William Hamlet, Samuel Hooper, Rufus Ingalls,

William Le Due, George B. McClellan, George G. Meade, Montgomery C. Meigs, Winfield Scott, William Smith, and Francis

Walker.

Finding aid and partial index available.

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Banks, Nathaniel Prentice (1816-1894) Gen., USA

Papers, 1841-1911. ca. 50,000 items.

Official and personal correspondence, letterbooks, orders,

reports, sketches, courts-martial records, commissions, discharges, muster rolls, intelligence reports, returns, clippings,

scrapbooks, and miscellaneous items relating chiefly to the

Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862, the 2d Manassas Campaign—particularly the Battle of Cedar Mountain—and the

Red River campaigns of 1863 and 1864. Correspondents include

John C. Fremont, Ulysses S. Grant, Henry W. Halleck, George

B. McClellan, David D. Porter, William H. Seward, William T.

Sherman, Franz Sigel, Edwin M. Stanton, and Lorenzo Thomas.

Finding aid available.

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Nathaniel Prentice Banks
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Barbee, James Dodson (1832-1904) and

David Rankin (1874-1958)

Papers, 1784-1951. ca. 5,000 items.

In part, transcripts and photocopies.

Includes research notes of historian David R. Barbee on

the capture of Jefferson Davis, and the postwar correspondence

of Rev. James D. Barbee concerning restitution for Methodist

properties confiscated during the war. Miscellaneous items

include an anonymous memorandum on the possible involvement of Andrew Johnson in the assassination of President

Lincoln; a letter by Robert E. Lee, May 5, 1861, discussing his

sentiments on the war; a letter by Cornelia Grinnaw, Sept. 12,

1863, on depredations in Virginia; a letter from Albert Bledsoe

to Jefferson Davis, Sept. 21, 1864, describing friends of the

Confederacy in England; Bledsoe's manuscript apology of the

South; and an essay by Col. Fred A. Olds, "How Sherman's

Army Entered Raleigh," 1865.

Finding aid available.

44

Barbour, Lucian (1811-1880) Lawyer

Papers, 1838-1939. ca. 1,000 items.

Contains six letters from Sgt. J. V. Hadley to Mary Alice

Barbour, 1862-63 concerning his service with the 7th Indiana

Volunteers during the 2d Manassas and Chancellorsville

campaigns; three letters from John P. Avery to Miss Barbour,

1862-63, written from camps in Tennessee, Arkansas, and

Mississippi; and a letter from John T. Jackson to Miss Barbour,

Oct. 16, 1861, describing operations in western Virginia.

Includes comments on the attitude of noncombatants in the

South, black life, Confederate morale, and hospital care.

Finding aid available.

45

Barnes, James (1801-1869) Gen., USA

Letter, 1865. 1 item.

Letter from Barnes to Maj. Adam E. King, Feb. 2, 1865,

Point Lookout, Md., reporting the location of a suspected Confederate blockade runner.

46

Barnes, Samuel Denham

(1839-1916) Capt., 72d Illinois Volunteers

Papers, 1791-1867. 7 items.

Diary (4 v.), 1860-67, relating in part to Barnes' service

in the 72d Illinois Volunteers, the 7th Louisiana Volunteers of

African Descent, and the 64th U.S. Colored Infantry. Describes

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campaigns in Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas.

Also includes a record of Barnes' correspondence.

47

Barn well, Robert Woodward

(1801-1882) C.S. Senator, South Carolina

Letter, 1863. 1 item.

Letter from Barnwell to W. Thompson, Mar. 28,1863, Richmond Va., on proposed legislation against profiteering.

48

Barritt, Jasper N. 76th Illinois Volunteers

Papers, 1862-65. 21 items.

Chiefly letters from Barritt to his family written during

campaigns in Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and

Louisiana.

49

Barron, Wesley Musician, 160th New York Volunteers

Document, 1865. 1 item.

Discharge, Nov. 1, 1865, signed by Capt. Henry S. Wood

and Lt. John W. Pritchard.

50

Barstow, Wilson (1830-1869) Capt., USV

Papers, 1861-69. 53 items.

Includes letters from Barstow to his sister written from

Fort McHenry, Md., and Fort Monroe, Va., concerning the transportation of paroled prisoners of war, the fall of Norfolk, and

a visit by President Lincoln to Fort Monroe.

51

Bartlett, Joseph Jackson (ca. 1834-1893) Gen., USV

Letter, 1863. 1 item.

Letter from Bartlett to Capt. W. W. Winthrop, Aug. 12,

1863, criticizing Federal strategy during the Gettysburg Campaign.

52

Bartlett Family

Papers, 1710-1931. ca. 10,000 items.

Includes several letters and a diary by Ezra Bartlett

(1832-1886) written on board the U.S.S. Kearsarge, 1862-63,

and the U.S.S. Spiria[?], 1865; and a few letters by Ezra Bartlett (1811-1892), concerning his work as a physician (USA) in

hospitals in Washington, D.C., and Memphis, Tenn., and at

various places in Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, 1863-64.

Finding aid and microfilm copy (17 reels) available.

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Barton, Chauncey E. Pvt., 17th Illinois Volunteers

Letter, 1864. 1 item.

Letter from Barton to Miss Jennie M. Fell, Apr, 14, 1864,

describing the abuse of the civilian population after the fall of

Vicksburg, Miss.

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Barton, Clara Harlowe (1821-1912) Nurse, USA

Papers, 1834-1918. ca. 70,000 items.

Correspondence, diary, lectures, newspaper clippings, and

miscellaneous items relating, in part, to Miss Barton's work

with sick and wounded soldiers. Also includes postwar correspondence with the families of missing prisoners of war and a

list of Union soldiers buried at Andersonville, Ga.

Finding aid available.

55

Barton—Jenifer Families

Papers, 1663-1876. ca. 120 items.

Includes accounts of the Confederacy with the Mobile and

Girard Railroad, 1864, and recommendations for the promotion of Lt. Col. Seth M. Barton to brigadier general, signed by

Gens. Henry R. Jackson and Thomas J. Jackson.

56

Batchelder, John Davis (1872-1958) Collector

Autograph collection, 1400-1960. ca. 1,500 items.

Includes a letter by Maj. Gen. Abner Doubleday, June 16,

1864, opposing compromise with the Confederacy.

Finding aid available.

57

Bateman, Francis Marion

(1843-1924) Pvt., 78th Ohio Volunteers

Letter, 1862. 1 item.

Letter from Bateman to his parents, Feb. 23, 1861 [1862],

concerning fortifications, casualties, and prisoners of war at

Fort Donelson, Tenn.

58

Bates, Edward (1793-1869) U.S. Attorney General

Papers, 1859-66. 70 items.

Diary (5 v.), notes, newspaper clippings, and memoranda.

Includes remarks on the secession crisis, Cabinet meetings,

events in Washington, and the progress of the war.

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59

Battle of Aquia Creek, Va.

Reports, 1861. 84 p.

Transcripts.

Copies of reports of skirmishes at Aquia Creek, May

31-June 2, 1861, by Comdr. James H. Ward, U.S.S. Thomas

Freeborn, Comdr. Stephen C. Rowan, U.S.S. Pawnee, Col. William R. Bate, and M. McCluskey.

60

Battle of Cedar Creek, Va.

Poem, undated. 1 item.

Poem honoring the Federal victory in the Battle of Cedar

Creek, Oct. 19, 1864.

61

Battle of Thompson's Station, Tenn.

Letter, 1863. 1 item.

Photocopy.

Letter from an unidentified officer (surgeon?) in the 9th

Pennsylvania Cavalry to his wife, Mar. 13, 1863, Franklin,

Tenn., describing the Battle of Spring Hill or Thompson's

Station, skirmishes in the aftermath of the battle, depredations

by Union soldiers, and marches and camp life. Also notes the

presence of Indian soldiers from Arkansas in the battle of

Mar. 4.

62

Bayard, Thomas Francis

(1828-1898) Lawyer, Wilmington, Del.

Papers, 1780-1899. ca. 60,000 items.

Contains material relating to the Fitz-John Porter courtmartial.

Finding aid available.

63

Beard, Daniel Carter (1850-1941)

Family papers, 1798-1941. ca. 72,000 items.

Includes about 30 letters from Capt. Harry Beard, 30th

Missouri Infantry, to his mother, 1862 — 65, concerning the

Vicksburg and Mobile campaigns, operations along the Mississippi River, the Arkansas Post (Fort Hindman) expedition, and

the occupation of Galveston, Tex., in June 1865. Provides information on the organization and performance of black troops,

attitudes toward black soldiers, camp life, morale, marches,

discipline, foraging expeditions, diet, casualties, generalship,

Confederate deserters, the appearance and treatment of prison18
ers of war, and the treatment of noncombatants at Vidalia, La.,

New Orleans, La., Vicksburg, Miss., Mobile, Ala., and Galveston, Tex. Also contains details on skirmishes with Gen. Wirt

Adams (CSA) in Mississippi, and Gen. Henry W. Slocum's expedition toward Jackson, Miss., July 3-9, 1864.

Finding aid available.

64

Beard, Richard (1799-1880) Capt., 5th Infantry

Regiment, CSA

Letter, 1875. 1 item.

Transcript.

Letter from Beard to the editor of the Nashville (Tenn.)

Union and American, June 27, 1875, defending himself against

accusations concerning the death of Gen. James B. McPherson

in the Atlanta Campaign.

65

Beardslee, Lester Anthony (1836-1903) Lt. Comdr., USN

Papers, 1855-1900. 128 items.

Orders, 1861 — 65, and official correspondence, 1863—65,

relating to Beardslee's service aboard the U.S.S. Saratoga,

U.S.S. Nantucket, and U.S.S. Wachusett. Also, a diary, 1864,

describing his service on the Wachusett with the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, particularly his role in the capture of

the C.S.S. Florida at Bahia Harbor, Brazil, Oct. 7, 1864.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

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Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant

(1818-1893) Gen., CSA

Papers, 1844-83. ca. 6,500 items.

Chiefly official correspondence, letterbooks, telegrams,

orders, endorsement books, and newspaper clippings relating

to the Fort Sumter affair, the 1st Manassas, Shiloh, and Corinth campaigns, the defense of Charleston, S.C., and the Siege

of Petersburg, and the consolidation of Confederate forces after

the Battle of Atlanta. Also includes Beauregard's autograph

manuscript "Reminiscences," which was the basis for Alfred

Romans' The Military Operations of General Beauregard (1884).

Principal correspondents include Milledge Luke Bonham, Braxton Bragg, Howell Cobb, Samuel Cooper, Jefferson Davis, Wade

Hampton, William J. Hardee, Daniel H. Hill, John Bell Hood,

Joseph E. Johnston, Thomas Jordan, Robert E. Lee, James

Longstreet, Francis W. Pickens, Leonidas Polk, Roswell S.

Ripley, Earl Van Dorn, and Leroy P. Walker.

Finding aid available.

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Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard
67

Beckwith, W. W. Capt., USA

Correspondence, 1864. 3 items.

Letters to Beckwith of Feb. 3 and Apr. 3, 1864, from J. H.

Devereaux, superintendent of military railroads, and assistant

superintendent M. J. McCriekett, and a letter from Beckwith

to Devereaux, Feb. 8, 1864, concerning fares charged on military lines.

68

Bedford, Wimer (1835-1905) Capt., 48th

Illinois Volunteers

Papers, 1864-65. 3 items.

In part, transcripts.

Diary (2 v.), Jan. 1, 1864-July 9, 1865, concerning Sherman's march to the sea, and a copy of Bedford's memoir, "Real

Life in the Civil War." Contains details on the battles of Corinth,

Port Gibson, Jackson, and Vicksburg, Miss., and Sherman's

Savannah Campaign.

69

Beedle, William H. (1846-1893) 2d Main Battery;

Veteran Reserve Corps

Diary, 1865-66. 1 v.

Diary kept by Beedle while on duty at the Douglas and

Harewood Hospitals in Washington, D.C., Jan. 1,1865-Jan. 1,

1866. Contains information on hospital care and the arrival of

sick and wounded soldiers.

70

Beetham, Asa USN

Letters, 1861-65. 16 items.

In part, photocopies.

Letters from Beetham to his sister and relatives in New

York City written while on blockade duty aboard the U.S.S.

Potomac and U.S.S. Pontoosuc. Contains accounts of minor

engagements in Mobile Bay and Southwest Pass (La.), and

detailed descriptions of attacks on Fort Fisher and Fort Caswell,

N.C. Also includes a brief note on Burton N. Harrison, private

secretary to Jefferson Davis, as a prisoner in Washington, D.C.

71

Belknap, George Eugene (1832-1903) USN

Papers, 1857-1903. ca. 1,400 items.

Includes a few miscellaneous writings on the Civil War,

i.e., Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside's expedition to North Carolina,

the service of Stephen Clegg Rowan, the construction and per21
formance of the U.S.S. New Ironsides, and the battle between

the U.S.S. Kearsarge and C.S.S. Alabama.

Finding aid available.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

72

Bell, George (d. 1907) USA

Papers, 1853 — 66. ca. 120 items.

Correspondence, orders, circulars, and forms. Relates

largely to the acquisition and distribution of military supplies.

Also includes lists of officers in the Subsistence Department,

1864-65.

73

Bell, Henry Haywood (1808-1868) Capt., USN

Letter, 1862. 1 item.

Report written from the U.S.S. Hartford off New Orleans,

La., Apr. 26,1862. Describes how gunboats commanded by Bell

ran the Confederate batteries at Forts St. Philip and Jackson.

74

Bellows, Henry Whitney Chairman, U.S. Sanitary

(1814-1882) Commission

Letters, 1861, 1866. 2 items.

Letter from Bellows to "Cousin Harry," June 17, 1861,

discussing commission affairs; letter from Bellows to Senator

Morgan of New York, May 28, 1866, introducing the former

Union surgeon, Horatio Stone.

75

Belmont, August (1816-1890) Banker, New York

Letters, 1861-72. 5 items.

In part, transcripts.

Contains copies of four letters to Salmon P. Chase, July —

Dec. 1861, concerning public reaction to the American Civil

War in England and France, the effect of the Federal blockade,

the need for cotton in Europe, and reaction to the Trent affair.

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Benham—McNeil Families

Papers, 1772-1907. 145 items.

Includes two letters from Gen. George B. McClellan to

Capt. Henry W. Benham (1813-1884), May 16 and 21, 1861,

concerning fortifications at Cairo, 111.

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77

Benjamin, Judah Philip

(1811-1884) C.S. Secretary of State

Papers, 1827-71. 7 items.

In part, transcripts and photocopies.

Includes an undated letter from Benjamin to Christopher

G. Memminger requesting the release of funds to be sent to

Mexico, and three postwar letters from Benjamin to James M.

Mason, London, England, concerning Benjamin's financial

recovery and the situation of former Confederate leaders.

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Bennett, James Gordon

(1795-1872) Editor, New York Herald

Papers, 1845-1934. ca. 225 items.

In part, photocopies.

Chiefly letters to Bennett and his business manager, Frederic Hudson, from war correspondents, military officers, and

informants in Washington, D.C., and in the field, 1861-64.

Includes information on the efforts of radical politicians to

remove General McClellan, McClellan's plan for the conduct of

the war, public reaction to Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, and campaigns in Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina,

South Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Also

includes remarks on the attitude of officers in the field toward

war correspondents, disputes between officers, military security and censorship of dispatches, problems of correspondents

in protecting their sources of information, difficulties in obtaining military passes, and the high cost of living in the South.

Principal correspondents include Finley Anderson, Nathaniel

P. Banks, James G. Bennett, Jr., Sylvanus Cadwallader, Hiram

Calkins, S. M. Carpenter, Thomas M. Cash, T. M. Cook, J. C.

Fitzpatrick, Henry M. Flint, Samuel R. Glen, James Hale,

Charles G. Halpine, S. R. Hanscone, Alfred C. Hills, Malcolm

Ives, Thomas W. Knox, George G. Meade, Daniel E. Sickles,

William H. Stiner, and L. A. Whiteley.

79

Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah

(1862-1927) Historian; Author

Papers, 1888-1927. ca. 98,000 items.

Includes correspondence, notes, and drafts relating to

Beveridge's biography of Abraham Lincoln.

Finding aid available.

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80

Bickerdyke, Mary Ann Ball (1817-1901) Nurse

Papers, 1856-1905. ca. 1,800 items.

In part, transcripts.

Includes correspondence with medical and field officers,

officials of the U.S. Christian Commission, the Soldiers Aid

Society, the Western Sanitary Commission, and convalescent

soldiers concerning hospital care and management, supplies,

disease, diet, and the care of blacks. Provides a few details on

the battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, and

the Atlanta and Savannah campaigns.

Finding aid available.

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Biddle Family

Papers, 1733-1886.

Microfilm, 1 reel.

Miscellaneous letters, 1861-65, concerning aid to prisoners of war, military appointments and promotions, black

citizenship, and routine affairs. Correspondents include Nathaniel P. Banks, John Gibbon, Henry W. Halleck, Joseph Hooker,

George B. McClellan, George G. Meade, Robert Patterson, Winfield Scott, William Smith, Roy Stone, and Isaac J. Wistar.

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Bigelow, John (1854-1936) Historian

Papers, 1866-1936. ca. 25,000 items.

In part, transcripts and photocopies.

Contains correspondence and reports on military operations in Virginia, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana,

1861-64; research notes on the Chancellorsville Campaign;

and notes on an unpublished study of Robert E. Lee and the

secession movement. Also, an autograph collection of Civil War

letters with telegrams by Gens. Ulysses S. Grant, Leroy Pope

Walker, and P. G. T. Beauregard.

Finding aid available.

83

Bikle, Philip Melanchton (b. 1844) Professor,

Pennsylvania College

Reminiscence, 1930. 1 item.

Transcript.

Contains a few personal observations on Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.

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84

Billings, Luther Guiteau (1842-1922) Paymaster, USN

Collection, 1865-1900. 12 items.

In part, transcripts.

Contains a memoir recounting Billings' service as an agent

for Adams Express with Gen. Ambrose Burnside's army in

North Carolina, as paymaster aboard the U.S.S. Water Witch

operating between Port Royal, S.C., and Jacksonville, Fla., and

his treatment as a prisoner of war at Savannah and Macon,

Ga., Charleston, S.C., and Richmond, Va. Includes information

on Burnside's attack on Confederate forces near Washington,

N.C., problems with counterfeit money, the bombardment of

Fort McAllister and the sinking of the C.S.S. Nashville, attacks

on Fort Wagner and Fort Sumter, the capture of the C.S.S.

Atlanta, the enlistment and performance of black troops, efforts

by blacks to assist Federal prisoners of war, slavery and slave

hunters, attitudes of noncombatants in the South, and escapes

by Federal prisoners.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

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Binckley, John Milton Journalist, Virginia

Papers, 1816-1943. 85 items.

Two letters from Samuel Brooke (CSA) to his sister, Aug.

12, 1863, and July 3, 1864, discuss camp life, morale, and the

progress of the war. Includes a sketch of the Siege of Petersburg,

Va. Also contains two letters to Binckley from Confederate

prisoners of war T. F. Mitchell and William M. Mitchell, 1865,

and drafts and clippings of articles on the war and its aftermath in Virginia.

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Black History Miscellany

Collection, 1706-1944. ca. 500 items.

In part, transcripts and photocopies.

Includes documents concerning compensation for slaves

impressed to work on Confederate fortifications, certificates of

enlistment for several black soldiers, a letter by Robert Wright,

Sept. 16, 1861, Livingston, Ala., accusing southern aristocrats

of promoting war for their own ends, a copy of Lt. F. W. Browne's

"My Service in the 1st U.S. Colored Cavalry," lists of officers

and men in the 2d U.S. Colored Infantry, and a report by Col.

Thomas J. Morgan on the service of the 14th U.S. Colored

Infantry, Oct. 31, 1864, Decatur, Ga.

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Black, Jeremiah Sullivan U.S. Attorney General;

(1810-1883) Secretary of State

Papers, 1813-1904. ca. 10,000 items.

Contains material relating to John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, President Buchanan's defense of his actions regarding Fort Moultrie and Fort Sumter, and notes from Cabinet

meetings concerning Maj. Robert Anderson's removal to Fort

Sumter.

Finding aid and microfilm copy (36 reels) available.

88

Blackman, John P.

Family papers, 1807 — 65. 51 items.

Contains the commission of 1st Lt. Lack Weems, 15th Alabama Regiment, Oct. 4, 1861; Confederate bonds and certificates issued to Homer Blackman; and Homer Blackman's oath

of allegiance, July 21, 1865.

89

Blaine, James Gillespie

(1830-1893) U.S. Representative, Maine

Family papers, 1777-1945. ca. 7,000 items.

Includes a letter from Gen. Oliver O. Howard to Blaine,

Aug. 24, 1864; a copy of a letter from Gen. William T. Sherman

to Gen. Oliver O. Howard, Dec. 18, 1863; and a report on the

system of discipline at the U.S. Military Academy.

Finding aid available.

90

Blair, Francis Preston (1821-1875) Statesman; Gen., USV

Family papers, 1861.

Microfilm, 1 reel.

Contains two clippings from the London Illustrated Times,

May 25, 1861, showing sketches of the members of Lincoln's

Cabinet and of Robert Barnwell Rhett.

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Blair Family

Papers, 1755-1940. ca. 12,000 items.

Contains correspondence, reports, and miscellaneous papers

of Francis P. Blair (1791-1876), Maj. Gen. Francis P. Blair, Jr.

(1821-1875), and U.S. Postmaster General Montgomery Blair

(1813-1883). The papers of General Blair relate to campaigns

in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Missouri, particularly the problems of obtaining recruits, establishing discipline, and solving

rank disputes. Includes a report on the Battle of Chickasaw

Bluffs, Dec. 31, 1862, and various orders and documents con27
cerning the Siege of Vicksburg. Montgomery Blair's wartime

correspondence relates to politics and appointments in the Lincoln administration. Principal correspondents include John

Albion Andrew, Thomas Hart Benton, Jr., Benjamin F. Butler,

William E. Chandler, Charles A. Dana, Edward Everett, Gustavus V. Fox, John C. Fremont, Fitz-John Porter, Whitelaw Reid,

William T. Sherman, Gideon Welles, and William Wood.

Finding aid available.

92

Blake, Charles Follen (1841 -1879) USN

Diary, 1862-64. 1 item.

Account of Blake's service in European waters aboard the

U.S.S. Constellation, 1862-63; with the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron aboard the U.S.S. Wabash and U.S.S. Lehigh,

1863-64; and in the Battle of Mobile Bay aboard the U.S.S.

Brooklyn, 1864. Includes information on Federal ship arrivals

and departures along the coast of South Carolina, and the

blockade of Charleston and Port Royal, S.C.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

93

Blood, Henry Boyden Asst. Q.M., USA

Diary, 1863. 1 item.

Concerns the movement and issue of supplies during the

Gettysburg Campaign and the retrieval of government property after the battle.

94

Bloomfield, Alpheus S. Pvt., 1st Ohio

Light Artillery, USV

Papers, 1861-93. ca. 160 items.

Photocopies.

Chiefly letters from Bloomfield to his family written during the Shiloh, Corinth, Chattanooga, Atlanta, and Franklin

and Nashville campaigns. Describes enlistments, training,

discipline, camp life, troop movements, equipment and supplies,

the design and use of artillery, depredations, and economic

conditions in the South. Includes a few sketches of encampments.

Microfilm copy (1 reel) available.

95

Booth, Junius Brutus (1796-1852), and Family

Collection, 1823-1953. 70 items.

In part, transcripts, photocopies, and photographs.

Excerpts from the diary of John Wilkes Booth, Apr. 14-21,

1865, relate to Booth's flight from Federal authorities after the

assassination of President Lincoln.

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Booth, Mrs. Lionel F.

Collection, 1864, 1867. 2 items.

Letter from President Lincoln to Charles Sumner, May 19,

1864, concerning Mrs. Booth, widow of Maj. Lionel F. Booth,

who was killed at Fort Pillow, and her plea in behalf of the

widows and children of black soldiers.

97

Bourland, James A. Col., CSA

Papers, 1841-96. ca. 200 items.

Includes correspondence, orders, muster rolls, commissions,

and miscellaneous items relating to Texas State troops, particularly the 21st brigade or Border Regiment, in the Red River

Valley and along the Cherokee Nation frontier.

Microfilm copy (3 reels) available.

98

Bourne, William Oland Clergyman-Journalist,

(1819-1901) New York

Papers, 1856-84. ca. 1,500 items.

Postwar letters of disabled veterans submitted in a contest

for the "Exhibition of Left-Hand Penmanship," sponsored by

Bourne, editor of The Soldier's Friend. Contributors generally

describe their service in the war. Also includes numerous photographs of contributors and three autograph books signed by

convalescents at Central Park Hospital in New York City, where

Bourne served as chaplain.

99

Boyce, Charles H. 28th New York Volunteers

Papers, 1861-1932. 10 items.

Chiefly a manuscript history of the 28th New York Volunteers, May 1861-Sept. 1862. Describes the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862 and the 2d Manassas Campaign, particularly the Battle of Cedar Mountain. Also contains remarks on a

skirmish at Falling Waters, W. Va., July 3, 1861, Unionists in

Virginia, camp life, marches, training, military organization,

the occupation of Charles Town, W. Va., reconnaissance expeditions, discipline, casualties, morale, and the generalship of Samuel W. Crawford, John C. Fremont, George B. McClellan, Irvin

McDowell, John Pope, and Franz Sigel.

100

Boyce, James Petigru Clergyman-Educator,

(1827-1888) South Carolina

Papers, 1854-1907. 20 items.

Several letters from Christopher G. Memminger to Boyce,

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Dec. 10, 1862-Mar. 31, 1864, concern interest on Confederate

notes and bonds. Also includes a table of "War Tax Assessments under the Act Aug. 19, 1861 so far as reported to date—

Mch. 14, 1863."

101

Boyd, Crosby Noyes (1903- ) Collector

Autograph collection, 1791-1908. 146 items.

Includes letters by John M. Botts, Belle Boyd, John P.

Brophy, William G. Brownlow, Dorothea Dix, Col. Erasmus D.

Keyes, President Lincoln, and Gen. John E. Wool, 1861-64,

and photographs of the execution of the Lincoln conspirators.

102

Boyle, William 4th South Carolina Regiment

Letters, 1864. 2 items.

Letters from Boyle to his mother, Nov. 17 and 23, 1864,

Dinwiddie Courthouse, Va.

103

Bradbury, William H.

(1829-1900) 129th Illinois Volunteers

Papers, 1862-1900. 102 items.

Chiefly letters from Bradbury to his wife, 1862-65, written from camps in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Georgia while

serving as a clerk on the headquarters staffs of Gens. William

Thomas Ward and Daniel Butterfield and in the office of the

Judge Advocate General. Contains comments on Bradbury's

unauthorized letters to the editors of the Chicago Tribune and

the Manchester Guardian, camp life, entertainment, marches,

depredations, morale, guerrilla warfare, peculation in the U.S.

Army, the treatment of blacks, prisoners of war, and diet. Also

contains some information on the Atlanta Campaign.

104

Bradford, Joshua Taylor Surg., USA

Diary, 1862. 1 item.

Diary, Jan. 1-May 27, 1862, kept during the Shiloh Campaign and Gen. Henry Halleck's advance on Corinth, Miss.

105

Bragg, Braxton (1817-1876) Gen., CSA

Papers, 1861-63. 22 items.

Photocopies.

Letters from Bragg to his wife concerning the seizure of

the Federal arsenal at Baton Rouge, La., defenses along the

gulf coast between Pensacola and Mobile, and the Shiloh,

Corinth, Tullahoma, and Chattanooga campaigns. Includes a

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detailed report on the battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge by Gen. Edward C. Walthall.

106

Brannigan, Felix (1843-1907) Orderly Sgt.,

74th New York Volunteers

Papers, 1861-64. 28 items.

Letters from Brannigan to his sister concerning recruitment, training, and the Peninsular and Gettysburg campaigns.

Includes information on camp life, troop movements, the Siege

of Yorktown, and the battles of Williamsburg and Gettysburg.

107

Brayman, Mason (1813-1895) Gen., USA

Letter, 1863. 1 item.

Transcript.

Copy of a letter from Brayman to E. A. Parker, Sept. 3,

1863, Camp Dennison, Ohio, advocating vigorous prosecution

of the war and the unconditional surrender of the Confederacy.

108

Breckinridge Family

Papers, 1752-1965. ca. 200,000 items.

Contains numerous letters from family members relating

to the war. Of particular interest are the papers of Col. William

Campbell Preston Breckinridge (1837-1904), 9th Kentucky

Cavalry, CSA, which consist of an order book, Dec. 1862- Mar.

1864, and letters to his wife; also, the diary, 1864-65, and

letters of Lt. Joseph Cabell Breckinridge (1842-1920), 2d Artillery Battalion, USA, written chiefly at Fort Barrancas and

Fort Pickens, Fla.

Finding aid available.

109

Brent, Joseph Lancaster (1826-1905) Maj., CSA

Collection, 1863. 2 items.

Letter from Brent to Gen. Carter L. Stevenson, Feb. 24,

1863, concerning the capture of the U.S.S. Indianola and repairs

to the C.S.S. Beatty. Also a steel engraving of Brent.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

110

Brewer, David L.

Poem, 1865. 1 item.

Transcript.

Poem eulogizing the Confederacy copied from the back of a

Confederate dollar.

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Briggs, E. B. USA

Document, 1862. 1 item.

Pass issued to H. B. Barnes, Dec. 29,1862, Fredericksburg,

Va.

112

Brinckle, John Rumsey

(1839-1910) Lt., 5th U.S. Artillery

Papers, 1859-1936. ca. 275 items.

Letters from Brinckle to his family, 1861-63, concerning

the recruiting service in Vermont, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania, and garrison duty at Fort Hamilton, N.Y. Letters

written by Brinckle from Virginia, 1864-65, relate to the

Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Petersburg, and Appomattox campaigns, and the Battle of Cold Harbor. Also includes a few

details on the Battle of Sayler's Creek. A diary, Feb. 3-Sept.

20,1865, contains sketches of Federal batteries and shelters at

the Siege of Petersburg.

113

Bristow, Benjamin Helm

(1832-1896) Lt. Col., 25th Kentucky Volunteers

Papers, 1839-1932. ca. 16,000 items.

In part, photocopies.

Letters from Bristow to his wife, Feb.-Apr. 1862, concerning the Fort Donelson, Fort Henry, and Shiloh campaigns. Also,

letters from Bristow to his wife, Col. L. D Bruce, and Gen.

Jeremiah T. Boyle, Oct.-Nov. 1862, concerning Bristow's service in the 8th Kentucky Cavalry. Includes an official report on

the participation of the 25th Kentucky Volunteers in the Battle of Shiloh.

Finding aid and partial index available.

114

Bromwell, Henry Pelham Holmes U.S. Representative,

(1823-1903) Illinois

Scrapbooks, 1817-1929. 31 v.

Includes a letter from Maj. James A. Connolly to Bromwell,

Nov. 1864, concerning Sherman's march to the sea, and a letter from M. Leroy Cook to Bromwell, July 30, 1862, on military activities near Moscow, Ky., and rank disputes and morale

in the 54th Illinois Volunteers.

Indexed.

115

Bronson, Theodore B. Capt., USA

Letterbook, 1863-65. 1 v.

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Contains about 250 letters written by Bronson as provost

marshal of the 6th Military District of New York concerning

recruits, enlistment bounties, desertions, and discharges.

Indexed.

116

Brooks, William Elizabeth (b. 1875)

Collection, 1862-1946.

Microfilm, 1 reel.

Letters of Maj. Charles H. Howard (USA) to his family,

1862-64, concerning the 2d Manassas, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Chattanooga, and Atlanta campaigns; diary of

Chaplain Marcus B. DeWitt, 8th Tennessee Regiment, Mar.

7-May 17,1863, concerning campaigns in Mississippi, Georgia,

and North Carolina; and diary of Alexander R. Boteler,

aide-de-camp to Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, May 1864, concerning

the Wilderness Campaign and the effect of Stuart's death on

the Army of Northern Virginia.

117

Brown, Edgar F.

Letter, 1862. 1 item.

Letter from Brown to his wife, July 27, 1862, describing a

conversation with President Lincoln concerning new recruits

for the Army and the appointment of Gen. Henry Halleck as

military adviser to the President and General in Chief.

118

Brown, Joseph Emerson (1821-1894) Gov., Georgia

Letters, 1861-64. 3 items.

Letter from Brown to Gov. John Letcher of Virginia, May

14, 1861, requesting the loan of cannons for Georgia's coastal

defense; and two letters from Brown to Gov. Zebulon B. Vance

of North Carolina, Sept. 26,1862, and Mar. 23,1864, concerning

efforts to prevent the manufacture of liquor, and State import

and export duties.

119

Brown, Lewis Kirk (1843 -1926) USA

Collection, 1863. 5 items.

Three letters from Walt Whitman to Brown, Aug. 1863,

Washington, D.C., concerning patients, deaths, and hospital

care at Judiciary Square Hospital in Washington, and the progress of the war. Also a memorandum on the life and service of

Brown, undated.

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120

Brown, Thomas J. (1845-ca. 1915) U.S. Government Clerk

Papers, 1861-1909. ca. 1,000 items.

Chiefly correspondence, notes, photographs, clippings,

drafts of articles, and printed matter concerning vital statistics

of the war and veterans' pensions.

121

Browne, George W. Lt., USN

Diary, 1860-69. 1 v.

Diary kept in the form of a ship's log aboard the U.S.

Transport Empire City, Apr.-May 1861, during voyages

between New York and Virginia, and aboard the U.S.S.

Fernandina, Nov. 27, 1861 —Apr. 14, 1862, while Browne was

on blockade duty along the Virginia and North Carolina coasts.

Describes ship sightings, skirmishes with Confederate batteries along the James River, and the effect of the blockade on

Wilmington, N.C.

122

Browne, John Mills (1831-1894) Surg., USN

Papers, 1853-78. 10 items.

In part, photocopies.

Commission, June 19, 1861.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

123

Browning, Silas W.

(1820-1888) Pvt., 53d Massachusetts Volunteers

Papers, 1779-1890. 59 items.

Chiefly letters from Browning to his wife and family concerning his duties as a hospital steward, military discipline,

the health and diet of soldiers in the 53d Massachusetts

Regiment, the Port Hudson Campaign, and conditions in the

South. Most of Browning's letters were written in camps near

New Orleans and Baton Rouge, La.; a few came from camps in

Mississippi, Georgia, and Florida.

124

Brownlow, William Gannaway

(1805 — 1877) Clergyman—Journalist, Tennessee

Papers, 1862-68. 6 items.

Includes two letters by Brownlow, Aug. 7 and Oct. 2,1862,

concerning new recruits and the response to the "President's

draft" in New York and Michigan, and an article written for

the New York Weekly, June 28, 1862, containing remarks on

Union officers.

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125

Brownson, Orestes Augustus

(1803-1876) Philosopher; Author

Papers, 1822-94.

Microfilm, 19 reels.

Contains a few letters to Brownson from officers and civilians in the South concerning politics, secession, slavery, and

military activities.

Finding aid available.

Originals at the University of Notre Dame.

126

Bryan, Thomas Barbour

(1828-1906) Businessman, Chicago, 111.

Papers, 1863. 2 items.

Includes a letter from Bryan to Henry W. Bellows, Dec. 31,

1863, on the sale of Lincoln's original autograph of the Emancipation Proclamation for the benefit of the Chicago Soldiers

Home.

127

Bryan, Wilhelmus Bogart

(1854-1938) Historian; Author

Notes, 1789-1888. ca. 3,500 items.

Chiefly extracts from newspapers. Includes some information on the Civil War.

128

Buford, Charles (1797-1866) Maj., CSA

Papers, 1842-65. 38 items.

Includes 13 letters written during the war concerning the

battles of Shiloh and Perryville (Chaplin Hills), guerrilla activity in Kentucky and Missouri, runaway slaves in Missouri,

efforts by Union officers to quell civil disorder in Kentucky,

and prison life at Camp Douglas and Rock Island, 111. Correspondents include James F. Buckner, W. N. Budd, Louis M.

Buford, James W. Duke, J. F. Henry, William K. Poston, and

George S. Williams.

129

Bulloch, Irvine S. Acting Master, CSN

Logbook, 1864-65.

Microfilm, 1 reel.

Logbook of the C.S.S. Shenandoah, Oct. 20, 1864-July 22,

1865. Contains a list of officers aboard the Shenandoah, the

names and value of about 25 prize vessels, and information on

tactics used to approach enemy vessels and the treatment of

prisoners of war.

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130

Burbank-Van Voorhis Family

Collection, 1814-1913. 50 items.

Includes the diary of U.S. Army Gen. Sidney Burbank (d.

1882), July 22, 1861-Oct. 20, 1880. Describes marches and

skirmishes of General Burbank's brigade in the Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Mine Run campaigns. Provides a

detailed account of the participation of the brigade in the Battle of Gettysburg.

131

Burch, Samuel Lawyer

Papers, 1775-1865. ca. 1,200 items.

In part, transcripts.

Includes copies of letters, 1862-65, describing depredations in Tennessee and reaction to the Lincoln assassination.

132

Burlingame, Anson (1820-1870) and Edward L.

(1848-1922)

Papers, 1810-1937. ca. 550 items.

In part, transcripts.

Chiefly the correspondence and papers of Anson

Burlingame, U.S. Minister to Austria and China. Includes three

letters of instruction from William H. Seward to Burlingame,

Apr.—May 1861, concerning the Federal blockade and contraband trade; a letter from John C. Fremont to Burlingame,

June 4, 1861, on the purchase of arms for the United States; a

photograph of General Fremont; and an unsigned manuscript

entitled "Convention upon the subject of the rights of belligerents and neutrals in time of war, between the United States . . .

and Austria," 1861.

Finding aid available.

133

Burt, Elizabeth Johnston Reynolds (1838-1926)

Papers, 1797-1917. ca. 125 items.

In part, photocopies and transcripts.

Transcript of Elizabeth Burt's autobiography, "An Army

Wife's Forty Years in the Service, 1862-1902." Chiefly concerns war-related activities in Cincinnati and camp life during the Atlanta Campaign in company with her husband, Capt.

Andrew Sheridan Burt, 18th Ohio Volunteers. Published in

part in Merrill J. Mattes, Indians, Infants, andlnfantry; Andrew

and Elizabeth Burt on the Frontier (1960). Also includes a letter from Captain Burt to his father, Feb. 5,1864, Chattanooga,

Tenn., describing camp life and problems with drunk soldiers.

Microfilm copy (1 reel) available.

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134

Burwell, William MacCreary

(1809-1888) Poet, Baltimore, Md.

Papers, 1851-63. 14 items.

Includes two letters from Robert A. Toombs to Burwell,

June 10 and Aug. 29, 1863, expressing dissatisfaction with the

Confederate Government, and a letter from B. J. Sage to the

Virginia House of Delegates, Sept. 30, 1863, on the subject of

State aid to schemes of private warfare sanctioned by the Confederate Government. Also a poem by Burwell, "Breckenridge

& Union."

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Butler, Benjamin Franklin (1818-1893) Gen., USV

Papers, 1831-96. ca. 190,000 items.

Personal and official correspondence, letterbooks, order

books, reports, notebooks, maps and charts, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous items concerning Butler's commands

in Maryland, Louisiana, Virginia, and North Carolina. Includes

details on the capture of Forts Hatteras and Clark, Butler's

service as military governor of New Orleans, the Petersburg

Campaign, and the Fort Fisher expedition. Also contains letters from French and Spanish consuls in New Orleans.

Finding aid and index available.

136

Butler, Charles

(1802-1897) Businessman, New York City

Papers, 1819-1905. ca. 2,100 items.

Includes a letter from Butler to his wife, Dec. 19, 1861,

concerning the military atmosphere in St. Louis, Mo., and a

letter from Butler to his daughter, July 18, 1863, describing

the anti-draft riots in New York City. The letterhead on

Butler's letter from St. Louis has an engraved view of Camp

Benton.

Finding aid and microfilm copy (4 reels) available.

137

Butler, Robert Ormond (1832-1874) Surg., CSA

Collection, 1862. 1 item.

Photocopy.

Letter from Butler to his sister, Sept. 22,1862, Thibodeaux,

La., describing skirmishes at Boutte Station and Bayou Des

Allemands, La.

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Butler, W. P. (b. 1815) Merchant-Planter,

South Carolina

Papers, 1809-82. 5 items.

Includes a certificate of exemption from military service

for H. M. Drury, Henry County, Va., and a "Certificate of

Appraisement" for two horses owned by W. P. Butler acquired

by Wade Hampton's cavalry.

139

Butterfield, Daniel (1831-1901) Gen., USV

Collection, 1895. 1 item.

Galley proofs of Butterfield's address on Gen. Joseph

Hooker delivered at Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 18, 1895.

140

Cadwallader, Sylvanus

(18257-1905) War Correspondent, New York Herald

Papers, 1818-1904. ca. 250 items.

Contains a letter from Cadwallader to his daughter, Nov.

13, 1862, La Grange, Tenn., concerning camp life, foraging expeditions, and the treatment of free blacks and noncombatants

in the South; telegrams and documents concerning Cadwallader's draft notice and the securing of a substitute; letters

between Elihu B. Washburne and Gen. U. S. Grant, Dec. 1863,

concerning an official letter of gratitude from the U.S. Congress

for Grant's military service; letters from Grant and members of

his staff (1864) commending Cadwallader on his reporting of the

war; and a letter from James H. Wilson, Dec. 12, 1863, concerning the gift of a horse (Egypt) to General Grant. Also

includes a sketch of the McLean house at Appomattox, Va., a

list of officers who served on Grant's staff during the war, and

military passes.

Finding aid available.

141

Cameron, Simon (1799-1889) U.S. Secretary of War

Papers, 1738-1889. ca. 7,600 items.

Includes letters, 1861, relating to Cameron's appointment

as Secretary of War, various military appointments, and the

administration of the War Department.

Finding aid and microfilm copy (22 reels) available.

142

Papers, 1824-92.

Microfilm, 10 reels.

Contains numerous solicitations for military appointments,

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Daniel Butterfield
1861. Correspondents are listed in the Guide to the Microfilm

of the Simon Cameron Papers at the Historical Society of Dauphin County (1971).

143

Campbell, George Washington (1769-1848)

Papers, 1793-1886. ca. 400 items.

Photocopies.

Contains four letters from Gen. Robert E. Lee or his Assistant Adjutant General to Gen. Richard S. Ewell, Aug.

1863-Mar. 1865, concerning military organization, desertions

in the Confederate Army, the defense of Richmond, and the use

of blacks in the army; a letter from Isham Harris to Mrs. Ewell,

Mar. 7, 1864, Dalton, Ga., concerning military strategy, the

progress of the war in Tennessee, the generalship of Braxton

Bragg, the Battle of Chickamauga, and morale in the Army of

the Tennessee; two postwar letters from Jefferson Davis to

Maj. Campbell Brown on the use of blacks in the Confederate

Army and an order Davis issued to General Ewell during the

1st Manassas Campaign; miscellaneous letters by Gens. P. G.

T. Beauregard, Joseph E. Johnston, and U. S. Grant; and a

"Map of the Battle Ground of Manassas From Actual Surveys

by an Officer of Genl. Beauregard's Staff . . ." (1862).

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Campbell, Given Capt., CSA

Diary, 1865. 1 item.

Photocopy of a transcript.

Describes the flight of Jefferson Davis from Greensboro,

N.C., to Irwinville, Ga., Apr. 15-May 10, 1865.

Microfilm copy (1 reel) available.

145

Cannon, William R. (1804-1858) Mississippi

Papers, 1849-63. 15 items.

Letter from Jefferson Davis to Mrs. E. G. Cannon, July 18,

1863, acknowledging the gift of a Bible and expounding on the

southern cause.

146

Capron, Horace

(1804-1885) Col., 14th Illinois Cavalry, USV

Papers, 1834-1961. ca. 1,800 items.

Contains military correspondence, orders, reconnaissance

reports, returns, muster rolls, commissions, and reports on battles and skirmishes. Includes detailed accounts of Gen. George

Stoneman's raid to Macon, Ga., during the Atlanta Campaign,

the capture of Capron with most of his command, and Gen.

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Ambrose Burnside's campaign in east Tennessee. Also includes

a letter to Capron reporting the death of his oldest son, Lt.

Horace Capron, Jr., in Tennessee (1863), a letter to Capron's

wife from a Confederate prisoner of war, Apr. 22, 1865, on the

capture of her son, Lt. Albert B. Capron, a diary entitled

"History of Marches &c. of fourteenth Regiment of Illinois Cavalry Volunteers from time of leaving Camp Peoria March 28th

1863," "Lloyd's Official Map of the State of Tennessee" (1862)

with annotations showing the marches of the 14th Illinois Cavalry in Kentucky and Tennessee, and articles and biographical

notes of Capron and his sons Horace, Albert, and Osmond, all

three of whom served under his command.

Finding aid available.

147

Cardwell, Charles W. 20th Virginia Heavy Artillery

Letter, 1942. 1 item.

Photocopy.

Letter from Cardwell to Melvin Scott, Aug. 18, 1942, reminiscing about his service in the Civil War, particularly his

capture at the Battle of Sayler's Creek, Va.

148

Carlton, Caleb Henry

(1836-1923) Col., 89th Ohio Volunteers

Papers, 1831-1954. ca. 2,500 items.

Letters from Carlton to his wife concerning the battles of

Mechanicsville and Malvern Hill, the Chickamauga Campaign,

and the battles of Kennesaw Mountain, Marietta, and Jonesboro

in the Atlanta Campaign. Includes information on camp life,

discipline, economic conditions in the South, the treatment of

blacks and noncombatants, and life at Libby Prison in Richmond,

Va. Also contains military commissions, orders, awards, audits,

receipts, and furloughs; a map of the Battle of 2d Manassas;

sketches of troop positions in the Chickamauga Campaign; a

biographical essay, "Caleb Henry Carlton, Brigadier General,

United tates Army," by his daughter, Mabel Carlton Horner;

and miscellaneous items. Correspondents include William T.

Sherman and Thomas J. Wood.

Finding aid available.

149

Carman, Ezra Ayers

(1834-1909) Col., 13th New Jersey Volunteers

Manuscript, 1861 — 63. 23 boxes.

Unfinished history of the Civil War. Includes newspaper

clippings and personal notes.

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150

Carnegie, Andrew (1835-1919) Industrialist

Papers, 1830-1935. 67,000 items.

Contains information on the transportation of military

equipment and supplies and the organization of the military

telegraph.

Finding aid available.

151

Carrington—McDowell Families

Papers, 1780-1897. ca. 300 items.

Contains two dispatches from Capt. Benjamin L. Farinholt

to Gen. Robert E. Lee, June 25 and 27, 1864, Staunton River

Bridge [Va.], concerning preparations for and the repulse of a

Federal raiding party.

152

Carruthers, George North (ca. 1840-1906) USA

Papers, 1864-69. 5 items.

List of officers (field, staff, and line) in the 51st U.S. Colored Infantry, formerly the 1st Regiment, Mississippi Volunteers of African Descent; monthly reports, June 1864-Aug.

1865; account of the service of the 51st U.S. Colored Infantry in

Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida; personal information on numerous recruits; and a photograph of 28 officers.

Includes some information on an engagement at Millikens Bend,

La., and the Mobile Campaign.

153

Carson, Christopher

(1809-1868) Col., 1st New Mexico Volunteers

Papers, 1842-69. ca. 70 items.

In part, photocopies.

Contains the headquarters letterbook for Carson's Navajo

expedition, July 11, 1863-May 17, 1864. Describes military

organization, strategy, routes of march, skirmishes, and casualties.

154

Carter, John C. Comdr., USN

Document, 1864. 1 item.

Record of examination of Carter's fitness for promotion,

1864, with supporting letters from E. P. Door, David G.

Farragut, and Gideon Welles.

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155

Carter, Samuel Powhatan (1819-1891) Gen., USV

Manuscript, 1882. 1 item.

Manuscript biography, "A Sketch of the Military Services

of Sam. P. Carter, Brig. Genl. & Brevt. Maj. Genl. of U.S. Vols.

during the Rebellion of the Southern States, 1861-5." Describes

Carter's efforts to organize and train loyalist volunteers from

east Tennessee (1st and 2d East Tennessee Volunteers), marches,

morale, reconnaissance expeditions, plans for the capture and

fortification of Cumberland Gap, the battles of Logan's Cross

Roads, Ky., and Kinston, N.C., and Carter's service as provost

marshal general in East Tennessee.

Microfilm copy (1 reel) available.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

156

Cartter Family

Papers, 1836-93. ca. 800 items.

Contains letters from 1st Lt. William Cartter, U.S. Marine

Corps, to his mother, July 1861-Feb. 1865, concerning the

Battle of 1st Manassas and his service aboard the U.S.S.

Minnesota at Hampton Roads, Va., Pensacola, Fla., and off the

coast of North Carolina. Includes Cartter's eyewitness account

of the battle between the Monitor and Merrimac and information concerning the transportation of prisoners of war from

North Carolina to New York. Also contains a few letters of 2d

Lt. David Kellogg Cartter, Jr. (d. 1862), 2d Ohio Cavalry, concerning the impact of the war in Missouri, Kansas, and Arkansas, and problems with western Indians.

157

Cary, Clarence (b. 1846) Midshipman, CSN

Report, 1905, 1926. 1 item.

Report prepared by Cary in 1905 for the State Department Library as a supplement to the diary he kept during his

service aboard the C.S.S. Chickamauga, 1863-65. Contains

additional information on tactics employed by blockade runners,

prize vessels, deserters, prisoners of war, and Gen. B. F. Butler's Fort Fisher expedition. Cary's diary was used by the State

Department in the discussion of the Alabama claims.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

158

Casey, Silas (1841-1913) Lt. Comdr., USN

Papers, 1771-1941. ca. 300 items.

In part, transcripts.

Includes correspondence between Capt. Edwin W. Sutherland (USN), Lt. Col. Samuel W. Ferguson (CSA), Gen. John C.

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Pemberton, and Gen. Franklin Gardner, Feb.- Mar. 1863, concerning Sutherland's planned defection and his attempt to sell

a Federal gunboat (U.S.S. Essex) to the Confederacy. Also, a

logbook kept by Casey, on the U.S.S. Niagara during blockade

duty off Charleston Harbor, S.C., and in the Gulf of Mexico,

Apr.-Aug. 1861; and miscellaneous orders relating to Casey's

service on the U.S.S. Niagara, U.S.S. Unadilla, U.S.S. Wissahickon, and U.S.S. Quaker City.

Finding aid available.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

159

Cater, Douglas J. and Rufus W. 19th Louisiana

Volunteers, CSA

Papers, 1859-65. 60 items.

Letters of Lt. Rufus W. Cater (d. 1863), Sept. 1859-July

1863, and his brother, musician Douglas J. Cater, Dec. 1862-

May 1865, to their cousin, Fannie S. Cater, concerning camp

life, marches, equipment and supplies, desertion, casualties,

and morale during the evacuation of Corinth and in the

Vicksburg, Tullahoma, Atlanta, and Franklin and Nashville

campaigns. Includes information on the patriotism of southern

women, the use of blacks as soldiers, conditions in the Confederate Army in late 1864, and feelings expressed by Confederate

soldiers over General Lee's surrender at Appomattox, Va.

160

Cattell, James McKeen (1860-1944)

Papers, 1835-1948. ca. 83,000 items.

Contains a letter written by Calvin Ferriday to W. C.

Cattell, Nov 14, 1862, from a camp near Fayetteville, Va.

Finding aid available.

161

Causten, James H., and John T. and Theodore Pickett

Papers, 1765-1916. ca. 33,000 items.

Contains a few letters in the personal papers of John

Thomas Pickett concerning relief for soldiers, a proposal for a

shipping line to be partly owned by the Confederacy, military

passes, and John T. Pickett's parole, Apr. 27, 1865.

Finding aid available.

162

Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence (1828-1914) Gen., USV

Papers, 1862-1910. ca. 1,000 items.

Reports, orders, musters, returns, invoices, maps, and official correspondence relating to Chamberlain's service as lt.

colonel and colonel of the 20th Maine Volunteers. Includes

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detailed accounts of the Gettysburg, Petersburg, and Appomattox campaigns, and skirmishes at Aldie and Middleburg, Va.

Manuscript and engraved maps in the collection show fortifications and troop positions at Gettysburg, Pa., and Yorktown,

Groveton, Petersburg, and Five Forks, Va. Also includes a map

of the area from Gettysburg to Appomattox Courthouse annotated to show the marches and battles of the 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers. Notes, regimental indexes, and lists of officers

and battles in the collection were used in Frederick H. Dyers'

Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (1909).

Finding aid available.

163

Chambers, Washington Irving (1856-1934)

Papers, 1871-1943. ca. 12,000 items.

In part, transcripts.

Includes notes on Confederate torpedoes and the use of

torpedoes during the Civil War.

Finding aid available.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

164

Chambrun, Charles Adolphe de Judicial Counselor to

Pineton, marquis de (1831-1891) the French Embassy,

Washington, D.C.

Letters, 1865.

Microfilm, 1 reel.

Letters of Chambrun, in French, to his wife, Jan. 13—June

30, 1865, concerning President Lincoln, American social life,

and the Civil War. Source material for his Impressions of Lincoln and the Civil War, A Foreigner's Account (1952).

165

Chandler, Arthur Chelton CSA

Papers, 1862-1923. 16 items.

Includes a letter from Lt. C.W. Taylor, 60th Georgia

Volunteers, to Mrs. Inman(?), July 30, 1862, Green Springs,

Va.

166

Chandler, William Eaton

(1835-1917) Judge Adv. Gen., USN

Papers, 1863-1917. ca 25,000 items.

In part, transcripts.

Includes copies of six letters from Adm. David G. Farragut

to William H. Shock, fleet engineer at New Orleans, La.,

Feb. —Oct. 1864, concerning ship repairs and modifications.

Finding aid available.

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167

Chandler, Zachariah (1813-1879) U.S. Senator, Michigan

Papers, 1854-99. ca. 1,100 items.

Includes a few letters from volunteer officers concerning

military commissions and supplies. Principal wartime correspondents are Nathaniel P. Banks, James G. Blaine, Simon

Cameron, Horace Greeley, Abraham Lincoln, Edwin M. Stanton, and Benjamin F. Wade.

Finding aid, partial index, and microfilm copy (4 reels)

available.

168

Chase, Cornelius

(1780-1868) Farmer; Educator; Clergyman

Family papers, 1815-1947. ca. 3,000 items.

Includes the papers of Cornelius Thruston Chase (1819-

1870), which comprise reports on Confederate hospitals in Virginia and South Carolina, medical contracts with private physicians in Richmond, Va., provision returns, circulars and special orders relating to the Medical Department, CSA, lists of

deserters, quartermaster reports, reports on prisoners of war,

and reports on sick and wounded soldiers. Also contains correspondence with slave traders (Browning, Moore and Company,

E. H. Stokes) operating in Virginia during the war, and a sketch

of Richmond, Va.

Finding aid available.

169

Chase, Salmon Portland (1808-1873) U.S. Secretary

of the Treasury

Papers, 1755-1898. ca. 12,500 items.

Diaries kept by Chase during the war contain accounts of

Cabinet meetings, and private meetings with President Lincoln,

William Seward, Edwin M. Stanton, Henry Halleck, George B.

McClellan, and various other political and military leaders.

Subjects discussed include the evaluation, selection, and assignment of generals, military strategy, the disposition of troops,

the use of black troops, the draft, war finance, and the Emancipation Proclamation. Also includes correspondence with George

S. Denison, Chase's official and personal representative in New

Orleans, La., June 1862-Mar. 1865, and reports from officers

and Treasury agents in the South on the progress of the war,

conditions in the South and in the Confederate Army, and the

disposition and strength of Federal forces.

Finding aid, index, and microfilm copy (38 reels) available.

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170

Chesley, James A. Master's Mate, USN

Letter, 1862. 1 item.

Serial letter to "All the Good People" in Wakefield, Mass.,

Feb. 6-7, 1862, describing the U.S.S. Lancaster and life on a

warship en route to San Francisco, Calif.

171

Chesnut, James (1815-1885) Gen., CSA

Papers, 1862. 23 items.

Letterbook, Jan. 20-Nov. 24,1862, maintained by Chesnut

as chief of the Military Department of South Carolina. Contains numerous orders from the Governor and council concerning enlistments, drafts, the selection of officers, the disposition

of troops, and the procurement of supplies. Also, miscellaneous

letters relating to the South Carolina rnilitia, a list of draftees

from the 30th South Carolina Militia Regiment, and letters to

President Davis concerning the defense of Charleston, S.C.

172

Choate, Joseph Hodges Lawyer, New York City

(1832-1917)

Papers, 1745-1927. ca. 11,000 items.

Includes a letter from Capt. James T. Sterling, 7th Ohio

Volunteers, to his wife, July 29, 1861, Camp Sutton, Va., concerning FFV's—"Fleet Footed Virginians."

Finding aid available.

173

Church, William Conant (1836-1917) Editor; Journalist

Papers, 1862-1924. ca. 350 items.

Contains responses by several Union officers to articles on

the war published in Church's United States Army and Navy

Journal. Includes Adm. Samuel F. Du Pont's defense of his

actions in the abortive attack on Charleston, S.C, in 1863, and

accounts of Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign (particularly the Battle of Cedar Creek) and General Terry's expedition against Fort Fisher, N.C., by Gen. Joseph R. Hawley. Other

correspondents are Samuel W. Crawford, John A. Dahlgren,

George B. McClellan, and Ormsby M. Mitchell.

174

Claiborne, John Francis Hamtramck

(1809-1884) Planter-Editor, Mississippi

Papers, 1818-85. ca. 600 items.

Contains a letter from Claiborne's son, Capt. Willis H.

Claiborne (d. 1869) to his sister, Sept. 22, 1861, concerning the

Battle of 1st Manassas and the death of Gen. Barnard E. Bee;

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correspondence between Captain Claiborne and Gen. Alexander W. Reynolds; orders and returns for Reynolds' brigade in

the Chattanooga and Atlanta campaigns; and a letter to Captain Claiborne, Oct. 16, 1862, describing conditions in southwest Mississippi and the treatment of noncombatants by Union

foraging parties. Also contains the diary (Mar. 25-June 5,

1861) and memoir of Claiborne's nephew, Henry A. Garrett, a

courier for J. E. B. Stuart, concerning volunteer companies in

Mississippi at the beginning of the war, campaigns in Virginia,

1861-63, and the Gettysburg, Wilderness, and Atlanta campaigns.

Finding aid available.

175

Clark, Mrs. Douglas W.

Collection, 1861-64.

Microfilm, 1 reel.

Autograph book containing names, units, and home addresses of numerous Confederate officers held at Johnson's

Island Military Prison; autograph book containing names, units,

and home addresses of numerous Federal officers held at Libby

Prison during the winter of 1863-64; telegraph book, Department of the Ohio, May 28-30, 1861, concerning the movement

of troops and supplies in West Virginia; and diary of Capt.

R. B. Beck, 30th Maryland Volunteers, Nov. 2, 1862-Jan.

12, 1863, concerning troop movements along the Mississippi

River, the Vicksburg Campaign, and the Fort Hindman expedition. Diary entries include remarks on blacks, devastation

along the Mississippi, looting of plantations, deaths, desertions,

and morale in the 30th Maryland, and reconnaissance expeditions. Also provides a detailed account of the Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs and the names of 108 vessels in the Federal transport fleet.

176

Clay Family

Papers, 1782-1865. ca. 100 items.

Includes papers of Cassius Marcellus Clay (1810-1903),

abolitionist from Kentucky. Correspondence and petitions concern the parole or release of Confederate prisoners of war. Also

includes military passes, certificates of seizure, and affidavits

by Mary A. Newman and Christopher I. Field of Bolivar County,

Miss., concerning slave seizures and depredations by Federal

gunboats.

177

Cleveland, Grover (1837-1908), Pres., U.S.

Papers, 1859-1945. ca. 100,000 items.

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Includes a copy of a letter from Gen. John F. Hartranft to

Gov. Horatio Seymour, Dec. 17, 1864, concerning the promotion

of Lt. Col. Walter C. Newberry (24th New York Cavalry) to the

colonelcy of the 2d New York Mounted Rifles; and a copy of a

letter from Adm. David D. Porter to Gideon Welles, Jan. 17,

1865, U.S.S. Malvern, on the transfer of Lt. Comdr. James

Parker from the command of the U.S.S. Maumee.

Finding aid and microfilm copy (164 reels) available.

178

Clowry, Robert Charles (1838-1925) Capt., USA

Papers, 1862-78. ca. 75 items.

A letterbook (Dept. of Missouri, v. 39), Mar. 3, 1864-Aug.

15, 1865, contains circulars and cipher records relating to

dowry's service as assistant quartermaster and assistant superintendent of U.S. Military Telegraph Lines in the Department

of Missouri, Kansas, and Arkansas. Also includes a catalog of

books and papers belonging to dowry's military files, compiled

in 1878.

179

Coe, William P. Capt., 176th New York Volunteers

Correspondence, 1862-65. 22 items.

Transcripts.

Letters from Coe to his family and friends describe his

capture at Bayou Boeuf, La., June 24, 1863, and his life as a

prisoner of war at Camp Ford near Tyler, Tex. Letters to Coe

from his brother George and from E. F. Coe, John J. Cutter,

John Marvin, and Col. Charles C. Nott contain war news and

remarks on camp life and desertions.

180

Coffee, Alexander Donelson (b. 1822) Alabama

Collection, 1865. 2 items.

Transcripts.

Copies of Coffee's pardon, June 16, 1865, and oath of

allegiance, June 19, 1865.

181

Coffee, John (1772-1833)

Family papers, 1816-83. 28 items.

Includes notebook of Edward A. O'Neal, Jr., volunteer aide

to Gen. Robert Rodes, containing remarks on the Chancellorsville and Gettysburg campaigns, and a letter to Gen. Samuel

Cooper, Oct. 11, 1864, requesting assignment to the arsenal at

Selma, Ala.

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182

Coffee, William Sgt., 3d New York Volunteers

Letters, 1864. 4 items.

Letters from Coffee to his brother George (2d California

Volunteers), Apr. 16-Nov. 24, 1864, concerning Gen. Thomas

Sherman's Port Royal expedition, the capture of Fort Wagner,

S.C., and the Siege of Petersburg, Va.

183

Colhoun, Edmund Ross (1821-1897) Comdr., USN

Papers, 1839-88. ca. 1,200 items.

In part, transcripts.

Official correspondence, orders, circulars, reports, lists of

officers, and miscellaneous items relating to Colhoun's command of the U.S.S. Hunchback, U.S.S. Lodona, U.S.S. Saugus,

and U.S.S. Weehawken, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron.

Contains information on the Burnside expedition to North

Carolina, vessels captured or destroyed off the coast of South

Carolina, attacks on Forts Wagner and Sumter, July-Sept.

1863, prize vessels, discipline, morality, discharges, and promotions. Correspondents include Samuel L. Breese, John A.

Dahlgren, Henry K. Davenport, Charles H. Davis, Louis M.

Goldsborough, David D. Porter, George W. Rodgers, and Gideon Welles.

Finding aid available.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

184

Collin, William M. (b. 1842) Cpl., 5th Wisconsin Volunteers

Papers, 1861-64. 8 items.

Diary, Jan. 1, 1862-May 9, 1864 (3 v.), concerning troop

movements in northern Virginia, the Peninsular Campaign,

camp life, and Collin's treatment as a prisoner of war at Libby

Prison and Belle Isle in Richmond, Va. Includes a detailed

account of the Siege of Yorktown. Also contains Collin's commission as corporal in the 5th Wisconsin, 1861, a statement of

health following his release from prison, and his discharge,

Feb. 5, 1863.

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Collis, Charles Henry Tucky (1838-1902) Capt., USA

Returns, 1861-62. 1 v.

"Morning Reports" for Captain Collis' independent company, "Zouaves de Afrique," Aug. 25, 1861-May 21, 1862.

Includes information on Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks' Shenandoah

Valley Campaign (1862), and camp life, marches, discipline,

disease, and deaths.

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186

Colvin, Hervey A. (1841-1885) 18th Michigan Volunteers

Letters, 1862, 1863. 2 items.

Letters from Colvin to Jacob Baker describing black life

and expectations in Kentucky, and a skirmish with forces under

Gen. John Pegram (CSA).

187

Comstock, Cyrus Ballou (1831-1910) Gen., USA

Papers, 1847-1908. ca. 900 items.

Official correspondence, reports, orders, and notebooks

relating to Comstock's service as assistant and chief engineer

in the Army of the Potomac and the Army of the Tennessee,

assistant inspector general of the Military Division of the

Mississippi, and aide-de-camp to General Grant. Includes engineering reports, a list of the number and type guns at the Siege

of Vicksburg, lists of officers, and sketches of various fords,

rivers, ferry crossings, and fortifications. Also contains a diary,

Oct. 16,1863 —Dec. 9, 1867, containing information on Federal

hospitals in Kentucky and Tennessee, tactics in the Chattanooga,

Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Petersburg, and Mobile campaigns,

Terry's Fort Fisher expedition, the Battle of Cold Harbor (1864),

and skirmishes along the North Anna River and Totopotomy

Creek, Va.

Finding aid and microfilm copy (4 reels) available.

188

Conant, Abram F. (d. 1863) Pvt., 1st Michigan

Engineers and Mechanics

Family papers, 1845-72. 45 items.

Contains 15 letters from Conant to his wife written from

camps in Kentucky and Tennessee, Oct. 1862-Feb. 1863. Provides information on camp life, marches, morale, diet, skirmishes with Confederate cavalry units, disease, and deaths.

Also contains a certificate of Conant's enlistment and death

signed by Capt. Marcus Grant.

189

Confederate States of America

Records, 1858-72. ca. 18,500 items.

Chiefly official records and correspondence between the

Secretary of State (usually Judah P. Benjamin) and Confederate agents in Belgium, France, Great Britain, and Mexico concerning administrative and financial matters, passports, pardons, and domestic matters in the Confederacy. Also, records of

the Departments of Justice, Treasury, Navy, War, and Post

Office; proclamations, messages, and miscellaneous papers of

President Jefferson Davis; acts and resolutions of the Confeder52
ate Congress; and material relating to the Constitution and

secession. War Department records comprise the correspondence of the secretary, general orders, returns, muster rolls,

payrolls, receipts, quartermaster reports, requisitions, ordnance

reports, military passes, and discharge and death certificates.

Navy Department records include supply accounts (1863) for

the C.S.S. Sumter, C.S.S. Tennessee, and C.S.S. Missouri, ships'

logs for vessels in Bermuda and Nassau, 1861-65, pay receipts,

reports, and discharge certificates. Correspondents include

Boiling Baker, P. G. T. Beauregard, Judah P. Benjamin, John

A. Campbell, Clement C. Clay, Lewis Conger, Jefferson Davis,

George Dawson, Edwin De Leon, A. J. Guirot, Charles J. Helm,

Lewis Heyliger, Henry Hotze, Lucius Q. C. Lamar, Ambrose

Dudley Mann, James M. Mason, Christopher G. Memminger,

John T. Pickett, John H. Reagan, Raphael Semmes, John Slidell,

Alexander H. Stephens, Jacob Thompson, William H. Trescott,

Leroy P. Walker, and William L. Yancey.

Finding aid and microfilm copy (70 reels) available.

190

Collection, 1862-65. 6 items.

Note concerning an appropriation for the construction of

floating defenses on western rivers, Jan. 1862; an order appointing G. W. Newman as medical examiner of conscripts in

Louisiana, June 14, 1864; and miscellaneous tax forms filed

with the Confederate Government by Dr. Newman, 1864-65.

191

Collection, 1861-65. 1 v.

Bonds issued by the C.S. Government, bonds issued by

officials in Amherst County, Va., and loan certificates purchased

by banks in Lynchburg, Va.

192

Collection, undated. 9 items.

Autographs of Confederate officers: Simon B. Buckner

(includes a miniature portrait), John B. Gordon, Johnson

Hagood, Wade Hampton, John S. Mosby, and Raphael Semmes.

193

Confederate States of America—Army of Northern Virginia

Document, 1865. 1 item.

Photocopy.

Copy of the terms of surrender at Appomattox Courthouse,

Apr. 10, 1865, signed by Gens. John Gibbon, Charles Griffin,

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and Wesley Merrit for the United States, and Gens. John B.

Gordon, James Longstreet, and William N. Pendleton for the

Confederate States.

194

Confederate States of America—Army of the Tennessee

Register, 1861-65. 295 p.

Microfilm, 1 reel.

Register of surgeons in the Army of the Tennessee, CSA.

Includes hospital assignments and a photograph of Dr. Andrew

J. Foard, medical director of the Army of the Tennessee.

195

Congleton, James A. (b. 1844) Cpl., 105th

Illinois Volunteers

Diary, 1862-65. 1 v.

Entries relate chiefly to the Atlanta, Savannah, and Carolinas campaigns. Includes details on the battles of Resaca,

Dallas, Kennesaw Mountain, Chattahoochee River, Peach Tree

Creek, and Atlanta during Sherman's march through Georgia,

and the battle at Averasboro, N.C., during the Carolinas

Campaign. Also contains information on camp life, training,

marches in Kentucky and Tennessee in 1863, and the treatment of blacks.

196

Conkling, Roscoe (1829-1888) U.S. Representative,

New York

Papers, 1769-1895. 150 items.

Includes a military pass and samples of Confederate bonds

and currency.

Microfilm copy (1 reel) available.

197

Conley, Isaiah Capt., 101st Pennsylvania Infantry

Papers, undated. 2 items.

Transcript and photocopy.

"An Account of Captain Conley's Escape From Prison"

(28 p.). Describes Conley's capture near Plymouth, N.C., the

movement of prisoners to Andersonville and Camp Oglethorpe

military prisons, Conley's escape in South Carolina, aid by

Unionists, slaves, and free blacks in South Carolina, North

Carolina, and Tennessee, black life, and conscription in the

South. Also contains an undated photograph of Conley.

198

Connecticut 12th Connecticut Volunteers

Document, 1861 — 65. 1 item.

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Muster roll containing a list of officers and men by company in the 12th Connecticut or "Charter Oaks" Regiment.

Includes a record of battles fought and figures on casualties,

reenlistments, and desertions.

199

Connecticut Infantry 17th Regiment

Daybook, 1862-63. 1 v.

Record of rations issued, Sept. 16, 1862-Mar. 10 1863.

Also shows the regiment's location during this period.

200

Conrad, Daniel B. (d. 1869) Surg., CSA and CSN

Diary, 1853-64. 2 v.

Contains a brief account of Conrad's Civil War experiences,

including his arrest in New York as a Confederate sympathizer;

his escape and flight to Virginia; service in the 2d Virginia

Regiment in Virginia and West Virginia; as chief surgeon,

Brock House Hospital, Richmond, Va.; with Comdr. John Taylor Wood in the attack on the U.S.S. Underwriter, Feb. 1864;

and as fleet surgeon attached to the C.S.S. Tennessee, Apr.—

Aug. 1864. Provides some information on the capture of Harpers Ferry, W. Va., the Battle of 1st Manassas, and the Battle

of Mobile Bay.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

201

Cook, George P. Member of Society of Friends, Maryland

Letter, 1861. 1 item.

Letter from Cook to Gen. Winfield Scott, May 27, 1861,

concerning a Confederate plan to explode a boat in the Potomac River near Washington.

202

Cooke, John Esten (1830-1886) Writer;

Asst. Adj. Gen., CSA

Papers, 1846-86. 75 items.

In part, transcripts.

Includes several letters from Cooke to Maria Skelton containing comments on the war in northern Virginia, and a letter

to Brig. Gen. Custis Lee concerning Cooke's appointment as

Assistant Adjutant General on the staff of Gen. J. E. B. Stuart.

203

Coon, David (1822-1864) Pvt., 36th Wisconsin Volunteers

Letters, 1864.

Microfilm, 1 reel.

Transcripts of letters from Coon to his wife and family,

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Feb 28-Aug. 27, 1864, concerning military bounties, training,

hospital care, the Battle of Cold Harbor, and the Siege of

Petersburg.

204

Cope, John Pvt., 98th Ohio Volunteers

Papers, 1831-1919. 190 items.

Letters from Cope to his family, Jan. 9, 1864-Apr. 25,

1865, concerning military supplies and skirmishes in the

Atlanta Campaign and hospital care at Nashville, Tenn. Also

includes a few letters by his brother, Samuel Cope, and his

cousin, Clark Bower, concerning military training at Camp

Chase, Ohio.

205

Corbin, Henry Clark (1842-1909) Lt. Col.,

14th U.S. Colored Infantry

Papers, 1864-1938. ca. 2,000 items.

Contains a brief description of Corbin's service in the war

and a letter from Corbin to Mrs. Lockman, Nov. 12 [1864],

Chattanooga, concerning the death of her husband in a skirmish near Decatur, Ala., Oct. 29, 1864. Also contains a few

records of courts-martial and copies of orders issued during

the conflict.

Finding aid available.

206

Cotton, Charles Stanhope (1843-1909) Lt., USN

Papers, 1860-1921. ca. 600 items.

Includes a letter from Cotton to Comdr. Thomas H. Stevens,

Aug. 1, 1864, U.S.S. Oneida, Mobile Bay, concerning a reconnaissance expedition ashore and the capture of five members of

the 7th Alabama Cavalry, a copy of a letter from Col. Charles

D. Anderson (CSA) to Admiral Farragut, Aug. 7, 1864, Fort

Gaines [Ala.], proposing the surrender of the fort, orders, newspaper clippings, and a postwar account of the Battle of Mobile

Bay.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

207

Cotton, Josiah Dexter (b. 1822) Surg., 92d Ohio Volunteers

Papers, 1846-68. 300 items.

Letters from Cotton to his wife, May 1863-Mar. 1865,

concerning camp life, casualties, disease, and health care during the Chattanooga, Chickamauga, and Atlanta campaigns.

Also includes remarks on devastation in the South and the

performance of black soldiers.

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208

Covode, John (1808-1871) U.S. Representative,

Pennsylvania

Papers, 1854-70. ca. 100 items.

Includes letters to Covode, 1861-65, concerning military

appointments, promotions, casualties and vacancies in the 4th

Pennsylvania Cavalry, the capture of his son, Jacob Covode,

and the generalship of George G. Meade. Correspondents

include William Cochran, A. F. Coon, George H. Covode, Jacob

Covode, Riley M. Hoskinson, Lewis McDonald, and C. P.

Walker.

209

Cox, Jacob Dolson (1828-1900) Gen., USA

Papers, 1868-1940. 15 items.

Manuscript biography (2 v.) of the "Political Experiences

of Major General Jacob Dolson Cox," by William C. Cochran,

ca. 1940.

210

Cox, Oliver Clergyman

Papers, 1865, 1868. 2 items.

Military pass issued to Cox to travel from Washington,

D.C., to Arlington, Va., Mar. 18, 1865.

211

Craven, John Joseph (1822-1893) Surg., USA

Papers, 1849-1939. 75 items.

Includes a diary kept by Craven's wife Catherine while at

Hilton Head, S.C., Mar.-May 1863; a fragment of a diary Craven kept as prison surgeon at Fort Monroe, Va., concerning his

care of Jefferson Davis; two letters by Brig. Gen. William S.

Walker (CSA), May 20, 1864, concerning his wounds and capture during Gen. B. F. Butler's advance on Petersburg, Va.;

and military passes and Confederate currency. A letter from

Craven to his wife written from a field hospital near Richmond,

Oct. 19, 1864, notes the presence of Clara Barton.

212

Crawford, Samuel Wylie (1829-1892) Gen., USA

Papers, 1860-92. ca. 400 items.

In part, transcripts.

Includes a diary, Dec. 19, 1860-Apr. 14, 1861, containing

a detailed account of the bombardment of Fort Sumter and

related correspondence between Gov. Francis W. Pickens, Maj.

Robert Anderson, and Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard, and detailed

reports and letters on the movements of the Pennsylvania

reserves in the Gettysburg Campaign. Also, a letter from Fran58
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cis Pickens to S. Pettigrew, May 18,1864, describing the career

of Pettigrew's brother, Gen. James J. Pettigrew, and miscellaneous letters from Pickens to Jefferson Davis, Maxcy Gregg,

Isaac Hayne, Robert E. Lee, Andrew G. Magrath, Christopher

G. Memminger, John C. Pemberton, and Roswell S. Ripley.

213

Creamer, David (1812-1887) Clergyman, Baltimore, Md.

Diary and notes, 1861-81. 2 items.

In part, transcripts.

Diary, June 1861—Dec. 1862, containing Creamer's testimony before a grand jury investigating the Baltimore riot of

Apr. 19, 1861, and transcript of the testimony.

214

Cresswell, John Angel James U.S. Representative,

(1828-1891) Maryland

Papers, 1819-85. ca. 6,000 items.

Includes numerous letters from friends and constituents,

1861-65, concerning Unionist sentiment on Maryland's Eastern Shore, recruitment, military commissions and promotions,

discipline, conscription, black volunteers, and emancipation.

Also contains a letter from F. A. Macartney to Cresswell, Apr.

14,1865, describing the situation in Richmond, Va., at the end

of the war, particularly the contrasting attitudes of the citizenry toward Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee, suffering during the siege, and the restraint exercised by Federal soldiers

upon entering the city.

Finding aid available.

215

Crittenden, John Jordan U.S. Representative,

(1787-1863) Kentucky

Papers, 1782-1888. ca. 2,600 items.

Includes letters to Crittenden concerning the Crittenden

Compromise, enthusiasm for war in the South, recruiting, the

conduct of Crittenden's son, Thomas L. Crittenden, in the Battle of Shiloh, a skirmish at West Liberty, Ky., Oct. 23, 1861,

Federal policy on the release of prisoners of war, troop dispositions, and the military situation in Virginia during the first

year of the war. Correspondents include Don Carlos Buell, Jonathan W. Finnell, John C. Fremont, William Nelson, and P.

H. Watson.

Finding aid and microfilm copy (14 reels) available.

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216

Croffut, William Augustus (1835-1915) Author; Editor; Poet

Papers, 1774-1933. ca. 7,500 items.

In part, transcripts.

Contains copies of the memoir and war correspondence of

Gen. Ethan Allen Hitchcock (1798-1870), which Croffut used

for his book, Fifty Years in Camp and Field: Diary of MajorGeneral Ethan Allen Hitchcock, U.S.A. (1909).

Finding aid available.

217

Crossly, Sylvanus USA

Diary, 1865. 1 item.

Diary of Crossly's escape from Confederate troops in South

Carolina, Feb. 14-20, 1865. Mentions the assistance of blacks

living near Columbia, S.C.

218

Cuddy, Thomas C. Lt., CSN

Papers, 1858-61. 5 items.

Includes four letters from Cuddy to his wife and mother,

Apr. 5-12,1861, discussing his appointments as a gunner on a

floating battery in Charleston Harbor and as acting lieutenant

on the Confederate privateer Gordon.

219

Culley, J. A.

Letter, 1861. 1 item.

Letter, Apr. 15, 1861, describing the public reaction in

Philadelphia to the news of the firing on Fort Sumter, S.C.

220

Curry, Jabez Lt. Col., 5th Alabama Regiment;

Lamar Monroe (1825-1903) C.S. Representative, Alabama

Papers, 1637-1939. ca. 3,900 items.

In part, transcripts.

Includes four letters from Augusta Jane Evans to Curry,

1862 — 64, discussing the quality of Confederate officers, desertions and disaffection in the Confederate Army, and the poor

defenses of Mobile, Ala.; a letter from Col. Thomas B. Cooper to

Curry, Jan. 20, 1862, concerning Confederate troops wintering

at Richmond, Va.; and a letter from Col. John W. Mallet to

Curry, Mar. 23, 1862, on the manufacture of saltpeter. Also

includes papers concerning Curry's studies on the war and the

Confederate Government.

Finding aid and microfilm copy (4 reels) available.

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221

Curtis, Benjamin Robbins Jurist, Massachusetts

(1809-1874)

Papers, 1831-79. ca. 450 items.

In part, transcripts.

Includes a few copies of letters relating to the arrest and

imprisonment of Judge John Archibald Campbell and the investigation of the Lincoln assassination, May—July 1865.

222

Cushing, Caleb (1800-1879) Statesman, Massachusetts

Papers, 1785-1906. ca. 120,000 items.

Contains correspondence, requisitions, bills of lading,

invoices, reports, and legal papers relating to Confederate operations in the Trans-Mississippi Department. Also, material concerning prize cases, Mexico's claim for compensation for the

seizure of the Oriente, and Confederate blockade running, and

a series of letters between Christopher Memminger and James

Seddon. Cushing's legal papers include statements by Stephen

R. Mallory on the purchase and service of the Confederate

steamers Alexandria, Atlanta, Bat, Chickamauga, Owl, Shenandoah, Tallahassee, Texas, and others.

Finding aid available.

223

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders (1816-1876) Actress

Papers, 1824-1941. ca. 10,000 items.

Contains a letter (13 p.) from Lt. Samuel Dana Greene

(USN) to his parents, Mar. 14,1862, U.S.S. Monitor, describing

the voyage of the Monitor from New York to Hampton Roads,

Va., problems in preparing the vessel for battle, and the engagement with the C.S.S. Merrimac.

Finding aid available.

224

Cushman, William H. (d. 1865) Engineer, USN

Papers, 1861-72. 24 items.

Contains two letters from Cushman to his mother written

aboard the U.S.S. Kearsarge, June 15 and 19, 1864, before and

after the engagement with the C.S.S. Alabama. Also, a letter of

recommendation for Cushman (1861), pension claim forms,

photographs, and papers concerning prize money from the

Alabama.

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225

Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876) Gen., USA

Papers, 1865, 1874. 2 items.

In part, photocopies.

Includes a printed congratulatory order from General Custer to the men of the 3d Cavalry Division, Apr. 9, 1865.

226

Cutter, Calvin (1807-1872) Surg., 21st

Massachusetts Volunteers

Manuscript, undated. 1 item.

Transcript.

Account of Cutter's abolitionist activities in prewar Kansas,

his intimate friendship with John Brown, and his service with

the 21st Massachusetts in North Carolina, Kentucky, and

Virginia.

227

Cutter, Carrie Eliza (1842-1862) Nurse, USA

Manuscript, undated. 1 item.

Transcript.

Account of Cutter's service as a nurse at the military hospital in Annapolis, Md., and with the 21st Massachusetts Volunteers during the Burnside expedition to North Carolina.

228

Cutts Family

Papers, 1755-1905. ca. 100 items.

Contains five letters by J. Madison Cutts (d. 1863), Comptroller's Office, U.S. Treasury Department, concerning military pay.

229

Dahlgren, John Adolphus Bernard (1809-1870) Adm., USN

Papers, 1824-89. ca. 10,000 items.

Contains correspondence, reports, and memoranda relating to naval ordnance, 1861-62; reports on raids ordered by

Dahlgren against guerrillas operating in Virginia along the

Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay; and letterbooks, logs, and

miscellaneous items maintained by Dahlgren as commander of

the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-65—chiefly

official correspondence, orders, reports, lists and records of ships

in the squadron, records of prize vessels, special reports on

ironclad ships, and consular dispatches. Also contains correspondence between Dahlgren and his son, Col. Ulric Dahlgren

(1842-1864) concerning the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of

1862 and the Fredericksburg and Gettysburg campaigns.

Finding aid available.

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Jefferson Davis
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Papers, 1843-70. 75 items.

Letter from Dahlgren to "Dear Patty," Sept. 13,1864, U.S.S.

Philadelphia. Contains a brief note on expected reinforcements

for an attack on Charleston, S.C.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

231

Dana, Charles Anderson (1819-1897) Asst. Secretary of War

Papers, 1859-82. ca. 300 items.

In part, transcripts.

Chiefly dispatches sent by Dana from the War Office during the Vicksburg, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Petersburg, and

Appomattox campaigns, and during campaigns in Kentucky

and Tennessee.

232

Daniels, Josephus (1862-1948)

Papers, 1806-1948. ca. 331,000 items.

Includes a copy of Stephen R. Mallory's Report of the Secretary of the Navy (1864); a photograph from the christening of

the U.S.S. Chattanooga, Oct. 1864; a postwar sketch of the

U.S.S. Bainbridge by George H. Rogers (USN); military passes;

a medical certificate concerning the health of John Barkley

(CSA); and miscellaneous letters by Comdr. Benjamin M. Dove

(USN), Col. T. H. Rosser (CSA), and Gideon Welles.

Finding aid available.

233

Davis, Benjamin

Military pass, 1861. 1 item.

Pass issued to Davis, Oct. 30,1861, to travel from St. Louis,

Mo., to Baltimore, Md. Signed by Col. John McNeil.

234

Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889) President, C. S. A.

Collection, 1835-1913. ca. 500 items.

In part, transcripts and photocopies of transcripts.

Includes a letter to Gov. Joseph E. Brown of Georgia, Jan.

27, 1863, concerning provisions for the army; a letter from

Alexander Walker to Davis, Sept. 13,1862, accusing Gen. B. F.

Butler of numerous atrocities as military governor of New

Orleans and describing the plight of various citizens confined

at Ship Island, Miss., Fort St. Philip, La., and Fort Pickens,

Fla.; and several postwar letters from Davis to C. J. Wright

refuting reports that captured Union officers who had commanded black troops had been mistreated, that there had been

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a Confederate plot to assassinate President Lincoln, and that

Davis had been disguised as a woman at the time he was

captured.

Microfilm copy (2 reels) available.

235

Davis, John Chandler Bancroft (1822-1907) U.S. Diplomat

Papers, 1851-1902. ca. 13,000 items.

Includes letterbooks and records on the Alabama claims.

236

Davis, John E. 5th Pennsylvania Volunteers

Letter, 1863. 1 item.

Letter from Davis to his mother, Aug. 24,1863, concerning

the Battle of Gettysburg.

237

Dawes, Henry Laurens (1816-1903) U.S. Representative,

Massachusetts

Papers, 1833-1933. ca. 22,000 items.

Includes a letter from Pvt. Clifton L. Roth, 10th Massachusetts Volunteers, to Dawes, Sept. 18,1861, concerning Roth's

enlistment bounty; a letter from Lt. Col. George Wells to Dawes,

July 12, 1862, about a leave of absence from the Army of the

Potomac; a letter from Col. J. H. Belknap to Dawes, Dec. 17,

1862, Alexandria, Va., concerning three soldiers being held at

a convalescent camp in Virginia; and a letter from Lt. Col.

A. W. Dwight to Dawes, Dec. 22, 1862, Falmouth, Va., relating to the resignations of several officers of the 10th Massachusetts Volunteers over the appointment of Maj. Dexter

Parker.

Finding aid available.

238

Dawson, Henry Barton (1821-1889) Editor; Historian

Letter, 1872. 1 item.

Letter from Dawson to Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard, July 11

[1872], Morrisania, N.Y., concerning Maj. Robert Anderson and

the surrender of Fort Sumter.

239

Deaderick, David Anderson (1797-1873) Tennessee

Collection, 1824-1940. 3 items.

Transcript and photocopies.

Chiefly a register of events in the Deaderick family (59 p.).

Includes genealogical notes and copies of letters to Deaderick

from his sons, Inslee and Robert (East Tennessee Cavalry, CSA),

1861-65, concerning skirmishes in Kentucky and Tennessee,

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the battles of Fishing Creek and Murfreesboro, the Siege of

Knoxville, the treatment of civilians, depredations, and prison

life at Camp Chase, Ohio, Camp Morton, Ind., and Fort Delaware. Also includes photocopies of a sketch and photograph of

Deaderick.

240

Deane, Charles H. Capt., USA

Order, 1865. 1 item.

Order relieving Deane from duty as post quartermaster at

Chattanooga, Tenn., June 23, 1865.

241

De Leon, Edwin (d. 1891) C.S. Diplomat

Papers, 1864-85. 19 items.

Letters received while serving as Confederate agent in

Europe.

242

Denison, George Stanton (1833-1866) Customs Collector,

New Orleans, La.

Papers, 1851-84. ca. 300 items.

Letters from Denison to his family, 1862-65, concerning a

trip from New Orleans to Richmond, Va., and his escape north

through Tennessee and Kentucky. Provides information on the

martial spirit sweeping the South, conscription, the composition of the Confederate Army, the type and availability of

weapons, and the military situation in Richmond. Letters written from New Orleans during the Federal occupation relate to

the military governorships of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler and

Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks. Also contains a few letters between

Denison and Salmon P. Chase.

Indexed.

243

Dennett, Tyler (1883-1949) Author

Papers, 1861-1933. ca. 200 items.

In part, galley proofs.

Primarily research notes compiled for Dennett's 1933

biography of John Hay and his 3-volume edition of the Letters

of John Hay (1908).

Finding aid available.

244

Dewey, George (1837-1917) 1st Lt., USN

Papers, 1820-1919. ca. 25,000 items.

Contains an account of Adm. David G. Farragut's attempt

to pass Confederate batteries at Port Hudson, La., and the

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destruction of the U.S.S. Mississippi, Mar. 14,1863. Written in

1902 by Henry C. Hoskins, CSA.

Finding aid available.

245

Dick, Franklin A. Provost Marshal Gen., USA

Document, 1865. 2 items.

"Memorandum of Matters in Missouri in 1861," with a

cover letter to Benson J. Lossing, July 6, 1865. Describes the

political and military situation in Missouri in 1861, particularly efforts to support the Union and to prevent the St. Louis

Arsenal from falling into Confederate hands.

246

Dickinson, Anna Elizabeth Abolitionist; Actress

(1842-1932)

Papers, 1860-1932. ca. 8,500 items.

Contains a letter from Samuel Clark Pomeroy to Miss

Dickinson, July 2,1863, concerning Gen. Joseph Hooker's desire

to attack Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee before Lee

crossed the Potomac River in the Gettysburg Campaign; a letter from Martin Reem to Miss Dickinson, Mar. 31,1878, recalling an incident in the war in Apr. 1864, between Federal forces

in Arkansas and the army of Gen. Kirby-Smith that illustrates

the bravery of black troops; and miscellaneous letters to Miss

Dickinson, 1861-65, from the U.S. Sanitary Commission,

various antislavery societies, and politicians.

Finding aid and microfilm copy (25 reels) available.

247

Dix, John Adams (1798-1879) Gen., USA

Papers, 1863, 1873. 2 items.

Includes a letter from Dix to Archibald Dixon, Jan. 19,

1863, Fort Monroe, Va., on winning the war.

248

Dock, Mira Lloyd (1853-1945)

Papers, 1814-1947. ca. 2,500 items.

Includes a letter from Dr. George Dock to William D.

Reinhardt, Oct. 18, 1861, Harrisburg [Pa.], concerning his brief

service as a surgeon in the U.S. Army, enthusiasm for war in

the North, and the office and location of several mutual friends.

Finding aid available.

249

Dodge, Theodore Ayrault (1842-1909) Maj., USA

Diary, 1862-63. 2 v.

Microfilm, 1 reel.

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John Adams Dix
Detailed account of Dodge's service as a lieutenant and

adjutant in the 101st and 119th New York Volunteers during

the Peninsular, 2d Manassas, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville,

and Gettysburg campaigns. Provides information on camp life,

marches, troop movements, foraging expeditions, discipline,

disease, casualties, and the use of blacks. Includes sketches of

the Chancellorsville and Gettysburg battlefields.

250

Donelson, Andrew Jackson Lawyer, Memphis, Tenn.

(1799-1871)

Papers, 1779-1943. ca. 3,200 items.

Contains several letters written during the war, 1862 — 64,

concerning conditions in Memphis, Tenn., and in northern

Mississippi, the death of C. S. Representative John Alexander

Wilcox, the death of Capt. John Samuel Donelson of the Hickory Rifles, the murder of Daniel Donelson (CSA), depredations

by Union and Confederate troops, the effect of the Federal

blockade, and the location of various members of the Donelson

family.

Finding aid and partial index available.

251

Doolittle, James Rood

(1815-1897) U.S. Senator, Wisconsin

Papers, 1858-1929. 136 items.

Letter from Adm. Samuel P. Lee to Doolittle, Feb. 20,1865,

U.S.S. Black Hawk, Cairo, 111., describing his entire war service (North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, Mississippi

Squadron, etc.), his stormy relationship with Gustavus V. Fox,

his opinion of Adm. David D. Porter, competition between naval

officers for commands affording greater opportunity for prize

money, interaction between political and military leaders, and

efforts of southern politicians to disperse naval vessels around

the world during the secession crisis. Also, a letter from Admiral Lee to Doolittle, Mar. 22, 1863, concerning reconnaissance

expeditions in the James River and favoritism in promotions;

three letters from W. C. Wooling to Doolittle, Feb. 4 and 7,

1864, and undated written from Beaufort and Port Royal, S.C.;

and a letter from Edgar T. Welles to an unnamed recipient,

July 3, 1864, concerning a visit to Fort Monroe, Va.

Finding aid and microfilm copy (1 reel) available.

252

Dorman, Orloff M. Jacksonville, Fla.

Diary, 1864-86. 7 v.

"Memoranda of Events that transpired at Jacksonville,

Florida, & in its vicinity; with some remarks & comments

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thereon: &c." Provides information on skirmishes, depredations,

and troop movements in the area.

253

Dornblaser, Benjamin (1828-1905) Col., USA

Collection, 1864. 8 items.

Letter with supporting documents, from Dornblaser to R.

A. Kent, Nov. 4,1864, concerning irregularities in the Commissary Department.

254

Dorsett, Edward Lee (b. 1883) Collector

Collection, 1814-1926. 150 items.

Includes a letter from Capt. Thomas T. Craven to Gideon

Welles, Sept. 2,1861, U.S.S. Yankee, concerning the prize sloop

T. J. Evans, and a letter from Acting Master Henry S. Wetmore

to Charles Kendall, Feb. 23, 1864, Cincinnati, Ohio, requesting alterations on the U.S.S. Fairy.

Finding aid available.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

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Doubleday & Company Publishers, New York

Collection, 1955-65. ca. 24,000 items.

Research notes and bibliography compiled by Everett B.

Long for Bruce Catton's Centennial History of the Civil War

(1961-65).

Finding aid available.

256

Douglas, John Hancock Associate Secretary, U.S.

(1824-1892) Sanitary Commission

Papers, 1861-85. 250 items.

Includes letters from Douglas to his brother, July 25,

1861-June 7, 1864, concerning his work with the Sanitary

Commission, i.e., the acquisition and distribution of medical

supplies and the inspection of military hospitals in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and Tennessee.

257

Douglass, Frederick (18177-1895) Author;

Abolitionist; Orator

Papers, 1854-1964. ca. 7,300 items.

Includes a letter from Charles Douglass to his father,

Frederick Douglass, July 6, 1863, Camp Meigs; a letter from

George Evans to Douglass, June 6, 1863, concerning his service with the 1st Massachusetts Light Artillery; and several

letters from the War Department concerning Douglass' work

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with the Recruiting Service for U.S. Colored Volunteers.

Finding aid, index, and microfilm copy (34 reels) available.

258

Dow, M. A.

Collection, 1864. 3 items.

Military passes issued to Miss Dow for travel from New

Berne, N.C., to Norfolk, Va., and New York City, and an all

hours pass to and from Morehead City, N.C.

259

Downey, George Darius

(1832-1925) Official, U.S. Christian Commission

Diary, 1862-65. 1 v.

Describes Downey's visits to military camps and field hospitals and his conversations with sick and wounded Federal

soldiers and Confederate prisoners of war.

260

Downing, Samuel Col., CSA

Papers, 1840-85. 40 items.

Contains several military passes issued to Richard P.

Kenner, a farmer near Camp Hamilton, Va., Kenner's certificate of loyalty, and orders for the protection of his property.

261

Drake, James H. Col., CSA

Papers, 1859-63. 7 items.

Includes a return of Drake's company in the 1st Virginia

Cavalry, orders, a military pass, and a letter to Drake concerning horses stolen by Virginia cavalrymen.

262

Draper, John William (1811-1882) Author; Scientist

Family papers, 1777-1951. ca. 16,100 items.

Contains a 235-page postwar account of naval operations

along the coast of South Carolina, 1863-64, by Adm. John A.

Dahlgren, and letters to Draper from several leading military

officers concerning his 3-volume History of the American Civil

War (1867-70). Correspondents include John A. Dahlgren,

David G. Farragut, Quincy A. Gillmore, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, Edwin M. Stanton, and Gideon Welles.

Finding aid available.

263

Draper, William B.

Papers, 1864. 2 items.

Letter from Draper to his brother, Oct. 22, 1864, New

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Orleans, La., concerning the opening of trade with the Confederacy and the opposition of Gen. Edward Canby, and an article

"Our Suffering Trade," [New Orleans] Daily True Delta, Oct. 2

[1864].

264

Draper, William Franklin Lt. Col., 36th Massachusetts

(1842-1910) Volunteers

Papers, 1861-1910. 120 items.

Letters from Draper to his family, 1861-63, concerning

military training, General Burnside's expedition to North

Carolina, and the Fredericksburg, Vicksburg, and Knoxville

campaigns. Includes detailed accounts of the Battle of Roanoke

Island, N.C., and engagements at Blue Springs, Campbell's

Station, and Fort Sanders, Tenn. Also contains information on

camp life, morale, recruiting, army organization, promotions,

rank disputes, leadership, and black servants and volunteers.

265

Drayton, A. L. CSN

Diary, 1863. 1 v.

Describes the escape of the C.S.S. Florida from Mobile

Bay, the capture of the brig Clarence, and the cruise of the

C.S.S. Clarence against Union commerce. Contains a list of

prizes captured by the Clarence and the Archer, along with the

name, class, weight, port of origin, cargo, and estimated value

of each prize. Also contains verses of the Confederate songs,

"Red, White, and Blue" and "Hood's Texas Brigade," and a

copy of a letter from Gen. Robert E. Lee to Gen. Louis T. Wigfall,

Sept. 21, 1862.

266

Drennan, Daniel O. (ca. 1840-ca. 1905) Clerk, USA

Papers 1861-1904. ca. 4,750 items.

In part, facsimiles and transcripts.

Correspondence, clippings, reports, proclamations,

speeches, memorabilia, and printed matter collected by Drennan

as military secretary to Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, 1865-88.

Includes clippings on battles, military and political leaders

(Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert

E. Lee, Philip H. Sheridan, William T. Sherman, and others),

prisons, the surrender of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston in Apr. 1865,

and the surrender of Gen. Edmund Kirby-Smith at Galveston,

Tex., in June 1865. Also includes facsimiles of letters from

President Lincoln to Sheridan, copies of Sheridan's correspondence and reports, 1864—67, a muster roll of Capt. John H.

Merrill's company of New York Volunteers, Apr. 26, 1861, and

a tracing of a map of parts of Alabama and Mississippi used by

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Lt. Colonel Prince, 3d Michigan Cavalry.

Finding aid available.

267

Dungan, William W. (1836-1904) Engineer, USN

Collection, 1862-97. 11 items.

Contains two orders to duty, 1862 and 1864.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

268

Dunlop, James (1795-1856)

Family papers, 1750-1930. ca. 5,000 items.

Letter from James Buchanan to Judge James Dunlop of

Georgetown, D.C., July 24, 1861, on the legality of the war and

the blockade of southern ports.

Finding aid available.

269

Dwyer, Ransom O. 2d New York Veteran Cavalry

Document, 1864. 1 item.

Commission as chaplain, Jan. 6, 1864.

270

Dyer, Alexander Brydie (1852-1920)

Papers, 1828-1942. ca. 250 items.

Chiefly records of the 4th U.S. Artillery Regiment from

the Mexican War and the Civil War. Includes lists of officers

and men in batteries A and M, 1861-65, comments on the

service of batteries A and C in the Civil War, casualty lists, a

manuscript map showing the various stations of battery C,

1861 — 62, and a manuscript history of the regiment.

271

Eads, James Buchanan Shipbuilder,

(1820-1887) St. Louis, Mo.

Document, 1861. 1 item.

Agreement between Eads and Gen. Montgomery C. Meigs

for the construction of seven gunboats, Aug. 1861.

272

Early, Jubal Anderson (1816-1894) Gen., CSA

Papers, 1829-1930. ca. 5,000 items.

Includes official correspondence, general and special orders,

reports, returns, and telegrams concerning the battles of 1st

Manassas and Williamsburg, the Gettysburg Campaign, and

the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864. Also, a report on

the performance of Gen. Isaac R. Trimble's brigade in the Battle of 2d Manassas, reports by Gen. Harry T. Hays and Gen.

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Clement A. Evans on skirmishes in the Mine Run Campaign, a

list of units in Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard's I Corps, Army of

Northern Virginia (1862), and a return of troops commanded by

Gen. Joseph E. Johnston in the spring of 1862. Principal correspondents include Generals Beauregard, Raleigh E. Colston,

Joseph E. Johnston, and Earl Van Dorn.

Finding aid available.

273

Easby—Smith Families

Papers, 1837-71. ca. 100 items.

Chiefly correspondence between Lt. Col. William Russell

Smith (1815-1896), C.S. Representative from Alabama, and

his wife concerning secession and various matters before the

Confederate Congress.

274

Eells, Samuel Henry (b. 1836) Asst. Surg., 12th

Michigan Volunteers

Papers, 1862-63. 50 items.

Chiefly letters from Eells to his family concerning the Battle of Shiloh, the Corinth and Vicksburg campaigns, and a

skirmish with troops under Gen. Earl Van Dorn near Middleburg, Tenn., Jan. 1863. Includes information on camp life, troop

movements, foraging expeditions, disease, hospital care, the

treatment of blacks, desertion in the Confederate Army, and

relations between Union soldiers and noncombatants in the

South.

275

Eldredge, Charles Augustus

(1821-1896) U.S. Representative, Wisconsin

Letter, 1864. 1 item.

Letter from Eldredge to John E. Thomas, Feb. 7, 1864,

Washington, D.C., opposing U.S. Government policy in Arkansas and Tennessee, and Republican policy in general.

276

Ellis and Allan Company Merchants

Records, 1795-1889. ca. 80,000 items.

Includes a daybook containing scattered accounts with the

Confederate States Government for military supplies and

equipment, 1861-62.

Finding aid available.

277

Elseffer, Harry S.

(1857-1886), and Family Engineer, USN

Papers, 1865-86. ca. 80 items.

In part, transcripts.

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Includes a 20-page letter from Louis Elseffer to his family,

Jan. 18, 1865, Pocotaligo, S.C., describing Sherman's Atlanta

Campaign, Pvt. Charles Elseffer's certificate of service in the

46th Iowa Volunteers, and letter of Louis Elseffer, Feb. 1885,

recalling the Battle of Shiloh and the war in general.

278

Emerson, Bart USA

Document, 1862. 1 item.

Certificate affirming that Elizabeth Copeland of New

Orleans, La., took an oath of loyalty to the United States, Sept.

30, 1862.

279

Enslow, Charles Calvin

(1836-1900) 77th Illinois Volunteers

Letterbook, 1862-63. 1 item.

Photocopy of transcript.

Chiefly letters from Enslow to his wife concerning the

Vicksburg Campaign and the Battle of Mobile Bay. Includes

comments on the occupation of Forts Morgan, Gaines, and Powell

(Alabama), camp life, the treatment of prisoners of war at Ship

Island, Miss., and New Orleans, La., problems confronting

blacks, relations between Union soldiers and noncombatants

in the South, and an explosion aboard the City of Madison.

280

Ericsson, John (1803-1889) Shipbuilder, New York

Papers, 1821-90. ca. 1,500 items.

Correspondence between Ericsson, Gideon Welles, and various officers and merchants; notes and drawings; and memoranda relating to the construction of the U.S.S. Princeton.

Finding aid available.

281

Este, David Kirkpatrick

(1785-1875) Lawyer, Cincinnati, Ohio

Collection, 1804-64. 23 items.

Letter from Gen. Lewis Wallace to an unnamed recipient,

July 4, 1864, Baltimore, Md., on raising emergency forces.

282

Este, William Miller (d. 1900) Maj., 26th Ohio Volunteers

Collection, 1862-64. 25 items.

Correspondence, orders, reports, and telegrams relating in

part to the 8th Army Corps. Includes returns of troops at Camp

Distribution, Md., Dec. 19, 1863, and Mar. 12, 1864.

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283

Eustis, George (1828-1872) Confederate Agent

Papers, 1659-1884. ca. 400 items.

Orders and dispatches from the C.S. Department of State,

1861-63; lists of vessels entering and clearing Confederate

ports, 1861-62; correspondence and accounts concerning the

Trent affair, including copies of letters by John Slidell and

Judah P. Benjamin; notes on slavery and secession; and Eustis'

oath of allegiance, Dec. 12, 1865.

284

Evans, Thomas (d. 1910) 25th Ohio Volunteers

Diary and note, 1862-1953. 2 items.

In part, transcript.

Copy of Evans' diary, Feb. 16, 1862-May 1863, kept during Banks' Shenandoah Valley Campaign and the Chancellorsville Campaign. Describes camp life, foraging expeditions,

hospital care, and his treatment as a prisoner of war at Belle

Isle, Va. Also an introductory foreword note written by Evans'

grandson, Lawrence T. Evans, in 1953.

285

Evarts, William Maxwell Lawyer; Secretary,

(1818-1901) Union Defense Committee

Papers, 1835-1908. ca. 12,000 items.

Includes a few letters to Edward Bates and William Seward on the legality of the southern blockade, and material on

Civil War prize cases and the trial of Jefferson Davis.

Finding aid and partial index available.

286

Everett, Edward (1794-1865) Orator; Educator

Collection, 1858-64. ca. 150 items.

In part, photocopies.

Contains a copy of Everett's Gettysburg oration with photographs of Gens. Abner Doubleday, Winfield S. Hancock, Oliver

O. Howard, Erasmus D. Keys, John F. Reynolds, John Sedgwick,

Daniel E. Sickles, Henry W. Slocum, and Samuel K. Zook.

287

Ewell, Richard Stoddert (1817-1872) Gen., CSA

Papers, 1838-96. ca. 200 items.

In part, transcripts and photocopies.

Personal and official correspondence concerning generalship in the Confederate Army, Ewell's desire to return to active

duty following the loss of a leg at the Battle of Groveton, Va.,

the recruitment of blacks, his postwar imprisonment at Fort

Warren, Mass., and accusations that he ordered the burning of

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Richmond, Va. Principal correspondents include Jefferson

Davis, Jubal A. Early, B. S. Ewell, Leczinska Ewell, Henry J.

Hunt, Joseph E. Johnston, Robert E. Lee, Lafayette McLaws,

Charles Marshall, Dabney E. Maury, Robert E. Rodes, and

William T. Sherman.

288

Ewing, Charles (1835-1883) Gen., USA

Family papers, 1769-1950. ca. 9,000 items.

In part, photocopies.

Contains official and personal correspondence, commissions,

reports, general and special orders, an account of Ewing's war

service taken from the records of the Adjutant General's Office,

and miscellaneous accounts, telegrams, dispatches, and legal

records. Also, a report on the participation of Ewing's brigade

in the Siege of Vicksburg, diary entries from the Vicksburg

Campaign, and a list of Confederate soldiers captured between

Black Bayou and Jackson, Miss. Principal correspondents

include Thomas Ewing, Jr., Virginia Larwill (Miller) Ewing,

Eleanor Boyle (Ewing) Sherman, William T. Sherman, Clement F. Steele, and Maria Theresa (Ewing) Steele.

Finding aid available.

289

Ewing, George Washington (1803-1866) Fort Wayne, Ind.

Papers, 1838-76. ca. 250 items.

Includes a few letters between George Ewing, Thomas

Ewing, and M. Sweetser, 1861-62, concerning secession, the

progress of the war, Indian affairs, troop movements, and

fortifications.

290

Ewing, Thomas (1789-1871) Delegate, 1861

Peace Convention

Family papers, 1754-1941. ca. 94,000 items.

Includes the papers of Gen. Thomas Ewing, Jr. (1829-

1896)—chiefly official correspondence, reports, accounts, maps,

photographs, and scrapbooks relating to the recruitment of

the 11th Kansas Volunteers, the battles of Prairie Grove and

Pilot Knob (Fort Davidson, Mo.), and military affairs in the

"District of the Border" (Kansas and western Missouri) and the

St. Louis District. A diary kept by Sgt. Maj. E. Paul Reichhelm,

3d Missouri Volunteers, contains detailed accounts of General

Grant's first move against Vicksburg, the Battle of Chickasaw

Bluffs, and the Arkansas Post (Fort Hindman) expedition. Also

contains letters from Hugh Boyle Ewing, William S. Rosecrans, William H. Seward, and William T. Sherman.

Finding aid available.

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291

Family papers, 1815-72.

Microfilm, 6 reels.

Includes a letter defending Gens. Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, and Benjamin M. Prentiss against Secretary

Stanton's charges of incompetence and misconduct; a letter to

President Lincoln suggesting the use of compressed air to power

steamships; and material from the William T. Sherman family

papers.

Published guide available.

Originals at Notre Dame University Library.

292

Farragut, David Glasgow (1801-1870) Adm., USN

Papers, 1810-69. 12 items.

In part, photocopies.

General orders issued from Farragut's flagship, U.S.S.

Hartford, in the Mississippi River, Apr. 17 and 27, 1862, and

before New Orleans, Apr. 26, 1862; copy of a letter from Secretary Welles to Farragut, May 10, 1862, on the capture of New

Orleans; general order of June 25, 1862, on the bombardment

of Vicksburg; and diagram of Farragut's battle formation in

the attack on Mobile Bay.

293

Papers, 1816-69. 20 items.

Letterbook kept aboard the U.S.S. Brooklyn, 1858-61, containing correspondence concerning the cruising ground of the

Confederate privateer Sumter and orders from Secretary Welles.

Also includes a letter from Farragut to Comdr. Melancthon B.

Woolsey, May 13, 1864, placing Woolsey in command of Federal vessels along the Texas coast.

Finding aid available.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

294

Fay, John CSA

Manuscript narrative, 1905. 1 item.

Transcript.

Narrative of Lt. Jesse McNeill's capture of Gens. George

Crook and Benjamin F. Kelley near Cumberland, Md., Feb. 21,

1865. Based on an account of the event written in the immediate postwar period.

295

Fay, Logan (b. 1830) Sgt., 7th New York National Guard

Papers, 1861-62. 4 items.

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David Glasgow Farragut
Three letters from Fay to his mother, Apr. 26 and 30, and

May 21,1861, Washington, D.C.; Fay's discharge, Sept. 5,1862.

296

Feamster Family

Papers, 1794-1967. ca. 3,000 items.

Diary of Thomas L. Feamster (1829-1906), 14th Virginia

Cavalry, Jan. 1, 1864-Mar. 21, 1865, kept during campaigns

in Virginia and West Virginia. Also, orderly book containing

muster rolls, returns, and accounts for the 14th Virginia

Cavalry.

Finding aid available.

297

Fell, Jesse W. (1808-1887) Maj., USA

Papers, 1806-1957. ca. 2,100 items.

In part, photocopies.

Contains five letters from Fell to his wife, Oct. 1862-Aug.

1863, relating to his service as paymaster of Ohio volunteers;

letter from J. Bailey to Clara Fell, Dec. 24, 1862, concerning

camp life, diet, disease, and deaths among Ohio soldiers stationed near Nashville, Tenn.

Finding aid available.

298

Fell, Joseph Gove (d. 1863) Sgt. Maj., 141st

Pennsylvania Volunteers

Collection, 1863, 1866. 2 items.

Letter from Adrial Lee to Fell's family, July 17, 1863,

concerning Fell's death in a military hospital near Gettysburg,

Pa.

299

Fenton, Lewis R. (d. 1895) 2d Michigan Cavalry

Diary and notes, 1863-1960. 2 items.

Diary, June 23, 1863-Dec. 31, 1864, describing camp life,

discipline, scouting and foraging expeditions, disease, and hospital care during campaigns in Tennessee and northern

Alabama. Also, supplementary information on Fenton and the

war written by Jessie P. Williams, Marquette County, Mich.,

June 1960.

300

Ferguson, John Newton (1838-1919) 2d Iowa Volunteers

Diary, 1861-66. 4 v.

Diary, Dec. 11, 1861-Feb. 14, 1866, kept by Ferguson

during the Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Corinth, Atlanta, Savannah,

and Carolinas campaigns. Describes his enlistment and train82
ing in the 2d Iowa, the arrest and detainment of Confederate

soldiers and sympathizers in Missouri, marches, foraging

expeditions, depredations, the attitude of noncombatants in

the South, guerrilla warfare, black life, discipline, and morale.

Also includes information on the burning of Columbia, S.C.,

the occupation of Raleigh and Goldsboro, N.C., skirmishes in

northern Mississippi and northern Alabama, and the battles of

Resaca, Dallas, and Kennesaw Mountain in the Atlanta Campaign.

301

Ferree, Newton and Joel 36th Ohio National Guard

Papers, 1812-79. 13 items.

Diary of Newton Ferree, Jan. 28-Nov. 1, 1864, kept while

serving as a temporary clerk in the Paymaster General's

Department. Contains remarks on military organization and

training and a voyage to Port Royal, S.C., for an exchange of

prisoners.

302

Fessenden, William Pitt

(1806-1869) U.S. Secretary of the Treasury

Papers, 1832-78. ca. 1,000 items.

Correspondence relating to abolition, war finance, and the

operations of the Treasury Department, 1864-65.

Finding aid, partial index, and microfilm copy (5 reels)

available.

303

Field, S. Lynchburg, Va.

Letter, 1864. 1 item.

Letter from Field to Virginia senator A. T. Caperton, Feb.

7, 1864, protesting a bill passed by the Confederate House of

Representatives exempting from military service farmers who

provide substitutes.

304

Fillebrown, Thomas Scott (1834-1884) 1st Lt., USN

Letter, 1861. 1 item.

Letter from Fillebrown to Gen. Samuel P. Heintzelman,

Nov. 26, 1861, U.S.S. Roanoke, Old Point [Comfort, Va.], concerning work on the C.S.S. Merrimac and the Federal plan of

attack when the vessel appears. Includes details on the construction, measurements, and ordnance of the Merrimac. Also

contains remarks on troops and vessels assembled under Gen.

Benjamin F. Butler for operations in Louisiana.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

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305

Firum, William, et al. West Virginia

Testimonial, 1862. 1 item.

Signed testimonial, Jan. 17, 1862, naming ten dangerous

secessionists: A. G. Davis, D. M. Dent, D. W. Dent, Felix Dent,

George Dent, James Dent, Samuel Dorsenberry, John Jamison,

Milton Stuart, and E. Taylor.

306

Fish, Hamilton (1808-1893) Chairman, Union

League Defense Committee

Papers, 1732-1914. ca. 61,000 items.

Includes seven letters to Fish from Wickham Hoffman

(Assistant Adjutant General to Gen. Thomas W. Sherman),

1862-64, concerning conditions in New Orleans, La., under

military rule, expeditions and skirmishes along the Mississippi River, the Red River Campaign of 1863, the training

and performance of black soldiers, and the generalship of

Nathaniel P. Banks, Benjamin F. Butler, and Thomas W. Sherman. Also, four letters from Capt. Thomas Turner to Fish written

from the \J.S.S. New Ironsides, 1863-65, concerning the blockade of Charleston Harbor, the bombardment of Fort Sumter,

the construction and performance of Federal monitors, and the

administrative talents of Gustavus V. Fox; two letters from

William Aiken to Fish, Apr.-May 1865, Charleston, S.C., on

the occupation of Charleston; a letter from James P. Holcombe

to Judah P. Benjamin, Nov. 16, 1864, Richmond, Va., on the

Niagara Falls "peace conference"; and a letter from Jacob

Thompson to Judah P. Benjamin, Dec. 3,1864, Toronto, Canada,

on Confederate activities in Canada and plans by the Knights

of the Golden Circle to seize the steamer Michigan in Lake

Erie and free Confederate prisoners of war on Johnson's Island.

Finding aid available.

307

Fisher, George Purnell Judge; Public Official,

(1817-1899) Washington, D.C.

Papers, 1772-1905. ca. 200 items.

In part, transcripts.

Includes a 17-page account of the trial of John H. Surratt

for the assassination of President Lincoln written "by the Judge

who presided at the Trial," and the "Confession of Atzerodt

relative to the Assassination of President Lincoln," by Samuel

B. Arnold.

Finding aid available.

308

Fisk, Clinton Bowen (1828-1890) Gen., USA

Letters, 1862. 2 items.

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Letters from Fisk to his mother, Dec. 25, 1862, and 186[2],

concerning the defense of Columbus, Ky., and Gens. John

Fremont and Henry Halleck.

309

Fisk, Wilbur 2d Vermont Volunteers

Papers, 1862-65. ca. 100 items.

Transcripts.

Diary, 1863-64, and letters to the editor of the Montpelier,

Vt., Green Mountain Freeman, 1862-65, describing Fisk's service in the 6th Corps, Army of the Potomac, during the

Fredericksburg, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and

Petersburg campaigns, and Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley

Campaign. Includes comments on camp life, morale, military

organization, hospital care, foraging expeditions, entertainment,

the U.S. Sanitary Commission, furloughs, the performance of

black soldiers, and the attitude toward and treatment of noncombatants in the South.

310

Flagler, Daniel Webster (1835-1899) Capt., USA

Collection, 1861-91. 14 items.

Includes three commissions for positions in the Ordnance

Department, 1861-63.

311

Fleetwood, Christian Abraham Sgt. Maj., 4th

(1840-1914) U.S. Colored Infantry

Papers, 1797-1945. ca. 400 items.

Diary, 1862-64 (3 v.), concerning campaigns in Virginia

and North Carolina, Aug. 1863-Dec. 1864. Provides information

on skirmishes on Virginia's lower peninsula, the Siege of

Petersburg, Gen. Benjamin F. Butler's Fort Fisher expedition,

camp life, disease, and President Lincoln's visit to the front

lines in June 1864. Also includes orders, awards, passes,

Fleetwood's discharge, Apr. 27, 1866, a list of officers in the

4th, 5th, 6th, 36th, 38th, and 39th Colored Regiments and the

54th Massachusetts Infantry, the names and service records of

15 black officers, and photographs of black recipients of the

Congressional Medal of Honor.

Finding aid and microfilm copy (1 reel) available.

312

Floyd—McAdoo Families

Papers, 1806-93.

Microfilm, 6 reels.

Includes the diary of William Gibbs McAdoo, Sr. (1820-

1894), lawyer and editor of Knoxville, Tenn., and Milledge85
ville and Marietta, Ga. Entries from the war (reels 3-4) describe troop movements, depredations by both Federal and

Confederate soldiers, and the social and economic effects of

the war in Georgia.

313

Foote, Andrew Hull (1806-1863) Adm., USN

Papers, 1838-63. ca. 800 items.

Correspondence, orders, and reports concerning the gunboat attack on Confederate batteries at Belmont, Mo., the Fort

Donelson Campaign, and the capture of the C.S. gunboat Jeff

Davis. Also contains general orders and ordnance reports. Correspondents include Andrew A. Harwood, Roger N. Stembel,

and Gideon Welles.

314

Foote, Lemuel Thomas

(1832-1908) Chaplain, 151st New York Volunteers

Papers, 1856-1937. ca. 110 items.

Contains about 30 letters from Foote to his wife written

from camps in Virginia, Aug.-Dec. 1863, chiefly concerning

personal affairs, but including remarks on camp life, morale,

disease, diet, desertions, depredations, foraging expeditions,

religion, inflation, Confederate spies, and the disposition of

troops. Also includes an account of the skirmish at Locust Grove,

Va., a description of the death of Capt. Sylvanus S. Wilcox, a

report on Federal casualties in the Battle of Winchester (Sept.

1864), and miscellaneous passes, orders, and commissions.

315

Forbes, Archibald (1838-1900) Journalist

Papers, 1889-98. 19 items.

Manuscript article with related correspondence on the

Grant-Warren-Sheridan controversy over the Battle of Five

Forks. Correspondents include John Hay, Wesley Merritt, and

James H. Wilson.

316

Forbes Family Massachusetts

Papers, 1768-1931.

Microfilm, 52 reels.

Contains the correspondence of Robert Bennet Forbes

(1804-1889), Massachusetts shipowner and shipbuilder, relating to the construction of gunboats. Correspondents include

John A. Dahlgren, Gustavus V. Fox, Louis M. Goldsborough,

Francis H. Gregory, Samuel P. Lee, Stephen B. Luce, and Gideon Welles.

Finding aid available.

Originals in the Massachusetts Historical Society.

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317

Force, Manning Ferguson (1824-1899) Gen., USV

Papers, 1835-85.

Microfilm, 5 reels.

Diaries, 1861—66, official and personal correspondence,

reports, orders, telegrams, and miscellaneous items relating to

the Battle of Shiloh and the Vicksburg and Atlanta campaigns.

Provides information on camp life, training, diet, discipline,

prisoners of war, casualties, generalship, inflation, devastation, and the attitude of noncombatants in the South. Also

contains material on the Fitz-John Porter trial.

Finding aid available.

Originals in the University of Washington Library.

318

Force, Peter (1790-1868) Archivist;

Publisher; Historian

Papers, 1170-1944. ca. 50,000 items.

Includes 16 letters to Force from his son, Gen. Manning F.

Force, 1862-64, concerning the Fort Donelson Campaign, the

Battle of Shiloh, and camp life and marches in southwestern

Tennessee. Also contains clippings and printed material on the

Battle of Shiloh, and copies of general orders issued at New

Orleans, La., Dec. 1863-Feb. 1864.

Finding aid available.

319

Forney, John Wien (1817-1881) Journalist; Politician

Papers, 1841-76. ca. 150 items.

Contains a few miscellaneous notes and letters relating

generally to the war. Correspondents include Montgomery Blair,

Simon Cameron, John A. Dahlgren, Thomas L. Kane, Edwin

M. Stanton, and Thurlow Weed.

320

Forrest, French (1796-1866) Flag Officer, CSN

Letter, 1862. 1 item.

Letter from Forrest to "My Dear Victor," May 27, 1862,

Navy Department, criticizing the Confederate Congress for the

passage of a bill creating four new admirals.

321

Forscky, J.

Letter, 1861. 1 item.

Letter from Forscky to S. P. Brooks, June 14, 1861,

Richmond, Va., praising southerners for their enthusiastic support of the war.

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322

Fort Delaware Prison Times

Collection, 1865. 2 items.

Photocopies.

Copy of a prison newsletter, Apr. 1865, showing the name,

rank, and unit of about 30 Confederate prisoners of war.

323

Foulke, William Dudley (1848-1935) Lawyer; Reformer

Papers, 1470-1952. ca. 2,500 items.

Includes letters of R. Moore and D. P. Moore written from

camps near Falmouth, Va., Jan.-Feb. 1863, concerning the

Fredericksburg Campaign, and several letters from Mark E.

Reeves to his family, 1861-63, describing recruitment and

popular support for the war effort in Cincinnati, Ohio.

324

Fowler, Joseph Smith Educator-Lawyer, Tennessee

(1820-1902)

Papers, 1865-1903. ca. 300 items.

Contains a postwar biographical sketch of Gen. Marcus

Joseph Wright and a copy of a photograph of President Lincoln.

325

Frank, Jacob J. 41st New York Volunteers

Diary, 1862. 1 v.

Contains comments on camp life, troop movements, skirmishes, and entertainment during the Shenandoah Valley

Campaign of 1862 and the 2d Manassas Campaign.

326

Franklin, William Buel (1823-1903) Gen., USA

Papers 1861-65. 100 items.

Chiefly official correspondence, orders, reports, and telegrams to Franklin during McClellan's Peninsular Campaign

and the Red River Campaign of 1864. Miscellaneous items

include a medical certificate concerning the wound Franklin

received at Sabine Cross Roads, La., a personal letter from

Gen. Thomas Ransom, May 31, 1864, concerning generalship

and behind-the-lines maneuvering among officers for field

commands, and a complaint by the men of the 1st New York

Cavalry against Col. A. T. McReynolds, Mar. 2,1862. Principal

correspondents are Ambrose E. Burnside, Albion P. Howe,

Henry J. Hunt, John R. Kenly, George B. McClellan, R. B.

Marcy, John G. Parke, Thomas E. G. Ransom, John F. Reynolds,

Franz Sigel, Henry W. Slocum, William F. Smith, Edwin M.

Stanton, and Orlando B. Willcox.

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William Buel Franklin
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Fraser, P. Historian

Manuscript. 1,070 p.

Unpublished "History of the Great Rebellion and Civil War

in the United States, in One Volume."

328

Freeman, Douglas Southall

(1886-1953) Educator; Author; Lecturer

Papers, 1900-54. ca. 70,000 items.

Source material gathered in preparation for Freeman's R.

E. Lee (1934-35), 4 v.; The South to Posterity (1939); and Lee's

Lieutenants (1942-44), 3 v.; and manuscripts and galley proofs

of each work.

Finding aid available.

329

Fremont, John Charles (1813-1890) Gen., USA

Letters, 1862-64. 3 items.

Letter from Fremont to Maj. Simon Stevens, Apr. 21,1862,

Mountain Department, Wheeling, W. Va., advising Stevens on

how to obtain an appointment on his staff.

330

French, Benjamin Brown Commissioner of Public

(1800-1870) Buildings, Washington, D.C.

Papers, 1802-1924. ca. 4,000 items.

Correspondence, diary, and newspaper clippings describing,

in part, life in the Federal Capital during the war. Includes a

few details on the Battle of 1st Manassas, observations on soldiers returning to Washington after the battle, public reaction

to the Baltimore riots, Lincoln's inauguration and assassination,

and Gen. Jubal Early's Washington raid, and a description of

Richmond, Va., immediately after the war.

Finding aid and partial microfilm copy (3 reels) available.

331

Fritsch, Friedrich Otto,

Baron Von (b. 1834) Capt., 68th New York Volunteers

Memoir, 1856-1900. 1 v.

Transcript.

Unpublished manuscript, "A Modern Soldier of Fortune,"

edited by Jessie Kaufman. Provides information on camp life,

marches, generalship, rank disputes, supply, skirmishes, and

the Chancellorsville and Gettysburg campaigns. Includes

remarks on interviews with President Lincoln and Edwin M.

Stanton on the problems of blacks.

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Frost, Edward (1801-1868) Agriculturist-Politician,

South Carolina

Papers, 1802-66. ca. 1,500 items.

Contains several letters to Frost from family and friends,

1861-64, concerning the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, coastal

defense, the suffering of the civilian population, Confederate

finance, the relief of families of soldiers, problems with blacks,

and disease and deaths. Correspondents include Edwin P. Frost,

F. H. Frost, Thomas Frost, Simon Lucas, William Miller, and

James D. Tradewell.

333

Fuller, Joseph Pryor 20th Georgia Volunteers

Papers, 1862-67. 50 items.

Transcripts.

Diary, 1864, and letters, 1862-67, concerning prison life

at Rock Island, 111., and Point Lookout, Md.

334

Furman, Greene Chandler

Collection, 1862-1954. 3 items.

Photocopies.

Letter from Col. Henry Marshall, a member of the Confederate Congress from Louisiana, to his son-in-law, Lt. S. C.

Furman, Mar. 13, 1863, Richmond [Va.], concerning dissatisfaction in Tennessee with Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston and a

petition to President Davis for Johnston's removal. Also a letter from D. E. C. Kemper to Col. Henry Marshall, Dec. 9,1863,

James Island, S.C., concerning the second disaster aboard the

submarine H. L. Hunley and the court-martial of Kemper's

brother, Tip Kemper.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

335

Galwey, Thomas Francis

(1846-1913) Lt., 8th Ohio Volunteers

Diaries, 1861-1908. 6 v.

Diary, Jan. 1, 1863-July 6, 1864 (2 v.) and memoir, Apr.

13, 1861-May 27, 1864, concerning skirmishes in West Virginia in 1861, the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862, and

the 2d Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg,

Wilderness, and Spotsylvania campaigns; operations along the

Rapidan and Rappahannock Rivers in late 1863; and the Siege

of Petersburg. Also includes comments on military organization,

camp life, entertainment, a visit to the front lines by President

Lincoln, and various marches and foraging expeditions, as well

as numerous sketches of encampments and battles. Member of

the "Circle of the Irish Brigade."

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336

Gardner, Francis R. and George USMC

Collection, 1855-1902. 8 items.

In part, transcripts.

Includes a postwar account of the reenforcement of Fort

Pickens, Fla., by Union forces, Apr. 12, 1861. Also, transcripts

of official naval correspondence and clippings of Gideon Welles'

version of the event.

337

Garesche, Julius P. Maj.; Asst. Adj. Gen., USA

Register, 1861. 1 v.

Official Army Register, for 1861 (1861). Includes notations

by Garesche to show changes made during the year.

338

Garfield, James Abram (1831-1881), Pres., U.S.

Papers, 1831-81. 80,350 items.

Contains official correspondence, reports, general and special orders, maps, and miscellaneous items relating to the Sandy

Valley and Shiloh campaigns, and Garfield's command of the

42d Ohio Volunteers and the 18th and 20th brigades, Army of

the Ohio.

Published index and microfilm copy (177 reels) available.

339

Garfield, Lucretia Rudolph (1832-1918)

Papers, 1844-1918. ca. 55,000 items.

Contains four letters from Joe Rudolph to his sister Lucretia (Mrs. James A. Garfield), 1861-65, written from camps in

Ohio, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Provides a detailed account of

the Arkansas Post expedition, particularly the capture of Fort

Hindman.

Finding aid available.

340

Garrett, Robert (1783-1857),

and Family Railroad Official; Financier

Papers, 1820-80. ca. 29,000 items.

Correspondence and financial papers relating to the operation of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Includes information

on the movement of troops and supplies, civilian arrests, and

the release of Jefferson Davis from Fort Monroe after the war.

Also, miscellaneous letters between President Lincoln and members of his Cabinet, and letters from various military officers

and political officials.

Finding aid available.

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341

George, Harold C. Collector

Collection, 1862-1910. ca. 50 items.

Contains notes from manuscript and printed sources on

the participation of the VI Corps, Army of the Potomac (particularly the 139th Pennsylvania Volunteers) in the Wilderness

and Spotsylvania campaigns. Also includes details on the action

at " Bloody Angle" in the Spotsylvania Campaign, accounts of

the deaths of Gens. John Sedgwick and Alexander Hays, information on the attitude of soldiers in the Army of the Potomac

toward Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, and miscellaneous poems and

diary extracts.

342

Ghent, William James (1866-1942) Author; Journalist

Papers, 1876-1942. ca. 15,000 items.

Includes a few postwar newspaper clippings and articles

concerning emancipation, President Lincoln, generalship in the

war, various battles and skirmishes, and prisoners of war.

Finding aid available.

343

Gherardi, Bancroft (1832-1903) Lt. Comdr., USN

Letters, 1864. 2 items.

Letters by Gherardi, U.S.S. Port Royal, Mobile Bay, Sept.

17, 1864, concerning the distribution of prize money for cotton

seized when he commanded the U.S.S. Chocura.

344

Gibbes, Lewis Reeves (1810-1894) Educator; Scientist

Papers, 1793-1894. ca. 5,700 items.

Contains a few letters from former students at Charleston

College, S.C., concerning recommendations for military commissions or promotions, and letters from friends and acquaintances describing their personal losses and the burning of

Columbia, S.C.

Finding aid available.

345

Gibson, S. J. Cpl., 103d Pennsylvania Volunteers

Papers, 1864. 2 items.

Diary, Jan. 1-Dec. 24,1864, concerning the capture of the

Federal garrison at Plymouth, N.C., Apr. 17-20,1864, and life

as a prisoner of war both on the march and at Andersonville,

Ga., and Florence, S.C. Also a letter from Gibson to his wife

written from Andersonville Prison, June 12, 1864.

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346

Gibson—Getty—McClure Families

Papers, 1777-1926. ca. 2,500 items.

Contains the papers of Gen. George W. Getty (1819-1901),

Inspector General, Army of the Potomac—official correspondence from the War Department concerning commissions, orders,

and other routine affairs; a report on the capture of the

Confederate battery at Hill's Point, Va., Apr. 20, 1863; information on Gen. B. F. Butler's Fort Fisher expedition; postwar correspondence on the reinvestigation of the Fitz-John Porter case;

and an extract from the diary of Hazard Stevens, Apr. 2, 1865,

concerning the Appomattox Campaign. Correspondents include

Adelbert Ames, Ambrose E. Burnside, and John G. Foster. Also

includes the papers of Col. Charles McClure (1838-1902),

USV.

Finding aid available.

347

Giddings, George H. (b. 1823) Col., CSA

Papers, 1846-1955. 2 items.

Memoir, 1846-1902, published serially by Charles M.

Barnes in the San Antonio Express, May-June 1902, concerning Giddings' service as a Confederate agent in Mexico, skirmishes with Federal troops near Brownsville, Tex., and his

claim to membership in Lincoln's Cabinet. Also, a memorandum by B. F. Dixon, Sept. 1, 1955.

348

Giddings, Joshua Reed (1795-1864)

Papers, 1839-99. ca. 900 items.

Two letters from Gen. John C. Fremont to U.S. Representative George W. Julian, Wheeling, W. Va., Apr. 2 and 21,

1862, concerning Union sentiment in West Virginia, Fremont's

desire for reinforcements, and an appointment in the Medical

Department; letter from Capt. Benjamin Price (Excelsior

Brigade) to Julian, Falmouth, Va., Mar. 29, 1863, criticizing

Union officers, advocating complete subjugation of the Confederacy, and outlining Price's own military career; and a military pass.

349

Gilbert, Cass (1859-1934)

Papers, 1841-1961. ca. 9,000 items.

Includes a letter by C. C. Gilbert, in camp near Springfield,

Mo., July 15, 1861, concerning the consolidation and disposition of the frontier garrisons, the organization of troops in Missouri under Gen. Nathaniel Lyon, and the generalship of George

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McClellan and Irvin McDowell, and various Confederate military leaders.

Finding aid available.

350

Gillett, Simon Palmer (d. 1910) Lt., USN

Papers, 1858-76. 12 items.

Contains two letters from Gillett to his wife, Jan. 10 and

May 20, 1865, concerning living conditions aboard ironclads

and the imprisonment of Confederate leaders; letter to Gillett

from his brother Philip, Feb. 7, 1861, on Abraham Lincoln's

trip to Washington for the inauguration, assassination attempts,

and secession; letter from John Crittenden Watson to Gillett,

May 13, 1865, concerning a military pass for his uncle, Col.

George B. Crittenden (CSA); two photographs of unidentified

Union officers; and a "Schedule of Pay of the Navy."

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

351

Gillette, James Jenkins (d. 1881) Maj., USA

Papers, 1857-84. ca. 2,000 items.

Letters and drafts of letters from Gillette to his family and

friends in New York concerning his service as an engineer

with the 71st New York Militia Regiment, camp life and

training, the Battle of 1st Manassas, and life as a prisoner of

war at Richmond, Va., July-Dec. 1861; official correspondence

concerning military supplies in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862, and the 2d Manassas, Antietam, Chancellorsville,

Gettysburg, and Atlanta campaigns. Includes remarks on troop

movements, camp life, generalship, morale, discipline, foraging expeditions, disease, corruption in the Army, hospital care,

and devastation in the South. Also contains invoices, vouchers,

receipts, accounts, and returns of commissary supplies, a few

sketches of battles, a photograph of Gillette taken in 1863, and

a report on Gillette's abandonment of commissary supplies at

BolivarHeights, Md., Dec. 10, 1862.

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352

Gilpin, E. N. Clerk, 3d Iowa Cavalry

Papers, 1861-1911. 76 items.

Diary, Mar. 6-July 5, 1865, and reprint of the published

version, "The Last Campaign—A Cavalryman's Journal,"

Journal of the U.S. Cavalry Association (n.d.), describing Gen.

James H. Wilson's raid to Selma, Ala., and the capture of

Montgomery, Ala., and Columbus and Macon, Ga. Includes

remarks on the capture of President Davis. Also contains the

diary of Samuel J. B. V. Gilpin, Aug. 1861-Oct. 1864 (5 v.), 3d

Indiana Cavalry, kept during the Antietam, Fredericksburg,

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Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and

Cold Harbor campaigns and the Siege of Petersburg, and operations along the Rappahannock and Rapidan Rivers in the fall of

1863. Provides information on camp life, marches, troop movements, generalship, and the attitude of noncombatants in Maryland and Virginia.

353

Gist Family

Collection, 1776-1865. 75 items.

In part, photocopies.

Letters of Richard J. Gist (d. 1864) and Branford P. Gist,

1862-65, relate to their service in the 6th Maryland Volunteers during the Antietam Campaign, skirmishes along the

Rapidan and Rappahannock Rivers in the fall of 1863, the

Wilderness Campaign, and the Battle of Cold Harbor. Letters

of Col. George W. Gist, 17th Kentucky Volunteers, 1863-65,

concern campaigns in east Tennessee and Sherman's Atlanta

Campaign. Includes comments on camp life, marches, troop

movements, disease, and hospital care.

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Goldsborough, Louis Malesherbes Adm., USN

(1805-1877)

Papers, 1817-74. ca. 8,000 items.

Letters from Goldsborough to his wife and daughter, Sept.

1861-Sept. 1862, concern the blockade of Charleston Harbor,

S.C., General Burnside's Roanoke Island expedition, and operations on the James River. Includes information on the scuttling

of the Merrimac and visits to the front lines by President Lincoln and members of his Cabinet. Also contains miscellaneous

orders and newspaper clippings. Principal correspondents are

Samuel F. Du Pont and Gustavus V. Fox.

355

Goodnow, James Harrison

(1826-1908) Lt. Col., 12th Indiana Volunteers

Papers, 1847-97. 108 items.

Chiefly letters from Goodnow to his wife and family,

1862-64, concerning the Vicksburg and Atlanta campaigns,

and campaigns in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama. Provides information on camp life, marches, morale, depredations,

foraging expeditions, discipline, disease, new recruits, military

bounties, the selection of officers, blacks, and the attitude of

noncombatants in the South. Also contains muster rolls,

clippings, commissions, and Goodnow's discharge, Sept. 15,

1864.

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356

Gorgas, William Crawford (1854-1920)

Papers, 1857-1919. ca. 12,000 items.

In part, transcripts.

Includes a copy of the diary of Gen. Josiah Gorgas (1818-

1883), which chronicles the war from the perspective of an

officer on the headquarters staff at Richmond, Va., where

Gorgas served as chief of ordnance. Contains remarks on

generalship, events in Richmond, the flight of Confederate military and political leaders during the Appomattox Campaign,

and the problems facing both blacks and whites in the postwar

South.

Finding aid available.

357

Gould, William J. Sgt., 2d Connecticut Light Artillery

Papers, 1864-65. 13 items.

Includes a diary, Mar. 1-July 13, 1865, kept during the

Mobile Campaign. Contains comments on camp life, marches,

skirmishes, foraging expeditions, the performance of black

troops, the effectiveness of Confederate torpedoes, and the attitude of Confederate prisoners of war.

358

Gourdin, Henry Merchant, Charleston, S.C.

Papers, 1860-67. 38 items.

Contains several letters concerning secession, military

organization, enlistments, troop movements, the demand for

cotton, and the seizure of vessels belonging to Gourdin &

Shackleford, particularly the General Parkhill.

359

Gove Family

Papers, 1848-1911. 7 items.

Includes the diary of Col. Jesse Augustus Gove (1824-

1862), 22d Massachusetts Volunteers, Nov. 1, 1861-June 26,

1862. Describes camp life, marches, training, entertainment,

morale, discipline, disease, hospital care, reconnaissance balloons and expeditions, generalship in the Army of the Potomac,

and the Siege of Yorktown. Also contains a photograph of Gove,

a printed memorial entitled "Colonel Jesse A. Gove, U.S.A."

(28 p.), and newspaper clippings on Gove's military service.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

360

Graham, Henry 177th New York Volunteers

Memoir, 1862-63. 1 v.

"A Journal of My Life and Experience as a Soldier," Oct.

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27, 1862-Sept. 1, 1863. Describes Graham's military training

in New York, a voyage to New Orleans, La., camp life, marches,

the conscription and performance of blacks, foraging expeditions,

disease, hospital care, operations along the Amite and "Blind"

Rivers, the Siege of Port Hudson, and deaths in the 177th New

York Volunteers. Also includes a list of officers in the 177th, a

list of privates in Graham's company (A), and copies of poems

and letters by Graham.

361

Graham, R. H. Maj., CSA

Document, 1865. 1 item.

Parole for Pvt. David Buchanan, 111th Pennsylvania

Volunteers, Feb. 2[2?], 1865, signed by Graham.

362

Grand Army of the Republic

Records, 1883-1928. 7 items.

Records of the Departments of the Potomac, Florida, and

Nebraska. Contains the names of members in each department

and service records of members in the Department of the

Potomac.

363

Grant, James (1829-1905) Delegate, U.S.

Christian Commission

Manuscript narrative, 1862-94. 1 item.

Manuscript entitled "The Flag and the Cross, a History of

the United States Christian Commission," 1894. Includes photocopies of two letters, Sept. 18 and 19, 1862, concerning the

care of wounded soldiers during the Antietam Campaign, and

photographs of Ulysses S. Grant and J. O. Sloan.

364

Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885), Pres., U.S.

Papers, 1844-1922. 47,200 items.

Includes headquarters records from the six commands held

by Grant during the Civil War: Military Districts of Southeast

Missouri, Cairo, and West Tennessee; Department of the

Tennessee; Military Division of the Mississippi; and General in

Chief of the Armies of the United States. Comprises official

correspondence, general and special orders, reports, registers,

returns, dispatches, accounts, telegrams, and miscellaneous

items.

Published index and microfilm copy (33 reels) available.

365

Grattan, John W. (b. 1841) Pvt., 47th New York National

Guard; Ens., USN

Papers, 1862-1937. ca. 300 items.

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Contains a diary, Oct. 1863-May 1865, kept by Grattan

while serving as a captain's clerk aboard the U.S.S. Florida,

U.S.S. Minnesota, and U.S.S. Malvern, and a memoir, "Under

the Blue Pennant, or Notes of a Naval Officer," concerning

naval operations on the James River, Oct. 1863-July 1864,

and the Fort Fisher expeditions, Dec. 1864-Jan. 1865. Includes

details on the loss of the Federal gunboat Smith Briggs, the

torpedo attack on the U.S.S. Minnesota, and the capture of Fort

Fisher. Also provides information on black soldiers and refugees,

guerrilla warfare, blockade running, discipline, hospital care,

visits to the front lines by President Lincoln, the fall of

Richmond, Va., the torpedo attack on the C.S.S. Albemarle,

prize vessels, General Butler's advance on Richmond, the C.S.S.

North Carolina, and General Schofield's advance on Wilmington,

N.C. Additional items comprise letters from Grattan to his

father concerning the torpedo attack on the Minnesota and the

Fort Fisher expeditions; captured Confederate letters concerning camp life and the sinking of the Albemarle; photographs of Adm. David D. Porter, Lt. M. W. Saunders, Lt. William B. Cushing, Adm. Samuel P. Lee, Ensign Grattan, and

Private Grattan; sketches of the U.S.S. Malvern, U.S.S. Minnesota, City Point and Bermuda Hundred, Va., Fort Fisher and

New Inlet, N.C, the Confederate battery at Howlett's Bluff,

Va., and the destruction of the U.S.S. Shawsheen; and Report

of General Robert E. Lee, of Operations at Rappahannock

Bridge; Also, Report of Lieut. Gen. E. K. Smith of Operations

in Lower Louisiana, and Report of Major General Jones of

Engagement at Rogersville, Tennessee (1864).

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

366

Gray, Horace (1828-1902) Lawyer-Jurist, Massachusetts

Papers, 1845-1902. ca. 400 items.

Photocopies.

Includes a few letters to Gray, 1861—65, concerning the

secession crisis, the political situation in Washington, D.C.,

the Presidential election of 1864, the progress of the war, and

morale in the Union Army. Correspondents are C. F. Blake,

Wilder Dwight, Manning F. Force, H. L. Hill, Stephen Phillips,

L. M. Quincy, Charles Sumner, and William Whiting.

Microfilm copy (1 reel) available.

367

Grebe, Balzar (1834-1866) 2d Lt., 14th Illinois Volunteers

Collection, 1861-63 and undated. 4 items.

Original manuscript (in German) and English translation entitled "Autobiography and Civil War Diary," 1861-63.

Provides information on the Shiloh, Corinth, and Vicksburg

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campaigns, and maneuvers against Gen. Sterling Price in

Missouri. Includes comments on discipline, casualties, depredations, prisoners of war, and Confederate morale and deserters.

Also includes a photograph of Grebe in uniform.

368

Greble, Edwin (1806-1883) Philadelphia, Pa.

Family papers, 1855-86. ca. 80 items.

Diary, 1855-72, containing an account of Greble's service

in the 196th Pennsylvania Volunteers, chiefly as a guard at

the military prison at Camp Douglas, 111., Aug. 10-Oct. 29,

1864.

369

Papers, 1858-70.

Microfilm, 1 reel.

Includes letters by Greble containing descriptions of Confederate cemeteries and prisons. Also contains comments on

President Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and Benjamin F. Butler.

370

Greeley, Horace

(1811-1872) Journalist-Politician, New York

Papers, 1826-1928. ca. 1,500 items.

In part, transcripts.

Contains Greeley's autobiography and articles, correspondence, lectures, notes, and clippings. Includes material on the

slavery issue, the New York Tribune, liberal Republicanism,

the 1864 Canadian Peace Commission, and a postwar bond for

Jefferson Davis.

Finding aid and partial index available.

371

Greely, Adolphus Washington

(1844-1935) Capt., 81st U.S. Colored Troops

Papers, 1753-1959. ca. 45,000 items.

Contains a diary kept by Greely in 1864 while on guard

duty at Port Hudson, La.; a letter to Greely from a cousin in the

1st Massachusetts Cavalry, Feb. 26,1864, concerning the coming campaign in Virginia; and miscellaneous orders, muster

rolls, commissions, and passes.

Finding aid available.

372

Green, Duff (1791-1875) Politician; Industrialist

Papers, 1716-1879. 725 items.

In part, transcripts.

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Includes a few miscellaneous notes and letters to Green

from J. M. Baughman, W. R. Daugherty, Jefferson Davis, Burton N. Harrison, and James A. Seddon, 1863-64; letters from

Confederate officers held in Libby Prison after the fall of

Richmond, Va., Apr. 1865; military passes; and notes on States

rights and the Constitution.

Finding aid and microfilm copy (3 reels) available.

373

Green, Joseph F. (b. 1811) Capt., USN

Papers, 1828-1960. 60 items.

In part, transcripts.

Chiefly official correspondence, 1862-64, concerning the

blockade of Charleston Harbor, S.C. Includes information on

expeditions to Murrell's Inlet, Dec. 29, 1863-Jan. 2, 1864, and

Bull's Bay, Mar. 1864, the attack on Fort Sumter of Sept. 9,

1863, the sinking of the U.S.S. Housatonic, blockade runners,

desertions, and discipline. Also contains the logbook of the

U.S.S. Mary Sanford, Dec. 29, 1863-Jan. 2 [1864], instructions and signals for the attack on Murrell's Inlet, sketches of

Murrell's Inlet, and miscellaneous orders and reports. Correspondents include James C. Chaplin, John J. Cornwell, John

A. Dahlgren, John L. Davis, J. D. Dexter, Samuel F. Du Pont,

William Gibson, Charles W. Pickering, and William D. Whiting.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

374

Greene, Samuel Dana (1839-1884) Lt., USN

Letter, 1862. 1 item.

Transcript.

Letter from Greene to his family, Mar. 14, 1862, describing the engagement between the Monitor and the Merrimac.

375

Greenwood Plantation South Carolina

Diary, 1858-64. 1 v.

Diary of the proprietor of Greenwood plantation, Mr.

Gregory, Aug. 1858-Oct. 1864. The diary was picked up by a

soldier in the naval brigade and sent to Adm. John A. Dahlgren

as a reflection of economic conditions in the South. Includes a

forwarding letter from Comdr. George Henry Preble to Dahlgren, Dec. 22, 1864.

376

Greer, Henry I. and Robert 25th South

Carolina Volunteers

Papers, 1863-64. 32 items.

Chiefly letters from Henry and Robert Greer to their par103
ents from camps in South Carolina, North Carolina, and

Virginia. Describes the defense of Fort Sumter in 1863, the

Battle of Drewry's Bluff, Va., the Siege of Petersburg, and the

defense of Wilmington, N.C.

377

Gregg, David McMurtrie (1833-1916) Gen., USA

Papers, 1716-1936. ca. 500 items.

Official and personal correspondence, orders, reports, maps,

and photographs, chiefly relating to Gregg's service with the

Cavalry Division, Army of the Potomac, during the Peninsular,

Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg campaigns, the Siege of

Petersburg, and operations along the Rapidan River in the fall

of 1863. Includes reports on Gen. George Stoneman's raids in

Virginia during the Chancellorsville Campaign, accounts of

skirmishes at Aldie and Upperville, Va., June-Sept. 1863,

copies of letters by William T. Sherman and Ulysses S. Grant

concerning Sherman's cavalry during the Atlanta Campaign,

and a copy of an unpublished narrative, "Brevet Major General

David McMurtrie Gregg," written by a descendant in 1934.

378

Gresham, Walter Quintin (1832-1895) Gen., USA

Papers, 1857-1930. ca. 12,000 items.

Contains letters from Gresham to his wife, 1861-65, relating to the Shiloh, Corinth, Vicksburg, and Atlanta campaigns.

Includes remarks on generalship, Confederate deserters, disease,

hospital care, slavery, and economic conditions in the South.

Also includes a detailed report by Lt. Col. Andrew J. Alexander on the operations of Gresham's 4th Division, 17th Army

Corps, in the Atlanta Campaign, May 27-July 20, 1864.

Finding aid and name index available.

379

Griffith, George Washington Ewing

(b. 1833) Businessman, Kansas

Article, 1924. 1 item.

Transcript.

Copy of an article, "My Experience in the Quantrill Raid,"

published in the Lawrence, Kans., Daily Journal-World, Aug.

21, 1924.

380

Groening, D. Von Merchant, Richmond, Va.

Letterbook, 1861-63. 1 v.

Contains correspondence, May 24,1861-July 18, 1863, on

economic conditions in the South, the Federal blockade, and various commercial transactions.

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Gurley, John Addison

(1813-1863) U.S. Representative, Ohio

Letter, 1862. 1 item.

Letter from Gurley to David Chambers, Feb. 24, 1862,

criticizing Gen. George B. McClellan.

382

Guslin, M. Ambulance Corps, USA

Letters, 1863, 1864. 2 items.

Letters from Guslin to his wife, July 16, 1863, and Dec. 1,

1864, concerning the Siege of Jackson, Miss., and miscellaneous

matters at Camp Russell, Va.

383

Habersham Family

Papers, 1787-1892. 265 items.

Contains letters of Richard W. Habersham (CSA), July 19,

1861-Nov. 30, 1864, concerning the performance of Wade

Hampton's legion in the Battle of 1st Manassas, the Peninsular Campaign, and the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864.

Includes information on camp life, troop movements, marches,

the selection of officers, disease, hospital care, hunger in the

Confederate Army in 1864, and devastation in the Shenandoah

Valley. Letters written by Habersham while serving as chief

clerk at a hospital in Richmond, Va., describe life in the Confederate capital in 1862 and 1863. Also includes a few letters of A.

M. Habersham of Annapolis, Md., concerning his imprisonment at Fort McHenry.

384

Hahn, Michael (1830-1886) Gov., Louisiana

Document, 1864. 1 item.

Printed copy of the constitution of the State of Louisiana

adopted in convention in New Orleans, July 23, 1864, with

Governor Hahn's certification.

385

Hall, Angelo (b. 1868)

Manuscript, 1830-96. 1 v.

Biography of Chloe Angeline Stickney Hall (1830-1892),

completed by her son, Angelo Hall, in 1893. Contains a few

observations on life in Washington during the war and public

reaction to Gen. Jubal Early's Washington raid. Includes copies and extracts of family correspondence, and a preface dated

Sept. 8, 1896.

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Hall, George Washington

(1841-1912) 14th Georgia Volunteers, CSA

Memoir and diary, 1861-65. 2 v.

Transcript.

Covers the Peninsular, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wilderness, and Spotsylvania campaigns, and operations along the Rappahannock and Rapidan

Rivers in the fall of 1863. Includes information on camp life,

enlistments, marches, casualties, disease, hospital care, guerrilla warfare, prisoners of war, deserters, military organization,

and life as a prisoner of war at Fort Delaware. Also contains

numerous prayers and songs and part of the diary of Pvt. Jacob

L. Ellsesser (1831-1909), 38th Pennsylvania Infantry, Jan.

1-June 27, 1862.

387

Halleck, Henry Wager (1815-1872) Gen. in Chief;

Chief of Staff, USA

Papers, 1843-63. 232 items.

Chiefly drafts of telegrams sent by Halleck concerning

affairs in the Department of Missouri and the Department of

the Mississippi, Jan.-Mar. 1862. Letters to Halleck, Feb. 5,

1862-Feb. 21,1863, relate to the treatment of surgeons on the

field of battle, General Grant's capture of Fort Donelson,

conscription, the movement and disposition of troops, and the

overall conduct of the war. Correspondents include Don Carlos

Buell, George W. Cullum, John A. Dix, President Lincoln,

Thomas A. Scott, and Zealous B. Tower.

Finding aid available.

388

Hallock, Isaac (1839-1916) Pvt., 13th New York

Volunteers; Ens., USN

Papers, 1781-1916. ca. 300 items.

Correspondence, 1862-65, and diary, 1858-68 (2 v.),

describing Hallock's service with the 13th New York Volunteers, Apr.-Aug. 1861, and as an ensign and master's mate

aboard the U.S.S. State of Georgia, U.S.S. Mercedita, U.S.S.

Dragon, U.S.S. Don Eureka, and U.S.S. Wasp. Contains information on camp life and training with the 13th New York,

General Burnside's Roanoke Island expedition, the Siege of

Beaufort, N.C., and the capture of numerous blockade runners.

389

Halpine, Charles Graham (1829-1868) Journalist; Lt. Col.

and Asst. Adj. Gen.,

New York Volunteers

1 0 6
Henry Wager Halleck
Scrapbooks, 1861-67. 4 v.

Contains clippings of articles by "Pvt. Miles O'Reilley,"

Halpine's pseudonym, on the conduct of the war and various

political and military leaders.

390

Hamilton, Charles Smith (1822-1891) Gen., USV

Letter, 1863. 1 item.

Transcript.

Letter written by Hamilton, Feb. 11, 1863, Headquarters,

Memphis [Tenn.], complaining about the loss of his command.

Includes comments on the character and generalship of Ulysses S. Grant, Stephen A. Hurlbut, John A. McClernand, and

James B. McPherson.

391

Hamilton, William (1824-1896) Pvt., 2d Pennsylvania

Cavalry Reserves; 191st

Pennsylvania Volunteers

Papers, 1838-96. ca. 300 items.

Chiefly letters from Hamilton to his family, 1861-65, concerning the Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, and Appomattox campaigns, operations along the Rappahannock and

Rapidan Rivers in the fall of 1863, and the Siege of Petersburg.

Provides information on camp life, marches, morale, discipline,

disease, hospital care, military organization, generalship, supply problems, the U.S. Sanitary Commission, promotions, Confederate deserters, and the performance and use of black troops.

Also contains a few letters of Hamilton's brother, Sgt. John

Hamilton.

Indexed.

392

Hammond, James Henry (1807-1864) Planter-U.S.

Senator, South Carolina

Papers, 1774-1875. ca. 8,000 items.

Contains letters to Hammond from his son, Paul F. Hammond, 1862, concerning the Shiloh and Corinth campaigns,

General Kirby-Smith's invasion of Kentucky, the Battle of Richmond, Ky., and Confederate casualties and generalship; letters

from James Hammond to Jefferson Davis, Christopher Memminger, and James L. Orr concerning political and financial

affairs; a letter from Hammond to Col. A. P. Aldrich, July 22,

1863, concerning captured black soldiers; a letter from P. G. T.

Beauregard to Hammond, Dec. 9, 1861, on military appointments; and two letters from John F. Hollenbach to Hammond

written from camps in Georgia and Tennessee.

Finding aid, index, and microfilm copy (20 reels) available.

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393

Hammond General Hospital Point Lookout, Md.

Collection, 1863 and undated. 2 items.

Photocopies.

Sketch of the buildings and grounds of Hammond General

Hospital and copy of the Mar. 31, 1863, issue of the Hammond

Gazette.

394

Hampton, Sally S.

Letter, 1861. 1 item.

Letter from Hampton to Mr. Ruggles, Woodlands, S.C.,

June 5,1861, concerning secession, the Fort Sumter affair, and

the martial spirit in Charleston.

395

Hancock, Winfield Scott (1824-1886) Gen., USA

Collection, 1864-68. 6 items.

Includes a letter from Hancock to T. Bailey Myers, Aug. 6,

1864, concerning the Siege of Petersburg, and a copy of a photograph of Gen. U. S. Grant.

396

Hand, George O.

(1830-1887) Sgt., 1st California Volunteers

Diary, 1861-64. 1 v.

Photocopy.

Account of Hand's service with the California column in

New Mexico Territory, Aug. 15, 1861-May 19, 1864. Describes

marches, skirmishes with Apache Indians, camp life, morale,

leadership, courts-martial, Indian behavior, the attitude of

noncombatants, and living conditions in New Mexico Territory.

Also includes muster rolls for Hand's company (G) for Aug.

1861, Feb. 1863, and when the company was mustered out of

service at Fort Gray, N. Mex., in 1864.

397

Hanna—McCormick Families

Papers, 1792-1951. ca. 44,500 items.

In part, photocopies.

Contains seven letters from Mark Hanna (1837-1925) to

Gussie Rhodes written from Washington, D.C., and vicinity,

1864, concerning camp life, disease, the location of mutual

friends, and personal matters, and two letters from Capt. W. H.

Medill to his sister, Aug. 21,1862, Yorktown, Va., and Mar. 15,

1863, near Stafford Courthouse, Va., concerning the Peninsular Campaign, morale in the Army of the Potomac, and the

generalship of David M. Gregg, Joseph Hooker, and George B.

McClellan.

Finding aid available.

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398

Hanno, C. B.

Letter, 1861. 1 item.

Letter written by Hanno, June 20,1861, Washington, D.C.,

discussing military affairs and troop movements on the eve of

the Battle of 1st Manassas.

399

Hanson, George A.

Papers, 1860-64. 4 items.

Includes a letter from Gen. Samuel S. Carroll to Gen.

Horatio G. Wright, Aug. 2, 1864, Washington [D.C.], criticizing Gen. David Hunter for his treatment of noncombatants.

400

Hanson, Roger Weightman (1827-1863) Gen., CSA

Papers, 1856-88. ca. 175 items.

Includes letters from Hanson to his wife, 1862, from Fort

Warren and Fort Delaware military prisons; letters of condolence received by Mrs. Hanson following her husband's death

in the Battle of Murfreesboro, Tenn., Jan. 2,1863; a letter from

Mrs. Virginia Hanson to her mother, Jan. 21,1862, on military

affairs at Bowling Green, Ky.; and a letter by John J. Crittenden, May 30,1862, concerning General Hanson's exchange.

401

Hard, Hanson (1821-1896) Surg., USA

Collection, 1864-1928. 3 items.

Includes a diary, Mar. 25-Apr. 24, 1864, describing an

attack on Paducah, Ky., by Confederate cavalry led by Gen.

Nathan B. Forrest, and Hard's capture and treatment as a

prisoner of war. Also, a letter of introduction to Congressman

James A. Garfield written by Capt. J. McKenzie, Feb. 16,1864,

and biographical data on Hard compiled by A. D. Hard in 1928.

402

Hardee, William Joseph (1815-1873) Gen., USA

Papers, 1861-62. 29 items.

Letters from Hardee to Felicia Lee Shover of Memphis,

Tenn., July 2, 1861—June 1, 1862, and undated, concerning

the disposition and movement of Confederate troops in western

Kentucky, Tennessee, and northern Mississippi.

403

Hardie, James Allen (1823-1876) Gen., USA

Papers, 1844-86. 395 items.

Includes orders relating to Hardie's appointment and duties

on the staff of the inspector general; information on ciphers; a

1 1 0
letter from Gen. George Wright to Hardie, May 18, 1863, San

Francisco, Calif., concerning the Department of the Pacific; letters by Gens. Joseph Hooker, Randolph B. Marcy, and Ambrose

E. Burnside expressing confidence in Hardie; letters concerning the assassination of President Lincoln; and an extract from

the New York Tribune, July 17, 1865, concerning the visit of

Father Walter to Mary E. Surratt shortly before her execution.

Finding aid available.

404

Hardie, R. E. 17th Mississippi Regiment

Letter, 1862. 1 item.

Letter from Hardie to his sister, Apr. 17, 1862, Yorktown,

Va., describing the Siege of Yorktown.

405

Harlan, John Marshall

(1833-1911) Col., 10th Kentucky Volunteers, USA

Papers, 1810-1971. ca. 20,000 items.

Includes accounts, receipts, invoices, and returns of ordnance, provisions, and camp equipment; muster rolls; payrolls;

statements and certificates concerning Harlan's war service;

Harlan's resignation as colonel of the 10th Kentucky Volunteers, Mar. 3, 1863; and his pension certificate. Also, essays on

the war by Harlan: "Civil War of 1861. The Union Cause in

Kentucky. Some Incidents That Occurred in That State," "The

Union Cause in Kentucky in 1861 and the Raising of a Regiment by Me for the Volunteer Infantry Service. Some Incidents

in That Service," "Some Experiences as a Captain of Home

Guards—the Crittenden Union Zouaves of Louisville, Kentucky

in 1861," "My Pursuit of Gen. John H. Morgan's Troops . . . December 1862, and the Skirmish .. . at Johnson's Ferry," "Raid

by Morgan's Men on Frankfort, Kentucky in the Fall of 1864,"

"Battle of Hartsville," and "March from Mississippi Into

Kentucky."

Finding aid and microfilm copy (34 reels) available.

406

Harralson, Philip Hodnett (1851-1912)

Reminiscence, undated. 1 item.

Transcript.

Copy of Harralson's "Reminiscence of the War Between

the States" (3 p.), which contains remarks on the Siege of Petersburg and conditions in the South during the war.

407

Harrington, Purnell Frederick (1844-1937) Ens., USN

Papers, 1861-85. ca. 100 items.

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Includes personal and academic records of Harrington's

performance as a cadet at the U.S. Naval Academy in the early

part of the war, and orders and official correspondence relating

to his service on the U.S.S. Monongahela, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-65.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

408

Harris, Charles A. USA

Letter, 1862. 1 item.

Letter from Harris to his parents, Frankfort, Ky., Oct. 21,

1862, concerning an unsuccessful effort to trap Gen. John Hunt

Morgan near Lawrenceburg, Ky.

409

Harris, Isham Green (1818-1897) Gov., Tennessee

Papers, 1861-62. 4 items.

Letterbook, 1861-62, containing copies of letters from various Confederate officers and public officials concerning military supplies, recruits, the treatment of Union sympathizers,

troop movements, and the conduct of the war; a document containing the names of political prisoners, a list of Tennessee

regiments in service in 1861, and a return of Tennessee troops

in the Western Department commanded by Gen. Leonidas Polk;

letter from Harris to Gen. Gideon Pillow, June 21, 1861, concerning the defense of Tennessee; and letter from Harris to

Beriah Magoffin, Aug. 4, 1861, on Kentucky's neutrality and

the recruitment and organization of Union soldiers in Kentucky.

Correspondents include P.G.T. Beauregard, Judah P. Benjamin, William H. Carroll, Jefferson Davis, Nathan B. Forrest,

Josiah Gorgas, Albert Sidney Johnston, Francis W. Pickens,

Leonidas Polk, George W. Randolph, and Lloyd Tilghman.

410

Harrison, Benjamin (1833-1901), Pres., U.S.

Papers, 1787-1938. 69,600 items.

In part, transcripts and photocopies.

Material relating to the Civil War, in which Harrison

served as a colonel in the 70th Indiana Volunteers, includes

letters from Harrison to his wife written from camps in

Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and

Georgia concerning camp life, discipline, desertions, marches,

disease, hospital care, courts-martial, and conditions in the

South. Includes a few details on battles and skirmishes in the

Atlanta Campaign. Also contains Harrison's commissions, a

muster roll of the 70th Indiana Regiment, and a manuscript

map of DeKalb County, Ga., in 1864.

Published index and microfilm copy (151 reels) available.

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411

Harrison, Burton Norvell Lawyer; Private

(1838-1904) Secretary to President Davis

Family papers, 1812-1926. ca. 18,600 items.

Includes the correspondence and papers of Constance Cary

(1843-1920), whom Harrison married in 1867. Contains information on the movement and training of Confederate soldiers

near Manassas Junction in June 1861, the Battle of 1st

Manassas, the progress of the war, and the effect of the war on

noncombatants in the South. Also, letter to Cary from her

brother, Clarence Cary, C.S.S. Palmetto State, Feb. 1, 1863,

describing the attack on the U.S.S. Mercedita off Charleston

Harbor; letters to Harrison from his sister in Oxford, Miss.,

discussing troop movements and the effect of the war in northern Mississippi; postwar letters from Harrison to Cary concerning his imprisonment at Fort Delaware and his experiences during the war; and postwar correspondence between

Jefferson Davis and Harrison on the location of letters received

by Davis as President of the Confederacy, the official records of

the C.S. Government, and various events during the war. Miscellaneous items in the collection include an account of the

Battle of Drewry's Bluff, copy of a letter from John C. Breckinridge to President Davis [Apr. 6,1865] concerning the military

situation on the eve of the Appomattox Campaign; copy of Davis'

address to the Confederate Congress, Feb. 3, 1864; letter from

Thomas C. Reynolds to Davis, Marshall, Tex., Dec. 17, 1864,

criticizing Gen. Sterling Price; copy of a letter from Gen. R. E.

Lee to John C. Breckinridge, Mar. 9, 1865, assessing the overall military situation; report and correspondence of Alexander

H. Stephens, Robert M. T. Hunter, and John A. Campbell on

the Hampton Roads Peace Conference; copy of an essay by

C. C. Buell entitled "Who Began the War, and What Was the

Cause of It?" (1887); and military passes, photographs, and

telegrams.

Finding aid available.

412

Harrison, James O. (1804-1888) Lawyer-Educator,

Kentucky and Louisiana

Papers, 1803-1912. ca. 5,000 items.

Includes a few letters from Harrison to his wife, Nov.-Dec.

1864, Richmond, Va., concerning the progress of the war and

events in Richmond; a letter from Harrison's sister-in-law, Ellen

Reily Harrison, on the death of her husband, Jilson Harrison,

in a skirmish near Franklin, La., in 1863; letters from Harrison's son, James O. Harrison, Jr. (1839-1867), Apr. 1861-

Feb. 1862, concerning fortifications at Pensacola, Fla., plans to

attack Federal ships off Fort Pickens, Fla., and camp life,

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morale, and suffering during the Peninsular Campaign; and

letters by Harrison's son, Albert M. (b. 1848), describing his

training as a naval cadet aboard the C.S.S. Patrick Henry,

Jan.-Oct. 1864.

Finding aid available.

413

Hart, Charles C.

Autograph collection, 1476-1942. ca. 100 items.

Photocopies.

Includes a letter from Gen. George A. Custer to General

[Sheridan], Mar. 2, 1865, on the defeat of Gen. Jubal Early's

command at Waynesboro, Va.; a note from Comdr. John Rodgers to Gustavus V. Fox, Mar. 9, 1865, Fort Monroe, Va.,

describing the condition of the U.S.S. Dictator; an order by

Gen. Robert E. Lee, Oct. 11, 1861, concerning sick soldiers in

Gen. John B. Floyd's brigade; a photograph and personal letter

of John Wilkes Booth, 1864; and miscellaneous notes by George

G. Meade, Oliver P. Morton, Winfield Scott, and Charles

Sumner.

Finding aid available.

414

Hartz, Edward L. (1832-1868) Capt., Asst. Q.M., USA

Papers, 1847-1910. 315 items.

Contains several letters concerning the secession movement in Texas, 1860-61; letter written as chief assistant quartermaster for the Department of Washington concerning troop

movements in the 1st Manassas Campaign; and a letterbook

kept by Hartz at Chattanooga, Tenn., May 31-July 18, 1864,

containing official correspondence on the shipment of supplies

during the Atlanta Campaign.

415

Harvey, Charles Henry (1830-1896)

Papers, 1835-1965. ca. 265 items.

Includes an unsigned letter from a Union soldier in Middletown, Va., to his mother, July 21, 1863, describing camp life

and marches in the Shenandoah Valley.

Finding aid available.

416

Harwood Family

Collection, 1767-1969.

Microfilm, 1 reel.

Chiefly autograph letters received by various members of

the Harwood family and letters collected by Rear Adm. Andrew

Allen Harwood. Includes a letter from Lt. George S. Wilson,

1 1 4
17th Indiana Volunteers, to his brother, July 23,1861, concerning camp life and the progress of the war in Virginia; Wilson's

commission and discharge; a letter from Gen. John A. McClernand to Adm. Andrew H. Foote, Feb. 7, 1862, concerning

the capture of Fort Henry; a letter from Gen. Nathaniel P.

Banks to Secretary Stanton, May 23, 1863, on the capture of

William Luce (Mrs. Harwood's brother); and a receipt for money

received by Luce for his service as an engineer. Also contains a

few notes on military appointments written by President

Lincoln, John G. Nicolay, and Edwin M. Stanton.

Finding aid available.

Originals in the Stanford University Library.

417

Hatch, John Porter (1822-1901) Gen., USA

Papers, 1843-68. ca. 150 items.

Includes 10 letters from Hatch to his father written from

New Mexico Territory, May-Oct. 1861, concerning the efforts

of secessionists in the Southwest, the possible loss of the entire

Northwest Territory to the Confederacy, and his personal dissatisfaction with both the U.S. Army and government policy in

the West. Also contains about 30 letters from Hatch to his

father written from Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia,

Dec. 1861-Apr. 1862, concerning his efforts to obtain a field

command, the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862, and the

2d Manassas Campaign, particularly the Battle of Cedar

Mountain, and the character and generalship of Nathaniel P.

Banks, Ambrose Burnside, John C. Fremont, and John Pope.

418

Letter, 1866. 1 item.

Transcript.

Letter from Hatch to Comdr. George H. Preble (1816-

1865), Oct. 4,1866, San Antonio, Tex., relating to the service of

the Naval Brigade in the Civil War.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

419

Hatton, John William Ford 1st Maryland Battery, CSA

Memoir, 1861-65.

Microfilm, 1 reel.

Memoir, 1903, based on a diary kept by Hatton during the

Civil War. Contains information on secessionist sentiment on

Maryland's Eastern Shore, the Shenandoah Valley Campaign

of 1862, the Peninsular, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville,

Gettysburg, Wilderness, and Spotsylvania campaigns, the Siege

of Petersburg, and operations along the Rappahannock and

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Rapidan Rivers in the fall of 1863. Includes detailed accounts

of a skirmish at Bunker Hill, W. Va., 1862, and the battles of

Bristoe Station, Mine Run, Cold Harbor, and Malvern Hill,

and comments on camp life, marches, morale, and the impact

of the war in Virginia.

420

Haupt, Lewis Muhlenberg (1844-1937)

Family papers, 1861-1923. ca. 3,000 items.

In part, transcripts.

Contains a letterbook, Nov. 1862-Aug. 1863, and personal

correspondence of Haupt's father, Gen. Herman Haupt (1817-

1905). Describes General Haupt's work as military director

and superintendent of railroads, particularly railroad construction and the transportation of troops and supplies, and the

progress of the war in northern Virginia. Also includes General Haupt's observations on the generalship of Ambrose E.

Burnside, Joseph Hooker, George B. McClellan, Irwin McDowell, and John Pope.

Finding aid available.

421

Hawks, Esther Hill Teacher, National

Freedmen's Relief Association

Papers, 1856-67. 515 items.

Chiefly letters to Hawks, 1862-63, from her husband, Dr.

J. Milton Hawks, her brothers, Edward (4th New Hampshire

Volunteers), Warren, Sylvester, and L. J. Hill (9th New Hampshire Volunteers), and convalescent soldiers in hospitals at

Beaufort, S.C. Letters by Doctor Hawks discuss his work with

freedmen, black life, and the progress of the war in South

Carolina. Letters by the Hill brothers concern the Port Royal

expedition, the occupation of Jacksonville, Fernandina, and St.

Augustine, Fla., and camp life. Also contains correspondence

between Esther Hawks and members of the Freedmen's Relief

Association, returns for the 1st and 3d South Carolina Volunteers, school records (names of blacks taught by Mrs. Hawks,

etc.), and military passes.

422

Hawley, Joseph Roswell (1826-1905) Gen., USV

Papers, 1638-1906. ca. 13,200 items.

Official and personal correspondence, orders, telegrams,

field returns, battle reports, returns of captured property, lists

of Union and Confederate deserters and refugees, requisitions,

and company rosters. Letters from Hawley to his wife describe

the Siege of Fort Pulaski, the battles of Secessionville, Pocotaligo, Fort Wagner, Olustee, and New Market, the Siege of

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Petersburg, and the Fort Fisher expedition of 1865. Includes

information on camp life, discipline, morale, casualties, prisoners of war, deserters, rank disputes, disease, and hospital care.

Letters to General Hawley from his wife, Harriet Foote Hawley,

a nurse with the American Missionary Society, discuss hospital care at Hilton Head, S.C. Several letters to Mrs. Hawley

from her brother, S. E. Foote, written aboard the U.S.S. Penguin

in 1863, relate to the Florida expedition. Also includes material on the Fitz-John Porter trial, sketches of Federal batteries

at the Siege of Fort Pulaski, a sketch of fortifications near New

Market, Va., Jan. 1864, and routine letters from William Faxon

and Gideon Welles.

Finding aid and microfilm copy (29 reels) available.

423

Hay, Eugene Gano (1853-1933)

Papers, 1770-1933. ca. 13,300 items.

Includes about 30 letters from John F. Farquhar to his

wife, 1861—64, concerning the recruiting and disbursing service in Indianapolis, Ind., military appointments, equipment

and supplies, morale, training, and the movement and disposition of Indiana regiments.

Finding aid available.

424

Hay, John (1838-1905) Private Secretary

to President Lincoln

Papers, 1785-1914. ca. 11,290 items.

In part, transcripts.

Contains miscellaneous letters, petitions, and newspaper

clippings relating to the treatment and exchange of prisoners

of war, the Fredericksburg Campaign, finance, and events in

Washington, D.C. Also an essay by Charles P. Daly, "Are Southern Privateersmen Pirates?" 1861.

Finding aid, partial index, and partial microfilm copy (23

reels) available.

425

Hayden, Levi (b. 1813) Shipwright

Diary, 1838-77. 2 v.

Describes Hayden's work under Gen. Ambrose Burnside in

clearing obstructions from channels and harbors along the coast

of North Carolina, and his service under Adms. John A.

Dahlgren and Samuel Phillips Lee in 1863 and 1864. Includes

observations on the capture of Forts Clark and Hatteras, the

Battle of Roanoke Island, the capture of New Bern, and naval

affairs in Virginia and South Carolina. Also contains Hayden's

suggestions on the construction of mines and torpedoes, and

the improvement of ironclad vessels.

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426

Hayden, Nathaniel

Family papers, 1836-80. ca. 500 items.

Contains about 25 letters from members of the Hayden family serving in campaigns in Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina,

and Louisiana. Provides some information on camp life, morale,

discipline, marches, troop locations, black life, the attitude of

noncombatants, enlistments, disease, hospital care, and depredations. Includes a detailed description of New Orleans and

vicinity during the war.

427

Heath, Charles Wesley

(1836-1881) 6th Indiana Volunteers

Collection, 1861-1946. 5 items.

Diary, May 1861-Sept. 1864, published in the Vevay Reveille Enterprise, Mar. 7-28, 1946. Describes camp life, troop

movements, and disease during campaigns in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia.

428

Heintzelman, Samuel Peter (1805-1880) Gen., USA

Papers, 1822-1904. ca. 1,500 items.

General and official correspondence, diary, telegrams,

circulars, returns, commissions, casualty reports, reports on

battles and skirmishes, maps, newspaper clippings, and printed

material. Relates to the occupation of Arlington Heights and

Alexandria, the 1st and 2d Manassas campaigns, the Peninsular Campaign, and the defense of Washington, D.C. Includes

details on the battles of Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Seven Pines,

White Oak Swamp, and Malvern Hill, and maneuvers against

Big Bethel in Mar. 1862. Correspondents include Henry W.

Halleck, Joseph Hooker, Philip Kearny, George B. McClellan,

Edwin M. Stanton, and Lorenzo Thomas.

Finding aid and microfilm copy (13 reels) available.

429

Heisler, Henry C. (b. 1845) Cpl., 48th

Pennsylvania Volunteers

Papers, 1861-65. 45 items.

Chiefly letters from Heisler to his sister concerning General Burnside's expedition to North Carolina, the 2d Manassas,

Fredericksburg, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Petersburg

campaigns, and campaigns in Kentucky and Tennessee against

Gen. John Hunt Morgan. Provides a detailed account of the

Siege of Petersburg, and information on camp life, entertainment, marches, desertions, disease, casualties, and the attitude of noncombatants in Virginia and Kentucky. Also includes

a "Muster-Out Roll" for Heisler's company (F), July 1865.

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430

Herndon, William Henry (1818-1891) Author, Illinois

Papers, 1824-1933. ca. 4,600 items.

In part, transcripts and photocopies.

Includes a petition by the officers of the 69th New York

State Militia for the exchange of Col. Michael Corcoran; clippings and extracts on prisoner exchange; letters between President Lincoln, Salmon P. Chase, and Gen. Henry Halleck; and a

published letter from Judge Charles P. Daly to Senator Ira

Harris, Dec. 21, 1861, entitled "Are Southern Privateersmen

Pirates?"

Finding aid and microfilm copy (15 reels) available.

431

Hertz, Emanuel (1870-1940) Jurist, Illinois

Collection, 1826-1936. 80 items.

Chiefly galley proofs of Hertz' Abraham Lincoln: A New

Portrait (1931), and speeches and articles about Lincoln.

432

Hewitt, Edward L. USN

Notebook, 1864. 1 item.

Contains drawings and technical notes on steam navigation prepared by Hewitt aboard the U.S.S. Mahaska while on

patrol duty in the St. Johns River, Fla., May 1864.

433

Hickey Family

Collection, 1803-1900. 41 items.

Letter from H. H. Pope to Lt. Myron Hickey, July 30,1863,

La Grange, Tenn., concerning reconnaissance duty in Tennessee and deaths in Hickey's former regiment, the 5th Michigan

Cavalry; letter from Lt. Myron Hickey to his family, May 8,

1863, Fairfax Courthouse, Va.; and two letters from Sgt. Andrew

Hickey to his brother Frederick, July 1862 and Feb. 1863, concerning campaigns in Mississippi and Tennessee. Also includes

Andrew Hickey's commission as sergeant in the 3d Michigan

Cavalry, Sept. 1862.

434

Hill, Sara Jane Full (18397-1914) Missouri

Papers, 1861-1952. 2 items.

Transcripts.

"Reminiscences of the Civil War," 1861-65. Describes the

secession crisis in Missouri, civil disorder in St. Louis, the contributions of women to the war effort, Union sentiment and

recruitment in St. Louis, and the treatment of runaway slaves.

Also provides information on camp life, morale, entertainment,

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disease, hospital care, the capture of New Madrid and Island

No. 10, guerrilla warfare, depredations, the Shiloh and Vicksburg campaigns, the treatment of prisoners of war, and inflation.

435

Hills, A. C. Capt., California Volunteers

Letter, 1862. 1 item.

Letter from Hills to Doctor Stedman, July 21, 1862, camp

on James River, Va., concerning the Peninsular Campaign,

morale, the hardships of war, and the loss of confidence in Gen.

George B. McClellan.

436

Hills, William G. 9th New York Cavalry

Diary, 1864. 1 v.

Detailed account of campaigns in Virginia, Jan. 1-Nov.

23, 1864. Provides information on the Kilpatrick-Dahlgren

raid to Richmond, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor campaigns, the Trevilian raid, the Siege of Petersburg, and

the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864—particularly the

Battle of Cedar Creek. Also contains comments on camp life,

supplies, training, discipline, reconnaissance expeditions,

marches, casualties, depredations, guerrilla warfare, black soldiers under General Butler, prisoners of war, Gen. U. S. Grant's

assumption of the command of the Army of the Potomac, and

reaction to the deaths of Gen. John Buford, Col. Ulric Dahlgren,

and Gen. J. E. B. Stuart.

437

Hine, Orrin E. (b. 1836) Capt., 50th New York

Volunteers; Engineer Brigade

Papers, 1862-63. 52 items.

Special orders, telegrams, and communications to Hine,

1862-63, concerning the procurement of supplies, chiefly horses

and pontoons, during the Fredericksburg and Gettysburg

campaigns. Correspondents include Henry W. Benham, Ambrose E. Burnside, Edward J. Strang, and Daniel P. Woodbury.

438

Hitchcock, Ethan Allen (1798-1870) Gen., USV

Papers, 1810-73. ca. 3,000 items.

Correspondence, orders, returns, telegrams, battle reports,

and miscellaneous items concerning appointments, supplies,

the treatment and exchange of prisoners of war, and military

organization and strategy. Includes official correspondence

between General McClellan, President Lincoln, and Secretary

Stanton concerning the Peninsular Campaign and the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862; official correspondence between

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Ethan Allen Hitchcock
Gen. E. A. Hitchcock and the Navy Department concerning

retaliation for the hanging of Spencer Kellogg, son of John

Brown of Harpers Ferry fame; and correspondence between

Confederate agents Robert Ould and Sidney S. Baxter and Federal agent William P. Wood on the treatment and exchange of

prisoners of war. Also includes returns of prisoners of war;

extracts of letters by captured soldiers; correspondence relating to the Department of Missouri; and Hitchcock's "Notes Upon

the Report of Major General George B. McClellan Upon the

Organization of the Army of the Potomac and Its Campaigns in

Virginia and Maryland from 26th July, 1861, to November 7,

1862." Miscellaneous items include a report by Col. John A.

McDowell on the Battle of Shiloh; a captured letter written by

a Confederate sailor aboard the C.S.S. Bienville, April 4, 1862,

Lake Pontchartrain, describing a naval action at the Rigolets

along with a sketch of the defenses of New Orleans; and a

letter from Thomas W. Fell to the War Office, Apr. 29, 1862,

concerning Federal strategy in Virginia.

Finding aid available.

439

Hitchcock, Henry (1829-1902) Maj.; Asst. Adj. Gen., USA

Papers, 1864-65. 40 items.

Letters from Hitchcock to his wife, Oct. 21,1864-May 26,

1865, and a diary (3 v.), Nov. 11,1864-Feb. 11,1865, concerning

the Atlanta, Savannah, and Carolinas campaigns. Describes

camp life, marches, entertainment, morale, foraging expeditions, the condition and attitudes of whites and blacks in the

South, Confederate morale, conditions in the Confederate Army,

battles and skirmishes, and the devastation of war. Also contains a few details on the burning of Atlanta and the capture of

Savannah, and a letter from Gen. Ethan A. Hitchcock to

Hitchcock, May 16, 1864.

440

Hitt, Robert Roberts (1834-1906) Reporter, Illinois

Papers, 1830-1905. ca. 2,200 items.

Contains a few shorthand notes on the trials of Col. James

Belger, Gen. William A. Hammond, Col. Frederick G. d'Utassy,

and others.

Finding aid available.

441

Hodges, James (b. 1843) Sgt., 9th and 17th New York

Volunteers

Papers, 1863-65.

Microfilm, 1 reel.

Contains three letters from Hodges to Edwin Codet, Mar.

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10-Dec. 16, 1864, concerning the Meridian, Atlanta, and

Savannah campaigns. Includes remarks on the destruction of

public and private property and on conversations with Confederate prisoners. Also contains Hodges' discharge from the 9th

New York Volunteers, 1863, and a copy of his service record.

442

Holford, Lyman C. 6th Wisconsin Volunteers

Papers, 1861-92. 4 v.

Diary (3 v.), May 18, 1861-Dec. 31, 1864, concerning the

2d Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and

Gettysburg campaigns, and service in the Invalid Corps at prisons and hospitals in and around Washington, D.C., in 1864.

Provides information on camp life, training, marches, troop

movements, discipline, morale, entertainment, supplies, disease,

casualties, hospital care, depredations by Confederate soldiers,

and battles and skirmishes. Also contains a few poems and

miscellaneous notes and accounts.

443

Holmes, George Frederick (1820-1897) Historian, Virginia

Papers, 1785-1893. ca. 100 items.

In part, transcripts.

Correspondence relating to an unpublished history of the

war. Includes a letter from Judah P. Benjamin to Holmes, May

6,1863, concerning the appointment of Professor Schele, one of

Holmes' associates, as special emissary to Germany, and

Holmes' response of May 9,1863; a copy of a letter from Gen. T.

J. Jackson to Gen. R. E. Lee, May 2, 1863, on the Chancellorsville Campaign; and postwar letters from Gens. Jubal A.

Early, John B. Gordon, and Joseph E. Johnston, and Lt. Col.

Charles S. Newable advising Holmes on troop strength and

casualties in various campaigns.

444

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

(1809-1894) Author; Physician; Educator

Papers, 1846-94.

Microfilm, 3 reels.

Letter from John L. Motley to Holmes, Mar. 23, 1862,

Vienna, Austria, concerning British attitudes on the American

Civil War.

Originals at the University of Virginia.

445

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

(1841-1935) Capt., 20th Massachusetts Volunteers

Papers, 1862-1932. ca. 200 items.

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Includes a letter from Charles W. Whittier to an unidentified recipient, Dec. 29,1862, Falmouth, Va., concerning the Battle of Fredericksburg.

446

Holt, Joseph (1807 -1894) Judge Adv. Gen., USA

Papers, 1817-95. ca. 20,000 items.

Official and personal correspondence, diary, notebooks,

legal and financial papers, and miscellaneous items concerning the War Department, military justice, the Lincoln assassination, and the trial of the assassination conspirators.

Finding aid available.

447

Holt, Samuel E. (b. 1838) Washington Artillery, CSA

Papers, 1862-65. 8 items.

Orders, military passes, and discharge certificates.

448

Homsher, Charles Wesley Pvt., 5th Indiana Cavalry

Diary, 1864-65. 5 p.

Photocopy of transcript.

Describes the treatment of Union soldiers at Andersonville

Prison. Includes remarks on diet, deaths, burials, trade with

Confederate guards, attempts by Confederate officers to recruit

Union prisoners for service in the Confederate Army, and the

exchange of prisoners at the end of the war.

449

Hood, Charles Crook

(1841-1927) Capt., 31st Ohio Volunteers

Collection, 1862-1913. 10 items.

In part, transcripts.

Includes a diary kept by Hood during campaigns in

Tennessee, Nov. 5,1862-Oct. 1863. Describes the Stones River

Campaign and skirmishes with Gen. John Hunt Morgan's

cavalry. Also contains remarks on camp life, training, discipline,

marches, casualties, and the devastation of war. Miscellaneous

items include an outline of Hood's military service and an

extract of a letter, Dec. 12, 1913, reminiscing about the Battle

of Chickamauga.

450

Hooker, Joseph (1814-1879) Gen., USA

Papers, 1861-77. 11 items.

Letter from Hooker to an unidentified recipient, Aug. 15,

1861, concerning the organization and staffing of Hooker's

brigade, and orders and official communications from Hooker

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Joseph Hooker
to Gen. Joseph Reynolds written during the battles of Lookout

Mountain and Missionary Ridge.

451

Horner, Gustavus Richard Brown

(1806-1892) Surg., USN

Papers, 1826-1911. ca. 4,900 items.

Letterbooks (7 v.) maintained by Horner as fleet surgeon,

Gulf Blockading Squadron and East Gulf Blockading Squadron,

1861-63, and while assigned to the Brooklyn and

Philadelphia Navy Yards, 1863-65. Includes information on

medical procedures and supplies, disease, deaths, and routine

naval affairs. Also includes a daybook containing records of

patients treated by Horner aboard the U.S.S. Colorado, June

1861-Feb. 1862; a list of patients aboard the U.S.S. Niagara,

Mar. 1862; notes on patients treated at the U.S. Marine Hospital in Key West, Fla., Aug.-Sept. 1861; names of candidates

examined for entrance to the U.S. Naval Academy, July 1864;

names of candidates examined for appointments as engineers

and warrant officers, July-Dec. 1863; and miscellaneous medical accounts and invoices. Printed pamphlets and articles concern military hygiene, the diagnosis and treatment of various

diseases and injuries, and the management of medical stores.

Finding aid available.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

452

Hotchkiss, Jedediah (1828-1899) Cartographer; Maj., CSA

Papers, 1838-1908. ca. 20,000 items.

In part, transcripts.

General and family correspondence, diary and diary extracts, orders, battle reports, quartermaster reports, invoices

and returns for engineering equipment, and miscellaneous notes

relating to the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862, the 2d

Manassas, Peninsular, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Wilderness campaigns, the Battle

of Cold Harbor, and operations in the Shenandoah Valley in

the summer and fall of 1864. Includes information on strategy,

camp life, morale, marches, the disposition of troops, depredations, the selection of officers, the draft, desertions, casualties,

prisoners of war, equipment and supplies, battles and skirmishes, and the condition and attitude of noncombatants in

Virginia. Also includes an account of the death of Gen. Thomas

J. Jackson, remarks concerning Jackson's headquarters staff, a

digest of Jackson's letters and orders, and postwar correspondence, newspaper clippings, and articles on the war.

Finding aid and microfilm copy (61 reels) available.

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453

Hotchkiss, Jedediah—McCullough, Samuel CSA

Collection, 1846-1912.

Microfilm, 6 reels.

Contains four letters from Maj. Jedediah Hotchkiss

(1828-1899) to his daughter, Dec. 1862-Oct. 1863; a note by

Gen. Thomas J. Jackson; an account of "The Seven Days Fighting About Richmond," by Hunter McGuire, medical director of

General Jackson's command; and several postwar maps of battlefields in Virginia. Also contains the diary of Hotchkiss'

son-in-law, Lt. Samuel Thomas McCullough, Aug. 11,

1862-June 22,1865, kept during the Gettysburg, Spotsylvania,

Cold Harbor, and Petersburg campaigns and while a prisoner

of war at Old Capital Prison and Johnson's Island, and the

diary of Alfred Welton, 9th Indiana Volunteers, Aug. 14,

1861-Oct. 17, 1862. McCullough's diary contains remarks on

camp life, discipline, morale, hospital care, desertions, battles

and skirmishes, and the suffering of noncombatants in Virginia.

Originals at the University of Virginia.

454

Hotze, Henry (1834-1887) Diplomat; Journalist; Author

Papers, 1861-65. 187 items.

Letterbook, 1862—64, containing correspondence relating

to the Index, a Confederate newspaper published in London,

England, and to the London-based Confederate States of America Commercial Agency. Also contains accounts of the C.S.

State Department secret service fund. Principal recipients are

Robert M. T. Hunter and Judah P. Benjamin. Also letterbook,

May 28, 1864-June 16, 1865, containing chiefly personal

correspondence. Includes a few remarks on efforts to recruit

British soldiers whose terms of service were about to expire for

the Confederate Army. Additional items include letters to Hotze,

1863—65, from James D. Bulloch, Edwin De Leon, George

Eustis, George McHenry, Colin John McRae, Ambrose Dudley Mann, Matthew Fontaine Maury, William Preston, and

John Slidell; a letter from Judah P. Benjamin to Edwin De

Leon, Dec. 9,1864; and three letters from Thomas H. Dudley to

Gideon Welles, July-Oct. 1863.

Partially indexed.

455

Howe, Hiram P. 10th Missouri Volunteers

Papers, 1861-64. 76 items.

Letters from Howe to his family and friends, 1861-64,

concerning camp life and training in Missouri, General

Halleck's advance on Corinth, Miss., the Battle of Iuka, General Grant's first advance on Vicksburg, and the Vicksburg

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Campaign. Also includes a diary kept on the Yazoo Pass

expedition. Letters written by Howe in late 1863 and 1864

describe his service and experiences as a convalescent in military hospitals in Mississippi and Missouri.

Microfilm copy (1 reel) available.

456

Howe, Letitia T.

Autograph collection, 1833-71. 78 items.

Contains a few letters written by President Lincoln relating

generally to the war.

457

Howe, Mark Anthony De Wolfe

(1864-1960) Editor; Author

Papers, 1929-60. 7 items.

Letters and clippings relating to Howe's Marching With

Sherman: Passages From the Letters and Campaign Diaries of

Henry Hitchcock, Major and Assistant Adjutant General of

Volunteers, November 1864-May 1865 (1927).

458

Howe, Samuel Gridley (1801-1876) Reformer

Collection, 1862 and undated. 2 items.

Letter from Howe to Mr. Bird, Mar. 5, 1862, U.S. Sanitary

Commission, Washington, D.C., concerning President Lincoln's

disillusionment with Gen. George B. McClellan and Lincoln's

views on slavery.

459

Howry, Charles Bowen (1844-1928) Mississippi

Family papers, 1863-98. 10 items.

Includes a letter from Jefferson Davis to J. M. Howry of

Oxford, Miss., Aug. 27, 1863, expressing surprise at Gen. U. S.

Grant's success in Mississippi, faith in the ultimate victory of

the Confederacy, and sympathy for the people of Mississippi.

Also contains two postwar letters from Davis to J. M. Howry.

460

Hoxie, Vinnie Ream (1847-1914)

Family papers, 1853-1937. ca. 2,500 items.

Contains a few letters to Vinnie Ream from wounded Union

soldiers and Confederate prisoners of war, including Gen. M.

Jeff Thompson; two letters from J. E. Powell, Aug. 26 and 30,

1861, concerning Miss Ream's brother Robert and military

activities near St. Louis, Mo.; and two letters from Richard L.

Hoxie to his family, July 16, 1862, and Dec. 27, 1863, on the

pursuit of Quantrill, military discipline, rank disputes, Hoxie's

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appointment to the headquarters staff of the 1st Iowa Cavalry,

and the attitude of the civilian population of Little Rock, Ark.

Also contains a sketch of Union and Confederate positions before

Chattanooga and a field map of northern Alabama and Georgia.

Finding aid available.

461

Hubbard Family

Papers, 1639-1925. ca. 7,500 items.

Contains the correspondence and papers of Robert Henry

McCurdy (1800-1880). Includes material relating to the activities of the Union Defense Committee in New York, the Southern Relief Committee, the New England Soldiers Relief Association, and various other patriotic and benevolent organizations. Also contains a few letters and documents found by

McCurdy in the Senate chambers of the defunct C.S. Government on Apr. 20,1865, a "Map of a part of the City of Richmond

showing the burnt Districts," McCurdy's account of a meeting

with President Lincoln, July 11, 1862, a memorandum outlining the composition and strength of Gen. Franz Sigel's XI Corps,

Army of the Potomac, on Oct. 10, 1862, and miscellaneous

items concerning naval affairs, Gen. Louis Blenker, and the

organization, supply, condition, and disposition of New York

troops.

Finding aid available.

462

Hudson, George A. 100th Illinois Volunteers

Collection, 1863-65. 20 items.

Letters from Hudson to his family written during campaigns in Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia, Apr. 1863-Apr.

1865. Contains remarks on camp life, training, discipline, foraging expeditions, marches, desertions, casualties, morale, devastation in the South, the Presidential election of 1864, the

attitude of Union soldiers toward blacks, the suffering of

noncombatants, and reaction in the South to Lincoln's assassination.

463

Hudson, William Leverreth (1794-1862) USN

Papers, 1821-74. ca. 350 items.

Includes correspondence and notes concerning the sale,

purchase, and repair of vessels for the U.S. Navy, drawing of

the U.S.S. Water Witch, plans for the construction and improvement of gunboats, and miscellaneous items.

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464

Hughes, John Sgt., 28th Iowa Volunteers

Diary, 1863. 1 item.

Photocopy.

Diary, July 1-6, 1863, describing the fall of Vicksburg,

Miss., the suffering of the Confederate garrison, and the number and type of cannons captured.

465

Hume, Fannie Page (1838-1865) Orange, Va.

Diary, 1862. 1 item.

Transcript.

Diary kept at Selma plantation, the home of Dr. Peyton

Grymes. Describes the movement of Confederate and Union

troops through Orange, Va., during the 2d Manassas Campaign,

depredations, the suffering of both soldiers and civilians,

skirmishes in the area, and deaths of acquaintances in the

Confederate Army. Also contains war news and the names of

several refugees from Fairfax and Fauquier Counties. Copied

in 1946.

Indexed.

466

Hunt, Henry Jackson (1819-1889) Gen., USA

Papers, 1841-1910. ca. 4,500 items.

General and official correspondence, orders, reports, telegrams, returns, invoices, requisitions, and memoranda relating to Hunt's service in the Reserve Artillery and as chief of

artillery in the Army of the Potomac during the Peninsular,

Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and

Wilderness campaigns, and the Siege of Petersburg. Also

includes a letterbook of official correspondence, Sept. 8, 1862-

Sept. 5, 1863; a diary kept at the Siege of Petersburg, May 2,

1864-Mar. 23,1865, containing sketches of artillery positions,

notes on the progress of the siege, lists of batteries, and copies

of letters and orders; a notebook, May-[July?] 1862; memoranda on the reorganization of artillery; a "List of Disaffected

Non-commissioned Officers and Privates belonging to the 9th

Regiment of New York Cavalry," May 1862, with a petition for

their discharge; a list of officers recommended for brevets for

gallant conduct; and postwar letters from Hunt to Thomas T.

Gantt reminiscing on the war. Correspondents include William F. Barry, Ambrose E. Burnside, Winfield S. Hancock,

George B. McClellan, George G. Meade, John J. Peck, FitzJohn Porter, Robert O. Tyler, and Seth Williams.

Finding aid available.

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467

Hurja, Emil

Collection, 1841-93. 59 items.

Chiefly official and personal correspondence, orders,

vouchers, sketches, and printed matter relating to the Civil

War. Includes letters concerning military affairs at Gauley

and Cheat Mountain, W. Va., Aug. 1861, Confederate troop

strength and troop locations near New Bern, N.C., Mar. 1862,

and the Siege of Atlanta; published statements on the FitzJohn Porter trial; and sketches of northwestern Virginia and

western Maryland. Correspondents include P. G. T. Beauregard,

George Cadwalader, Henry W. Halleck, Schuyler Hamilton,

Winfield S. Hancock, Oliver O. Howard, Thomas Jordan,

Edmund Kirby-Smith, Samuel P. Lee, James A. Martin, Edward

E. Potter, William S. Rosecrans, Lovell H. Rousseau, William

T. Sherman, Alexander H. Stephens, George H. Thomas, and

John E. Wool.

468

Imboden, John Daniel (1823-1895) Gen., CSA

Collection, 1861-94. 3 items.

Includes a letter from Imboden to the town council of

Winchester, Va., Nov. 27, 1863, concerning atrocities against

noncombatants and the need for self-defense.

469

Ingersoll, Robert Green

(1833-1899) Col., 11th Illinois Cavalry

Papers, 1860-1941. ca. 16,000 items.

In part, transcripts and photocopies.

Contains a letter from Ingersoll to O. H. Wright, Oct. 8,

1861, Peoria, 111., concerning aid to families of volunteers; a

letter from Ingersoll to his brother, Apr. 19, 1862, on sickness

in the Army; an order appointing Ingersoll chief of cavalry in

Gen. Jeremiah C. Sullivan's division, 13th Corp, Army of the

Tennessee; and Ingersoll's resignation from the Army submitted at La Grange, Ga., June 18, 1863.

Finding aid available.

470

Inglis, John Auchinloss

(1813-1878) Jurist, South Carolina

Collection, 1859-66. 14 items.

Contains two letters from Inglis to Susan H. Muir, 1861 —

62, concerning the death of his son William, a captain in the

8th South Carolina Volunteers, and the health of his son

Charles, also in the 8th South Carolina, and a letter from Inglis

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to his daughter Carrie on Confederate prisoners of war and

plans in South Carolina to employ blacks as soldiers.

471

Irwin, Bernard John Dowling (1830-1917) Surg., USA

Papers, 1850-70. 225 items.

Chiefly personal and official correspondence, orders, and

circulars, 1863-65, relating to Irwin's duties as superintendent of military hospitals in Memphis, Tenn. Also contains a

few letters by Irwin's brother Albert, 1861-63, concerning his

capture in northern Virginia, his experiences as a prisoner of

war, and his exchange, along with a "Precis of the Military

History of B. J. D. Irwin." Additional correspondents are James

G. Blunt, Joseph B. Brown, Charles H. Crane, Stephen A.

Hurlbut, Joseph R. Smith, and Robert C. Wood.

472

Ives, Joseph Christmas (1828-1868) Col., CSA

Collection, 1862. 14 items.

Four letters from Leonard Ives to his brother Joseph, aide

to President Davis, Sept.-Oct. 1862, concerning camp life,

provisions, training, and troop movements during the Antietam Campaign; three letters from Joseph Ives to his mother,

Mrs. L. J. Woods of Dorchester, Mass., Sept.-Oct. 1862, concerning communications with relatives in the North, conditions in

Richmond, Va., and the health of Jefferson Davis; letter from

Joseph Ives' wife Cora to her mother, Sept. 11, 1862, on the

rank, unit, and location of various family members serving in

the Confederate Army; letter from Gen. John A. Dix to Richard

H. Dana, Oct. 1862, on contraband mail; and two letters from

Richard H. Clark to Ned Ives, Oct. 11 and 29, 1862, Washington, D.C., concerning plans for Mrs. Woods to visit her family in

Richmond, Va., and the shipment of personal property across

enemy lines.

473

Jackman, John S. 9th Kentucky Volunteers, CSA

Journal, 1861-1908. 1 v.

Memoir of the period Sept. 1861 —May 1865, written from

notes taken during the Shiloh, Corinth, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and Atlanta campaigns, and Gen. Braxton Bragg's invasion of Kentucky. Describes camp life, marches,

morale, troop movements, discipline, entertainment, casualties,

disease, hospital care, refugees, the attitude of noncombatants

in the South, and the impressment of blacks. Includes sketches

of the battles of Rocky Face Ridge, Rasaca, Dallas, and Kenesaw

Mountain in the Atlanta Campaign, and details on Admiral

Farragut's bombardment of Vicksburg and Gen. Joseph E.

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Johnston's attempts to break the Federal siege at Vicksburg

and Jackson, Miss. Also includes a description of Jefferson Davis

as he appeared shortly after his capture.

Microfilm copy (1 reel) available.

474

Jackson, Theodore (b. 1840) Pvt., 32d Colored

Regiment, USA

Document, 1863. 1 item.

Jackson's petition for a military discharge, Aug. 22, 1863,

Hilton Head, S.C.

475

Jackson, Thomas Jonathan (1824-1863) Gen., CSA

Papers, 1845-1941. ca. 120 items.

In part, transcripts and photocopies.

Contains letters from Jackson to Gen. Joseph E. Johnston,

Feb. 12,1862, and Alexander R. Boteler, Mar. 5,1862, concerning the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862; a letter from

Jackson to Col. C. J. Faulkner, Nov. 14, 1862, offering Faulkner a position on his headquarters staff; and a letter from Jackson to Gen. Robert E. Lee, May 2, 1863, notifying Lee of his

intentions to attack Federal positions near Chancellorsville,

Va. Also includes a letter from E. M. Douglas to the Librarian

of Congress, May 20, 1941, relating a story on the death of

Jackson as told by T. S. F. Saul, a Confederate officer.

476

Jameson, Robert Edwin

(1838-1905) Surg., 29th Massachusetts Volunteers

Papers, 1857-65. 27 items.

Contains a diary, June 14-Aug. 13 [1863], and 20 letters

from Jameson to family and friends, July 186,1-May 1865,

describing his service as a hospital steward and surgeon at

hospitals in and around Washington, D.C., and at field hospitals in the Vicksburg, Knoxville, and Petersburg campaigns.

Includes a few details on the Siege of Jackson, Miss., camp life,

marches, guerrilla warfare, devastation in the South, and the

work of the U.S. Sanitary Commission.

477

Jenckes, Thomas Allen

(1818-1875) U.S. Representative, Rhode Island

Papers, 1836-78. ca. 42,000 items.

Contains a few letters to Jenckes from soldiers and civilians in the war zone.

Finding aid available.

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478

Jewett, George O. Sgt., 17th Massachusetts Volunteers

Collection, 1855-65. 57 items.

Contains 17 letters from Jewett to his brother Dexter,

1862-65, concerning the Federal occupation of New Bern, N.C.,

and marches and skirmishes in the area. Includes remarks on

camp life, training, discipline, entertainment, the attitude of

noncombatants in New Bern, black life, disease, and hospital

care. Also includes letters by John D. Berry (5th Massachusetts Battery), S. H. Brown (32d Massachusetts Volunteers),

Edwin B. Daniels (1st Massachusetts Cavalry), Eugene Hadley

and Herman C. Stickney (39th Massachusetts Volunteers), John

Stafforce (47th Massachusetts Volunteers), Jonathan Blyth,

John Harrington, Lebin Stetson, W. D. Tripp, and Charles

Weeks.

479

Johnson, Andrew (1808-1875), Pres., U.S.

Papers, 1814-1900. ca. 40,000 items.

Includes a few letters, reports, and dispatches relating to

the war in Tennessee during the period when Johnson served

as military governor of Tennessee and as Vice President of the

United States.

Printed index and microfilm copy (55 reels) available.

480

Johnson, E. E. 18th Indiana Volunteers

Diary, 1862. 1 item.

Transcript.

Describes the campaign against Confederate forces commanded by Gens. Sterling Price and Ben McCulloch in southwest Missouri, Jan. 24-Apr. 21, 1862. Includes details on the

Battle of Pea Ridge, and remarks on military organization,

morale, discipline, depredations, foraging expeditions, casualties, supplies, and inflation.

481

Johnson, John Augustine

(1847-1918) Pvt., 13th Massachusetts Battery

Diary, 1865. 1 v.

Covers the period Mar. 8-July 17, 1865. Describes Johnson's enlistment, a voyage to the Gulf of Mexico, fortifications

at Mobile, Ala., and camp life near New Orleans, La.

482

Johnson, Reverdy (1796-1876) U.S. Senator, Maryland

Papers, 1830-76. 185 items.

Includes a letter from Gen. George B. McClellan to Johnson,

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Mar. 9, 1864, concerning the Battle of Malvern Hill, and several documents from the congressional investigation into the

financial affairs of Gens. Benjamin F. Butler and George F.

Shepley, i.e., affidavits on the disposition of Confederate deposits in the Bank of Louisiana and authorizations for the shipment of cotton from New Orleans signed by General Shepley

and George S. Denison.

483

Johnson, W. C. 89th Ohio Volunteers

Diary, 1865. 1 item.

Transcript.

Diary, "Through the Carolinas to Goldsboro, N.C.," Jan.

20-Mar. 23, 1865. Describes camp life, marches, foraging

expeditions, the devastation of war, skirmishes, the Battle of

Bentonville, N.C., and the junction of the armies of Gens. John

M. Schofield, William T. Sherman, and Alfred H. Terry.

484

Johnson, Waldo Porter (1817-1885) U.S. Senator, Missouri

Letter, 1865. 1 item.

Letter from Johnson to Gov. Thomas C. Reynolds, Jan. 26,

1865, Richmond, Va., concerning political affairs and public

morale in Richmond.

485

Johnston, Albert Sidney (1803-1862) Gen., CSA

Papers, 1792-1896. 60 items.

Includes Johnston's commission, Aug. 31,1861, his letter of

acceptance, Sept. 11, 1861, his oath of allegiance to the Confederacy, and the military commissions of his son, Col. William

Preston Johnston.

486

Johnston, Georgianna

Document, 1864. 1 item.

Military pass issued to Johnston, June 14,1864, Baltimore,

Md.

487

Johnston, Joseph Eggleston (1807-1891) Gen., CSA

Papers, 1861-88. 5 items.

Includes letter from Johnston to Gen. Robert E. Lee, Harpers Ferry, May 28, 1861, suggesting that R. W. Latham, a

Washington banker touring the Confederacy, was a Union spy.

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488

Johnston, Mercer Green (1868-1954)

Papers, 1860-1954. ca. 40,000 items.

Includes 20 letters from Johnston's father, James Steptoe

Johnston, to Mary Green of Sunnyside, Miss., May 7,1861-Feb.

11, 1863, concerning his service in the 11th Mississippi Volunteers during the Peninsular, 2d Manassas, and Antietam

campaigns, and as drillmaster in Gen. Beverly H. Robertson's

cavalry during operations in North Carolina and Tennessee.

Provides details on the battles of Seven Pines, Malvern Hill,

and Sharpsburg, devastation in the Shenandoah Valley, camp

life, marches, and Unionist sentiment in Maryland. Also contains a few remarks on the conduct of Gen. Roger A. Pryor at

the Battle of Sharpsburg.

Finding aid available.

489

Johnston, William Preston (1831-1899) Col., CSA

Papers, 1852-63. 15 items.

Letters by Johnston, Dr. Alexander Garnett, and Jasper S.

Whiting, Feb. 1862, concerning Johnston's health and a leave

of absence; official letter notifying Johnston of his appointment

as colonel and aide-de-camp to President Davis, Apr. 19, 1862;

and commissions for the offices of major, 2d Kentucky Volunteers, and It. colonel, 1st Kentucky Volunteers.

490

Jones, Charles DeHaven

Papers, 1837-1903. 45 items.

Contains a "Map of the Southern States, including Rail

Roads, County Towns, State Capitals, County Roads, the Southern Coast from Delaware to Texas, showing the harbors, inlets,

forts and position of blockading ships," Jan. 1862, with inset

portraits of President Lincoln, George B. McClellan, Winfield

Scott, and William H. Seward, and an inset map of Washington,

D.C., and vicinity. Also contains a postwar speech concerning

campaigns in Kentucky and Tennessee.

491

Jones, John Griffith

(1843-1864) Cpl., 23d Wisconsin Volunteers

Correspondence, 1862-65. 85 items.

Transcripts.

Chiefly letters from Jones to his family written during

campaigns in Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, and

Arkansas. Contains details on the Vicksburg Campaign, particularly the Yazoo Pass expedition and the battles of Champion's Hill and Port Gibson, and the Arkansas Post (Fort

136
Hindman) expedition. Letters written during marches in southwest Louisiana describe skirmishes at Carrion Crow Bayou

and New Iberia, Nov. 1863, and include remarks on camp life,

marches, morale, casualties, foraging expeditions, Confederate

desertions, Welshmen in the 23d Wisconsin, the performance

of black soldiers, and the generalship of Stephen G. Burbridge.

Also includes two letters written by Thomas E. Hughes, 23d

Wisconsin.

492

Jones, Roger (1625?-1701)

Family papers, 1649-1896. ca. 7,000 items.

Includes two letters from Stephen R. Mallory to Lt. Catesby

ap R. Jones, Mar. 13, 1862, and Sept. 16, 1864, commending

Jones for his work on ordnance for the Confederate Navy.

Finding aid and microfilm copy (15 reels) available.

493

Jones, Samuel

Manuscript, undated. 457 p.

Unpublished narrative of military operations along the

coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Contains details

on the Port Royal expedition; the capture of Forts Walker,

Beauregard, and Pulaski; operations on Morris Island, S.C.,

particularly the attacks on Fort Wagner (Battery Wagner); the

bombardment of Forts Moultrie and Sumter; and the St. Johns

River expedition. Incomplete. Supplied title: "The Seige [sic] of

Charleston."

494

Jones, Thomas Goode (1844-1914) Maj., CSA

Letter, 1864. 1 item.

Transcript.

Letter from Jones to his father, Oct. 21, 1864, describing

the Battle of Cedar Creek, Va.

495

Kautz, August Valentine (1828-1895) Gen., USA

Papers, 1846-99. ca. 500 items.

Includes general and special orders, a diary, and a

memoir—"Reminiscences of the Civil War," 1861-65. Contains

information on the battles of Mechanicsville, Hanover Courthouse, and Malvern Hill during the Peninsular Campaign,

skirmishes in Kentucky and Tennessee in 1863, the Knoxville Campaign, the pursuit and capture of Gen. John Hunt

Morgan in Ohio, the Petersburg Campaign, the fall of Richmond, Va., and the trial of the Lincoln conspirators. Also

includes comments on military organization and administration,

137
August Valentine Kautz
the Cavalry Bureau, camp life, morale, black troops, rank

disputes, refugees, Confederate deserters, and the generalship

of Ambrose E. Burnside, Benjamin F. Butler, William H. Emory,

Quincy A. Gillmore, George L. Hartsuff, William P. Sanders,

and William F. Smith.

Finding aid available.

496

Kearny, Philip (1815-1862) Gen., USA

Papers, 1861-62. 75 items.

Chiefly letters from Kearny to his wife, Mar.-Aug. 1862,

and to John C. Parker, July 1861-Aug. 1862, concerning

skirmishes and marches in northern Virginia, the Siege of

Yorktown, and the battles of Seven Pines and Fair Oaks in the

Peninsular Campaign. Also contains comments on the administration of the Army of the Potomac, military strategy, casualties, dissension among senior officers, the use of black troops,

and the generalship of Nathaniel P. Banks, William B.

Franklin, Samuel P. Heintzelman, August V. Kautz, George B.

McClellan, Irvin McDowell, William R. Montgomery, Winfield

Scott, William F. Smith, Charles P. Stone, and others.

497

Keatinge, Harriette C.

Collection, 1903-9. 3 items.

Account of the burning of Columbia, S.C., and Mrs.

Keatinge's journey with the army of Gen. William T. Sherman

from Columbia to Fayetteville, N.C.; transcript of Col. James

G. Gibbs, "The Burning of Columbia," published in The State,

Feb. 23, 1908; and notes on the burning of Columbia taken

from The Autobiography of Joseph Le Conte (1903).

498

Keeney, Mrs. George

Civil War miscellany collection, 1861-89. 14 items.

Order by Gen. Theophilus H. Holmes, Nov. 28, 1862, concerning the appointment of recruiting officers and the establishment of training camps at various locations in the TransMississippi Department; order by Gen. Joseph E. Johnston,

Jan. 23, 1864, concerning rations issued to the Army of the

Tennessee; invoice of cargo shipped aboard the Economist; and

military passes.

499

Keidel Family

Papers, 1834-1937. ca. 3,000 items.

Includes about 80 letters from Adj. Herman F. Keidel (b.

1832) to his family in Maryland written from Hammond Gen139
eral Hospital, Fort McHenry, Point Lookout, and Fort Delaware,

1863-65, concerning his service in the 12th Virginia Cavalry

and life as a prisoner of war. Also includes secondary accounts

of Keidel's war service.

500

Keifer, Joseph Warren (1836-1932) Gen., USV

Papers, 1861-65. ca. 1,100 items.

Includes about 385 letters from Keifer to his wife written

during campaigns in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama,

and Georgia, concerning camp life, training, morale, discipline,

military organization, generalship, troop movements, marches,

guerrilla warfare, courts-martial, desertions, casualties,

executions, disease, hospital care, depredations, foraging

expeditions, black life, prisoners of war, furloughs, visits to the

battle zone by officers' wives, reconnaissance expeditions, the

treatment and attitude of noncombatants in the South, changes

in the attitude of Federal soldiers toward Confederates, recruiting practices, the New York draft riots, reaction in the

Army to Lincoln's assassination, and numerous battles and

skirmishes. Also includes official correspondence; the headquarters letterbook of the 3d Brigade, 3d and 6th Army Corps,

June 16,1863- June 20,1865; ordnance and paymaster records;

a list of casualties in the 110th Ohio during the Battle of Winchester (1863) and the Mine Run Campaign; reports on the

110th and 122d Ohio in the Battle of Winchester and the pursuit of General Lee after Gettysburg; and reports on operations

along the Rapidan and Rappahannock Rivers in late 1863,

the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Winchester,

Petersburg, and Appomattox campaigns, and the Shenandoah

Valley Campaign of 1864. Includes details on the battles of

Fisher's Hill, Winchester (1864), Cedar Creek, and Sayler's

Creek. Also contains maps of the Petersburg area, "Lloyd's

New Military Map of the Border & Southern States" (1863),

and miscellaneous printed items relating to the operations of

the 3d and 110th Ohio Volunteers.

Finding aid available.

501

Keim Family

Papers, 1861-1910. ca. 75 items.

Contains a photograph of Gen. William H. Keim, a letterbook, June 4-Aug. 14, 1861, kept at the headquarters of General Keim, and clippings of dispatches of D. Randolph Keim

published in the New York Herald, New York Times, and

Philadelphia Inquirer.

140
502

Kelaher, James 9th New York Volunteers

Letter, 1863. 1 item.

Letter written by Kelaher during the Fredericksburg

Campaign, Jan. 21, 1863. Includes information on battles in

which Kelaher's regiment (Hawkins' Zouaves) participated.

503

Kellenberger, Peter B. 10th Indiana Volunteers

Letters, 1863-65. 5 items.

Four letters from Kellenberger to A. A. Pollard, Dec. 19,

1863-Aug. 29, 1864, discuss the Chattanooga and Atlanta

campaigns, particularly the battles of Lookout Mountain and

Missionary Ridge, and Confederate fortifications between Dalton and Marietta, Ga. Includes a sketch of the Battle of Missionary Ridge.

504

Keller, Louis Pvt., 30th New Jersey Volunteers

Document, 1892. 1 item.

Certificate of service.

505

Kellogg, Edward Nealy (1841-1874) and

Edward Stanley (1870-1948) USN

Papers, 1859-1937. ca. 500 items.

Official correspondence and papers of Lt. Edward N.

Kellogg, 1861-65. Includes orders, commissions, newspaper

clippings, wartime photographs of the U.S. Naval Academy at

Annapolis, Md., a chart of the entrance to New York harbor

(1862), and a manuscript booklet: "Boat Signals. U.S. Sloopof-War Marion. Gulf Blockading Squadron." Also, a letter from

Kellogg to his father, Aug. 7, 1864, U.S.S. Oneida, describing

the Battle of Mobile Bay, particularly the capture of the C.S.S.

Tennessee.

Finding aid available.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

506

Kenner, Duncan Farrar (1813-1887) C.S. Diplomat

Collection, 1882-99. 3 items.

In part, transcripts.

Two versions (as told by Kenner to different people after

the war) of his mission to England and France in 1864-65 to

secure diplomatic recognition for the Confederacy. Includes

details on his travel in the Northern States with the assistance

141
of Confederate sympathizers and his meeting with John Slidell

and James Mason.

Microfilm copy (1 reel) available.

507

King, Horatio (1811-1897) U.S. Postmaster General

Papers, 1832-1906. ca. 3,000 items.

Letter from J. W. Merriam to King, Apr. 21, 1861, Memphis, Tenn., concerning the rush to arms in the South, plans for

the defense of Memphis and the forwarding of weapons from

the arsenal at Baton Rouge, La.; letter from William Frazier to

King, May 20, 1861, Rockbridge, Va., discussing public sentiment in Virginia after Lincoln's call for troops; military pass

issued to King, July 14, 1861; certificate for King's having

provided a substitute (Charles Taylor of Alexandria, Va.); and

political correspondence with James Buchanan.

Finding aid available.

508

Kinsley, Edward W. Capt., 54th Massachusetts Volunteers

Collection, 1863-65. 12 items.

Photocopies.

Correspondence between Captain Kinsley and Gen. Alfred

S. Hartwell, Gen. Edward A. Wild, George P. Denny, and G.

W. Denhurst, 1863-65, concerning campaigns in North Carolina and South Carolina. Includes comments on the generalship of George B. McClellan, pay for black troops, and morale

and casualties in the 54th and 55th Massachusetts.

509

Kintigh, John E. Cpl., 38th Ohio Infantry

Document, 1864. 1 item.

Discharge certificate, Feb. 25, 1864.

510

Kirby-Smith, Edmund (1824-1893) Gen., CSA

Letter, 1861. 1 item.

Letter from Kirby-Smith to Captain Tupper, Sept. 4, 1861,

Lynchburg, Va., concerning his recovery from a wound received

at the Battle of 1st Manassas and his plans to return to the

field.

511

Kirk, John W. (b. ca. 1819) Ohio

Papers, 1862-67. 5 items.

General order, May 25, 1864, concerning the defenses of

Covington and Newport, Ky., and an order detailing Kirk to

the office of the provost marshal at Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 4,

1862.

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512

Kirkley, Joseph William

(1841-1912) Sgt., 1st Maryland Volunteers

Papers, 1864-1911. 7 items.

Unpublished history of the 7th Maryland Volunteers,

1861-64; list of commissioned officers in the 7th Maryland;

record of Kirkley's war service; and Kirkley's discharge from

the 1st Maryland Volunteers, May 23, 1864.

513

Kloeppel, H. Henry USN

Diary, 1863. 1 v.

Diary, Jan. —Dec. 1863, kept aboard the U.S.S. Patapsco,

South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, concerning a voyage from

Philadelphia to South Carolina, activities of Federal ships along

the coast of Georgia and South Carolina, attacks on Confederate batteries along the shore, and the bombardment of Forts

Moultrie, Sumter, Wagner, and Gregg. Includes the names of

some of Kloeppel's shipmates.

514

Knox, Dudley Wright (1877-1960)

Papers, 1865-1950. ca. 6,500 items.

In part, photocopies.

Contains an eyewitness account of the sinking of the C.S.S.

Albemarle, by Francis H. Swan, paymaster, USN.

Finding aid available.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

515

Knox, James Suydam

Letter, 1865. 1 item.

Letter from Knox to his father, Apr. 10,1865, Washington,

D.C., describing the celebration in Washington over the fall of

Richmond, Va.

516

Knox, Rose Bell

Collection, 1861-64 and undated. 20 items.

In part, transcripts.

Includes samples of Confederate States currency, 1861-64,

and North Carolina currency, 1861.

517

Kock, Charles Consul for Hamburg,

Germany, at New Orleans, La.

Letter, 1863. 1 item.

Letter from Kock to Gen. Cuvier Grover, July 20, 1863,

1 4 3
"Belle Alliance" plantation, complaining of depredations by Federal soldiers.

518

Lair, John A. Surg., USA

Collection, 1864-65. 3 items.

Photocopies.

Letters from Lair to his family, 1864-65, concerning the

Atlanta and Savannah campaigns. Contains information on

Federal strategy in the battles of Dalton, Resaca, Dallas,

Kennesaw Mountain, Chattahoochee River, and Atlanta, and

the Siege of Savannah.

519

Laird, George F. Lt., 4th Ohio Volunteers

Diary, 1861. 1 v.

Covers the period Apr.-Dec. 1861. Describes Laird's enlistment and training in Ohio, marches and skirmishes in West

Virginia, and casualties, desertions, and discharges in the 4th

Ohio. Also includes a list of officers and enlisted men in the 4th

Ohio or Canton Zouaves.

520

Lally, Michael

Document, 1863. 1 item.

Petition presented to Judge Roland Jones, July 22, 1863,

Caddo Parish, La., for the release of Lally as an illegal conscript.

521

Lander, Frederick West (1821-1862) Gen., USV

Papers, 1836-94. ca. 1,250 items.

Official correspondence, dispatches, telegrams, orders, and

miscellaneous items relating to military operations along the

upper Potomac River. Also includes numerous newspaper clippings on the military career and death of General Lander. Correspondents include Gens. George B. McClellan, Winfield Scott,

and Charles P. Stone.

Finding aid available.

522

Landis, Allen 116th Pennsylvania Volunteers

Family papers, 1862-64. 21 items.

Chiefly letters from Landis to his family concerning the

Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, and Spotsylvania campaigns, the

Siege of Petersburg, and skirmishes in northern Virginia and

West Virginia. Includes comments on camp life, morale, entertainment, marches, the draft, and military diet and pay. Also

contains a letter from Aaron Landis to his parents, Sept. 13,

144
1862, concerning camp life during the Antietam Campaign,

and a memorial to Capt. John Teed, 116th Pennsylvania

Volunteers, on his exchange as a prisoner of war, Mar. 1864.

523

Larned, Daniel Read (b. 1830) Capt.; Secretary

to General Burnside, USA

Papers, 1861-65. ca. 1,100 items.

In part, transcripts.

Chiefly letters from Larned to his sisters and brother-inlaw concerning General Burnside's expedition to North Carolina.

Describes the battles of Roanoke Island, New Bern, Beaufort,

and Fort Macon. Also contains information on the Antietam,

Fredericksburg, Knoxville, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold

Harbor, and Petersburg campaigns; the pursuit of Gen. John

Hunt Morgan in Ohio; General Burnside's relationship with

Gens. Henry Halleck, George B. McClellan, and William S.

Rosecrans; and military organization, rank disputes, discipline,

morale, marches, depredations, black life, black troops, entertainment, prisoners of war, foraging expeditions, disease,

inflation, furloughs, military appointments, and the effect of

the war on noncombatants in the South.

524

Lathers, Richard (1820-1903) Businessman, New York

Papers, 1826-1901. ca. 210 items.

In part, transcripts.

Contains a few letters to Lathers concerning aid for Confederate prisoners of war held at Fort Delaware, the New York

draft riots, the state of the war in July 1863, and the location

and condition of Lt. Thomas Ford, 21st South Carolina Volunteers. Seven letters from Gen. John A. Dix to Gens. George

B. McClellan, Joseph Mansfield, and Egbert Viele, Secretaries

Edwin Stanton and Simon Cameron, and Col. R. Biddle Roberts,

1861-62, concern the release of political prisoners in southeast Virginia and the resumption of commerce at Norfolk. Miscellaneous items include a letter from Thomas Sampson to Col.

C. S. Olcott, Feb. 9, 1863, New Providence, Bahama Islands,

concerning Confederate shipping in the Bahamas, and a

pamphlet: A Statement of the Facts Concerning the Imprisonment and Treatment of Jefferson Davis While a Military Prisoner at Fort Monroe, Va., in 1865 and 1866 (1902).

525

Latrobe, Osmun

Papers, 1793-1932. ca. 300 items.

Includes three letters from R. S. Steuart, Company C, 1st

Missouri Cavalry, to his family from various camps in Virginia,

145
July 1864—Jan. 1865, concerning casualties, morale, uniforms,

and the health and location of Latrobe. Also, two military passes

to members of the Latrobe family, 1862-63, to visit Latrobe

while a prisoner of war at Fort McHenry, Md.

526

Latta, James William (b. 1839) Capt., 119th

Pennsylvania Volunteers

Papers, 1854-99. ca. 200 items.

Includes a diary, Aug. 1862-Apr. 1865 (4 v.), kept by Latta

during the Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Mine Run, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Petersburg

campaigns, the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864, the battles of North Anna River, Totopotomoy Creek, and Cold Harbor,

Gen. Jubal Early's Washington raid, and Gen. James Wilson's

raid to Selma, Ala. (Upton's division). Provides details on camp

life, training, discipline, entertainment, disease, desertions,

marches, casualties, troop movements, furloughs, courts-martial,

depredations, black life, and civilian life in the South during

the war. Also contains clippings of an article by Latta on "The

Campaign of Wilson's Cavalry Corps Through Alabama and

Georgia in the Spring of 1865."

527

Lawton, Henry Ware Col., 30th

(1843-1899) Indiana Volunteers

Papers, 1849-1930. ca. 2,300 items.

Discharges from the 9th and 30th Indiana Volunteers, commissions for the ranks of 1st lieutenant through colonel in the

30th Indiana, and copies of postwar letters containing remarks

on Lawton's service in the war. Also contains a copy of the

service record of Lt. A. E. Wood.

Finding aid available.

528

Leale, Charles Augustus (1842-1932) Surg., USA

Report, 1867. 1 item.

Photocopy.

Report of Leale (the first physician to reach President Lincoln after he was shot) to the Congressional Assassination Investigation Committee (14 p.).

529

Leavitt, Joshua (1794-1873) New York

Papers, 1812-71. ca. 100 items.

Includes two letters from Leavitt to a brother and sister,

Jan. 3 and Dec. 6, 1862, concerning morale, camp conditions,

146
and the health of New York troops (particularly the Lincoln

Cavalry) during encampments near Washington, D.C.

530

Lee, H.I. ,\ ^-L- * Virginia

Letter, 1864. 1 item. °° ^

Photocopy of a transcript.

Letter from Mrs. Edmund Jennings Lee to Gen. David

Hunter, July 20,1864, Shepherdstown, W. Va., asking General

Hunter to explain his order to burn her home.

531

Lee, Mary Lorrain Greenhow

(b. ca. 1823) Winchester, Va.

Diary, 1837-65. 1 item.

Photocopy.

Diary kept mainly at Winchester, Va., Mar. 11-Sept. 3,

1862, and Mar. 9, 1863-Nov. 16, 1865. Describes troop movements, depredations, the attitude and suffering of noncombatants, and social life in and around Winchester during

the war. Also includes the names of numerous Confederate

soldiers.

Microfilm copy (1 reel) available.

532

Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870) Gen., CSA

Papers, 1830-1913. 166 items.

In part, transcripts and photocopies.

Includes Lee's letter of resignation from the U.S. Army,

Apr. 20, 1861; a letter from Lee to his cousin, Lt. Roger Jones,

Apr. 20, 1861, explaining the reasons for his resignation; a

letter from Lee to C. C. Cocke, June 10, 1861, offering Cocke

the position of lt. colonel in the 8th Virginia Regiment; a letter

from Lee to Capt. M. Dulany Ball, June 29, 1861, concerning

Ball's exchange as a prisoner of war; letters from Lee to Gen.

Richard S. Ewell, Apr. 27, 1862, on military strategy in northern Virginia and the defense of Fredericksburg, and May 5,

1862, on the arrival and disposition of Gen. Lawrence O.

Branch's North Carolina brigade; a letter to Samuel S. Wilson,

May 11, 1862, concerning military supplies; a letter to Louis T.

Wigfall, Sept. 21, 1862, requesting information on the additional Texas regiments promised by Wigfall; a letter to Mrs.

Sarah A. Lawton extending his sympathy on the death of her

brother-in-law; a letter from Lee to Gen. William E. Jones,

Feb. 13,1863, concerning operations against Gen. Robert Milroy

in the Shenandoah Valley; a letter from Lee to Maj. A. S.

Rives, Mar. 26, 1863, on the death of Major Meade; letters from

Lee to Gen. John C. Breckinridge, May 16,1864, ordering Breck1 4 7
inridge to follow up on his victory over General Sigel, and Jan.

10, 1865, instructing Breckinridge to destroy bands of deserters and banditti operating in his department; a letter from Lee

to Gen. Alexander R. Lawton, Mar. 7, 1865, concerning strategy against an enemy force moving down the Rivanna River; a

letter from Lee to Col. A. J. Rives, Mar. 23, 1865, on military

appointments; General Grant's letter to Lee, Apr. 9,1865, stating the terms of surrender at Appomattox; Lee's General Order

No. 9, Apr. 10, 1865; and a letter written by Gen. Winfield S.

Hancock, Apr. 10, 1865, announcing Lee's surrender.

Finding aid available.

533

Collection, 1834-86.

Microfilm, 1 reel.

Chiefly memorabilia. Includes a few rough sketches of military camps, roads, and fortifications along the Potomac River,

near Richmond, Va., and at Pensacola, Fla., and portraits of

Gens. P. G. T. Beauregard, Joseph E. Johnston, Wade Hampton,

Thomas J. Jackson, and R. E. Lee.

534

Lee, Robert W. Lt. Col., 20th Ohio Volunteers

Papers, 1862-64. 9 items.

Contains two letters from Lt. Col. Manning F. Force to

Lee, Apr. 22 and May 19,1862, Pittsburg Landing, concerning

the Battle of Shiloh, and camp life, disease, and deaths in the

aftermath of the battle, and five letters between Lee and Lt.

Col. James H. Simpson, May-Nov. 1864, concerning fortifications at Covington and Newport, Ky.

535

Lee, Samuel Phillips (1812-1897) Adm., USN

Papers, 1860-69. ca. 19,000 items.

In part, transcripts.

Official, confidential, and squadron letterbooks, 1862-65;

diary of signal officer Lt. M. Miller, May 5-June 14, 1864,

concerning activities along the James River; letters of Gen.

John Gray Foster, 1863, on coastal defenses and problems with

smuggling and discipline in North Carolina and Virginia; letters (to Adm. D. D. Porter) of special agent J. B. Devoe, Feb.

1864-June 1865, on Confederate spies in St. Louis and Chicago,

espionage by southern women, Confederate methods of communication with guerrillas, smuggling, and corruption among

Federal officials at New Orleans, La.; logbook of the U.S.S.

Mississippi, 1861-62; logbooks and log extracts of vessels in

the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-64; sketches

148
of roads and fortifications near Wilmington, Williamstown, and

Roanoke Island, N.C.; lists of persons captured on prize vessels;

and printed matter: Register of the Commissioned and Warrant

Officers of the Navy of the Confederate States to January 1,

1864 (1864), and Judah P. Benjamin's Instructions Upon Neutral and Belligerent Rights (1864).

Finding aid available.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

536

Order, 1862. 1 item.

Order from Lee (U.S.S. Oneida) to Capt. Edward Donaldson

(U.S.S. Sciota), May 20, 1862, to prevent the construction of

Confederate batteries near Warrenton, Miss.

537

Lee Family

DeButts-Ely Collection, 1749-1916. ca. 900 items.

Photocopies.

Contains the family correspondence of Gen. Robert E. Lee

during the war and Mrs. Mary Custis Lee's "My Reminiscences

of the War." Describes popular sentiment in Virginia at the

outset of the war, personal losses and suffering of the Lee family,

and the progress of the war in Virginia.

Microfilm copy (3 reels) available.

538

Leggett, Mortimer Dormer (1821-1896) Gen., USV

Letter, 1863. 1 item.

Letter from Leggett to Col. David Chambers, Aug. 9,1863,

Vicksburg, Miss., explaining his decision to join the Army.

539

Lester, Joseph Artisan, Wisconsin Volunteers

Collection, 1860-64. 10 items.

Letters from Lester to his family in England concerning

camp life, marches, morale, generalship, disease, prisoners of

war, foraging expeditions, depredations, black life, and the attitude of noncombatants in the South. Provides some information on the Battle of Corinth, the Yazoo Pass expedition, the

Siege of Vicksburg, and the Chattanooga and Atlanta campaigns. Also contains a diary fragment, Nov. 18-Dec. 17,1862.

540

Letcher, John (1813-1884) Gov., Virginia

Papers, 1853-66. 7 items.

In part, transcripts.

Includes three letters from President Davis to Letcher,

149
Sept.-Dec. 1861, concerning the recruitment and organization

of soldiers, and a letter from Gen. Thomas J. Jackson to Letcher,

Apr. 20, 1863, asking for a military escort for Mrs. Jackson

from Richmond, Va., to his camp near Fredericksburg.

541

Levy, Diana Franklin (b. 1858)

Collection, 19th century. 1 v.

Autograph book containing signed photographs of Nathaniel P. Banks, Salmon P. Chase, Schuyler Colfax, Solomon Foote,

Ulysses S. Grant, William B. Hazen, Andrew Johnson, Carl

Schurz, William H. Seward, Edwin M. Stanton, Thaddeus

Stevens, Charles Sumner, Lyman Trumbull, and others.

542

Lewis, Lothrop Lincoln Pvt., 1st Maine Volunteers

Collection, 1864-65. 2 items.

Diary, Aug. 29, 1864-June 26 [1865], kept during the

Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864, the Siege of Petersburg,

and the Appomattox Campaign. Describes camp life, marches,

disease, foraging expeditions, discipline, depredations, and Confederate deserters. Includes a few details on the Battle of Cedar

Creek and the capture of Petersburg, Va. Also contains a photograph of Lewis taken in Mar. 1865.

543

Lewis, William Delaware Col., 110th

(d. 1872) Pennsylvania Volunteers

Document, 1862. 1 item.

Proclamation issued by Lewis to the inhabitants of

Winchester, Va., Apr. 17, 1862, warning that he would not

permit "lying reports and insulting remarks."

544

Libby, Frederick Joseph (1874-1970) ,..

Papers, 1862-1970. ca. 2,470 items. / CSJ '

Includes the diary of Dr. Abial Libby, Mar. 8-July 23,

1862, a surgeon with the Army of the Potomac, which contains

a list of the questions he asked during the examination of new

recruits, and comments on camp life, disease, casualties, medical care, entertainment, morality, depredations, and foraging

expeditions during the Peninsular Campaign. Provides names

or figures on casualties in the 3d Maine, 38th New York, and

40th New York regiments.

545

Limongi, Felix

Collection, 1832-80. ca. 240 items.

ISO
Letters, briefs, affidavits, petitions, telegrams, notes, judicial decisions, and memoranda from the files of the New Orleans

law firm of Durant & Hornor. Includes material relating to the

Planter's Life Guard, 1861-62, a list of the officers and crew of

the U.S.S. Chocura, information on prizes taken by the Chocura,

material on civilian arrests, and miscellaneous items relating

to the administrations of Gens. Nathaniel P. Banks, Benjamin

F. Butler, Stephen A. Hurlbut, and George F. Shepley.

546

Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865), Pres., U.S.

Papers, 1833-1916. ca. 42,100 items.

Military and political correspondence, orders, plans, reports,

telegrams, circulars, maps, muster rolls and returns, proclamations, petitions, affidavits, speeches, pamphlets, and miscellaneous items. Correspondents include Nathaniel P. Banks,

Edward Bates, Montgomery Blair, Benjamin Brewster, Salmon

P. Chase, Schuyler Colfax, Ulysses S. Grant, John Hay, Andrew

Johnson, Reverdy Johnson, George B. McClellan, George G.

Meade, Edwin D. Morgan, John G. Nicolay, William Rosecrans,

William H. Seward, Horatio Seymour, Caleb B. Smith, James

Speed, Edwin M. Stanton, Charles Sumner, Lyman Trumbull,

Lew Wallace, Elihu B. Washburne, and Gideon Welles.

Published index and microfilm copy (97 reels) available.

547

Appointment book, 1861.

Microfilm, 1 reel.

Covers the period Mar. 5-27, 1861. Includes miscellaneous

related documents.

548

Lincolniana collection, 1849-1954. 29 items.

Includes a copy of the last photograph of President Lincoln,

Apr. 9, 1865.

549

Livingston, Robert R. (1746-1813)

Papers, 1658-1888.

Microfilm, 14 reels.

Includes four letters from Pvt. Eugene Livingston to his

father, E. A. Livingston, Apr. 1862, concerning his service in

the 95th New York Volunteers, and Eugene Livingston's

discharge certificate, Apr. 26, 1862.

Originals at the New-York Historical Society.

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Abraham Lincoln
550

Lockwood, Abram L. Lt. Col., USA

Collection, 1865. 2 items.

Draft of a report by Lockwood on the participation of the

120th New York Volunteers in the Battle of Hatcher's Run,

Feb. 5-7, 1865, and photograph of Gen. John Sedgwick.

551

Lockwood, Jeremiah T.

(1844-1925) Pvt., 4th New York Heavy Artillery

Papers, 1829-1922. 12 items.

Includes a diary, Jan. 1-Nov. 3, 1865, kept during Lockwood's convalescence at a military hospital outside Washington,

D.C. Describes hospital care and daily routine, morale, entertainment, deaths, and reaction among convalescents to General Lee's surrender at Appomattox and the assassination of

President Lincoln. Also contains newspaper clippings, photographs, and a map of the operations of the Army of the Potomac and the Army of the James in Virginia and Maryland.

552

Logan, John Alexander (1826-1886) Gen., USV

Family papers, 1847-1923. ca. 46,000 items.

General and official correspondence, headquarters letterbooks, order books, battle reports, returns, telegrams,

dispatches, and circulars relating chiefly to the Vicksburg,

Atlanta, Savannah, and Carolinas campaigns. Provides information on reconnaissance expeditions, troop positions, enlistments and resignations, morale, promotions, disputes between

officers, supplies, ordnance, depredations, courts-martial, prisoners of war, and the defense and operation of military railroads.

Also describes the turmoil in Washington at the beginning of

the war, skirmishes in northern Virginia in 1861, the Battle of

1st Manassas, the Fort Donelson Campaign, casualties in the

Battle of Shiloh, Halleck's advance on Corinth, Miss., and military organization. Includes about 30 sketches and map tracings of parts of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee,

and Virginia, and sketches of troop positions in the Battle of

Atlanta.

Finding aid available.

553

Logue, Lloyd Garrison Sgt. Maj., 7th Ohio Volunteers

Letter, 1917. 1 item.

Photocopy.

Letter from Logue to his daughter, Apr. 17,1917, recalling

his enlistment and training in the 7th Ohio, his capture at

Cross Lanes, W. Va., and his experiences as a prisoner of war.

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554

Long, Breckinridge (1881-1958)

Papers, 1740-1948. ca. 77,000 items.

Includes about 30 letters written during the war by Frank

Preston Blair, Jr. (1821-1875), concerning military appointments and organization, generalship, depredations in Maryland,

the Corinth Campaign, and the Arkansas Post (Fort Hindman)

expedition. Also contains postwar reminiscences of William S.

Long concerning his service in the 44th North Carolina Volunteers, 1861—65, and as a clerk on detached duty at Libby Prison

in Richmond, Va. Includes information on the battles of Bristoe

Station and Cold Harbor, the Kilpatrick—Dahlgren raid on

Richmond, prison escapes, the condition of exchanged Union

and Confederate prisoners of war, and camp life, morale, and

marches in the Army of Northern Virginia.

Finding aid available.

555

Lord, W. W. Vicksburg, Miss.

Diary, 1863. 1 item.

Transcript.

Copy of Mrs. Lord's "Diary of a Woman During the Siege of

Vicksburg. May to July, 1863." Describes the suffering of noncombatants in Vicksburg, the morale of the Confederate garrison,

disillusionment with Gen. John Pemberton, the behavior of

Union and Confederate soldiers after the capitulation, an interview with General Grant, and devastation in the area.

556

Love, John James Hervey

(1833-1897) Surg., 13th New Jersey Infantry

Papers, 1863-94. 50 items.

In part, transcripts.

Correspondence, short draft histories of regiments and batteries in the 12th Corps, Army of the Potomac, a general history of the 12th Corps, accounts of the battles of Cedar Mountain, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg, and printed matter.

557

Lovell, Mansfield (1822-1884) Gen., CSA

Letters, 1860-80. 9 items.

In part, photocopies.

Includes two letters from Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard to

Lovell, July 28, 1862, and Jan. 21, 1863, the former declining

Lovell's request that he preside over a court of inquiry on the

fall of New Orleans, La., and the latter concerning a command

for Lovell; a letter from Gov. Henry W. Allen to Lovell, Mar.

15,1864, asking for the return of funds belonging to the city of

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New Orleans; a letter from Gen. Joseph E. Johnston to Lovell,

Oct. 30, 1864, concerning General Sherman's strategy in the

Atlanta Campaign; and a copy of a note from Judah P. Benjamin to Lovell, Oct. 27, 1861.

558

Low-Mills Families

Papers, 1795-1959. ca. 4,000 items.

Includes 36 letters from Capt. George H. Putnam

(1844-1930), quartermaster and adjutant, 176th New York

Volunteers, to Mary Hillard Loines, Jan. 24, 1863-June 13,

1865, concerning campaigns in southern Louisiana, the Red

River Campaign of 1864, the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of

1864 (particularly the Battle of Cedar Creek), and the Carolinas Campaign. Provides information on camp life, marches,

foraging expeditions, morale, disease, hospital care, deaths,

conscripts, prisoners of war, guerrilla warfare, attacks on transports and supply ships on the Mississippi River, black life,

attitudes toward black soldiers, and the effect of the war on

noncombatants in Louisiana. Also, wartime entries in the

diary of Ellen Low Mills include remarks on the U.S.S. Monitor,

the Gettysburg Campaign, and the capture of vessels owned by

the Low family.

Finding aid available.

559

Lowe, John (1838-1930) 2d Asst. Engineer, USN

Papers, 1860-1945. ca. 600 items.

Includes information on Lowe's service as a private in the

2d Ohio Volunteers, and as assistant engineer on the U.S.S.

Huron, 1861-64, and the U.S.S. Shawmut, 1864-66. Also contains Lowe's discharge from the 2d Ohio, July 31, 1861, and

official correspondence and orders.

Finding aid available.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

560

Lowndes, William (1782-1822)

Papers, 1754-1941.

Microfilm, 2 reels.

Includes a biographical sketch of Lt. J. E. McPherson Washington (CSA); a copy of a letter by Capt. L. M. Shumaker concerning Washington's death on a reconnaissance expedition at

Cheat Mountain, W. Va., Aug. 25, 1861; and reminiscences of

Thomas Pinckney Lowndes on fortifications and military affairs

at Charleston, S.C., and vicinity.

Originals at the University of North Carolina.

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561

Luce, Stephen Bleecker

(1827-1917) Comdr., USN

Papers, 1799-1938. ca. 8,000 items.

Includes a diary and letterbooks kept by Luce as 3d

lieutenant, U.S.S. Wabash, May-Nov. 1861, and It. commander,

U.S. Practice Ship Macedonian, June-Sept. 1863, U.S.S.

Nantucket, Oct. 1863-July 1864, and U.S.S. Pontiac, Sept.

1864-June 1865. Contains lists of officers, names of prize

vessels, information on ship arrivals and departures in the

South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, accounts of the capture

of Forts Hatteras and Clark, N.C., and the Port Royal expedition—particularly the action at Hilton Head, S.C., and

the capture of Forts Beauregard and Walker. Also includes a

detailed report on the participation of the Nantucket in operations against Fort Sumter, May 14 and 18, 1864, and remarks

on discipline, courts-martial, naval intelligence, Confederate

deserters, and blacks.

Finding aid available.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

562

Ludwig, Edwin F. (1839-1884) Telegraph Operator,

South Carolina

Diary, 1861. 1 v.

Covers the period Jan. 1-June 7, 1861. Contains remarks

on the secession crisis, the seizure of Federal forts and arsenals

in the South, Confederate military appointments, and the bombardment and capture of Fort Sumter.

563

Lurton, Horace Harmon

(1844-1914) Lt., 3d Kentucky Cavalry, CSA

Papers, 1860-1914. ca. 250 items.

Contains a note from Lurton to his mother, Feb. 17, 1862,

informing her of his capture at Fort Donelson; a letter from

Gen. Simon B. Buckner to Gen. George W. Cullum, Feb. 19,

1862, requesting Lurton's release as a noncombatant; and

Lurton's certificate of discharge from the 5th Tennessee Regiment, Feb. 4, 1862. Also includes 10 letters from Lurton to A.

B. W. Allen, Mar. 7, 1862-Nov. 14, 1864, concerning prison

life at Camp Chase and Johnson's Island, his personal health,

and the mental and physical suffering of Confederate prisoners

of war; a letter from Lt. John Adams to Lurton, Feb. 17, 1865,

approving the circumstances of Lurton's release from prison;

and a statement of approbation on the means of Lurton's release

signed by 46 Confederate prisoners from Kentucky and

Tennessee. A letter from Lurton to A. B. W. Allen, May 4,

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1865, attests to his continued hopes for a Confederate victory

and the loyalty of southern women.

Finding aid available.

564

Lyons, Richard Bickerton Pemell,

1st Earl (1817-1887) British Ambassador

Letter, 1861. 1 item.

Letter from Lyons to J. Mandeville Carlisle, July 10,

1861,Washington, D.C., inquiring about legal aspects of the

Federal blockade.

565

Lyons, Thomas Captain's Clerk, USN

Diary, 1863. 1 v.

Account of Lyons' service aboard the U.S.S. Carondelet,

Jan. 8-19, 1863, and the U.S.S. Lafayette, Jan. 20-June 25,

1863. Contains details on the Arkansas Post (Fort Hindman)

and Yazoo River expeditions, the Battle of Grand Gulf, and the

Red River Campaign of 1863. Includes comments on the conduct of Capt. Henry Walke, the outfitting of the Lafayette,

loyalist refugees, aid to runaway slaves, discipline, disease,

casualties, foraging expeditions, illicit trade with Confederates,

the sinking of the U.S.S. Lancaster, the burning of the U.S.S.

Glide, and visits aboard the Lafayette by Adm. David D. Porter

and Gens. Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman.

566

McAdoo, William Gibbs (1863-1941)

Papers, 1786-1941. ca. 250,000 items.

Correspondence of the Floyd, McAdoo, and Gibbs families.

Letters of William G. McAdoo, Sr. (1820-1894) describe troop

movements in the Atlanta Campaign and depredations and

plundering by Confederate and Union soldiers, the impact of

the war in Georgia, Gen. Ambrose Burnside's advance on

Knoxville, Tenn., the sabotage of Confederate railroads by

Union sympathizers, and the displacement of Unionists in east

Tennessee. Letters of John D. McAdoo discuss the Federal

blockade, the defense of Galveston, Tex., recruitment and popular support for the war in Texas, and the impact of the war on

the State of Texas. Letters by Lt. Richard S. Floyd concern his

enlistment in the C.S. Navy, the blockade of Mobile Bay, and

his service on the C.S.S. Florida. Letters of Charles R. Floyd

(CSN) relate to the activities of the Confederate Navy along

the coast of Georgia. Also contains miscellaneous letters concerning the occupation of New Orleans, La., conditions in

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Richmond, Va., in Oct. 1864, coastal defenses, black life, and

depredations by Federal soldiers.

Finding aid available.

567

McCabe, Flora Morgan Virginia

Collection, 1855-78. 69 items.

Photocopies.

Includes about 30 letters and documents, 1861-65, concerning camp life, morale, diet, reconnaissance expeditions,

supplies, troop positions, disease, and casualties in the 1st

Manassas Campaign; popular support for the war in Virginia;

and the role of women in the war. Also contains the discharge

and exemption certificate (medical) of Sgt. Edward J. Garrett.

Correspondents are William H. Carter, Edward J. Garrett, Flora

Garrett, John H. Morgan (24th Virginia Volunteers), Margaret A. Morgan, Pvt. William C. Morgan (24th Virginia), and

Sgt. Edward T. Walker.

568

McCalla, Helen Varnum Hill

Diary excerpts, 1863, 1865. 2 items.

Photocopies.

Entries describe the draft riots in New York City, July

17-19, 1863, and events in Washington, D.C., from the Lincoln assassination through the trial of the Lincoln conspirators,

Apr. 14-May 25, 1865.

569

McCarter, (?) South Carolina

Collection, 1860-1946. 3 items.

Manuscript history, 1860-66, of the secession controversy,

the Civil War, and the political, social, and economic effects of

the war, particularly in South Carolina; and two brief notes,

1946 and undated, on the author's identity.

570

McCleery, Robert W. (d. 1863) Engineer, USN

Papers, 1859-63. 3 items.

Letter from Peter B. Robinson, assistant engineer, to

McCleery, May 25, 1863, U.S.S. Stettin, concerning Robinson's

promotion, and letter from George D. Emmons to McCleery,

June 2,1863, U.S.S. Catskill, concerning repairs to the Catskill.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

158
571

McClellan, George Brinton (1826-1885) Gen., USA

Papers, 1823-98. ca. 33,000 items.

Chiefly official correspondence, orders, reports, returns,

commissions, diaries, receipts, inventories, accounts, telegrams,

letterbooks, and memoranda, 1861-62, used by McClellan in

his Report on the Organization and Campaigns of the Army of

the Potomac (1864) and McClellan's Own Story: The War for

the Union (1887). Relates largely to the Peninsular and Antietam campaigns. Also includes correspondence concerning

McClellan's Presidential aspirations and his interest in national

political affairs, 1864-65. Correspondents include John Jacob

Astor, Jr., Nathaniel P. Banks, John G. Barnard, Don Carlos

Buell, Ambrose E. Burnside, Simon Cameron, Leslie Combs,

John A. Dix, Millard Fillmore, Henry W. Halleck, Samuel

P. Heintzelman, Hiram Ketchum, Abraham Lincoln, Irwin

McDowell, Randolph B. Marcy, George G. Meade, Joel Parker,

Edwin M. Stanton, Edwin Vose Sumner, Charles M. Swann,

Clement L. Vallandigham, Stewart Van Vliet, Daniel W.

Voorhees, George W. Weeks, James C. Welling, Henry B.

Whipple, John E. Wool, and others.

Finding aid available.

572

McClellan, George Brinton (1865-1940)

Papers, 1838-1922. ca. 1,200 items.

Includes a letter from an unidentified soldier in the 66th

New York Volunteers, Nov. 12,1862, concerning the pursuit of

Confederate troops from Harpers Ferry to Warrenton, Va., and

three sketches showing topography and troop positions during

the Peninsular Campaign.

Finding aid available.

573

McClintock, James M. Capt., Signal Corps, USA

Papers, 1862-64. 84 items.

Messages between Adm. David D. Porter, Gen. William T.

Sherman, and Gen. Ulysses S. Grant sent by McClintock during the Vicksburg Campaign, and 23 intercepted Confederate

messages sent chiefly from Kennesaw Mountain, Ga., June

15-27, 1864.

574

McConihe, John (d. 1864) Lt. Col.,

169th New York Volunteers

Letter, 1863. 1 item.

Letter from McConihe to Martin I. Townsend, May 9,1863,

Suffolk, Va., describing the Siege of Suffolk, devastation in the

area, and the service of the 169th New York.

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George Brinton McClellan and

Mrs. Nellie Marcy McClellan
575

McCook Family

Papers, 1827-1963. 3,000 items.

In part, transcripts and photocopies.

Correspondence and papers of the "Fighting McCooks," of

Ohio. Includes letters and papers of Daniel McCook (1798-

1863) concerning the Battle of 1st Manassas and the death of

his son, Pvt. Charles M. McCook (1843-1861); Gen. Alexander

McDowell McCook (1831-1903) on campaigns in Tennessee

and Kentucky, 1861-63; Col. Edwin Stanton McCook (1837-

1873) on the Fort Donelson and Corinth campaigns; Col. Anson

George McCook (1835-1917) concerning the death of Gen. Robert Latimer McCook (1827-1862) and the Battle of Chickamauga; and Lt. Roderick Sheldon McCook (1839-1886) concerning the battles of Roanoke Island and New Bern, N.C.,

the Fort Fisher expeditions, and the bombardment and capture

of Charleston, S.C. Includes comments on the burning of

Charleston and the attitude of noncombatants in the city. Miscellaneous items in the collection relate to the participation of

the 126th Ohio Volunteers in the Gettysburg Campaign, the

resignation of Gen. Don Carlos Buell, and field and staff officers in the 2d Ohio Volunteers.

Finding aid available.

576

McCoy, Frank Ross (1874-1954)

Papers, 1847-1954. ca. 36,750 items.

Includes a letter from J. C. Smith to his parents, June 13,

1864, concerning the Atlanta Campaign; two letters by Col.

Thomas Franklin McCoy, 107th Pennsylvania Volunteers, written during campaigns in Virginia, May 7, 1864, and Jan. 24,

1865; and a postwar essay (39 p.) discussing the Petersburg

and Appomattox campaigns.

Finding aid available.

577

McCullough, James T.

Collection, 1862-65. 1 v.

Chiefly printed circulars and decisions on U.S. Treasury

Department regulations received by McCullough as collector

of Internal Revenue at Elkton, Md.

578

McDonald, William Ogden

(1836-1918) Lt. Col., Surg., USV

Papers, 1795-1893. 182 items.

Chiefly correspondence, general and special orders, passes,

requisitions, invoices, receipts, commissions, muster rolls,

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affidavits, and miscellaneous items relating to McDonald's service with the 65th New York Volunteers and the 2d Kentucky

Cavalry. Includes three postwar narratives concerning the organization and work of the Medical Department, conflicts between

the Medical Department and the Christian Sanitary Commission, the development of field hospitals, services performed by

chaplains, disease, hospital care, confusion and mismanagement in the Medical Department, and camp life, training,

marches, and weapons. Provides numerous details on the Siege

of Yorktown, and the battles of Malvern Hill, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain,

Missionary Ridge, and Resaca.

579

McEwen, John Pvt., 1st Minnesota Volunteers

Papers, 1861-69. 8 items.

Contains two letters from McEwen to his family and

friends, Oct. 18, 1861, and Jan. 23, 1862, Camp Stone, Md.,

concerning the Battle of 1st Manassas, the treatment of Federal prisoners of war in Richmond, Va., lack of confidence in

Gen. Charles P. Stone, and McEwen's application for a lieutenancy in the 3d Minnesota Volunteers. Also contains an unsigned

letter in a different hand portraying the excitement of new

recruits at Camp Utley, Wis., in May or June 1861.

580

McGarrah, Gates W. (1863-1940) Collector

Presidential letters, 1786-1899. 70 items.

Photocopies.

Includes a letter from President Lincoln to Edwin M.

Stanton, Jan. 31, 1862; a letter from Gen. Ulysses S. Grant to

Gov. David Tod of Ohio, June 7, 1862; and two letters by Chester A. Arthur as Quartermaster General of New York, Aug. 8

and Aug. 18, 1862.

Finding aid available.

581

McHenry, James (1753-1816)

Papers, 1775-1862. ca. 3,600 items.

In part, photocopies.

Includes three letters from Christopher P. Wolcott to J.

Howard McHenry, 1862, concerning visits to prisoners of war

at Fort Warren, Mass., and a letter from Frank K. Howard to J.

Howard McHenry, Nov. 4, 1862, written from Fort Warren.

Finding aid available.

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582

MacKaye, James Morrison

(1805-1888) Abolitionist, New York

Papers, 1824-1953. ca. 75 items.

Includes 44 letters to members of the American Freedmen's

Inquiry Commission (Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, Robert Dale

Owen, and James M. MacKaye), 1862-63, concerning the condition and treatment of black refugees at Fort Monroe, Va.,

and various other collection points, the assignment of officers

to black regiments, and employment as a residential superintendent of black refugees. Also includes a list of maps and

charts furnished to the commission. Correspondents include

Francis C. Barlow, LeBaron Russell, Edwin M. Stanton, Charles

Sumner, John C. Tucker, and Peter H. Watson.

583

McKean, Thomas Jefferson (ca. 1810-1879) Gen., USV

Letter, 1864. 1 item.

Letter from McKean to Francisco Moreno, Spanish vice

consul at Pensacola, Fla., Dec. 31,1864, apologizing for Moreno's

treatment by Federal soldiers and explaining his government's

policy toward noncombatants.

584

McKee, Mary T. New York

Papers, 1863-64. 5 items.

Account of the imprisonment of John McKee (father of

Mary McKee) at Fort Lafayette, N.Y., as a Confederate sympathizer (65 p.); letter from George M. Stoll (CSA) of South Carolina to Mrs. H. A. Barling, Fort Lafayette, May 9,1864, expressing appreciation for Mrs. Barling's assistance to Confederate

prisoners of war; letter, Feb. 2,1864, concerning military passes

to Fort Lafayette; and a sketched emblem of the Knights of the

Crimson Cross presented to Mrs. Barling with the signatures

of Gens. Franklin Gardner and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee,

and others.

585

McKinley, William (1843-1901), Pres., U.S.

Papers, 1847-1902. ca. 131,000 items.

Includes McKinley's discharge as a captain in the 23d Ohio

Volunteers, July 26, 1865, a sketch of his military service, and

muster-out rolls.

Published index and microfilm copy (98 reels) available.

586

McKinley, William C. Pvt., 24th Maryland Volunteers

Collection, 1861-62. 13 items.

Letters from McKinley to his wife, Dec. 17, 1861-May 5,

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1862, concerning Gen. Ambrose Burnside's expedition to North

Carolina. Describes preparations at Annapolis, Md., the landing of troops on Cape Hatteras, N.C., the Battle of Roanoke

Island, and the occupation of New Bern. Includes remarks on

camp life, disease, casualties, prisoners of war, the attitude of

noncombatants in the area, and illiteracy among captured Confederate soldiers.

587

McLennan, Roderick Engineer, Canada

Collection, 1864-87. 5 items.

Photocopies.

Contains McLennan's parole, Jan. 6, 1864; two passes for

travel from Key West, Fla., to New York on the U.S.S. Continental; a letter from McLennan to his brother, Dr. Donald

McLennan, written from Fort Jefferson, Fla., Nov. 27,1864; and

a postwar letter from McLennan to Donald MacMaster, Dec.

15, 1887, Toronto, Canada, concerning his claims against the

United States stemming from his confinement at Fort Jefferson

during the Civil War.

588

McManaway, Charles Harvey

(1827-1896) Sgt., 58th Virginia Regiment

Account and memo book, 1877-93. 1 v.

Contains genealogical information on the McManaway family and a description of McManaway's service in the Civil War,

particularly during the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862.

589

McMichael, J. C. 5th Regiment,

Pennsylvania Reserve Corps

Letter, 1862. 1 item.

Letter from McMichael to his aunt, July 5,1862, City Point,

Va., describing his participation in the battles of Mechanicsville,

Gaines Mill, and White Oak Swamp. Includes information on

company and regimental casualties and the capture of Gen.

George A. McCall.

590

McPherson, Edward

(1830-1895) U.S. Representative, Pennsylvania

Papers, 1738-1936. ca. 18,000 items.

Includes four letters from McPherson to relatives in Pennsylvania, July-Aug. 1861, concerning his service as a volunteer aide to Gen. George A. McCall and as a captain of volunteers assigned to guard railroads in Maryland; and six letters

from William Nellis to his family in Pennsylvania written from

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Beaufort, S.C., and Jones Landing, Va., Feb.-Nov. 1864, concerning his enlistment in the 29th Connecticut Volunteers, the

death of his brother Joseph at Olustee, Fla., the Siege of

Beaufort, the Siege of Charleston, S.C., hospital care, and personal needs. Also contains enlistment certificates for Sgt. Randolph Johnston, 27th Regiment, U.S. Colored Troops, and eight

volunteers in the 81st Pennsylvania Volunteers from Cumberland Township, Adams County, Pa.; bounty subscriptions,

discharges, and commissions; a list of officers in the 7th Pennsylvania Volunteers; receipts issued to volunteers from Cumberland Township by the Relief Assurance Committee; and

postwar clippings, maps, and pamphlets relating to the Battle

of Gettysburg.

Finding aid available.

591

McPherson, James Birdseye (1828-1864) Gen., USV

Papers, 1848-68. 364 items.

Chiefly personal and official correspondence, telegrams,

orders, receipts, quartermaster reports, and ordnance reports.

Includes two letters from Lt. James H. Wilson to McPherson,

Feb. 20 and Apr. 30, 1862, Port Royal and Hilton Head, S.C.,

concerning the Siege of Fort Pulaski, military organization,

and the generalship of Henry W. Benham, Quincy A. Gillmore,

David Hunter, and Thomas W. Sherman; letters from special

agents in Louisiana concerning the location, confiscation, and

sale of cotton; a report on destitute families in Warren County,

Miss., and a summary of rations sold to the citizens of Warren

County; a list of quartermaster depots in Mississippi, Nov. 1863;

and the signatures of officers in the 7th New Jersey Volunteers

and the 30th Illinois Volunteers.

Finding aid available.

592

McPherson, Theodore H. N. Lt., 107th

Pennsylvania Volunteers

Collection, 1860-65. 28 items.

Chiefly letters between McPherson and his brothers, George

E. (USN) and B. R. McPherson (USN), 1862-63, written from

camps in Virginia and aboard the U.S.S. Norwich, St. Johns

River, Fla. Describes camp life and fortifications along the Potomac River, marches in Virginia, new recruits, morale, and routine duties on the Norwich. Also includes a recruiting poster, a

duty roster for guards at Camp Curtin, Pa., and McPherson's

diary, Oct. 5, 1861-May 19, 1862.

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593

Magoffin, Beriah (1815-1885) Gov., Kentucky

Letters, 1861. 2 items.

Letter from Magoffin to Dr. John M. Johnson, May 24,

1861, asking Johnson to present a proclamation of neutrality

at a meeting in Mayfield, Ky., and letter from Magoffin to Gov.

Isham G. Harris of Tennessee, Aug. 12, 1861, assuring Harris

that Union men camped in southern Kentucky would not invade

his State.

594

Magrath, Andrew Gordon

(1813-1893) Gov., South Carolina

Collection, 1861-65. 4 items.

Letters from Magrath to Govs. Joseph E. Brown and

Zebulon B. Vance and Judge Edward Frost concerning military organization and supplies, the disposition of troops, and

coastal defenses in South Carolina.

595

Mahan, Alfred Thayer (1840-1914) Lt., USN

Papers, 1861-1913. 5 items.

Letter from Mahan to C. S. Newcome, Oct. 10,1861, U.S.S.

Pocahontas, on the arrest and imprisonment of secessionist

classmates, the continued presence of southern officers in the

U.S. Navy, attitudes of secessionist women in Maryland, and

the duty stations of mutual friends.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

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Mallory, Stephen Russell

(ca. 1813-1875) C.S. Secretary of the Navy

Diary, 1861-66. 2 v.

Transcript.

Describes political and social affairs in Richmond, Va., the

progress of the war, the seeming indifference of most Virginians to the threat of invasion, cabinet meetings, reaction in

Richmond to the policies of Gens. Benjamin F. Butler, David

Hunter, and John W. Phelps, and the deteriorating relationship between President Davis and Gen. Joseph E. Johnston.

Also contains comments on the character of Mrs. Jefferson

Davis, the generalship of P. G. T. Beauregard, the role of Gen.

Leroy Pope Walker as head of the War Department, and naval

affairs.

Original at the University of North Carolina.

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597

Malvern (U.S.S.)

Notebook, ca. 1863. 1 v.

Contains regulations for the crew of the U.S.S. Malvern.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

598

Mangum, Willie Person

(1792-1861) Jurist, North Carolina

Papers, 1771-1906. ca. 5,000 items.

Contains about 200 letters written during the war concerning campaigns in Arkansas and Missouri in 1861, enlistments

and training in North Carolina, troop movements, the Battle of

1st Manassas, the death of Mangum's son, William Preston

Mangum, camp life, morale, disease, hospital care, prisoners of

war, generalship, depredations along the Atlantic coast, fortifications at Memphis, Tenn., and vicinity, the Siege of Petersburg,

and the use and abuse of blacks by Confederates. Correspondents include Mangum's brother-in-law James Cain, Col. Wharton Green, Lt. John P. Lockhart, William D. Lunsford, Academus

Mangum, Chaplain Addeson M. Mangum, Learned H. Mangum,

William Preston Mangum, Josiah Turner, and Maj. Robert F.

Webb. Also includes a sketch of the Manassas battlefield.

599

Manigault, Louis (b. ca. 1829) Medical Assistant, CSA

Family papers, 1752-1865.

Microfilm, 1 reel.

Contains letters of Manigault written partly during his

service as secretary to Dr. Joseph Jones concerning conditions

at Andersonville Prison, the blockade and bombardment of

Charleston, S.C., the death of his brother Alfred (4th South

Carolina Cavalry), fortifications in Georgia and South Carolina,

and the economic effects of the war; letters of Gabriel E.

Manigault (4th South Carolina Cavalry) concerning the engagement at Trevilian Station, prison life at Fort Delaware, and his

exchange; and a letter by Alfred Manigault, Oct. 23, 1862, on

an engagement at Pocotaligo, S.C. Also includes letters of Dr.

Joseph Jones and Dr. Samuel P. Moore (CSA) concerning the

administration of the Medical Department and the problem of

gangrene among Confederate soldiers and prisoners of war,

and letters by Charles Manigault (father of Louis, Gabriel, and

Alfred Manigault) describing depredations in Charleston, S.C,

and vicinity, the occupation of Charleston, attitudes of noncombatants, and the response of blacks to the war. Miscellaneous items include the diary of Louis Manigault, Nov. 28—Dec.

7, 1863, newspaper clippings, Confederate currency, sketches

of Confederate flags, a map of the Savannah River, military

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passes, vouchers, certificates, and paroles, letters by Federal

soldiers at Andersonville Prison, a pamphlet entitled "Inquiries

Upon Hospital Gangrene," by Dr. Joseph Jones, and photographs

of Jefferson Davis, Joseph Jones, Alfred and Louis Manigault,

and Gens. P G. T. Beauregard, Wade Hampton, Thomas J.

Jackson, Joseph E. Johnston, Robert E. Lee, and William T.

Sherman.

600

Mann, Mary Tyler Peabody

(1806-1887) Educator, Massachusetts

Papers, 1863-76. 75 items.

Ten letters by Maria R. Mann, Feb. 10-Aug. 14, 1863,

describe her work as an agent of the U.S. Sanitary Commission

at a freedmen's camp in Helena, Ark. Includes comments on

disease and deaths among freedmen, their abuse by soldiers

and merchants, black life, efforts to organize black regiments,

and the acquisition and distribution of supplies.

601

Mansfield, Joseph King Fenno (1803-1862) Gen., USA

Collection, 1853-62. 17 items.

In part, photocopies.

Chiefly letters from Mansfield to his wife, Sept. 13,1861-

July 2, 1862, concerning the defense of Washington, D.C., the

generalship of George B. McClellan, Mansfield's desire for a

field command, the duel between the U.S.S. Monitor and C.S.S.

Merrimac and Mansfield's disagreement with Gen. John Wool

over a report on the battle, the attitude of noncombatants in

southeast Virginia, the occupation of Norfolk, Va., and routine

military affairs at Cape Hatteras, N.C. Also contains a photograph of Mansfield and a telegram from Maj. George D. Ramsay to Mansfield, Aug. 21,1861, concerning the arrival of arms

at the Washington arsenal.

602

Marble, Manton Malone

(1834-1917) Journalist-Editor, New York

Papers, 1852-1916. ca. 14,000 items.

Includes a few letters by soldiers or correspondents in the

field concerning the Peninsular and Petersburg campaigns, and

miscellaneous letters and documents relating to the U.S. Sanitary Commission.

Finding aid available.

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603

Markland, Absalom H. Special Agent, U.S. Post Office;

(d. 1888) Col., USA

Papers, 1861-1908. ca. 170 items.

Chiefly letters to Markland from assistant postmasters

John A. Kasson and George W. McLellan concerning the establishment and operation of post offices in federally occupied

territory (Fort Henry, Memphis, and Nashville, Tenn., and New

Orleans, La.), postmaster appointments, mail schedules, trafficking and other irregularities by postal agents, captured Confederate mail, postal receipts, and the delivery of mail to Gen.

William T. Sherman's army during the Atlanta Campaign.

Several letters from Robert C. Gist concern the operation of the

post office at Memphis, Tenn. Also contains an organizational

chart for the Army of the Ohio and miscellaneous telegrams,

receipts, orders, and passes.

604

Marshall, Daniel W. (b. ca. 1830) Pvt., 1st Rhode

Island Light Artillery

Papers, 1861-63. 4 items.

Diary, Jan. 1, 1862-Mar. 8,1863, kept by Marshall during

the Peninsular and Fredericksburg campaigns; a summary of

Marshall's activities, Aug. 16, 1862-Mar. 8, 1863; furlough

certificate; and military pass, Mar. 7, 1863.

605

Marshall, John Wesley

(1834-1922) Lt., 97th Ohio Volunteers

Diary, 1862-65. 1 v.

Transcript.

Diary, Sept. 7,1862-June 10,1865, kept by Marshall during the Stones River Campaign, the Tullahoma, Chickamauga,

Chattanooga, and Atlanta campaigns, and the relief of Knoxville. Includes details on Gen. Braxton Bragg's invasion of

Kentucky, and the Battles of Perryville and Murfreesboro. Also

contains comments on camp life, marches, morale, casualties,

disease, foraging expeditions, supplies, funerals, reenlistments,

Confederate deserters, fortifications around Nashville, Tenn.,

and black camp followers.

606

Marston, John (1796-1885) Capt, USN

Papers, 1850-62. ca. 250 items.

In part, transcripts.

Chiefly official correspondence, orders, reports, and circulars received by Marston in 1862 as senior officer at Hampton

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Roads, Va., and commander of the U.S.S. Roanoke. Concerns

the Federal blockade, prize vessels Thomas Watson and York,

training, discipline, discharges, desertions, deaths, prisoner

exchange, the health of sailors, ship repairs, supplies, the

Roanoke Island expedition, and the sinking of the U.S.S.

Cumberland. Correspondents include James F. Armstrong, John

S. Chauncey, Louis M. Goldsborough, Charles Green, Samuel

P. Lee, John W. Livingston, Garrett J. Pendergast, William H.

Seward, Gideon Welles, and John E. Wool.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

607

Mart, Charles Capt., USA

Certificate, 1863. 1 item.

Ration certificate for Katharina Keorper, wife of Pvt. Jacob

Keorper, 1st Louisiana Volunteers, issued after her husband

was wounded at Port Hudson, La.

608

Mason, James Murray (1798-1871) C.S. Diplomat

Papers, 1838-70. ca. 3,600 items.

In part, transcripts and photocopies.

Contains instructions to Mason from Confederate secretaries Robert M. Hunter and Judah P. Benjamin and assistant

secretary William M. Browne; letters and extracts of letters to

Mason from the British Foreign Office; dispatches to Mason

concerning Confederate victories, the conduct of the war, policy toward Great Britain, and the Federal blockade; correspondence on the Trent affair; the log of H.M.S. Rinaldo, Jan. 1-14,

1862; letters and documents concerning British merchant

vessels; reports on British ships captured or destroyed by the

U.S. Blockading Squadron; a report on the attack of the C.S.S.

Merrimac on Federal ships in Hampton Roads, Mar. 8, 1862;

letters to Mason from officers commanding Confederate ships

in European waters concerning fuel; and a letterbook, Feb. 2,

1862—May 1,1865. Correspondents include Judah P. Benjamin,

William M. Browne, James D. Bulloch, Robert M. Hunter, W.

S. Lindsay, Ambrose Dudley Mann, P. C. Martin, Christopher

G. Memminger, Lord John Russell, John Slidell, and James

Spence.

609

Massachusetts

Civil War records, 1861-64. 10 items.

Contains a list of volunteers from North Reading in the

32d, 33d, and 35th Massachusetts Volunteers, July 10, 1862; a

list of volunteers from North Reading in Company D, 50th

Massachusetts, Sept. 19, 1862; a partial list of volunteers in

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Company E, 39th Massachusetts, Sept. 5, 1862; muster rolls

for Companies A and G, 59th Massachusetts, 1864; and pay

records for Company F, 13th Massachusetts, 1862-64. Also, a

volume begun as a "Complete Record of the Names of all the

Soldiers and Officers in the Military Service and of all the

Seamen and Officers in the Naval Service of the United States,

during the Rebellion begun in 1861," but containing the names

and abbreviated service records of only 113 men,

610

Massey, R. H. Capt., Chaplain, 40th Illinois Volunteers

Collection, 1863-64. 15 items.

Consists of a report by Massey on the condition and service

of the 40th Illinois during the Atlanta Campaign; a list of the

soldiers in the 40th Illinois killed or wounded in the Battle of

Resaca; an inventory of the effects of Lt. Col. R. L. Barnhill,

who was killed at Kennesaw Mountain; a copy of a war correspondent's report on the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain; an

inventory of equipment in Massey's charge; orders concerning

reenlistments and the property and treatment of noncombatants; and a letter from Massey to President Lincoln, May 28,

1863, La Grange, Tenn., requesting permission to organize and

command a black regiment.

611

Matthewson, Arthur (1837-1920) Surg., USN

Papers, 1861-65. 9 items.

Official correspondence concerning duty assignments,

commissions, and examinations for promotion. Correspondents

include Thornton A. Jenkins, Gideon Welles, and William

Whelan.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

612

Maury, Betty Herndon (1835-1903) Fredericksburg, Va.

Diary, 1861-63. 1 v.

Provides comments on Maury's move from Washington,

D.C., to Fredericksburg in 1861, preparations for war in

Virginia, jealousy between regular and volunteer forces, contributions of Confederate women to the war effort, disagreement

between Matthew F. Maury and President Davis, efforts by M.

F. Maury to torpedo Federal vessels on the Potomac and James

Rivers, popular support for the war, inflation, troop movements,

raids and skirmishes in the area around Fredericksburg, the

occupation of Falmouth and Fredericksburg, the suffering of

noncombatants, black life, and the response of blacks to the

war.

Microfilm copy (1 reel) available.

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613

Maury, Dabney Herndon (1822-1900) CSA

Collection, 1862. 2 items.

Letter from Maury to Gen. Earl Van Dorn, June 25, 1862,

concerning the disposition of Union troops in northern Mississippi and Alabama, Confederate supplies, and rumors of the

removal or resignation of Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard; letter from

Maury to Van Dorn, July 8, 1862, on the strength of Gen.

Sterling Price's division, reinforcements, and generalship in

the Confederate Army.

614

Maury, Matthew Fontaine Comdr., CSN; Special Agent

(1806-1873) to Great Britain

Papers, 1825-1927. ca. 14,500 items.

Includes correspondence of Maury concerning the secession crisis, an invitation to make his home in Russia, the manufacture of torpedoes, plans for the construction of gunboats and

shore batteries in Virginia, the acquisition of ships for the

Confederate Navy, the security of his family, and affairs in

Richmond, Va.; letters of William A. Maury concerning the

situation in Richmond and his appointment to a military court;

letters of Gen. Dabney H. Maury and other members of the

Maury family concerning the location or possible death of Lt.

John H. Maury; miscellaneous letters concerning the suffering

of noncombatants in Virginia, plundering by Federal soldiers,

the capture and burning of Richmond, and the attitude of the

South in defeat. Also contains about 30 letters of Maj. Richard

L. Maury (24th Virginia Regiment) written chiefly to his mother

describing camp life, training, discipline, enlistments, military

organization, entertainment, the economic effects of the war,

skirmishes in northern Virginia, the Siege of Richmond, and

the character and behavior of Confederate soldiers. Additional

items comprise letters received by M. F. Maury as special Confederate agent in London and as an immigration official for

southern expatriates in Mexico.

Finding aid available.

615

May, John Frederick (1812-1891) Physician

Essay, 1887. 1 item.

Manuscript essay, "The Mark of the Scalpel," recounting

May's identification of the body of John Wilkes Booth, a former

patient, and arguing that Booth was insane when he shot President Lincoln.

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616

Mayo, Joseph (1795-1872) Mayor, Richmond, Va.

Letter, 1865. 1 item.

Transcript.

Letter from Mayo to Gen. Godfrey Weitzel, Apr. 3, 1865,

surrendering the city of Richmond to Union forces.

617

Mazzini, Giuseppe

(1805-1872) Revolutionist-Journalist, Italy

Collection, undated. 4 items.

Autograph literary manuscript, "La Concordia," in Italian,

bound, donated by Mazzini during the Civil War to be sold for

the benefit of wounded soldiers. Includes an English translation and two engravings and one photograph of Mazzini.

618

Mead, Rufus (1836-1922) Sgt., 5th

Connecticut Volunteers

Papers, 1861-1943. 233 items.

Chiefly letters from Mead to his brother David and various

members of the Mead family, May 25, 1861-May 9, 1865,

concerning the Commissary Department, sutlers, casualties,

morale, marches, plundering by Federal soldiers, enlistments,

training, camp life, diet, disease, prisoners of war, generalship

in the Union Army, the attitude of noncombatants in the South,

and the changing attitude of Federal soldiers toward southerners.

Also describes the Battle of Chancellorsville, the Atlanta

Campaign, the Savannah Campaign, and the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862, particularly the Battle of Winchester,

and the activities of Unionists in Atlanta. A diary (5 v.), Aug.

28, 1861-May 29, 1865, contains remarks on the arrest of two

female soldiers, Unionists in Virginia, the arrest of Confederate spies, reconnaissance balloons, Union morale after the 2d

Manassas Campaign, foraging expeditions, depredations by

Federal soldiers, the Antietam, Gettysburg, and Carolinas

campaigns, and operations along the Rapidan and Rappahannock Rivers in late 1863. Also includes a biographical sketch of

Mead written in 1943 by Mrs. Jennie C. Mead.

619

Meade, William (1789-1862) Episcopal Bishop, Virginia

Papers, 1822-62. 50 items.

Contains 11 letters from Meade to John Stewart of Richmond, Va., written from Millwood, Meade's home in Clark

County, Va., July 1861-Jan. 1862, concerning Federal and

Confederate strategy in the Battle of 1st Manassas, troop movements and skirmishes in the Shenandoah Valley, the activities

of J. E. B. Stuart, generalship and morale in the Confederate

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Army, depredations, casualties among volunteers from Clark

County, and the care of sick and wounded soldiers.

620

Meagher, Thomas Francis (1823-1867) Gen., USV

Collection, 1859-65. 3 items.

Letter from Meagher to John F. Coyle, New York, Sept.

27,1861, concerning the appointment of sutlers for the 4th and

5th New York Volunteers and Meagher's reasons for entering

the Army. Also includes a pass issued to Meagher, Apr. 23,

1865, to serve as an honor guard for the body of President

Lincoln.

621

Mearns, Edgar Alexander (1856-1916)

Papers, 1864-1918. ca. 5,850 items.

Includes a letter by Gen. John A. Dix, Oct. 20, 1864.

Finding aid available.

622

Meigs, Montgomery Cunningham

(1816-1892) Q.M. Gen., USA

Papers, 1849-1968. ca. 4,000 items.

In part, transcripts.

Includes two letterbooks, Apr. 1, 1861-Feb. 26, 1862, and

Apr. 2-29, 1864, containing copies of incoming and outgoing

correspondence; newspaper clippings relating to the war; a

pamphlet: Instructions for Officers on Outpost and Patrol Duty;

sketches of portable barracks and war scenes; notes on equipment and supplies; miscellaneous accounts; a report on the

death of Meigs' son, Lt. John Rodgers Meigs; remarks on the

economic effects of the war and the changing attitudes of Federal soldiers toward the South; and a diary, 1861-64, containing brief references to Cabinet meetings, conferences with Gens.

Ambrose E. Burnside, Henry W. Halleck, George B. McClellan,

William S. Rosecrans, William T. Sherman, and others, trips to

the front lines, inspection tours, and problems with Secretary

Stanton over fraud in the Quartermaster Department.

Finding aid available.

623

Meigs, Return Jonathan (1740-1823) Tennessee

Family papers, 1772-1862. 72 items.

Includes a letter by Return J. Meigs (1801 -1891), Feb. 10,

1861, Nashville, concerning Unionist sentiment in Tennessee

and public rejoicing in Nashville over the apparent Union victory in the election of delegates to the State convention.

Microfilm copy (1 reel) available.

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624

Mejan, Eugene French Consul, New Orleans, La.

Papers, 1862. 85 items.

Chiefly correspondence and reports of Mejan, Gov. Thomas

0. Moore, Mayor John J. Monroe, and various officers of the

French brigade, Feb.-May 1862, concerning the service of foreign volunteer organizations in New Orleans before and during the Federal occupation, efforts to maintain French neutrality,

and the departure of the steamer Milan. Also includes Adm.

David G. Farragut's assurance not to interfere with the foreign

police guard in New Orleans. Largely in French.

625

Meredith, William D. (b. 1844) Pvt.,

134th Indiana Volunteers

Documents, 1864. 2 items.

Discharge, Sept. 2, 1864, and certificate of honorable

service, Dec. 15, 1864.

626

Merwin, James Burtis (1829-1917) Chaplain, USA

Collection, 1861-1910. 6 items.

Transcripts and facsimiles.

Diary, May 10—Sept. 5, 1864, describing Merwin's service

aboard the hospital ship Thomas P. Way, the arrival and care

of wounded soldiers at the "Transit Hospital" at Willets Point,

N.Y., the dispersal of convalescents to hospitals from Maine to

New Jersey, efforts to locate missing and wounded soldiers,

and efforts to notify the families of deceased soldiers. Also contains a copy of a letter by Merwin, July 5, 1910, concerning a

discussion he witnessed between President Lincoln and Gen.

Benjamin F. Butler on what to do with 180,000 black soldiers

after the war; facsimiles of orders issued by Gen. Winfield

Scott and President Lincoln granting Merwin free access to

military camps; copy of an order by Charles McDougall, May

19, 1863; and a published postwar photograph of Mervin.

627

Miers, Earl Schenck (1910-1972) Editor; Author

Papers, 1951-60. 3 items.

Manuscripts of The General Who Marched to Hell; William

Tecumseh Sherman and His March to Fame and Infamy (1951),

The Web of Victory; Grant at Vicksburg (1955); and Miers and

Paul M. Angle, The Tragic Years, 1860-1865; a Documentary

History of the American Civil War (1960).

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628

Miles, William Porcher (1822-1899) C.S. Representative,

South Carolina

Collection, 1861. 1 item.

Transcript.

Letter from Miles to Gov. Francis W. Pickens, Feb. 9,1861,

Montgomery, Ala., announcing the selection of Jefferson Davis

as President of the new Confederate States of America and

Alexander Stephens as Vice President, and urging delay in the

planned attack on Fort Sumter.

629

Miles—Cameron Families

Correspondence, 1860-1945. ca. 1,000 items.

Includes a few letters to Gen. Nelson A. Miles (1839-1925),

1863-65. Correspondents include Thomas C. Cox and Gens.

John C. Caldwell and Winfield Scott Hancock.

Finding aid available.

630

Miller, Allen Woods

(ca. 1834-1864) Capt., 36th Iowa Volunteers

Diary, 1863-1940. 1 v.

Transcript.

Covers the period Jan. 1, 1863-Aug. 18, 1864. Describes

troop movements along the Mississippi River between Memphis,

Tenn., and Helena, Ark., the Yazoo Pass expedition, the Battle

of Fort Pemberton, Miller's capture at Moro Creek, Ark., Apr.

25, 1864, his suffering as a prisoner of war near Starrville,

Tex., and his escape and flight north through Arkansas. Includes

an introductory biographical statement prepared by Miller's

grandnephew, L. S. Shockley, Dec. 26, 1940.

631

Miller, Marshall Mortimer

(b. 1827) 1st Lt., 1st Michigan Light Artillery

Collection, 1862-1903. ca. 50 items.

Transcripts and photocopies.

Chiefly letters from Miller to his wife and family, Mar. 26,

1862-June 24, 1865, concerning the role of the 1st Michigan

Light Artillery in Kirby-Smith's invasion of Kentucky, the Siege

of Knoxville, and the Atlanta, Franklin and Nashville, and

Carolinas campaigns. Provides details on the Battle of Richmond,

Ky., in which Miller was wounded and captured, skirmishes

and battles in the Atlanta Campaign, discipline, morale,

training, diet, entertainment, foraging expeditions, depredations, guerrilla warfare, Confederate deserters, casualties,

disease, generalship, and the treatment of noncombatants. Also

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contains a wartime photograph of Miller and photocopies of his

commission, parole, and service record.

632

Milton, George Fort (1894-1955) Journalist; Author

Papers, 1828-1963. ca. 30,000 items.

Includes source material and notes for The Eve of Conflict

(1934), and Abraham Lincoln and the Fifth Column (1942).

Finding aid available.

633

Minor, Mary and Marietta

Pass, 1863. 1 item.

Military pass issued to Mary and Marietta Minor to travel

from Washington, D.C., to Virginia and return, Nov. 23, 1863.

634

Minor, Smith

Pass, 1865. 1 item.

Military pass issued to Smith Minor to travel from Washington, D.C., to Virginia and return, May 5, 1865.

635

Mitchell, Benjamin Comdr., USN

Papers, 1861-1926. ca. 200 items.

Chiefly orders, circulars, court records, reports, correspondence, and miscellaneous items relating to Mitchell's service

as acting ensign on the U.S.S. Ottawa and commander of the

U.S.S. Clover, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron. Contains

information on the disposition of various ships in the squadron,

skirmishes with shore batteries, the loss of the U.S.S. Water

Witch, training, discipline, and sanitation aboard naval vessels,

prisoners of war, promotions, discharges, ship repairs, and

deaths.

636

Mitchell, Charles D. Lt., USA

Memoir, 1865. 1 item.

Transcript.

"Extract From Field Notes of the Civil War: The Selma

Campaign," Mar. 15-May 14 [1865]. Describes Mitchell's service on the headquarters staff of Gen. Andrew J. Alexander,

preparations for the Selma Campaign, skirmishes at Montevallo

and Selma, Ala., and Columbus, Ga., the occupation of Montgomery, Ala., and Macon, Ga., depredations, foraging expeditions, the attitude and suffering of noncombatants, Confederate deserters, black life, the recruitment and organization of

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black troops, and relations between returning Confederate soldiers and Union troops immediately following the cessation of

hostilities.

637

Mitchell, James B. 1st Lt., 34th Alabama Volunteers

Papers, 1859-1913. 65 items.

Chiefly letters from Mitchell to his parents written during

campaigns in Tennessee and Mississippi, 1862-63, and as a

prisoner of war at Johnson's Island, Ohio, 1864-65. Includes a

detailed account of the participation of the 34th Alabama in

the Battle of Stones River (Murfreesboro), and comments on

military leadership, training, camp life, morale, supplies,

casualties, entertainment, disease, and prison life.

638

Mitchell, James S. 1st Lt., 84th Pennsylvania Volunteers

Papers, 1864. 6 items.

Invoices and returns of ordnance and ordnance stores

received by Mitchell during the Siege of Petersburg, Va., Dec.

1864, and a military pass, July 8, 1864.

639

Mitchell, Marcellus 11th Illinois Cavalry

Letters, 1864, 1865. 2 items.

Letters from Mitchell to "Rebecca," Sept. 18, 1864, Vicksburg, Miss., and Sept. 11, 1865, La Grange, Tenn.

640

Montgomery, James H. (b. 1833) Capt., 33d Ohio Volunteers

Diary, 1862-64. 3 v.

Describes operations in Kentucky and Tennessee in 1862,

the Stones River Campaign, the occupation of Huntsville, Ala.,

and the Atlanta Campaign. Includes details on the Battle of

Murfreesboro; comments on camp life, marches, training,

discipline, entertainment, casualties, disease, hospital care, prisoners of war, furloughs, and the death of Gen. William Nelson;

and miscellaneous accounts and notes.

641

Montgomery Family

Papers, 1771-1974. ca. 12,000 items.

Includes about 40 letters from Lt. Col. Frank Henry Peck,

12th Connecticut Volunteers, to his parents and relatives,

1862-64, and 135 letters from Col. Newton W. Perkins, 13th

Connecticut Volunteers, to his mother, 1862-65, written chiefly

during campaigns in southern Louisiana and the Shenandoah

Valley Campaign of 1864. Provides details on the capture of

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Forts Jackson and St. Philip, the occupation of New Orleans,

reconnaissance expeditions and skirmishes west of New

Orleans, the Port Hudson Campaign, and the Red River campaigns of 1863 and 1864. Also describes camp life, training,

marches, discipline, military supply, entertainment, guerrilla

warfare, foraging expeditions, depredations, the attitude and

treatment of noncombatants, resistance to conscription in the

North, disease, hospital care, black life, the recruitment and

performance of black soldiers, Confederate deserters, prisoners

of war, and the generalship of Nathaniel P. Banks, Benjamin

F. Butler, Edward R. S. Canby, Philip H. Sheridan, and Godfrey Weitzel.

Finding aid available.

642

Moran, Benjamin (1820-1886) U.S. Diplomat, London

Diary, 1851-75. 44 v.

Describes conversations or chance meetings with American secessionists in England, instructions from the U.S.

Government, the arrival of Confederate warships and privateers (some with prizes), British reaction to the war and to

Confederate privateering in European waters, the activities of

Confederate emissaries, problems over the Federal blockade,

and numerous related matters.

643

Letter, 1864. 1 item.

Letter from Moran to Comdr. George H. Preble, Jan. 4,

1864, concerning the possible closure of British ports to both

Union and Confederate vessels, the changing attitude of "John

Bull" toward the U.S. Government, and the presence of the

C.S.S. Florida, C.S.S. Rappahannock, and C.S.S. Georgia

(ex-Japan) in France.

644

Moran, Frank E. (d. 1892)

Collection, undated. 1 item.

Account of the role of Col. Ulric Dahlgren in the abortive

Kilpatrick-Dahlgren raid on Richmond, Va., Feb. 28-Mar. 4,

1864. Taken in part from the statement of Lt. [Reuben?] Bartly,

Colonel Dahlgren's signal officer, and in part from the memoir

of Adm. John A. Dahlgren.

645

Mordecai, Alfred (1804-1887) Maj., USA

Papers, 1790-1948. ca. 3,700 items.

Contains several letters from Mordecai to his family and

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friends, May 1861, concerning his decision to resign from the

U.S. Army; letters to Mordecai from various officers expressing

their dilemma over the war and their reasons either for resigning their commissions or remaining in service; letters to

Mordecai from his sister Ellen in Richmond, Va., concerning

friends and relatives in the Confederate Army, public morale,

and efforts by women in Richmond to manufacture tents and

uniforms; and two letters to Mordecai from his son, Lt. Alfred

Mordecai II, Apr. 16, 1864, Hilton Head, S.C., and July 31,

1864, Bermuda Hundred, Va., on camp life and the Siege of

Petersburg.

646

More, E. J. Pennsylvania Militia

Collection, 1836-77. 20 items.

Photocopies.

Includes four letters from More to his wife, June 16-21,

1863, Harrisburg, Pa., on camp life, fortifications, Confederate

prisoners of war, and a black company from Philadelphia during the early stages of the Gettysburg Campaign, and seven

letters written from Harrisburg, Allentown, and Norristown,

Pa., and Washington, D.C., Feb. 22-June 7,1864, on the overall military situation and political affairs in Washington. Also

contains a letter by Emanuel Lookingbeal, 4th Maryland

Volunteers, Mar. 1, 1865.

647

Moreno, Francisco Spanish Vice Consul, Pensacola, Fla.

Collection, 1864. 1 item.

Transcript.

Letter from Moreno to Gen. Thomas J. McKean, Dec. 28,

1864, Pensacola, Fla., protesting his treatment at the hands of

black soldiers.

648

Morgan, George Washington (1820-1893) Gen., USA

Collection, 1849 and undated. 2 items.

Includes a photocopy of a biographical sketch of General

Morgan (23 p.), with remarks on the capture of Cumberland

Gap, the Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs, the Arkansas Post (Fort

Hindman) expedition, and the use of black troops.

649

Morgan, James Morris (1845-1928) Midshipman, CSN

Manuscript, undated. 8 p.

Transcript.

Concerns Clarence Cary's tours of duty on the C.S.S.

Nashville, C.S.S. Mississippi, C.S.S. Chickamauga, and C.S.S.

181
Teaser, and at Fort Jackson, La., and Fort Fisher, N.C. Constitutes p. 17-24 of an unidentified larger work.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

650

Morley, Edward Williams Scientist; Official,

(1838-1923) U.S. Sanitary Commission

Papers, 1833-1923. ca. 1,200 items.

Contains about 50 letters from Morley to his family written from Fort Monroe, Va., and vicinity, Oct. 11, 1864-June

13, 1865, concerning the work of the Sanitary Commission,

relations between commission officials and hospital surgeons,

hospital management, the care of sick and wounded soldiers,

camp life, medical supplies, the attitude of noncombatants in

southeast Virginia, the treatment of Jefferson Davis during

his confinement at Fort Monroe, Confederate prisoners of war,

problems with black soldiers, the arrest of several members of

the "Knights of the Golden Circle," reaction among soldiers

and civilians to the Lincoln assassination, and the arrest of

Samuel Arnold, an accomplice of John Wilkes Booth. Also contains a few letters by Pvt. Myron A. Munson (USA) on camp

life and training in Indiana and Maryland.

Finding aid available.

651

Morrell, Charles W. USA

Letters, 1864-65. 3 items.

Transcripts.

Letters from Morrell to his brother, Aug. 23, 1864-Apr.

17, 1865, describing the Siege of Petersburg, the capture of

Richmond, Va., and the reaction in Richmond to the assassination of President Lincoln.

652

Morrill, Justin Smith

(1810-1898) U.S. Representative, Vermont

Papers, 1825-1923. ca. 10,600 items.

Includes a letter from Lt. Col. Oscar A. Hale, 6th Vermont

Volunteers, to Morrill, May 21, 1864, concerning the death of

Col. Elisha L. Barney, casualties and reenforcements in the

6th Vermont, and his desire for promotion. Also contains several letters from Vermont soldiers seeking commissions or

reporting the results of the 1864 Presidential election among

the Vermont troops.

Finding aid and microfilm copy (52 reels) available.

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653

Morris, Martha Elizabeth Wright (d. 1919)

Papers, 1911-30. 3 items.

Draft of an address given by Martha Morris in 1916, with

additions to 1919, describing various war-related experiences,

i.e., her acquaintance with the Confederate spy, Rose O'Neal

Greenhow, casual meetings with President Lincoln, life in New

Orleans, La., under the military governorship of Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks, and her work with the U.S. Sanitary Commission.

Also contains a clipping with a picture of Mrs. Greenhow and

her daughter.

654

Morris—Popham Families

Papers, 1667-1892. ca. 770 items.

Contains three letters from Charles Fleming to his parents,

May-July 1861, concerning camp life and training at the Washington Navy Yard; and a letter by Charles R. Carmer(?), 71st

New York State Militia, Aug. 5, 1862.

Finding aid available.

655

Morse, Samuel Finley Breese

(1791-1872) Artist; Inventor

Papers, 1793-1944. ca. 10,000 items.

Includes a few letters to Morse concerning the effect of the

war on his business interests in the South, chiefly the confiscation of telegraph equipment by Confederate authorities.

Finding aid and microfilm copy (35 reels) available.

656

Morse Family

Papers, 1806-65. ca. 75 items.

Contains the commission of Charles N. Morse as 1st lieutenant in the 1st Louisiana Artillery Regiment, Apr. 17, 1862;

miscellaneous orders; an ordnance invoice; and printed rules

and regulations concerning ordnance.

657

Mosby, John Singleton (1833-1916) Partisan Ranger;

Col., Virginia Cavalry

Papers, 1861-86. 70 items.

Photocopies.

Correspondence, orders, commissions, reports, and circulars concerning the organization and activities of Mosby's

Rangers. Contains remarks on public enthusiasm for the war

in 1861, the treatment of prisoners of war, casualties, the death

of Maj. John Pelham, the capture of Gen. Edwin H. Stoughton,

1 8 3
and raids and skirmishes in northern Virginia. Correspondents

include Gens. J. E. B. Stuart and Robert E. Lee, and Henry E.

Peyton.

658

Moss, Helen Palmer Hess (1840-1931) Washington, D.C.

Descriptive account, undated. 1 item.

Transcript.

Describes chance meetings with President Lincoln and John

Wilkes Booth on Apr. 14, 1865, and reaction in Washington to

Lincoln's assassination.

659

Myer, Albert James

(1829-1880) Col.; Chief Signal Officer, USA

Papers, 1851-1933. ca. 300 items.

Contains 20 letters from Myer to his wife, 1862—65, concerning the organization and performance of the Signal Corps,

particularly in the coordination of land and sea forces during

the Peninsular Campaign and the Red River Campaign of 1864,

camp life, morale, the Seven Days' Battles, competition from

the "Telegraph and Railroad Combination," and the generalship of Edward Canby. Also includes photographs of Myer

and his staff and of a reconnaissance balloon taken during the

Peninsular Campaign; the Annual Report of the Signal Officer

of the Army to the Secretary of War (1863); and an article on

"The Army Signal Corps," published in the Philadelphia

Press [1862].

Finding aid and microfilm copy (1 reel) available.

660

Papers, 1816-80.

Microfilm, 4 reels.

Official and personal correspondence, general and special

orders, photographs, printed matter, and miscellaneous items.

Includes a plan for increasing the Regular Army, May 1861;

remarks on the resignations of southern officers from the U.S.

Army at the outset of the war; instructions in the use of signals;

photographs of the Signal Corps headquarters staff; and a

pamphlet, The Spirit of Washington: or McClellan's Vision. A

Wonderful Revelation of the Present Rebellion (1862). Correspondents include Samuel Cushing, J. L. Donaldson, James A.

Hardie, Andrew Harwood, Leonard F. Hephorn, and Gideon

Welles.

Finding aid available.

Originals at the U.S. Army Signal Corps Museum, Fort

Monmouth, N.J.

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661

Neely, McGinley M. Capt., 16th Kansas Cavalry

Papers, 1863-65. 16 items.

Miscellaneous commissions and orders, official abbreviations and orders concerning the "Signal Detachment," accounts

for the Department of Kansas, "Rules and Explanations for the

Use of Cipher Discs," and photographs of Neely and Capt. John

R. Wright, 2d Colorado Cavalry.

662

Nelson, Thomas Henry

(1823-1896) Lawyer; U.S. Minister to Chile

Papers, 1861-66. ca. 1,000 items.

Transcripts.

Chiefly correspondence, instructions, and dispatches with

enclosures between Secretary of State William H. Seward and

Nelson concerning U.S.-Chilean relations, the outfitting of

privateers in Chile for use by the Confederacy, the offer of a

loan to the Confederacy by a private firm, and the defense of

American institutions.

Microfilm copy (1 reel) available.

663

New Jersey Infantry—7th Regiment USA

Records, 1862-64. 9 items.

Muster rolls for Company K, 7th New Jersey Regiment,

Oct. 1862-Feb. 1864.

664

New York—5th Cavalry USA

Orderly book, 1861-62. 1 v.

Contains general, special, and regimental orders; proceedings for military courts; lists of signals; and guard rosters,

Aug. 16, 1861-May 19, 1862.

665

New York City—Draft Board

Records, 1861-63. 83 items.

Applications, affidavits, and miscellaneous items relating

to exemption from military service due to physical disability.

666

New York State Volunteers—16th Regiment

Diary, 1861-62. 1 v.

Probably the diary of the regiment quartermaster, A. P.

Smith, Sept. 1861-Nov. 1862. Describes the enlistment and

organization of the 16th New York, camp life, marches, discipline, disease, diet, training, morale, the reaction of soldiers to

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orders for the return of runaway slaves, the attitude of noncombatants in Virginia, reconnaissance expeditions, and black life.

667

Newburger, Alexander (b. 1842?) Lt., 4th

New York Cavalry

Diary, 1864. 1 v.

Diary, Apr.-July 1864, kept by Newburger during the

Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor campaigns. Contains comments on camp life, marches, skirmishes, casualties,

prisoners of war, entertainment (gambling, drinking, and horse

racing), guerrilla warfare, hospital care, the acquisition and

distribution of supplies, and the use of blacks in the Army of

the Potomac.

Microfilm copy (1 reel) available.

668

Newcomb, Simon (1835-1909) Scientist

Papers, 1854-1936. ca. 46,000 items.

Diaries kept by Newcomb during the war contain some

information on the progress of the war and political and military affairs in Washington, D.C.

Finding aid available.

669

Newlin, William Henry 1st Lt., 73d Illinois Volunteers

Manuscript, 1907. 1 item.

Manuscript, "The North Western Confederacy," concerning the hope of Confederate officers for an alliance with people

living in the region drained by the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers.

Ascribes the frustration of this alliance to the action of Gen.

Emerson Opdycke's brigade at the Battle of Franklin, Tenn.,

Nov. 30, 1864. Also contains remarks by Lt. William R.

Lawrence, 73d Illinois, on life as a prisoner of war at Atlanta,

Ga., in 1863.

670

Newman, G. W. Physician, Louisiana

Papers, 1863-65. 5 items.

Includes three orders concerning Newman's service in the

examination of conscripts.

671

Nichols, Charles Henry Supt., St. Elizabeths Hospital,

(1820-1889) Washington, D.C.

Papers, 1857-83. 82 items.

Contains about 40 letters to Nichols concerning the Battle

of 1st Manassas, generalship in the Union Army, the promo186
tion and assignment of officers, insane soldiers sent to St.

Elizabeths, black troops at Fort St. Johns, La., the performance

of the 16th Maine Volunteers in the Battle of Fredericksburg

and in campaigns in Louisiana and Mississippi, problems with

sutlers, and military pay. Correspondents include Daniel

Butterfield, William Dwight, Joseph Hooker, John H. Varney,

and Robert C. Wood.

672

Nicholson, Robert Livingston (b. 1883) Writer; Collector

Collection, 1940-45. 32 items.

Transcripts.

Includes sketches of Gens. P. G. T. Beauregard, Albert Sidney Johnston, Joseph E. Johnston, and Robert E. Lee; notes on

Gen. Philip Sheridan's horse Rienzi; notes on the number of

soldiers in the Union Army between 10 and 21 years of age;

and part of the memoir of Mrs. Louise Babcock Clack (1830-

1901) concerning her escape from New Orleans during the Federal occupation, her flight from Columbia, S.C., before Sherman's army, and her sojourn at Warm Springs, Ga., with numerous other refugees. Also describes the smuggling of contraband

in Louisiana, Confederate morale, women's life during the war,

depredations, inflation, and transportation.

673

Nicholson, Sommerville (1822-1905) Lt., USN

Papers, 1839-81. 70 items.

Contains about 30 items relating to the war, chiefly official correspondence, orders, reports, and memoranda concerning Nicholson's command of the U.S.S. Marblehead and U.S.S.

Galatea, 1861-65. Correspondents include Samuel F. Du Pont,

Louis M. Goldsborough, John S. Missroon, Joseph P. Sanford,

Cornelius K. Stribling, and Gideon Welles.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

674

Nicolay, John George Private Secretary to President

(1832-1901) Lincoln; Historian

Papers, 1811-1943. ca. 5,500 items.

Includes correspondence, notebooks, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous material relating to Nicolay's tenure as secretary to

President Lincoln and research notes for his works on Lincoln.

Finding aid available.

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675

Niles, Peter H. Signal Corps,

23d Massachusetts Volunteers

Diary, 1862. 1 v.

Chiefly describes General Burnside's expedition to North

Carolina. Includes a few details on the Battle of New Bern and

the Siege of Beaufort, N.C.

676

Noble, John Willock (1831-1912)

Certificate, 1891. 1 item.

Pension certificate for Pvt. George W. Gray, 125th and 82d

Pennsylvania Volunteers, signed by Secretary of Interior Noble

on Dec. 16, 1891.

677

North Carolina Infantry—11th Regiment CSA

Records, 1863-64. 3 items.

Clothing receipts for Companies B and K, Feb.-Mar. 1864,

and muster roll and payroll for Company A, Oct. 1863. Identifies a few sick, wounded, and captured soldiers.

678

Noyes, Isaac R. New Jersey

Collection, 1864. 1 item.

Letter from Noyes to Rev. George Allen of Worcester, Mass.,

May 3, 1864, expressing sympathy over the death of Allen's

son, George Allen, Jr., in the war.

679

Nye, James Warren (1814-1876) Maj., Washington

Clay Guards

Letter, 1861. 1 item.

Photocopy of a transcript.

Letter from Nye to Simon Cameron, Apr. 27, 1861, Washington, D.C., asking that the Washington Clay Guards be

allowed to return to their homes.

680

Ogden, Robert Curtis

(1836-1913) " Businessman; Philanthropist

Papers, 1843-1913. ca. 10,000 items.

In part, transcripts.

Includes three letters from Adrian R. Root (It. colonel,

21st New York Volunteers, and colonel, 94th New York Volunteers) to Ogden, 1861-63, written from various camps in

Virginia; three letters from Charles E. Benson (7th Michigan

Volunteers) to Ogden, 1862-64, concerning camp life and

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morale among Union soliders in Virginia; a letter from James

M. Green (48th New York Volunteers) to Ogden, Feb. 22,1862,

Daufuskie Island, S.C., on the Port Royal expedition, fortifications, the Siege of Fort Pulaski, and black life; and a letter

from John B. Lord to Ogden, Jan. 28, 1862, Paducah [Ky.],

describing camp life, morale, marches, and entertainment.

Finding aid available.

681

Old, William W. Capt., CSA

Diary, 1864. 9 p.

Describes maneuvers and skirmishes in Maryland and

Virginia, June-Aug. 1864, including Gen. Jubal A. Early's

Washington raid and the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864.

Also contains a few comments on the movements of Gens. John

C. Breckinridge, John B. Gordon, John D. Imboden, Stephen D.

Ramseur, and Robert E. Rodes.

682

Oliphant, Benjamin F. and Catherine (d. 1916)

Papers, 1861-1916. 22 items.

Contains Benjamin Oliphant's commission as 1st sergeant

in the 3d Maryland Volunteers, July 2, 1864; discharges of

both Oliphant and his wife Catherine, a laundress and nurse

with the 3d Maryland during the Red River Campaign; a military pass; signed statements attesting to the service and character of both Benjamin and Catherine Oliphant; and postwar

correspondence concerning a military pension for Catherine

Oliphant.

683

Oliver, John F. Capt., USA

Papers, 1863. 17 items.

Dispatches received by Oliver as provost marshal, 4th District of Ohio, concerning Gen. John Hunt Morgan's Ohio raid,

July 1863.

684

Oliver Family

Papers, 1419-1946.

Microfilm, 28 reels.

Includes two letters by Arthur Lawrence written from Chattanooga and Knoxville, Tenn., Sept.-Oct. 1864, relating generally to the war.

Originals at the Massachusetts Historical Society.

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685

Olmsted, Frederick Law General Secretary,

(1822-1903) U.S. Sanitary Commission

Papers, 1777-1952. ca. 27,000 items.

Includes personal and official correspondence concerning

the organization and operation of the U.S. Sanitary Commission,

particularly the acquisition and distribution of medical supplies,

the establishment of military hospitals, hospital ships, and the

care and transport of sick and wounded soldiers. Letters written in the field contain Olmsted's observations on morale and

leadership in the Union Army, President Lincoln and his

Cabinet, the care of blacks, camp life, troop movements, and

the defense of Washington, D.C. Several letters written from

Louisiana by Sgt. Alfred H. Olmsted, 25th Connecticut Volunteers, 1862-63, discuss camp life, disease, diet, foraging

expeditions, marches, training, the organization and use of black

troops, hospital care, and the burning of the State House at

Baton Rouge, La. A few letters from Maj. George S. Waring,

Jr., to Olmsted discuss the situation in southeast Missouri

under Gens. John C. Fremont and John W. Davidson, and

letters from A. J. Dallas to Olmsted, May-June 1861, describe

war sentiment in Washington, D.C, military appointments,

and troop movements.

Finding aid and microfilm copy (60 reels) available.

686

O'Neil, Charles (1842-1927) Master's Mate;

Acting Master, USN

Papers, 1833-1927. ca. 4,500 items.

Contains O'Neil's manuscript autobiography and memoranda and notes relating to the war. Provides information on

the destruction of the Norfolk Navy Yard before the city was

abandoned to the Confederates, the C.S.S. Merrimac, the capture of Forts Hatteras and Clark, blockade duty along the Florida coast and the Bahama Islands, Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside's

expedition to North Carolina, the Peninsular Campaign, and

the Fort Fisher expeditions of 1864 and 1865. Also contains the

diary of Lt. Anthony Francis O'Neil (1840-1872) kept during

his service with the Gulf Coast Blockading Squadron and Mississippi Squadron, 1861-63. Describes fortifications at Key

West, Fla., and Ship Island, Miss., the capture of Forts Jackson

and St. Philip, Admiral Farragut's bombardment of Vicksburg,

operations on the Mississippi River, engagements with the

C.S.S. Arkansas, black life, smuggling, prize vessels, diet, the

occupation of New Orleans, naval leadership, depredations,

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guerrilla warfare, the exchange of prisoners, and the attitude

of noncombatants along the Mississippi River.

Finding aid available.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

687

Osborn, Joseph Bloomfield Cpl., 26th New Jersey

(1842-1876) Volunteers; USN

Family papers, 1857-65. 295 items.

Diary, Aug. 31, 1862—July 1, 1863, and correspondence,

1861-65, concerning enlistments, camp life, training, marches

in Maryland and Virginia, foraging expeditions, diet, morale,

depredations, discipline, the conduct of field officers, the attitude and condition of Confederate prisoners of war, Confederate generalship, weapons, casualties in the 26th New Jersey,

disease, hospital care, and the effect of the Emancipation Proclamation on Federal troops. Includes details on the Peninsular,

Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville campaigns; Osborn's service aboard the U.S.S. Vanderbilt in the North Atlantic and

the South Atlantic Blockading Squadrons; and the Fort Fisher

expedition of Jan. 1865.

688

Otis, Elwell Stephen (1838-1909) Gen., USA

Letter, 1888. 1 item.

Letter from Otis to Maj. Fowler Prentice, Dec. 26, 1888,

containing recollections of the Wilderness Campaign, particularly the events of May 5, 1864.

689

Ott, Mary E.

Pass, 1863. 1 item.

Military pass issued to Mary Ott, Harpers Ferry, W. Va.,

Sept. 5, 1863.

690

Ott, Thomas

Pass, 1864. 1 item.

Military pass issued to Thomas Ott, Harpers Ferry, W.

Va., May 23, 1864.

691

Owen, Robert Dale (1801-1877) Reformer

Letter, 1862. 1 item.

Letter from Owen to Edwin M. Stanton, July 23, 1862,

discussing the purpose and nature of the war and advocating

emancipation with remuneration to slave owners as the only

effective way to terminate the conflict between North and South.

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692

Owen, William Miller

(1832-1893) Washington Artillery, CSA

Quotations, undated. 4 p.

Extracts from William M. Owen's In Camp and Battle With

the Washington Artillery of New Orleans (1885).

693

Owner, William Washington, D.C.

Diary, 1860-67. 9 v.

Pro-South commentary on military, political, and diplomatic events in the war as reported in newspapers and magazines. Includes newspaper clippings and a few maps.

694

Palmer—Loper Families Merchants-Shipbuilders,

Connecticut

Papers, 1767-1900. ca. 4,000 items.

Includes correspondence and documents relating to the sale

and lease of ships to the U.S. Government; a partial list of

vessels used in the Peninsular Campaign and Gen. Ambrose E.

Burnside's expedition to North Carolina; letters written by W. S.

Palmer concerning his efforts to claim vessels stranded in New

Orleans, La., at the outbreak of the war, negotiations with

Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, and the attitude of noncombatants in

Louisiana; material on R. F. Loper's defense against charges of

profiteering on ship leases; a biographical sketch of R. F. Loper;

and a certificate of enlistment for Edward Sheridan, 48th New

York Volunteers, Jan. 17, 1862.

Finding aid and partial microfilm copy (1 reel) available.

695

Park, Maud Wood (1871-1955)

Papers, 1864-1978. ca. 3,500 items.

Includes the Civil War memoir and notes of James Rodney

Wood, Sr. Describes Wood's enlistment and service in the 1st

Massachusetts Regiment, interviews with President Lincoln

and Secretary Stanton, his transfer to the 6th U.S. Cavalry,

and the participation of the 6th Cavalry in the Peninsular and

Wilderness campaigns, Stoneman's raid (Chancellorsville

Campaign), and the Kilpatrick—Dahlgren raid on Richmond.

Provides a detailed account of Wood's treatment as a prisoner

of war, his escape, and the service and death of Col. Ulric

Dahlgren.

Finding aid available.

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696

Parmenter, Abram Verrick (b. 1830) Cpl., 7th Veteran

Reserve Corps, USA

Collection, 1865. 3 items.

Includes a diary, Mar. 20-Dec. 31,1865, concerning activities at Camp Blair, Mich., in the final weeks of the war, the

execution of Henry Wirz, and the reinterment of Col. Ulric

Dahlgren.

697

Parsons, Byron Maj., 94th New York Volunteers

Collection, 1864-65. 3 items.

Includes a diary, Jan. 1,1864-Oct. 14,1865 (2 v.), concerning the movement of troops from New York to Virginia, the

Siege of Petersburg, life as a prisoner of war at Libby Prison in

Richmond, Va., and at Salisbury, N.C., and Danville, Va., and

the exchange of prisoners. Also includes a list of Federal soldiers captured at Reams' Station, Va., a partial list of officers

confined at Libby Prison in 1864, and a list of noncommissioned officers and privates in the 94th New York.

698

Parsons, Henry Chester

(1840-1894) Capt., 1st Vermont Cavalry

Manuscript, undated. 1 item.

Draft of Parsons' "Farnsworth's Charge and Death," Battles

and Leaders of the Civil War (1888), v. 3.

699

Patrick, Marsena Rudolph (1811-1888) Gen., USA

Diary, 1862-65. 3 v.

Diary kept by Patrick as inspector general of New York

Volunteers and provost marshal general, Army of the Potomac,

Jan. 1, 1862-June 16, 1865. Contains remarks on the 2d

Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Mine Run, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and

Petersburg campaigns, Gen. George Stoneman's raids during

the Chancellorsville Campaign, the Kilpatrick- Dahlgren raid

on Richmond, and the occupation of Fredericksburg. Provides

details on military politics, discipline, generalship, corruption

among officers, entertainment, morale, disease, depredations,

female soldiers, the attitude of southern women, prisoners of

war, reconnaissance expeditions, and refugees. Edited and pub193
lished by David S. Sparks, Inside Lincoln's Army: The Diary of

Marsena Rudolph Patrick, Provost Marshal General, Army of

the Potomac (1964).

700

Patterson, George Washington

(1799-1879) Farmer, New York

Papers, 1864. 3 items.

Includes a letter from Col. J. C. Drake to Patterson, Apr.

24,1864, Gloucester Point, Va., concerning the 112th New York

Volunteers and Drake's disappointment over being replaced as

senior colonel in his brigade; and a letter from Chaplain William L. Hyde to Patterson, White House Landing, Va., concerning Drake's death and arrangements for the return of his body

to New York.

701

Patterson, Theodore Cuyler Financier, Pennsylvania

Collection, 1861-1927. 3 items.

In part, photocopies.

Includes an account of the events in which Patterson's

father, Joseph Patterson (1808-1887), influenced the banking

establishment of Philadelphia to loan the U.S. Government

$50 million to finance the war; and a facsimile of the original

agreement sent to Secretary Salmon P. Chase, July 22, 1861.

702

Patterson, William Franklin (1826-1886) Capt., USA

Papers, 1812-1937. ca. 230 items.

Contains about 50 letters from Patterson to his wife,

1862—64, written during his service with an independent company in the occupation of Cumberland Gap, and as a military

engineer in campaigns in Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi,

Arkansas, and Texas. Provides information on the Vicksburg

Campaign, military organization, generalship, camp life, diet,

guerrilla warfare, disease, medical care, desertions, problems

with prostitution and drinking in New Orleans, La., and military supplies. Also contains miscellaneous orders and notes

and Patterson's discharge certificate, Jan. 22, 1865.

Finding aid and microfilm copy (1 reel) available.

703

Patton, John 98th Ohio Volunteers

Memoir, 1862-64. 27 v.

Describes Patton's enlistment and early training in Ohio,

Federal reaction to Gen. Edmund Kirby-Smith's invasion of

Kentucky and Gen. John Hunt Morgan's raid on Columbia,

Ky.; the fortification of Louisville, Ky.; the aftermath of the

Battle of Perryville and the pursuit of Gen. Braxton Bragg in

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Kentucky; the Battle of Chickamauga, and the Chattanooga

and Atlanta campaigns. Includes details on the battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, camp life, discipline,

morale, marches, foraging expeditions, disease, casualties,

hospital care, guerrilla warfare in Kentucky, prison life, slavery,

and the attitude of rank and file Confederate soldiers toward

the war.

704

Paxton, James Dunlop (1860-ca. 1947)

Reminiscence, undated. 1 item.

An account of how Paxton's father, a Presbyterian minister

in Pittsburgh, Pa., successfully intervened to stop the execution

of a parishioner's son for desertion from the Army of the Potomac through a direct appeal to President Lincoln and Secretary Stanton.

705

Pease, David 111th New York Volunteers

Collection, 1863. 2 items.

Letter from David and Solomon Pease to their father, Mar.

1, 1863, and letter from David Pease to his brother Solomon,

Apr. 10,1863, written from Camp Jim Walker near Centreville,

Va. Describes a skirmish near Centreville, camp life, morale,

inflation, and the suffering of the civilian population.

706

Peckham, Rufus Wheeler (1809-1873) Lawyer, Minnesota

Family papers, 1838-94. ca. 800 items.

Includes three letters from Capt. M. T. Dana to Peckham,

Oct. 27-Nov. 23, 1861, written from camp along the Potomac

River near Edwards Ferry, and a letter by Gen. Willis A.

Gorman, Dec. 21, 1861, on the appointment of an Assistant

Adjutant General for Gorman's brigade.

707

Pelham, William Landsman, USN

General order, 1864. 1 item.

Order issued Dec. 31, 1864, awarding the Medal of Honor

to servicemen who performed distinguished service in the Battle of Mobile Bay.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

708

Pemberton, John Clifford (1814-1881) Gen., CSA

Papers, 1862-1937. 5 items.

Transcripts and photocopies.

Unfinished postwar letter from Pemberton to Major Walt195
hall refuting charges of misconduct in the defense of Vicksburg;

copy of a letter by T. J. Wharton published in the New York

Herald, Aug. 17,1881, concerning an interview with President

Davis after the fall of Vicksburg and Davis' reasons for the

appointment of Pemberton as commander of the Department of

Mississippi, Tennessee, and East Louisiana; and copies of letters by Pemberton, Dec. 31, 1862-Dec. 4, 1866.

709

Pendleton, Edward Pvt., 27th Massachusetts Volunteers

Reminiscences, 1862—65. 1 item.

Describes Pendleton's enlistment and early training in

Massachusetts, the Federal occupation of New Bern, N.C., the

Siege of Petersburg, and service under Gen. John Schofield in

the Carolinas Campaign. Includes remarks on camp life,

marches, casualties, hospital care, and his treatment as a prisoner of war in North Carolina.

710

Perham, Aurestus S. Writer; Lecturer

Papers, 1882-1923. ca. 2,100 items.

Documents assembled to vindicate the military record of

Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren, who was relieved of his command

by Gen. Philip H. Sheridan at the Battle of Five Forks, Va.

Includes correspondence, notes, maps, photographs, and printed

material.

711

Perkins, Edward Thomas

(1826-1872) Surg., 71st New York Volunteers

Family papers, 1822-1901. ca. 100 items.

Includes a letter to Perkins from the surgeon of the 73d

New York (Excelsior brigade), Dec. 4, 1863, Brandy Station,

Va., concerning marches and skirmishes along the Rapidan

River, medical care, and the suffering of convalescents; a recommendation for Perkins by Col. William R. Brewster, July 4,

1864; miscellaneous orders and returns; and photographs of

Perkins and Col. William O. Stevens.

712

Perkins, George Hamilton (1835-1899) Lt. Comdr., USN

Isabel Perkins Anderson collection of the papers of George

Hamilton Perkins, 1857-1936. 500 items.

Includes notes and published accounts of Perkins' service

in the war, a photograph of Perkins as a midshipman, and a

list of documents, photographs, clippings, and souvenirs collected by Isabel Perkins.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

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713

Perkins, Henry Welles (d. 1890)

Letters, 1865. 1 item.

Letter from Perkins to Captain Lacy, Apr. 13, 1865,

Raleigh, N.C., concerning the movement of quartermaster

supplies.

714

Petigru, James Louis (1789-1863) Lawyer-State Official,

South Carolina

Papers, 1812-68. ca. 400 items.

In part, transcripts.

Correspondence and papers of a Unionist family in South

Carolina during the war. Includes about 50 letters from Petigru

to his daughters, Sue Petigru King and Caroline Petigru

Carson, concerning politics in the South, public unity over the

secession crisis, the progress of the war, devastation along the

coast of South Carolina, acquaintances and friends in the Confederate Army, and the attitude and suffering of noncombatants.

Also contains a letter from Gen. William T. Sherman to Mrs.

Carson, Jan. 20, 1865, Savannah, Ga., on the protection of the

Petigru family and property in South Carolina; a letter from

Gen. Winfield Scott to Secretary Stanton, May 27,1863, soliciting Stanton's assistance for Mrs. Carson to visit her family in

South Carolina; and a letter from Millard Fillmore to J.

Chamberlin(?), Apr. 4,1863, Buffalo [N.Y.], on Petigru's political appointment during his administration.

715

Phelps, Winthrop Henry Chaplain, 2d Connecticut

(1818-1865) Heavy Artillery

Diary, 1864-1945. 1 v.

Transcript.

"A Chaplain's Life in the Civil War: The Diary of Winthrop Henry Phelps," edited by Ethel L. Phelps, 1945. Covers

the period May 15, 1864-Dec. 31, 1865, with a "Resume of

Regiment Activities During 1863." Describes the participation

of the regiment in the Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and Appomattox campaigns, the Siege of Petersburg, and Sheridan's

Shenandoah Valley Campaign. Includes details on the battles

of Winchester (1864), Fisher's Hill, and Cedar Creek, and

remarks on military organization, discipline, marches, desertions, disease, casualties, medical care, foraging expeditions,

religion, and the suffering of noncombatants. Also contains

photographs of Phelps, the officers of the 19th Connecticut

Infantry, Col. Elisha S. Kellogg, Lt. Bradley D. Lee, the Fairfax Theological Seminary (used as a military hospital), maps of

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Washington and vicinity, and a genealogical and statistical

table on the men of the 2d Connecticut Heavy Artillery published in Apr. 1864.

716

Phillips, Philip (1807-1884) Washington, D.C.,

and New Orleans, La.

Family papers, 1826-1914. ca. 7,000 items.

In part, transcripts.

Includes the diary of Phillip's wife, Eugenia Yates Levy

Phillips (1820-1902), a southern sympathizer and suspected

spy, describing her arrest and imprisonment in Washington,

her parole and return to the South, conflict with Federal

authorities in New Orleans, La., life as a prisoner on Ship

Island, Miss., and her work with sick and wounded Confederate soldiers at La Grange, Ga.; and the autobiography of Philip

Phillips concerning the secession movement, the arrest and

imprisonment of his wife, and life in New Orleans and La

Grange during the war. Also contains two letters from Phebe

Levy to Eugenia Phillips written from a military hospital near

Richmond, Va., June 25 and Sept. 13, 1863, concerning the

progress of the war, troop movements, inflation, and the attitude of women in the South; four letters from Eugenia's brother,

S. Yates Levy, to his father, July 28, 1864-May 16, 1865,

Johnsons Island, Ohio, concerning prison life and family

matters; and a letter from C. C. Clay, Jr., to Gen. James H.

Wilson, May 10, 1865, La Grange, Ga., written in response to

an order for his arrest as a possible conspirator in the Lincoln

assassination.

Finding aid available.

717

Pickard, Alonzo C.

(1938-1910) 112th New York Volunteers

Papers, 1856-87. ca. 150 items.

Chiefly letters from Pickard to his fiance written during

campaigns in Virginia, 1861-65. Contains information on fortifications near Suffolk, camp life, morale, marches, discipline,

supplies, prisoners of war, religion, conscription, reconnaissance

expeditions, disease, deaths, hospital care, and generalship.

Also includes letters relating to the war by E. P. Putnam, R.

Tyler, and F. A. Pickard, and a detailed account of the engagement at Dranesville, Va., Dec. 20,1862, written by an unidentified participant.

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718

Pickens—Bonham Govs., South Carolina

Papers, 1837-1920. ca. 400 items.

In part, photocopies.

Chiefly official correspondence, telegrams, proclamations,

petitions, reports, extracts from the journals of the executive

council, and newspaper clippings from the administrations of

Govs. Francis W. Pickens (1805-1869) and Milledge L. Bonham

(1813-1890). Provides information on military organization,

the acquisition of arms and ammunition, coastal fortifications,

Fort Sumter, authority over South Carolina, runaway slaves,

and the use of blacks in the construction of military works and

in the militia. Correspondents include P. G. T. Beauregard,

Judah P. Benjamin, Martin J. Crawford, Jefferson Davis, James

A. Seddon, H. P. Walker, Leroy P. Walker, and James H.

Witherspoon.

Microfilm copy (2 reels) available.

719

Pickett, John Thomas (1822-1884) Col, CSA; Diplomat

Papers, 1849-84. ca. 4,000 items.

Correspondence and letterbooks relating primarily to

Pickett's service as Confederate agent to Mexico. Includes comments on the progress of the war, economic conditions in the

South, and Confederate morale and finance. Also includes two

letters from General Beauregard to Judah P. Benjamin, Oct. 5

and 8,1861, suggesting areas along the southern coast vulnerable to attack; a letter from General Beauregard to Gen. Mansfield Lovell, Oct. 9, 1861, Fairfax Courthouse, Va., outlining

the best ways to defend New Orleans, La., and recommending

people that might prove helpful to Mansfield; and a letter from

R. R. Barrow to Col. D. F. Kenner, Sept. 11, 1862, concerning

military activities near Bayou Des Almonds, La., and a plan for

infecting Federal troops in New Orleans with yellow fever.

720

Pierce, Franklin (1804-1869), Pres., U.S.

Papers, 1820-69. ca. 2,300 items.

In part, photocopies.

Material for the Civil War period includes a few letters

requesting Pierce's support in obtaining military or political

office, and suggestions for peace negotiations.

Index and microfilm copy (7 reels) available.

721

Pierpont, Francis Harrison

(1814-1899) Gov., Virginia and West Virginia

Letter, 1862. 1 item.

Letter from Pierpont to Maj. Francis Darr, Feb. 5, 1862,

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Wheeling [W. Va.], concerning the arrest of Confederate volunteers upon their return home.

722

Pike, James Shepherd (1811 -1882) U.S. Minister to

the Netherlands

Collection, 1849-69. 56 items.

Includes 16 letters from Pike to William P. Fessenden written chiefly from The Hague, June 1861-Feb. 1865, concerning

the effects of the war on the European economy and public

sentiment in Europe.

723

Pillow, Gideon Johnson (1806-1878) Gen., CSA

Letters, 1847-61. 3 items.

Letter from Pillow to Gov. Beriah Magoffin, May 13,1861,

Memphis, Tenn., on the defense of Kentucky; and letter from

Pillow to Gov. Isham Harris, July 3,1861, concerning fortifications on the Mississippi River and subsistence for Pillow's

troops.

724

Pinkerton's National Detective Agency

Papers, 1861-83. ca. 2,000 items.

Includes letterbooks, Aug. 21-Nov. 26,1861 (2 v.), of E. J.

Allen, alias Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884), as head of the secret

service for the Army of the Potomac. Contains summaries of

field investigations by Pinkerton agents, reports and recommendations on soldiers and civilians accused of various crimes,

estimates of Confederate troop strength in Virginia, and

detailed reports from agents inside Confederate lines on the

strength, disposition, and movement of troops, travel conditions,

public support for the war, and inflation.

Finding aid and microfilm copy (3 reels) available.

725

Pinkney, Ninian (1811-1877) Surg., USN

Papers, 1830-78. ca. 900 items.

Includes personal and official correspondence of Pinkney

as fleet surgeon and medical adviser, Mississippi Squadron,

1863—64, concerning the outfitting of hospital ships, the Vicksburg Campaign, including the Yazoo Pass and Port Hudson

expeditions, black life, the establishment and management of

military hospitals at Memphis, Tenn., the use and performance

of black troops, abolition, the generalship of Ulysses S. Grant,

Samuel P. Lee, George B. McClellan, John A. McClernand, and

William T. Sherman, and routine affairs in the Medical Department. Also contains letters from Pinkney to his wife writ200
ten from Frederick, Md., Sept. 23,1862, and Washington, D.C.,

Nov. 11, 1862, describing the Antietam battlefield, the care

and suffering of wounded soldiers, and his indignation over the

dismissal of General McClellan. Miscellaneous items comprise

photographs of the staff of a hospital ship, the U.S.S. Red Rover,

the Federal camp at White River Station, Ark., the State House

at Baton Rouge, La., the commandant's house at Mound City,

111., the U.S.S. Louisville, U.S.S. Lexington, U.S.S. Black Hawk,

U.S.S. Ozark, U.S.S. Essex, and U.S.S. Indianola, and a print of

the bombardment of Island No. 10.

Finding aid available.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

726

Pleasants, Archibald (1839-1862) Lt., CSA

Inscription, 1862. 1 item.

Copy of the inscription on Pleasants' tomb, Richmond, Va.

727

Pleasonton, Alfred (1824-1897) Gen., USA

Collection, 1862-92. 9 items.

Includes seven letters from Pleasonton to Gen. John F.

Farnsworth, Oct. 1862-July 1863, chiefly concerning the performance of his former command, the 8th Illinois Cavalry, in

the Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg campaigns, the organization of the U.S. cavalry, the generalship of

Julius Stahel, and the death of Gen. Elon J. Farnsworth. Also

includes a letter from General Farnsworth to Gen. [Joseph

Hooker], June 23, 1863, complaining of a lack of support for

Pleasonton during the Gettysburg Campaign and criticizing

the performance of Stahel.

728

Plumb, Edward Lee President,

(1827-1912) Mexican Pacific Company

Papers, 1826-90. ca. 3,600 items.

Chiefly business correspondence and papers of the Mexican Pacific Coal and Iron Mining and Land Company. Includes

observations on Confederate-Mexican relations and French

activity in Mexico.

729

Poe, Orlando (1832-1895) Gen., USA

Papers, 1852-1900. ca. 8,400 items.

Contains about 500 items relating to the war, chiefly official and personal correspondence, letterbooks, reports, orders,

and diaries. Includes about 300 letters from Poe to his wife,

1861-65, written during his service as chief topographical engi201
neer on the staff of Gen. George B. McClellan during the West

Virginia Campaign and the defense of Washington, D.C., as

colonel of the 2d Michigan Volunteers during the Peninsular,

2d Manassas, and Fredericksburg campaigns, as assistant engineer in the Military Division of the Mississippi, Dec. 1863-Apr.

1864, and as chief engineer under Gen. William T. Sherman

during the Atlanta and Carolinas campaigns. Also includes memorabilia on Poe's military service collected by his wife. Provides information on the organization and training of troops in

Ohio early in the war, enthusiasm for the war in the North, the

organization and performance of McClellan's Army of the

Potomac, rank disputes, Confederate morale, depredations and

plundering by General Sherman's army in Georgia and South

Carolina, casualties, the surrender of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston,

the suffering of Unionists in the South, the psychological effects

of battle, conscription in the South, and the attitude and behavior of southern women.

730

Polk, Leonidas (1806-1864) Episcopal Bishop; Gen., CSA

Papers, 1856-68. 40 items.

Chiefly correspondence, orders, and miscellaneous items

relating to military affairs in Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri,

and Mississippi. Includes a report on the skirmish near Belmont,

Mo. Correspondents include Braxton Bragg, Jefferson Davis,

Nathan B. Forrest, Joseph E. Johnston, Sterling Price, and

Louis T. Wigfall.

Microfilm copy (1 reel) available.

731

Polsley, John J. (1831-1866) Lt. Col.,

7th West Virginia Cavalry, USA

Collection, 1862-73. 4 items.

Includes a letter from Polsley to his wife, June 10, 1862,

concerning the Battle of Port Republic, Va., and a letter from

Polsley to Maj. Hedgeman Slack, Jan. 21, 1864, Libby Prison,

expressing concern for his regiment and his hope for an early

exchange.

732

Poole, Edmund Leicester (b. 1845) USA

Letter, 1865. 1 item.

Photocopy.

Letter from Poole to his parents, Apr. 5, 1865, describing

the celebration in Washington, D.C., over the fall of Richmond,

Va.

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David Dixon Porter
733

Porter, Albert Quincy (1825-1904) Musician, 33d

Mississippi Volunteers

Collection, 1864-1944. 3 items.

Transcripts.

Diary, Jan. 20-July 7, 1864, and Feb. 2-May 30, 1865,

kept by Porter during operations against Gen. William T. Sherman in the Meridian, Atlanta, and Carolinas campaigns. Contains comments on casualties, disease, hospital care, inflation,

discipline, desertions, depredations by both Union and Confederate soldiers, stealing from Confederate supply depots, the

contribution of southern women to the war effort, and the displacement of blacks. Also includes a few biographical notes on

Porter.

734

Porter, David Dixon (1813-1891) Adm., USN

Papers, 1790-1899. ca. 7,000 items.

Official and family correspondence, orders, reports, newspaper clippings, memoirs, printed matter, and miscellaneous

items concerning the capture of New Orleans, La., the Vicksburg Campaign, operations on the Mississippi and Red Rivers,

the Fort Fisher expeditions of 1864 and 1865, and the evacuation and occupation of Richmond, Va. Also includes the report

of Lt. Col. Edward Higgins (CSA) on the mutiny of the garrisons at Forts Jackson and St. Philip; a list of Confederate

steamers, gunboats, and rams on the Yazoo, Ouachita, Big

Black, and Red Rivers; a list of 41 men from Pine Bluff, Ark.,

who passed Confederate lines to serve the Union; and a detailed

report on Confederate fortifications at New Orleans with related

correspondence.

Finding aid available.

735

Porter, Fitz-John (1822-1901) Gen., USA

Papers, 1830-1949. ca. 13,100 items.

In part, transcripts.

Chiefly correspondence, orders, telegrams, reconnaissance

and battle reports, maps, photographs, financial and legal

papers, and printed material relating to Porter's commands in

the Peninsular, 2d Manassas, and Antietam campaigns, and to

his subsequent court-martial. Also contains information on the

situation in Texas in Apr. 1861, resignations by officers in the

Regular Army at the beginning of the war, efforts to protect

northern railroads, Gen. Robert Patterson's failure to prevent

reinforcements from reaching General Beauregard at the Battle of 1st Manassas, and extracts from the diaries of Washing204
Fitz-John Porter
ton A. Roebling, Aug. 21-30, 1862, and Gouverneur K. Warren, Aug. 14-Nov. 11, 1862.

Finding aid available.

736

Porter, Horace (1837-1921) Lt. Col., USA

Papers, 1854-1921. ca. 1,500 items.

Chiefly correspondence relating to the Port Royal expedition (including the capture of Hilton Head and Forts Walker

and Beauregard), the siege and capture of Fort Pulaski, the

occupation of Beaufort, S.C., the Battle of Secessionville, the

Tullahoma and Chickamauga campaigns, and the Siege of

Petersburg. Contains comments on camp life, casualties,

ordnance, disease, Union sentiment in the South, black life,

the organization and service of black troops, morale in the

Confederate Army, the attitude of noncombatants in the South,

depredations, foraging expeditions, and the generalship of

Henry W. Benham, Quincy A. Gillmore, and Thomas W.

Sherman.

737

Porter Family

Papers, 1811-81. ca. 600 items.

Includes a letter from Gideon Welles to David Dixon Porter,

Aug. 11,1861, informing Porter of his appointment to the rank

of commander in the U.S. Navy; a letter from D. D. Porter to

Secretary William H. Seward, U.S.S. Powhatan, Apr. 21,1861,

explaining his failure to enter Pensacola Bay; and a letter from

Porter to his wife, New Orleans, La., June 6, 1862, concerning

the attitude of noncombatants, the generalship of Benjamin F.

Butler, and the failure of the Navy Department to encourage

Union sentiment in the area.

Finding aid available.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

738

Potter, William F. Pvt., 3d Louisiana Volunteers

Records, 1865. 2 items.

Material from Potter's trial on the charge of desertion from

the Confederate Army, Feb.-Mar. 1865.

739

Powel, Mary Edith (1846-1931) Collector

Collection, 1747-1922. ca. 32,000 items.

Contains photographs or engravings of Col. Ulric Dahlgren,

Adm. David D. Porter, and Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren; articles and clippings on the duel between the U.S.S. Monitor and

C.S.S. Merrimac, ordnance, and various officers and inventors:

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John Ericsson, David G. Farragut, Andrew H. Foote, David D.

Porter, George H. Preble, and Cornelius K. Stringham; and

miscellaneous letters by Henry H. Bell, S. Livingston Breese,

Gustavus V. Fox, Francis H. Gregory, Samuel P. Lee, and William H. Seward.

Finding aid available.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

740

Powell, John F. Physician, Baltimore, Md.

Collection, 1862-63. 2 items.

Photocopies.

Medical accounts with the U.S. Government for the treatment of political prisoners in the Baltimore City jail, Oct.

1862-May 1863.

741

Pratt, Richard Henry

(1840-1924) Capt., 11th Indiana Cavalry

Papers, 1862-1924. 3 items.

In part, transcripts.

Chiefly Pratt's manuscript autobiography. Includes a copy

of Pratt's diary, Mar. 1862-Feb. 1863, kept during the Shiloh

Campaign, the Battle of Munfordville, Ky., and skirmishes

with Gen. John Hunt Morgan in Tennessee. Includes comments

on camp life, training, marches, entertainment, foraging

expeditions, depredations, Confederate and Union morale,

casualties, disease, hospital care, and Union sentiment in

Tennessee.

742

Pratt, William Veazie (1869-1957)

Papers, 1862-1963. ca. 200 items.

Includes a few orders and routine letters to Pratt's father,

Nicholas Pratt (USN).

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

743

Preston, John Thomas Lewis

(1811-1890) Lt. Col., 9th Virginia Volunteers

Diary, 1861. 1 v.

Covers the period July 21-Sept. 22, 1861. Describes garrison duty on Crany Island, Va., discipline and morale in the 9th

Virginia, the use of blacks to build fortifications, ordnance,

disease, the attitude of noncombatants in southeast Virginia,

and visits from women living in the North whose husbands

served the Confederacy.

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744

Preston Family of Virginia

Papers, 1727-1896.

Microfilm, 14 reels.

Includes a letter from Maj. William Preston Johnston to

his wife, Oct. 3,1861, in camp near Fairfax Courthouse, describing an expedition to Mason's Hill, discipline among Mississippi

regiments, depredations, and the attitude of noncombatants

in Fairfax County.

745

Procter, A. C. Kentucky

Letter, 1865. 1 item.

Letter from Mrs. Procter to her brother, Nov. 26, 1865,

Perryville, Ky., concerning her personal losses from the war,

the attitude and behavior of Federal officers, and the murder of

numerous Confederate soldiers returning to Kentucky.

746

Proctor, Wilbur Huntington Musician, 10th

New York Volunteers

Diary, 1864-74.

Microfilm, 1 reel.

Contains comments on Proctor's enlistments in the 20th

Massachusetts Volunteers and the 10th New York Volunteers,

military bounties, profiteering by civilian recruiters or "bounty

brokers," camp life, entertainment, marches, diet, discipline,

foraging expeditions, and battles and skirmishes in the

Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Petersburg campaigns.

747

Public Archives of Canada

Papers, 1791-1885. 47 v.

Photocopies.

Material for the Civil War period includes correspondence

of British Ministers at Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.,

concerning such matters as the recruitment of British subjects

for the U.S. Army, the southern blockade, the purchase of

privateers and blockade runners, passports, commerce,

alleged Confederate forces in Canada, and the treatment of

Englishmen living or trading in the war zone.

748

Quincy—Wendell—Upham—Holmes Families

Papers, 1866-1910.

Microfilm, 67 reels.

Includes about 100 letters from Samuel Miller Quincy to

his family, 1861—65, written during campaigns in Maryland,

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Virginia, and Louisiana. Contains details on the occupation of

Harpers Ferry and Charles Town, W. Va., the engagement at

Dranesville, Va., Dec. 6, 1861, the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862, the Battle of Chancellorsville, and the Port Hudson Campaign. Also provides information on camp life, training,

morale, marches, reconnaissance and foraging expeditions,

depredations, discipline, entertainment, casualties, hospital

care, guerrilla warfare, generalship, the treatment and exchange of prisoners of war, the attitude of noncombatants,

slavery, black life, and the training and employment of black

troops during Quincy's service as colonel of the 73d U.S. Colored Infantry.

Published guide available.

Originals in the Massachusetts Historical Society.

749

R. Hoe & Company Printers-Manufacturers, New York

Records, 1830-1935. ca. 5,100 items.

In part, transcripts.

Includes a few family letters relating generally to the war,

and material concerning the manufacture of rifling machines.

Finding aid and microfilm copy (17 reels) available.

750

Radford, William (1809-1890) Comdr., USN

Papers, 1847-90. 53 items.

Contains 23 items relating to the war, chiefly official correspondence and orders concerning Radford's command of the

U.S.S. Cumberland and U.S.S. New Ironsides, 1862-65.

Includes Radford's report of Mar. 10, 1862, on the loss of the

Cumberland at Hampton Roads; a letter from Col. John Harris

to Radford, Dec. 7, 1863, concerning an effort in Congress to

transfer the Marine Corps to the Army as an additional

regiment; a letter from Adm. David D. Porter to Radford, Jan.

17, 1865, commending Radford on the performance of the New

Ironsides in the Fort Fisher expedition; and a letter from Gustavus V. Fox to Radford, Feb. 10,1865, on the utility of monitors.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

751

Ramsey, Margaret Lawrence (18407-1922)

Collection, 1864-1977. 7 items.

In part, transcripts.

Contains the diary of Margaret L. Lindsley, Oct. 29,

1864-May 28, 1865, concerning the Siege of Nashville, Dec.

1864, and life in Washington, D.C., in the final weeks of the

war. Includes comments on the behavior of Union troops in

Nashville, the attitude of noncombatants, and generalship. Also

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contains copies of letters to Margaret (Maggie) Lindsley; the

published version of the diary; miscellaneous orders; a map of

"Part of Cobb County, Georgia" (1864); and recommendations

for promotion of numerous officers who served under Gen.

George H. Thomas, Feb. 18, 1866, with details on the wartime

service of each officer named.

752

Randall, James Garfield (1881-1953) and Ruth P.

Papers, 1850-1952. ca. 13,400 items.

In part, photocopies.

Correspondence, notes, drafts, outlines, memoranda, and

printed matter relating to J. G. Randall's studies of Lincoln

and the Civil War.

Finding aid available.

753

Randolph, George Wythe

(1818-1867) C.S. Secretary of War

Letter, 1862. 1 item.

Transcript.

Letter to the editors of the Richmond Whig, July 17, 1862,

Richmond, appealing for assistance in apprehending deserters

and absentees from the Confederate Army.

754

Randolph, William B. (b. 1793) Agriculturist

Papers, 1696-1884. ca. 7,500 items.

Includes three letters from N. Harrison to Randolph, June

1-Oct. 21, 1862, concerning the military situation in Monroe

County, W. Va., and the generalship of Henry Heth and John

B. Floyd; and a letter from Randolph to an unidentified

recipient, Nov. 6, 1864, commenting on military affairs in Virginia and the health of Gen. George E. Pickett and his headquarters staff.

Finding aid available.

755

Ransom, Robert (1828-1892) Gen., CSA

Letter, 1863. 1 item.

Letter from Ransom to Gov. Zebulon Vance, Apr. 13,1863,

Winston, N.C., concerning conscription in North Carolina and

the excessive number of militia officers in the State.

756

Read, John Meredith

(1837-1896) Adj. Gen., New York

Family papers, 1706-1906. ca. 1,000 items.

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Includes a few routine letters from Simon Cameron to

Read, May 14-20, 1861, on the mustering of volunteers, and

drafts of legislation on enlistments, conscription, and military

regulations.

757

Read, Thomas Buchanan

(1822-1872) Artist-Poet, Ohio

Collection, 1864. 3 items.

Includes a poem on the war entitled "The Oath."

758

Reed, Charles Wellington Pvt., 9th Massachusetts

(1841-1926) Light Artillery; Topographic

Engineer, Army of the Potomac

Papers, 1849-1920. ca. 1,200 items.

Chiefly correspondence, drawings, maps, photographs, a

diary, and printed matter relating to the war. Includes about

700 sketches of battles and skirmishes, military camps and

camp scenes, black refugees, Confederate prisoners of war, fords,

settlements and points of interest (Bealeton Station, Gainesville,

Bethesda Church, Laurel Hill, Burke's Station, Nottoway

Station, Belle Isle, and the Petersburg mine explosion), ordnance, and various military and political leaders: Gens. Henry

Baxter, Ambrose E. Burnside, Ulysses S. Grant, and Paul J.

Semmes (CSA), and President Lincoln. Also includes about 200

letters (many with sketches on the letterhead) from Reed to his

family and friends in Massachusetts, 1862-65, describing camp

life, training, discipline, diet, military organization, marches,

entertainment, ordnance, ethics, furloughs, disease, casualties,

competition between regiments, and the attitude of recruits

toward officers. Provides information on the Gettysburg, Mine

Run, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and

Appomattox campaigns. Miscellaneous items include manuscript essays on the role of the 8th Vermont Volunteers in the

Battle of Cedar Creek, and the role of the 9th Massachusetts

Light Artillery at Gettysburg. Diary entries cover the period

Jan. 1-Oct. 25, 1864.

Finding aid available.

759

Reed Family of Indiana and Kentucky

Papers, 1795-1891.

Microfilm, 1 reel.

Contains about 65 letters from Chaplain George J. Reed to

his wife, 1861 — 62, concerning his ministry to soldiers in the

1st (renamed the 2d) Kentucky Cavalry, camp life, morale,

marches, depredations by Confederate soldiers, discipline, the

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disposition of Federal troops in Kentucky, the attitude of

noncombatants, guerrilla warfare, disease and deaths in the

regiment, hospital care, the treatment of runaway slaves,

generalship, Gen. Don Carlos Buell's forced march to Pittsburg

Landing, and casualties from the Battle of Shiloh.

760

Reichhelm, Edward Paul Sgt. Maj., 3d

Missouri Volunteers

Collection, 1862-63. 2 items.

In part, transcripts.

Diary, Dec. 1862-Jan. 1863, kept during the Vicksburg

Campaign. Describes Gen. William T. Sherman's move down

the Mississippi River from Helena, Ark., to Millikens Bend,

including guerrilla attacks on Federal transports and retaliatory raids on towns and plantations along the river; the Yazoo

Pass expedition; and the Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs. Includes

comments on camp life, marches, morale, depredations,

casualties, and the generalship of Charles E. Hovey and John

A. McClernand. Also describes the Arkansas Post (Fort

Hindman) expedition.

761

Reid, Samuel Chester (1783-1861)

Family papers, 1807-1963. ca. 2,450 items.

Includes the diary of Samuel Chester Reid, Jr. (1818-1897),

Feb. 5, 1862-Apr. 9, 1865, kept during travels in the South as

a war correspondent. Contains some information on travel

conditions, troop movements, generalship, personal difficulties

with Gen. Braxton Bragg, and the Atlanta Campaign. Also

contains a few military passes, and the following essays: "An

Appeal to the Democracy of the South," "The Cause and Origin

of the War Between the North and the South," "An ExConfederate on the Late Rebellion," and "A Forthcoming Secret

History of the Confederacy."

Finding aid available.

762

Reid Family

Papers, 1795-1973. ca. 60,050 items.

Includes the papers of Whitelaw Reid (1837-1912), war

correspondent for the Cincinnati Gazette. Material relating to

the war consists chiefly of newspaper clippings of Reid's dispatches written in Washington, D.C., and in the field, and popularly known as the "Agate" letters.

Finding aid and microfilm copy (237 reels) available.

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763

Remey, George Collier (1841-1928) Lt., USN

Papers, 1902-35. 1 item.

Reminiscences of Remey's experiences in the war, 1863-64.

Describes the capture of Confederate blockade runners Cherokee

and Secesh, operations against Fort Sumter and Fort Wagner,

S.C., life as a prisoner of war at Charleston and Columbia,

S.C., and the execution of a Union spy. Includes a sketch of the

Columbia jail and the names of several other prisoners.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

764

Remey Family

Papers, 1855-1932. 1,225 items.

In part, transcripts.

Includes official and personal correspondence, orders, and

reminiscences of Lt. George Collier Remey (1841-1928).

Describes Lieutenant Remey's service on the U.S.S. Marblehead

in the Peninsular Campaign and with the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, as executive officer on the U.S.S. Canandaigua,

South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, and operations against

Fort Wagner and Fort Sumter, S.C. Also describes Remey's

experiences as a prisoner of war at Charleston and Columbia,

S.C., and Richmond, Va., the suffering of Federal prisoners at

Savannah, Ga., and Florence, S.C, and Union sentiment

among the middle and lower classes in the interior parts of

South Carolina. Miscellaneous items include a printed list of

officers and men of the U.S. Navy exchanged at Cox's Landing,

Va., Oct. 16, 1864. Correspondents include John A. Dahlgren,

Samuel F. Du Pont, Quincy A. Gillmore, William Reynolds,

and Gideon Welles.

Finding aid available.

765

Remsen, Tredwell W. 48th New York Volunteers

Collection, 1861-64. 5 items.

Three letters from Remsen to his sister, 1861-64, written

from Washington, D.C., and South Carolina, concern Army life

and morale, the Siege of Fort Pulaski, and events in Washington; an undated letter from Remsen to his grandfather discusses troop strength at Annapolis, Md.

766

Revere Family

Papers, 1746-1964.

Microfilm, 15 reels.

Includes the correspondence and papers of Lt. Col. Paul

Joseph Revere and Dr. Edward Hutchinson Robbins Revere,

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both of the 20th Massachusetts Volunteers, 1861—63. About

75 letters from Lt. Colonel Revere to his wife and family discuss his capture at the Battle of Balls Bluff, prison life, his

exchange, and the participation of the 20th Massachusetts in

the Peninsular, Antietam, and Gettysburg campaigns. Includes

remarks on camp life, morale, marches, discipline, supplies,

casualties, promotions, disease, slavery, and black life. Also

contains letters to Revere from various officers in the regiment

during his convalescence from a wound received at the Battle

of Sharpsburg.

Originals at the Massachusetts Historical Society.

767

Reynolds, Alexander Welch (1817-1876) Gen., CSA

Poem, 1864. 1 item.

Signed poem from Reynolds to Mrs. Hardee, written near

Dalton, Ga., Mar. 21, 1864.

768

Reynolds, Charles Capt., 12th Wisconsin Volunteers

Order book, 1864-65. 1 v.

Covers the period Jan. 14, 1864-July 16, 1865. Contains

circulars and special orders from the War Department, military codes, orders from the headquarters of Gens. William T.

Sherman and James B. McPherson during the Atlanta and

Savannah campaigns, figures on votes cast by soldiers in the

Presidential election of 1864, copies of congratulatory letters

from Gen. U. S. Grant and President Lincoln to General Sherman on his successful campaigns in the South, and orders on

enlistments, discharges, foraging expeditions, plundering, special details, and the arrest of stragglers.

769

Reynolds, Thomas Caute (1821-1887) Gov., Missouri

Papers, 1856-66. ca. 1,100 items.

Official and private letterbooks of Reynolds, Dec. 27,

1862-Apr. 15, 1865, and Apr. 13, 1863-Aug. 6, 1864. Contains letters to various officers and statesmen concerning military organization, the appointment of officers, recruitment,

supplies, guerrilla warfare, the disposition of troops, and numerous related problems. Letters written from Marshall, Tex.,

Shreveport, La., Little Rock, Ark., and Richmond, Va., concern

chiefly the situation in the southern Trans-Mississippi area.

Microfilm copy (1 reel) available.

770

Reynolds, William (1815-1879) Adm., USN

Collection, 1877-1880. 2 items.

214
Reprint of J. G. Rosengarten's William Reynolds, RearAdmiral U.S.N., John Fulton Reynolds, Major-General U.S.V.,

Colonel Fifth U.S. Infantry. A Memoir (1880).

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

771

Rhodes, James Ford (1848-1927) Historian

Manuscripts, 1912. 3 items.

Drafts of three lectures on the Civil War.

772

Rice, David A. (d. 1863) Pvt, 108th

New York Volunteers

Collection, 1862-65. 6 items.

Diary, Aug. 19, 1862-Apr. 18, 1863, kept by Rice both as

a foot soldier and a wagoner in the Antietam and Fredericksburg campaigns. Describes the capture of over 300 Confederate

soldiers who became ill after partaking of the Maryland harvest during the Antietam Campaign, camp life, diet, disease,

and hospital care. Also includes three letters from Rice to his

family and relatives in New York, 1862—63.

773

Richardson, Charles H. 2d Vermont Volunteers

Diary, 1862-68. 3 v.

Contains two volumes relating to the war: Mar. 12-Oct.

22, 1863, and Feb. 10, 1864-Apr. 21, 1867. Describes morale,

entertainment, discipline, and hospital care at the Patterson

Park Hospital near Baltimore, Md.; preparations against the

Confederate invasion of 1863 (Gettysburg Campaign); and the

impressment and treatment of blacks as laborers. Also describes

acute drunkenness in the Army of the Potomac, the Wilderness

Campaign, guerrilla attacks on wounded Federal soldiers, and

casualties in the 2d Vermont. Includes a record of Richardson's

correspondence.

774

Richmond, Lewis (d. 1894) Capt., USA

Document, 1862. 1 item.

Military pass for the transportation of eight telegraph

operators aboard the Alice Price, Sept. 1, 1862.

775

Riggs Family

Papers, 1763-1945. ca. 100,000 items.

Includes official correspondence and papers of George W.

Riggs, Jr., agent for paying U.S. military pensions, 1856-62.

Finding aid available.

215
776

Ripley, Josiah W. Pvt., 18th Massachusetts Volunteers

Papers, 1862, 1931. 2 items.

Diary, May 16-Aug. 21, 1862, kept by Ripley during the

Peninsular Campaign. Contains remarks on camp life, training,

marches, and routine affairs. Includes a few details on the

evacuation of the peninsula. Also contains a record of Ripley's

service in the war obtained from the Massachusetts attorney

general's office in 1931.

777

Rittenhouse, Benjamin F. Maj., USA

Article, undated. 1 item.v

Transcript.

"The Battle of Gettysburg as Seen From Little Round Top."

Includes a note in the margin indicating that this account varies from the published version.

778

Rives, William Cabell

(1793-1868) Member, C.S. Congress

Papers, 1674-1939. ca. 50,400 items.

In part, transcripts and photocopies.

Official and family correspondence concerning Confederate politics, finance, and trade, public support for the war,

military and political leadership, military appointments and

promotions, the attitude of the southern clergy, life in Richmond during the war, the general progress of the war, and

enlistments and casualties in the Confederate Army. Also contains requests for aid from numerous Confederate prisoners of

war, biographical and autobiographical material on Rives, miscellaneous photographs, and letters from Alfred S. Rives (CSA)

to his wife and parents concerning the defenses of Richmond,

casualties, and the Chancellorsville, Petersburg, and Appomattox campaigns. Correspondents include Robert E. Lee, Christopher G. Memminger, Prince Camille Armand Jules Marie de

Polignac, and James A. Seddon.

Finding aid and microfilm copy (7 reels) available.

779

Robert, Henry Martyn (1837-1923) Engineer; Capt., USA

Papers, 1853-1927. ca. 5,000 items.

Includes a few miscellaneous letters and orders, 1861-64,

pertaining to the construction of fortifications and Robert's ill

health. Correspondents are Gen. Richard Delafield and Gen.

Joseph G. Totten.

Finding aid available.

216
780

Robert J. Lowry and Company

Records, 1862-63. 10 items.

Letters concerning, in part, the purchase and distribution

of military supplies and problems with Union raiding parties.

781

Roberts Family

Papers, 1734-1944. 433 items.

Includes eight letters from Pvt. Junius B. Roberts (28th

U.S. Colored Infantry) to his family, 1864-65, concerning his

service as an orderly in a military hospital in Alexandria, Va.

Provides some information on deaths, disease, and hospital

care. Miscellaneous items comprise "Perrine's New Military

Map Illustrating the Seat of War," by C. O. Perrine (1862);

a manual of arms; and a "Prison Song. Lines written by

Dr. Sutherland, . . . 92d N.Y. Regiment, who was captured . . .

during the battle of'fair Oaks,'. . . being a correct history of his

capture, and their confinement, treatment and suffering, while

prisoners; also, a hint at the habits and customs of the Southern Confederacy" (n.d.).

782

Rockwell, Almon Ferdinand (b. 1835) Maj., USA

Papers, 1852-1900. ca. 2,000 items.

In part, transcripts.

Includes a diary kept by Rockwell, Oct. 1861-Sept. 1862,

during Gen. Don Carlos Buell's occupation of Nashville, the

Shiloh Campaign, the Corinth Campaign, marches and skirmishes in northern Alabama, and the pursuit of Gen. Braxton

Bragg in Kentucky. Contains remarks on camp life, training,

morale, marches, discipline, entertainment, disease, medical

care, Confederate deserters, casualties, southern Unionists, prisoners of war, the death of Gen. William Nelson, generalship,

and the removal and reinstatement of General Buell. Also contains an autobiographical sketch (10 p.) of Rockwell; a letter

from T. J. Bush to Rockwell, Nov. 14 [1862], Indianapolis [Ind.],

on General Buell's spirits while awaiting a court of inquiry on

his conduct in the Battle of Perryville; and a letter from Buell

to [Rockwell], July 10, 1864, concerning his resignation from

the Army.

783

Rodgers Family

Papers, 1740-1957. ca. 11,150 items.

Material relating to the war consists chiefly of letters from

Col. John N. Macomb to his wife, 1861-62, concerning his

service as chief of the army topographical engineers, his associ217
ation with Gens. Irvin McDowell and John Pope, the occupation

of Fredericksburg, Va., and the 2d Manassas Campaign. Miscellaneous items include a few letters by Gen. Montgomery C.

Meigs, a letter by Comdr. John Rodgers describing his engagement on the U.S.S. Galena with Confederate batteries near

City Point, Va., a letter by Ann Minerva Macomb, Apr. 17,

1865, concerning the excitement in Washington following the

assassination of President Lincoln, and the war record of Capt.

R. H. Montgomery.

Finding aid available.

784

Papers, 1788-1944. ca. 15,500 items.

Includes official, general, and family correspondence of

Capt. John Rodgers (1812-1882), U.S. Navy, along with orders,

returns, telegrams, receipts, inventories, accounts, intelligence

and battle reports, and miscellaneous items. Relates to the

construction and staffing of gunboats for duty on the Ohio and

Mississippi Rivers (U.S.S. Tyler, U.S.S. Conestoga, and U.S.S.

Galena), reconnaissance expeditions along the Mississippi River,

and Rodgers' command of the U.S.S. Galena during the Peninsular Campaign, the U.S.S. Weehawken during blockade duty

off the coasts of South Carolina and Georgia, and the U.S.S.

Dictator during its trial voyage. Provides information on the

pillage of Beaufort, S.C., black life, the treatment and performance of black soldiers, drug addiction in the Army of the

Potomac, prize vessels, the movement and disposition of vessels in the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, the capture of

Forts Walker and Beauregard, attacks on Fort McAllister,

weapons, entertainment, discipline, and the Fort Fisher expedition of 1865. Correspondents include Andrew J. Drake, Samuel

F. Du Pont, David G. Farragut, Andrew H. Foote, Gustavus V.

Fox, George B. McClellan, Matthew Fontaine Maury, Montgomery C. Meigs, John S. Missroon, R. J. Oglesby, Samuel L.

Phelps, Roger N. Stembel, and Gideon Welles. Miscellaneous

items include captured Confederate letters and documents, a

letter from Gen. John C. Fremont to James B. Eads, Oct. 3,

1861, a report on the capture of the C.S.S. Atlanta, a comparative evaluation of monitors and ironclads, and sketches of

Charleston Harbor, Fort Darling, and Fort Fisher and vicinity.

Finding aid available.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

785

Roe, Francis Asbury (1823-1901) Lt. Comdr., USN

Papers, 1842-1901. ca. 500 items.

In part, transcripts.

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Includes proof sheets for Roe's Naval Duties and Discipline

With the Policy and Principles of Naval Organization (1865);

and an account of the action between the U.S.S. Sassacus and

C.S.S. Albemarle near the mouth of the Roanoke River, May 5,

1864, written by Roe from his diary and notes in 1899.

Finding aid available.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

786

Roedel, Josephine Forney (1825-1904)

Collection, 1863-64. 2 items.

Diary kept by Roedel during travels in Virginia, Maryland,

and Pennsylvania, Oct. 28, 1863-July 13,1864. Includes comments on depredations and the effects of war in the Shenandoah

Valley, inflation, the attitude of noncombatants in Virginia,

Pennsylvania, and Maryland, morale among soldiers from

Wythe County, Va., the Gettysburg Address, and Gen. Jubal

Early's Washington raid. Also includes an offprint of Roedel's

diary published in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and

Biography (Oct. 1943).

787

Roelofson, William J. Pvt., 145th Illinois Volunteers

Document, 1864. 1 item.

Certificate of service as a 100-day volunteer, Dec. 15,1864.

788

Rogers, Henry J. (1811-1879)

Papers, 1844-75.

Microfilm, 1 reel.

Includes a letter from Comdr. Homer C. Blake to Commodore Andrew A. Harwood, Dec. 18, 1863, endorsing the use of

Rogers' "Semophoric Telegraphic Signals" in the U.S. Navy; a

letter from Harwood to Adm. Charles H. Davis, Dec. 30, 1863,

on a successful test of the signals at sea; and copies of signals

between the U.S.S. Wachusett and U.S.S. Sangamon in Feb.

1864.

789

Roman, Alfred (b. 1824) Col., Louisiana Militia

Papers, 1861-90. 150 items.

In part, transcripts.

Includes official correspondence between Gen. P. G. T.

Beauregard and various officers and officials, 1861—62, concerning military appointments, the Battle of 1st Manassas,

supplies, reinforcements, military organization, Gen. Ambrose

E. Burnside's expedition to North Carolina, recruits, strategy,

transportation, and the need for more officers. Also contains

2 1 9
military telegrams concerning the Franklin and Nashville Campaign and the defense of Charleston, S.C., in 1865, and Roman's

report on Gen. Joseph Wheeler's cavalry corps written as assistant inspector general, Military Division of the West, Dec. 28,

1864. Correspondents include William B. Bate, Judah P.

Benjamin, John A. Calhoun, James Chestnut, Samuel Cooper,

Jefferson Davis, John B. Hood, Joseph E. Johnston, Thomas

Jordan, James L. Kemper, Mrs. Augusta Mason, William P.

Miles, Abraham C. Myers, Roger A. Pryor, Richard Taylor, and

Jacob Thompson.

790

Roosevelt, Robert Barnwell

(1829-1906) 71st New York Volunteers

Papers, 1862. 75 items.

Letters from Roosevelt to his wife, June 4-23, 1862,

describe the abuse of the men of the 71st New York by government officials, military officers, and citizens in Washington,

D.C., as a result of their refusal to enlist in the Regular Army

for three years or for the war—the regiment had been dispatched from New York to Washington in the face of Federal

reversals in the Peninsular and Shenandoah Valley campaigns.

Also contains a list of officers in the 71st New York, newspaper

clippings on the war, and a detailed account of the trip from

New York to Washington.

791

Roosevelt, Theodore Recruitment Commissioner,

(1831-1878) New York

Family papers, 1810-1919. ca. 300 items.

Contains a few letters and documents relating to the

appointment of commissioners to issue military certificates in

New York, and the recruitment of volunteers.

792

Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919), Pres., U.S.

Papers, 1759-1920. ca. 276,000 items.

In part, transcripts.

Includes a copy of an article in the Portland, Maine, Evening

Courier, Mar. 8, 1862, on "General McClellan's Dream," a facsimile of President Lincoln's letter to Mrs. Lydia Bixby, Nov.

21, 1864, and a copy of the war record of William Allen.

Published index and microfilm copy (485 reels) available.

793

Rose, Luther A. Operator, U.S.

Military Telegraph Service

Diary, 1863-66. 1 v.

Contains information on the operation of the U.S. Military

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Telegraph Service during the Chancellorsville, Gettysburg,

Mine Run, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg campaigns. Includes comments on the frequent relocation

of the telegraph service, the progress of the war, camp life,

deserters, devastation in Virginia, casualties, prisoners of war,

entertainment, generalship, and various battles and skirmishes.

794

Rose, Solomon D. Pvt, USA

Letter, 1865. 1 item.

Letter from Rose to his mother, Mar. 20, 1865, concerning

camp life and patriotism in the Army of the Potomac.

795

Rosecrans, William Starke (1819-1898) Gen., USA

Collection, 1862, 1865. 2 items.

Includes a letter from Rosecrans to Dr. Jacob Boyers, Feb.

5,1862, Wheeling, [W.] Va., encouraging the arrest and prosecution of Confederate sympathizers in Monogalia County.

796

Rowan, Stephen Clegg (1808-1890) Comdr., USN

Papers, 1826-90. 4 items.

Includes a letterbook, Feb. 22, 1854-Jan. 21, 1880, containing about 250 copies of letters and reports on the war,

including attempts by the U.S.S. Pawnee to reach Fort Sumter

in Apr. 1861, the engagement of the U.S.S. Pawnee and U.S.S.

Thomas Freeborn with Confederate batteries at Aquia Creek,

Va., the capture and occupation of Alexandria, Va., the action

at Mathias Point, Va., June 27, 1861, Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside's expedition to North Carolina, and the Battle of New

Bern, N.C. Also includes miscellaneous reports and comments

on the activities of the North Atlantic and South Atlantic Blockading Squadrons, loyalist refugees, blockade runners, prize

vessels, the torpedo attack on the U.S.S. New Ironsides, the

sinking of the U.S.S. Housatonic, naval morale, discipline, ship

repairs, and the bombardment of Forts Sumter, Wagner,

Moultrie, and Gregg. Correspondents include John A. Dahlgren,

Gustavus V. Fox, Louis M. Goldsborough, David D. Porter,

Cornelius K. Stribling, Silas H. Stringham, Alfred H. Terry,

and Gideon Welles.

Finding aid available.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

797

Rowan, W. H. Capt., Kentucky Battalion, CSA

Letter, 1861. 1 item.

Photocopy.

221
William Starke Rosecrans
Letter from Rowan to his mother, July 22, 1861, concerning casualties and captured stores and equipment from the

Battle of 1st Manassas.

798

Ruffin, Edmund (1794-1865) Agriculturist-Writer, Virginia

Diary, 1856-65. 14 v.

Observations on secession, Confederate and Union politics,

and battles and skirmishes, including the Fort Sumter affair

and the battles of 1st and 2d Manassas. Also includes copies of

letters, maps, pamphlets, clippings, and fragmentary essays.

Microfilm copy (7 reels) available.

799

Rupley, Samuel K. (b. 1844) Pvt., 150th

New York Volunteers

Papers, 1863-1908. 78 items.

Chiefly miscellaneous telegrams and drafts of messages,

1863-65, concerning military appointments, troop positions,

supplies, furloughs, passes, and visits of public officials to the

war zone. Includes a copy of the official announcement from

the War Department of the death of President Lincoln.

800

Russell, John Henry (1827-1897) Lt. Comdr., USN

Collection, 1861-75. 18 items.

Chiefly official correspondence and orders, 1861-64, concerning blockade duty with the Gulf Coast and South Atlantic

Blockading Squadrons, and operations on the Mississippi River.

Includes a sketch of Admiral Farragut's order of battle for the

attack on Forts Jackson and St. Philip, a sketch showing the

position of several vessels in Farragut's fleet in the bombardment of Vicksburg, and a letter from Comdr. Henry H. Bell to

Russell, Oct. 14, 1862, on the blockade of Mobile Bay. Other

correspondents are Adms. John A. Dahlgren and David G.

Farragut, and Comdr. Cadwalader Ringgold.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

801

Russell, William R. USA

Papers, 1858-89. ca. 90 items.

Includes a letter to Russell from his mother, July 3, 1861,

concerning the military presence in Washington, D.C., and

President Lincoln; and a letter from a soldier at Norfolk, Va.,

to his parents, June 10, 1862, describing camp life and morale

among the 13th New York State Militia, also known as the

13th New York National Guard.

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802

Ryan, George Parker (1842-1877) 1st Lt., USN

Papers, 1860-1952. 75 items.

Includes 12 letters from Ryan to his brother, U.S.S. Sacramento, European Squadron, July 25, 1864-Mar. 28,1865, concerning Confederate privateers, the search for the C.S.S.

Alabama, efforts to capture the C.S.S. Rappahannock, and an

encounter with the C.S.S. Stonewall. Also contains a description of the Stonewall, an explanation as to why the Sacramento

did not attack it, and an undated photograph of the U.S.S.

Monongahela.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

803

Ryan, Patrick Sgt., 132d New York Volunteers

Diary, 1863-65. 1 v.

Covers the period May 30, 1863-June 3, 1865. Describes

Ryan's enlistment in New York City, garrison duty in New

Berne, N.C., and vicinity, marches and skirmishes in the area,

guerrilla warfare (the mining of roads and railroads), Gen.

George E. Pickett's attack on New Bern, Feb. 1, 1864, and the

Carolinas Campaign. Includes a few details on the Battle of

Kinston, N.C., Confederate deserters, camp life, training, prisoners of war, and discipline.

804

St. John, Bela T. (b. 1843) Pvt., 46th Illinois Volunteers

Papers, 1861-66. 108 items.

Chiefly letters from St. John to his family and relatives,

1862-66, and a diary, Nov. 7, 1861-Sept. 16, 1866 (9 v.),

relating to the Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Corinth, and Vicksburg

campaigns, the Siege of Jackson, Miss., and the Siege of Mobile,

Ala. Also describes St. John's enlistment and training in Illinois,

camp life, morale, discipline, marches, the selection of officers,

military organization, casualties, disease, hospital care, foraging expeditions, guerrilla warfare, Confederate deserters, the

use of blacks in the U.S. Army, generalship, the dismissal of

incompetent officers, and speculation in cotton by officers. Additional items include remarks on the movement of troops and

supplies on the Mississippi River, life in New Orleans, La.,

during the war, an expedition up the White River (Arkansas)

in Sept.-Oct. 1864, the capture of Spanish Fort and Fort

Blakely, Ala., and the Battle of Mobile Bay as viewed from

shore. Two letters by Sgt. John D. St. John, Mar. 26-27 and

Apr. 14,1862, discuss the Fort Donelson and Shiloh campaigns,

black life, and the presence of women in battle.

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805

Saint John, Theodore Edgar

(1831-1887) Pvt., 14th Wisconsin Volunteers

Papers, 1862-92. ca. 20 items.

Photocopies.

Chiefly letters from Saint John to Jane Cecelia Harries,

1862-65, written during operations in northern Mississippi,

Oct.-Nov. 1862, and in the Vicksburg, Atlanta, Savannah,

and Carolinas campaigns. Includes remarks on camp life,

morale, marches, foraging expeditions, deaths, and prisoners

of war. Also contains Saint John's discharge, May 27, 1865,

miscellaneous orders, a poem on the death of Gen. James B.

McPherson by a surgeon on McPherson's staff, pension records,

and biographical notes.

806

Sanborn, Fred G. Capt., 5th Maine Volunteers

Papers, 1864. 75 items.

In part, transcripts.

General and special orders, returns, battle reports, clippings, and miscellaneous items relating to campaigns in Virginia in 1864. Includes some information on the Wilderness,

Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor campaigns.

807

Sanders, George Nicholas

(1812-1873) Confederate Agent; Revolutionist

Papers, 1833-79. 27 items.

Contains a letter from Henry S. Foote to Sanders, Mar. 26,

1861, concerning recognition of the Confederacy and Foote's

efforts to carry Tennessee out of the Union; and a letter from

Judah P. Benjamin to Mrs. G. N. Sanders, Oct. 6, 1863, on a

proposed plan for sending secret dispatches.

808

Papers, 1854-65.

Microfilm, 2 reels.

Correspondence, clippings, and pamphlets concerning the

secessionist crisis, the organization of the Confederate Government, the progress of the war, the bombardment of Charleston,

S.C., inflation, and politics.

Originals at the National Archives.

809

Sands, Frank T. Mortician, Washington, D.C.

Collection, 1862-65. 8 items.

Includes "Articles of Agreement" between Sands and Capt.

225
Edward L. Hartz for the burial of deceased soldiers, and photographs of both Sands and Hartz.

810

Sanger, Donald Bridgman (1889-1947) Author

Papers, 1932-37. ca. 1,000 items.

Draft of Sanger's thesis, "General James Longstreet and

the Civil War," submitted to the University of Chicago in 1934,

and later edited, expanded, and published by Thomas R. Hay.

Also includes notes, articles, and lectures on Longstreet.

811

Santee (U.S.S.)

Logbook, 1861-62. 2 v.

Chiefly navigational records kept during service in the

Gulf Blockading Squadron, June 9, 1861-Aug. 23, 1862. Also

contains a list of officers aboard the Santee, an inventory of

stores and equipment, names of prize vessels, an account of the

attack on the Royal Yacht, and comments on discipline, desertions, deaths, and prisoners of war.

812

Sargent, John Osborne (1811-1891) Journalist; Lawyer

Papers, 1831-1912.

Microfilm, 4 reels.

Contains clippings and extracts from various newspapers

on the progress of the war, Confederate generals, emancipation,

and the trial of Henry Wirz.

Originals in the Massachusetts Historical Society.

813

Sargent, Winthrop (1753-1820)

Family papers, 1772-1948.

Microfilm, 7 reels.

Contains a copy of the proceedings of the military trial of

Pvt. Amsel Harmen, 4th Illinois Cavalry, for the murder of

George Washington Sargent at Natchez, Miss., in 1864. Also

tried with Harmen were Pvts. Alexander McBride, David Greer,

and William Thomas.

Originals in the Massachusetts Historical Society.

814

Savage, John (1828-1888) 69th New York

Militia Regiment

Letter, 1861. 1 item.

Letter from Savage to George P. Morris, July 31, 1861,

relating to his service as a three-month volunteer in Washington, D.C., and Virginia.

226
815

Saxton, Rufus (1824-1908) Gen., USA

Collection, 1862-89. 3 items.

Letter from Saxton to the Board of Home Missions, Oct.

22, 1862, Beaufort, S.C., concerning the transfer of Rev. J.

Kennedy from Beaufort to Fernandina, Fla., where the garrison needed a minister; and a letter from Saxton to the American Medical Association, June 18, 1863, Beaufort, S.C., thanking the association for its interest in his work in behalf of

freedmen in his department.

816

Sayre, Francis Bowes (1885-1972)

Papers, 1861-1961. ca. 8,100 items.

Contains about 50 letters from Capt. Wilberforce Nevin,

79th Pennsylvania Volunteers, to his family and relatives, Oct.

14, 1861-Jan. 4, 1864, concerning campaigns in Kentucky,

Tennessee, and Alabama. Includes comments on camp life,

marches, morale, discipline, troop movements, foraging expeditions, the treatment of prisoners of war, guerrilla warfare,

depredations by both Union and Confederate soldiers, the attitude and conduct of noncombatants, black life, the attitude of

blacks toward the war, the use and treatment of blacks by

Union soldiers, southern Unionists, inflation, disease, spies,

military organization, and generalship. Also contains information on the battles of Perryville, Ky., and Murfreesboro, Tenn.,

and a skirmish at Rowlett's Station, Ky., Dec. 17, 1861; and a

short history of the 79th Pennsylvania written by Captain

Nevin in Dec. 1864.

Finding aid available.

817

Schaumburg Family

Collection, 1795-1865. 3 items.

In part, photocopies.

Military pass issued to Orleana Christy Schaumburg (Mrs.

Charles W. Schaumburg), Jan. 18, 1865, to enter the South,

and signed by President Lincoln. Also a personal letter from

Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard to Mrs. Schaumburg.

818

Scholossen, Peter Pvt., USA

Document, 1863. 1 item.

Discharge certificate, Mar. 2, 1863.

227
819

Schnell, Joseph (1840-1914) Pvt., 2d

Pennsylvania Reserves

Papers, 1844-1914. ca. 100 items.

Includes Schnell's enlistment certificate, Apr. 17, 1861; a

letter from Schnell to his sister, Sept. 18, 1861, on his work

with the military telegraph, troop reviews by President Lincoln,

Gen. George B. McClellan, Gov. Andrew Curtin, and Simon

Cameron, and discipline in Gen. George A. McCall's Pennsylvania Reserves Corps; miscellaneous telegrams; and an autograph

book.

820

Schofield, John McAllister (1831-1906) Gen., USA

Papers, 1837-1906. ca. 30,000 items.

Contains orders, dispatches, reports, returns, telegrams,

maps, court-martial records, and official correspondence concerning Schofield's command of the Army of the Frontier and

the Department of the Missouri, and operations in the Atlanta

and Franklin and Nashville campaigns. Cartographic items

comprise maps of the battlefields of Totopotomoy Creek, Bethesda Church, North Anna, the Wilderness, and Spotsylvania; a

map of Sparta, Tenn., and vicinity (1863); and a topographical

sketch of Bowling Green, Ky., and environs. Also includes a

postwar account of the Franklin and Nashville Campaign by

Capt. William M. Wherry, aide-de-camp to Schofield; and a

diary, Aug. 26-Oct. 29, 1863, kept by Schofield as commander

of the Department of the Missouri. Diary entries concern the

generalship of Samuel R. Curtis, popular support for Gen.

Thomas Ewing, the political situation in Missouri, radical

opposition to Schofield, military organization, recruitment, and

black recruits. Also includes copies of letters from President

Lincoln to Schofield, Oct. 1,1863, on Federal policy in Missouri,

and from Charles D. Drake, Oct. 5,1863, stating the President's

reasons for not removing Schofield from command. Correspondents include Francis P. Blair, Jr., Montgomery Blair, John A.

Campbell, Cyrus B. Comstock, Jacob D. Cox, Ulysses S. Grant,

Henry W. Halleck, John C. Kelton, John Pope, Fitz-John Porter,

William S. Rosecrans, Philip H. Sheridan, William T. Sherman,

Edwin M. Stanton, Alfred H. Terry, George H. Thomas, and

Edward D. Townsend.

Finding aid available.

821

Schonborn, Harry F.

Notebook, 1861-63. 1 item.

228
John McAllister Schofield
Contains drawings of fortifications at Battery Douglass,

Fort Totten, Fort Mahan, and Fort Saratoga, and payrolls for

labor and supplies used in construction of these works.

822

Schoonmaker, Cornelius Marius

(1839-1889) 1st Lt.; Executive Officer, USN

Papers, 1833-1931. ca. 1,400 items.

Official and personal correspondence, orders, reports, and

miscellaneous items relating to Schoonmaker's service on

the U.S.S. Minnesota (1861), U.S.S. Pawnee (1861), U.S.S.

Wyandotte (1861), U.S.S. Octorara (1862), U.S.S. Pinola (1863),

U.S.S. Manhattan (1864), U.S.S. Augusta (1864), and U.S.S.

Catskill (1865). Also includes an unpublished biography of

Schoonmaker by his father, Marius Schoonmaker, consisting

chiefly of his son's personal letters to his family concerning

training, discipline, the dilemma confronting southern officers

during the secession crisis, war fever in the North, the Federal

blockade, torpedo warfare, prize vessels, the treatment of prisoners of war, Gen. Ambrose E, Burnside's expedition to North

Carolina, the generalship of Benjamin F. Butler, rank disputes,

the Siege of Fort Pulaski, ship construction, the advantages

and disadvantages of ironclads, contraband trade with Nassau,

the Battle of Mobile Bay, and the attitude of southerners toward

U.S. seamen.

Finding aid available.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

823

Schouler, William (1814-1872) Adj. Gen., Massachusetts

Collection, 1864. 2 items.

Photocopies.

Letter with attached note from Schouler to Gov. John A.

Andrew, Sept. 24,1864, Boston, Mass., concerning the discharge

of one of five sons of John Otis Newhall. Includes remarks on

Mrs. Lydia Bixby.

824

Schuckers, Jacob William (ca. 1832-1901) Author

Papers, 1836-1900. ca. 200 items.

Includes letters by Dr. S. M. Smith, Gustav C. Weber, and

B. P. Baker, Dec. 12,1862-Jan. 12, 1863, concerning positions

in the Medical Department, USA.

825

Schurz, Carl (1829-1906) Gen., USV

Papers, 1842-1932. ca. 23,000 items.

In part, transcripts and photocopies.

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Correspondence and papers concerning military appointments, diplomatic affairs, recruits, the organization and disposition of troops, training, morale, discipline, desertions, President Lincoln, generalship, Federal policy toward blacks in the

war zone, and the battles of 2d Manassas and Chancellorsville.

Also includes clippings, battle reports, returns, a diary, June 2,

1862-Feb. 1, 1863, concerning, in part, the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862, and miscellaneous postwar maps and

pamphlets. Correspondents include Ambrose E. Burnside,

Simon Cameron, Samuel P. Chase, John C. Fremont, John

Hay, David Hunter, Abraham Lincoln, Irvin McDowell, Halbert E. Paine, William H. Seward, Franz Sigel, Julius Stahel,

and Charles Sumner.

Finding aid and microfilm copy (120 reels) available.

826

Schuyler, Louisa Lee (1837-1926) Social Worker

Collection, 1852-1915. 17 items.

Includes a pamphlet by Georgina Woolsey, What We Did at

Gettysburg (1863), on the care of sick and wounded soldiers

after the battle.

827

Scott, John White (1837-1917) 21st Virginia Volunteers;

Clerk, CSA

Papers, 1861-1917. 250 items.

Includes a photograph of Scott in Confederate uniform,

postwar clippings relating to his service in the 21st Virginia,

and notes concerning his arrest and imprisonment as a Confederate spy. Also contains letters from a political prisoner, Representative T. Parker Scott (Maryland) to his wife, Sept. 1861-

Nov. 1862, written from Forts Monroe, Warren, and Lafayette,

concerning his arrest and imprisonment, prison morale, entertainment, and health. Miscellaneous items include a medical

discharge for John W. Scott, Jan. 3,1862; a letter from Charles

H. Blair to Scott, Mar. 25, 1862, on Scott's appointment as a

clerk on the C.S.S. Arkansas; and a letter from John A. Wilson

to Scott, July 24, 1862, on naval activities near Vicksburg,

Miss.

828

Seabrook, Edward M. Lt., CSA

Papers, 1858-64. 25 items.

Commission, July 8, 1864, and miscellaneous accounts and

receipts.

231
829

Searcher, Victor Author

Article, ca. 1960. 1 item.

Draft of the unpublished appendix to Searcher's Lincoln's

Journey to Greatness (1960).

830

Secession Conventions

Collection, 1860-61. 4 items.

Photocopies and facsimiles.

Ordinances of secession adopted by the States of Virginia,

Louisiana, Florida, and South Carolina.

831

Seeley, Francis Webb Capt., 4th U.S. Artillery

Collection, 1871. 2 items.

Letter from Seeley to Gen. John Watts de Peyster, Sept.

19, 1871, concerning de Peyster's request for information on

the Battle of Fredericksburg, and Seeley's account of the battle

(13 p.).

832

Selfridge, Thomas Oliver (1804-1902) Comdr., USN

Papers, 1809-1927. ca. 750 items.

In part, transcripts.

Official correspondence, orders, reports, and printed matter.

Includes copies of orders issued by Selfridge as commander of

the U.S.S. Mississippi, Mississippi Squadron, 1861; the log of

the Mississippi, May 18, 1861-Feb. 16, 1862; orders from William Mervine and William W. McKean to Selfridge, 1861-63,

concerning the Gulf Blockading Squadron; information on ship

sightings and seizures; letters from Thomas Selfridge, Jr., Dec.

16 [1862], describing the sinking of the U.S.S. Cairo in the

Yazoo Pass expedition, and Sept. 6 [1864], on the design and

performance of the U.S.S. Vindicator; instructions by Adm.

David D. Porter, Dec. 17, 1864, on the plan to explode a vessel

loaded with powder off Fort Fisher, N.C.; proceedings from

Selfridge's trial for supposed negligence of duty on the Gulf

Blockade; and a letterbook, Feb. 3, 1863-Aug. 12, 1864, containing Selfridge's official correspondence as commandant at

Mare Island, Calif. Printed items include the Defence of Com.

Charles Wilkes, U.S.N., Late Acting Rear Admiral in Command of the West India Squadron (1864), and The Navy in

Congress: Being Speeches of the Hon. Messrs. Grimes, Doolittle,

and Nye; of the Senate, and the Hon. Messrs. Rice, Pike,

Griswold, and Blow; of the House of Representatives (1865).

Finding aid available.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

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833

Selfridge, Thomas Oliver (1836-1924) Comdr., USN

Papers, 1852-1927. ca. 1,900 items.

In part, transcripts.

Includes a copy of a letter from James M. Mason to Judah

P. Benjamin, July 6, 1864, London, concerning the Great Seal

of the Confederate States of America; and a letter from Jacob

Thompson to Benjamin, Dec. 3, 1864, Toronto [Canada], concerning the organization and activities of the Sons of Liberty in

the northwestern United States, plans for a general uprising in

Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio by Confederate sympathizers, the

loss of arms stored at Indianapolis, plans to take over the

steamer Michigan and free Confederate prisoners of war at

Johnson's Island, efforts to disrupt northern finance by buying

and exporting gold, and other subversive activities.

Finding aid available.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

834

Sellers, David Foote (1874-1949)

Papers, 1830-1949. ca. 6,500 items.

Includes the scrapbook and diary of Joseph E. Nourse, professor of ethics and English studies at the U.S. Naval Academy

at Newport, R.I. Contains a few remarks on sick and wounded

soldiers, deaths of servicemen, and troop departures.

Finding aid available.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

835

Sewall, Joseph (1795-1851)

Papers, 1832-1907. ca. 3,700 items.

Includes miscellaneous correspondence and papers of

Sewall's son, Col. Frederick Drummer Sewall, 19th Maine Volunteers and 3d Veteran Reserve Corps. Consists of official correspondence with the provost marshal's office, circulars, telegrams, orders, commissions, receipts, and invoices.

Finding aid available.

836

Seward, William Henry

(1801-1872) U.S. Secretary of State

Collection, 1834-71. 40 items.

In part, facsimiles.

Includes Seward's instructions to Charles Francis Adams

as Minister to England, May 21, 1861, with alterations by

President Lincoln.

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837

Shackleford, W. C. Asst. Surg., 2d Virginia Cavalry

Letter, 1906. 1 item.

Photocopy.

Letter from Shackleford to J. P. McCabe, Stony Point, Va.,

Feb. 4,1906, describing an amputation he performed on McCabe

in 1863 and the death of Doctor Nelson, also an assistant surgeon with the 2d Virginia Cavalry.

838

Shafter, William Rufus

(1835-1906) Col., 17th U.S. Colored Infantry

Papers, 1864-1906. 6 items.

Includes a letter by Shafter's wife, Mrs. Harriet Grimes

Shafter, Dec. 20,1864, Nashville, Tenn., on the performance of

the 17th Colored Infantry in the Battle of Nashville, and the

death of Capt. J. H. Aldrich; and a letter written by a black

soldier, Samuel Jones, to Colonel Shafter, Dec. 26, 1864, Little

Rock, Ark.

839

Papers, 1862-1938. -- * * n

Microfilm, 14 reels. L* *&TS OP 7

Includes a few orders, circulars, and letters relating chiefly

to the participation of the 17th U.S. Colored Infantry in the

Franklin and Nashville Campaign. /^ %

Originals at Stanford University.

840

Shaler, Alexander Gen., USA

Collection, 1863-64. 1 v.

Record of court-martial proceedings in Shaler's brigade,

with miscellaneous clippings.

841

Shaler, William CSA

Family papers, 1809-1916. 47 items.

Letter from Albert S. Berry, commander of the Marine

Guard on the C.S.S. Charleston, to his father, Nov. 10, 1863,

and a "Certificate of Non-liability" for military service through

the procurement of a substitute, Aug. 26, 1864.

842

Shankland, William F. Comdr., USN

Diary, 1862. 1 v.

Diary kept by Shankland in the form of a log while commanding the U.S.S. Currituck, Feb. 27-Dec. 4,1862. Describes

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the voyage of the Currituck from New York to Hampton Roads

as an escort to the U.S.S. Monitor, the destruction of the U.S.S.

Congress and U.S.S. Cumberland, blockade duty in Chesapeake

Bay, reconnaissance and patrol duty on the James and York

Rivers during the Peninsular Campaign, assistance rendered

to runaway slaves and Unionist refugees, the capture of Confederate blockade runners American Coaster and Planter, and

skirmishes with Confederate shore batteries.

843

Shaver, W. T. Adj., 12th Missouri Cavalry

Memoir, undated. 8 p.

Transcript.

Describes the organization and service of the 12th Missouri Cavalry, Nov. 1863-Apr. 1866. Includes remarks on

skirmishes at Holy Springs, Tallahatchie River, and Abbeville,

Miss., and the Franklin and Nashville Campaign.

844

Shaw, Lemuel (1781-1861)

Family papers, 1648-1923.

Microfilm, 61 reels.

Includes three letters from Philip Dolan to Mrs. Shaw writJten.from the U.S.S. Merrimac and from camps in North Carolina,

1862-63, concerning the voyage of the 43d Massachusetts from

Boston to North Carolina, camp life, training, and morale, and

sentiment in the Army toward Gens. George B. McClellan,

David Hunter, and John G. Foster. Also contains a few military passes issued to Sgt. Herbert B. Cushing in 1861.

Published guide available.

Originals in the Massachusetts Historical Society.

845

Shellenberger, John K. Capt., USA

Papers, 1862-1913. 20 items.

Chiefly postwar letters to Shellenberger written in response

to his articles on the Battle of Franklin, Tenn. Correspondents,

mostly participants, include Capt. A. P. Baldwin, Gen. Mendal

Churchill, Col. Joseph Conrad, Maj. Ephraim C. Dawes, Col.

John Q. Lane, Lt. Col. William G. Le Due, Gen. Stephen D. Lee,

Gen. David S. Stanley, Henry Stone, Capt. Edward G. Whitesides,

and Gen. Thomas J. Wood. Also includes copies of two letters

by Gen. John D. Cox concerning a promotion for Col. Emerson

Opdycke for his performance in the Battle of Franklin.

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846

Sheridan, Philip Henry (1831-1888) Gen., USA

Papers, 1853-88. ca. 18,000 items.

In part, transcripts.

Contains official correspondence, letterbooks, orders, dispatches, battle and reconnaissance reports, and clippings relating to the Stones River, Tullahoma, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Shenandoah Valley (1864), and Appomattox campaigns, as well as telegraph books, lists of battles and skirmishes,

notes on the Union spy, Rebecca Wright, of Winchester, Va.,

and a draft of the Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan (1888).

Correspondents include George A. Forsyth, James W. Forsyth,

Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, and William T. Sherman.

Also contains miscellaneous letters by William H. Emory, David

M. Gregg, Henry W. Halleck, Andrew A. Humphreys, George

G. Meade, Wesley Merritt, Edwin M. Stanton, John D. Stevenson, Lorenzo Thomas, Seth Williams, and James H. Wilson,

and a captured letter from Braxton Bragg to Jubal Early with

an enclosed report on Early's command, Aug. 29, 1864.

Finding aid available.

847

Sherman, John (1823-1900) U.S. Senator, Ohio

Papers, 1836-1900. ca. 130,000 items.

In part, photocopies.

Contains political, military, and family correspondence on

the war. Includes numerous solicitations for military appointments and promotions, suggestions on military organization

and strategy, appeals for exchange from Union and Confederate prisoners of war, reports on the condition, location, and

performance of the Sherman brigade (64th and 65th Ohio

Regiments), and letters concerning military pay and bounties,

sutlers, the return of runaway slaves, the Siege of Fort Pulaski,

generalship, guerrilla warfare, the Shiloh and Corinth campaigns, the attitude and treatment of noncombatants in the

South, and the Presidential election of 1864. Also includes dispatches and telegrams from soldiers in the field, Sherman's

correspondence as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee,

correspondence with the Adjutant General and Quartermaster

General of Ohio on recruits and supplies, and a copy of the

diary of Colonel Worthington (USA), Mar. 26-Apr. 5, 1862,

kept during the Battle of Shiloh. Correspondents include Daniel

Butterfield, Simon Cameron, Charles A. Dana, Thomas Ewing,

Gustavus V. Fox, James A. Garfield, Quincy A. Gillmore, Willis A. Gorman, John H. Hammond, James A. Hardie, William

B. Hazen, Oliver O. Howard, John A. Logan, Joseph K. F.

Mansfield, Montgomery C. Meigs, James S. Robinson, Robert

C. Schenck, Winfield Scott, John W. Sprague, David S. Stanley,

2 3 6
Philip Henry Sheridan
Lorenzo Thomas, Stewart Van Vliet, and Gideon Welles.

Finding aid available.

848

Papers, 1848-93.

Microfilm, 2 reels.

Contains a letter from Fitz-John Porter to Sherman, June

28, 1861, concerning Confederate spies in western Maryland,

troop positions, and strategy; a letter from Fitz-John Porter to

Sherman, July 26, 1861, defending himself against criticism

for his failure to prevent Gen. T. J. Jackson from reaching the

Manassas battlefield; and miscellaneous letters relating to the

war from Samuel F. Du Pont, James A. Garfield, Henry W.

Halleck, James A. Hardie, William S. Rosecrans, Gideon Welles,

and John Wool.

849

Sherman, Thomas West (1813-1879) Gen., USA

Collection, 1860-62. 2 items.

Letter from Sherman to his former aide-de-camp, Adam

Badeau, Apr. 3, 1862, Port Royal, S.C., thanking Badeau for

his services during the Port Royal expedition.

850

Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891) Gen., USA

Papers, 1810-96. ca. 18,000 items.

In part, transcripts.

Political and military correspondence between General

Sherman and Senator John Sherman, letters from Mrs. Ellen

Ewing Sherman to Senator Sherman, 1861-62, concerning her

husband's health and career, and official correspondence on

the situation in Kentucky in 1861, General Sherman's attitude

toward newspaper correspondents, the Shiloh, Corinth, and

Vicksburg campaigns, the Arkansas Post expedition, military

organization, the treatment of blacks, discipline, generalship,

conscription, military strategy, rank disputes, appointments

and promotions, and the suffering of noncombatants in the

South. Also contains information on the relief of General Burnside at Knoxville, Tenn., the Meridian Campaign, the Battle of

Missionary Ridge, Sherman's role in the Battle of 1st Manassas,

and the Atlanta Campaign. Miscellaneous items comprise military accounts, telegrams, intelligence reports, orders, clippings,

maps, drafts of the Memoirs of General William T. Sherman

(1875), the Report of Lieutenant General U. S. Grant of the

Armies of the United States—1864-65 (1865), "Particulars of

the Death of Maj. Gen. James B. McPherson," by William E.

Strong, 1876, and certificates commemorating Sherman's role at

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the Battle of Shiloh and the capture of Atlanta. Principal correspondents during the war include Robert Anderson, Nathaniel

P. Banks, Frank P. Blair, Don Carlos Buell, Ambrose E.

Burnside, Eugene A. Carr, Samuel P. Chase, George W. Cullum,

Samuel R. Curtis, William Dennison, John A. Dix, Grenville

M. Dodge, Thomas Ewing, Ulysses S. Grant, Henry W. Halleck,

John H. Hammond, Stephen A. Hurlbut, Richard W. Johnson,

Thomas W. Knox, Jacob G. Lauman, Mortimer D. Leggett,

Abraham Lincoln, George B. McClellan, Robert H. Milroy,

Edward O. C. Ord, David D. Porter, Lovell H. Rousseau, John

M. Schofield, Carl Schurz, William Sooy Smith, Frederick

Steele, George Stoneman, David Stuart, George H. Thomas,

Lorenzo Thomas, David Tod, and Cadwallader C. Washburn.

Finding aid and microfilm copy (51 reels) available.

851

Papers, 1808-91.

Microfilm, 15 reels.

Chiefly personal correspondence and papers of the Sherman and Thomas Ewing families. Includes military orders,

drafts of Sherman's military reports, letters from Sherman to

his wife concerning his role in the war, and miscellaneous

related items. Provides some information on the Shiloh, Vicksburg, Chattanooga, Atlanta, Savannah, and Carolinas campaigns, generalship, and the politics of war.

Published guide available.

Originals at the University of Notre Dame.

852

Shields, J. E. Lt., USA

Letter, 1861. 1 item.

Letter from Shields to Col. J. B. Thurman(?), Oct. 1, 1861,

Cape Girardeau, Mo., concerning the rental of the steamboat

Luella. A note on the verso by Gen. U. S. Grant approves Shields'

rejection of the requested rental price and orders the vessel

retained in government service if needed.

853

Shiner, Michael Mechanic, Washington, D.C., Navy Yard

Diary, 1813-69. 1 v.

Contains remarks on the arrival of various regiments in

Washington, the organization of workers at the Washington

Navy Yard to help oppose Gen. Jubal A. Early in July 1864,

the arrival of British and French warships, and visits by President Lincoln to troops along Washington's defensive perimeter.

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854

Shippen Family

Papers, 1671-1936. ca. 6,500 items.

Includes three letters to Dr. Edward Shippen, surgeon, 1st

Pennsylvania Artillery Reserves, 1862-63, from William

T. W. Ball, Thomas P. Parry, and Robert M. West.

Finding aid and microfilm copy (15 reels) available.

855

Shortelle, James Edward (d. 1871), and Family

Collection, 1851-64. 11 items.

Includes four letters from Robert Shortelle (6th Pennsylvania Reserves) to his family, written from camps in Maryland

and Virginia, 1861-63, and two letters from Parly Colburn

(USA) to his wife, 1863 — 64, concerning camp life, disease,

discipline, and morale. Also contains a photograph of James

Shortelle in uniform.

856

Shorter, John Gill (1818-1872) Gov., Alabama

Collection, 1862. 2 items.

Letter by Shorter, Apr. 4, 1862, Montgomery, concerning

military organization and recruiting in Alabama, the location

of military camps in the State, public support for the war, and

the defense of Mobile, Ala., and Pensacola, Fla.; letter from

Shorter to Gov. Francis W. Pickens, May 2,1862, Montgomery,

concerning Shorter's personal commitment to the Confederacy,

conscription, the manufacture of arms and ammunition, and

Confederate finance.

857

Shriver, William H. (b. 1887) Author

Collection, 1863 and undated. 5 items.

Transcripts.

Letter from Miss S. C. Shriver to her sister, Mrs. Elizabeth

Shriver Myer, June 29, 1863, Union Mills, Md., concerning

troop movements, depredations, casualties, and the attitude of

noncombatants in the area around Gettysburg during the Gettysburg Campaign; an explanation of J. E. B. Stuart's late

arrival at the Battle of Gettysburg; an account of how W. H.

Shriver's father located the exact spot where Stuart dismounted

at Gettysburg; and an essay by Shriver, "My Father Led General J. E. B. Stuart to Gettysburg."

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858

Shufeldt, Robert Wilson Diplomat; Comdr., USN

(1822-1895)

Papers, 1836-1910. ca. 15,000 items.

In part, transcripts.

Letters and copies and extracts of letters to Shufeldt as

U.S. consul general at Havana, Cuba, concerning the presence

of Confederate blockade runners; a list of vessels in the South

Atlantic Blockading Squadron (1862); signals and instructions

for blockading ships; copies of official letters and reports concerning the quarantine of vessels bound for New Orleans, La.,

during the military rule of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler; letters

from Adm. David G. Farragut to Shufeldt, Jan.-Feb. 1863, concerning the C.S.S. Alabama, C.S.S. Alice, C.S.S. Florida, and

C.S.S. Harriet Lane; official correspondence and orders relating to Shufeldt's command of the U.S.S. Conemaugh and U.S.S.

Proteus; a list of Confederate and blockade running vessels at

Nassau, Apr. 21, 1864; and miscellaneous diplomatic correspondence.

Finding aid available.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

859

Shuler, M. Capt., 33d Virginia Regiment

Collection, 1862. 2 v.

Diary, June 11—Dec. 12, 1862, kept during the Peninsular,

2d Manassas, Antietam, and Fredericksburg campaigns. Provides information on casualties, marches, discipline, supplies,

depredations, and morale. Includes a few details on the battles

of Malvern Hill, Cedar Mountain, Groveton, and Sharpsburg;

the capture of Harpers Ferry; and the burning of public buildings at Martinsburg, W. Va. Also includes a list of men in the

33d Virginia killed or wounded in the Antietam Campaign,

and miscellaneous accounts.

860

Sicard, Montgomery (1836-1900) USN

Papers, 1800-1948. ca. 1,200 items.

Includes a letter from Sicard to his wife, Feb. 23, 1865,

U.S.S. Malvern; notes and sketches on ordnance and armaments;

and postwar sketches of the U.S.S. Swatara.

Finding aid available.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

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861

Sickles, Daniel Edgar (1819-1914) U.S. Representative,

New York; Gen., USA

Papers, 1845-1914. ca. 1,100 items.

In part, transcripts.

Includes 14 letters and documents, 1861-64, concerning

military appointments, strategy, reinforcements for the Excelsior brigade, Sickles' mistaken arrest of Federal spies, his temporary removal from command in 1862, and the death of Gen.

David B. Birney. Correspondents include Randolph B. Marcy,

Gershom Mott, Henry L. Potter, and Lorenzo Thomas.

Microfilm copy (5 reels) available.

862

Sigel, Franz (1824-1902) Gen., USV

Collection, 1862-70. 2 items.

Letterbook, 1862 — 65, containing a copy of a personal letter by Sigel, Mar. 27, 1863, on the promotion of Capt. Joseph

M. Kennedy, 9th New York Cavalry.

863

Simmons, James Fowler

(1795-1864) U.S. Senator, Rhode Island

Papers, 1788-1939. ca. 21,000 items.

Includes a letter from S. W. Macy to Simmons, July 12,

1861, describing the Confederate privateer Echo and tactics

used by privateers, and routine letters from soldiers and civilians seeking commissions or promotions, or promoting new

and improved weapons.

Finding aid available.

864

Simpson, Matthew (1811-1884) Bishop, Methodist

Episcopal Church

Papers, 1829-1929. ca. 5,000 items.

Includes about 40 letters written chiefly to Simpson,

1861-64, concerning the appointment of officers and chaplains,

promotions, the Christian Sanitary Commission, discrimination against Methodist soldiers, upper class support for the war

in the South, conflicting claims for church property, military

use of church buildings, black troops, secessionist sentiment at

Murfreesboro, Tenn., and conditions in east Tennessee. Correspondents include Chaplain W. H. Black, Lt. Col. Dexter E.

Clapp, N. J. Cramer, Chaplain William Earnshaw, Col. William Gamble, Senator James Harlan, Charles M. Hayes, C.

Holman, J. W. Hoover, Chaplain Joseph Jones, Chaplain H. A.

Pattison, Thomas Rinson, D. H. Whitney, and Dr. William

Wright.

Finding aid available.

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Daniel Edgar Sickles
865

Sisson, Lewis E. Poet

Collection, 1939. 2 items.

Poem "Shiloh" commemorating the Battle of Shiloh. Dedicated to the author's grandfather, Capt. Lewis E. Sisson, 77th

Ohio Volunteers. Also a printed map of the battlefield.

866

Smith, Charles Ferguson (1807-1862) Gen., USA

Papers, 1825-62. 16 items.

Contains commissions, a chart showing the organization

of regular and volunteer troops according to act of Congress,

July 29, 1861, and a resolution by city officials in Philadelphia

providing for the interment of Smith's body.

867

Smith, Daniel Angell (1839-1901) Acting Asst.

Paymaster, USN

Collection, 1863-1905. 38 items.

Includes about 20 letters from Smith to his sister, 1863-64,

concerning his service on the U.S.S. Nahant, South Atlantic

Blockading Squadron. Provides information on torpedo attacks

on the U.S.S. New Ironsides and U.S.S. Weehawken; naval

attacks on Forts Moultrie, Sumter, Wagner, and Gregg; black

troops, and the naval brigade.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

868

Smith, George Boyd (1839-1893) Pvt., CSA

Diary, 1861-64. 1 v.

Photocopy.

Contains a few random entries on the war, notably Smith's

enlistment in Tennessee, Sept. 7, 1862, and his service at the

Siege of Vicksburg.

869

Smith, Howard Malcolm (1838-1890) Maj.,

1st New York Dragoons

Collection, 1862-1914. 3 items.

In part, transcripts.

Copy of Smith's diary, Aug. 12,1862-July 1,1865 (185 p.),

kept chiefly during campaigns in Maryland and Virginia. Includes copies of letters from Smith to his future wife, Mary E.

Joslyn. Contains information on the Federal defense of Suffolk, Va., in 1863, the Gettysburg, Wilderness, Spotsylvania,

Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and Appomattox campaigns, Gen.

Jubal A. Early's Washington raid, the Shenandoah Valley and

Loudoun Valley campaigns of 1864, and the Trevilian raid.

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Also describes camp life, training, discipline, morale, marches,

disease, hospital care, foraging and reconnaissance expeditions,

the attitude of noncombatants, the use of blacks, black life, the

condition and treatment of Confederate prisoners of war, casualties, guerrilla warfare, Confederate deserters, military

organization, and generalship. Additional items include a brief

biographical sketch of Smith and a membership badge from

the 1914 meeting of the 1st New York Dragoons Association.

870

Smith, James Power (1837-1923) CSA

Collection, 1861-64. 20 items.

In part, transcripts.

Official correspondence, orders, and reports. Includes a

report by Capt. William R. Garrett on the performance of the

Williamsburg Light (Lee) Artillery in an attack on Fort

Magruder, May 5, 1862; Gen. John Bell Hood's report on the

engagement at Eltham's Landing, Va., May 7,1862; reports on

the Battle of Williamsburg by Lt. William I. Clopton, RichmondFayette Artillery, Capt. Robert M. Stribling, Fauquier Artillery,

Capt. James Dearing, Lynchburg Artillery, Gen. George E.

Pickett, Gen. Cadmus M. Wilcox, and Lt. Col. J. Thompson

Brown. Also includes a letter from Gen. Braxton Bragg to

Joseph E. Johnston, Feb. 25, 1863, Tullahoma, explaining his

plan for an attack on Franklin, Tenn.; a letter from Dr. Samuel

P. Moore to James A. Seddon, Jan. 5, 1863, Richmond, Va., on

pay for soldiers detained in the Medical Department; reports

by Gen. Braxton Bragg on the Battle of Chickamauga; and

miscellaneous items by Gen. Cadwallader C. Washburn, Gen.

George H. Thomas, and Stephen R. Mallory.

871

Smith, John Cotton (1765-1845)

Papers, 1805-64. 6 items.

Includes a letter from Julius Nichols, an official with the

U.S. Sanitary Commission, to Miss Helen Smith, [Mar. 16,1864],

Washington, D.C., containing remarks on Gens. Ulysses S.

Grant and Hugh J. Kilpatrick.

872

Smith, Jonathan Bayard (1742-1812)

Family papers, 1686-1903. ca. 530 items.

Includes a personal letter by Gen. George B. McClellan,

Nov. 21, 1861; a letter from Gen. Joseph E. Johnston to Capt.

John R. Tucker, May 1, 1862, concerning transportation for

sick soldiers; a personal letter by John Slidell, Aug. 23, 1862,

Paris [France]; a letter by James D. Halyburton(?), Sept. 16,

1863, Richmond [Va.], on hardships endured by soldiers; Col.

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John S. Mosby's farewell letter to his Partisan Rangers, Apr.

21, 1865; and miscellaneous letters by Gens. P. G. T. Beauregard, George H. Steuart, and James A. Walker.

873

Smith, Orren Randolph 2d North

(1827-1913) Carolina Battalion, CSA

Papers, 1846-1913. ca. 400 items.

Includes a scrapbook and folder containing postwar notes,

clippings, and pamphlets supporting Smith's claim as the

designer of the Confederate flag, the Stars and Bars.

874

Smith, Oscar (b. 1843) Pvt., U.S. Marine Corps

Diary, 1861-62. 1 v.

Transcript.

Covers the period May 19, 1861-Dec. 24, 1862. Describes

Smith's training and service on the U.S.S. Hartford early in

the war, a sea voyage to Louisiana, the capture of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, and the surrender of New Orleans, guerrilla

warfare along the Mississippi River, Adm. David G. Farragut's

bombardment of Vicksburg, and the burning of Grand Gulf,

Miss., and Donaldsonville, La.

875

Smith, Samuel (1752-1839)

Papers, 1772-1869. ca. 2,700 items.

Includes a list of Confederate soldiers and sailors from

Maryland, along with their rank, county, and service record;

clippings and miscellaneous notes and letters on the war; and

information on officers and men from the State of Maryland

killed or wounded in the war.

876

Smith, Stuart Farrar (1874-1951)

Papers, 1860-1951. ca. 300 items.

Contains a few leaves from a notebook containing data on

vessels used in the war: measurements, tonnage, builder, designer, ordnance, cost, etc.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

877

Smith, William Farrar (1824-1903) Gen., USA

Letter, 1863. 1 item.

Letter from Smith to Prof. Dennis H. Mahan, Dec. 7, 1863,

Chattanooga, Tenn., on the state of the war in east Tennessee.

Provides details on supply problems and military strategy.

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878

Smith, William Wrenshall

Diary, 1863. 1 v.

Transcript.

Observations on the war made by Smith, a cousin of Julia

Dent Grant, during a visit with Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, Nov.

3-Dec. 2, 1863. Describes travels through Kentucky and Tennessee and the effects of the war in those States, the occupation

of Nashville, profiteering by sutlers, the apparent absence of

religion among soldiers, the atmosphere and routine around

General Grant's headquarters, morale, foraging expeditions,

and the generalship or character of John C. Fremont, Ulysses

S. Grant, Clark B. Lagow, John A. Rawlins, William F. Smith,

and James H. Wilson. Includes a few details on the battles of

Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain, and Missionary Ridge.

879

Smith—Carter Families

Papers, 1669-1880.

Microfilm, 6 reels.

Includes five letters from William V. Smith to his parents,

July 1864-May 1865, concerning a skirmish with Confederate

forces along the coast of South Carolina, Gen. William Birney's

expedition to Jacksonville, Fla., and morale and health care at

a military hospital in southeast Virginia.

Originals in the Massachusetts Historical Society.

880

Smith—Townsend Families

Papers, 1670-1890.

Microfilm, 1 reel.

Includes two letters from Mrs. B. Smith to her daughter

written from Chesapeake Military Hospital near Fort Monroe,

Va., Aug.-Sept. 1864, concerning the welfare of her son, Capt.

William Smith, who was wounded at the Siege of Petersburg.

Originals at the Massachusetts Historical Society.

881

Snow, Elliot (1866-1939)

Papers, 1790-1942. ca. 9,450 items.

In part, transcripts and photocopies.

Includes copies of documents concerning the futile efforts

of Capt. George H. Preble to prevent the C.S.S. Florida (alias

Oreto) from entering Mobile Bay, and miscellaneous letters

and clippings concerning Preble's dismissal and reinstatement.

Also contains the papers of Horatio D. Smith (1845-1918), an

officer in the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service.

Finding aid available.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

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882

Society of the Army of the Potomac

Minutes, 1869-70. 1 v.

Contains speeches by former officers in the Army of the

Potomac concerning their wartime experiences.

883

South Carolina—Adjutant and

Inspector General's Office

Document, 1862. 1 item.

Transcript.

Extract from a resolution of the Governor and council,

July 21, 1862, concern- ing the punishment of anyone failing

to respond when summoned to serve in the 1st Corps, South

Carolina Reserves. Endorsed by Col. J. H. Witherspoon, 8th

South Carolina Reserve Regiment.

884

Sowers, Isaac M.

(1840-1920) Lt., 9th Pennsylvania Reserves

Papers, 1861-1920. 15 items.

Commissions, enlistment and discharge certificates, miscellaneous accounts and receipts, muster roll for Company A,

and a table showing casualties, desertions, discharges, and new

recruits in Company A, Apr. 20, 1864. Also contains a diary,

May 6, 1861-Dec. 16, 1862, describing the organization of the

Pennsylvania Reserves, the selection of officers in the 9th

Pennsylvania, recruits in Company A, morale, marches in

Maryland and Virginia, foraging expeditions, an engagement

at Dranesville, Va., Dec. 20, 1861, the participation of the 9th

Pennsylvania in the Peninsular and 2d Manassas campaigns,

and Sowers' capture and brief confinement at Libby Prison.

885

Spalding, Mrs., et al.

Pass, 1862. 1 item.

Military pass issued to Mrs. Spalding, Mrs. Parker, and

Mr. Davis to travel to Alexandria, Va., and return, Jan. 4,1861

[1862]. Signed, Capt. M. T. McMahon, Army of the Potomac.

886

Spaulding Family

Papers, 1838-1928. ca. 320 items.

Transcripts and photocopies.

Includes the diary of Col. Oliver Lyman Spaulding (1833-

1922), 23d Michigan Volunteers, Sept. 17, 1862-Nov. 14, 1863,

and Jan. 1-Nov. 14, 1865, concerning camp life, marches,

entertainment, foraging expeditions, Unionists in Kentucky

and east Tennessee, the death of Gen. Jefferson C. Davis, the

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Battle of Perryville, black life, the attitude of blacks toward

the war, problems with slave owners, Confederate prisoners of

war, guerrilla warfare, generalship, and the Knoxville and

Carolinas campaigns.

Originals at the University of Michigan.

887

Spears, Stewart (b. 1834) Pvt., 24th

New Jersey Volunteers

Documents, 1861-63. 3 items.

Discharge certificates from the 4th New Jersey Militia

Regiment, July 31, 1861, the 5th New Jersey Volunteers, Mar.

15, 1862, and the 24th New Jersey Volunteers, June 29, 1863.

888

Spencer Family

Papers, 1856-1914. ca. 1,300 items.

Includes the diary of Lyman Potter Spencer (1840-1915).

Entries during the war (3 v.), Sept. 12, 1863-June 14, 1865,

describe his service as an assistant quartermaster in the 2d

Ohio Heavy Artillery. Provides information on the Battle of

Munfordville, Ky., Col. John Thomas Wilder's surrender to

Gen. Braxton Bragg, and the Battle of Nashville (1864). Includes

remarks on camp life, disease, discipline, entertainment,

slavery, black life, religion in the Federal Army, guerrilla

warfare, supplies, the displacement of noncombatants, foraging expeditions, the attitude of noncombatants, troop movements in Kentucky and Tennessee, and the persecution of Confederate veterans after the war. Also contains a sketch of

fortifications at Varnell's Station, Ga.

889

Sperry, Charles Stillman (1847-1911) Midshipman, USN

Papers, 1862-1912. ca. 2,300 items.

Includes five letters written by Sperry during his voyage

on the training ship U.S.S. Macedonian, June-Sept. 1863, and

a letter from Sperry to his sister, Nov. 20, 1864, concerning the

capture of the Confederate blockade runner Lucy.

Finding aid available.

890

Spofford, Ainsworth Rand

(1825-1908) Librarian of Congress

Papers, 1819-1970. ca. 600 items.

Includes two military passes, July 1861, and a letter from

Spofford to his wife, July 23, 1861, describing the panic among

Federal troops at the Battle of 1st Manassas.

Finding aid available.

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891

Spooner, John Coit

(1843-1919) Maj., 50th Wisconsin Volunteers

Papers, 1855-1909. ca. 10,000 items.

Includes muster rolls for the 50th Wisconsin at Benton

Barracks, Mo., Mar.-Dec. 1865.

Finding aid available.

892

Sprague, Homer Baxter (1829-1918) Capt., 13th

Connecticut Volunteers

Papers, 1862-1919. ca. 2,000 items.

Diary, Jan. 31,1862-Mar. 6,1864 (2 v.), kept during campaigns in Louisiana. Contains information on the Port Hudson

and Red River (1863) campaigns, the Battle of Irish Bend, the

recruitment and performance of black troops, camp life, morale,

discipline, disease, deaths, desertions, black life in Louisiana,

Confederate spies, depredations, and the treatment of noncombatants. Diary entries also include a muster roll of the 13th

Connecticut, miscellaneous accounts, a complete list of the men

who served in the regiment, and details on the origin, health,

physical appearance, and service of each recruit.

893

Squier, Ephraim George

(1821-1888) Archeologist; Diplomat

Papers, 1841-88. ca. 2,500 items.

Includes a letter from Col. Charles K. Graham, 74th New

York Volunteers, to Squier, Jan. 16, 1862, written from camp

near Falmouth [Va.].

Finding aid available.

894

Squires, Charles W.

(1841-1900) Capt., Washington Artillery, CSA

Autobiography, 1894. 1 item.

Transcript.

Describes Squires' enlistment in the Washington Artillery,

service under Gen. Jubal A. Early in the Battle of 1st Manassas,

an attack on the barge canal at Great Falls, Md., and the

participation of the Washington Artillery in the Peninsular, 2d

Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Gettysburg campaigns, the Red River Campaign of 1864, and campaigns in

Arkansas under Gens. John H. Forney and John B. Magruder.

Includes brief descriptions of Gens. P. G. T. Beauregard, Jubal

A. Early, John H. Forney, Thomas J. Jackson, Joseph E.

Johnston, David R. Jones, Stephen D. Lee, James Longstreet,

and John B. Magruder. Also contains remarks on camp life,

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entertainment, marches, desertions, discipline, his capture and

exchange in May 1863, and the movement of the Washington

Artillery from Petersburg, Va., to Texas in 1864.

895

Stahel, Julius (1825-1912) Gen., USV

Papers, 1861-1916.

In part, transcripts.

Microfilm, 1 reel.

Chiefly commissions, orders, dispatches, and letters concerning Stahel's military career. Also contains pension records,

obituaries, and a biographical essay (24 p.). Correspondents

are Gens. Darius N. Couch, Samuel P. Heintzelman, George B.

McClellan, Carl Schurz, and Franz Sigel.

896

Stanton, Edwin McMasters

(1814-1869) U.S. Secretary of War

Papers, 1831-70. ca. 7,600 items.

Chiefly correspondence relating to Stanton's service as Secretary of War under Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew

Johnson, particularly the organization and management of the

War Department. Also includes letterbooks, 1863 — 65, the proceedings of the Board of War, Mar. 1862, a draft of the annual

report of the Secretary of War for 1863, maps and charts, reports

from various military departments and commands, letters concerning morale and discipline in the U.S. Army, the use of

runaway slaves as soldiers, generalship, the Lincoln assassination, ordnance reports, field returns, memoranda from consultations with various generals, letters and reports on the exchange

of prisoners of war, plans and suggestions for campaigns, and

miscellaneous items. Correspondents include Benjamin F.

Butler, Simon Cameron, Charles A. Dana, John A. Dix, Thomas

Ewing, William P. Fessenden, Andrew H. Foote, Gustavus V.

Fox, John C. Fremont, Reverdy Johnson, Abraham Lincoln,

George B. McClellan, Thomas A. Scott, Charles Sumner, and

Gideon Welles.

Finding aid, partial index, and microfilm copy (14 reels)

available.

897

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

(1815-1902) Reformer; Feminist

Papers, 1814-1946. ca. 1,000 items.

Several letters from Stanton's husband, Henry B. Stanton,

written from Washington, D.C., and New York City in 1861,

describe troop arrivals and war fever in Washington, war

finance, and his opinion of Gen. George B. McClellan. Also

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Edwin McMasters Stanton
includes a letter by Susan B. Anthony, Feb. 14, 1865, Leavenworth, Kans., noting the presence of black refugees.

Finding aid and microfilm copy (5 reels) available.

898

Starr, George H. Capt., 104th

New York Volunteers

Scrapbooks, 1864-1910. 2 v.

Chiefly articles, speeches, and clippings relating to Starr's

experiences in the war. Includes copies of addresses concerning

his capture at the Battle of Gettysburg and his treatment at

Libby Prison in Richmond, Va., and articles and obituaries on

various officers with whom he was associated.

899

Steiner, Walter Ralph (1870-1942)

Autograph collection, 1780-1937. 10 items.

In part, transcripts.

Includes a copy of the diary of Francis A. Boyle, 32d North

Carolina Volunteers, 1864-65. Describes the Wilderness and

Spotsylvania campaigns and prison life at Point Lookout, Md.,

and Fort Delaware. Provides information on the conduct of

black guards at Point Lookout Military Prison, prison morale,

diet, disease, deaths, hospital care, entertainment, escapes, and

dishonesty among prison guards. Also contains the names, units,

and home addresses of 16 Confederate officers, and a published

bibliography of prison narratives.

900

Stephens, Alexander Hamilton

(1812-1883) C.S. Vice President

Papers, 1784-1886. ca. 27,000 items.

Contains correspondence relating to secession, the Confederate provisional government, the C.S. Government, and the

conduct of the war. Also includes a manuscript autobiography

of Stephens.

Finding aid and microfilm copy (57 reels) available.

901

Correspondence, 1834—91.

Microfilm, 6 reels.

Chiefly correspondence between Stephens and his brother,

Judge Linton Stephens. Includes about 200 letters and telegrams concerning the secession crisis, preparations for war in

the South, Linton Stephens' service as It. colonel in the 15th

Georgia Regiment, Apr.-Dec. 1861, the 1st Manassas Campaign, camp life, morale, disease, hunger in the Confederate

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Army, the generalship of Robert Toombs, the effect of conscription in Georgia, a plot to assassinate President Davis, Confederate politics, the Atlanta Campaign, and the Hampton Roads

Peace Conference.

902

Stephenson, Nathaniel Wright

(1867-1935) Historian; Journalist

Papers, 1922-30. 28 items.

Notes on blacks in the Civil War and on Jefferson Davis,

scenarios for "Lee and the Confederacy" and "For the Union,"

photoplays in The Chronicles of America series, and scenario

notes for "Lincoln."

903

Stevens, Hazard (1842-1918) Col., 1st Loyal

Eastern Virginians

Family papers, 1835-97.

Microfilm, 2 reels.

Official and personal correspondence, orders, commissions,

and reports relating to the service of Stevens and his father,

Gen. Isaac Ingalls Stevens. Contains details on the Battle of

Secessionville, S.C., the Siege of Suffolk, Va., the Shenandoah

Valley Campaign of 1864, the Petersburg Campaign, and the

Battle of Sayler's Creek, Va. Also contains letters and documents on the recruitment of the 1st Loyal Eastern Virginia

Volunteers, guerrilla warfare in Virginia and North Carolina,

reconnaissance and foraging expeditions, prisoners of war,

generalship, the death of General Stevens, response to General

Early's Washington raid, depredations, camp life, marches,

morale, and the effectiveness of Union cavalry and weapons.

Miscellaneous items include an incomplete biography, "Life of

Gen. I. I. Stevens by his son Hazard Stevens."

Originals at the University of Washington.

904

Stevens, Thaddeus (1792-1868) U.S. Representative,

Pennsylvania

Papers, 1813-69. ca. 4,750 items.

Contains about 30 letters to Stevens, 1861—64, from relatives serving in the Union Army, soldiers in various Pennsylvania regiments, constituents, military and political prisoners,

and office seekers concerning the Battle of Shiloh, marches and

skirmishes in Tennessee, the attitude of noncombatants at

Nashville, Tenn., the release or exchange of prisoners, military

appointments and commissions, generalship, furloughs, and

the service of black troops.

Finding aid available.

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905

Stevens Family

Papers, 1810-1952. 35 items.

In part, photocopies.

Includes a letter by Lt. Pendleton G. Watmough, U.S.S.

Potomska, Jan. 6 [1862]; a letter by Christopher R. Perry

Rodgers, U.S.S. Wabash, Feb. 8 [1864]; and a copy of the Great

Seal of the Confederate States of America.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

906

Stewart, D. W. Surg., 38th Illinois Volunteers

Papers, 1862. 5 items.

Miscellaneous receipts, a medical invoice, and a list of soldiers in the 38th Illinois killed and wounded in the Battle of

Murfreesboro, Tenn., July 13, 1862.

907

Stickney, Frank L. (1858-1940)

Papers, 1840-1940. ca. 1,000 items.

Material relating to Stickney's father, Francis H. Stickney

(warrant clerk, USN), includes two letters from Asa C. Winter

written aboard the U.S.S. E. B. Hale, Nov. 21-23, 1861, on the

shipment of supplies and increasing hostilities in Virginia; a

letter from an unidentified sailor aboard the U.S.S. Ossipee,

May 19, 1864, on the blockade of Mobile, Ala.; two letters from

Frank S. Hesseltine, Jan. 1862, concerning activities in the

13th Maine Volunteers; a letter by Henry Lewis, 121st Ohio

Volunteers, July 2,1864, on camp life in the Atlanta Campaign;

a letter by J. O. Bradford, Dec. 29, 1862, U.S.S. Colorado; and

official orders of Gideon Welles, 1865.

Finding aid available.

908

Stimson, William R. 3d Iowa Volunteers

Collection, 1862-1961. 6 items.

Includes four letters from Stimson to his wife and family,

Mar.—June 1862, concerning the Shiloh and Corinth campaigns. Contains comments on casualties in the 3d Iowa and

the desperate plight of the Federal Army on the first day of the

Battle of Shiloh.

909

Stone, Jasper Jay (b. 1847) Pvt., 35th Iowa Volunteers

Collection, 1862-1908. 1 v.

Poems and songs, 1862-94, commemorating the war and

Stone's experiences as a "high private" in the 35th Iowa.

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910

Strait, N. A. Collector

Records, 1860-65. ca. 1,800 items.

Provides information on the service of various Union regular and volunteer regiments. Pertains chiefly to regiments from

Massachusetts and New York.

911

Strong, Hayward & Company Boston, Mass.

Scrapbook, 1857-69. ca. 220 items.

Contains five letters from Adj. R. M. Bearden (Turner

Ashby's cavalry) while a prisoner of war at Johnson's Island,

Ohio, appealing for aid from his prewar business acquaintance,

Alexander Strong, Aug.-Nov. 1863.

912

Stuart, Alexander Hugh Holmes

(1807-1891) Statesman, Virginia

Collection, 1790-1868. 34 items.

Includes five letters to Stuart, May 7,1861-Jan. 20,1865,

concerning the secession crisis, the Peninsular Campaign, the

political situation in Virginia in Dec. 1862, Whig prospects in

Virginia after the war, and the desperate political and economic situation in Virginia in Jan. 1865. Correspondents are

James D. Armstrong, John B. Baldwin, John Letcher, William

Cabell Rives, and Williams C. Wickham.

913

Stuart, George Hay President,

(1816-1890) U.S. Christian Commission

Collection, 1792-1930. ca. 550 items.

Miscellaneous letters and documents relating to the war.

Includes a letter from Gen. Isaac P. Rodman to his sister, Aug.

15, 1861, on the Battle of 1st Manassas, a letter from Stuart to

President Lincoln, Dec. 11, 1861, on the origins and service of

the Christian Commission, a letter from Gen. D. H. Hill to

General Beauregard, Dec. 16,1861, calling for the execution of

Federal soldiers and Tories for the pillage and murder of

noncombatants, and a note by Gen. Robert E. Lee, Aug. 1861,

on an exchange of prisoners. Also contains letters concerning

generalship, promotions, reinforcements, conscription, prisoners of war, cavalry tactics, supplies, religion among soldiers,

and the 2d Manassas, Antietam, and Fredericksburg campaigns, and the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862. Miscellaneous items comprise a manuscript map of the battlefield at

Gettysburg, a return of soldiers in the 56th Pennsylvania

Volunteers, July 16, 1863, military passes, orders, receipts,

and requisitions, and a photograph of Gen. Amiel W. Whipple.

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Other correspondents include William W. Averell, Francis

Barbour, John Buford, Simon Cameron, Silas Casey, John

Cochrane, Darius N. Couch, John A. Dix, Samuel F. Du Pont,

David G. Farragut, Edward Ferrero, Andrew H. Foote, William B. Franklin, Ulysses S. Grant, William A. Hammond,

Joseph Hooker, Oliver O. Howard, Andrew A. Humphreys,

Thomas J. Jackson, William E. Jones, Erasmus D. Keyes, Abraham Lincoln, George B. McClellan, Joseph K. F. Mansfield,

George G. Meade, Thomas F. Meagher, Montgomery C. Meigs,

Christopher Memminger, George W. Morell, Robert Ould,

Marsena R. Patrick, Fitz-John Porter, John F. Reynolds, Joseph

J. Reynolds, William S. Rosecrans, William Seward, Thomas

W. Sherman, William T. Sherman, Daniel E. Sickles, Gustavus W. Smith, William F. Smith, Edwin M. Stanton, George

Stoneman, Charles Sumner, Gouverneur K. Warren, Gideon

Welles, and Julius White.

914

Stuart, James Ewell Brown (1833-1864) Gen., CSA

Letters, 1861-62. 8 items.

Photocopies.

Seven letters from Stuart to Laura Ratcliffe written from

camps in Virginia, 1861-62, and a letter from Gen. Robert E.

Lee to Stuart, Aug. 18, 1862, on cavalry movements.

915

Stull, Lydia J. Nurse, Special Relief Service,

U.S. Sanitary Commission

Papers, 1865. 23 items.

Chiefly letters to Stull from Union soldiers held in military prisons in and around Washington, D.C. (Old Capital

Prison, Fort Whipple, Va., etc.) for crimes committed during

the war. Provides the names and units of about 20 prisoners.

916

Sturgeon, Robert Capt., 25th New York Volunteers

Document, 1861. 1 item.

Special order accepting Sturgeon's resignation from the

Army, Oct. 30, 1861.

917

Sturgis, Samuel Davis (1822-1889) Gen., USA

Collection, 1861-81. 6 items.

In part, transcripts.

Contains an account of the Battle of Wilson's Creek copied

from the Franklin Repository and Transcript, Oct. 9, 1861.

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918

Sullivan, John T.

Papers, 1831-67. 12 items.

Photocopies.

Letter from J. H. M.(?) to Sullivan, July 18, 1861, Vichy,

France, on the response of French bankers to loan requests by

the Confederacy.

919

Surratt, Mary Eugenia Jenkins

(1820-1865) Alleged Conspirator

Letter, 1865. 1 item.

Photocopy.

Letter from Mrs. Surratt to an unnamed recipient, July 9,

1865, Washington, D.C., proclaiming her innocence in the Lincoln assassination.

920

Susquehanna (U.S.S.)

Collection, 1853-65. 3 items.

Transcript, photocopy, and photograph.

Photograph of 17 officers and men on the U. S. S. Susquehanna taken shortly after the second Fort Fisher expedition.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

921

Suydam, Charles Crooke Asst. Adj. Gen., 4th Corps,

(1836-1911) Army of the Potomac

Papers, 1859-64. ca. 200 items.

Correspondence, clippings, telegrams, intelligence reports,

inventories, orders, dispatches, military passes, and a diary

relating chiefly to Suydam's duties as Assistant Adjutant General to Gen. Erasmus D. Keyes, as chief of staff for Gen. Alfred

Pleasonton, and as colonel of the 3d New Jersey Cavalry.

Includes information on courts-martial, the suffering of

noncombatants, marches, training, discipline, casualties, guerrilla warfare, rank disputes, appointments and promotions,

drunkenness, and desertions. Miscellaneous items include a

report on the organization of General Keyes' command at

Yorktown, an outline of Suydam's military career, lists of

marches in which Suydam participated, and a diary kept during the Peninsular Campaign, Apr. 4—June 2, 1862, and as

colonel of the 3d New Jersey Cavalry during the Shenandoah

Valley Campaign of 1864. Principal correspondents include

Gens. David Birney, John A. Dix, William B. Franklin, Joseph

Hooker, Erasmus D. Keyes, Rufus King, Randolph B. Marcy,

John J. Peck, and George Stoneman.

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922

Swann, John S. West Virginia

Reminiscences, 1876. 1 item.

Transcript.

Account of Swann's experiences as a prisoner of war at

Fort Delaware, 1864-65.

923

Swindler, Albert Clayton 12th Virginia Cavalry, CSA

Records, 1862-63. 1 v.

Record book captured from the 5th Connecticut Volunteers.

Contains morning reports on the 5th Connecticut for May 5,

1862, and on the 12th Virginia Cavalry for Jan.-Mar. 1863.

Includes comments on troop movements and the condition of

the 12th Virginia Cavalry.

924

Swisher, Carl Brent (1897-1968) Historian

Collection, 1836-1962. ca. 12,250 items.

In part, transcripts and photocopies.

Research notes, clippings, and copies of letters and documents. Includes information on slavery, emancipation, and the

war, and military and political leaders such as Salmon P. Chase,

Roger B. Taney, and Gideon Welles.

Finding aid available.

925

Taft, William Howard (1857-1930), Pres., U.S.

Papers, 1810-1930. ca. 675,000 items.

Contains 17 items relating to the war, chiefly official correspondence and orders of Maj. Thomas D. Sedgwick, 2d Kentucky Regiment, 1861 — 62, concerning campaigns in West Virginia and Tennessee, and miscellaneous letters to Alfonso Taft,

1862-63, on the progress of the war in southeast Virginia,

Confederate recruiting in Campbell County, Ky., the death of

Gen. William Nelson, and the role of Lt. Col. Bassett Langdon

in the Battle of Missionary Ridge.

Published index and microfilm copy (657 reels) available.

926

Talbot, Theodore (d. 1862) Capt., USA

Papers, 1837-67. ca. 200 items.

Includes 26 letters from Talbot to his mother and sister,

Feb. 26, 1860-Apr. 2, 1861, detailing the situation of the Federal garrison at Forts Moultrie and Sumter, i.e., the attitude of

inhabitants and officials in South Carolina, negotiations for

the surrender of the forts, the move of the garrison from Fort

Moultrie to Fort Sumter, morale, and supplies. Also, a receipt

for supplies delivered to General Sigel's corps, July 25, 1862.

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927

Taylor, Henry Clay (1845-1904) USN

Papers, 1862-1904. ca. 300 items.

In part, transcripts.

Contains two letters from cadet Taylor to his father, Apr. 3

and 5, 1863, U.S. Naval Academy, concerning future service

with the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron and the advantages and disadvantages of sailing, steam, and "combination"

vessels, and a letter by Comdr. C. R. P. Rodgers, U.S.S. Wabash,

off St. Augustine, Fla., Mar. 21, 1862.

Finding aid available.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

928

Taylor, Henry S.

(d. 1863) Capt., 3d Kentucky Volunteers

Document, 1863. 1 item.

Affidavit affirming Taylor's death at the Battle of

Chickamauga, Sept. 20,1863. Signed by Col. Henry C. Dunlap,

3d Kentucky Volunteers.

929

Taylor, Thomas W. Unionist, Kentucky

Letters, 1862, 1864. 2 items.

Contains two letters from Taylor to his sisters in

Massachusetts, Oct. 25, 1862, and June 6, 1864, concerning

Confederate foraging in Kentucky, problems with guerrillas,

and his arrest for destroying his own mill.

930

Taylor, Walter Herron CSA

Letter, 1864. 1 item.

Letter from Taylor to Gen. Richard H. Anderson, June 6,

1864, Gaines Mill, Va., on troop positions in the Siege of

Petersburg.

931

Taylor, Zachary (1784-1850), Pres., U.S.

Papers, 1814-1931. 631 items.

In part, transcripts.

Includes a letter from Gen. Benjamin F. Butler to Gen.

Joseph P. Taylor, July 28, 1862; a copy of a petition from the

officers of the 9th Louisiana Regiment to Gen. Richard Taylor,

July 30,1862, asking to remain under Taylor's command despite

his recent promotion and reassignment; and a copy of a letter

of appreciation from the officers of Maj. Edward Waller's battal260
ion of Texas volunteer cavalry to Gen. Richard Taylor, Dec. 22,

1863.

Published index and microfilm copy (2 reels) available.

932

Ten Broeck, R. C.

Narrative, undated. 1 item.

Transcript.

Describes the efforts of Confederate agents to obtain a loan

of $1 million from German merchants and bankers.

933

Thatcher, Henry Knox (1806-1880) Adm., USN

Document, 1866. 1 item.

Agreement between Thatcher and S. Colburn concerning

the salvage of two torpedo boats sunk in Mobile Bay.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

934

Thomas, Calvin H.

(b. 1834) 1st Lt., 51st Illinois Volunteers

Collection, 1863-66. 35 items.

Miscellaneous commissions, orders, passes, and accounts.

935

Thomas, Joseph Conable (1833-1906) Clergyman

Papers, 1855-1905. ca. 400 items.

Chiefly correspondence concerning Thomas' work with the

U.S. Christian Commission and the Sanitary Commission in

establishing libraries at military hospitals for convalescents

from the Army of the Cumberland.

936

Thomas, Lorenzo (1804-1875) Gen., USA

Collection, 1848-64. 3 items.

Letter from Thomas to his cousin, Feb. 28,1864, Louisville,

Ky., on the use and abuse of blacks in the Union Army.

937

Thompson, Ambrose W. Businessman; Inventor

Papers, 1847-1960. ca. 12,000 items.

Contains seven letters from Lt. Col. Ambrose Thompson

(USA) to his father, A. W. Thompson, May 1862-Mar. 1864,

concerning the organization, equipment, and work of the Pontoon brigade, Army of the Potomac; personal differences with

Gen. James Shields; the Gettysburg Campaign; and his desire

for promotion and separate command. Also includes miscella261
neous accounts and receipts, and a "Proposed Plan to secure

the Military Service of the Negroes to the United States during

the term of the War."

Finding aid available.

938

Thompson, Gilbert

(1839-1909) Cpl., Topographic Engineers, USA

Memoir, 1857-1901. 1 v.

Based on a diary kept by Thompson during the war, Nov.

1861 —Nov. 1864. Provides information on camp life, diet,

training, morale, disease, medical care, entertainment,

casualties, foraging expeditions, skirmishes, generalship, and

recruits during the Peninsular, 2d Manassas, Antietam,

Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Spotsylvania,

Wilderness, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg campaigns. Also contains copies of letters; sketches of military camps, soldiers' tents

and huts, pontoon and log bridges, equipment, accoutrements,

Gen. Philip Kearny, and Gilbert Thompson; and photographs

(chiefly clippings from books and magazines) of John G.

Barnard^ Henry W. Benham, Ambrose E. Burnside, James C.

Duane, Joseph Hooker, Andrew A. Humphries, Thomas J.

Jackson, George B. McClellan, George G. Meade, Nathaniel

Michler, Gilbert Thompson, and Gouverneur K. Warren, various officers in the engineer battalion, corduroy roads and

bridges, Federal batteries at the Siege of Yorktown, and the

pontoon bridges at the Siege of Fredericksburg.

939

Tidball, John Caldwell (1825-1906) USV

Reminiscence, undated. 67 p.

Contains comments on President Lincoln, Gens. Robert E.

Lee, Albert S. Johnston, and John B. Magruder, war fever in

the Washington area, Confederate sympathizers in the District

of Columbia, the progress of the war, and Tidball's service in

William F. Barry's Light Artillery.

940

Tidd, Charles Plummer (1832-1862) Orderly Sgt., 21st

Massachusetts Volunteers

Biography, undated. 15 p.

Brief account of Tidd's life. Mentions Tidd's association

with Dr. Calvin Cutter and John Brown in prewar Kansas, his

involvement in John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, and his

service and death in Gen. Ambrose Burnside's expedition to

North Carolina.

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941

Tod, David (1805-1868) Gov., Ohio

Letters, 1862. 2 items.

Letters from Tod to Adj. Gen. George B. Wright, July 15

and Sept. 9, 1862, concerning aid to loyalists in Kentucky, the

security of Ohio's southern border, and troop positions.

942

Todd, Oliphant Monroe

(1821-1897) Chaplain, 78th Ohio Volunteers

Diary, 1862. 1 v.

Contains some information on marches, discipline, depredations, and disease during the Fort Donelson, Shiloh, and

Corinth campaigns, and the response of soldiers to Todd's

ministry.

943

Tompkins, Aaron B. 1st New Jersey Cavalry

Letters, 1863-64. 6 items.

Letters from Tompkins to his mother written from camps

in Maryland and Virginia. Mentions problems with Mosby's

Rangers.

944

Toner, Joseph Meredith

(1825-1896) Physician; Historian; Collector

Papers, 1741-1896. ca. 75,000 items.

Includes a medical certificate for Capt. John Hastings,

106th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Sept. 11, 1862, who was

wounded at the Battle of 2d Manassas; a letter from Frank

Piers to Toner, Oct. 18, 1862, discussing marches of the 91st

Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Antietam Campaign; a note

from Capt. R. E. Taylor to Toner, June 19, 1861, appealing for

help for a Pennsylvania soldier lying ill at Alexandria, Va.; a

letter from Chaplain R. C. Christy to Toner, Mar. 1, 1864,

concerning his dismissal from the 78th Pennsylvania at

Chattanooga, Tenn.; and a letter from H. Riley(?) to Toner,

Apr. 9, 1864, Chattanooga, Tenn., on the progress of the war.

Finding aid available.

945

Toombs, Robert Augustus (1810-1885) Gen., CSA

Collection, 1837-62. 12 items.

Includes a letter from Toombs to Mr. Crawford, Feb. 20,

1862, Richmond, Va., critical of the ability of President Davis

to deal with the present crisis and voicing his own optimism on

the final outcome of the war.

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946

Torrey, Charles Oscar

(b. 1836) Sgt., 27th Iowa Volunteers

Papers, 1862-1913. 196 items.

Chiefly letters from Torrey to his wife, 1862-65, written

during campaigns in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi,

the Red River Campaign of 1864, and the Siege of Mobile.

Includes observations on diet, disease, deaths, medical care,

and morale at military hospitals in Mississippi and Tennessee,

written while Torrey served in the ambulance corps, as well as

remarks on camp life, marches, generalship, guerrilla warfare,

deserters, prisoners of war, loyalist volunteers in Arkansas,

blacks, and the political attitude of soldiers. Also contains

Torrey's diary, Jan. 1, 1863- Dec. 31, 1865 (3 v.), commission,

discharge, and pension papers.

947

Townsend, George Alfred

(1841-1914) Journalist; Author

Scrapbook, 1865-99. ca. 20 items.

Clippings, notes, and sketches compiled by Townsend under

the pseudonym "Gath," concerning, in part, the Lincoln assassination and the escape and death of John Wilkes Booth.

948

Treadway, Allen Towner (1867-1947)

Collection, 1787-1865. 15 items.

Contains $20.00 in Confederate money.

949

Treat, Samuel (1815-1902) Jurist; Educator

Collection, 1856-63. 9 items.

Includes a letter from Treat to Mr. Greenough, Mar. 14,

1863, on the organization and disposition of Missouri troops

(USA), generalship, and the loyalty of noncombatants in

Missouri.

950

Tredway, Thomas Thweatt C.S. Representative, Virginia

Collection, 1857-65. 3 items.

Includes a letter from Tredway to his daughter, Feb. 16,

1865, Richmond, Va., concerning the state of the war, possible

service for representatives, and Confederate morale.

951

Trenholm, George Alfred

(1807-1876) C.S. Secretary of the Treasury

Papers, 1853-97. ca. 400 items.

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Miscellaneous accounts, records of delinquent accounts, lists

of officers whose accounts are in arrears or unreported, correspondence concerning Confederate finance, and a copy of an

order by Gen. William T. Sherman, Jan. 16, 1865, Savannah,

Ga.

952

Trigg, Connally F. District Judge

Papers, 1862-66. 4 items.

Contains a letter from James A. Irvine to Trigg, May 2,

[1862], Johnson's Island, Ohio, concerning a petition for the

release of James Irvine and William McFall (formerly in the

Tennessee Cavalry, CSA); a letter from Samuel L. Foute to

Trigg, Apr. 9, 1862, Camp Douglas, 111., on his exchange or

release; and a letter to Trigg from his son, E. C. Trigg, Mar. 26,

1862, concerning a recent skirmish in Kentucky.

953

Trumbull, Lyman (1813-1896) Jurist;

U.S. Senator, Illinois

Papers, 1843-94. ca. 4,520 items.

Includes numerous letters to Trumbull, 1861-65, from Illinois soldiers concerning the organization, strength, and location of Illinois regiments, equipment and supplies, appointments, promotions, rank disputes, generalship, resignations,

prisoners of war, medical care, and conflict between Gens. John

A. McClernand and Ulysses S. Grant. Also contains information on the Battle of Pea Ridge, the Peninsular, Corinth,

Meridian, Chattanooga, Atlanta, and Petersburg campaigns,

and various military affairs in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana,

and Texas.

Finding aid, partial index, and microfilm copy (22 reels)

available.

954

Tucker, Nathaniel Beverley

(1820-1890) Confederate Agent

Collection, 1859-63. 2 items.

Letter from Tucker to John Coyle, Oct. 20, 1863, Toronto,

Canada, revealing Tucker's undercover address—A. Dixon &

Son, Hardware Merchants, Toronto, Canada.

955

Turner, Justin G. Collector

Autograph collection, 1701-1972. ca. 1,300 items.

In part, transcripts.

Contains letters by Maj. Robert Anderson, Lucius Q. C.

Lamar, Christopher G. Memminger, William P. Miles, Francis

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W. Pickens, Maj. P. F. Stevens, and Leroy P. Walker, Jan.-Apr.

1861, concerning preparations for war in Georgia and South

Carolina. Also includes three reports on interviews conducted

by Benjamin Lossing with participants in the defense of Fort

Sumter.

956

Tyler, John (1790-1862), Pres., U.S.

Papers, 1691-1918. ca. 1,400 items.

Includes a few letters touching on the morale and strength

of Virginia soldiers, public support for the war in Virginia, and

the confidence of the South in victory.

Published index and microfilm copy (3 reels) available.

957

Underwood, John Curtiss (1809-1873) Jurist; Lawyer

Papers, 1856-73. 165 items.

Includes a scrapbook of clippings relating to Underwood's

capture by Confederate guerrillas, his recruitment and organization of a black company, the progress of the war in Virginia,

a letter from Gen. Edward Canby to Underwood, Feb. 7, 1864,

on the abduction and abuse of blacks, and a letter from Underwood to President Lincoln, Feb. 17, 1862, on the organization

and service of loyalists in eastern Virginia.

958

Unidentified Manuscripts Collection

Letters, 1863-64. 3 items.

Letter by an unnamed soldier in the 15th Massachusetts

Volunteers, Apr. 27, 1864, written from a camp near Brandy

Station, Va., and two letters by unnamed soldiers at Fort March,

Va., Jan. 23 and 24,1863, concerning morale, diet, disease, and

discipline.

959

U.S. Army—Commissary Department Miscellany

Records, 1862-63. 1 v.

Contains requisitions, reports, orders, and correspondence

relating to commissary departments at St. Helena and Folly

Island, S.C., and Scranton, Pa., May 3-31, 1862, and Mar.

7-Aug. 26, 1863.

960

U.S. Army—Engineers

Letterbook, 1862-65. 1 v.

Correspondence of Edward Frost (1801 -1868) and A. Grant

Childs concerning the defenses of Washington south of the Poto266
mac River, May 9, 1862-June 8, 1865. Includes a few sketches

of fortifications, reports on the condition of various works, and

comments on available black laborers in Washington, D.C.

961

U.S. Army—Judge Advocate General Miscellany

Letterbook, 1862-63. 1 v.

Copies of letters by special commissioners at Camp Chase,

Ohio, Sept. 1, 1862-June 10, 1863, investigating the cases of

civilian prisoners from Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Concerns various charges of disloyalty to the Union: refusing to

take an oath of allegiance to the Federal Government, aiding

or abetting guerrillas, and refusing to join the U.S. Army.

962

U.S. Army—Medical Department

Letterbook, 1862-65. 1 v.

Includes the correspondence of Charles Frederick Crehore,

surgeon, 37th Massachusetts Volunteers, with Dr. C. N. Chamberlain, Dr. Silas A. Holman, Dr. Charles O'Leary, and others

concerning practices detrimental to the health of soldiers, efforts

to secure housing for sick and wounded soldiers, medical

discharges, the organization and operation of military hospitals,

and the symptoms and treatments of various diseases. Also

contains orders, circulars, and instructions on medical procedures, lists of sick and wounded soldiers, an invoice of hospital property, and the names of a few hospital nurses, stewards,

and cooks.

963

U.S. Army—Quartermaster's Department

Order book, 1865-66. 1 v.

Extracts of orders and copies of military passes issued to

Cpl. William Farrow and Lt. W. J. Kyle, 25th Ohio Volunteers.

964

Papers, 1865-68. ca. 50 items.

Correspondence and reports on military cemeteries. Includes infomation on the size and maintenance of cemeteries in

Tennessee, plans for national military cemeteries, and records

of disinterments.

965

U.S. Christian Commission

Notebooks, 1865. 2 v.

Contains the names and requests of wounded and dying

soldiers, miscellaneous accounts, lists of goods and supplies

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distributed to convalescing soldiers, remarks on blacks, hospital ships, and wounds, and the names of several hospitals in

Virginia. Also contains sketches of the Christian Commission

offices at Goldsboro, N.C., and a list of commission delegates

at New Bern, Goldsboro, Raleigh, Wilmington, and Smithville,

N.C.

966

U.S. Finance Miscellany

Collection, 1761-1897. ca. 2,500 items.

Reports, accounts, and miscellaneous items. Includes a

descriptive list of North Carolina Confederate currency, and a

letter from Gen. George B. McClellan to Edwin M. Stanton,

May 6, 1862, concerning the Battle of Williamsburg, Va.

967

U.S. Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission

Records, 1957-60. ca. 33,000 items.

In part, transcripts.

Chiefly drafts and copies of Lincoln Day-by-Day: A Chronology, 1808-1865, compiled by Earl Schenck Miers, William

E. Baringer, and C. Percy Powell (1960), 3 v. Also includes

research notes and an incomplete Lincoln bibliography.

Finding aid available.

968

U.S. Navy

Collection, 1899-1933. 6 items.

In part, transcripts.

Includes a copy of an unsigned letter by a former Confederate soldier to the U.S. Navy Department, July 23, 1920, concerning the capture and treatment of several Confederate soldiers by a Federal landing party on Edisto Island, S.C., and the

capture of the U.S.S. Isaac Smith on Jan. 30, 1863.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

969

U.S. Sanitary Commission

Papers, 1863-64. ca. 900 items.

Miscellaneous material relating to the services provided

by the Commission for soldiers in the field and at home:

clippings, posters, photographs, and sketches of military hospitals, soldiers' homes, and refreshment saloons; the rules and

regulations of the "Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon"; welcome cards and tickets to the Central Sanitary Fair; clippings

on various fairs sponsored by the Commission, and a sketch of

the Commission chapel in the field near Petersburg, Va.

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970

U.S. Work Projects Administration

Federal Writers Project.

Microfilm, 1 reel.

Narratives of ex-slaves living in Ohio in 1937. Includes

recollections of the treatment of noncombatants in the South,

the treatment of blacks by Union soldiers, depredations and

foraging expeditions, black soldiers, and black life during the

war.

Originals in the Ohio Historical Society.

971

Usher, John Palmer (1816-1889) U.S.

Secretary of the Interior

Letter, 1865. 1 item.

Transcript.

Letter from Usher to his wife, Apr. 16, 1865, concerning

the death of President Lincoln.

972

Van Cise, Edwin A. 2d Lt.,

(1842-1914) 41st Iowa Volunteers; Lawyer

Papers, 1857-1904. 26 items.

Diary entries for the period May 4-Sept. 14,1864, describe

Van Cise's service as a 100-day volunteer in the 41st Iowa.

Includes remarks on military organization, training, discipline,

morale, marches, entertainment, disease, medical care, deaths,

guerrilla warfare, reconnaissance expeditions, and generalship

during operations along the Mississippi River between St. Louis,

Mo., and New Orleans, La. Also contains information on black

life and the behavior of black soldiers.

973

VanDorn, Earl (1820-1863) Gen., CSA

Papers, 1858-63. ca. 80 items.

Chiefly official correspondence, orders, intelligence reports,

and telegrams concerning civilian and military appointments

in the Confederacy, military organization, the movement and

disposition of troops, the Corinth and Vicksburg campaigns,

military supplies, and black unrest on plantations along the

Mississippi River. Includes a few details on the defense of Port

Hudson, La. Correspondents include P. G. T. Beauregard, Braxton Bragg, John C. Breckinridge, George W. Carter, Jefferson

Davis, William W. Loring, Dabney A. Maury, John C. Pemberton, John J. Pettus, Daniel Ruggles, Martin L. Smith, and

John B. Villepigue.

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974

Van Dyke, Richard Smith (1840-1864) CSA

Papers, 1861-1940. 3 items.

Photograph of Van Dyke with his class at Princeton

University, 1861, and biographical notes on his service and

death in the war.

975

Van Horn, Arthur 78th Ohio Volunteers

Family papers, 1705-1865. 75 items.

Contains 24 letters from Van Horn to his wife, 1863-64,

concerning campaigns in Tennessee and Mississippi, particularly the sieges of Vicksburg and Jackson, Miss. Includes

remarks on Confederate deserters, the performance of black

troops, favoritism toward black soldiers, foraging expeditions,

the attitude of noncombatants living near Vicksburg, and camp

life, morale, and disease. Also contains 10 letters from Albert,

David, and Joseph Hall to Arthur and Mary Van Horn, 1861-

64, written during campaigns in West Virginia, Kentucky,

Tennessee, and Alabama. Includes comments on the murder of

Union prisoners in the West Virginia campaign (1861), the

capture of Fort Donelson, camp life, morale, and guerrilla

warfare.

976

Van Norman, C. R. Pvt., 4th Wisconsin Volunteers

Collection, 1861. 2 items.

Letters from Van Norman to his aunt, July 4 and Sept. 19,

1861, concerning camp life and training in Pennsylvania and

Maryland.

977

Vance, Robert B. (1828-1899) Gen., CSA

Letter, 1863. 1 item.

Letter from Vance to his brother, Oct. 9, 1863, Asheville,

N.C., requesting assistance in retaining conscripts in the border counties to maintain order in western North Carolina, and

the impressment of all foreigners.

978

Waddel, John Newton (1812-1895) Clergyman-Educator,

Tennessee

Diary, 1862-64. 3 v.

Covers the period Oct. 20,1862-May 14,1864. Contains a

detailed account of the Federal occupation of La Grange, Tenn.

Includes comments on troop movements, foraging expeditions,

depredations, the suffering of noncombatants, inflation, the

confiscation of private homes for officers' quarters and military

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hospitals, the treatment of blacks by Union soldiers, black life,

and illegal trade in military supplies. Also contains comments

on the situation of Waddel's friends and relations in the Confederate Army, and observations on the effects of the war in

Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia.

979

Wade, Benjamin Franklin (1800-1878) U.S. Senator, Ohio

Papers, 1832-81. ca. 3,500 items.

Contains about 100 letters and documents concerning the

recruitment, organization, supply, leadership, and service of

Ohio troops; military pay, enlistments, discipline, appointments,

and promotions; the treatment of noncombatants; the conduct

of the war; reinforcements; and slavery and emancipation.

Includes a few details on the Battle of Ball's Bluff, the Arkansas Post expedition, the Siege of Petersburg, the capture of

Island No. 10, and the service of the 29th Ohio Volunteers in

the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862. Also contains miscellaneous returns for the 6th U.S. Colored Cavalry; V. P.

Corbett's "Map of the Seat of War showing the battles of July

18th, 21st, and Oct 21st, 1861"; a sketch of the battlefield at

Chickamauga; and a quarterly report, Mar. 1, 1864, to the

Confederate surgeon general on conditions at the hospital for

prisoners of war in Richmond, Va. Correspondents include

James S. Brisbin, James A. Garfield, Joseph Hooker, George

W. Morgan, Henry Wade, and James F. Wade.

Finding aid and microfilm copy (11 reels) available.

980

Wadsworth, James (1768-1844)

Family papers, 1730-1952. ca. 7,000 items.

Material from the Civil War consists chiefly of letters and

documents relating to the service and death of Wadsworth's son,

Gen. James Samuel Wadsworth. Includes official orders and

commissions; a letter from General Wadsworth to his daughter

on the Battle of Chancellorsville; a copy of Wadsworth's report

on the Battle of Gettysburg; an account of the Gettysburg

campaign, with accompanying sketches of troop positions and

maneuvers; a telegram announcing Wadsworth's death in the

Battle of the Wilderness; copies of official reports on Wadsworth's death; and letters of condolence to his wife, Mrs. Mary

Wharton Wadsworth, from Gens. George G. Meade, Andrew A.

Humphreys, and Gouverneur K. Warren, and various public

and private citizens. Also includes letters by Robert E. Lee and

Wade Hampton on the return of Wadsworth's body and personal effects; memorials and addresses on the life of General

Wadsworth; correspondence with the U.S. Treasury Department on the settlement of Wadsworth's accounts; and letters

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Benjamin Franklin Wade
from Capt. Craig W. Wadsworth and James W. Wadsworth to

their parents, Aug. - Oct. 1863, concerning generalship and discipline in the Union Army, the suffering of noncombatants,

and attitudes toward blacks. Miscellaneous items include a

letter from President Lincoln to Horace Greeley, July 9, 1864,

promising safe conduct to anyone carrying peace proposals from

Jefferson Davis; correspondence of the Union Defense Committee of New York; and an album containing about 200 signed

photographs of military and political leaders on both sides of

the war. Additional correspondents are John Dix, T. E. Ellsworth, James B. Fry, Preston King, Edwin D. Morgan, H. J.

Raymond, Edwin M. Stanton, and Benjamin F. Wade.

981

Walker, Andrew J. 55th Illinois Infantry

Collection, 1856-78. 44 items.

Contains three letters from Walker to his family and

friends, Oct.-Dec. 1861, concerning recruiting and training in

Illinois; a letter from Pvt. George Fitch to William Walker,

Oct. 1, 1861, relating to the defense of Washington, D.C.; and

an unidentified soldier's letter written from Savannah, Tenn.,

Mar. 22, 1862.

982

Walker, James Pvt., USA

Letter, 1862-63. 1 item.

Transcript.

Serial letter from Walker to his family in England, Dec. 28,

1862-Jan. 3, 1863, Nashville, Tenn., concerning marches in

Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee, skirmishes near Nashville, the care of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war from

the Stones River Campaign, camp life, discipline, and supplies.

983

Walker, Nicholas Pvt., 74th Pennsylvania Volunteers

Document, 1864. 1 item.

Discharge certificate, Oct. 17, 1864, Grafton, W. Va.

984

Walker, Robert John (1801-1869) Gov., Kansas Territory

Papers, 1815-1936. ca. 3,000 items.

Includes scrapbooks containing clippings on the war.

985

Wallace, Lewis (1827-1905) Gen., USV

Collection, 1864-96. 5 items.

In part, photocopies.

Letter from Benjamin Lossing to Wallace, Apr. 27, 1864;

273
Lewis Wallace
letter from Wallace to Col. John P. Nicholson, Apr. 1896,

Crawfordsville, Ind., defending his conduct in the Battle of

Shiloh. Also includes copies of three printed maps of the battle

showing Wallace's line of march.

986

Wallach, Richard (1816-1881) Washington, D.C.

Family papers, 1800-68. 40 items.

In part, photocopies.

Includes an authorization for a letter of marque to be

granted to the Pembroke, owned by R. B. Forbes, Oct. 8, 1861.

987

Walton, John T. Alabama

Letter, 1865. 1 item.

Letter from Walton to Dr. J. C. Nott of Mobile, Ala., Mar.

24, 1865, requesting that he treat Walton's son, an 18-month

veteran home from campaigns in Virginia.

988

Wanamaker, Winfield S.

(b. 1846) Pvt., 17th Illinois Cavalry

Document, 1865. 1 item.

Discharge certificate, Dec. 18, 1865.

989

Ward, James Thomas

(1820-1897) Clergyman; Author; Educator

Papers, 1841-97. ca. 36,000 items.

Includes a diary which Ward continued throughout the

war. Contains information on the Federal occupation of Alexandria, Va., the attitude and morale of noncombatants at

Alexandria, Va., and Libertytown, Md., civilian arrests, troop

movements, women accompanying their husbands in the field

of war, the suppression of Union sentiment in northern Virginia,

depredations by soldiers from the Union and Confederate

armies, prisoners of war, deaths, generalship, and sundry battles and skirmishes. Also contains clippings on the war. Entries

for the period Sept. 20, 1862-Feb. 12, 1864, are missing.

990

Ward, John 12th New York Volunteers

Collection, 1861 — 62 and undated. 3 items.

Letter from Ward to his brother Charles, May 3, 1861,

Washington, D.C, concerning the organization and accommodation of the 12th New York, conditions in Washington, public

attitudes toward the war, a meeting with President Lincoln,

and the conduct of the New York Fire Zouaves; letter from

275
[John Ward?] to his brother, New York, Nov. 7, 1862, describing his capture at Harpers Ferry, the treatment of prisoners of

war, skirmishes at Bolivar Heights and Maryland Heights,

and the appearance and habits of Gen. Thomas J. Jackson.

991

Ward Family of Richmond County, Va.

Papers, 1830-65. ca. 2,600 items.

Contains family and personal correspondence relating to

the war, and letters from Confederate soldiers, 1861-65.

Includes remarks on public support for the war in Virginia and

South Carolina, the organization and composition of the Wade

Hampton Legion, fortifications at Charleston, S.C., and at various locations in Virginia, Confederate casualties and troop

locations, depredations and foraging by Federal soldiers, disease and deaths in the Confederate Army, prisoners of war,

desertions, problems with slaves abandoning plantations, and

the Fort Donelson, Peninsular, 2d Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg campaigns. Also

contains five captured letters concerning soldiers in the 18th

Maine Volunteers. Correspondents in the Confederate Army

include R. L. T. Beall, D. E. Goodwyn, John Hooff, W. Lewis,

W. A. Little, George W. Richardson, L. B. Smith, James Pegram

Ward, William N. Ward, Jr., William N. Ward, Sr., and James

H. Weeks.

992

Washburn, Israel (1813-1883) U.S. Representative, Maine

Papers, 1838-1908. ca. 300 items.

Includes seven letters to Washburn, 1861-64, concerning

military appointments, promotions, morale, and generalship,

and casualties in the 16th Maine at the Battle of Fredericksburg. Correspondents include Gens. Ambrose E. Burnside and

Thomas Meagher. Also contains a letter from Col. Simon Jones

to Maj. Christian T. Christensen, Aug. 11, 1864, Berwick Bay,

La., discussing a skirmish near Patterson, La., depredations,

and the performance and discipline of black troops.

993

Washburne, Elihu Benjamin

(1816-1887) U.S. Representative, Illinois

Papers, 1829-82. ca. 37,000 items.

Contains a few letters to Washburne, 1861-65, concerning military appointments, promotions, supplies, armaments,

and the progress of the war.

Finding aid available.

276
994

Washington Family

Collection, 1582-1915. ca. 800 items.

In part, photocopies.

Includes a letter from John A. Washington to his son, Lawrence Washington, May 20, 1861, Richmond [Va.], on fortifications and military activities at Norfolk, and three military

passes for Capt. George Washington Ball, Mar.-June 1862.

Finding aid available.

995

Watkins, Louise Ward (1890- )

Autograph collection, 1801-99. 45 items.

Includes a letter from William H. Seward to Gideon Welles,

Oct. 15, 1861, Washington, D.C., urging that the C.S.S. Nashville carrying John Slidell and James M. Mason be intercepted;

a letter from R. A. Ford to R. S. Montague, Jan. 14, 1864,

Northumberland County, Va., concerning the transfer of his

son, Clement R. Ford, from the 40th Virginia Regiment to the

Confederate Navy and the arming of senior citizens to oppose

Federal raiding parties in Northcumberland County; and a list

of taxable property and tax rates in Mobile County, Ala., 1861.

996

Watson, John Crittenden (1842-1923) Lt., USN

Papers, 1845-1960. ca. 1,500 items.

Includes letters from [John J. Crittenden] to Watson, May

31 and July 7, 1861, Frankfort, Ky., appealing to Watson to

remain loyal to the Union; letters from John J. Crittenden to

his son, Gen. Thomas L. Crittenden, Oct. 2, 1861, and May 23,

1863, concerning Gen. Felix K. Zollicoffer's threatened attack

in southeastern Kentucky and Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside's

Knoxville Campaign; letters from Gen. Thomas L. Crittenden

to J. J. Crittenden and J. C. Watson, July 10 and Dec. 11,1863,

on the progress of the war, the generalship of Don Carlos Buell,

and troop locations; and an official letter from the headquarters of Gen. U. S. Grant approving Gen. T. L. Crittenden's

resignation from the Army. Also contains official letters and

orders to Watson, 1861-64; a sketch of the U.S.S. Hartford;

photographs of John C. Watson and Adm. David G. Farragut;

and printed matter: Officers of the Western Gulf Blockading

Squadron, Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers

of the Navy of the Confederate States, to January 1863, and

Farragut and Mobile Bay—Personal Reminiscences.

Finding aid available.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

277
997

Watterson, Henry (1840-1921) Journalist; Author

Papers, 1863-1920. ca. 9,000 items.

Includes six routine letters to Watterson from Gen. William B. Bate, Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, Gen. Leonidas Polk,

Alexander Stephens, Andrew Ewing, and George D. Prentice.

Finding aid available.

998

Waud, Alfred R. USA

Papers, 1862-80. 7 items.

Includes a letter by Waud, July 5, 1862, Camp Lincoln,

James River, concerning hardships and disease during the Peninsular Campaign; a letter to Waud, Oct. 3, 1864, apparently

written by a brother (Paul Waud?) who was working in the

field as an artist or photographer with the Army of the James;

and a letter from Gen. G. K. Warren to Waud, Sept. 29, 1863.

999

Wayman, Dorothy Godfrey (1893-1975) Journalist; Author

Papers, 1862-1971. ca. 6,000 items.

Includes a postwar manuscript, "Civil War Frogman," based

on the diary of Washington Hobbs Godfrey.

Finding aid available.

1000

Weaver, Henry Clay (1840-1904) Capt.,

16th Kentucky Volunteers

Papers, 1861-1945.

Microfilm, 1 reel.

Chiefly letters from Weaver to Cornelia S. Wiley, 1861-65,

concerning marches and skirmishes in Kentucky and Tennessee, the Siege of Knoxville, and the Atlanta, Franklin and

Nashville, and Carolinas campaigns. Includes remarks on camp

life, training, discipline, disease, morale, depredations by Confederate soldiers, the treatment of loyalists by Confederate guerrillas and soldiers, resignations and promotions, and generalship. Also discusses the attitude of noncombatants in Knoxville,

Tenn., conflict between veteran soldiers and new recruits in

the Carolinas Campaign, the attitude of Federal soldiers toward

slavery, and the effect of the assassination of President Lincoln

on Gen. William T. Sherman's army.

1001

Weaver, Willis (1846-1929)

Collection, 1892. 2 items.

Transcripts.

Letter from Weaver to the editor of the National Tribune

278
concerning President Buchanan's Cabinet crisis of Dec. 1860;

and notes on Gen. Benjamin F. Butler's New Orleans expedition,

with emphasis on the role of Secretary Stanton in the origin

and implementation of the plan.

1002

Webb, Charles Henry (1834-1905) Correspondent,

New York Times

Papers, 1859-1924. ca. 320 items.

Includes a military pass issued to Webb, June 25, 1862,

and a letter from Gen. Rufus King to Webb, Oct. 21 [1862], on

the character and ability of Gen. James S. Wadsworth.

1003

Webster, Harrie (1843-1921) 3d Asst. Engineer, USN

Papers, 1889-1913. ca. 50 items.

In part, transcripts.

Includes a copy of Webster's autobiography describing his

escape from a farm in Falls Church, Va., during the Battle of

1st Manassas, his employment at the U.S. Navy Yard in

Washington, D.C., service on various ships of war in the blockade of Wilmington, N.C., the Battle of Port Hudson, the blockade of Mobile Bay, conditions on monitor class vessels, the

surrender of Fort Morgan, and two interviews with Adm. David

G. Farragut. Also includes a copy of a published article by

Webster, "An August Morning With Farragut at Mobile Bay."

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

1004

Weed, Thurlow (1797-1882) Journalist; Politician

Papers, 1821-94. ca. 125 items.

Contains a few letters concerning military appointments

and the effect of the war on the economy.

Finding aid available.

1005

Weeks, Benjamin Franklin Q.M. Sgt., 28th

(b. 1838) Massachusetts Volunteers

Papers, 1861-67. ca. 450 items.

Chiefly records from the Commissary Department—invoices, orders, receipts, provision returns, vouchers for supplies issued to various units, and miscellaneous items.

1006

Welles, Gideon (1802-1878) U.S. Secretary of the Navy

Papers, 1777-1911. ca. 15,000 items.

General correspondence, official letterbooks, Welles' diary,

drafts and copies of articles on the war, newspaper clippings,

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and biographical notes on Welles. Contains information on the

location and duty assignment of numerous officers, ship stations,

vessels comprising flotillas and squadrons; naval guns and

munitions, monitors, prize vessels, naval battles, and the number of officers (by rank) in the U.S. Navy. Articles by Welles

discuss the capture of James Mason and John Slidell, the reinforcement of Fort Pickens, the abandonment of the U.S. Navy

Yard near Portsmouth, Va., the capture of New Orleans,

emancipation, the Lincoln administration, the use of monitors,

and Civil War politics. Miscellaneous items include a report by

a Confederate deserter on the manufacture and importation of

weapons, ship construction, the production of railroad iron

(rails), and the armor and firepower of the Merrimac.

Finding aid and partial index available.

1007

Wells, David Ames

(1828-1898) Public Official, New York

Papers, 1795-1898. ca. 5,000 items.

Contains several proposed designs, with accompanying

correspondence, Jan.-Apr. 1862, for the official seal and flag

of the Confederacy.

Finding aid and microfilm copy (9 reels) available.

1008

Wells, James Madison (1808-1899) Gov., Louisiana

Document, 1865. 1 item.

List of 22 names of office holders appointed by Wells,

Mar.-May 1865, with comments on the loyalty or military

service of each appointee.

1009

Wentworth, Edwin Oberlin Pvt., 37th

(1833-1864) Massachusetts Volunteers

Papers, 1862-90. ca. 120 items.

Chiefly letters from Wentworth to his wife, July 1862-May

1864, concerning the Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Wilderness campaigns, and operations along the Rappahannock River in the fall of 1863. Provides information on

camp life, training, morale, discipline, enlistments, marches,

bounties, desertions, diet, disease, medical care, foraging and

reconnaissance expeditions, sutlers, depredations, generalship,

the attitude of soldiers toward blacks and emancipation, the

treatment of noncombatants, and trading between Union and

Confederate pickets. Also includes a list of officers and men in

Company I, 37th Massachusetts, details on casualties in the

37th Massachusetts, a photograph of Wentworth, drafts of arti280
cles written for The Reveille, a camp paper edited by Wentworth during the 1864 winter bivouac near Brandy Station,

Va., and miscellaneous poems and pension records.

1010

West, James B. USA

Collection, 1864. 4 items.

Countersigns used by Gen. Rufus Saxton, Jan.-Apr. 1864,

Port Royal, S.C.

1011

Westervelt, H. C. USA

Collection, 1863. 3 items.

Letters from Westervelt to his wife, July—Aug. 1863, concerning generalship, Confederate sympathizers in Maryland,

and wounded prisoners of war.

1012

Whaley, Daniel (b. 1829) Pvt., 6th New York Artillery

Document, 1864. 1 item.

Military pass, Jan. 15, 1864, Camp Hunt, Va.

1013

Wheeler, Henry (b. 1844) Pvt.,

5th Connecticut Volunteers

Document, 1864. 1 item.

Discharge certificate, July 21, 1864, Hartford, Conn.

1014

Wheeler, John Hill (1806-1882) Diplomat;

Historian; Public Official

Papers, 1828-82. ca. 100 items.

Diary, 1854—82, and scrapbooks of a Confederate sympathizer. Contains information on the service of Wheeler's two

sons, Lt. Charles Scully Wheeler (USA) and Capt. Woodbury

Wheeler (CSA), military activities in northern Virginia, reaction in Washington to the Battle of 1st Manassas, travel in the

Confederacy, meetings with Confederate officers and officials,

operations in West Virginia in 1861, public morale in the South,

the effect of the war on noncombatants, generalship, Federal

prisoners of war, the use of blacks by the Confederacy, camp

life, and disease. Also describes Wheeler's voyage to Europe,

1863 — 64, including the running of the Federal blockade at

Wilmington, N.C.

Finding aid and microfilm copy (5 reels) available.

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1015

White, B. F. Pvt., CSA

Letter, 1862. 1 item.

Photocopy.

Letter from White to his parents, Sept. 24, 1862, Hampstead County, Ark., concerning problems with disease, discipline,

and desertion.

1016

White, John Chester

(1841-1921) 1st Lt., 11th U.S. Infantry

Memoir, 1861-1921. 2 v.

Transcript.

Covers chiefly White's service with the 17th, 19th, and

21st Pennsylvania Volunteers, and the 11th U.S. Infantry during the Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Wilderness campaigns, and the Siege of Petersburg. Includes details on enlistments, promotions, bounties, the recruitment of criminals,

behavior of Indian soldiers, morality, entertainment, discipline,

desertions, generalship, problems with drunkenness and

gambling, casualties, disease, medical care, depredations, guerrilla warfare, the treatment of prisoners of war, and White's

exchange and parole. Also contains a photograph of White, and

notes from his obituary published in the Boston Morning Globe,

Jan. 18, 1921.

1017

Whiting, Jasper S.

Letter, 1861. 1 item.

Letter from Whiting to Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard, [Apr. 10,

1861], Morris Island, complaining about the lack of organization among troops deployed against Fort Sumter, S.C.

1018

Whiting, William Henry (1843-1925) USN

Family papers, 1731-1952.

Microfilm, 1 reel.

Includes a few miscellaneous clippings relating to the war.

Finding aid available.

1019

Whitman, Walt (1819-1892) Poet

Collection, 1850-1912.

Microfilm, 2 reels.

Contains a few letters from Whitman to his mother and

brother, and letters written to or for wounded Federal soldiers.

Includes comments on visits to military hospitals in Washington and observations on President Lincoln. Also contains an

282
exchange of letters with Capt. William Cook, Feb. 1865, concerning the location of Whitman's brother, Capt. George W.

Whitman, a prisoner of war in the Confederacy.

Originals at Yale University.

1020

Whitten, John Pvt., 5th Iowa Volunteers

Diary, 1862-65. 1 v.

Contains information on the participation of the 5th Iowa

in the Battle of Iuka, Miss., the Siege of Corinth, the Vicksburg

Campaign (particularly the battles of Champion's Hill and

Jackson), and a detailed account of Whitten's experiences as a

prisoner of war at Libby Prison, Belle Isle, and Andersonville.

Includes comments on the arrival, transfer, and exchange of

prisoners, escape attempts, disease, deaths, and the release of

prisoners at Andersonville, Ga., at the end of the war.

1021

Wigfall, Louis Trezevant

(1816-1874) Gen., CSA; C.S. Senator, Texas

Family papers, 1858-1909. ca. 550 items.

Contains about 75 letters to Wigfall from his son, Lt. F.

Halsey Wigfall, concerning the Peninsular, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Atlanta, and Franklin and Nashville campaigns, and operations along the Rapidan and Rappahannock Rivers in the fall of 1863. Includes remarks on camp

life and fortifications in northern Virginia during the winter of

1861-62, training, marches, morale, casualties, diet, supplies,

entertainment, the organization and strength of various artillery units, disease, medical care, appointments and promotions,

generalship, furloughs, the suffering of noncombatants, and

reaction in the army to the removal of General Johnston during the Atlanta Camgaign. Also includes a detailed account of

the movements of Gen. John Bell Hood after the fall of Atlanta

and a copy of Hood's preliminary report on the Franklin and

Nashville Campaign. Letters from Gen. Joseph E. Johnston to

Wigfall, 1862-65, discuss Johnston's frustrations with officials

in Richmond, his personal feud with Jefferson Davis, military

organization and strategy, appointments and promotions, troop

morale, generalship, reinforcements, and various aspects of the

Peninsular, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and

Atlanta campaigns. Miscellaneous items comprise letters to

Wigfall on military affairs from P. G. T. Beauregard, Clement

C. Clay, Richard S. Ewell, Wade Hampton, John Bell Hood,

Robert M. T. Hunter, Ralph Izard, Robert E. Lee, James

Longstreet, Francis Pickens, Leonidas Polk, Robert Barnwell

Rhett, and John A. Wharton; copies of letters in the papers of

the Confederate War Department, Feb. 18-Mar. 13, 1865, by

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John C. Breckinridge, John H. Claiborne, Samuel G. French,

Josiah Gorgas, Robert E. Lee, Richard Morton, B. P. Nolan,

and Isaac Munroe St. John; and letters from Mrs. Lydia Johnston to Mrs. L. T. Wigfall, 1862-74, relating generally to the

war.

1022

Wight, Frederick H. 9th New York Volunteers

Collection, 1860-62. 11 items.

Includes nine letters written by Wight from camps in Maryland and Virginia, Aug. 21, 1861-Feb. 12, 1862, concerning

camp life, marches, morale, discipline, disease, hospital care,

and military organization.

1023

Wilcox, Cadmus Marcellus

(1824-1890) Gen., CSA

Papers, 1846-87. ca. 1,200 items.

In part, transcripts and photocopies.

Includes copies of official reports on the battles of Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Gaines Mill, White Oak Swamp, 2d Manassas,

Fredericksburg, Salem Church, and Gettysburg, extracts of

reports on the Gettysburg, Spotsylvania, and Wilderness

campaigns, notes on the Siege of Petersburg, casualty reports,

clippings on the war, and an autobiography for the period June

8, 1861-Apr. 1865. Also contains letters from General Wilcox

to his brother, John A. Wilcox, 1861-65, concerning Confederate morale, fortifications, casualties, conscription, pillage by

Confederate soldiers, depredations by Union soldiers, the suffering of noncombatants, disease, discipline, supply shortages,

weapons, and his feelings toward his former friends in the U.S.

Army.

1024

Wild, Edward Augustus (1825-1891) Gen., USV

Letter, 1863. 1 item.

Letter from Wild to Rev. William A. Green, Nov. 5, 1863,

Norfolk, Va., concerning Green's appointment as chaplain in

the 3d Regiment, African brigade.

1025

Wilda, R. W. A.

Index, undated. 1 v.

"Index to Volumes, First Series of the Official War Records."

Incomplete.

284
1026

Wilder, William Frank

(1831-1917) Capt., 46th Illinois Infantry

Collection, 1903-27. 3 items.

In part, transcripts.

"Reminiscences of the Civil War," written in 1903. Includes

comments on the Fort Donelson, Corinth, and Vicksburg

campaigns, northern optimism at the beginning of the war, the

sobering effect of the 1st Manassas Campaign, enlistments,

training, camp life, disease, casualties, slavery, black life, the

attitude of Union soldiers toward blacks, depredations, discipline, entertainment, and Confederate deserters.

1027

Wiley, Harvey Washington

(1844-1930) Cpl., 137th Indiana Volunteers

Papers, 1854-1944. ca. 70,000 items.

Includes diary kept by Wiley during marches in Kentucky

and Tennessee, May 30—Sept. 17,1864. Contains comments on

camp life, diet, morale, discipline, disease, morality, the occupation of Nashville, guerrilla warfare, and the activities of loyalist cavalry units from east Tennessee.

Finding aid available.

1028

Wilkes, Charles (1798-1877) Comdr., USN

Papers, 1607-1959. ca. 6,500 items.

General, official, and family correspondence, diary, and

autobiography concerning the Trent affair, and Wilkes' command of the James River and Potomac River flotillas and the

West India Squadron. Also contains letterbooks, court-martial

records, and miscellaneous maps and photographs.

Finding aid and microfilm copy (26 reels) available.

1029

Willard Family

Papers, 1800-1955. ca. 80,000 items.

In part, transcripts and photocopies.

Items relating to the war comprise chiefly letters and documents relating to the career of Maj. Joseph C. Willard, aide-decamp to Gen. Irvin McDowell, and personal and family correspondence of the accused Confederate spy, Antonia Ford, the

future Mrs. J. C. Willard. Includes a diary kept by Willard

during the 2d Manassas Campaign and containing remarks on

camp life, marches, foraging expeditions, depredations, and the

activities of General McDowell; letters from Antonia Ford to

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Willard and her family concerning the effects of the war on

noncombatants, the location and health of her brother and

acquaintances in the Confederate Army, and her secret romance

with Willard; and miscellaneous telegrams, clippings, orders,

receipts, commissions, and military passes.

Finding aid available.

1030

Willey, Henry Stevens (b. 1844) 16th Vermont Regiment

Collection, 1915. 2 items.

Transcripts.

Reminiscences: "The Story of My Experiences During the

Civil War, 1862-1863" (25 p.) and "Additional Items From the

First Draft of the Story of My Experiences During the Civil

War" (7 p.). Describes the attitude of northern "mudsills" and

"greasy mechanics" toward the South, the effect of the attack

on Fort Sumter in the North, Willey's enlistment in the 16th

Vermont, military organization, the selection of line and field

officers, camp life, training, diet, equipment and supplies,

disease, hospital care, the conduct and treatment of sutlers, the

generalship of Edwin Henry Stoughton, the Gettysburg Campaign, and the death of Gen. William Barksdale (CSA).

1031

Williams, John L. CSA

Papers, 1846-62. 9 items.

Letter from Williams to his niece, July 18, 1862, Camp

Douglas, 111., on life as a prisoner of war.

1032

Williams, Margaret D.

Collection, 1921. 2 items.

Transcripts.

Contains "A Brief Reminiscence of the First Inauguration

of Abraham Lincoln as President," with comments on the

assassination plot (10 p.).

1033

Williams, William W. Pvt., 27th

Alabama Regiment

Document, 1865. 1 item.

Photocopy.

Military parole issued to Williams at Salisbury, N.C., May

2, 1865.

1034

Willis, Edward Maj., CSA

Papers, 1860-65. ca. 4,000 items.

286
Quartermaster records, official correspondence, clippings,

pamphlets, orders, reports, and letterbooks. Provides information on defensive operations along the coasts of South Carolina

and Georgia, the Siege of Petersburg, and troop movements in

Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama. Miscellaneous items include

photographs of prisoners of war at Fort Warren, Mass., plans

for the manufacture of various types of torpedoes, The Soldier's

Pocket Bible, engraved views of the bombardments of Fort

Sumter, Fort Walker, Fort Beauregard, and Port Royal, S.C.,

poems, the diary of Capt. J. E. Edings, a manuscript history of

Gen. Thomas F. Drayton's brigade, engraved portraits of Jefferson Davis, Braxton Bragg, Hannibal Hamlin, James Longstreet,

J. E. B. Stuart, Leonidas Polk, and Ben McCulloch, and postwar articles and clippings on Confederate blockade running.

Pamphlets include W. A. Harris, The Record of Fort Sumter,

From Its Occupation by Major Anderson, to Its Reduction by

South Carolina Troops (1862); Report of the Chief of the Department of the Military of South Carolina (1862); Report of the

Adjutant and Inspector General of South Carolina (1863); Operations on Morris Island (1863); Report of the Congressional Committee on the Operations of the Army of the Potomac (1863); and

General Washington and General Jackson, on Negro Soldiers

(1863).

1035

Wills, David (1831-1894)

Papers, 1863-1940. 13 items.

In part, transcripts.

Includes a letter from Gen. George G. Meade to Wills, Nov.

13, 1863, on the dedication of Gettysburg National Cemetery,

and Wills' recollections of the Gettysburg Address.

1036

Wilson, Henry

(1812-1875) U.S. Senator, Massachusetts

Papers, 1851-75. ca. 200 items.

Includes a letter from Gen. Willis A. Gorman to Wilson,

Dec. 22, 1861, concerning charges that Gorman flogged and

returned fugitive slaves; a letter from Gen. Joseph Hooker to

Wilson, Apr. 4,1862, on rank disputes, depredations, and problems with blacks in the Peninsular Campaign; a letter from

Gen. Benjamin F. Butler to Wilson, May 7, 1864, on the progress of his army in the Siege of Petersburg; and a personal letter

from Gen. Edward Ferrero to Wilson, Feb. 18, 1865.

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1037

Wilson, James Harrison (1837-1925) Gen., USA

Papers, 1861-1923. ca. 25,000 items.

In part, transcripts.

Includes official correspondence and dispatches, Dec.

1864-June 1865, concerning military equipment and supplies,

desertions, reinforcements, and preparations for Wilson's raid

to Selma, Ala.; a "Consolidated Report of Cavalry serving in the

Military District of the Mississippi," Aug. 1864; and miscellaneous returns. Also includes copies of dispatches from the War

Department to Gen. U. S. Grant, July 11-24,1864, concerning

reinforcements and troop movements, and copies of the dispatches

of Charles A. Dana to Edwin M. Stanton, 1863—64, reporting on

generalship, troop strength and dispositions, casualties, morale,

discipline, supplies, desertions, guerrilla warfare, tactics, and

the treatment of noncombatants in the Vicksburg, Chickamauga,

Chattanooga, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and

Petersburg campaigns, and the Siege of Knoxville.

Finding aid and partial index available.

1038

Wilson, Lawrence (b. 1842) Sgt., 7th Ohio Volunteers

Papers, 1861-65. 6 items.

Diary, June 30,1862-Dec. 15, 1864 (3 v.), kept during the

2d Manassas, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg,

Chattanooga, and Atlanta campaigns. Describes camp life,

marches, discipline, depredations, casualties, guerrilla warfare,

courts-martial, furloughs, reconnaissance expeditions, prisoner

exchanges, and problems with drunkenness. Also includes an

advertisement for the Soldiers' Home in Cleveland, Ohio, and a

roll book containing the names of officers and privates in Company D, 7th Ohio, along with details on casualties, discharges,

transfers, and deaths; pay and allowances; equipment and

supplies; and a copy of a letter written by a Confederate soldier

at the Battle of Resaca.

1039

Wilson, Samuel Lewis

(1844-1879) Midshipman, USN

Papers, 1862-1939. 22 items.

Includes a few letters from Wilson to his family and relations written while a student at the U.S. Naval Academy and

aboard the U.S.S. Macedonian, 1864.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

288
1040

Wilson, Thomas Gen., USA

Collection, 1865. 2 items.

Letter from Wilson to his wife, Apr. 9, 1865, [Appomattox

Courthouse, Va.] describing the scene in the Army of the Potomac when the surrender of Gen. R. E. Lee's army was announced; and a photograph of Meade with his staff reviewing

his troops near Appomattox Courthouse.

1041

Winslow, John Ancrum (1811-1873) Capt., USN

Collection, 1864-88. 10 items.

In part, photocopies.

Account of the battle between the U.S.S. Kearsarge and

C.S.S. Alabama copied from entries in the log of the Kearsarge

for June 14-21,1864; postwar account of the battle with a steel

engraving of Captain Winslow; pamphlet, The Cruise of the

Kearsarge (1888); list of subscribers to an award for Captain

Winslow, Nov. 16, 1864; and photographs of five officers who

served on the Kearsarge: William H. Bedlam, chief engineer

Cushman, Hayard Marsh, Frederick L. Miller, and sailing master Stoddard.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

1042

Winthrop Family

Papers, 1537-1904.

Microfilm, 53 reels.

Contains notes or memoranda by Robert C. Winthrop written during a visit to Washington, D.C., in Oct. 1861. Provides

information on meetings with President Lincoln, William

Seward, Winfield Scott, and Robert Anderson, and observations on public morale, generalship, and the conduct of the

war. Also contains a military pass issued to Winthrop by General Scott, Oct. 21, 1861; an undated letter from Robert Anderson to Winthrop on fortifications and camp scenes near Washington, and problems between Generals Scott and McClellan;

and miscellaneous letters by Nathaniel P. Banks, Edward

Everett, George B. McClellan, William C. Rives, and D. M.

Sargent.

Published finding aid available.

Originals in the Massachusetts Historical Society.

1043

Wirz, Henry (d. 1865) Commandant, Andersonville Prison;

Maj., CSA

Collection, 1865. 14 items.

Material relating to Wirz' trial.

2 8 9
1044

Wise, Henry Alexander

(1806-1876), and Family Gen., CSA

Collection, 1836-1928. ca. 350 items.

Includes a letter from Wise to Gov. Henry T. Clark of

North Carolina, Jan. 18,1862, assessing the military situation

along the Carolina coast and suggesting a plan of defense.

Microfilm copy (1 reel) available.

1045

Wise, Henry Augustus (1819-1869) Comdr., USN

Papers, 1850-69. 90 items.

Includes several letters from Wise to Mrs. John L. Worden

and an unnamed recipient, May-Nov. 1861, concerning the

exchange of Mrs. Worden's husband, a prisoner of war at

Montgomery, Ala., and a letter from Harriet M. Kennard to

[Mrs. Worden], Apr. 30, 1861, Montgomery, Ala., assuring Mrs.

Worden that her husband, a prisoner in the city, was well.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

1046

Wiser, Angelo Sgt., 15th

Pennsylvania Cavalry

Maps, 1865. 1 v.

"Complete Map of the march of the 1st Brigade 1st Cavalry Divn. Dept. of Cumberland on the Stoneman expedition

through Tenn., Va., N.C., S.C., Geo., & Ala. March to June

1865." Consists of a series of sketches showing roads, towns

and villages, bridges, mills, farms and estates, and various

places of interest.

1047

Wittenmyer, Annie Agent, Iowa

Sanitary Association

Collection, 1862-66. 5 items.

In part, photocopies.

Military passes signed by Edwin Stanton and President

Lincoln, letter of introduction to Gen. William T. Sherman,

June 28, 1863, and instructions from the assistant surgeon

general at Louisville, Ky., to the medical directors under his

command to assist Mrs. Wittenmyer in introducing a diet she

developed for wounded soldiers.

1048

Women's Loyal National League New York

Document, 1863. 1 item.

Circular signed by Susan B. Anthony and S. E. Draper,

290
June 20, 1863, requesting aid in gathering signatures on

petitions.

1049

Wood, Henry Clay (1832-1918) Col., USA

Papers, 1838-1907. ca. 300 items.

In part, photocopies and transcripts.

Includes some material concerning the Battle of Wilson's

Creek; miscellaneous orders, accounts, and receipts; Wood's

commission as colonel in William Adams' 1st Missouri Cavalry;

official correspondence regarding Wood's service in the 11th

U.S. Infantry; and information on recruiting, supplies, and military organization in northeast Missouri in 1861.

1050

Wood Family

Papers, 1836-1906. 28 items.

In part, transcripts.

Contains the papers of William W. Wood (1816-1882) and

his son, Thomas Newton Wood (1854-1919). Includes three

letters to W. W. Wood, Apr.—Nov. 1864, concerning the construction of naval vessels and torpedoes; a letter from John

Lenthall to Adm. Francis H. Gregory, Apr. 29, 1864, on a contract for the construction of launches and torpedo boats; and a

naval contract with the Clute brothers of Schenectady, N.Y.,

for six picket boats designed by Wood.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

1051

Woodbury, Levi (1789-1851) and

Charles Levi (1820-1898)

Papers, 1638-1899. ca. 18,350 items.

Includes the diary of Virginia Woodbury Fox (wife of Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Gustavus V. Fox), which contains

numerous references to Cabinet meetings, troop reviews, war

plans, political and military leaders, the arrival and departure

of various warships, and troop movements.

Finding aid available.

1052

Woodford, Stewart Lyndon (1835-1913) Col., USA

Collection, 1865-1908. 4 items.

Includes a petition from J. T. Welsman to Woodford, Apr.

21, 1865, Charleston, S.C., requesting permission to go north

on parole on family and business matters, and Woodford's negative response, Apr. 29, 1865, Hilton Head, S.C.

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1053

Woodman, Harry Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Papers, 1861-65. 9 items.

Letters to Woodman, Nov. 1861—Jan. 1865, concerning

camp life, enlistments, the progress of the war, and the return

of bodies of deceased soldiers. Correspondents are Henry D.

Franklin, Charles L. Smith, Fred L. Smith, and Jeremiah

Worthington.

1054

Woodson, Carter Godwin (1875-1950) Author; Editor

Collection of Negro papers and related documents, 1796-

1936. ca. 5,000 items.

Includes a letter by Jacob C. White, Aug. 19, 1862, Philadelphia, Pa., on the recruitment of black regiments in the North;

a letter by Lewis [Douglas?], July 20, 186[3], Morris Island,

S.C., on the performance of black troops at Fort Wagner; a

letter from Christian A. Fleetwood to his father, June 23,1863,

Baltimore, Md., on the impressment of blacks to work on the

city's fortifications; and a letter from Sgt. Maj. Christian A.

Fleetwood to Robert Hamilton, June 28, 1864, written at the

Siege of Petersburg, concerning the performance of the 4th

U.S. Colored Infantry.

Finding aid and microfilm copy (10 reels) available.

1055

Woodwell, Charles H. Pvt., 5th Massachusetts Volunteers

Diary, 1862-63. 1 v.

Transcript.

Discusses the recruitment, organization, and training of

the 5th Massachusetts; leadership, discipline, and morale;

skirmishes near Kinston, White Hall, and Goldsborough, N.C.;

the defense of Fort Washington; and marches through Beaufort and Craven Counties. Also contains remarks on casualties,

disease, medical care, sutlers, the effect of the Emancipation

Proclamation, and public support for the war in Massachusetts.

1056

Woodworth, Selim Edwin (1815-1871) USN

Papers, 1851-65. 4 items.

Photocopies.

Photograph of Woodworth; list of battles in which Woodworth participated; and postwar letter (unsigned) outlining

Woodworth's naval career.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

292
1057

Worden, John Lorimer (1818-1897) Comdr., USN

Papers, 1861-98. 65 items.

In part, transcripts.

Includes a letter from Worden to Gideon Welles, Apr. 15,

1861, Montgomery, Ala., concerning his arrest and imprisonment after delivering dispatches from the War Department to

Fort Pickens; two letters from Welles to Mrs. Olivia Worden,

1861; a letter from Adm. Samuel F. Du Pont to Worden, Apr.

13,1863, Port Royal, S.C., relieving Worden of his command of

the U.S.S. Montauk; and a photograph of Worden with his family taken shortly after he was blinded in the battle between the

U.S.S. Monitor and C.S.S. Merrimac.

Naval Historical Foundation collection.

1058

Wragg, Thomas L. 8th Georgia Regiment

Collection, 1861-63. 11 items.

Nine letters from Wragg to his father and sister written

from camps in northern Virginia, July 1861—July 1862, concerning the participation of the 8th Georgia in the Battle of 1st

Manassas, casualties in the 8th Georgia, camp life, morale,

disease, supplies, the attitude of Federal prisoners of war, and

the skirmish at Dranesville, Va., Dec. 20,1861. Also includes a

sketch of the Manassas battlefield, and a letter from Wragg to

his father written from Fort Warren Prison in Boston Harbor,

Nov. 17, 1863.

1059

Wright, Benjamin Hall (1801-1881) Civil Engineer

Papers, 1839-80. 63 items.

Includes a letter from Gen. Henry W. Halleck to Wright,

Apr. 10, 1863, acknowledging Wright's suggestions on the conduct of the war, and a personal letter from Gen. Robert Anderson to Wright, June 4, 1862.

1060

Wright, Nathaniel (1789-1875) Lawyer, Ohio

Family papers, 1787-1917. ca. 23,400 items.

Contains about 30 letters relating to the war. Includes

four letters from Col. Rutherford B. Hayes to R. H. Stephenson,

1861 — 63, concerning enlistments, morale, casualties, and

health in the 23d Ohio Volunteers during campaigns in western Virginia; eight letters from Edward F. Noyes to Stephenson,

1861-64, describing the pursuit of Confederate forces under

Gen. Martin E. Green in Missouri, guerrilla warfare in Missouri,

the participation of the 39th Ohio Volunteers in the Chattanooga and Atlanta campaigns, and hospital care following the

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loss of a foot near Kennesaw Mountain; and five letters from

Edward, Nathaniel, and William Wright, 1862-64, written

during campaigns in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia. Also

contains letters relating to the war by George K. Cox, J.H.H.

Daniel, John B. Elliott, Jackson Lane, William Owen, Thomas

S. Rope, Willard Storres, and E. H. Tatem.

Finding aid available.

1061

Wright, William W. Engineer, USA

Papers, 1863-70. 10 items.

Chiefly orders and commissions, 1863-64, concerning

Wright's duties as superintendent of military railroads in the

Department of the Susquehanna, as chief engineer of construction, Military Division of Mississippi, and as colonel, 42d U.S.

Colored Infantry Regiment.

1062

Wyndham, Percy Col., USA

Note, 1863. 1 item.

Concerns the transmission of a message to Washington,

May 14, 1863.

1063

Yoder, Samuel S. (1841-1921) 128th Ohio Volunteers

Family papers, 1841-1907. ca. 500 items.

Includes about 100 letters by Yoder's brothers, Noah W.,

Moses F., and Jacob Yoder, 1861-64, written during campaigns

in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia. Provides information on

the occupation of Nashville; the Stones River, Chickamauga,

Chattanooga, and Atlanta campaigns; and the deaths of Moses

and Jacob Yoder. Also contains comments on the service of the

51st Ohio Volunteers, camp life, morale, generalship, marches,

discipline, entertainment, disease, casualties, hospital care, prisoners of war, morality of soldiers, and the attitude of Federal

soldiers toward blacks.

1064

Young, John Russell

(1841-1899) Editor, Philadelphia Press

Papers, 1843-98. ca. 11,000 items.

Includes a letter from Simon Cameron to Gen. Irvin

McDowell, July 20, 1861, on reinforcements; letters from John

W. Forney to Young, 1861-64, on the progress of the war and

events in Washington, D.C.; a letter from Col. John H. Taggard

to Young, May 22, 1862; a letter from Edward Zane Carroll

Judson (alias, Ned Buntline) to John W. Forney, Sept. 20 [1863],

and photographs of Edwin and John Wilkes Booth.

Finding aid available.

294
INDEX

A. Dixon & Son, 954

A. 0. Tyler; see Tyler (U.S.S.)

Abbe, Cleveland, 1

Abbeville, Miss.: skirmish at,

843

Abbott, Asa Townsend, 2

Abbott, Samuel Warren, 3

Abert, Charles, 4

Abolition; see Emancipation;

Emancipation Proclamation; Freedmen; Blacks;

Slavery

Abolitionists, 582

Abraham Lincoln: A New

Portrait (galley proof), 431

Abraham Lincoln and the Fifth

Column (notes for), 632

Accounts: (C.S. Army) 296,

859; (U.S. Army) 148,

290, 405, 442, 661, 850,

884, 892, 913, 934, 937,

1029, 1049; (U.S. Navy)

784

Adams, Charles Francis:

official correspondence and

papers of, 5-6; instructions

from Secretary Seward,

836

Adams, John (It., C.S. Army),

563

Adams, William, 1049

Adams, Wirt, 63

Adams family, 5-6

Adams Express, 84, 86

"Additional Items From . . . My

Experiences During the

Civil War," 1030

Adee family, 7

Adjutant General's Office:

(U.S. Army) records, 288

Aeronautic Corps, 18; see also

American Institute of

Aeronautics and

Astronautics;

Reconnaissance balloons;

Lowe, Thaddeus S. C.

"Agate" letters, 762

Aiken, William, 306

Alabama (C.S.S.): Federal

search for, 802, 858;

battle with U.S.S.

Kearsarge, 71, 224, 1041;

prize money from, 224

Alabama: campaigns in, 63,

152, 187, 206, 299-300,

355, 357, 462, 500, 526,

613, 782, 816, 975, 982;

see also Mobile Bay,

Battle of. Confederate

recruitment in, 856;

Confederate training

camps in, 856; war

governors, 856; effects of

the war in, 978; map of

(incomplete), 1046

Alabama claims, 157, 235

Alabama troops: (cavalry) 7th,

206; (infantry) 5th, 220;

2 9 5
15th, 88; 27th, 1033;

34th, 637

AlbemarleiC.S.S.y. battle with

U.S.S.

Sassacus, 785; destruction

of, 365, 514, 785

Aldie, Va.: skirmish at, 162,

377

Aldrich, A. P., 392

Aldrich, J. H., 838

Aldrich, Nelson Wilmarth, 8

Alexander, Andrew J., 378,

636

Alexander, Edward Porter, 9

Alexandria (blockade runner),

222

Alexandria, Va.: capture and

occupation of, 428, 796,

989; attitude and morale

of inhabitants of, 33, 989;

mentioned, 507, 885, 944

Alice (C.S.S.), 858

Alice Price (U.S. transport),

774

Allatoona, Ga.; see Franklin

and Nashville Campaign

Allatoona Hills, Ga.; see

Atlanta Campaign

Allen, A. B. W., 563

Allen, Charles Julius:

reminiscences and

autobiographical writings

of, 14

Allen, E. J., 33, 724

Allen, George, 678

Allen, George, Jr.: death of,

678

Allen, Henry Watkins, 10,

557

Allen, Isaac Jackson, 11

Allen, Samuel E., 12

Allen, William: war record of,

792

Allen, William A. H., 13

Allen family, 14

Allentown, Pa., 646

Alsop's Farm; see

Spotsylvania Campaign

Alston, Jacob Motte, 15

Alston family, 15

Alvord, Augustus V., 16

Alvord, Jabez, 17

Ambulance Corps (U.S.

Army), 382, 946

American Coaster (blockade

runner), 842

American Freedmen's Inquiry

Commission, 582

American Institute of

Aeronautics and

Astronautics, 18

American Medical

Association, 815

American Missionary Society,

422

Ames, Adelbert, 346

Amherst County, Va.: bonds

issued in, 191

Amite River, La.: operations

along, 360

Anderson, Charles D., 206

Anderson, Finley, 78

Anderson, Frank Maloy, 19

Anderson, Isabel Perkins, 712

Anderson, John Emerson, 20

Anderson, Richard H., 930

Anderson, Robert, 21;

correspondence of, 212,

238, 850, 955, 1042, 1059;

notes from Cabinet meetings concerning

Anderson, 87; mentioned,

1034

Anderson T. M., 21

Anderson-Moler families, 22

Anderson County, Kans., 22

Andersonville Prison:

conditions at, 599; letters

of prisoners, 599; list of

U.S. soldiers buried at, 54;

296
release of prisoners, 1020;

treatment of prisoners at,

345, 448, 1020; mentioned,

197; see also Wirz, Henry

Andrew, John Albion, 91, 823

Anglin, John S., 23

Annapolis, Md.: Burnside

expedition prepared at,

586; sick and wounded

soldiers at, 12; mentioned,

765

Annual Report of the Signal

Officer (1863), 659; see

also Signal

communications

Anonymous, 24

Anthony, Susan B., 897, 1048

Antietam Campaign, 33, 335,

351-53, 363, 386, 391,

442, 452, 466, 472, 488,

522-23, 526, 571-72, 578,

618, 699, 725, 735, 766,

772, 859, 894, 912, 938,

944, 991, 1021; see also

Sharpsburg, Battle of

"An Appeal to the Democracy

of the South," 761

Appomattox Campaign, 25,

112, 162, 193, 346, 391,

500, 542, 576, 715, 758,

778, 846, 869; condition of

C.S. Army on eve of, 411;

U.S. dispatches concerning, 231; attitude of C.S.

and U.S. soldiers during,

636

Appomattox Courthouse, Va.:

General Lee's surrender

at, 193, 532; effect of

surrender on Lee's army,

159; mentioned, 1040;

see also McLean House

Aquia Creek, Va.: skirmish at,

796; see also Battle of

Aquia Creek, Va.

Archer (C.S.S.): list of vessels

captured by, 265

Are Southern Privateersmen

Pirates? (1861), 424, 430

Arkansas (C.S.S.): engagements with enemy vessels,

686; mentioned, 246

Arkansas: campaigns in, 41,

44, 46, 48, 339, 491, 598,

630, 702, 894, 946; see

also Fort Hindman expedition; Pea Ridge, Battle

of. Impact of the war on,

156; Indian volunteers

from, 61; Unionist

volunteers from, 946;

opposition to Federal

policy in, 275; skirmish in,

246

Arkansas Post expedition; see

Fort Hindman expedition

Arlington Heights, Va.:

occupied by Federal

soldiers, 428

Arms and ammunition, 94,

242, 578, 784, 803, 903,

1006, 1023; imported by

the Confederacy, 1006;

manufacture of, 220, 749,

856, 1006; procurement of,

132, 718; promotion of new

and improved weapons,

863; returns and reports

on, 189, 405, 492, 500,

507, 552, 591, 638, 736,

743, 758; rules and regulations concerning, 656;

seizure of, 105, 507, 562;

see also Arsenals;

Torpedoes

Armstrong, James D., 912

Armstrong, James F., 606

Army; see Confederate States

Army; U.S. Army; Black

297
troops; various State

troops

"The Army Signal Corps," 659;

see also Signal communications

Arnold, John Carvel, 25

Arnold, Samuel: arrest of, 650

Arnold, Samuel B., 307

Arsenals: seizure of, 105, 507,

562

Arthur, Chester Alan, 26, 580

Arthur, William, 26

Artillery: (C.S. Army) 147,

419, 447, 656, 692, 870,

894, 939; organization and

strength of, 1021; (U.S.

Army) 11, 16, 94, 108,

112, 257, 270, 357, 466,

551, 604, 631, 715, 758,

831, 854, 888, 1012;

see also various State

troops and names of individual units

Asbill, J. J., 27

Ashby, Turner, 911

Asheville, N.C., 977

Assassination; see Lincoln

assassination; Booth, John

Wilkes; Surratt, Mary

Associated Survivors of the

Sixth U.S. Army Corps, 28

Association of Acting Assistant

Surgeons, 29

Aston, Ralph, 30

Astor, John Jacob, 571

Atlanta (C.S.S.): purchase of,

222; capture of, 84, 784

Atlanta, Battle of, 195, 467;

Federal strategy in, 518;

certificate commemorating

Sherman's role in, 850;

sketch of troop positions

in, 552; burning of, 439;

see also Atlanta

Campaign; Sherman,

William T.

Atlanta, Ga.: Unionist activities in, 618; treatment of

Federal prisoners of war

at, 669

Atlanta Campaign, 20, 80, 94,

103, 116, 133, 148, 174,

195, 204-205, 207, 277,

300, 317, 353, 355, 377-78,

410, 439, 441, 473, 518,

539, 552, 566, 576, 578,

605, 610, 618, 631, 640,

703, 729, 733, 768, 805,

820, 850-51, 901, 907, 953,

1000, 1021, 1038, 1060,

1063; Federal strategy in,

518, 557; Confederate fortifications, 503; Confederate reaction to

removal of J. E. Johnston,

1021; Federal cavalry operations in, 146, 377; report

on service of 4th Division,

17th U.S. Army Corps,

378; report on service of

40th Illinois Infantry,

610; death of James B.

McPherson, 64; supplies

in, 351, 414; see also

individual battles

and skirmishes of the campaign

Attorney General (U.S.),

58,87

Atzerodt, George, 307

"An August Morning With

Farragut at Mobile Bay,"

1003

Augusta (U.S.S.), 822

Autobiographies: Allen, Isaac

J., 11; Burt, Elizabeth

J. R., 133; Grebe, Balzar,

367; Greeley, Horace, 370;

Pratt, Richard Henry, 741;

Webster, Harrie, 1003;

298
see also Diaries

"Autobiography and Civil

War Diary," 367

The Autobiography of Joseph

Le Conte (1903), 497

Averasboro, N.C., Battle of,

195

Averell, William W., 913

Averill, C. K., 31

Awards: U.S. Army, 148, 311

Ayres, George R., 32

Babcock, John C, 33

Bache, Alexander Dallas, 34

Badeau, Adam, 849

Badger, Alfred Mason, 35

Badger, Frank Appleton, 35

Bahama Islands: Confederate

shipping from, 524;

Federal blockading ships

stationed near, 686

Bahia Harbor, Brazil: capture

of C.S.S. Florida in, 65

Bailey, J., 297

Bailey, Orra B., 36

Bailey's Crossroads, Va., 18

Bainbridge (U.S.S.): sketch of,

232

Baird, Samuel John, 37

Baker, B. P., 824

Baker, Boiling, 189

Baker, Jacob, 186

Baldwin, A. P., 845

Baldwin, John Brown, 38, 912

Ball, George Washington, 994

Ball, M. Dulany, 532

Ball, William T. W., 854

Balloons; see American Institute of Aeronautics and

Astronautics; Reconnaissance

balloons; Lowe, Thaddeus

S. C.

Ballou, James E., 39

Ballou, Rebecca, 39

Ballou family of Virginia, 39

Balls Bluff, Va., Battle of,

766, 979

Baltimore, Md.: impressment

of blacks in, 1054; political

prisoners in, 740

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,

340

Baltimore riots, 213, 330

Bancroft, George, 40

Bancroft-Bliss families, 41

Bank of Louisiana: Confederate States Government deposits in, 482

Banks, Nathaniel Prentice, 42;

correspondence of, 81, 167,

416, 546, 571, 850, 1042;

as military governor of

New Orleans, La., 242,

545, 653; character of, 417;

generalship of, 78, 306,

417, 496, 641; photograph

of, 541; see also Port

Hudson Campaign; Red

River Campaigns (1863

and 1864); Shenandoah

Valley Campaign (1862)

Barbee, James Dodson, 43

Barbour, Francis, 913

Barbour, Lucian, 44

Barbour, Mary Alice, 44

Baringer, William E., 967

Barkley, John, 232

Barksdale, William: death of,

1030

Barling, H. A. (Mrs.), 584

Barlow, Francis C, 582

Barnard, John G., 571; photograph of, 938

Barnes, Charles M., 347

Barnes, James, 45

Barnes, Samuel Denham, 46

Barney, Elisha L.: death of,

652

Barnhill, R. L.: inventory of

personal effects, 610

299
Barnwell, Robert Woodward,

47

Barracks: portable, 622

Barritt, Jasper N., 48

Barron, Wesley, 49

Barrow, R. R., 719

Barry, William F., 466, 939

Barstow, Wilson, 50

Bartlett, Ezra, 52

Bartlett, Joseph Jackson, 51

Bartlett family, 52

Bartly, Reuben, 644

Barton, Chauncey E., 53

Barton, Clara Harlowe, 54,

211

Barton, Seth M., 55

Barton-Jenifer families, 55

Bat (blockade runner), 222

Batchelder, John Davis, 56

Bate, William B., 789, 997

Bate, William R., 59

Bateman, Francis Marion, 57

Bates, Edward, 58, 285, 546

Baton Rouge, La.: burning of

State House at, 685; photograph of State House, 725;

Federal camps at, 123;

seizure of Federal arsenal

at, 105, 507

Battery Douglass, 821

Battery Wagner; see Fort

Wagner, S.C.

Battle of Aquia Creek, Va.,

59

Battle of Cedar Creek, Va.,

60

"The Battle of Gettysburg as

Seen from Little Round

Top," 777

"Battle of Hartsville," 405

Battle of Thompson's Station,

Tenn., 61

Battles, lists of, 846

Battles and Leaders of the Civil

War (1888), 698

Baughman, J. M., 372

Baxter, Henry: sketch of, 758

Baxter, Sidney S., 438

Bayard, Thomas Francis, 62

Bayou Boeuf, La.: skirmish

along, 179

Bayou Des Allemands, La.:

skirmish at, 137; military

operations near, 719

Bealeton Station, Va.: sketch

of, 758

Beall, R. L. T., 991

Beard, Daniel Carter, 63

Beard, Harry, 63

Beard, Richard, 64

Bearden, R. M., 911

Beardslee, Lester Anthony, 65

Beatty (C.S.S.), 109

Beaufort, N.C.: Siege of, 388;

Battle of, 523; letters

written from, 1

Beaufort, S.C: Siege of, 590,

675; occupation and

plunder of, 784; mentioned, 815

Beauregard, Pierre Gustave

Toutant, 66; correspondence of, 21, 82,

143, 189, 212, 238, 272,

392, 409, 467, 557, 718-19,

817, 872, 913, 973, 1017,

1021; generalship of, 596;

plan for defense of New

Orleans, 719; resignation

and removal rumored, 613;

description of, 894; sketch

of, 672; photographs of,

533, 599; mentioned, 735

Beck, R. B., 175

Beckwith, W. W., 67

Bedford, Wimer, 68

Bedlam, William H.: photograph of, 1041

Bee, Barnard Elliott: death of,

174

300
Beedle, William H., 69

Beetham, Asa, 70

Belger, James: court-martial

of, 440

Belgium: Confederate agents

in, 189

Belknap, George Eugene, 71

Belknap, J. H., 237

Bell, George, 72

Bell, Henry Haywood, 73, 739,

800

Belle Alliance plantation, La.,

517

Belle Isle Military Prison, 184,

284, 1020; sketch of, 758

Bellows, Henry Whitney, 74,

126

Belmont, August, 75

Belmont, Mo.: report on

skirmish near, 730; attack

on Confederate batteries

at, 313

Benham, Henry Washington:

correspondence of, 76, 437;

generalship of, 591,

736; photograph of, 938

Benham-McNeil families, 76

Benjamin, Judah Philip, 77;

correspondence of, 189,

283, 306, 409, 443, 557,

• 608, 718-19, 778, 789, 807,

833; instructions to James

Mason, 608; publications

of, 535; mentioned, 454;

see also State Department

Bennett, James Gordon, 78

Bennett, James Gordon, Jr., 78

Benson, Charles E., 680

Benton, Thomas Hart, Jr., 91

Benton Barracks, Mo., 891

Bentonville, N.C., Battle of,

483

Bermuda Hundred, Va.: sketch

of, 365; mentioned, 645

Berry, Albert S., 841

Berry, John D., 478

Berwick Bay, La., 992

Bethesda Church, Battle of,

820

Bethesda Church, Va.: sketch

of, 758

Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah,

79

Bickerdyke, Mary Ann Ball,

80

Bickmore, Albert S., 1

Biddle family, 81

Bienville (C.S.S.), 438

Big Bethel, Va.: Federal

maneuvers against, 428

Big Black River, Miss.: list

of Confederate warships

on, 734

Bigelow, John, 82

Bikle, Philip Melanchton,

83

Billings, Luther Guiteau, 84

Binckley, John Milton, 85

Biographies (manuscript), 148,

155, 209

Biological warfare: plan to

infect Federal troops in

New Orleans with yellow

fever, 719

Bird, Mr., 458

Birney, David B.: correspondence of, 921; death of,

861

Birney, William, 879

Bixby, Lydia: letter from

President Lincoln, 792;

remarks on, 823

Black, Jeremiah Sullivan, 87

Black, W. H., 864

Black Hawk (U.S.S.), 251;

photograph of, 725

Black History Miscellany, 86

Black troops: (U.S. Colored

Cavalry) 1st, 86; 6th, 979;

301
(U.S. Colored Infantry)

2d, 86; 4th, 311, 1054;

5th, 311; 6th, 311; 14th,

86, 205; 17th, 838-39; 21st

(formerly the 3d South

Carolina Infantry of

African Descent), 421;

27th, 590; 28th, 781; 32d,

474; 33d (formerly the 1st

South Carolina Infantry of

African Descent), 421;

36th, 311; 38th, 311; 39th,

311; 51st, 152; 54th, 311;

64th (formerly the 7th

Louisiana Infantry of

African Descent), 46; 73d,

748; 81st, 371; Philadelphia City Troop, 646;

Zouaves de Afrique (Collis'

Independent Company),

185; petitions for

command of, 610, 736;

assignment of officers to,

582; organization of, 63,

600, 610, 636, 685, 736,

957; recruitment of, 84,

257, 636, 641, 892, 957,

1054; training of, 306, 748;

attitude of white U.S.

Army officers toward, 63,

^148, 462, 558, 975; provision for widows and

children of, 96; certificates of enlistment for, 86;

discipline of, 647, 650,

972, 992; performance and

courage of, 46, 63, 84, 207,

246, 306, 309, 360, 391,

491, 641, 725, 748, 784,

838, 892, 904, 975, 992,

1054; service of, 391, 436,

648, 685, 725, 736, 748,

804, 869, 899, 904; observations on, 365, 671, 748,

864, 867, 970, 1034; photographs of, 311; treatment

as prisoners of war, 392;

treatment of Confederate

prisoners of war, 234; Confederate plans for the use

of, 470

Blackman, Homer, 88

Blackman, John P., 88

Blacks: life of, 44, 186, 197,

300, 421, 426, 478, 500,

526, 539, 558, 561, 566,

600, 612, 636, 641, 666,

680, 686, 725, 736, 766,

784, 804, 816, 869, 886,

888, 892, 970, 972, 978,

1026; unrest among, 973;

abduction of, 957; as

refugees (contrabands),

365, 582, 605, 666, 718,

733, 758, 896-97; attitude

of Federal soldiers toward,

946, 1026, 1063; treatment

and use by Federal

soldiers, 103, 148, 195,

249, 264, 274, 434, 582,

600, 605, 666-67, 759, 784,

816, 850, 869, 896, 950,

978; treatment and use by

Confederate soldiers, 143,

159, 473, 1014; assisting

escaped Federal prisoners

of war, 197, 217; personal

attitudes toward the war,

439, 599, 816, 980; impressed to work on fortifications, 86, 473, 598,

718, 743, 773, 1014, 1054;

complaints against by

southern planters, 332;

conscription of, 360; interest of American Medical Association in, 815;

observations on, 33, 355,

965; problems and suffering of, 39, 279, 331, 356,

302
936, 957; treatment of free

blacks, 140; sketches of,

758; U.S. Government

policy toward, 34, 825;

U.S. citizenship for, 81;

see also Black troops;

Freedmen; Slavery

Blaine, James Gillespie, 89,

167

Blair, Charles H., 827

Blair, Francis Preston, 90-91,

554, 820, 850

Blair, Montgomery, 91, 319,

546, 820

Blair family, 91

Blake, Charles Follen, 92, 366

Blake, Homer C, 788

Bledsoe, Albert, 43

Blenker, Louis, 461

Blind River, La., 360

Bliss, Alexander, 41

Blockade, 45, 70, 132, 354,

358, 566, 606, 608, 822,

842; effects of, 75, 250;

legality of, 268, 285, 564;

problems with Great

Britain over, 608, 642,

747; squadrons, 3, 13, 30,

65, 70, 84, 92, 105, 121,

156, 158, 183, 229, 251,

262, 293, 373, 407, 451,

505, 513, 535, 561, 635,

686-87, 764, 784, 796, 800,

811, 832, 858,867, 927,

1028; see also North

Atlantic Blockading

Squadron; South Atlantic

Blockading Squadron; Gulf

Blockading Squadron;

East Gulf Blockading

Squadron; West Gulf

Blockading Squadron;

European Squadron

Blockade running, 45, 222,

358, 365, 373, 606, 1014,

1034; vessels, 283, 358,

373, 763, 796, 842, 889;

tactics, 157; captured

vessels, 388, 763, 842;

see also Prize

vessels

Blood, Henry Boyden, 93

Bloody Angle, 341

Bloomfield, Alpheus S., 94

Blow, Henry Taylor, 832

Blue Springs, Tenn.: skirmish

at, 264

Blunt, James G., 471

Blyth, Jonathan, 478

Board of Home Missions, 815

Board of War: (U.S.) proceedings of (1862), 896

"Boat Signals. U.S. Sloop-ofWar Marion. Gulf Blockading Squadron," 505

Bolivar Heights, Md.: abandonment of Federal supplies at, 351; skirmish at,

990

Bonds; see Confederate

States Government

Bonham, Milledge Luke, 66; as

Governor of South

Carolina, 718

Booth, Edwin: photograph

of, 1064

Booth, John Wilkes: letter of,

413; escape of, 95; death

of, 947; identification

of body of, 615; comments

on, 658; photograph of,

413, 1064; mentioned, 650

Booth, Junius Brutus, and

family, 95

Booth, Lionel F., 96

Booth, Mrs. Lionel F., 96

Border, District of the: (U.S.

Army) 290

Border Regiment; see Texas

troops

303
Boston, Mass., 823, 844,

1058

Boteler, Alexander, 116, 475

Botts, John M., 101

Bounties (U.S.) enlistment,

20, 115, 203, 237, 355,

746, 847, 1016;

subscriptions for, 590

Bounty brokers, 746

Bourland, James A., 97

Bourne, William Oland, 98

Boutte Station, La.: skirmish

at, 137

Bowen, Nicholas, 41

Bower, Clark, 204

Bowling Green, Ky.: topographical sketch of, 820

Boyce, Charles H., 99

Boyce, James Petigru, 100

Boyd, Belle, 101

Boyd, Crosby Noyes, 101

Boyers, Jacob, 795

Boyle, Francis A., 899

Boyle, Jeremiah T., 113

Boyle, William, 102

Bradbury, William H., 103

Bradford, J. O., 907

Bradford, Joshua Taylor, 104

Bragg, Braxton, 105; correspondence of, 66, 730, 846,

870, 973; plan of attack

on Franklin, Tenn., 870;

problems with war correspondents, 761; reports

on Battle of Chickamauga,

870; capture of Col. John

T. Wilder, 888; generalship of, 143; engraved

portrait of, 1034; invasion

of Kentucky, 473, 605,

703, 782

Branch, Lawrence O'Bryan,

532

Brandy Station, Va.,

711, 958, 1009

Brannigan, Felix, 106

Brashear City, La., 17

Brayman, Mason, 107

Brazil; see Bahia Harbor

Breckinridge, John Cabell:

correspondence of, 411,

532, 973, 1021; movements

in Virginia and Maryland,

681

Breckinridge, Joseph Cabell,

108

Breckinridge, William

Campbell Preston, 108

Breckinridge family, 108

"Breckenridge & Union," 134

Breese, Samuel Livingston,

183, 739

Brent, Joseph Lancaster, 109

"Brevet Major General David

McMurtrie Gregg," 377

Brewer, David L., 110

Brewster, Benjamin, 546

Brewster, William R., 711

"A Brief Reminiscence of the

First Inauguration of

Abraham Lincoln," 1032

Briggs, E. B., Ill

Brinckle, John Rumsey, 112

Brisbin, James S., 979

Bristoe Station, Va.,

Battle of, 419, 554

Bristow, Benjamin Helm, 113

Brock House Hospital, Richmond, Va., 200

Bromwell, Henry Pelham

Holmes, 114

Bronson, Theodore B., 115

Brooke, Samuel, 85

Brooklyn (U.S.S.), 293; at

Battle of Mobile Bay, 92

Brooklyn Navy Yard, 451

Brooks, S. P., 321

Brooks, William Elizabeth, 116

Brophy, John P., 101

Brown, Campbell, 143

304
Brown, Edgar F., 117

Brown, J. Thompson, 870

Brown, John, 226, 438, 940

Brown, Joseph B., 471

Brown, Joseph Emerson,

118;letters to

as Governor of Georgia,

234, 594

Brown, Lewis Kirk, 119

Brown, S. H., 478

Brown, Thomas J., 120

Browne, F. W., 86

Browne, George W., 121

Browne, John Mills, 122

Browne, William M., 608

Browning, Silas W., 123

Browning, Moore and Company (slave traders), 168

Brownlow, William Gannaway,

101, 124

Brownson, Orestes Augustus,

125

Brownsville, Tex.: skirmish

near, 347

Bruce, L. D., 113

Bryan, Thomas Barbour, 126

Bryan, Wilhelmus Bogart, 127

Buchanan, David, 361

Buchanan, James: correspondence of, 268, 507; Cabinet

crisis of December 1860,

1001; defends action on

Fort Moultrie, 87

Buckner, James F., 128

Buckner, Simon B.: letter of,

563; portrait of, 192

Bucks County, Pa., 1053

Budd, W. N., 128

Buell, C. C: essay by, 411

Buell, Don Carlos: correspondence of, 215, 387, 571,

782, 850; occupies Nashville, 782; removal and

reinstatement of, 782;

generalship, 759, 996;

resignation, 575, 782

Buena Vista Artillery (U.S.

Army), 539

Buford, Charles, 128

Buford, John: letter of, 913;

reaction to death of, 436

Buford, Louis M., 128

Bull Run, Battle of; see

First Manassas, Battle of

Bulloch, James D., 454, 608

Bullock, Irvine S., 129

Bull's Bay, S.C.: Federal

expedition to, 373

Bunker Hill, W. Va.:

skirmish at, 419

Buntline, Ned; see Judson,

Edward Zane Carroll

Burbank, Sidney, 130

Burbank—Van Voorhis family,

130

Burbridge, Stephen G.:

generalship of, 491

Burch, Samuel, 131

Burials: agreement for

interment of bodies of

Federal soldiers, 809

Burke's Station, Va.: sketch of,

758

Burlingame, Anson, 132

Burlingame, Edward L., 132

"The Burning of Columbia,"

497

Burnside, Ambrose Everett:

expedition to North

Carolina, 71, 84,

183, 227, 264,

354, 388, 425, 429,

523, 586, 606, 675,

686, 694, 789, 796,

822, 940; correspondence

of, 326, 346, 403, 437,

466, 571, 825, 850, 992;

character of, 417; published photograph of, 938;

sketch of, 758; generalship

305
of, 417, 420, 495; relationship with Gens. H. W.

Halleck, G. B. McClellan,

and W. S. Rosecrans, 523;

mentioned, 566, 622, 996;

see also Fredericksburg

Campaign; Knoxville

Campaign

Burt, Andrew Sheridan, 133

Burt, Elizabeth Johnston

Reynolds, 133

Burwell, William MacCreary,

134

Bush, T. J., 782

Butler, Benjamin Franklin,

135; correspondence

of, 91, 896, 931; preparation for expedition against

New Orleans, La., 304;

capture of New Orleans,

1001; as military governor

of New Orleans, 234, 242,

545, 694; Confederate

reaction to policies of,

596; Petersburg

Campaign, 211, 1036;

Fort Fisher expedition,

157, 311, 346; advance on

Richmond, Va., 365;

service of black troops

under command of, 436;

meeting with President

Lincoln, 626; generalship

of, 306, 495, 641, 737, 822;

investigation of, 482; mentioned, 369, 858

Butler, Charles, 136

Butler, Robert Ormond, 137

Butler, W. P., 138

Butterfield, Daniel, 139;

correspondence of, 671,

847; mentioned, 33, 103

Caddo Parish, La., 520

Cadwalader, George, 467

Cadwallader, Sylvanus, 78,

140

Cain, James, 598

Cairo (U.S.S.): sinking of, 832

Cairo, Military District of:

headquarters records, 364

Cairo, 111.: fortifications at, 76

Caldwell, John Curtis, 629

Calhoun, John A., 789

California troops: First Infantry

Regiment, 396; Second

Infantry Regiment, 182;

mentioned, 435

Calkins, Hiram, 78

Cameron, Simon, 141-42;

correspondence of, 21, 167,

319, 524, 571, 679, 756,

825, 847, 896, 913, 1064;

reviewing troops, 819

Camp Benton, Mo.: view of, 136

Camp Blair, Mich., 696

Camp Chase, Ohio: military

training at, 204; political

prisoners at, 961; prisoners

of war at, 239, 563

Camp Curtin, Pa., 592

Camp Dennison, Ohio, 107

Camp Distribution, Md., 282

Camp Douglas, 111.: prisoners of

war at, 128, 368, 952, 1031

Camp followers, 605

Camp Ford, Tex., 179

Camp Hamilton, Va., 260

Camp Hunt, Va., 1012

Camp Jim Walker, Va., 705

Camp life: (C.S. Army) 23, 27,

85, 159, 365, 383, 386, 412,

419, 452-53, 472-73, 488,

554, 567, 598,614, 637, 894,

901,1014,1021,1058; (U.S.

Army) 20, 36, 61, 63, 94,

99, 103, 106, 133, 140, 148,

179, 184-85, 188, 195, 264,

274, 279, 284, 297, 299,

309, 311, 314, 317-18, 325,

306
331, 335, 351-53, 355, 357,

359-60, 391, 396-97, 410,

415-16, 421-22, 426-27, 429,

434, 436,439, 442, 449, 455,

462,476,478,481,483,491,

495, 500, 522, 526, 529, 534,

539, 542, 544,558, 578, 586,

592, 605, 618, 640-41,

645-46, 650, 654, 659,

666-67, 680, 685, 687,

702-703, 705, 709, 717, 736,

741, 746, 748, 758-60, 766,

772, 776, 782, 793-94, SOSSOS, 816, 844, 855, 869, 886,

888, 892, 903, 907, 938, 946,

975-76, 982, 1000, 1009,

1022, 1026-27, 1029-30,

1038, 1042, 1053, 1063

Camp Lincoln, Va., 998

Camp Meigs, 257

Camp Morton, Ind.: prisoners of

war at, 239

Camp Oglethorpe; see

Oglethorpe Military Prison

Camp Peoria, 111., 146

Camp Russell, Va., 382

Camp Stone, Md., 579

Camp Sutton, Va., 172

Camp Utley, Wis., 579

"The Campaign of Wilson's

Cavalry Corps Through

Alabama and Georgia," 526

Campbell, George Washington,

143

Campbell, Given, 144

Campbell, John Allen, 820

Campbell, John Archibald, 189,

221, 411

Campbell County, Ky., 925

Campbell's Station, Tenn.:

engagement at, 264

Canada: Confederate agents in,

954; planned Confederate

clandestine activities in,

306; alleged Confederate

forces in, 747

Canadian Peace Commission,

370

Canandaigua (U.S.S.), 764

Canby, Edward Richard Sprigg:

letter of, 957; military

governor of New Orleans,

14, 41, 263; generalship of,

641, 659

Cannon, E. G. (Mrs.), 145

Cannon, William R., 145

Canton Zouaves, 519

Cape Girardeau, Mo., 852

Cape Hatteras, N.C.: landing of

Federal troops at, 586;

military affairs at, 601

Caperton, Allen Taylor, 303

Capron, Albert B., 146

Capron, Horace, 146

Capron, Horace, Jr.: death of,

146

Cardwell, Charles W., 147

Carlisle, J. Mandeville, 564

Carlton, Caleb Henry, 148

Carman, Ezra Ayers, 149

Carmer, Charles R., 654

Carnegie, Andrew, 150

Carolinas Campaign, 20, 43,

195, 300, 439, 483, 497, 552,

558,618,631,709,729,733,

803, 805, 851, 886, 1000,

1055

Carondelet (U.S.S.), 565

Carpenter, S. M., 78

Carr, Eugene A., 850

Carrington—McDowell families,

151

Carrion Crow Bayou, La.:

skirmish at, 491

Carroll, Samuel Sprigg, 399

Carroll, William H., 409

Carrollton, La.: Federal camps

at, 17

Carruthers, George North, 152

Carson, Caroline Petigru, 714

307
Carson, Christopher, 153

Carter, George W., 973

Carter, John C, 154

Carter, Samuel Powhatan, 155

Carter, William H., 567

Cartographers, 452; see also

Engineers; Maps and

sketches

Cartter, David Kellogg, 156

Cartter, William, 156

Cartter family, 156

Cary, Clarence, 157, 411

Cary, Constance, 411

Casey, Silas, 158, 913

Cash, Thomas M., 78

Casualties: (C.S. Army) 23,159,

168,189, 332,386, 392, 443,

452,465, 473, 525, 560, 619,

637, 657, 677, 726, 733, 778,

797,859,875,982,987,991,

1021, 1023, 1058; (U.S.

Army) 63, 69, 99, 175, 185,

188,198, 207-208, 249, 270,

297,314,317,360,367,422,

428-29, 433, 436, 442,

448-49, 462, 480, 491, 496,

500, 508, 519, 526, 534, 544,

551-52, 558, 586, 589, 605,

610, 617-18, 626, 631, 640,

652,667,678,685,687,703,

709, 715, 717, 725, 729, 736,

741, 748, 758-60, 766, 773,

781-82, 793, 804-805, 834,

838, 869, 884, 892, 906, 908,

921, 938, 946, 962, 965, 972,

989, 992, 1009, 1016, 1026,

1037-38, 1053, 1055, 1060,

1063; efforts to locate, 626;

lists of, 692; notification of

families of, 626; return of

bodies of deceased U.S.

soldiers, 1053; burial of

deceased U.S. soldiers, 809;

(U.S. Navy) 451, 565, 606,

635, 811; (C.S. Navy) 875

Cater, Douglas J. and Rufus W.,

159

Catskill (U.S.S.), 3; repair of,

570; mentioned, 822

Cattell, James McKeen, 160

Cattell, W. C, 160

Catton, Bruce, 255

"The Cause and Origin of the

War Between the North and

the South," 761

Causten, James H., and John T.

and Theodore Pickett, 161

Cavalry: (C.S. Army) 108, 138,

206,239,261,499,525,563,

599, 657, 837, 923;

movements of, 914; stealing

horses for, 261; see also

Ashby, Turner; Hampton,

Wade; Hood, John Bell;

Morgan, John H.; Mosby,

John S.; Robertson, Beverly

H.; Stuart, J. E. B. (U.S.

Army) 86, 146, 156, 177,

225, 269, 299, 352, 371, 377,

433,436,448,460, 466, 469,

478, 578, 639, 661, 664,667,

695, 698, 727, 731, 741, 759,

813, 843, 862, 903, 913-14,

921, 943, 979, 988, 1037,

1046,1049; see also Custer,

George A.; Gregg, David M.;

Kilpatrick, Judson; Merritt,

Wesley; Pleasonton, Alfred;

Sheridan, Philip H.;

Stoneman, George; Wilson,

James H.

Cavalry Bureau: (U.S.) 495

Cayuga (U.S.S.), 13, 30

Cedar Creek, Va., Battle of, 173,

436, 494, 500, 542, 558, 715;

role of the 8th Vermont

Infantry in, 758; see also

Battle of Cedar Creek, Va.

Cedar Mountain, Va., Battle of,

42, 99, 417, 556, 859

308
Cemeteries (military): descriptions of, 369; reports and

records concerning, 964

Centennial History of the Civil

War (1961-65): notes and

bibliography for, 255

Central Park Hospital, New

York City, 98

Central Sanitary Fair, Philadelphia, Pa., 969

Centreville, Va.: skirmish near,

705

Chamberlain, C. N., 962

Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence,

162

Chamberlin, J., 714

Chambers, David, 381, 538

Chambers, Washington Irving,

163

Chambrun, Charles Adolphe de

Pineton, Marquis de, 164

Champion's Hill, Miss., Battle

of, 491, 1020

Chancellorsville, Battle of, 556,

578, 618, 748, 825; see also

Chancellorsville Campaign

Chancellorsville Campaign, 18,

20,41,44,82,116,130,181,

249, 284, 331, 351-52, 377,

419, 442, 466, 526, 687, 695,

699, 727, 778, 793, 938, 991,

1009, 1016, 1021, 1038;

sketch of, 249

Chandler, Arthur Chelton, 165

Chandler, William Eaton, 91,

166

Chandler, Zachariah, 167

Chaplains: (C.S. Army) 598;

(U.S. Army) 16, 37-38, 98,

116,269,314,578,610,626,

700, 715, 759, 815, 864, 942,

944,1024; appointment and

promotion of, 864; dismissal

of, 944; establishing evangelical ministry for soldiers,

37; response of soldiers to,

942; duties of, 578

"A Chaplain's Life in the Civil

War," 715

Chaplin, James C, 373

Chaplin Hills; see Perryville,

Ky., Battle of

Charleston (C.S.S.): Marine

guard on, 841

Charleston, S.C.: Admiral Du

Pont's attack on, 173;

attitude of noncombatants

in, 394, 575; bombardment

of, 575, 599, 808; defense of,

66, 171, 560, 789, 991;

depredations in, 599; events

in, 358; occupation of, 306;

Federal prisoners of war in,

84, 764; Siege of, 590;

capture of, 575; burning of,

575; mentioned, 1052

Charleston College, S.C., 344

Charleston Harbor, S.C.: blockade of, 92, 306, 354, 373,

599; defense of, 218; floating

battery in, 218; sketch of,

784; see also Charleston,

S.C.

Charles Town, W. Va.: occupation of, 99, 599, 748

Charter Oaks Regiment, 198

Chase, Cornelius, 168

Chase, Cornelius Thruston, 168

Chase, Salmon Portland, 169,

701; correspondence of, 75,

242, 272, 430, 546, 825, 850;

comments on, 924; photograph of, 541

Chattahoochee River: skirmish

at, 195; Federal strategy at,

518; see also Atlanta

Campaign

Chattanooga (U.S.S.), 232

Chattanooga, Battle of, 878; see

also Chattanooga

309
Campaign

Chattanooga, Tenn., 205, 240,

414, 684, 877, 944

Chattanooga Campaign, 80, 94,

105,116,133,174, 207, 473,

539,578,605,703,846,850,

953, 1021, 1037-38, 1060,

1063; tactics in, 187

Chauncey, John S., 606

Cheat Mountain, W. Va.:

Confederate reconnaissance

expedition to, 560; military

operations near, 467

Cherokee (blockade runner):

capture of, 763

Cherokee Nation frontier:

operations along, 97

Chesapeake Military Hospital,

880

Chesley, James A., 170

Chesnut, James, 171

Chicago, 111.: Confederate spies

in, 535

Chicago, University of: thesis on

James Longstreet, 810

Chicago Soldiers Home, 126

Chicago Tribune, 103

Chickamauga (C.S.S.), 157, 222,

649

Chickamauga, Battle of, 143,

449, 575, 578, 703; Bragg's

reports on, 870; sketch of

battlefield, 979; mentioned,

928; see also Chickamauga

Campaign

Chickamauga Campaign, 148,

207, 473, 605, 736, 846,

1021, 1037, 1063; sketches

of troop positions in, 148

Chickasaw Bayou; see Chickasaw Bluffs, Battle of

Chickasaw Bluffs, Battle of, 91,

175, 290, 648, 760

Childs, A. Grant, 960

Chile: offers loan to C.S. Govern310

ment, 662; outfits Confederate privateers, 662;

U.S. Minister to, 662

China: U.S. consul in, 11

Chittenden Union Zouaves of

Louisville, Ky., 405

Choate, Joseph Hodges, 172

Chocura (U.S.S.), 343; list of

officers and crew of, 545;

list of vessels captured by,

545

Christensen, Christian T., 992

Christy, R. C, 944

The Chronicles of America, 902

Church, William Conant, 173

Churchill, Mendal, 845

Cincinnati, Ohio: provost

marshal in, 511; support for

war effort by citizens of,

323; war related activities

in, 133; mentioned, 281

Cincinnati Gazette, 762

Ciphers, 403, 661, 768

Circassian (U.S.S.), 13

"Circle of the Irish Brigade," 335

City of Madison (U.S. transport):

explosion on, 279

City Point, Va.: attack on Confederate batteries near, 783;

sketch of, 365; mentioned,

589

Civil War: causes of, 86; nature

and purpose of, 691; legality

of, 268; northern attitudes

toward, 219, 770, 1026,

1055; southern attitudes

toward, 321, 566-67, 657,

724, 856, 864, 991; preparations for, 901; British reaction to, 444, 642; conduct of,

1042, 1059; political effects

of, 569, 851; economic effects

of, 312, 383, 435, 439, 569,

614, 622, 655, 793; social

effects of, 312, 569; progress
of, 85,411-12, 416,596, 646,

668,693,714,716,719,778,

793, 808, 812, 925, 939, 944,

950, 957, 979, 993, 996,

1053, 1064; historical notes

and writings on, 120, 149,

443, 452, 569, 752, 771, 902,

924

"Civil War Frogman," 999

"Civil War of 1861. The Union

Cause in Kentucky," 405

Claiborne, John Francis Hamtrack, 174, 1021

Claiborne, Willis H., 174

"Claims for the hire & value of

Western Rivers Steamboats

& Barges," 41

Clapp, Dexter E., 864

Clarence (C.S.S.): list of vessels

captured by, 265

Clark, Henry Toole: letter to as

Governor of North Carolina,

1044

Clark, Mrs. Douglas W., 175

Clark, Richard H., 472

Clark County, Va.: casualties

among volunteers from, 619

Clay, Cassius Marcellus, 176

Clay, Clement Claiborne, 189,

716, 1021

Clay family, 176

Cleveland, Grover, 177

Clinton, DeWitt, 41

Clopton, William I., 870

Clover (U.S.S.), 635

Clowry, Robert Charles, 178

Clute brothers of Schenectady,

N.Y., 1050

Clymer, George, 3

Cobb, Howell, 66

Cobb County, Ga.: map of, 751

Cochran, William, 208

Cochran, William C, 209

Cochrane, John, 913

Cocke, C. C, 532

Codes; see Ciphers; Signal

communications

Codet, Edwin, 441

Coe, E. F., 179

Coe, William P., 179

Coffee, Alexander Donelson,

180

Coffee, George, 182

Coffee, John, 181

Coffee, William, 182

Colburn, Parly, 855

Colburn, S., 933

Cold Harbor, Va., Battle of

(1862); see Gaines Mill,

Battle of

Cold Harbor, Va., Battle of

(1864), 25, 112,203, 353,

419, 452, 526, 554; tactics

in, 187

Cold Harbor Campaign, 309,

352, 436, 453, 500, 523, 667,

699, 715, 758, 793, 806, 869,

938, 1037

Colfax, Schuyler: correspondence of, 546; photograph of,

541

Colhoun, Edmund Ross, 183

Collin, William M., 184

Collis, Charles Henry Tucky,

185

Collis' Independent Company,

Zouaves de Afrique, 185

"Colonel Jesse A. Gove, U.S.A.,"

359

Colorado (U.S.S.), 451, 907

Colorado troops: (U.S. Army)

2d Cavalry Regiment, 661

Colston, Raleigh E., 272

Columbia, Ky.: John Hunt

Morgan's raid on, 703

Columbia, S.C.: Federal

prisoners of war at, 763-64;

sketch of jail at, 763;

evacuation of, 672; burning

of, 15, 300, 344, 497

311
Columbus, Ga.: skirmish at, 636;

capture of, 352

Columbus, Ky.: defense of, 308

Colvin, Hervey A., 186

Combs, Leslie, 571

Commerce, 5, 132, 263, 380,

565, 672, 747, 778; see also

Cotton

Commissary Department: (U.S.

Army) 253, 607-608, 618,

959,1005; see also Quartermaster Department; U.S.

Army—Commissary Department; U.S. Army—

Quarter-master's Department; Supplies

Commissions: (C.S. Army) 485,

489, 656, 828; (U.S. Army)

81, 167, 184, 208, 269, 288,

310,314,346,355,371,410,

416,423,428,433, 438, 527,

578-79, 590, 631, 661, 682,

835, 863, 866, 884, 895,

903-904, 934, 946, 1029,

1061; (U.S. Navy) 122,148,

505, 611; see also Officers

Communications; see Signal

communications; Telegrams

Compendium of the War of the

Rebellion (1909), 162

"Complete Map of the March of

the 1st Brigade 1st Cavalry

Divn. Dept. of Cumberland

on the Stoneman Expedition

Through Tenn., Va., N.C.,

S.C., Geo., & Ala.," 1046

"Complete Record of the Names

of all the Soldiers and

Officers .. . in the Naval

Service of the United

States," 609

Comstock, Cyrus Ballou, 187;

correspondence of, 820

Conant, Abram F., 188

Conemaugh (U.S.S.), 858

Conestoga (U.S.S.), 784

Confederate States Army:

organization of, 27, 66,143,

189, 358, 386, 540, 594, 614,

769, 789, 856, 973, 1021;

composition of, 242; suffering in, 412, 872; faith in

ultimate victory of, 586;

illiteracy in, 586; see also

various State troops; Artillery; Cavalry; Infantry;

Casualties; Officers

Confederate States Congress:

acts and resolutions of, 189;

criticism of, 320; addressed

by President Davis, 411;

representatives, 38, 250,

273, 334, 628, 778, 950;

senators, 47, 303, 484

Confederate States Government:

organization of, 808; public

dissatisfaction with, 134;

cabinet meetings, 596; proclamations, 189; oaths of

allegiance to, 485; leadership in, 778; flight and

imprisonment of officials in,

350, 356; official correspondence and papers, 189, 461,

900; studies of, 220; see

also Justice, Navy, Post

Office, State, Treasury , and

War Departments, and

names of members of the

Confederate cabinet

Confederate States Navy:

enlistments, 23, 566; midshipmen, 157; training of

cadets, 412; tactics

employed by, 129; health

in, 200; Maryland sailors in,

875; operations along the

Georgia coast, 566; list of

warships on western waters,

734; ships' logs, 189; re312
ports, 189, 232, register of

commissioned and warrant

officers, 535; miscellaneous

affairs of, 596

Confederate States of America,

189-92; Constitution of, 189;

poem eulogizing, 110; life

in, 526, 781; public morale

in, 56, 672, 714, 719, 950,

1014; martial spirit in, 215,

242, 507; confidence of

people in, 956; political

affairs in, 125, 392, 714,

798, 808, 901, 912; economic

conditions in, 36, 123, 148,

207, 317, 351, 462, 476, 555,

599, 719; travel in, 761

Confederate States of America—

Army of Northern Virginia,

193

Confederate States of America—

Army of the Tennessee, 194

Confederate States of America

Commercial Agency, 454

Confederate States Provisional

Government, 900

Conger, Lewis, 189

Congleton, James A., 195

Congress (U.S.S.): destruction

of, 842; see also MonitorMerrimac affair

Congressional Assassination

Investigation Committee:

report of, 528; see also

Lincoln assassination

Conkling, Roscoe, 196

Conley, Isaiah, 197

Connecticut, 198; wartime

activities of shipbuilders

and merchants in, 694; recruiting in, 112

Connecticut Infantry, 199

Connecticut troops: (artillery)

1st Regiment Heavy Artillery, 16; 2d Regiment

Heavy Artillery, 715; 2d

Battery Light Artillery,

357; (infantry) 5th, 618,

923,1013; 7th, 36; 12th, 198,

641; 13th, 641, 892; 17th,

199; 19th, 715; 25th, 685;

28th, 17; 29th, 590; miscellaneous returns and records,

892, 923

Connolly, James A., 114

Conrad, Daniel B., 200

Conrad, Joseph, 845

Conscription: (C.S. Army) 171,

197,242,452,520,729,755,

856, 883, 977, 1023; of

foreign citizens, 977; effect

of in Georgia, 901; examination of conscripts, 670;

certificates of exemption,

138, 303, 567; (U.S. Army)

36, 140, 169, 214, 387, 522,

558, 717, 850, 913; conscription of blacks, 360;

legislation concerning in

New York, 756; response to

in New York and Michigan,

124; resistance to, 641;

profiteering from, 36;

applications for exemption,

665; exemption certificates,

665; securing of substitutes,

140

"Consolidated Report of Cavalry

Serving in the Military

District of the Mississippi,"

1037

Constellation (U.S.S.), 92

Continental (U.S.S.), 587

Contrabands: sketches of, 758;

see also Blacks; Slavery

Convalescents; see Hospitals;

Medical care; Medical

Department

Cook, George P., 201

Cook, M. Leroy, 114

313
Cook, T. M., 78

Cook, William, 1019

Cooke, John Esten, 202

Coon, A. F., 208

Coon, David, 203

Cooper, Samuel, 21, 66,181, 789

Cooper, Thomas B., 220

Cope, John, 204

Cope, Samuel, 204

Copeland, Elizabeth: certificate

of loyalty to U.S. Government, 278

Corbin, Henry Clark, 205

Corcoran, Michael: petition for

exchange of, 430

Corduroy bridges and roads:

photographs of, 938

Corinth, Miss., Battle of, 68

Corinth, Miss., Siege of, 1020

Corinth Campaigns, 66, 94,

104-105,159,274,300,367,

378, 392, 455, 473, 539, 552,

554, 575, 782, 804, 847, 850,

908, 942, 953, 973, 1026

Cornell University: copies of

documents at, 40

Cornwell, John J., 373

Cotton, Charles Stanhope, 206

Cotton, Josiah Dexter, 207

Cotton: Federal seizure and sale

of, 343,482,591; speculation

in by Federal officers, 804;

demands for, 75, 358

Couch, Darius N., 895, 913

Counterfeiting; see Paper

currency

Court of St. James; see Great

Britain; Adams, Charles

Francis; State Department

Courts-martial: (U.S. Army) 62,

205,396,410, 526, 552, 664,

735, 738, 813, 820, 921,

1038; (U.S. Navy) 561, 635,

832, 1028; see also Porter,

Fitz-John; Selfridge,

Thomas O.

Covington, Ky.: defenses of, 511,

534

Covode, George H., 208

Covode, Jacob, 208

Covode, John, 208

Cox, George K., 1060

Cox, Jacob Dolson, 209, 820

Cox, John D., 845

Cox, Oliver, 210

Cox, Thomas C, 629

Coyle, John, 954

Coyle, John F., 620

Cramer, N. J., 864

Crane, Charles H., 471

Crany Island, Va.: defense of,

743

Craven, John Joseph, 211

Craven, Thomas T., 254

Craven County, N.C., 1055

Crawford, Mr., 945

Crawford, Martin J., 718

Crawford, Samuel Wylie, 212;

generalship of, 99, 173

Crawford, William, 38

Crawfordsville, Ind., 985

Creamer, David, 213

Crehore, Charles Frederic, 962

Cresswell, John Angel James,

214

Crittenden, George Bibb, 350

Crittenden, John Jordan, 215,

996

Crittenden, Thomas Leonidas,

996

Crittenden Compromise, 215

Crittenden Union Zouaves of

Louisville, Ky., 405

Croffut, William Augustus,

216

Crook, George: capture of, 294

Cross Lanes, W. Va., 533

Crossly, Sylvanus, 217

The Cruise of the Kearsarge

(1888), 1041

314
Cuddy, Thomas C, 218

Culley, J. A., 219

Cullum, George Washington,

387, 563, 850

Cumberland (U.S.S.): destruction of, 606, 750, 842; see

also Monitor-Merrimac

affair

Cumberland, Army of the, 935

Cumberland, Department of,

21

Cumberland Gap, Tenn.:

capture and occupation of,

648, 702; fortification of,

155

Cumberland Township, Pa.:

volunteers from, 590

Currency; see Paper

currency; Treasury Department

Currituck (U.S.S.): escorting

U.S.S. Monitor, 842

Curry, Jabez Lamar Monroe,

220

Curtin, Andrew: reviewing

troops, 819

Curtis, Benjamin Robbins, 221

Curtis, Samuel Ryan: letter of,

850; generalship of, 820

Cushing, Caleb, 222

Cushing, Herbert B., 844

Cushing, Samuel, 660

Cushing, William B.: photograph of, 365

Cushman, Mr.: photograph of,

1041

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders,

223

Cushman, William H., 224

Custer, George Armstrong,

225, 413

Cutter, Calvin, 226, 940

Cutter, Carrie Eliza, 227

Cutter, John J., 179

Cutts, J. Madison, 228

Cutts family, 228

Dahlgren, John Adolphus

Bernard, 229-30; correspondence of, 3, 34, 173,

183, 316, 319, 373,

764, 796, 800; account of

operations off South

Carolina, 262;

mentioned, 375, 425

Dahlgren, Ulric: correspondence with Admiral

Dahlgren, 229; service of,

644, 695; death of, 695;

public reaction to death of,

436; reinterment of, 696;

photograph of, 739; see

also Kilpatrick-Dahlgren

raid on Richmond, Va.

Daily Journal-World

(Lawrence, Kans.), 379

Daily True Delta (New

Orleans, La.), 263

Dallas, A. J., 685

Dallas, Ga., Battle of, 195,

800; Federal strategy in,

518; see also Atlanta

Campaign

Dalton, Ga.: Federal strategy

at, 518; mentioned, 503,

767

Daly, Charles P., 424, 430

Dana, Charles Anderson, 231;

letters and dispatches of,

91, 847, 896, 1037

Dana, M. T., 706

Dana, Richard Henry, 472

Daniel, J. H. H., 1060

Daniels, Edwin E., 478

Daniels, Josephus, 232

Danville, Ky., 7

Danville, Va.: Federal

prisoners at, 697

Darr, Francis, 721

Daufuskie Island, S.C., 680

3 1 5
Daugherty, W. R., 372

Davenport, Henry K., 183

Davidson, John W., 685

Davis, Mr., 885

Davis, A. G., 305

Davis, Benjamin, 233

Davis, Charles Henry, 34, 183,

788

Davis, Jefferson, 66, 234, 628;

correspondence and papers

of, 43, 143, 145, 189, 212,

234, 287, 372, 392, 409,

411, 459, 472, 540, 718,

730, 789, 973; attitude of

southern people toward,

214; assassination plot,

901; reasons for appointment of General Pemberton for defense of

Vicksburg, 708; clippings

on, 266; notes and comments on, 369, 902;

criticism of, 945; problems

with Matthew F. Maury,

612; feud with General

Johnston, 596, 1021; escape

attempt, 144; description

of before capture, 473; capture of, 43, 243, 352;

health of, 472; treatment

during confinement at

Fort Monroe, 211, 524,

650; trial of, 285; postwar

bond of, 370; photograph

of, 599; engraved portrait

of, 1034; mentioned, 980

Davis, Jefferson Columbus:

death of, 886

Davis, John Chandler

Bancroft, 235

Davis, John E., 236

Davis, John L., 373

Davis, Varina Howell:

character of, 596

Dawes, Ephraim C, 845

316

Dawes, Henry Laurens, 237

Dawson, George, 189

Dawson, Henry Barton, 238

Deaderick, David Anderson,

239

Deaderick, Inslee, 239

Deaderick, Robert, 239

Deane, Charles H., 240

Dearing, James, 870

Decatur, Ala.: skirmish near,

205

Defence of Com. Charles

Wilkes, U.S.N. (1864), 832

Delafield, Louis, 41

Delafield, Richard, 779

De Leon, Edwin, 189, 241, 454

Denhurst, G. W., 508

Denison, George Stanton, 169,

242, 482

Dennett, Tyler, 243

Dennison, William, 850

Denny, George P., 508

Dent, D. M., 305

Dent, D. W., 305

Dent, Felix, 305

Dent, George, 305

Dent, James, 305

De Peyster, John Watts, 831

Depredations: (C.S. Army) 250,

312, 442, 452, 566, 733,

744, 759, 816, 857, 859,

989, 1000; (U.S. Army) 15,

20, 39, 61, 103, 131, 175,

250, 300, 312, 314, 344,

355, 367, 426, 434, 436,

480, 483, 500, 517, 523,

526, 530-31, 539, 542, 544,

552, 554, 566, 574, 598,

618, 631, 636, 641, 672,

686-87, 699, 714, 729,

733, 736, 741, 748, 760,

780, 793, 816, 857, 892,

942, 970, 978, 989, 991-92,

1009, 1016, 1023, 1026,

1029, 1036, 1038; (U.S.
Navy) 176

Desertions: (C.S. Army) 63,

143, 157, 159, 168, 220,

274, 367, 378, 386, 391,

422, 452-53, 491, 495, 532,

542, 561, 605, 631, 636,

641, 702, 733, 738, 753,

782, 803-804, 869, 894,

975, 991, 1006, 1015,

1026; action against, 532;

lists of, 422; efforts to apprehend, 753; (U.S. Army)

36, 115, 175, 179, 198,

314, 410, 429, 462, 519,

526, 715, 793, 825, 884,

892, 921, 946, 1009, 1016,

1037; lists of, 422; planned

execution for, 704; (U.S.

Navy ) 373, 606, 811

Devereaux, J. H., 67

Devoe, J. B., 535

Dewey, George, 244

DeWitt, Marcus B., 116

Dexter, J. D., 373

Diaries (includes memoirs and

reminiscences):

Abbott, Asa T., 2

Abert, Charles, 4

Allen, Charles Julius, 14

Allen, William A. H., 13

Alston, Jacob Motte, 15

Alvord, Jabez, 17

Anderson, John Emerson, 20

Barnes, Samuel Denham,

46

Bartlett, Ezra, 52

Barton, Clara Harlowe, 54

Bates, Edward, 58

Beardslee, Lester A., 65

Beck, K. B., 175

Bedford, Wimer, 68

Beedle, William H., 69

Blake, Charles F., 92

Blood, Henry B., 93

Booth, John Wilkes, 95

Boteler, Alexander R., 116

Boyle, Francis A., 899

Bradford, Joshua T., 104

Breckinridge, William

Campbell Preston, 108

Brinckle, John R., 112

Browne, George W., 121

Burbank, Sidney, 130

Campbell, Given, 144

Capron, Horace, 146

Cary, Clarence, 157

Chase, Salmon Portland,

169

Clack, Louise Babcock,

672

Collin, William M., 184

Comstock, Cyrus Ballou,

187

Conrad, Daniel, 200

Craven, Catherine, 211

Craven, John J., 211

Crawford, Samuel Wylie,

212

Crossly, Sylvanus, 217

Dahlgren, John Adolphus

Bernard, 644

DeWitt, Marcus B., 116

Dodge, Theodore A., 249

Dorman, Orloff M., 252

Downey, George D., 259

Drayton, A. L., 265

Edings, J. E., 1034

Ellsesser, Jacob L., 386

Evans, Thomas, 284

Ewing, Charles, 288

Feamster, Thomas L., 296

Fenton, Lewis R., 299

Ferguson, John Newton,

300

Ferree, Newton, 301

Fish, Wilbur, 309

Fleetwood, Christian A.,

311

Force, Manning Ferguson,

317

317
Fox, Virginia Woodbury,

1051

Frank, Jacob J., 325

Fritsch, Friedrich Otto,

331

Fuller, Joseph P., 333

Galwey, Thomas Francis,

335

Garrett, Henry A., 174

George, Harold C, 341

Gibson, S. J., 345

Giddings, George H., 347

Gilpin, E. N., 352

Gilpin, Samuel J. B. V.,

352

Godfrey, Washington

Hobbs, 999

Gorgas, Josiah, 356

Gould, William J., 357

Gove, Jesse Augustus, 359

Graham, Henry, 360

Grattan, John W., 365

Grebe, Balzar, 367

Greble, Edwin, 368

Greely, Adolphus

Washington, 371

Gregory, Mr., 375

Hall, George Washington,

386

Hallock, Isaac, 388

Hand, George O., 396

Hard, Hanson, 401

Hatton, John William Ford,

419

Heath, Charles Wesley, 427

Heintzelman, Samuel

Peter, 428

Hill, Sara Jane Full, 434

Hitchcock, Ethan Allen,

216

Hitchcock, Henry, 439, 457

Holford, Lyman C, 442

Holt, Joseph, 446

Homsher, Charles Wesley,

448

Hood, Charles Crook, 449

Hotchkiss, Jedediah, 452

Hughes, John, 464

Hume, Fannie Page, 465

Hunt, Henry Jackson, 466

Jackman, John S., 473

Jameson, Robert Edwin,

476

Johnson, E. E., 480

Johnson, John Augustine,

481

Johnson, W. C, 483

Kautz, August Valentine,

495

Kloeppel, Henry H., 513

Laird, George F., 519

Latta, James William, 526

Lee, Mary Lorrain

Greenhow, 531

Lester, Joseph, 539

Libby, Abial, 544

Lindsley, Margaret L., 751

Lockwood, Jeremiah T., 551

Lord, W. W., 555

Lowe, Thaddeus S. C, 18

Luce, Stephen Bleecker,

561

Ludwig, Edwin F., 562

Lyons, Thomas, 565

McAdoo, William Gibbs,

312

McCalla, Helen Varnum

Hill, 568

McClellan, George Brinton,

571

McCullough, Samuel

Thomas, 453

McPherson, Theodore

H. N., 592

Mallory, Stephen Russell,

596

Manigault, Louis, 599

Marshall, Daniel W., 604

Marshall, John Wesley, 605

Maury, Betty Herndon, 612

3 1 8
Mead, Rufus, 618

Meigs, Montgomery

Cunningham, 622

Merwin, James Burtis, 626

Miller, Allen Woods, 630

Miller, M., 535

Mills, Ellen Low, 558

Mitchell, Charles D., 636

Montgomery, James H., 640

Moran, Benjamin, 642

New York State Volunteers—16th Regiment,

666

Newburger, Alexander, 667

Newcomb, "Simon, 668

Niles, Peter H., 675

Nourse, Joseph E., 834

Old, William W., 681

O'Neil, Anthony Francis,

686

Osborn, Joseph Bloomfield,

687

Owner, William, 693

Parmenter, Abram Verrick,

696

Parsons, Byron, 697

Patrick, Marsena Rudolph,

699

Patton, John, 703

Paxton, James Dunlop, 704

Pendleton, Edward, 709

Phelps, Winthrop Henry,

715

Phillips, Eugenia Yates

Levy, 716

Poe, Orlando, 729

Porter, Albert Quincy, 733

Porter, David Dixon, 734

Pratt, Richard Henry, 741

Preston, John Thomas

Lewis, 743

Proctor, Wilbur Huntington, 746

Reed, Charles Wellington,

758

Reichhelm, Edward Paul,

290, 760

Reid, Samuel Chester, 761

Remey, George Collier,

763-64

Rice, David A., 772

Richardson, Charles H., 773

Ripley, Josiah W., 776

Rockwell, Almon

Ferdinand, 782

Roe, Francis Asbury, 785

Roebling, Washington A.,

735

Roedel, Josephine Forney,

786

Rose, Luther A., 793

Ruffin, Edmund, 798

St. John, Bela T., 804

Schofield, John McAllister,

820

Schurz, Carl, 825

Shankland, William F., 842

Shaver, W. T., 843

Sheridan, Philip Henry,

846

Shiner, Michael, 853

Shuler, M., 859

Smith, A. P., 666

Smith, George Boyd, 868

Smith, Howard Malcolm,

869

Smith, Oscar, 874

Smith, William Wrenshall,

878

Sowers, Isaac M., 884

Spaulding, Oliver Lyman,

886

Spencer, Lyman Potter, 888

Sprague, Homer Baxter,

892

Stevens, Hazard, 346

Suydam, Charles Crooke,

921

Swann, John S., 922

Thompson, Gilbert, 938

319
Tidball, John Caldwell, 939

Todd, Oliphant Monroe, 942

Torrey, Charles Oscar, 946

Van Cise, Edwin A., 972

Waddel, John Newton, 978

Ward, James Thomas, 989

Warren, Gouverneur

Kemble, 735

Welles, Gideon, 1006

Welton, Alfred, 453

Wheeler, John Hill, 1014

Whitten, John, 1020

Wilder, William Frank,

1026

Wiley, Harvey Washington,

1027

Wilkes, Charles, 1028

Willard, Joseph C, 1029

Willey, Henry Stevens,

1030

Wilson, Lawrence, 1038

Wood, James Rodney, 695

Woodwell, Charles H., 1055

Worthington, Colonel, 847

"Diary of a Woman During the

Siege of Vicksburg," 555

Dick, Franklin A., 245

Dickinson, Anna Elizabeth, 246

Dictator (U.S.S.): trial voyage of,

784; conditions on, 413

Diet: (C.S. Army) 23, 567, 901,

1021; (U.S. Army) 63, 103,

123,188,297,314,317,522,

618,631, 666, 685, 687, 702,

746, 758, 772, 938, 946, 958,

1009, 1027, 1030; (U.S.

Navy) 686

Dinwiddie Courthouse, Va., 102

Diplomacy; see Foreign affairs;

Benjamin, Judah P.;

Hunter, R. M. T.; Seward,

William H.; Fessenden,

William Pitt

Discharge certificates: (C.S.

Army) 189, 447, 563, 567,

827; (U.S. Army) 42,49,184,

295,311,355,416,441,509,

512, 519, 527, 559, 585, 590,

625, 805, 818, 884, 887, 946,

962, 983, 988, 1013; (U.S.

Navy) 183, 606, 635

Discharges: references to, 115,

519, 768; orders concerning,

768; petition for, 474

Discipline: (C.S. Army) 453,

473, 614, 733, 743-44, 859,

894,1015,1023; (U.S. Army)

20, 38, 63, 91, 94, 99, 123,

133, 148, 185, 214, 249,

299-300, 317,351,355, 359,

367,391,410,422,426,436,

442,449,460,462, 478, 480,

500, 523, 526, 535, 542, 631,

640-41, 687, 699, 703, 715,

717, 746, 748, 758-59, 766,

773,782,803-804,816,825,

850, 855, 869,888, 892, 896,

915, 921, 942, 958, 972,

979-80, 982, 1000, 1009,

1016, 1022, 1026-27,

1037-38, 1055, 1063; (U.S.

Navy) 183, 365, 373, 561,

565, 606, 635, 784-85, 796,

811, 822

Disease: (C.S. Army) 23, 232,

383, 386, 413, 473, 567,

598-99, 637, 733, 743, 901,

991, 1014-15, 1021, 1023,

1058; (U.S. Army) 36, 185,

188, 207, 249, 297, 299, 311,

314, 351, 353, 355, 359-60,

378, 391, 410, 422, 426-27,

429, 434, 442, 469, 478, 500,

523, 526, 534, 539, 542, 544,

558,578,586,605,618,631,

640-41, 666, 685, 687, 699,

702-703, 715, 717, 736, 741,

758-59, 766, 772, 781-82,

804, 816, 855, 869, 888, 892,

938, 942, 946, 958, 962, 972,

320
975, 998, 1000, 1009, 1016,

1022, 1026-27, 1030, 1055,

1063; (U.S. Navy) 451, 565;

see also Hospitals; Medical

care; Yellow fever; Physicians and surgeons;

Gangrene

District of Columbia; see

Washington, D.C.

District of Columbia Association

of Ex-Union Prisoners of

War, 28

Dix, Dorothea Lynde, \L01 '',

Dix, John Adams, 247, 387, 472,

524,571,621,850,896,913,

921

Dixon, Archibald, 247

Dixon, B. F., 347

Dock, George, 248

Dock, Mira Lloyd, 248

Dodge, Grenville M., 850

Dodge, Theodore Ayrault, 249

Dolan, Philip, 844

Donaldson, Edward, 536

Donaldson, J. L., 660

Donaldsonville, La.: burning of,

874

Donelson, Andrew Jackson, 250

Donelson, Daniel: murder of,

250

Donelson, John Samuel: death

of, 250

Don Eureka (U.S.S.), 388

Doolittle, James Rood, 251, 832

Door, E. P., 154

Dorchester, Mass., 472

Dorman, OrloffM., 252

Dornblaser, Benjamin, 253

Dorsenberry, Samuel, 305

Dorsett, Edward Lee, 254

Doubleday, Abner, 56; photograph of, 286

Doubleday & Company, 255

Douglas, E. M., 475

Douglas, John Hancock, 256

Douglas, Lewis, 1054

Douglas Hospital, Washington,

D.C, 69

Douglass, Charles, 257

Douglass, Frederick, 257

Dove, Benjamin M., 232

Down, M. A., 258

Downey, George Darius, 259

Downing, Samuel, 260

Draft; see Conscription

Draft riots; see New York draft

riots

Dragon (U.S.S.), 388

Drake, Andrew J., 784

Drake, Charles D., 820

Drake, J. C, 700

Drake, James H., 261

Dranesville, Va.: skirmish at,

717, 748, 884, 1058

Draper, John William, 262

Draper, S. C, 1048

Draper, William B., 263

Draper, William Franklin, 264

Drayton, A. L., 265

Drayton, Thomas Fenwick,

1034

Drayton Brigade, 1034

Drennan, Daniel O., 266

Drewry's Bluff, Va., Battle of,

376, 411

Drug addiction, 784

Drunkenness: problems with,

133, 773, 921, 1016, 1038

Drury, H. M., 138

Duane, James C: published

photograph of, 938

Duane, Richard B., 21

Dudley, Thomas H., 454

Duke, James W., 128

Dungan, William W., 267

Dunlap, Henry C, 928

Dunlop, James, 268

Du Pont, Samuel Francis: correspondence of, 3, 354, 373,

673, 764, 784, 848, 913,

321
1057; defends action in

attack on Charleston, S.C.,

173

Durant & Hornor, 545

D'Utassy, Frederick G.: trial of,

440

Dwight, A. W., 237

Dwight, Wilder, 366

Dwight, William, 671

Dwyer, Ransom O., 269

Dyer, Alexander Brydie, 270

Dyer, Frederick H., 162

E. B. Hale (U.S.S.), 907

Eads, James Buchanan, 271,

784

Early, Jubal Anderson, 272;

correspondence of, 287, 443;

description of, 894; captured

report on command of, 846;

defeat of, 413; see also

Early's Washington raid

Early's Washington raid, 2, 25,

330,385,526,681,853,869;

Federal response to, 385,

903; comments on, 786

Earnshaw, William, 864

Easby-Smith families, 273

East Gulf Blockading Squadron,

451

East Tennessee; see Tennessee

East Tennessee Cavalry: (C.S.

Army) 239

Eastern Shore (Maryland):

Union sentiment in, 214

Echo (privateer), 863

Economist (blockade runner),

498

Economy; see Inflation; Finance;

Taxes; Treasury

Department

Edings, J. E., 1034

Edisto Island, S.C.: Confederate

soldiers captured on, 968

Edwards Ferry, Va., 706

Eells, Samuel Henry, 274

Eldredge, Charles Augustus,

275

Elliott, John B., 1060

Ellis & Allan Company, 276

Ellsesser, Jacob L., 386

Elseffer, Charles, 277

Elseffer, Harry S., and family,

277

Elseffer, Louis, 277

Eltham's Landing, Va.: engagement at, 870

Emancipation, 214, 342, 691,

812, 924, 979, 1006;

response of Federal soldiers

to, 1009

Emancipation Proclamation,

126, 169; response of

Federal soldiers to, 687,

1055; public reaction to, 78

Emerson, Bart, 278

Emmons, George D., 570

Emory, William Hemsley: correspondence of, 846;

generalship of, 495

Empire City (U.S. transport),

121

Engineer Brigade: (U.S. Army)

437

Engineers: (C.S. Army) 452-53;

(U.S. Army) 351, 416, 437,

452, 702, 729, 758, 779, 783,

938, 1061; equipment of,

452; reports and sketches

of, 187; (U.S. Navy) 30,

166, 224, 267, 277, 451,

559, 570, 1003; (civilian)

587, 1059

England; see Great Britain

Enlistments: (C.S. Army) 358,

386, 598, 614, 778, 868, 894;

(U.S. Army) 22, 94, 115,

188, 300, 426, 481, 552-53,

618, 666, 687, 694, 703,

746, 803-804, 979, 1009,

322
1016, 1026, 1030, 1053,

1060; certificates of, 590,

884; orders concerning, 768;

legislation concerning in

New York, 756

Enslow, Charles Calvin, 279

Entertainment: (C.S. Army)

473, 614, 637, 894, 1021;

(U.S. Army) 103, 309, 335,

359,429,434,439, 442, 478,

522, 526, 544, 551, 631,

640-41, 667, 680, 699, 741,

746, 748, 758, 778, 782, 793,

886, 888, 938, 972, 1016,

1026, 1063; (U.S. Navy)

784

Ericsson, John, 280, 739

Espionage; see Allen, E. J.;

Greenhow, Rose O'Neal

Essex (U.S.S.), 158; photograph

of, 725

Este, David Kirkpatrick, 281

Este, William Miller, 282

Europe: public attitude toward

the American Civil War,

722; economic effects of the

war on,722

European Squadron, 92, 802

Eustis, George, 283, 454

Evans, Augusta Jane, 220

Evans, Clement Anselm, 272

Evans, George, 257

Evans, Lawrence T., 284

Evans, Thomas, 284

Evarts, William Maxwell, 285

Evening Courier, 792

The Eve of Conflict (1934), 632

Everett, Edward, 91, 286, 1042

Ewell, B. S., 287

Ewell, Leczinska, 287

Ewell, Richard Stoddert, 143,

287, 532, 1021

Ewing, Andrew, 997

Ewing, Charles, 288

Ewing, George Washington, 289

Ewing, Hugh Boyle, 290

Ewing, Thomas, 290-91

Ewing, Thomas, Jr.: papers of,

290; correspondence of, 288;

popular support for, 820

Ewing, Virginia Larwill, 288

Excelsior Brigade, 348; reinforcements for, 861; see also

New York troops, 73d

Infantry Regiment; Sickles,

Daniel Edgar

"An Ex-Confederate on the Late

Rebellion," 761

"Exhibition of Left-Hand

Penmanship," 98

"Extract From Field Notes of

the Civil War: The Selma

Campaign," 636

Fair Oaks, Battle of, 428, 496;

report on, 1023; song commemorating, 781; see also

Peninsular Campaign

Fairfax County, Va.: refugees

from, 465; attitude of noncombatants in, 744

Fairfax Courthouse, Va.: Confederate camp near, 744;

mentioned, 433, 719

Fairfax Theological Seminary:

photograph of, 715

Fairy (U.S.S.), 254

Falling Waters, W. Va.:

skirmish at, 99

Falls Church, Va., 1003

Falmouth, Va.: occupation of,

612; mentioned, 323, 348,

445, 893

Farinholt, Benjamin L., 151

Farnsworth, Elon John: death

of, 727

Farnsworth, John Franklin, 727

"Farnsworth's Charge and

Death," 698

323
Farquhar, John F., 423

Farragut, David Glasgow,

292-93; correspondence of,

154, 166, 206, 262, 784,

800, 858, 913; attacks on

Fort Jackson and Fort St.

Philip, 800; in New Orleans

624; passing batteries at

Port Hudson, 244; bombards

Vicksburg, 800, 874; interviews with, 1003; information on, 739; photograph of,

996

Farragut and Mobile Bay—

Personal Reminiscences,

996

Farrow, William, 963

Faulkner, C. J., 475

Fauquier Artillery: (C.S. Army)

870

Fauquier County, Va.: refugees

from, 465

Faxon, William, 422

Fay, John, 294

Fay, Logan, 295

Fayetteville, Va., 160, 497

Feamster family, 296

Federal Writers Project, WPA,

970

Fell, Jennie M., 53

Fell, Jesse W., 297

Fell, Joseph Gove, 298

Fell, Thomas W., 438

Fenton, Lewis R., 299

Ferguson, John Newton, 300

Ferguson, Samuel W., 158

Fernandina (U.S.S.), 121

Fernandina, Fla.: Federal

occupation of, 421; need for

chaplain at, 815

Ferree, Newton and Joel, 301

Ferrero, Edward, 913, 1036

Ferriday, Calvin, 160

Fessenden, William Pitt, 302,

722, 896

Field, Christopher I., 176

Field, S., 303

Field hospitals; see Hospitals

Fifty Years in Camp and Field:

Diary of Major-General

Ethan Allen Hitchcock

(1909), 216

"Fighting McCooks," 575

Fillebrown, Thomas Scott, 304

Fillmore, Millard, 571, 714

Finance: Confederate plans and

efforts to finance the war,

778, 856, 951; Confederate

plans to disrupt northern

financial markets, 833; U.S.

Government plans and

efforts to finance the war,

169, 302, 424, 847; see also

Taxes; Treasury Department; Paper currency

Finnell, Jonathan W., 215

First Manassas, Battle of, 39,

156,174, 200, 272, 330, 351,

383, 411, 552, 575, 579,

598, 671, 735, 789, 797, 850,

890, 894, 913, 1058; troop

movements preceding the

battle, 398, 411, 414; Confederate and Federal

strategy in, 619; reaction to

the battle in Washington,

1014; sketch of battlefield,

598, 1058; map of battlefield, 143; observations on,

798; mentioned, 510, 1003;

see also First Manassas

Campaign

First Manassas Campaign, 23,

66, 143, 411, 428, 567, 901;

deaths in, 23; effect on

northern attitudes toward

the war, 1026

Firum, William, et al., 305

Fish, Hamilton, 306

Fisher, B. F., 2

324
Fisher, George Purnell, 307

Fisher's Hill, Va., Battle of, 500,

715

Fishing Creek: engagement at,

239

Fisk, Clinton Bowen, 308

Fisk, Wilbur, 309

Fitch, George, 981

Five Forks, Va., Battle of, 162,

315, 710; map of, 162

"The Flag and the Cross, a

History of the United States

Christian Commission,"

363

Flagler, Daniel Webster, 310

Flags: (Confederate) proposed

designs for, 1007; sketches

of, 599; claims of designer,

873

Fleetwood, Christian Abraham,

311, 1054

Fleming, Charles, 654

Flint, Henry M., 78

Flogging, 38

Florence, S.C.: Confederate

stockade prison at, 345;

Federal prisoners of war at,

764

Florida (C.S.S.), 265, 566, 858;

in France, 643; at Mobile

Bay, 881; capture of, 65

Florida (U.S.S.), 365

Florida: ordinance of secession,

830; Federal operations

along coast of, 493, 686;

campaigns in, 24, 123, 152,

252; expedition to, 422

Flotillas: (U.S. Navy) names of

ships in, 1006

Floyd, Charles R., 566

Floyd, John Buchanan: order of,

413; generalship of, 754

Floyd, Richard S., 566

Floyd family, 566

Floyd-McAdoo families, 312

Foard, Andrew J.: medical

director in the Army of the

Tennessee, 194; photograph

of, 194

Folly Island, S.C.: records of U.S.

Commissary Department

at, 959

Foote, Andrew Hull, 313, 416,

739, 784, 896, 913

Foote, Henry S., 807

Foote, Lemuel Thomas, 314

Foote, S. E., 422

Foote, Solomon: photograph of,

541'

"For the Union," 902

Foraging expeditions: (C.S.

Army) 929; (U.S. Army) 20,

63, 140, 174, 249, 274, 284,

299-300, 309, 314, 335, 351,

355,357, 360,439, 462,480,

483, 491, 500, 523, 539,

542,558,605,618,631,636,

641, 685, 687, 703, 715,

736, 741, 746, 748, 804-805,

816, 869, 878, 884, 886, 888,

903, 938, 970, 978, 1009,

1029; orders concerning,

768; (U.S. Navy) 565

Forbes, Archibald, 315

Forbes, Robert B., 986

Forbes family, 316

Force, Manning Ferguson, 317,

318, 366, 534

Force, Peter, 318

Ford, Antonia, 1029

Ford, Clement R., 995

Ford, R. A., 995

Ford, Thomas, 524

Foreign affairs: (C.S.

Government) diplomatic

correspondence and papers,

241, 608, 833; special

agents and emissaries, 283,

325
347, 443, 506, 719, 807,

954; recognition of the

Confederacy, 807; plans for

sending secret dispatches,

807; see also State Department; Benjamin, Judah P.

(U.S. Government) relations with Great Britain,

5-6, 642, 747, 836; relations

with Chile, 662; appointment of U.S. consul in

China, 11; appointment of

U.S. Minister to Austria,

132; letters and instructions

to U.S. consul at Havana,

Cuba, 858; instructions to

Charles Francis Adams,

5, 836; letters and reports

of James S. Pike, 722;

miscellaneous correspondence and papers, 229, 235,

564, 583, 693, 825, 858;

see also Seward, William H.

Forney, John Horace: campaigns

in Arkansas, 894; description of, 894

Forney, John Wien, 319, 1064

Forrest, French, 320

Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 401,

409, 730

Forscky, J., 321

Forsyth, George A., 846

Forsyth, James W., 846

Fort Barrancas, Fla., 17, 108

Fort Beauregard, S.C.: capture

of, 493, 561, 736, 784;

engraved view of bombardment of, 1034

Fort Blakely, Ala.: capture of,

804

Fort Caswell, N.C., 23, 70

Fort Clark, N.C.: capture of,

135, 425, 561, 686

Fort Darling, Va.: sketch of, 784

Fort Davidson, Mo., 290

Fort Delaware Prison Times,

322

Fort Delaware Military Prison:

life at, 239, 386, 400, 411,

499, 599, 899, 922; aid to

Confederate soldiers at, 524;

mentioned, 322

Fort Donelson Campaign, 57,

113, 300, 313, 318, 552,

575, 804, 942, 991, 1026;

capture of Fort, 387, 563,

975; casualties at, 57

Fort Fisher, N.C.: General

Butler's expedition against,

70, 135, 157, 311, 346,

365, 575, 686, 734; General

Terry's expedition against,

70, 173, 187, 365, 422, 575,

686-87, 734, 784, 920; Confederate defense of, 649;

sketch of, 784; performance

of U.S.S. New Ironsides

in attack on, 750; powder

ship attack on, 832

Fort Gaines, Ala.: Siege of, 41;

capture of, 14, 206;

occupation of, 279

Fort Gray, New Mexico

Territory, 396

Fort Gregg, S.C.: attacks on,

513, 796, 867

Fort Hamilton, N.Y., 112

Fort Hatteras, N.C.: capture of,

135, 426, 561, 686

Fort Henry, Tenn.: campaign

against, 113; capture of,

416; U.S. Post Office at, 603

Fort Hindman (Arkansas Post)

expedition, 63, 175, 290,

339, 491, 554, 565, 648, 760,

850, 979

Fort Jackson, La.: plan of, 13;

Farragut's order of battle

326
against, 800; attack on, 73;

Confederate defense of, 649;

mutiny of Confederate garrison, 734; capture of, 641,

686, 874

Fort Jefferson, Fla., 587

Fort Lafayette Military Prison:

prisoners of war at, 584;

letters of prisoners at, 827

Fort McAllister, Ga.: Federal

attack on, 84, 784

Fort McHenry, Md., 50, 383,

499, 525

Fort Macon, N.C.: attack on, 523

Fort Magruder: attack on, 870

Fort Mahan, 821

Fort March, Va., 958

Fort Monroe, Va. (Fortress), 12,

50, 211, 582, 650; Jefferson

Davis imprisoned at, 524;

mentioned, 247, 251, 413,

524, 827

Fort Morgan, Ala.: Federal

occupation of, 279, 1003

Fort Moultrie, S.C.: affairs in

1861, 926; Federal attacks

on, 493, 513, 796, 867;

mentioned, 87

Fort Pemberton, Miss.: engagement at, 630

Fort Pickens, Fla.: letters

written from, 108; affairs in

1861, 336, 1006, 1057; as

Federal prison, 234;

mentioned, 412

Fort Pillow, Tenn., 97

Fort Powell, Ala.: Federal

occupation of, 279

Fort Pulaski, Ga.: Siege of, 422,

591, 680, 736, 765, 822,

847; capture of, 493, 736;

sketch of Federal batteries

during siege, 422

Fort St. Johns, La.: black

soldiers at, 671

Fort St. Philip, La.: Federal

capture of, 73,641,686,800,

874; mutiny of the Confederate garrison at, 734;

treatment of Confederate

soldiers confined at, 234

Fort Sanders, Tenn.: action at,

264

Fort Saratoga, D.C., 821

Fort Stevens, D.C., 2

Fort Sumter, S.C.: Confederate

bombardment and capture

of, 4, 21, 212, 394, 562, 528,

796, 798, 926, 1017; effect

of Confederate attack on

public opinion in the North,

219, 1030; reports of the

affair based on interviews

with the participants, 955;

engraved view of Confederate bombardment,

1034; Federal attacks on,

84, 183, 306, 373, 376, 493,

513, 561, 763-64, 796, 867;

mentioned, 87, 238, 718

Fort Totten, D.C., 821

Fort Wagner, S.C.: Federal

operations against, 36, 84,

183, 422, 493, 513, 763-64,

796, 867; performance of

black troops against, 1054

Fort Walker, S.C.: Federal

capture of, 493, 561, 736,

784; engraved view of

Federal bombardment of,

1034

Fort Warren, Mass., 287, 400;

letters of prisoners of war

at, 827, 1058; visits to

prisoners at, 581; photographs of prisoners at, 1034

Fort Washington, N.C., 1055

Fort Wayne, Ind., 289

327
Fort Whipple, Va.: Federal

soldiers held at, 915

"A Forthcoming Secret History

of the Confederacy," 761

Fortifications, 289, 646, 779,

821, 1023, 1054

Foster, John Gray, 346, 535, 844

Foulke, William Dudley, 323

Foute, Samuel L., 952

Fowler, Joseph Smith, 324

Fox, Gustavus Vasa, 91, 251,

306,316, 354,413, 739, 750,

784, 796, 847, 896, 1051

Fox, Virginia Woodbury, 1051

France: neutrality of, 624;

popular reaction to the

American Civil War, 75;

consul in New Orleans, La.,

624; Confederate agents and

activities in, 189, 506;

Confederate warships in,

643; activities in Mexico,

728; visit of warships from,

853

Frank, Jacob J., 325

Frankfort, Ky.: General

Morgan's raid on, 405;

mentioned, 408

Franklin, Henry D., 1053

Franklin, William Buel, 326;

correspondence of, 913, 921;

generalship of, 496

Franklin, La.: skirmish near,

412

Franklin, Tenn., Battle of, 845;

Confederate plan of attack

on, 870; mentioned, 61, 669

Franklin and Nashville Campaign, 94, 159, 631, 789,

820, 839, 843, 1000, 1021;

General Hood's report on,

1021; postwar account of,

820

Franklin Repository and

Transcript, 917

Fraser, P., 327

Fray, George W., 676

Frazier, William, 507

Frederick, Md., 725

Fredericksburg, Va., Battle of,

445, 578, 671, 831, 992;

Confederate report on Battle of, 1023; defense of, 532;

Federal occupation of, 612,

699, 783; wartime life in,

612; military operations

near, 612; mentioned, 111,

540

Fredericksburg Campaign, 18,

116, 249, 264, 309, 323,

335, 352, 386, 391, 419,

424, 429, 437, 442, 452,

466, 502, 522-23, 526, 604,

687, 699, 727, 729, 772,

859, 894, 913, 938, 1009,

1021, 1038; narrative of,

41; photograph of bridges

used in, 938

Freedmen: camps for, 600;

treatment by Union

soldiers, 140, 600, 815;

disease among, 600

Freedmen's village, D.C., 40

Freeman, Douglas Southall,

328

Fremont, John Charles, 329;

command of, 685; correspondence of, 42, 91, 132,

215, 348, 784, 825, 896;

character of, 417; generalship of, 99, 417, 878;

photograph of, 132; mentioned, 308

French, Benjamin Brown, 330

French, Samuel G., 1021

French Brigade: (C.S. Army)

624

328
Fritsch, Friedrich Otto, Baron

Von, 331

Frogmen, 999

Frontier, Army of the, 820

Frontier garrisons, 349

Frost, Edward, 332, 594, 960

Frost, Edwin P., 332

Frost, F. H., 332

Fuller, Joseph Pryor, 333

Funerals: (U.S. Army) 605

Furloughs: (U.S. Army) 148,

237, 309, 500, 523, 526,

604, 640, 758, 799, 904,

1021, 1038

Furman, Greene Chandler, 334

Gaines Mill, Va., Battle of,

589; Confederate report

on, 1023; mentioned, 930

Gainesville, Va.: sketch of, 758

Galatea (U.S.S.), 673

Galena (U.S.S.), 783-84

Galveston, Tex.: defense of,

566; occupation of, 63;

treatment of noncombatants in, 63

Galwey, Thomas Francis, 335

Gamble, William, 864

Gambling, 1016

Gangrene, 599

Gantt, Thomas A., 466

Gardner, Francis R. and

George, 336

Gardner, Franklin, 158, 584

Garesche, Julius P., 337

Garfield, James Abram, 338,

401, 847-48, 979

Garfield, Lucretia Rudolph,

339

Garnett, Alexander, 489

Garrett, Edward J., 567

Garrett, Flora, 567

Garrett, Henry A., 174

Garrett, Robert, and family,

340

Garrett, William R., 870

"Gath," 947; see also Townsend,

George Alfred

Gauley, W. Va.: skirmish at,

467

General in Chief: (U.S. Army)

387; see also Halleck,

Henry W.

"General James Longstreet

and the Civil War," 810

"General McClellan's Dream,"

792

General Parkhill (blockade

runner): capture of, 358

General Washington and

General Jackson, on Negro

Soldiers (1863), 1034

The General Who Marched

to Hell (1951), 627

Generalship: (C.S. Army) 143,

287, 349, 356, 392, 596,

598, 613, 619, 637, 687,

754, 778, 812, 989; 1014,

1021; (U.S. Army) 40, 63,

99, 208, 306, 317, 326,

331, 342, 349, 351-52,

359, 378, 390-91, 396-97,

417, 491, 495-96, 500, 539,

554, 579, 591, 618, 631,

671, 685, 687, 699, 702,

717, 725, 748, 751, 759,

761, 782, 793, 804, 816,

825, 847, 850-51, 869, 886,

896, 903-904, 913, 938,

946, 949, 953, 972, 979-80,

989, 992, 1000, 1002,

1009, 1011, 1016, 1030,

1037, 1042, 1055, 1063

George, Harold C, 341

Georgia (C.S.S.), 643

Georgia: campaigns in, 103,

114, 116, 123, 392, 410,

427, 462, 493, 526, 680,

3 2 9
1060, 1063; military

affairs in, 34, 955, 1034;

coastal fortifications and

operations, 113, 513, 599,

1034; social and economic

effects of war in, 312, 566,

978; map of (incomplete),

1046; see also Atlanta

Campaign

Georgia troops: (infantry) 8th,

1058; 14th, 386; 15th, 901;

20th, 333; 60th, 165

Germany: Confederate special

emissary to, 443; Confederate efforts to secure

loan from German merchants, 932

Getty, George Washington,

346

Gettysburg, Battle of, 9, 106,

130, 236, 272, 556, 758,

898; Confederate report

on, 1023; pamphlets and

articles concerning, 590,

777; maps of, 162, 913;

sketch of, 249; see also

Gettysburg Campaign

Gettysburg, Pa.: attitude of inhabitants toward the war,

857

Gettysburg Address: comments

on, 11, 83, 786, 1035

Gettysburg Campaign, 4, 9, 20,

41, 51, 106, 130, 162, 174,

181, 212, 229, 246, 249,

331, 335, 352, 377, 386,

391, 419, 437, 442, 452-53,

466, 500, 522, 526, 558,

575, 618, 646, 699, 727,

758, 793, 857, 869, 894,

937-38, 991, 1009, 1016,

1030, 1038; preparations

for in Maryland, 773;

movement and issue of

supplies during, 93, 351;

Confederate report on,

1023; retrieval of U.S.

Government property

after, 93

Gettysburg National

Cemetery: dedication of,

1035; see also Gettysburg

Address

Ghent, William James, 342

Gherardi, Bancroft, 343

Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 344

Gibbon, John, 81, 193

Gibbs, James G., 497

Gibbs family, 566

Gibson, S. J., 345

Gibson, William, 373

Gibson - Getty - McClure

families, 346

Giddings, George H., 347

Giddings, Joshua Reed, 348

Gilbert, C. C, 349

Gilbert, Cass, 349

Gillett, Philip, 350

Gillett, Simon Palmer, 350

Gillette, James Jenkins, 351

Gillmore, Quincy Adams:

correspondence of, 764,

847; generalship of, 495,

591, 736

Gilpin, E. N., 352

Gilpin, Samuel J. B. V., 352

Gist, Branford P., 353

Gist, George W., 353

Gist, Richard J., 353

Gist, Robert C: as postmaster

at Memphis, Tenn., 603

Gist family, 353

Glen, Samuel R., 78

Glide (U.S.S.): burning

of, 565

Gloucester Point, Va., 700

Godfrey, Washington Hobbs,

999

330
Gold: Confederate plan for disrupting northern financial

markets through purchase

of, 833

Goldsboro, N.C.: skirmish

near, 1055; Federal occupation of, 300; mentioned,

965

Goldsborough, Louis

Malesherbes, 316, 354,

606, 673, 796

Goodnow, James Harrison, 355

Goodwyn, D. E., 991

Gordon, John Brown: correspondence of, 443; movements of, 681; signature

of, 192-93

Gordon (Confederate

privateer), 218

Gorgas, Josiah: correspondence

of, 409, 1021; diary, 356

Gorgas, William Crawford, 356

Gorman, Willis Arnold: correspondence of, 706, 847,

1036; charges against,

1036

Gould, William J., 357

Gourdin, Henry, 358

Gourdin & Shackleford Company, 358

Gove, Jesse Augustus, 359

Gove family, 359

Graham, Charles K., 893

Graham, Henry, 360

Graham, R. H., 361

Grand Army of the Republic:

records of, 362

Grand Gulf, Miss., Battle

of, 565; burning of, 874

Grant, James, 363

Grant, Julia Dent, 878

Grant, Marcus, 188

Grant, Ulysses Simpson, 364;

as commander of the

Army of the Potomac,

436; correspondence of, 42,

82, 140, 143, 262, 377,

532, 546, 573, 580, 768,

820, 846, 850, 852, 913,

996, 1037; campaigns in

Kentucky and Tennessee,

878; conflict with General

McClernand, 953; meeting

with Mrs. W. W. Lord,

555; generalship and character of, 390, 725, 878;

photographs of, 363, 395,

541; sketch of, 758; staff

of, 140; comments on, 871,

878; attitude of soldiers

toward, 341; clippings on,

266; receives thanks of

Congress, 140; mentioned,

33, 187, 291, 459, 565

Grant-Warren-Sheridan controversy, 315

Grattan, John W., 365

Gray, Horace, 366

Great Britain: reaction to the

American Civil War, 5, 75,

444; concern over

treatment of British

citizens in the war zone,

747; reaction to Confederate privateers in

European waters, 642;

Confederate agents, emissaries, and secessionists

in, 189, 642; activities of

U. S. diplomats in, 642;

Confederate diplomatic activities in, 506, 608; Confederate warships and

privateers in, 642;

correspondence and instructions of Charles

Francis Adams concerning, 836; negotiations between U. S. and British

331
diplomats in Washington,

D.C., and Philadelphia,

747; British warships visit

Washington, D.C., 853;

changing attitude of the

British government

toward the United States,

643; considers closing

ports to both Federal and

Confederate vessels, 643

Great Falls, Md., 894

Great Seal of the Confederacy,

833; proposed designs for,

1007; copy of, 905

Grebe, Balzar, 367

Greble, Edwin, 368-69

Greely, Horace, 167,

370, 980

Greely, Adolphus Washington, 371

Green, Charles, 606

Green, Duff, 372

Green, James M., 680

Green, Joseph F., 373

Green, Martin E., 1060

Green, Mary, 488

Green, Wharton, 598

Green, William A., 1024

Green Mountain Freeman

(Montpelier, Vt), 309

Greene, Samuel Dana, 223,

374

Greenhow, Rose O'Neal, 653

Greensboro, N.C., 144

Greenwood Plantation, 375

Greer, David: trial of, 813

Greer, Henry I. and Robert,

376

Gregg, David McMurtrie,

377; correspondence of,

846; generalship of, 397

Gregg, Maxcy, 212

Gregory, Mr., 375

Gregory, Francis H., 316, 739,

1050

Gresham, Walter Quintin, 378

Griffin, Charles, 41, 193

Griffith, George Washington

Ewing, 379

Grimes, James Wilson, 832

Grinnaw, Cornelia, 43

Griswold, John Augustus, 832

Groening, D. Von, 380

Grover, Cuvier, 517

Groveton, Va., Battle of, 287,

859; map of, 162

Grymes, Peyton, 465

Guerrilla warfare, 20, 103,

128, 229, 300, 365, 379,

434, 436, 460, 476, 500,

535, 558, 631, 641, 667,

686, 702-703, 748, 759-60,

769, 773, 803-804, 816,

847, 869, 874, 886, 888,

903, 921, 929, 946, 957,

972, 975, 1016, 1027,

1037-38, 1060

Guide to the Microfilm of the

Simon Cameron Papers

(1971), 142

Guirot, A. J., 189

Gulf Blockading Squadron, 70,

158, 451, 505, 686, 800,

811, 832

Gunboats: (C.S. Navy) 785;

plan for construction of,

614; (U.S. Navy) 158, 176,

784-85; plans for construction and improvement of,

271, 316, 463; loss of, 365

Gurley, John Addison, 381

Guslin, M., 382

H. L. Hunley, 334

Habersham, A. M., 383

Habersham, Richard W., 383

Habersham family, 383

Hadley, Eugene, 478

Hadley, J. V., 44

Hagood, Johnson, 192

332
Hahn, Michael, 384

Hale, James, 78

Hale, Oscar A., 652

Hall, Albert, 975

Hall, Angelo, 385

Hall, Chloe Angeline

Stickney: biography of,

385

Hall, David, 975

Hall, George Washington, 386

Hall, Joseph, 975

Halleck, Henry Wager, 387;

advance on Corinth, 104,

552; appointment as

general in chief, 117;

correspondence of, 42, 81,

428, 430, 467, 571, 820,

846, 848, 850, 1059; mentioned, 169, 308, 455, 622

Hallock, Isaac, 388

Halpine, Charles Graham,

78, 389

Halyburton, James D., 872

Hamilton, Charles Smith, 390

Hamilton, James A., 41

Hamilton, John, 391

Hamilton, Robert, 1054

Hamilton, Schuyler, 467

Hamilton, William, 391

Hamlet, William, 41

Hamlin, Hannibal: engraved

portrait of, 1034

Hammond, James Henry, 392

Hammond, John H., 847, 850

Hammond, Paul F., 392

Hammond, William A., 913;

trial of, 440

Hammond Gazette, 393

Hammond General Hospital,

393, 499

Hampstead County, Ark., 1015

Hampton, Sally S., 394

Hampton, Wade: correspondence of, 66, 1021; autograph of, 192; portrait of,

533; photograph of, 599;

mentioned, 138, 991

Hampton Legion, 383; organization and composition of,

991

Hampton Roads, Va., 156, 223;

naval affairs at, 606, 750

Hampton Roads Peace Conference, 411, 901

Hancock, Winfield Scott, 395;

correspondence of, 466-67,

532, 629; photograph of,

286

Hand, George O., 396

Hanna, Mark, 397

Hanna-McCormick families,

397

Hanno, C. B., 398

Hanover Courthouse, Va.,

Battle of, 495

Hanscone, S. R., 78

Hanson, George A., 399

Hanson, Roger Weightman,

400

Hanson, Virginia, 400

Hard, A. D., 401

Hard, Hanson, 401

Hardee, William Joseph, 66,

402

Hardie, James Allen, 403,

660, 847-48

Hardie, R. E., 404

Harewood Hospital, Washington, D.C., 69

Harlan, James, 864

Harlan, John Marshall, 405

Harlee, W. W., 21

Harman, W., 25

Harmen, Amsel: trial of, 813

Harpers Ferry, W. Va.: John

Brown's raid on, 86, 940;

Federal occupation of, 748;

Confederate capture of,

333
200, 859; mentioned, 487,

572, 689-90, 990

Harralson, Philip Hodnett, 406

Harries, Jane Cecelia, 805

Harriet Lane (C.S.S.), 858

Harrington, John, 478

Harrington, Purnell Frederick,

407

Harris, Charles A., 408

Harris, Ira, 430

Harris, Isham Green, 143,

409, 593, 723

Harris, John, 750

Harris, W. A., 1034

Harrisburg, Pa., 646

Harrison, Albert M., 412

Harrison, Benjamin, 410

Harrison, Burton Norvell, 411;

correspondence of, 372;

imprisonment of, 70

Harrison, Ellen Reily, 412

Harrison, James O., 412

Harrison, James O., Jr., 412

Harrison, Jilson: death of, 412

Harrison, N., 754

Hart, Charles C, 413

Hartford (U.S.S.), 73, 292, 874;

sketch of, 996

Hartford, Conn., 1013

Hartranft, John Frederick, 177

Hartsuff, George Lucas: generalship of, 495; photograph of, 7

Hartsville, Tenn., Battle of,

405

Hartwell, Alfred Stedman, 508

Hartz, Edward L., 414;

photograph of, 809

Harvey, Charles Henry, 415

Harwood, Andrew Allen, 313,

416, 660, 788

Harwood family, 416

Hastings, John, 944

Hatch, John Porter, 417-18

Hatch, L. M., 21

Hatcher's Run, Va., Battle of,

25, 550

Hatton, John William Ford,

419

Haupt, Herman, 420

Haupt, Lewis Muhlenberg, 420

Havana, Cuba: U.S. consul

general at, 858; Confederate blockade runners

at, 858

Hawkins' Zouaves, 502

Hawks, Esther Hill, 421

Hawks, J. Milton, 421

Hawley, Harriet Foote, 422

Hawley, Joseph Roswell, 173,

422

Hay, Eugene Gano, 423

Hay, John, 424; biography of,

243; correspondence of,

315, 546, 825

Hay, Thomas R., 810

Hayden, Levi, 425

Hayden, Nathaniel, 426

Hayes, Charles M., 864

Hayes, Rutherford Birchard,

1060

Hayne, Isaac, 212

Hays, Alexander: death of, 341

Hays, Harry Thompson, 272

Hazen, William Babcock: correspondence of, 847; photograph of, 541

Health; see Medical care;

Medical Department

Heath, Charles Wesley, 427

Heintzelman, Samuel Peter,

428; correspondence of,

304, 571, 895; generalship

of, 40, 496

Heisler, Henry C, 429

Helena, Ark., 600, 760

Helm, Charles J., 189

Henry, J. F., 128

334
Hephorn, Leonard F., 660

Herndon, William Henry, 430

Hertz, Emanuel, 431

Hesseltine, Frank S., 907

Heth, Henry: generalship of,

754

Hewitt, Edward L., 432

Heyliger, Lewis, 189

Hickey, Andrew, 433

Hickey, Frederick, 433

Hickey, Myron, 433

Hickey family, 433

Hickory Rifles: (C.S. Army)

250

Higgins, Edward, 734

Hill, Daniel Harvey, 66, 192,

913

Hill, Edward, 421

Hill, H. L., 366

Hill, L. J., 421

Hill, Sara Jane Full, 434

Hill, Sylvester, 421

Hill, Warren, 421

Hills, A. C, 435

Hills, Alfred C, 78

Hills, William G., 436

Hill's Point, Va., 346

Hilton Head, S.C.: capture and

occupation of, 211, 561,

736; mentioned, 422, 474,

591, 645, 1052

Hine, Orrin E., 437

History of the American Civil

War (1867-70), 262

"History of the Great Rebellion

and Civil War," 327

Hitchcock, Ethan Allen, 438;

memoir, 216; correspondence of, 216, 438

Hitchcock, Henry, 439; diary

and correspondence of, 457

Hitt, Robert Roberts, 440

Hodges, James, 441

Hoffman, Wickham, 306

Holcombe, James P., 306

Holford, Lyman C, 442

Hollenbach, John F., 392

Holman, C, 864

Holman, Silas A., 962

Holmes, George Frederick, 443

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 444

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.,

445

Holmes, Theophilus H., 498

Holt, Joseph, 446

Holt, Samuel E., 447

Holy Springs, Miss.: skirmish

at, 843

Homsher, Charles Wesley, 448

Hood, Charles Crook, 449

Hood, John Bell: correspondence

of, 66, 789, 1021; reports of,

870, 1021; song about, 265;

tactics of, 205

Hood's Texas Brigade, 265

Hooff, John, 991

Hooker, Joseph, 450; correspondence of, 81, 246, 403,

428,671,727,913,921,979,

1036; General Butterfield's

remarks on, 139; generalship of, 397, 420; photograph

of, 938

Hooper, Samuel, 41

Hoover, J. W., 864

Homer, Gustavus Richard

Brown, 451

Horner, Mabel Carlton, 148

Horses: stealing of, 261;

appraisal for military use,

138

Hoskins, Henry C, 244

Hoskinson, Riley M., 208

Hospital ships: (U.S. Navy) 626,

685, 725; outfitting of, 725;

remarks on, 965

Hospitals: (C.S. Army) 200; care

in, 383,386; (U.S. Army) 69,

335
80, 98, 119, 168, 187, 204,

224,256,392,421,442,471,

476, 499, 551, 578, 626,

671,715,725,773,781,880,

946, 965, 978; care in, 52,

80, 204, 274, 284, 299, 378;

organization and operation

of, 80, 650, 725, 935, 962;

diet in, 80, 946, 1047;

inspection of, 256; conflict

between surgeons and

Sanitary Commission officials, 650; field operations,

211, 259, 725, 782, 826; see

also Medical care; Medical

Department

Hotchkiss, Jedediah, 452, 453

Hotchkiss, Jedediah—McCullough, Samuel, 453

Hotze, Henry, 189, 454

Housatonic (U.S.S.): sinking of,

373, 796

Hovey, Charles Edward:

generalship of, 760

"How Sherman's Army Entered

Raleigh," 43

Howard, Charles H., 116

Howard, Frank K., 581

Howard, Oliver Otis: correspondence of, 89, 467, 847, 913;

photograph of, 286

Howe, Albion P., 326

Howe, Hiram P., 455

Howe, Letitia T., 456

Howe, Mark Anthony de Wolfe,

457

Howe, Samuel Gridley, 458,

582

Howry, Charles Bowen, 459

Howry, J. M., 459

Hoxie, Richard L., 460

Hoxie, Robert, 460

Hoxie, Vinnie Ream, 460

Hoyt, Harris, 8

Hubbard family, 461

Hudson, Frederic, 78

Hudson, George A., 462

Hudson, William Leverreth, 463

Hughes, John, 464

Hughes, Thomas E., 491

Hume, Fannie Page, 465

Humphries, Andrew Atkinson:

correspondence of, 18, 846,

913; published photograph

of, 938

Hunchback (U.S.S.), 183

Hunt, Henry Jackson, 287, 326,

466

Hunter, David: correspondence

of, 530, 825; criticism of,

399, 596; attitude of soldiers

toward, 844; generalship of,

591

Hunter, Robert M. T., 411, 454,

608, 1021

Huntsville, Ala.: Federal

occupation of, 640

Hurja, Emil, 467

Hurlbut, Stephen Augustus:

correspondence of, 471, 850;

as military governor of

New Orleans, 4§4; generalship and character of, 390

Huron (U.S.S.), 559

Hyde, William L., 700

Illinois: planned secessionist

uprising in, 833

Illinois troops: (cavalry) 4th,

813; 8th, 727; 11th, 469,

639; 14th, 146; 17th, 988;

(infantry) 14th, 367; 17th,

53; 30th, 591; 38th, 906;

40th, 610; 46th, 804, 1026;

48th, 68; 51st, 934; 54th,

114; 55th, 981; 72d, 46; 73d,

669; 76th, 48; 77th, 279;

100th, 462; 105th, 195;

336
129th, 103; 145th, 787;

organization and strength

of, 953; aid to families of,

469; 100-day volunteers,

787

Imboden, John Daniel, 468;

movements of, 681

Impressions of Lincoln and the

Civil War (1952), 164

In Camp and Battle With the

Washington Artillery

(1885), 692

Index (London, England), 454

"Index to Volumes, First Series

of the Official War Records,"

1025

Indiana: planned secessionist

uprising in, 833

Indiana troops: (cavalry) 3d,

352; 5th, 448; 11th, 741;

(infantry) 6th, 427; 7th, 44;

9th, 453, 527; 10th, 503;

12th, 355; 17th, 416; 18th,

480; 30th, 527; 70th, 410;

134th, 625; 137th, 1027;

disposition and training of,

423

Indianapolis, Ind., 782

Indianola (U.S.S.): capture of,

109; photograph of, 725

Indians: as U.S. soldiers, 61,

1016; problems with

western Indians, 156;

skirmishes between U.S.

soldiers and Apache Indians,

396; expedition against the

Navajo Indians, 153; miscellaneous affairs of, 289

Indians, Infants, and Infantry;

Andrew and Elizabeth Burt

on the Frontier (1960), 133

Inflation, 23, 32, 36, 78, 94, 148,

314,317, 375,378, 380, 434,

480, 523, 599, 612, 672, 705,

716, 724, 733, 786, 808, 816,

912, 978, 1004

Ingalls, Rufus, 41

Ingersoll, Robert Green, 469

Inglis, Carrie, 470

Inglis, John Auchinloss, 470

Inglis, William: death of, 470

Inman, Mrs., 165

"Inquiries Upon Hospital

Gangrene," 599

Inside Lincoln's Army (1964),

699

Inspector general: (U.S. Army)

346, 403

"Instructions for Officers on

Outpost and Patrol Duty,"

622

Instructions Upon Neutral and

Belligerent Rights

(1864), 535

Intelligence reports: (C.S.

Army) 973; (U.S. Army) 33,

42, 403, 535, 573, 846, 850;

(U.S. Navy) 561, 784; see

also Allen, E. J.; Pinkerton,

Allan

Interior Department: (U.S.) 970

Internal Revenue Department:

(U.S.) 577; see also Treasury

Department

Invalid Corps, 36, 442

Iowa Sanitary Association, 1047

Iowa troops: (cavalry) 1st, 460;

3d, 352; (infantry) 2d, 300;

3d, 908; 5th, 1020; 27th,

946; 28th, 474; 35th, 909;

36th, 630; 41st, 972; 46th,

277

Iredell Blues, 23

Irish Bend, La., Battle of, 892

Ironclads: conditions aboard,

350; special reports on, 229;

advantages and disadvantages of, 822; compared

337
with monitors, 784; improvement of, 425; see also

Ships; Shipbuilding

Irvine, James A., 952

Irwin, Albert: capture of, 471

Irwin, Bernard John Dowling,

471

Irwinville, Ga., 144

Isaac Smith (U.S.S.): capture

of, 968

Island No. 10: print showing

Federal bombardment of,

725; capture of, 434, 979

Iuka, Miss., Battle of, 455, 1020

Ives, Cora, 472

Ives, Joseph Christmas, 472

Ives, Leonard, 472

Ives, Malcolm, 78

Ives, Ned, 472

Izard, Ralph, 1021

Jackman, John S., 473

Jackson, Henry Rootes, 55

Jackson, John T., 44

Jackson, Theodore, 474

Jackson, Thomas Jonathan,

475; correspondence of,

443, 452-53, 540, 913;

description of, 894, 990;

death of, 452; portrait and

photographs of, 533, 599,

938; mentioned, 848

Jackson, Miss.: skirmishes near,

39; Siege of, 382, 473, 476,

805, 975; Battle of, 68,1020;

Federal occupation of, 39

Jacksonville, Fla.: skirmishes

near, 252; expedition

against, 879; Federal

occupation of, 421; events in,

24

James, Army of the, 998

James River, Va.: Federal

camps along, 435, 998; map

of lower part of, 9; naval

operations on, 354, 365,

535, 842, 1028; skirmishes

between Federal warships

and Confederate batteries,

121, 842; reconnaissance

expeditions on, 251

Jameson, Robert Edwin, 476

Jamestown, Va., 12

Jamison, David F., 21

Jamison, John, 305

Jeff Davis (C.S.S.), 313

Jenckes, Thomas Allen, 477

Jenkins, Thornton A., 611

Jewett, Dexter, 478

Jewett, George O., 478

Johnson, Andrew, 479;

correspondence of, 546;

supposed involvement in

Lincoln assassination, 43;

photograph of, 541

Johnson, E. E., 480

Johnson, John Augustine, 481

Johnson, John M., 593

Johnson, Reverdy, 482, 546, 896

Johnson, Richard W., 850

Johnson, W. C, 483

Johnson, Waldo Porter, 484

Johnson, William, 3

Johnson's Ferry, Ky.: skirmish

at, 405

Johnson's Island Military

Prison, 911, 952; names of

Confederate officers held

at, 175; life at, 453, 563,

637, 716; plan of escape

from, 833; mentioned, 306

Johnston, Albert Sidney, 485;

comments on, 939; petition

for removal of, 334; correspondence of, 409; sketch

of, 672

Johnston, Georgianna, 486

Johnston, James Steptoe, 488

338
Johnston, Joseph Eggleston, 487;

correspondence of, 66, 143,

272,287,443,475, 557, 730,

789, 870, 872, 997, 1021;

relationship with President

Davis, 596, 1021; problems

with officials in Richmond,

1021; return of troops commanded by, 272; removal

from command in defense

of Atlanta, 1021; surrender

of, 266, 729; sketch of, 672;

description of, 894; photographs of, 533, 599

Johnston, Lydia, 1021

Johnston, Mercer Green, 488

Johnston, Randolph, 590

Johnston, William Preston, 489;

correspondence of, 744; commissions of, 485; health of,

489

Jones, Catesby ap R., 492

Jones, Charles Dehaven, 490

Jones, David R.: description of,

894

Jones, John Griffith, 491

Jones, Joseph, 599, 864

Jones, Roger, 492

Jones, Roland, 520

Jones, Samuel, 493, 838

Jones, Simon, 992

Jones, Thomas Goode, 494

Jones, William Edmonson, 365,

532, 913

Jones Landing, Va., 590

Jonesboro, Ga., Battle of, 148

Jordan, Thomas, 66, 467, 789

Joslyn, Mary E., 869

"A Journal of My Life and

Experience as a Soldier,"

360

Journal of the U.S. Cavalry

Association, 352

Journalists, 602, 632, 947; see

also War correspondents

Judge Advocate General: (U.S.

Army) 103, 446, 961; (U.S.

Navy) 166

Judiciary Square Hospital,

Washington, D.C., 119

Judson, Edward Zane Carroll,

1064

Justice Department, U.S.

Government, 189

Kane, Thomas L., 319

Kansas: impact of the war on,

156; clippings concerning

the war in, 984

Kansas, Department of: (U.S.

Army) 661

Kansas troops: (cavalry) 16th,

661; (infantry) 11th, 290

Kasson, John A., 603

Kaufman, Jessie, 331

Kautz, August Valentine, 495;

generalship of, 496

Kearny, Philip, 496; correspondence of, 428; sketch of,

938

Kearsarge (U.S.S.): battle with

C.S.S. Alabama, 71, 224,

1041; log of, 1041; photographs of officers on, 1041;

prize money from Alabama,

224; mentioned, 52

Keatinge, Harriette C, 497

Keeney, Mrs. George, 498

Keidel, Herman F., 499

Keidel family, 499

Keifer, Joseph Warren, 500

Keim, William High: headquarters letterbook, 501;

photograph of, 501

Keim family, 501

Kelaher, James, 502

Kellenberger, Peter B., 503

Keller, Louis, 504

339
Kelley, Benjamin Franklin:

capture of, 294

Kellogg, Edward Nealy and

Edward Stanley, 505

Kellogg, Elisha S.: photograph

of, 715

Kellogg, Spencer: death of, 438

Kelton, John C, 820

Kemper, D. E. C, 334

Kemper, James L., 789

Kemper, Tip: court-martial of,

334

Kendall, Charles, 254

Kenly, John R., 326

Kennard, Harriet M., 1045

Kennedy, J., 815

Kennedy, Joseph M.: promotion

of, 862

Kenner, Duncan Farrar, 506,

719

Kenner, Richard P., 260

Kennesaw Mountain, Ga., Battle

of, 148, 195, 300; Federal

strategy in, 518; intercepted Confederate

messages in, 573; report on,

610; casualties in, 610;

mentioned, 1060

Kent, R. A., 253

Kentucky: neutrality of, 409,

593; campaigns in, 46, 48,

103, 114, 146, 188, 195,

226,231,355,402,405,410,

427, 429, 473, 490-91, 500,

575, 640, 680, 702-703, 759,

816, 929, 975, 1027, 1060,

1063; skirmishes in, 186,

188, 239, 405, 495, 952,

1000; guerrilla warfare in,

128; Federal recruitment

in, 409; Unionists in, 886,

929, 941; see also Magoffin,

Beriah; Kirby-Smith,

Edmund; Bragg, Braxton

Kentucky troops: C.S. Army

340

(infantry) 1st, 489; 9th, 473;

Kentucky Battalion, 797;

U.S. Army (cavalry) 1st,

759; 2d, 578, 759; 3d, 563;

8th, 113; 9th, 108; (infantry)

2d, 489, 925; 3d, 928; 10th,

405; 16th, 1000; 17th, 353;

25th, 113; Home Guards,

405

Keorper, Jacob, 607

Keorper, Katharina, 607

Ketchum, Hiram, 571

Key West, Fla.: fortifications at,

686; mentioned, 451

Keyes, Erasmus Darwin: correspondence of, 101, 913,

921; headquarters papers

of, 921; photograph of, 286

Kilpatrick, Hugh Judson:

remarks on, 871

Kilpatrick-Dahlgren raid on

Richmond, 436, 554, 644,

695, 699

King, Adam E., 45

King, Horatio, 507

King, Rufus, 921, 1002

King, Sue Petigru, 714

Kinsley, Edward W., 508

Kinston, N.C., Battle of, 155,

803; skirmish near, 1055

Kintigh, John E, 509

Kirby-Smith, Edmund, 510;

correspondence of, 467; invasion of Kentucky, 392,

631, 703; activities in

Arkansas, 246; report on

operations in Louisiana,

365; clippings on, 266

Kirk, John W., 511

Kirkley, Joseph William, 512

Kloeppel, H. Henry, 513

Knights of the Crimson Cross,

584

Knights of the Golden Circle,

306; arrest of members of,
650

Knox, Dudley Wright, 514

Knox, James Suydam, 515

Knox, Rose Bell, 516

Knox, Thomas W., 78, 850

Knoxville, Tenn., Siege of, 239,

631, 1000, 1037; relief of,

605, 850; attitude of noncombatants in, 1000;

mentioned, 312, 684

Knoxville Campaign, 9, 264,

495, 523, 566, 886, 996,

1037

Kock, Charles, 517

Kyle, W. J., 963

"La Concordia," 617

Lacy, Captain, 713

Lafayette (U.S.S.): outfitting of,

565; visits of Federal

officers aboard, 565

Lagow, Clark B.: generalship of,

878

La Grange, Ga.: life in during

the war, 716; mentioned,

469

La Grange, Tenn.: Federal

occupation of, 978;

mentioned, 140, 433, 610,

639

Lair, John A., 518

Laird, George F., 519

Lally, Michael, 520

Lamar, Lucius Q. C, 189, 955

Lancaster (U.S.S.): description

of, 170; sinking of, 565

Land: purchased by Federal

soldiers, 36

Lander, Frederick West, 521

Landis, Aaron, 522

Landis, Allen, 522

Lane, Jackson, 1060

Lane, John Q., 845

Langdon, Bassett, 925

Larned, Daniel Read, 523

"The Last Campaign—A

Cavalryman's Journal,"

352

Lathers, Richard, 524

Latrobe, Osmun, 525

Latta, James William, 526

Lauman, Jacob G., 850

Laundress, 682

Laurel Hill, Va.: sketch of, 758

Lawrence, Arthur, 684

Lawrence, William R., 669

Lawrence, Kans., 379

Lawrenceburg, Ky., 408

Lawton, Alexander Robert, 532

Lawton, E. A., 21

Lawton, Henry Ware, 527

Lawton, Sarah A., 532

Lawyers, 281, 285

Leale, Charles Augustus, 528

Leaven worth, Kans.: black

refugees in, 897

Leavitt, Joshua, 529

Le Due, William, 41, 845

Lee, Bradley D.: photograph of,

715

Lee, Edmund Jennings (Mrs.),

530

Lee, H. I., 530

Lee, Mary Custis, 537

Lee, Mary Lorrain Greenhow,

531

Lee, Robert Edward, 532-33;

correspondence of, 43, 66,

143,151,212,265,287,411,

443, 475, 487, 537, 657,

778, 913-14, 980, 1021;

orders and reports of, 365,

413; surrender of, 140, 193,

532, 1040; notes and comments on, 82, 939; attitude

of southerners toward, 214;

clippings on, 266; photographs of, 533, 599; sketch

of, 672; resignation from

U.S. Army, 532;

341
memorabilia, 9, 533

Lee, Robert W., 534

Lee, Samuel Phillips, 535-36;

correspondence of, 251, 316,

467,606, 739; leadership of,

725; photograph of, 365;

mentioned, 425

Lee, Stephen Dill, 845, 894

Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh,

584

Lee family, 537

"Lee and the Confederacy," 902

Lee Artillery; see Williamsburg

Light Artillery

Lee's Lieutenants (1942-44):

research notes, manuscript,

and galley proof for, 328

Leesburg, Va.: Confederate

troops in, 39

Leggett, Mortimer Dormer, 538,

850

Lehigh (U.S.S.), 92

Lenthall, John, 1050

Lester, Joseph, 539

Letcher, John, 118, 540, 912

Letters of John Hay (1908): notes

for, 243

Levy, Diana Franklin, 541

Levy, Phebe, 716

Levy, S. Yates, 716

Lewis, Henry, 907

Lewis, Lothrop Lincoln, 542

Lewis, W., 991

Lewis, William Delaware, 543

Lexington (U.S.S.): photograph

of, 725

Libby, Frederick Joseph, 544

Libby Prison: conditions and

treatment of Federal

prisoners in, 148, 184, 697,

884, 898, 1020; names of

Federal officers held at, 175,

697; Confederate clerk in,

554; names of Confederate

officers held at after the fall

342

of Richmond, 372;

mentioned, 731

Liberal Republicans, 370

Libertytown, Md.: attitude and

morale of noncombatants

at, 989

Librarian of Congress, 475

Libraries: established for

Federal convalescents, 935

"Life of Gen. I. I. Stevens," 903

Limongi, Felix, 545

Lincoln, Abraham, 546-48; correspondence of, 21, 96, 101,

167, 266, 291, 340, 387, 430,

438, 456, 571, 580, 610,

768, 792, 820,825, 846, 850,

896, 913, 958, 980; first

inauguration of, 350, 1032;

interviews and meetings

with, 117, 169, 461, 990,

1042; political and military

appointments by, 91, 141,

416; Cabinet affairs, 58, 87,

90, 169, 340, 347, 622, 685,

1051; reviewing and visiting troops, 50, 311, 335,

354, 365, 819, 853; under

fire at Fort Stevens, 2;

intervenes in the execution

of a deserter, 704; alters

instructions to Charles F.

Adams, 836; thoughts on

blacks and slavery, 331,

458; discussion with

General Butler on the postwar disposition of black

soldiers, 626; election of

1864, 366, 462; second

inauguration of, 330; notes

and comments of personal

secretaries (John Hay and

John G. Nicolay), 424, 674;

miscellaneous writings and

observations on, 40, 79, 266,

342, 369, 431, 632, 653,
658, 674, 685,695, 752, 825,

829, 902, 939, 947, 967,

1006, 1010, 1019; photographs and sketches of, 324,

490, 548, 758; see also

Emancipation Proclamation; Gettysburg Address;

Lincoln assassination

Lincoln, Mary Todd: influence

over President Lincoln, 40

"Lincoln," 902

Lincoln assassination, 95, 101,

234, 330, 403, 446, 568,

615, 716, 896, 971, 1032;

investigation of, 221; Congressional Assassination

Investigation Committee

report, 528; letter by Mrs.

Surratt proclaiming her

innocence, 919; confession

of George Atzerodt, 307;

trial of the Lincoln conspirators, 446, 495, 568;

trial of John Surratt, 307;

public reaction in the North

to the Lincoln assassination, 131, 650-51, 658, 783;

reaction among Federal

soldiers to the assassination,

500, 551, 1000; reaction

among southerners, 462;

report of Dr. C. A. Leale on

Lincoln's wound and death,

528; Lincoln funeral, 620;

photographs of the

execution of the Lincoln

conspirators, 101; assassination attempts, 350

Lincoln Day-by-Day (1960):

drafts of, 967

Lincoln's Journey to Greatness

(1960): draft of unpublished

appendix for, 829

Lindsay, W. S., 608

Lindsley, Margaret L., 751

Little, W. A., 991

Little Rock, Ark: attitude of

inhabitants toward the war,

460; mentioned, 769, 838

"Little Round Top," 777

Livingston, E. A., 549

Livingston, Eugene: letters and

discharge certificate of, 549

Livingston, John W., 606

Livingston, Robert R., 549

"Lloyd's New Military Map of

the Border & Southern

States," 500

"Lloyd's Official Map of the

State of Tennessee," 146

Lockhart, John P., 598

Lockman, Mrs., 205

Lockwood, Abram L., 550

Lockwood, Jeremiah T., 551

Locust Grove, Va.: skirmish at,

314

Lodona (U.S.S.), 183

Logan, John Alexander, 552,

847

Logan's Cross Roads, Ky., Battle

of, 155

Logbooks, 30,158, 373, 811, 832

Logue, Lloyd Garrison, 553

Loines, Mary Hillard, 558

London Illustrated Times, 90

Long, Breckinridge, 554

Long, Everett B., 255

Long, William S.: reminiscences

of, 554

Longstreet, James: correspondence of, 9, 66, 1021; notes,

articles, and lectures on,

810; description of, 894; engraved portrait of, 1034;

signature of, 193

Lookingbeal, Emanuel, 646

Lookout Mountain, Ga., Battle

of, 80, 105, 450, 503, 578,

343
703, 878

Loper, R. F.: biographical sketch'

of, 694; profiteering on ship

leases, 694

Lord, John B., 680

Lord, W. W., 555

Loring, William W., 973

Lossing, Benjamin: correspondence of, 245, 985; reports

on interviews with Federal

soldiers who participated in

the Fort Sumter affair, 955

Loudoun Valley Campaign, 869

Louisiana: campaigns in, 32,

41, 48, 78, 82, 91, 135, 152,

339,360, 365,426, 491, 558,

641, 671, 685, 748, 892;

photograph of State House,

725; burning of State House,

685; State constitution, 384;

ordinance of secession, 830;

economic conditions in, 32;

smuggling in, 672; conscription in, 190; war

governors, 10, 384, 557, 624,

1008; see also Banks,

Nathaniel P.; Butler,

Benjamin F.; New Orleans,

La.; Red River Campaigns

Louisiana troops: (artillery) 1st

Lousiana, 656; Washington

Artillery, 447; (infantry)

1st, 607; 3d, 738; 9th, 931;

19th, 159; Planter's Life

Guard, 545; militia, 789

Louisville, Ky.: troops from,

405; fortification of, 703;

mentioned, 936, 1047

Louisville (U.S.S.): photograph

of, 725

Love, John James Hervey, 556

Lovell, Mansfield, 557, 719

Low-Mills families, 558

Lowe, John, 559

Lowe, Thaddeus S. C, 18

Lowndes, Thomas Pinckney:

reminiscences of, 560

Lowndes, William, 560

Loyal Eastern Virginia Volunteers; see Virginia troops

Loyalists; see Unionists

Lucas, Simon, 332

Luce, Stephen Bleecker, 316,

561

Luce, William: capture of, 416

Lucy (blockade runner): capture

of, 889

Ludwig, Edwin F., 562

Luella, 852

Lunsford, William D., 598

Lurton, Horace Harmon, 563

Lynchburg, Va., 191, 510

Lynchburg Artillery: at the

Battle of Williamsburg, 870

Lyon, Nathaniel, 349

Lyons, Richard Bickerton

Pemell, 1st Earl, 564

Lyons, Thomas, 565

McAdoo, John D., 566

McAdoo, William Gibbs, 566

McAdoo, William Gibbs, Jr., 566

McBride, Alexander: trial of,

813

McCabe, Flora Morgan, 567

McCabe, J. P., 837

McCall, George Archibald, 589,

590, 819

McCalla, Helen Varnum Hill,

568

McCarter, Mr., 569

Macartney, F. A., 214

McCleery, Robert W., 570

McClellan, George Brinton, 571;

correspondence of, 18,

41-42, 76, 81,173, 326, 428,

438,482, 521, 524, 546, 784,

850, 872, 895-96, 913, 966,

344
1042; West Virginia Campaign, 729; treatment of

General Scott, 1042; plan

for the conduct of the war,

78; Peninsular Campaign,

326; attitude of soldiers

toward, 435, 844; troop reviews, 819; meetings with

Salmon P. Chase, 169;

generalship of, 40, 99, 349,

420, 458, 496, 508, 725;

opposition of Radicals to,

78; criticism of, 381, 897;

President Lincoln's disappointment with, 458; reaction over dismissal of, 725;

report of, 438; political

aspirations of, 571; article

on "General McClellan's

Dream," 792; photographs

of, 490, 938; mentioned,

660

McClellan, George Brinton, Jr.,

572

McClellan's bodyguard, 33

McClellan's Own Story (1887),

571

McClernand, John Alexander:

letter of, 416; generalship

and character of, 390, 397,

725, 760; conflict with

General Grant, 953

McClintock, James M., 573

McClure, Charles, 346

McCluskey, M., 59

McConihe, John, 574

McCook, Alexander McDowell,

575

McCook, Anson George, 575

McCook, Charles M., 575

McCook, Daniel, 575

McCook, Edwin Stanton, 575

McCook, Robert Latimer, 575

McCook, Roderick Sheldon, 575

McCook family, 575

McCoy, Frank Ross, 576

McCoy, Thomas Franklin, 576

McCriekett, M. J., 67

McCulloch, Ben, 480; engraved

portrait of, 1034

McCullough, James T., 577

McCullough, Samuel Thomas,

453

McCurdy, Robert Henry, 461

McDonald, Lewis, 208

McDonald, William Ogden, 578

McDougall, Charles, 626

McDowell, Irvin: correspondence of, 571, 825, 1064;

generalship of, 99, 349, 420,

496, 783; mentioned, 1029

McDowell, John A.: report on the

Battle of Shiloh, 438

Macedonian (U.S.S.), 561, 1039

McEwen, John, 579

McFall, William, 952

McGarrah, Gates W., 580

McGuire, Hunter, 453

McHenry, George, 454

McHenry, James, 581

MacKaye, James Morrison, 582

McKean, Thomas Jefferson,

583, 647

McKean, William W., 832

McKee, John, 584

McKee, Mary T., 584

McKenzie, J., 401

McKinley, William, 585

McKinley, William C, 586

McLaws, Lafayette, 287

McLean House: sketch of, 140

McLellan, George W., 603

McLennan, Donald, 587

McLennan, Roderick, 587

McMahon, M. T., 885

McManaway, Charles Harvey,

588

MacMaster, Donald, 587

345
McMichael, J. C, 589

McNeil, John, 233

McNeill, Jesse, 294

Macomb, Ann Minerva, 783

Macomb, John N., 783

Macon, Ga.: General Stoneman's raid on, 146;

Federal capture and

occupation of, 352, 636;

Federal prisoners of war

at, 84

McPherson, B. R., 592

McPherson, Edward, 590

McPherson, George E., 592

McPherson, James Birdseye,

591; orders of, 768;

generalship and character

of, 380; death of, 64, 850

McPherson, Theodore H. N.,

592

McRae, Colin John, 454

McReynolds, A. T., 326

Macy, S. W., 863

Magoffin, Beriah, 409, 593,

723

Magrath, Andrew Gordon, 21,

594

Magruder, John Bankhead:

campaigns in Arkansas,

894; description of, 894;

comments on, 939

Mahan, Alfred Thayer, 595

Mahan, Dennis H., 877

Mahaska (U.S.S.), 432

Mail: military mail during

Atlanta Campaign, 603;

captured Confederate

mail, 603;

contraband mail, 472

Maine troops: (artillery) 2d

Battery, 69; (infantry) 1st,

542; 3d, 544; 5th, 806;

13th, 907; 16th, 671, 992;

18th, 991; 19th, 835; 20th,

162

Major Robert Anderson and

Fort Sumter (1911), 21

Mallet, John W, 220

Mallory, Stephen Russell, 596;

correspondence of, 492,

870; official report for

1864, 232; statements concerning ship purchases,

222

Malvern (U.S.S.), 177, 365,

597, 860

Malvern Hill, Va., Battle of,

148, 419, 428, 482, 488,

495, 578, 859

Manassas Campaign; see First

Manassas Campaign;

Second Manassas Campaign

Manchester Guardian, 103

Mangum, Academus, 598

Mangum, Addeson M., 598

Mangum, Learned H., 598

Mangum, Willie Person, 598

Mangum, Willie Person, Jr.,

598

Manhattan (U.S.S.), 822

Manigault, Alfred: photograph

of, 599; death of, 599

Manigault, Charles, 599

Manigault, Gabriel E.: correspondence of, 599; exchange of, 599

Manigault, Louis, 599

Mann, Ambrose Dudley, 189,

454, 608

Mann, Maria R., 600

Mann, Mary Tyler Peabody,

600

Mansfield, Joseph King Fenno,

524, 601, 847, 913

Mansfield, La.; see Sabine

Cross Roads

"Map of the Seat of War Showing the Battles of July

18th, 21st, and Oct. 21st,

346
1861," 979

Mapmaking, 33

Maps and sketches: battles and

skirmishes, 42, 143, 148,

162, 351, 453, 460-61,

466, 473, 503, 551-52, 598,

622, 710, 800, 865, 913,

1046, 1058; forts and

fortifications, 422, 438,

533, 535, 784, 821, 888,

960; geographical areas,

9, 146, 266, 410, 460, 467,

490, 500, 505, 552, 599,

751, 781, 979; towns and

cities, 168, 461, 490, 500,

715; military camps and

facilities, 270, 622, 938;

military hospitals and service organizations, 393,

965, 969; naval vessels

and ordnance, 860, 996;

flags, 599; officers, 938;

bridges, 938; miscellaneous, 14, 162, 187, 290,

335, 338, 373, 377, 428,

467, 546, 582, 590, 693,

735, 758, 798, 820, 825,

850, 896, 938, 947, 1028

Marble, Manton Malone, 602

Marblehead (U.S.S.), 673; service in the Peninsular

Campaign, 764

"March From Mississippi Into

Kentucky," 405

March to the sea; see

Savannah Campaign;

Sherman, William

Tecumseh

Marches: (C.S. Army) 159, 383,

386, 419, 452, 473, 488,

525, 554, 859, 1021; (U.S.

Army) 20, 61, 63, 99, 103,

155, 185, 188, 195, 249,

300, 318, 331, 352-53, 355,

357, 359-60, 391, 405, 410,

415, 426, 429, 436, 439,

449, 462, 476, 478, 483,

491, 500, 522-23, 526, 539,

542, 558, 578, 592, 605,

618, 640-41, 666-67, 680,

685, 687, 703, 709, 715,

717, 741, 746, 748, 758-60,

766, 776, 782, 803-805,

816, 869, 884, 886, 903,

921, 942, 946, 972, 982,

1000, 1009, 1022, 1029,

1038, 1063

Marching With Sherman

(1927), 457

Marcy, Randolph Barnes, 326,

403, 571, 861, 921

Mare Island, Calif, 832

Marietta, Ga.: skirmish at,

148; mentioned, 312, 503;

see also Kenesaw Mountain, Battle of

Marion (U.S. Sloop), 505

"The Mark of the Scalpel," 615

Markland, Absalom H., 603

Marsh, Hayard: photograph of,

1041

Marshall, Charles, 287

Marshall, Daniel W., 604

Marshall, Henry, 334

Marshall, John Wesley, 605

Marshall, Tex., 411, 769

Marston, John, 606

Mart, Charles, 607

Martin, James A., 467

Martin, P. C, 608

Martinsburg, W. Va.: burning

of public buildings in, 859

Marvin, John, 179

Mary Sanford (U.S.S.): log of,

373

Maryland: campaigns in, 35,

78, 135, 426, 438, 551,

681, 748, 855, 869, 943,

347
1022; see also Antietam

Campaign; Gettysburg

Campaign; and individual

battles and skirmishes.

Secessionist sentiment in,

419, 595, 1011; Unionist

sentiment in, 488; attitude

of noncombatants in, 786;

political prisoners in, 827;

wartime travel in, 786;

black volunteers from,

214; returns of Confederate soldiers and

sailors from, 875

Maryland Heights, Md.:

skirmish at, 990

Maryland troops: C.S. Army

(artillery) 1st Maryland

Battery, 419; U.S. Army

(infantry) 1st, 512; 3d,

682; 4th, 646; 6th, 353;

7th, 512; 17th, 608; 24th,

586; 30th, 175

Mason, Augusta (Mrs.), 789

Mason, James Murray, 608;

correspondence of, 77, 189,

608, 833; meetings

with Duncan F. Kenner,

506; capture of, 1006;

mentioned, 995

Mason's Hill, Va.: Confederate

expedition to, 744

Massachussets, 609; correspondence of Gov. John

Albion Andrew, 91, 823;

adjutant general in, 823;

public support for the war

in, 1055

Massachusetts Historical

Society: copies of documents in, 6, 316, 684,

748, 766, 812-13, 844,

879-80, 1042

Massachusetts troops: (artillery) 1st Battery Light

Artillery, 257; 5th Battery

Light Artillery, 478; 9th

Battery Light Artillery,

758; 13th Battery Light

Artillery, 481; (cavalry)

1st, 371, 478; (infantry)

1st, 695; 2d, 20; 5th,

1055; 10th, 237; 13th, 609;

15th, 958; 17th, 478; 18th,

776; 20th, 445, 746,

766; 21st, 226-27, 940;

22d, 359; 23d, 675; 27th,

709; 28th, 1005; 29th, 476;

32d, 478, 609; 33d, 609;

35th, 609; 36th, 264; 37th,

692, 1009; 39th, 478, 609;

43d, 844; 44th, 1; 47th,

478; 50th, 609; 53d, 123;

54th, 508; 55th, 508; 59th,

609; service of, 3, 910

Massey, R. H., 610

Mathias Point, Va.: Federal

shelling of, 796

Mattes, Merrill J., 133

Matthewson, Arthur, 611

Maumee (U.S.S.), 177

Maury, Betty Herndon, 612

Maury, Dabney E., 287, 614

Maury, Dabney Herndon, 613,

973

Maury, John H.: death of, 614

Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 614;

correspondence of, 454,

784; disagreement with

President Davis, 612

Maury, Richard L., 614

May, John Frederick, 615

Mayfield, Ky., 593

Mayo, Joseph, 616

Mazzini, Giuseppe, 617

Mead, David, 618

Mead, Jennie C, 618

Mead, Rufus, 618

348
Meade, Major: death of, 532

Meade, George Gordon: correspondence of, 18, 41, 78,

81, 413, 466, 546, 571,

846, 913, 980, 1035; confidential agents to, 33; generalship of, 203; photographs of, 938, 1040

Meade, William, 619

Meagher, Thomas Francis,

620, 913, 992

Mearns, Edgar Alexander, 621

Mechanicsville, Va., Battle of,

12, 148, 495, 589

Medal of Honor: awarded for

service at Mobile Bay,

707; black recipients of,

311

Medical care: (C.S. Army) 23,

44, 168, 200, 332, 453,

473, 525, 598-99, 619, 716,

733, 837, 872, 982, 987,

1021; (U.S. Army) 12, 20,

23, 37, 54, 69, 80, 98,

119, 123, 187, 203, 207,

211, 237, 259, 309, 351,

353, 359-60, 363, 365, 391-

92, 410, 421-22, 426, 434,

442, 455, 460, 471, 476,

478, 499, 529, 544, 551,

558, 578, 590, 617, 626,

640-41, 650, 667, 671, 685,

687, 702-703, 709, 711,

715, 717, 725, 741, 748,

759, 766, 772-73, 781-82,

804, 826, 869, 879-80, 938,

946, 953, 962, 965, 972,

978, 982, 1009, 1016,

1019, 1022, 1030, 1055,

1060, 1063; (U.S. Navy)

3, 451, 606, 635, 725

Medical Department: (C.S.

Army) administration of,

599; report to the surgeon

general in, 979; pay of

soldiers detained in, 870;

medical examiners in, 190;

contracts and supplies,

168; (U.S. Army) organization and administration of,

348, 578, 725, 962; relations with the Christian

Sanitary Commission, 578;

correspondence concerning

appointments in, 824; confusion and mismanagement in, 578; the acquisition and distribution of

supplies in, 80, 256, 650,

685; miscellaneous invoices and receipts, 906;

see also Physicians and

surgeons

Medill, W. H., 397

Meigs, John Rodgers:

report on the death of, 622

Meigs, Montgomery

Cunningham, 622; correspondence of, 41, 783-84,

847, 913; military contract, 271

Meigs, Return Jonathan, 623

Mejan, Eugene, 624

Memminger, Christopher

Gustavus, 77, 100, 189,

212, 222, 392, 608, 778,

913, 955

Memoirs of General William T.

Sherman (1875): draft of,

850

"Memoranda of Events That

Transpired at Jacksonville, Florida, & in Its

Vicinity," 252

Memphis, Tenn.: conditions

in, 250; plans for defense

of, 507; fortifications at,

598; U.S. Post Office at,

349
603; U.S. hospitals at, 52,

471, 725; mentioned,

390, 402, 507

Mercedita (U.S.S.), 388, 411

Meredith, William D., 625

Meridian Campaign, 441, 733,

850, 953

Merriam, J. W., 507

Merrill, John H, 266

Merrimac (C.S.S.): construction

of, 304; armor and ordnance on, 1006; battle

with U.S.S. Monitor, 156,

374, 608; Federal plan of

attack on, 304; scuttling

of, 354; comments on, 686;

mentioned, 1057; see also

Monitor-Merrimac affair

Merrimac (U.S.S), 844

Merritt, Wesley, 193, 315, 846

Mervine, William, 832

Merwin, James Burtis, 626

Methodist Episcopal Church:

confiscation of church

property, 43; conflicting

claims for property, 864

Mexican Pacific Coal and Iron

Mining and Land Company, 728

Mexico: Confederate agents in,

189, 347, 719; release of

Confederate funds to, 77;

claim for Oriente, 222;

French activity in, 728;

Confederate expatriates

in, 614

Michigan (U.S. steamer):

Confederate plan to seize,

306, 833

Michigan, University of: copies

of manuscripts at, 886

Michigan troops: (artillery)

Battery F, 1st Regiment

Light Artillery, 631;

(cavalry) 2d, 299; 3d, 266,

433; 5th, 433; (engineers)

1st Regiment Engineers

and Mechanics, 188; (infantry) 2d, 729; 7th, 680;

12th, 274; 18th, 186; 23d,

886

Michler, Nathaniel: photograph of, 938

Middleburg, Tenn.: skirmish

near, 274

Middleburg, Va.: skirmish at,

162

Middletown, Va., 415

Miers, Earl Schenck, 627, 967

Milan, 624

Miles, Nelson Appleton, 629

Miles, William Porcher, 628,

789, 955

Miles-Cameron families, 629

Military passes, 111, 140, 161,

176, 196, 210, 232-33, 258,

260-61, 311, 314, 348,

350, 371-72, 411, 421, 447,

486, 498, 507, 525, 578,

599, 603-604, 620, 633-

34, 638, 682, 689-90, 761,

774, 799, 844, 890, 913,

921, 934, 963, 994, 1012,

1029, 1042, 1047

Military telegraph, 150, 175,

178, 655, 659, 774, 793,

819, 846; see also "Semophoric Telegraphic

Signals"; Telegrams

Military training; see Training

Militia: Louisiana, 789; New

York, 654, 801, 814;

Pennsylvania, 646; New

Jersey, 887

Milledgeville, Ga., 312

Miller, Allen Woods, 630

Miller, Frederick L.: photograph of, 1041

350
Miller, Marshall Mortimer,

631

Miller, William, 332

Millikens Bend, La.: engagement at, 152; mentioned,

760

Millwood plantation, Va., 619

Milroy, Robert Huston: correspondence of, 850; Confederate operations against,

532

Milton, George Fort, 632

Mine Run, Va.: skirmish at,

419

Mine Run Campaign, 130, 335,

500, 526, 699, 758, 793;

reports on, 272

Mines; see Arms and

ammunition; Torpedoes

Minnesota (U.S.S.), 156, 365,

822; torpedo attack on,

365; sketch of, 365

Minnesota troops: (infantry)

1st, 579; 3d, 579

Minor, Marietta, 633

Minor, Mary, 633

Minor, Smith, 634

Missionary Ridge, Battle of,

80, 105, 450, 503, 578,

703, 850, 878, 925; see

also Chattanooga Campaign

Mississippi (C.S.S.), 649

Mississippi (U.S.S.): log from,

535, 832; destruction of,

244

Mississippi: campaigns in, 39,

44, 46, 48, 63, 78, 82, 91,

116, 123, 152, 300, 382,

433, 491, 613, 630, 637,

671, 702, 730, 805, 946,

953, 975, 982; see also

Corinth Campaigns; Meridian Campaign; Vicksburg

Campaign; and individual

battles and skirmishes.

Union supply depots in,

591; Union hospitals in,

946; effects of the war in,

174, 250, 978; Confederate

troop movements in, 27,

402, 1034

Mississippi, Department of the:

(U.S. Army) 387

Mississippi, Division of the:

(U.S. Army) 187, 729,

1061

Mississippi River: Confederate

fortifications along, 723;

Union troop movements

on, 14, 41, 175, 804;

military operations along,

32, 63, 306, 686, 734,

760, 784, 800, 972

Mississippi Squadron: (U.S.

Navy) 251, 313, 686, 832

Mississippi troops: (infantry)

17th, 404

Missouri (C.S.S.): accounts

concerning, 189

Missouri: campaigns in, 91,

367, 434, 480, 598, 1060;

Federal policy in, 820;

political and military

situation in, 245, 685, 820;

recruitment and military

organization in, 349, 1049;

Confederate sympathizers

in, 300; guerrilla warfare

in, 128, 434, 1060; war

governors, 484, 769; impact

of the war on, 156

Missouri, Department of: (U.S.

Army) official correspondence and dispatches, 387,

438, 820; headquarters

letterbook, 178

Missouri, Kansas, and

351
Arkansas, Department of:

(U.S. Army) 178

Missouri troops: C.S. Army

(cavalry) 1st, 525. U.S.

Army (cavalry) 1st, 1049;

12th, 843; (infantry) 3d,

290, 760; 10th, 455; 11th,

488; 13th, 39; 17th, 404;

30th, 63; 33d, 733; list of

regiments, 34; organization

and service of the 12th

Cavalry Regiment, 843;

organization and disposition, 949; discipline

among, 744

Missroon, John S., 673, 784

Mitchell, Benjamin, 635

Mitchell, Charles D., 636

Mitchell, James B., 637

Mitchell, James S., 638

Mitchell, Marcellus, 639

Mitchell, Ormsby M., 173

Mitchell, T. F., 85

Mitchell, William M., 85

Mobile, Ala.: defenses of, 220,

481, 856; Siege of, 14, 804,

946; treatment of noncombatants in, 63;

mentioned, 987

Mobile and Girard Railroad:

account of, 55

Mobile Bay, Battle of, 92, 200,

206, 279, 292, 343, 505,

707, 804; naval skirmishes

in, 933; Federal blockade

of, 566, 800, 881, 907, 1003;

escape of C.S.S. Florida

from, 265

Mobile Campaign, 63,152, 187,

206, 357

Mobile County, Ala.: list of

taxable property and tax

rates in, 995

"A Modern Soldier of Fortune,"

331

Moler, Nelia, 22

Money; see Paper currency

Monitor (U.S.S.): remarks on,

558, 1057

Monitor class vessels: construction and performance of,

306; comparative evaluation with ironclads, 784;

living conditions on, 1003;

use and utility of, 750, 1006

Monitor•-Merrimac affair, 156,

223, 374, 601, 739, 842

Monongahela (U.S.S.), 407;

photograph of, 802

Monongalia County, W. Va.:

arrest and prosecution of

Confederate sympathizers

in, 795

Monroe, John J., 624

Monroe County, W. Va.: military situation in, 754

Montague, R. S., 995

Montauk (U.S.S.), 1057

Montevallo, Ala.: skirmish at,

636

Montgomery, James H., 640

Montgomery, R. H., 783

Montgomery, William Reading:

generalship of, 496

Montgomery family, 641

Montgomery, Ala.: Federal

capture and occupation of,

352, 636; mentioned, 628,

856, 1045

Moore, D. P., 323

Moore, R., 323

Moore, Samuel P., 599, 870

Moore, Thomas Overton, 624

Morale: (C S. Army) 18, 23, 27,

44, 85, 143, 159, 220, 367,

412, 419, 452-53, 473,

352
554-55, 567, 598, 619, 637,

703, 729, 736, 741, 743,

859, 901, 956, 1021, 1023,

1058; (U.S. Army) 20, 36,

63, 99, 103, 114, 155, 175,

188, 248, 264, 300, 309,

314, 351, 355, 359, 366,

391, 396-97, 422-23, 426,

434-35, 439, 442, 462, 480,

491, 495, 500, 508, 522-23,

529, 539, 551-52, 558, 579,

592, 605, 618, 659, 666,

680, 685, 687, 699, 703,

705, 717, 741, 748, 758-60,

765-66, 773, 782, 804-805,

816, 825, 844, 855, 869,

878-79, 884, 892, 896, 903,

938, 946, 958, 972, 975,

992, 1000, 1009, 1022,

1027, 1037, 1055, 1060,

1063; (U.S. Navy) 796

Morality, 183, 544, 758, 1016,

1027, 1063

Moran, Benjamin, 642-43

Moran, Frank E., 644

Mordecai, Alfred, 645

Mordecai, Alfred, II, 645

Mordecai, Ellen, 645

More, E. J., 646

Morehead City, N.C., 258

Morell, George W., 913

Moreno, Francisco, 538, 647

Morgan, Edwin D., 546

Morgan, George Washington,

648, 979

Morgan, James Morris, 649

Morgan, John H., 567

Morgan, John Hunt: skirmishes

with Federal troops, 449,

741; escapes trap near

Lawrenceburg, Ky., 408;

raid on Columbia, Ky.,

703; pursuit of in Kentucky, 405; pursuit and

capture in Ohio, 495, 523,

683

Morgan, Margaret A., 567

Morgan, Thomas J., 86

Morgan, William C, 567

Morley, Edward Williams, 650

Morning Globe, 1016

Moro Creek, Ark.: skirmish at,

630

Morrell, Charles W., 651

Morrill, Justin Smith, 652

Morris, George P., 814

Morris, J. L., 27

Morris, Martha Elizabeth

Wright, 653

Morris-Popham families, 654

Morris Island, S.C.: Federal

operations on, 493, 1034;

mentioned, 1017, 1054

Morse, Charles N., 656

Morse, Samuel Finley Breese,

655

Morse family, 656

Morton, Oliver P., 413

Morton, Richard, 1021

Mosby, John Singleton, 192,

657, 872

Mosby's Rangers, 657, 943; see

also Partisan Rangers

Moscow, Ky., 114

Moss, Helen Palmer Hess, 658

Motley, John L., 444

Mott, Gershom, 861

Mound City, 111.: photograph of

commandant's house at,

725

Mountain Department: (U.S.

Army) 329, 348

Muir, Susan H., 470

Munfordville, Ky., Battle of,

741, 888

Munson, Myron A., 650

Murfreesboro, Tenn., Battle of,

239, 400, 605, 637, 640,

353
816, 906; secessionist sentiment in, 864

Murrell's Inlet, S.C.: sketch of,

373; expedition to, 373

Musicians: (C.S. Army) 159,

733; (U.S. Army) 49, 746

Muster rolls: (C.S. Army) 189,

296, 531, 677; (U.S. Army)

42, 146, 162, 198, 266, 355,

371, 396, 410, 422, 429,

578, 585, 609, 633, 663,

884, 891-92

"My Experience in the Quantrill Raid," 379

"My Father Led General

J. E. B. Stuart to Gettysburg," 857

"My Pursuit of Gen. John H.

Morgan's Troops," 405

"My Reminiscences of the War,"

537

"My Service in the 1st U.S.

Colored Cavalry," 86

Myer, Albert James, 659-60

Myer, Elizabeth Shriver, 857

Myers, Abraham C, 789

Myers, T. Bailey, 395

Nahant (U.S.S.), 867

Nantucket (U.S.S.), 65, 561

Nashville (C.S.S.), 649, 995;

sinking of, 84

Nashville, Tenn.: Siege of, 751;

Federal occupation of, 751,

782, 878, 1027, 1063;

Union sentiment in, 603;

fortifications surrounding,

605; military post office

established at, 603; attitude of noncombatants in,

904; mentioned, 982

Nashville, Tenn., Battle of, 838,

888

Nashville Campaign; see

Franklin and Nashville

Campaign

Nassau: contraband trade with,

822; list of Confederate

vessels at, 858

Natchez, Miss., 813

National Freedmen's Relief

Association: official correspondence and records of,

421

National Tribune, 1001

Navajo expedition, 153

Naval Brigade, 375, 418

Naval Duties and Discipline

With the Policy and Principles of Naval Organization (1865), 785

Naval Historical Foundation

collections, 65, 71, 84, 92,

109, 122, 155, 157-58, 163,

183, 200, 206, 230, 254,

267, 293, 304, 334, 350,

359, 365, 373, 407, 418,

451, 505, 514, 535, 559,

561, 570, 595, 597, 606,

611, 649, 673, 686, 707,

712, 725, 737, 739, 742,

750, 763, 770, 784-85, 796,

800, 802, 822, 832-34, 858,

860, 867, 876, 881, 905,

920, 927, 933, 968, 996,

1003, 1039, 1041, 1045,

1050, 1056-57

Navy; see Confederate States

Navy; U. S. Navy

The Navy in Congress (1865),

832

Neely, McGinley M., 661

Negroes; see Black soldiers;

Blacks; Slavery

Nellis, Joseph: death of, 590

Nellis, William, 590

Nelson, Thomas Henry, 662

Nelson, William, 215; death of,

354
640, 782, 925

Netherlands: diplomatic relations with the United

States, 722

Neutral rights, 132, 535; see

also Benjamin, Judah P.

Nevin, Wilberforce, 816

New Bern, N.C., Battle of,

523, 575, 675, 796

New Bern, N.C.: Federal capture and occupation of,

425, 478, 586, 709, 803;

blacks in, 478; U.S. Christian Commission delegates

in, 965; mentioned, 467

New England Soldiers Relief

Association, 461

New Hampshire troops:

(infantry) 4th, 421; 9th,

421

New Iberia, La.: skirmish at,

491

New Ironsides (U.S.S.): construction and performance

of, 71, 750; service of,

750; torpedo attacks on,

796, 867

New Jersey Infantry—7th

Regiment, 663

New Jersey troops: (cavalry)

1st, 943; 3d, 921; (infantry)

5th, 887; 7th, 591, 663;

13th, 149, 556; 24th, 887;

25th, 687; 30th, 504;

(militia) 4th, 887

New Madrid, Mo.: Federal

capture of, 434

New Market, Va., Battle of,

422

New Mexico Territory: secessionists efforts in, 417;

California Column in, 396;

Federal operations in, 396

New Mexico troops: (infantry)

1st, 153

New Orleans, La.: Confederate

plans for defense of, 719;

fortifications at, 734;

sketch of fortifications at,

438; foreign volunteer

organizations in, 624;

mayor of, 624; French

consul at, 135, 624;

German consul at, 517;

Spanish consul at, 135;

law firms in, 545; Federal

preparations for expedition

against, 304; capture of,

30, 73, 292, 1001, 1006;

occupation of, 135, 242,

566, 641, 672, 686, 716,

734, 874; conditions during

the Federal occupation, 14,

41, 63, 305, 318, 426, 535,

702, 716, 804; corruption

in, 535, 557; escape from,

672; Federal camps near,

124, 481; Federal Treasury

agents in, 169; inquiry on

the fall of, 557; vessels

stranded in, 694; quarantine of vessels bound for,

858; establishment of U.S.

Post Office at, 603; mentioned, 278, 360, 972; see

also Butler, Benjamin F.;

Fort Jackson; Fort St.

Philip

New Providence, Bahama

Islands, 524

New York: adjutant general

in, 756; quartermaster

general in, 580; enlistments and recruiting in,

115, 756, 791; 6th Military

District of, 115

New York—5th Cavalry, 664

New York City: anti-draft riots

355
in, 136, 500, 524, 568

New York City—Draft Board,

665

New York Herald, 78, 140,

501, 708

New-York Historical Society:

copies of documents in,

549

New York State Volunteers—

16th Regiment, 666

New York Times, 501, 1002

New York Tribune, 370, 403

New York troops: (artillery)

4th, 26; 6th, 1012; 4th

Heavy Artillery, 551; (cavalry) 1st, 326, 529; 1st

Dragoons, 869; 2d Veteran,

269; 2d Mounted Rifles,

177; 4th, 667; 5th, 664;

9th, 436, 466, 862; 24th,

177; (infantry) 3d, 182;

4th, 620; 5th, 260; 7th

State Militia, 295; 9th,

502, 1022; 9th Veteran,

441; 10th, 746; 12th, 990;

13th, 388; 13th National

Guard, 801; 16th, 666;

17th Veteran, 441; 21st,

680; 25th, 916; 28th, 99;

31st, 801; 38th, 544; 40th,

544; 41st, 325; 47th National Guard, 365; 48th,

680, 694, 765; 50th, 437;

65th, 578; 66th, 572; 68th,

331; 69th State Militia,

430, 814; 71st, 711, 790;

71st State Militia, 351,

654; 73d, 711; 74th, 106,

893; 92d, 781; 94th, 680,

696-97; 95th, 549; 101st,

249; 104th, 898; 108th, 35,

772; 111th, 705; 112th,

700, 717; 119th, 249;

120th, 550; 132d, 803;

140th, 35; 150th, 799;

151st, 314; 160th, 49;

169th, 574; 176th, 179,

558; 177th, 360; organization and disposition of,

461; recruitment of, 791;

mustering of, 756; service

of, 910

New York Weekly, 124

Newable, Charles S., 443

Newberry, Walter C, 177

Newburger, Alexander, 667

Newcomb, Simon, 668

Newcome, C. S., 595

Newhall, John Otis: discharge

of one of his five sons, 823

Newlin, William Henry, 669

Newman, G. W., 670

Newman, Mary A.: affidavits

concerning slave seizures

and depredations, 176

Newport, Ky.: fortifications at,

511, 534

Newspapers, 263, 309, 347,

454, 500, 659, 753, 762,

792, 917, 1009, 1016, 1064;

clippings from, 31, 127,

149, 354-55, 359, 370, 389,

402, 424, 428, 430-31, 452,

457, 497, 501, 505, 521,

526, 551, 590, 599, 622,

653, 659, 693, 712, 718,

734, 739, 762, 790, 806,

808, 812, 825, 827, 840,

846, 873, 875, 921, 924,

947, 957, 969, 984, 989,

1006, 1018, 1029, 1034

Niagara (U.S.S.), 3, 158, 451

Niagara Falls Peace Conference, 306

Nichols, Charles Henry, 671

Nichols, Julius, 871

Nicholson, John P., 985

Nicholson, Robert Livingston,

356
672

Nicholson, Sommerville, 673

Nicolay, John George, 674;

correspondence of, 546;

notes on military appointments, 416

Niles, Peter H., 675

Noble, John Willock, 676

Nolan, B. P., 1021

Noncombatants (southern): attitude and morale of, 20,

84, 300, 309, 317, 352,

355, 396, 426, 429, 439,

452, 460, 473, 478, 488,

500, 531, 539, 575, 586,

599, 601, 618, 641, 650,

666, 686, 694, 714, 736-37,

743-44, 748, 751, 759, 764,

786, 816, 847, 857, 869,

904, 949, 975, 978, 989;

treatment by Federal soldiers, 53, 140, 148, 174,

239, 274, 279, 309, 399,

468, 500, 587, 610, 631,

636, 641, 747, 847, 892,

970, 979, 1009, 1037; suffering of, 44, 453, 462,

465, 468, 555, 591, 612,

614, 636, 705, 714, 745,

850, 921, 978, 980, 1021,

1023; effect of war on, 411,

523, 555, 558, 1014, 1029;

arrest of, 989; displacement

of, 888; murder of, 913;

Federal policy toward, 583

Norfolk, Va.: fortifications at,

994; Federal capture and

occupation of, 50, 601;

political prisoners at, 524;

mentioned, 801, 1024

Norfolk Navy Yard: destruction

of, 686

Norristown, Pa., 646

North Anna River: Battle of,

526; map of, 820; skirmishes along, 187

North Atlantic Blockading

Squadron, 251, 535, 687,

796

North Carolina: campaigns in,

71, 78, 84, 116, 135, 183,

187, 226-27, 264, 311, 354,

376, 388, 410, 425, 478,

488, 508, 586, 675, 844,

1044, 1046; enlistments

and training in, 598; conscription in, 755, 977; war

governors, 118, 1044; map

of (incomplete), 1046; coastal defenses of, 535, 1044;

taxes in, 118; Unionist

activities in, 197; prohibition in, 118; blockade of

coast of, 156

North Carolina, University of:

copies of manuscripts at,

560, 596

North Carolina Infantry—11th

Regiment, 677

North Carolina troops: (infantry) 4th, 23; 11th, 677;

32d, 899; 44th, 554; General Branch's brigade, 532;

2d North Carolina Battalion, 873

North Reading, Mass.: volunteers from, 609

"The North Western Confederacy," 669

Northern Virginia, Army of:

organization of, 33; service

of, 554; official correspondence, orders, returns, and

reports of, 272; pursuit of

in the Antietam Campaign,

572; condition of on the

eve of the Appomattox

Campaign, 411; surrender

357
of, 193, 1040

Northumberland County, Va.:

arming of citizens in, 995

Northwest Territory: possible

loss of to the Confederacy,

417

Norwich (U.S.S.), 592

Notre Dame, University of:

copies of manuscripts at,

125, 291, 851

Nott, Charles C, 179

Nott, J. C, 987

Nottoway Station, Va.: sketch

of, 758

Nourse, Joseph E., 834

Noyes, Edward F., 1060

Noyes, Isaac R., 678

Nurses: (U.S. Army) 1, 54, 80,

101, 227, 422, 682, 915

Nye, James Warren, 679, 832

Oaths, loyalty, 88, 180, 283;

poem about, 757

Octorara (U.S.S.), 822

Officers: (C.S. Army) need for,

789; appointment and promotion of, 202, 344, 383,

392, 452, 532, 562, 769,

778, 789, 973, 1021; election of, 27; quality of, 220;

(U.S. Army) appointment

of, 142, 169, 329, 355, 450,

523, 554, 582, 685, 706,

720, 799, 804, 825, 847,

850, 861, 864, 884, 904,

921, 953, 979, 992-93,

1004, 1030; promotion of,

81, 264, 921, 979; attitude

toward recruits, 758;

attitude toward the Confederacy, 348; rank disputes among, 41, 91, 114,

264, 315, 331, 422, 460,

495-96, 523, 552, 685, 729,

850, 921, 953, 1036; evaluation and criticism of,

124, 169, 326, 348; dismissal of, 804; lists of,

311, 337, 466, 512, 575,

590-91, 1038; photographs

of, 152, 350; (U.S. Navy)

assignment of, 1006; rank

disputes among, 822; lists

of, 561, 764, 996, 1006

Officers of the Western Gulf

Blockading Squadron, 996

Official Army Register, for

1861, 337

Official war records: index for,

1025

Ogden, Robert Curtis, 680

Oglesby, R. J., 784

Oglethorpe Military Prison,

197

Ohio: quartermaster general,

847; adjutant general, 847;

recruits from, 847; training camps in, 339; General

Morgan's raid into, 683;

defense of, 941; plan for

secessionist uprising in,

833; war governor, 941

Ohio, Army of the, 338;

organizational chart for,

603

Ohio, Department of the: telegraph book for, 175

Ohio, Fourth Military District,

683

Ohio Historical Society: copies

of documents at, 970

Ohio National Guard, 301

Ohio River: Federal gunboats

on, 784

Ohio troops: (artillery) 1st

Light Artillery, 94; 2d

Heavy Artillery, 888;

(cavalry) 2d, 156; (in358
fantry) 2d, 559, 575; 3d,

500; 4th, 519; 7th, 172,

553, 1038; 8th, 335; 18th,

133; 20th, 534; 23d, 585,

1060; 25th, 284, 963; 26th,

282; 29th, 979; 31st, 449;

33d, 640; 36th, 301; 38th,

509; 39th, 1060; 42d, 338;

51st, 1063; 64th, 847;

65th, 847; 77th, 865; 78th,

57, 942, 975; 89th, 148,

483; 92d, 207; 97th, 605;

98th, 204, 703; 110th, 500;

121st, 907; 122d, 500;

126th, 575; 128th, 1063;

recruitment and organization of, 729, 979; leadership of, 979; performance

of, 847

Olcott, C. S., 524

Old, William W., 681

Old Capital Prison, 453, 915

Olds, Fred A., 43

O'Leary, Charles, 962

Oliphant, Benjamin F. and

Catherine, 682

Oliver, John F., 683

Oliver family, 684

Olmsted, Alfred H., 685

Olmsted, Frederick Law, 685

Olustee, Fla.: action at, 422;

mentioned, 590

O'Neal, Edward A., 181

Oneida (U.S.S.), 206, 505, 536

O'Neil, Anthony Francis, 686

O'Neil, Charles, 686

Opdycke, Emerson, 669, 845

Operations on Morris Island

(1863), 1034

Orange, Va., 465

Ord, Edward O. C, 850

Orderly books, 108, 296, 664,

768

Orders, miscellaneous, 174,

189, 222, 447, 452, 779,

973, 1034

Ordnance: (C.S. Army) 220,

356, 464; (U.S. Army) 405,

500, 552, 591, 638, 736,

739, 758, 896; (U.S. Navy)

229, 313, 860; see also

Arms and ammunition

Ordnance Department: (U.S.

Army) commissions in,

310

O'Reilley, Miles; see Halpine,

Charles G.

Oreto; see Florida (C.S.S.)

"Organization and Strength of

the Army of the Potomac,"

41

Oriente: claim for seizure of,

222

Orr, James L., 392

Osborn, Joseph Bloomfield,

687

Ossipee (U.S.S.), 907

Otis, Elwell Stephen, 688

Ott, Mary E., 689

Ott, Thomas, 690

Ottawa (U.S.S.), 635

Ouachita River: list of Confederate warships on, 734

Ould, Robert, 438, 913

Owen, Robert Dale, 582, 691

Owen, William, 1060

Owen, William Miller, 692

Owl (blockade runner), 222

Owner, William, 693

Oxford, Miss., 411, 459

Ozark (U.S.S.): photograph of,

725

Pacific, Department of the, 403

Paducah, Ky.: Confederate

attack on, 401; mentioned,

359
680

Paine, Halbert E., 825

Palmer, W. R., 34

Palmer-Loper families, 694

Palmetto State (C.S.S.), 411

Pamphlets: on the secession

crisis, 808; on Confederate

flag designer, 873; miscellaneous, 798, 825-26,

1034

Paper currency, 599, 948;

counterfeiting of, 84; in

North Carolina, 516, 966

Pardons, 38, 180, 189

Paris, France, 872

Park, Maud Wood, 695

Parke, John G., 326

Parker, Mrs., 885

Parker, Dexter, 237

Parker, E. A., 107

Parker, James, 177

Parker, Joel, 571

Parker, John C, 496

Parmenter, Abram Verrick,

696

Paroles, 20, 361, 587, 599,

1033

Parry, Thomas P., 854

Parsons, Byron, 697

Parsons, Henry Chester, 698

"Particulars of the Death of

Maj. Gen. James B.

McPherson," 850

Partisan Rangers, 657, 872;

see also Mosby's Rangers

Passes; see Military passes

Passports, 189, 747

Patapsco (U.S.S.), 513

Patrick Henry (C.S.S.), 412

Patrick, Marsena Rudolph,

699, 913

Patriotism, 794

Patronage, 847, 861, 904,

992-93

Patterson, George Washington,

700

Patterson, Joseph, 701

Patterson, Robert, 81, 735

Patterson, Theodore Cuyler,

701

Patterson, William Franklin,

702

Patterson, La.: skirmish near,

992

Patterson Park Hospital, Baltimore, Md., 773

Pattison, H. A., 864

Patton, John, 703

Pawnee (U.S.S.), 59, 796, 822

Paxton, James Dunlop, 704

Pay and allowances: (C.S.

Army) 189, 870; (U.S.

Army) 38, 41, 228, 405,

416, 500, 522, 671, 821,

847, 979, 1038; (U.S. Navy)

350

Paymaster general: (U.S.

Army) 301

Paymasters, 84, 297

Peace commission, 370

Peace conferences, 306, 901;

suggestions for, 720; safety

of couriers carrying peace

proposals, 980; letter

concerning, 10

Peach Tree Creek, Battle of,

195; see also Atlanta

Campaign

Pease, David, 705

Pease, Solomon, 705

Peck, Frank Henry, 641

Peck, John James, 466, 921

Peckham, Rufus Wheeler, 706

Pegram, John, 186

Pelham, John: death of, 657

Pelham, William, 707

Pemberton, John Clifford, 708;

correspondence of, 158,

360
212, 973; disappointment

with at Vicksburg, 555

Pembroke, 986

Pendergast, Garrett J., 606

Pendleton, Edward, 709

Pendleton, William Nelson,

193

Penguin (U.S.S.), 422

Peninsular Campaign, 18, 23,

33, 41, 106, 148, 184, 249,

326, 377, 383, 386, 397,

412, 419, 428, 435, 438,

452-53, 466, 488, 495-96,

544, 571-72, 578, 589, 602,

604, 659, 686-87, 695, 729,

735, 764, 776, 784, 842,

859, 884, 894, 912, 921,

938, 953, 991, 998, 1021,

1036; list of U.S. vessels

used in, 694; suffering in,

412; mentioned, 790

Pennsylvania: public attitude

toward the war, 786; wartime travel in, 786;

recruiting in, 112; aid to

volunteers and their

dependents, 590

Pennsylvania Magazine of

History and Biography,

786

Pennsylvania Militia, 646

Pennsylvania Reserves; see

Pennsylvania troops

Pennsylvania troops: (artillery)

1st Reserves, 854; (cavalry)

2d Reserves, 391; 9th, 61;

15th, 1046; (infantry) 2d

Reserves, 819; 5th Reserves, 589; 5th, 236; 6th

Reserves, 855; 7th, 590;

8th, 590; 9th Reserves,

884; 17th, 1016; 19th,

1016; 21st, 1016; 38th,

386; 48th, 429; 49th, 25;

56th, 913; 74th, 983; 78th,

944; 79th, 816; 82d, 676;

83d, 25; 84th, 638; 91st,

944; 101st, 197; 103d, 345;

106th, 944; 107th, 576,

592; 110th, 543; 111th,

361; 116th, 522; 118th,

162; 119th, 526; 125th,

676; 139th, 341; 141st,

298; 191st, 391; 196th,

368; Collis' Independent

Company Zouaves de

Afrique, 185; organization

of, 884; comments on, 904;

see also McCall, George A.

Pensacola, Fla., 156; defense

of, 856; fortifications at,

412; Spanish vice consul

at, 583; mentioned, 647

Pensacola Bay, Fla.: Federal

ships fail to enter, 737

Pensions: (U.S. Government)

120, 775; forms for, 224;

correspondence concerning,

682; certificates, 405, 676;

agent, 775; records of, 805,

895, 946, 1009

Peoria, 111., 469

Perham, Aurestus S., 710

Perkins, Edward Thomas, 711

Perkins, George Hamilton, 712

Perkins, Henry Welles, 713

Perkins, Newton W., 641

Perrine, C. O., 781

Perryville, Battle of, 128, 605,

703, 782, 816, 886

Perryville, Ky., 745

Personal Memoirs of P. H.

Sheridan (1888): draft of,

846

Petersburg, Siege of, 16, 66,

112, 182, 203, 311, 335,

352, 376-77, 391, 395, 405,

419, 422, 429, 436, 466,

361
522, 542, 598, 638, 645,

651, 697, 709, 715, 736,

758, 930, 979, 1016, 1034,

1036, 1054; Federal ordnance in, 638; notes on,

1023; sketch of mine explosion, 758; map of, 162;

sketch of, 85; mentioned,

880; see also Petersburg

Campaign

Petersburg Campaign, 7, 25,

112, 135, 162, 187, 231,

309, 377, 429, 453, 495,

500, 523, 526, 542, 576,

602, 699, 746, 758, 778,

793, 869, 903, 938, 953,

969, 1037

Petigru, James Louis, 714

Pettigrew, James Johnston:

career of, 212

Pettigrew, S., 212

Pettus, John J., 973

Peyton, Henry E., 657

Phelps, Ethel L., 715

Phelps, John Wolcott: Confederate reaction to policies

of, 596

Phelps, Samuel L., 784

Phelps, Winthrop Henry, 715

Philadelphia (U.S.S.), 230

Philadelphia: plan for defense

of, 34; British Minister at,

747; mentioned, 866, 1054

Philadelphia Inquirer, 501

Philadelphia Navy Yard, 451,

513

Philadelphia Press, 659, 1064

Phillips, Eugenia Yates Levy,

716

Phillips, Philip, 716

Phillips, Stephen, 366

Photographers, 998

Photographs and portraits:

miscellaneous, 7, 18, 98,

192, 290, 359, 363, 377,

411, 490, 551, 980, 996,

1028

Physicians and surgeons: (C.S.

Army) 137, 168, 190, 194,

453, 599, 670, 837, 870;

register of surgeons in the

Army of Tennessee, 194;

(U.S. Army) 29, 52, 61, 74,

104, 207, 211, 226, 248,

274, 356, 387, 401, 421,

435, 471, 476, 518, 528,

544, 556, 578, 615, 711,

740, 766, 824, 854, 906,

940, 962; treatment as

prisoners of war, 387, 401;

(U.S. Navy) 3, 52, 122,

451, 611, 725; (private)

226, 465, 615, 740, 940

Pickard, Alonzo C, 717

Pickard, F. A., 717

Pickens, Francis Wilkinson,

21, 212, 409, 628, 718,

856, 955, 1021

Pickens -Bonham, 718

Pickering, Charles W., 373

Picket boats: contract for, 1050

Pickett, George Edward: report

on Battle of Williamsburg,

870; attack on New Berne,

N.C., 803; health of, 754;

headquarters staff of, 754

Pickett, John Thomas, 719;

correspondence of, 189;

paroled, 161

Pickett, Theodore, 161,

Pierce, Franklin, 720

Pierpont, Francis Harrison,

721

Piers, Frank, 944

Pike, Frederick Augustus, 832

Pike, James Shepherd, 722

Pillow, Gideon Johnson, 409,

723

362
Pilot Knob, Battle of, 290

Pine Bluff, Ark.: list of

Unionists from, 734

Pinkerton, Allan; see Allen,

E. J.

Pinkerton's National Detective

Agency, 724

Pinkney, Ninian, 725

Pinola (U.S.S.), 822

Pittsburg Landing, 534, 759;

see also Shiloh, Battle of

Planter (blockade runner):

Federal capture of, 842

Planter's Life Guard, 545

Pleasant Grove, La.; see Sabine

Cross Roads

Pleasants, Archibald, 726

Pleasonton, Alfred, 727; headquarters papers of, 921

Plumb, Edward Lee, 728

Plundering, 532, 566, 614, 618,

729, 768, 1023

Plymouth, N.C.: skirmish near,

197; capture of Federal

garrison at, 345

Pocahontas (U.S.S.), 595

Pocotaligo, S.C.: Battle of, 422;

engagement at, 599; mentioned, 277

Poe, Orlando, 729

Poems, 110, 265, 341, 360, 386,

442, 757, 767, 805, 909,

1009, 1034

Point Lookout, Md., 392

Point Lookout Military Prison,

333, 499, 899; life at, 899

Polignac, Prince Camille

Armand Jules Marie de,

778

Political Conspiracies Preceding

the Rebellion (1882), 21

"Political Experiences of Major

General Jacob Dolson

Cox," 209

Polk, Leonidas, 730; correspondence of, 66, 409, 997,

1021; return of troops

commanded by, 409; engraved portrait of, 1034

Pollard, A. A., 503

Polsley, John J., 731

Pomeroy, Samuel Clark, 246

Pontiac (U.S.S.), 561

Pontoon Brigade, 937

Pontoons: procurement of, 437;

sketch of, 938

Pontoosuc (U.S.S.), 70

Poole, Edmund Leicester, 732

Pope, H. H., 433

Pope, John: correspondence of,

820; generalship of, 99,

417, 420; character of, 417

Port Gibson, Miss., Battle of,

68, 491

Port Hudson, La.: Battle of,

1003; Siege of, 360; guard

duty at, 371; attacked by

Admiral Farragut, 244;

mentioned, 607; see also

Port Hudson Campaign

Port Hudson Campaign, 17,

32, 123, 641, 725, 748,

892, 973

Port Republic, Va., Battle of,

731

Port Royal (U.S.S.), 343

Port Royal, S.C.: Federal

blockade of, 92; engraved

view of bombardment of,

1034; mentioned, 301, 591,

849, 1010

Port Royal expedition, 182,

421, 493, 561, 736, 849;

comments on, 680

Porter, Albert Quincy, 733

Porter, David Dixon, 734; correspondence of, 42, 177,

183, 573, 737, 750, 796,

363
832, 850; Adm. Samuel P.

Lee's opinion of, 251;

photographs of, 365, 739;

mentioned, 535, 565

Porter, Fitz-John, 735; correspondence of, 18, 91, 466,

820, 848, 913; courtmartial of, 62, 317, 422,

467; postwar reinvestigation of, 346

Porter, Horace, 736

Porter family, 737

Portland, Maine, 792

Portsmouth, Va.: abandonment

of, 1006

Post Office Department, 189

Postmaster General, 507

Poston, William K., 128

Potomac (U.S.S.), 70

Potomac, Army of the: organization, 41, 309, 438, 461,

729; performance of, 729;

reports on, 1034; headquarters papers of, 571

Potomac River: fortifications

on, 592; Federal raids

along, 229; planned operations on, 201

Potomac River flotilla, 1028

Potomska (U.S.S.), 905

Potter, Edward E., 467

Potter, Henry L., 861

Potter, William F., 738

Powel, Mary Edith, 739

Powell, C. Percy, 967

Powell, J. E., 460

Powell, John F., 740

Powhatan (U.S.S.), 737

Prairie Grove, Battle of, 290

Pratt, Nicholas, 742

Pratt, Richard Henry, 741

Pratt, William Veazie, 742

Preble, George H.: attempt to

prevent C.S.S. Florida

from entering Mobile Bay,

881; correspondence of,

375, 418; dismissal and

reinstatement of, 881;

information on, 739

Preble, Henry, 34

"Precis of the Military History

ofB. J. D. Irwin,"471

Prentice, Fowler, 688

Prentice, George D., 997

Prentiss, Benjamin Mayberry, 291

Presidential campaign of 1864,

366, 462, 571, 847; results

among Vermont troops,

652; miscellaneous figures

on votes cast by soldiers,

768

Preston, John Thomas Lewis,

743

Preston, William, 454

Preston family of Virginia, 744

Price, Benjamin, 348

Price, Sterling: strength of,

613; Federal maneuvers

against, 367, 480; correspondence of, 730; generalship of, 613; criticism of,

411

Prince, Lt. Colonel, 266

Princeton (U.S.S.): construction

of, 280

Princeton University, 974

Prisoners of war: (Confederate)

24, 57, 63, 85, 128, 156,

168, 234, 239, 259, 279,

322, 333, 357, 367, 383,

386, 400, 441, 460, 470,

499-500, 525, 532, 539,

552, 558, 563, 581, 584,

586, 618, 640-41, 646, 650,

667, 677, 699, 772, 782,

793, 803, 805, 811, 886,

899, 903, 911, 946, 989,

1058, 1063; life and treat364
ment of, 129, 279, 386,

434, 438, 554, 563, 599,

635, 637, 687, 703, 716-17,

748, 816, 822, 827, 869,

899, 922, 968, 982, 1011,

1031; parole, release, and

exchange of, 20, 176, 301,

424, 438, 448, 532, 635,

748, 766, 847, 894, 904,

913, 952; entertainment

of, 827, 899; lists and

names of, 288, 372, 438,

563; aid to, 524, 584, 778;

photographs of, 1034;

sketches of, 758; political

prisoners, 350, 409, 740,

827, 961; (Federal) 28, 50,

103, 157, 179, 342, 422,

436, 452, 522-23, 630, 635,

884, 899, 953, 957, 991,

1014, 1020; life and treatment of, 36, 54, 63, 84,184,

208, 234, 345, 351, 392,

448, 471, 554, 579, 598-99,

657, 669, 695, 697, 709,

764, 766, 781, 898, 979,

990, 1011, 1016, 1020,

1058; song by, 781; names

and lists of, 28, 175, 401,

438, 448, 522, 553, 697,

763-64; aid to, 37, 81, 84,

197, 217, 234; murder of,

975; Confederate efforts

to recruit from, 448; deaths

among, 448, 1020; escapes

and escape attempts, 84,

197, 217, 554, 630, 695,

899, 1020; parole, release,

and exchange of, 20, 50,

215, 430, 471, 522, 606,

686, 697, 764, 847, 896,

904, 1016, 1020, 1038,

1052; narratives of, 899

Prisons: (Confederate) 148,

175, 184, 197, 284, 345,

369, 448, 554, 599, 697,

731, 763, 884, 898, 1020;

(Federal) 33, 234, 279,

333, 345, 368, 442, 453,

499, 524-25, 563, 584, 599,

650, 716; see also prison

names

"Prison Song. Lines written by

Dr. Sutherland," 781

Pritchard, John W., 49

Privateers: (Confederate) 642,

662, 803, 863; purchase of

vessels for use as, 747

Prize money, 251, 343

Prize vessels, 157, 251, 254,

285, 343, 535, 545, 558,

561, 606, 608, 642, 686,

694, 784, 796, 822, 842,

1006; list of, 265; list of

passengers captured on,

535

Procter, A. C, 745

Proctor, Wilbur Huntington,

746

Promotions: (U.S. Army) 41,

208, 214, 251, 391, 552,

751, 766, 845, 847, 850,

862-64, 913, 953, 992-93,

1000, 1016; (U.S. Navy)

154, 183, 251

"Proposed Plan To Secure the

Military Service of the

Negroes," 937

Prostitution, 702

Proteus (U.S.S.), 858

Provost marshal, 33, 115, 245,

835

Pryor, Roger Atkinson: correspondence of, 789; conduct

of, 488

Public Archives of Canada,

747

Putnam, E. P., 717

365
Putnam, George H., 558

Quaker City (U.S.S.), 158

Quantrill, William Clarke,

379, 460

Quartermaster Department:

(C.S. Army) supply reports,

accounts, receipts, and

requisitions, 23, 27, 159,

168, 189, 222, 234, 276,

409, 452, 472, 498, 532,

567, 613, 637, 645, 769,

789, 859, 973, 1021, 1023,

1058; early requisitions

for supplies, 732; supply

shortages, 383, 1023; theft

from supply depots, 733;

certificates of appraisal

and seizure, 138, 176;

(U.S. Army) quartermasters and assistant

quartermasters, 41, 93,

178, 414, 580, 622, 888;

official correspondence,

accounts, reports, requisitions, invoices, and receipts, 41, 162, 199, 591,

622, 666, 717, 963, 1034;

fraud in, 622; depots in

Mississippi, 591; movement

and distribution of supplies

during campaigns, 150,

204, 240, 351, 713; see

also Commissary Department; Subsistence Department; Sutlers

Quartermaster General: (U.S.

Army) 622

Quartermaster General of New

York, 580

Quincy, L. M., 366

Quincy, Samuel Miller, 748

Quincy -Wendell - Upham -

Holmes families, 748

R. E. Lee (1934-35): source

material, manuscript, and

galley for, 328

R. Hoe & Company, 749

Radford, William, 750

"Raid by Morgan's Men on

Frankfort, Kentucky," 405

Railroads: Baltimore and Ohio,

340; Mobile and Girard,

55; sabotage of, 566; defense of, 552, 590, 735;

production of rails for

southern lines, 1006; construction and management

of Federal military railroads, 67, 420, 1061; fees

charged to Federal soldiers

for transportation on, 67;

see also Haupt, Herman

Raleigh, N.C.: capture and

occupation of, 43, 300; U.S.

Christian Commission

delegates at, 965; mentioned, 713

Ramsay, George D., 601

Ramseur, Stephen D., 681

Ramsey, Margaret Lawrence,

751

Randall, James Garfield and

Ruth P., 752

Randolph, George Wythe, 409,

753

Randolph, William B., 754

Rankin, David, 43

Ransom, Robert, 755

Ransom, Thomas Greenfield,

326

Rapidan River, Va.: operations

along, 335, 352-53, 377,

386, 391, 419, 500, 618,

711, 1021

Rappahannock (C.S.S.), 643,

802

Rappahannock Bridge, Va.:

366
operations at, 365

Rappahannock River, Va.:

operations along, 335,

352-53, 386, 391, 419,

500, 618, 1009, 1021

Ratcliffe, Laura, 914

Rawlins, John Aaron: generalship of, 878

Read, John Meredith, 756

Read, Thomas Buchanan, 757

Reagan, John H., 189

"Real Life in the Civil War,"

68

Reams' Station, Va., Battle of,

697

Reconnaissance balloons, 18,

359, 618; photographs of,

659

Reconnaissance expeditions:

(C.S. Army) 567; (U.S.

Army) 18, 99, 146, 155,

175, 436, 500, 552, 641,

666, 699, 717, 748, 846,

869, 903, 972, 1009, 1038;

(U.S. Navy) 784

The Record of Fort Sumter

(1862), 1034

Recruiting Service for U.S.

Colored Volunteers, 257

Recruits and recruiting: (C.S.

Army) 215, 281, 409, 454,

498, 540, 566, 769, 789, 856,

925; (U.S. Army) 20, 91,

106, 112, 152, 214, 257,

264, 281, 290, 323, 355,

405, 409, 423, 434, 500,

544, 592, 747, 790-91, 820,

825, 847, 884, 938, 979,

981, 1049, 1055; Lincoln's

remarks on, 117; problems

with, 91, 1000; advertisement for, 592; (U.S. Navy)

physical examination of,

611; see also Enlistments;

Reenlistments

Red River: list of Confederate

warships on, 734

Red River Campaigns: (1863) ,,

42, 306, 565, 641, 892;

(1864) 42, 326, 558, 641,

659, 682, 734, 894, 946

Red River Valley: military

operations in, 97

Red Rover (U.S. Hospital Ship):

photograph of vessel and

medical staff, 725

"Red, White, and Blue," 265

Reed, Charles Wellington, 758

Reed, George J., 759

Reed family of Indiana and

Kentucky, 759

Reem, Martin, 246

Reenlistments: (U.S. Army)

198, 605; orders concerning, 610

Reeves, Mark E., 323

Refugees: (Unionist) 465, 495,

565, 699, 796, 842

Register of the Commissioned

and Warrant Officers of

the Navy of the Confederate

States (1863), 996; (1864),

535

Reichhelm, Edward Paul, 290,

760

Reid, Samuel Chester, 761

Reid, Whitelaw: papers of, 762;

correspondence of, 91

Reid family, 762

Reinforcements: (C.S. Army)

789, 1021; (U.S. Army)

861, 913, 979, 1037, 1064

Reinhardt, William D., 248

Relief: for Confederate soldiers

and families of soldiers,

161, 332; for families of

Federal soldiers, 590

Relief Assurance Committee,

367
Cumberland Township,

Pa., 590

Religion: as practiced by Federal soldiers, 314, 386,

578, 715, 717, 864, 878,

888, 913; attitude of

southern clergy, 778

Remey, George Collier, 763

Remey family, 764

"Reminiscence of the War

Between the States"

(Harralson), 406

Reminiscences; see Diaries

"Reminiscences of the Civil

War" (Hill), 434

"Reminiscences of the Civil

War" (Kautz), 495

"Reminiscences of the Civil

War" (Wilder), 1026

Remsen, Tredwell W., 765

Report of General Robert E.

Lee (1864), 365

Report of Lieutenant General

U. S. Grant (1865): draft

of, 850

Report of the Adjutant and Inspector General of South

Carolina (1863), 1034

Report of the Chief of the Department of the Military of

South Carolina (1862),

1034

Report of the Congressional

Committee on the Operations of the Army of the

Potomac (1863), 1034

Report of the Secretary of the

Navy (1864), 232

Report on the Organization

and Campaigns of the

Army of the Potomac (McClellan), 571

Reports on battles and skirmishes: (C.S. Army) 365,

452, 1034; (U.S. Army)

41-42, 162, 290, 326, 338,

364, 377, 422, 428, 438,

466, 571, 806, 825

Republicanism; see Liberal

Republicans

Resaca, Battle of, 195, 300,

578, 610, 1038; casualties

in, 610; Federal strategy

in, 518; see also Atlanta

Campaign

Reserve Corps: (U.S. Army) 69,

696, 835

Resignations: (U.S. Army) 532,

552, 645, 660, 735, 953,

1000

"Resume of Regiment Activities During 1863," 715

Rettew, Sallie, 12

Returns, miscellaneous: (C.S.

Army) 174, 189, 272, 296,

409, 452, 724, 875, 956,

1021; (U.S. Army) 42, 146,

162, 282, 364, 405, 422,

428, 438, 466, 546, 571,

711, 806, 820, 825, 892,

896, 913, 923, 1037; (U.S.

Navy)784

The Reveille, 1009

Revenue Cutter Service (U.S.),

881

Revere, Edward Hutchinson

Robbins, 766

Revere, Paul Joseph, 766

Revere family, 766

Reynolds, Alexander Welch,

174, 767

Reynolds, Charles, 768

Reynolds, John Fulton: correspondence of, 326, 913;

memoir, 770; photograph

of, 286

Reynolds, Joseph, 450

Reynolds, Thomas Caute, 411,

368
484, 769

Reynolds, William, 764, 770

Rhett, Robert Barnwell: correspondence of, 1021; sketch

of, 90

Rhode Island troops: (artillery)

1st Light Artillery, 604;

(infantry) 10th, 8

Rhodes, Gussie, 397

Rhodes, James Ford, 771

Rice, David A., 772

Richardson, Charles H., 773

Richardson, George W., 991

Richardson, Hamlet F., 35

Richmond, Lewis, 774

Richmond, Ky., Battle of, 392,

631

Richmond, Va.: defenses of, 18,

143, 778; Confederate

troops in, 220; political

affairs in, 484, 596, 616;

intelligence on military

situation in, 242; prisoners

of war in, 84, 351, 579,

697, 764, 979; public

morale in, 484, 645; wartime life in, 214, 383, 472,

566, 596, 614, 778; business affairs in, 380; hospitals in, 383, 979; physicians in, 168; description

of (1865), 330; map of, 461;

sketch of, 168; Siege of,

214, 614; evacuation of,

734; capture and occupation of, 214, 365, 495, 515,

614, 616, 651, 732, 734;

burning of, 287, 614;

reaction to Lincoln assassination in, 651; miscellaneous events in, 356,

411; mentioned, 540, 554,

619, 644-45, 695, 697, 699,

716, 724, 769, 870, 872,

945, 950, 994, 1021

Richmond-Fayette Artillery,

870

Richmond Whig, 753

Rienzi: notes on, 672

Rifling machines, 749

Riggs, George W., 775

Riggs family, 775

Rigolets, La.: naval skirmish

at, 438

Riley, H., 944

Rinaldo (H.M.S.), 608

Ringgold, Cadwalader, 800

Rinson, Thomas, 864

Ripley, Josiah W., 776

Ripley, Roswell Sabine, 66,

212

Rittenhouse, Benjamin F., 777

Rivanna River, Va., 532

Rives, A. J., 532

Rives, Alfred S., 532, 778

Rives, William Cabell, 778,

912, 1042

Roanoke (U.S.S.), 304, 606

Roanoke Island, N.C., Battle

of, 264, 425, 523, 575, 586

Roanoke Island expedition; see

Burnside, Ambrose Everett

Roanoke River, N.C.: naval

engagement in, 785

Robert, Henry Martyn, 779

Robert J. Lowry and Company,

780

Roberts, Junius B., 781

Roberts family, 781

Robertson, Beverly Holcombe,

488

Robinson, James S., 847

Robinson, Peter B., 570

Rock Island, 111., 128

Rock Island Military Prison,

333

Rockbridge, Va., 507

Rockwell, Almon Ferdinand,

369
782

Rodes, Robert Emmett: correspondence of, 287; movements of, 681; mentioned,

181

Rodgers, Christopher R. Perry,

905, 927

Rodgers, George W., 3, 183

Rodgers, John, 413, 783

Rodgers family, 783-84

Rodman, Isaac Peace, 913

Roe, Francis Asbury, 785

Roedel, Josephine Forney, 786

Roelofson, William J., 787

Rogers, George H., 232

Rogers, Henry J., 788

Rogersville, Tenn.: report on

engagement at, 365

Roman, Alfred, 789

Roosevelt, Robert Barnwell,

790

Roosevelt, Theodore, 791

Roosevelt, Theodore (President,

U.S.), 792

Root, Adrian R., 680

Rope, Thomas S., 1060

Rose, Luther A., 793

Rose, Solomon D., 794

Rosecrans, William Starke,

795; correspondence of,

290, 467, 546, 820, 848,

913; conference with Montgomery C. Meigs, 622

Rosegarten, J. G., 770

Rosser, T. H., 232

Roth, Clifton L., 237

Rousseau, Lovell H., 467, 850

Rowan, Stephen Clegg, 59, 71,

796

Rowan, W. H., 797

Rowlett's Station, Ky.: skirmish at, 816

Royal Yacht: attack on, 811

Rudolph, Joe, 339

Ruffin, Edmund, 798

Ruggles, Mr., 394

Ruggles, Daniel, 973

"Rules and Explanations for

the Use of Cipher Discs,"

661

Rupley, Samuel K., 799

Russell, John (Lord John

Russell), 608

Russell, John Henry, 800

Russell, LeBaron, 582

Russell, William R., 801

Russia: invites Matthew F.

Maury to make his home

there, 614

Ryan, George Parker, 802

Ryan, Patrick, 803

Sabine Cross Roads, La.,

Battle of, 326

Sabotage, 833

Sacramento (U.S.S.), 802

Sage, B. J., 134

St. Augustine, Fla.: Federal

occupation of, 421; mentioned, 927

St. Elizabeths Hospital, District

of Columbia, 671

St. Helena, S.C., 959

St. John, Bela T., 804

St. John, Isaac Munroe, 1021

St. John, John D., 804

Saint John, Theodore Edgar,

805

St. Johns River, Fla.: Federal

expedition and patrols on,

432, 493, 592

St. Louis, Mo.: Unionist sentiment in, 434; Confederate

spies in, 535; military

activities in and near, 136,

460; recruitment in, 434;

shipbuilding in, 271; mentioned, 972

370
St. Louis Arsenal, 245

St. Louis District, 290

Salem Church, Va., Battle of,

1023

Salisbury, N.C.: Union prisoners of war at, 697;

mentioned, 1033

Saloons: as refreshment and

rest stations for new

Federal recruits, 969

Saltpeter: manufacture of, 220

Sampson, Thomas, 524

San Antonio Express, 347

San Antonio, Tex., 418

San Francisco, Calif.: voyage

to, 170; mentioned, 403

Sanborn, Fred G., 806

Sanders, George Nicholas,

807-808

Sanders, G. N. (Mrs.), 807

Sanders, William Price:

generalship of, 495

Sands, Frank T., 809

Sandy Valley Campaign, 338

Sanford, Joseph P., 673

Sangamon (U.S.S.), 788

Sanger, Donald Bridgman, 810

Santee (U.S.S.), 811

Saratoga (U.S.S.), 65

Sargent, D. M., 1042

Sargent, George Washington:

murder of, 813

Sargent, John Osborne, 812

Sargent, Winthrop, 813

Sassacus (U.S.S.): engagement

with C.S.S. Albemarle, 785

Saugus (U.S.S.), 183

Saul, T. S. F.: describes the

death of Thomas J. Jackson, 475

Saunders, M. W.: photograph

of, 365

Savage, John, 814

Savannah, Ga., Siege of, 439,

518; prisoners of war at,

84, 764; mentioned, 951;

see also Savannah

Campaign

Savannah, Tenn., 981

Savannah Campaign, 15, 20,

68, 80, 114, 195, 300, 439,

441, 518, 552, 618, 768,

805, 851; see also Sherman,

William T.

Saxton, Rufus, 815; mentioned,

1010

Sayler's Creek, Va., Battle of,

112, 147, 500, 903

Sayre, Francis Bowes, 816

Schaumburg, Orleana Christy

(Mrs. Charles W.), 817

Schaumburg family, 817

Schele, Mr.: appointed special

emissary to Germany, 443

Schenck, Robert C, 847

Schenectady, N.Y., 1050

Schlossen, Peter, 818

Schnell, Joseph, 819

Schofield, John McAllister,

820; correspondence of,

850; service in the Carolinas Campaign, 365, 483,

709

Schonborn, Harry F., 821

Schoonmaker, Cornelius

Marius, 822

Schoonmaker, Marius, 822

Schouler, William, 823

Schuckers, Jacob William,

824

Schurz, Carl, 825; correspondence of, 850, 895; photograph of, 541

Schuyler, Louisa Lee, 826

Sciota (U.S.S.), 536

Scott, John White, 827

Scott, Melvin, 147

Scott, T. Parker, 827

371
Scott, Thomas A., 387, 896

Scott, Winfield: correspondence

and orders of, 21, 41, 81,

201, 413, 521, 626, 714,

847; relationship with

General McClellan, 1042;

generalship of, 40, 496;

photograph of, 490; remarks on, 1042

Scranton, Pa., 959

Seabrook, Edward M., 828

Searcher, Victor, 829

Secesh (blockade runner):

capture of, 763

Secession, 19, 58, 82, 125, 189,

251, 273, 283, 289, 350,

358, 366, 394, 414, 434,

562, 569, 612, 614, 714,

798, 808, 900-901, 912;

ordinances of, 830

Secession conventions, 830

Secessionists: in the North,

200, 300, 833, 1011; in

West Virginia, 305

Secessionville, S.C., Battle of,

422, 736, 903

Second Manassas, Battle of,

272, 825, 848, 944, 1023;

observations on, 798; map

of, 148; see also Second

Manassas Campaign

Second Manassas Campaign,

42, 44, 99, 116, 249, 325,

335, 351, 417, 428-29, 442,

452, 465, 488, 699, 729,

735, 783, 859, 884, 894,

913, 938, 991, 1029, 1038

Secret Service (U.S. Army), 33;

see also Allen, E. J.

Secretary of State: (C.S.) see

Benjamin, Judah P.; (U.S.)

see Seward, William H.

Secretary of the Navy: (C.S.)

see Mallory, Stephen R.;

(U.S.) see Welles, Gideon

Secretary of the Treasury:

(C.S.) see Trenholm,

George A.; (U.S.) see

Chase, Salmon P.

Secretary of War: (C.S.) see

Benjamin, Judah P.;

Randolph, George W.;

Seddon, James A.; Walker,

Leroy Pope; (U.S.) see

Stanton, Edwin M.

Seddon, James A., 222, 372,

718, 778, 870

Sedgwick, John: photographs

of, 286, 550; death of, 341

Sedgwick, Thomas D., 925

Seeley, Francis Webb, 831

Selfridge, Thomas Oliver, 832

Selfridge, Thomas Oliver, Jr.,

832, 833

Selma, Ala.: Confederate arsenal at, 181; Wilson raid

to, 352, 526, 1037; skirmish

at, 636

Selma Campaign, 636

Selma plantation, Va., 465

Sellers, David Foote, 834

Semmes, Paul J.: sketch of,

758

Semmes, Raphael, 189, 192

"Semophoric Telegraphic

Signals," 788

"The Seven Days Fighting

About Richmond," 453

Seven Days' Battles, 659; see

also individual battle

names

Seven Pines, Va., Battle of,

23, 428, 488, 496

Seventh Louisiana Infantry of

African Descent; see Black

troops, 64th U.S. Colored

Infantry

Sewall, Frederick Drummer,

372
835

Sewall, Joseph, 835

Seward, William Henry, 836;

diplomatic instructions, 5,

662; correspondence of, 42,

132, 285, 290, 546, 606,

737, 739, 825, 913, 995;

meetings with Secretary

Chase, 169; remarks concerning, 1042; photographs

of, 490, 541

Seymour, Horatio, 177, 546

Shackleford, W. C, 837

Shaffer, H. C, 25

Shafter, Harriet Grimes, 838

Shafter, William Rufus, 838-39

Shaler, Alexander, 840

Shaler, William, 841

Shaler's brigade, 840

Shankland, William F., 842

Sharpsburg, Battle of, 488,

578, 766, 859; see also

Antietam, Battle of

Shaver, W. T., 843

Shaw, Lemuel, 844

Shaw, Mrs. Lemuel, 844

Shawmut (U.S.S.), 559

Shawsheen (U.S.S.): sketch of

sinking of, 365

Shellenberger, John K., 845

Shenandoah (C.S.S.): purchase

and service of, 222; list of

officers on and prize

vessels, 129

Shenandoah Valley: early

troop movements and skirmishes in, 619; effects of

war in, 383, 488, 786;

mentioned, 532

Shenandoah Valley Campaigns:

(1862) 20, 42, 99, 185, 229,

284, 325, 335, 351, 417,

419, 438, 452, 475, 618,

748, 790, 825, 913, 979;

(1863) 23, 25, 173, 272,

309, 415, 436, 500, 526,

542, 558, 588, 641, 681,

715, 846, 869, 903, 921;

(1864) 25, 173

Shepherdstown, W. Va., 530

Shepley, George Foster: as

military governor of New

Orleans, 545; investigation

of, 482

Sheridan, Edward, 694

Sheridan, Philip Henry, 846;

correspondence of, 266,

413, 820; generalship of,

641; relieves Gen. G.

K. Warren of command,

710; Shenandoah Valley

Campaign of 1864, 25,

173; notes on Rienzi, 672

Sherman, Eleanor Boyle, 288

Sherman, Ellen Ewing, 850

Sherman, John, 847-48, 850

Sherman, Thomas West, 849;

letter of, 913; generalship

of, 306, 591, 736; Port

Royal expedition, 182

Sherman, William Tecumseh,

850-51; personal and

official correspondence, 21,

42, 89, 91, 148, 262,

287-88, 290, 377, 467, 714,

768, 820, 846, 913; messages received during the

Vicksburg Campaign, 573;

material concerning the

Savannah and Carolinas

Campaigns, 15, 68, 483,

497; meeting with Montgomery C. Meigs, 622;

generalship of, 725; published remarks on, 266,

475; miscellaneous orders,

reports, and correspondence of, 291, 768, 851,

373
951; photograph of, 599;

certificates commemorating

his role in the battles of

Shiloh and Atlanta, 850;

mentioned, 291, 565, 603,

733, 760, 1000, 1047

Sherman brigade, 847

Shields, J. E., 852

Shields, James, 937

Shiloh, Battle of, 113, 128,

215, 277, 318, 438, 534,

552, 759, 847, 904, 908;

certificate commemorating

Sherman's role in, 850;

poem commemorating, 865;

maps of, 865, 985; see also

Shiloh Campaign

Shiloh Campaign, 66, 94, 103,

105, 113, 274, 300, 317,

338, 367, 378, 392, 434,

473, 741, 759, 782, 804,

847, 850-51, 942

Shiner, Michael, 853

Ship Island, Miss.: camp life

and fortifications on, 17,

686; treatment of prisoners

of war on, 234, 716

Shipbuilding, 280, 316, 694,

822, 876, 927, 1006, 1050;

see also Ericsson, John;

Forbes, Robert B.

Shippen, Edward, 854

Shippen family, 854

Ships: contracts for, 271; purchase and repair of, 463,

606, 614, 635, 694, 796;

stations of, 1006; movements of, 1051; notes on,

876; photographs of, 725;

see also Hospital ships;

Ironclads; Monitors; Picket

boats; Transports; Torpedo

boats; Warships; Flotillas;

Squadrons; and names of

individual vessels

Ships' logs; see Logbooks

Shock, William H, 166

Shockley, L. S., 630

Shortelle, James Edward, and

family, 855

Shorter, John Gill, 856

Shover, Felicia Lee, 402

Shreveport, La., 769

Shriver, S. C, 857

Shriver, William H., 857

Shufeldt, Robert Wilson, 858

Shuler, M., 859

Shumaker, L. M., 560

Sicard, Montgomery, 860

Sickles, Daniel Edgar, 861;

correspondence of, 78, 913;

photograph of, 286

"The Seige [sic] of Charleston,"

493

Sigel, Franz, 862; correspondence of, 42, 326, 825, 895;

generalship of, 99; mentioned, 461, 532, 926

Signal communications: (C.S.

Army) 535; (U.S. Army)

573, 659, 660, 664; see

also U.S. Army Signal

Corps; U.S. Army Signal

Corps Museum. (U.S. Navy)

505, 535, 788, 858

"Signal Detachment," 661

Simmons, James Fowler, 863

Simpson, James H., 534

Simpson, Matthew, 864

Sisson, Lewis E., 865

Skelton, Maria, 202

Sketches; see Maps and

sketches

Slack, Hedgeman, 731

Slave hunters, 84

Slave traders, 168

Slavery: notes and observations

on, 84, 125, 168, 283, 370,

374
378, 691, 703, 748, 766,

886, 888, 924, 979, 1026;

attitude of Federal soldiers

toward, 1000, 1009; narratives of ex-slaves, 970;

President Lincoln's views

on, 458; antislavery societies, 246; see also Black

soldiers; Blacks;

Emancipation

Slaves; see Slavery

Slidell, John: correspondence

of, 189, 283, 454, 608, 872;

meetings with Duncan F.

Kenner, 506; articles on

the Trent affair, 1006;

mentioned, 995

Sloan, J. O.: photograph of,

363

Slocum, Henry Warner:

correspondence of, 326;

expedition toward

Jackson, Miss., 63;

photograph of, 286

Smith, A. P., 666

Smith, B. (Mrs.), 880

Smith, Caleb B., 546

Smith, Charles Ferguson, 866

Smith, Charles L., 1053

Smith, Daniel Angell, 867

Smith, Edmund Kirby; see

Kirby-Smith, Edmund

Smith, Fred L., 1053

Smith, George Boyd, 868

Smith, Gustavus Woodson, 913

Smith, Helen, 871

Smith, Horatio D., 881

Smith, Howard Malcolm, 869

Smith, J. C, 576

Smith, James Power, 870

Smith, John Cotton, 871

Smith, Jonathan Bayard, 872

Smith, Joseph R., 471

Smith, L. B., 991

Smith, Martin L., 973

Smith, Orren Randolph, 873

Smith, Oscar, 874

Smith, S. M., 824

Smith, Samuel, 875

Smith, Stuart Farrar, 876

Smith, William, 880

Smith, William, 81

Smith, William, 41

Smith, William Farrar, 877;

correspondence of, 326,

913; generalship of, 495-

96, 878

Smith, William Russell, 273

Smith, William Sooy, 850

Smith, William V., 879

Smith, William Wrenshall,

878

Smith Briggs (U.S.S.): loss of,

365

Smith-Carter families, 879

Smith-Townsend families, 880

Smithville, N.C., 965

Smuggling, 535, 686; see also

Blockade running

Snoke, John W., 25

Snow, Elliot, 881

Society of Friends, 201

Society of the Army of the

Potomac, 882

Soldiers Aid Society, 80; see

also Relief Assurance

Committee; U.S. Sanitary

Commission; U.S.

Christian Commission

The Soldier's Friend, 98

Soldiers' homes, 126, 969, 1038

The Soldier's Pocket Bible,

1034

"Some Experiences as a

Captain of Home Guards"

(Harlan), 405

Songs; see Poems

Sons of Liberty, 833

375
South Atlantic Blockading

Squadron: official correspondence, orders, and

reports, 183, 229, 764,

796, 800; accounts of service in, 65, 687, 867, 927;

ship arrivals, dispositions,

and departures, 92, 121,

561, 635, 784; operations

along the coasts of South

Carolina and Georgia, 262,

373, 513; records of

prize vessels, 183, 229;

lists of officers in, 183;

names of ships in, 63,

92, 121, 156, 183, 229,

513, 858

South Carolina: ordinance of

secession, 830; preparations for war in, 955;

popular support for the

war in, 991; official

correspondence, proclamations, petitions, and reports, and extracts of the

journals of the executive

council, 718; resolutions

and orders of the governor

and council, 171, 883;

status of foreign subjects

in, 718; conscription in,

883; military organizations and affairs in,

34, 171, 718, 1034;

campaigns in, 15, 78,

376, 410, 421, 426, 493,

508, 680, 1034; troop

positions and supplies

in, 171, 594; reports of

the adjutant general and

inspector general, 1034;

coastal operations and

fortifications, 262, 332,

373, 513, 594, 599, 714,

718, 879; war governors,

21, 594, 718; U.S. Army

returns of captured

property in, 422;

effects of the war in, 332,

569; Unionists in, 15, 197,

714; map of (incomplete),

1046

South Carolina—Adjutant and

Inspector General's Office,

883

South Carolina troops: C.S.

Army (cavalry) 4th, 599;

(infantry) 1st, 332; 4th,

102; 8th, 470; 19th, 27;

21st, 524; 25th, 376;

(militia and reserves)

8th, 883; 30th, 171;

Hampton Legion, 138,

383, 991. U.S. Army

(infantry) 1st South

Carolina Volunteers of

African Descent (33d

Colored Infantry), 421;

3d South Carolina

Volunteers of African

Descent (21st Colored

Infantry), 421

The South to Posterity (1939):

source material, manuscript, and galley, 328

Southeast Missouri, Military

District of, 364

Southern Relief Committee,

461

Southwest Pass, La.: naval

skirmishes in, 70

Sowers, Isaac M., 884

Spain: vice consul at

Pensacola, Fla., 583, 647

Spalding, Mrs., et al., 885

Spanish Fort, Ala.: Federal

attack on, 14, 804

Sparks, Davis S., 699

376
Sparta, Term.: map of, 820

Spaulding family, 886

Spears, Stewart, 887

Speed, James, 546

Spence, James, 608

Spencer family, 888

Sperry, Charles Stillman, 889

Spies: (Confederate) 314, 535,

618, 716, 816, 827, 848,

892, 1029; (Federal) 20,

487, 724, 763, 816, 846,

861

Spiria (U.S.S.), 52

The Spirit of Washington: or

McClellan's Vision (1862),

660

Spofford, Ainsworth Rand, 890

Spooner, John Coit, 891

Spotsylvania, Va., Battle of:

map of, 820; see also Spotsylvania Campaign

Spotsylvania Campaign, 25,

112, 187, 231, 309,

335, 341, 352, 386, 419,

429, 436, 453, 500, 522-

23, 526, 667, 699, 715, 746,

758, 793, 806, 869, 899,

938, 1023, 1037

Sprague, Homer Baxter, 892

Sprague, John T., 10

Sprague, John W., 847

Spring Hill, Battle of; see

Thompson's Station,

Tenn., Battle of

Squadrons: (U.S. Navy) 1006;

see also North Atlantic

Blockading Squadron;

South Atlantic Blockading

Squadron; Gulf Blockading

Squadron; East Gulf Blockading Squadron; West

Gulf Blockading Squadron;

European Squadron

Squier, Ephraim George, 893

Squires, Charles W., 894

Stafforce, John, 478

Stafford Courthouse, Va., 397

Stahel, Julius, 895; correspondence of, 825; generalship

of, 727

Stanford University: copies

of documents at, 416, 839

Stanley, David S., 845, 847

Stanton, Edwin McMasters,

896; correspondence of,

18, 21, 42, 262, 319, 326,

416, 428, 438, 524, 546,

571, 580, 582, 691, 714,

820, 846, 913, 966; remarks on the problems of

blacks, 331; meetings with

Salmon P. Chase, 169;

role in Benjamin F.

Butler's expedition against

New Orleans, 1001;

comments on, 695; notes

on military appointments,

416; asked to pardon a

deserter, 704; photograph

of, 541; mentioned, 291,

622, 1047

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 897

Stanton, Henry B., 897

Starr, George H., 898

Starrville, Tex., 630

Stars and Bars; see Flags

The State (Columbia, S. C),

497

State Department: (Confederate) orders and dispatches from, 283;

diplomatic agents, 189,

506, 807, 954; relations

with Great Britain, 77,

608, 614, 642; negotiations

with Mexico, 77, 614;

secret service fund, 454;

see also Benjamin, Judah

377
Philip. (United States) see

Seward, William Henry

State of Georgia (U.S.S.), 388

"A Statement of the Facts Concerning the Imprisonment

and Treatment of

Jefferson Davis," 524

States rights: notes on, 372

Staunton, Va.: skirmish near,

151

Steamboats: Federal rental of,

41; research and development in steam navigation,

432; considering conversion to compressed air, 291

Stedman, Doctor, 435

Steele, Clement F., 288

Steele, Frederick, 850

Steele, Maria Theresa, 288

Steiner, Walter Ralph, 899

Stembel, Roger N., 313, 784

Stephens, Alexander

Hamilton, 900-901;

correspondence of, 189,

411, 467, 997; elected

Vice President of the Confederacy, 628

Stephens, Linton, 901

Stephenson, Nathaniel Wright,

902

Stephenson, R. H., 1060

Sterling, James T., 172

Stetson, Lebin, 478

Stettin (U.S.S.), 570

Steuart, George H., 872

Steuart, R. S., 525

Stevens, Hazard, 346, 903

Stevens, Isaac Ingalls, 34, 903

Stevens, P. F., 955

Stevens, Simon, 329

Stevens, Thaddeus, 904;

photograph of, 541

Stevens, Thomas H., 206

Stevens, William O.: photograph of, 711

Stevens family, 905

Stevenson, Carter Littlepage,

109

Stevenson, John D., 846

Stewart, D. W., 906

Stewart, John, 619

Stickney, Francis H., 907

Stickney, Frank L., 907

Stickney, Herman C, 478

Stimson, William R., 908

Stiner, William H., 78

Stoddard, Mr.: photograph of,

1041

Stokes, E. H., 168

Stoll, George M., 584

Stone, Charles Pomeroy:

correspondence of, 521;

generalship of, 496, 579

Stone, Henry, .845

Stone, Horatio, 74

Stone, Jasper Jay, 909

Stone, Roy, 81

Stoneman, George: correspondence of, 850, 913,

921; cavalry raids during

the Chancellorsville

Campaign, 377, 695, 699;

cavalry raids in North

Carolina and Virginia,

1046; cavalry raid to

Macon, Ga., 146

Stones River Campaign, 449,

605, 637, 640, 846, 982,

1063

Stonewall (C.S.S.): description

of, 802

Stony Point, Va., 837

Storres, Willard, 1060

"The Story of My Experiences

During the Civil War,

1862-1863," 1030

Stoughton, Edwin Henry:

capture of, 657; general378
ship of, 1030

Stragglers, 768

Strait, N. A., 910

Strang, Edward J., 437

Strategy: (C.S. Army) 143,

409, 452, 532, 789, 900,

1021; (U.S. Army) 34, 51,

169, 387, 438, 496, 847-48,

850, 861, 877, 896, 1051

Stribling, Cornelius K.:

correspondence of, 673,

796; information on, 739

Stribling, Robert M., 870

Strong, Alexander, 911

Strong, William E., 850

Strong, Hayward & Company,

911

Stuart, Alexander Hugh

Holmes, 912

Stuart, David, 850

Stuart, George Hay, 913

Stuart, James Ewell Brown,

914; correspondence

of, 657; service in the

Gettysburg Campaign, 4,

857; effect of death of,

116, 436; engraved

portrait of, 1034;

mentioned, 174, 202, 619

Stuart, Milton, 305

Stull, Lydia J., 915

Sturgeon, Robert, 916

Sturges Rifles, 33

Sturgis, Samuel Davis, 917

Subsistence Department: (U.S.

Army) 72; see also

Quartermaster Department; Commissary Department

Substitutes: (C.S. Army) provisions for, 303; exemption

certificate, 841;

(U.S. Army) exemption

certificate, 507

Suffolk, Va.: Siege of,

903; fortifications at,

717, 869; mentioned, 574

Sullivan, Jeremiah Cutler, 469

Sullivan, John T., 918

Sumner, Charles: correspondence of, 21, 96, 366, 413,

546, 582, 825, 896, 913;

photograph of, 541

Sumner, Edwin Vose, 571

Sumter (C.S.S.), 189

Sumter (C.S. privateer), 293

Sunnyside, Miss., 488

Supplies: (U.S. Army) procurement, transportation,

distribution, and accounts

of, 24, 41, 94, 150, 331,

340, 351, 405, 414, 420,

422-23, 436-38, 442,

461, 480, 552, 605, 641,

667, 717, 766, 799, 804,

821, 847, 877, 888, 913,

979, 982, 993, 1004, 1037-

38, 1049; illegal trade in,

978; (U.S. Navy) 606, 811,

907; see also Quartermaster Department; Commissary Department;

Subsistence Department

Surgeons; see Physicians

and surgeons

Surratt, John H.: trial

of, 307

Surratt, Mary Eugenia

Jenkins, 919; execution of,

403

Susquehanna (U.S.S.), 920

Susquehanna, Department of

the, 1061

Sutherland, Doctor, 781

Sutherland, Edwin W.:

planned defection of, 158

Sutlers: (U.S. Army) 618, 620,

671, 847, 878, 1009,

379
1030, 1055

Suydam, Charles Crooke, 921

Swan, Francis H., 514

Swann, Charles M., 571

Swann, John S., 922

Swatara (U.S.S.):

sketches of, 860

Sweetser, M., 289

Swindler, Albert Clayton, 923

Swisher, Carl Brent, 924

T. J. Evans (blockade runner),

254

Taft, Alfonso, 925

Taft, William Howard, 925

Taggard, John H., 1064

Talbot, Theodore, 926

Tallahassee (C.S.S.), 222

Tallahatchie River, Miss.:

skirmish along, 843

Taney, Roger B., 924

Tatem, E. H., 1060

Taxes: (C.S. Government)

100, 995; (U.S. Government) 577

Taylor, C. W., 165

Taylor, Charles, 507

Taylor, E., 305

Taylor, Henry Clay, 927

Taylor, Henry S., 928

Taylor, Joseph Pannel, 931

Taylor, R. E., 944

Taylor, Richard, 789, 931

Taylor, Thomas W., 929

Taylor, Walter Herron, 930

Taylor, Zachary, 931

Teaser (C.S.S.), 649

Teed, John, 522

Telegrams: (C.S. Army) 789,

973; (U.S. Army) 175, 819-

20, 835, 846, 850, 921,

1029

Ten Broeck, R. C, 932

Tennessee (C.S.S.), 189,

200; capture of, 505

Tennessee, Army of the: (C.S.

Army) morale in, 143;

supply of, 498; register of

surgeons in, 194; (U.S.

Army) engineers in, 187;

mentioned, 469

Tennessee: campaigns in, 20,

27, 46, 48, 61, 78, 82, 103,

105, 113, 131, 146,

155, 188, 195, 231, 239,

299, 353, 392, 402, 405,

410, 427, 429, 433, 449,

462, 479, 488, 490-91, 495,

500, 575, 637, 640, 702,

741, 816, 904, 925, 946,

975, 982, 1000, 1027,

1063; see also Fort

Donelson Campaign; Shiloh

Campaign; Tullahoma

Campaign; Chattanooga

Campaign; Knoxville

Campaign; Stones River

Campaign; Franklin and

Nashville Campaign;

and individual battles

and skirmishes. Unionists

in, 155, 197, 566, 623,

741, 886, 1027; progress

of the war in, 143; enlistments in, 868; opposition

to Federal policy in, 275;

Confederate governor of,

143, 409, 593, 723; effects

of the war in, 449, 864,

877; wartime travel in,

878; map of (incomplete),

1046

Tennessee, Department of

the: (U.S. Army)

headquarters papers of,

364

Tennessee troops: C.S. Army

(cavalry) 952; East

380
Tennessee Cavalry, 239;

(infantry) 5th, 563; 8th,

116; list of regiments, 409.

U.S. Army (infantry) 1st

East Tennessee Regiment,

155; 2d East Tennessee

Regiment, 155

Terry, Alfred Howe: correspondence of, 796, 820; Fort

Fisher expedition, 173,

187; service in the

Carolinas Campaign, 483

Texas (C.S.S.), 222

Texas: campaigns in, 702;

secession movement in,

414; popular support for

the war in, 566; blockade

of, 566; impact of the war

on, 566; military affairs

in, 953

Texas troops: (cavalry)

Waller's Cavalry Battalion,

931; (infantry) 21st Border

Regiment, 97; Hood's

Brigade, 265; promise

of additional regiments,

532

Thatcher, Henry Knox, 933

Thibodeaux, La.: Federal

troops at, 137

Thomas, Calvin H., 934

Thomas, George Henry, 467,

751, 820, 850, 870

Thomas, John E., 275

Thomas, Joseph Conable, 935

Thomas, Lorenzo, 21, 42, 428,

846-47, 850, 861, 936

Thomas, William, 813

Thomas Freeborn (U.S.S.), 59;

engagement at Aquia

Creek, Va., 796

Thompson, Ambrose W., 937

Thompson, Gilbert, 938

Thompson, Jacob, 189, 306,

789, 833

Thompson, M. Jeff, 460

Thompson, W., 47

Thompson's Station, Tenn.,

Battle of, 61

"Through the Carolinas to

Goldsboro, N.C.," 483

Thurman, J. B., 852

Tidball, John Caldwell, 939

Tidd, Charles Plummer, 940

Tilghman, Lloyd, 409

Tod, David, 580, 850, 941

Todd, Oliphant Monroe, 942

Tompkins, Aaron B., 943

Toner, Joseph Meredith, 944

Toombs, Robert Augustus, 945;

correspondence of, 134;

generalship of, 901

Topographic engineers;

see Engineers

Tories; see Unionists

Toronto, Canada, 587, 954

Torpedo boats, 365; construction of, 1050; salvage of,

933

Torpedoes, 163, 365, 514,

612, 796, 803; design

and manufacture of, 614,

1034, 1050; use of, 163,

365, 822; effectiveness of,

357; see also Arms and

ammunition

Torrey, Charles Oscar, 946

Totopotomoy Creek, Va.:

skirmishes along, 187, 526;

map of, 820

Totten, Joseph G., 779

Tower, Zealous B., 387

Townsend, Edward D., 820

Townsend, George Alfred, 947

Townsend, Martin I., 574

Tradewell, James D., 332

The Tragic Years (1960), 627

Training: (C.S. Army) 411, 472,

381
488, 614, 637, 1021; training camps established, 498;

(U.S. Army) 20, 22, 97, 99,

106, 195, 203, 264, 300,

317, 351, 359-60, 423, 436,

442,449,455,462,478,500,

519, 526, 553, 578-79, 618,

631, 640-41, 650, 654, 666,

685,687,703,729,741,748,

758, 776, 782,803-804, 825,

844, 869, 921, 938, 972,

976, 981, 1000, 1009, 1026,

1030, 1055; instruction

manuals, 622, 781; (U.S.

Navy) 407, 606, 635, 822,

1039

Traitors, 158

Trans-Mississippi Department,

222, 498, 759

Transports: names of Federal

transports, 175; Confederate attacks on, 760; troop

movements on, 4, 121, 844

Travel: in the war zone, 672,

724, 789-90, 1014

Treadway, Allen Towner, 948

Treasury Department: (C.S.

Government) miscellaneous

records and accounts, 55,

189,276, 332,392, 482, 719,

778, 951, 995; bonds, certificates, and related items,

88,100,110,191,196; loans

and loan certificates, 88,

662,918,932; (U.S. Government) miscellaneous affairs

of, 169, 228, 302, 577, 897

Treat, Samuel, 949

Tredway, Thomas Thweatt, 950

Trenholm, George Alfred, 951

Trent affair, 33, 75, 283, 608,

1028

Trescott, William H., 189

Trevilian Raid, 436, 869

Trevilian Station, Va.:

engagement at, 599

Trigg, Connally F., 952

Trigg, E. C, 952

Trimble, Isaac Ridgeway, 272

Tripp, W. D., 478

Troop movements: (C.S. Army)

23, 27, 312, 358, 383, 402,

409, 411, 452, 472-73, 567,

594, 598, 612, 724, 769,

973,991,1034; (U.S. Army)

4, 24, 32, 67, 94, 106, 121,

169, 215, 249, 274, 289, 312,

340, 351-53, 387, 420,

426-27, 461, 500, 526, 552,

630, 685, 697, 761, 799, 804,

816, 825, 834, 844, 848,

857, 888, 978, 989, 1037,

1051

Trumbull, Lyman, 953; correspondence of, 546;

photograph of, 541

Tucker, John C, 582

Tucker, John R., 872

Tucker, Nathaniel Beverley,

954

Tullahoma, Tenn., 870

Tullahoma Campaign, 105,159,

605, 736, 846

Turner, Josiah, 598

Turner, Justin G., 955

Turner, Thomas, 306

Tupper, Captain, 510

Tyler, John, 956

Tyler, R., 717

Tyler, Robert O., 466

Tyler (U.S.S.), 784

Unadilla (U.S.S.), 158

Underwood, John Curtiss, 957

Underwriter (U.S.S.): Confederate attack on, 200

382
"Under the Blue Pennant, or

Notes of a Naval Officer,"

365

Unidentified manuscripts collection, 958

Union Defense Committee, 285

Union Defense Committee of

New York, 461

Union League Defense Committee, 306

"Union Volunteer Refreshment

Saloon," 969

Unionists (southern), 15, 20, 99,

155, 197, 260, 409, 566,

618, 714, 729, 734, 736,886,

903, 946, 949, 957, 1000,

1027

U.S. Army—Commissary Department miscellany, 959;

see also Commissary

Department

U.S. Army—Engineers, 960; see

also Engineers

U.S. Army—Judge Advocate

General miscellany, 961

U.S. Army—Medical Department, 962; see also Medical

care; Medical Department;

Physicians and surgeons

U.S. Army: organization and

administration of, 41, 99,

150, 264, 301, 309, 335,

391, 409, 438,450,461,466,

480, 495, 500, 523, 552,

554, 571, 591, 603, 660, 666,

702, 715, 724, 727, 758,

804, 816,820,825, 847, 850,

866, 869, 937, 949, 972,

979, 990, 1022, 1030, 1049,

1055; miscellaneous correspondence, orders,

records, and reports, 42,

146,148,162, 290, 311,314,

318, 326, 338, 346, 371,

377, 422, 437-38, 466-67,

495, 546, 552, 571, 578,

591,603,661,664,673,711,

729, 735, 805, 820, 835,

839,895,903,910, 913, 921,

934, 1029, 1049, 1061;

regulars, 4th U.S. Artillery,

831; 11th U.S. Infantry,

1016,1049; plan for increasing manpower in, 660;

crime and corruption in, 20,

103, 351, 699, 813, 1016;

certificates of service in,

277, 504, 787; problems

anticipated in the disbanding of volunteer units, 11

U.S. Army—Quartermaster's

Department, 963-64; see

also Quartermaster

Department

U.S. Army—Signal Corps, 573,

675; organization and performance of, 659; list of

signals used by, 664;

instructions on the use of

signals, 660; annual report

for 1863, 659; miscellaneous

photographs, 660; Signal

Corps museum, 660; see

also Fisher, B. F.

U.S. Army Register; see Official

Army Register

U.S. Christian Commission, 80,

259, 363, 935, 965

U.S. Coast Survey, 1, 34

U.S. Congress: Representatives,

89, 114, 196, 208, 214-15,

237, 275, 348, 381, 401, 477,

590, 652, 861, 904, 992-93;

Senators, 167, 251, 430,

482, 832, 847-48, 863-64,

953, 979, 1036; minutes of

383
the Senate Finance Committee, 8

U.S. Constitution: notes on, 372

U.S. finance miscellany, 966

U.S. Government: official

papers and proclamations,

546; certificates of loyalty

to, 260; postwar claims

against, 587

U.S. Lincoln Sesquicentennial

Commission, 967

U.S. Marine Corps: training and

service in, 874; plan to

transfer the Corps to the

U.S. Army, 750; mentioned,

156, 336

U.S. Marine Hospital, Key

West, Fla., 451

U.S. Military Academy, West

Point, N.Y.: life and discipline at, 14, 89

U.S. Naval Academy, 407;

examination of candidates,

451; letters of Civil War

cadets, 1039; photographs

of (Annapolis), 505

U.S. Navy, 968; official

correspondence, letterbooks,

orders, reports, and

records, 183, 189, 232, 267,

313, 354, 373, 407, 505,

535, 606, 635, 673, 725, 734,

742, 750, 764, 784, 796,

822, 832; officers in, 739;

southern officers in, 595;

battles and battle reports,

784, 1006; medical records

of sailors, 451; miscellaneous affairs, 461, 611,

737, 968; see also Naval

Brigade; Squadrons; and

names of individual officers, officials, ships, and

battles

U.S. Navy Yard: Philadelphia,

Pa., 451, 513; Portsmouth,

Va., 1006; Washington,

D.C., 654, 725, 853, 1003

U.S. Post Office: appointments

and irregularities in, 603;

special agents and operations in captured territory,

603

U.S. Sanitary Commission, 969;

official correspondence and

papers of, 685; officials in,

256, 650, 685; nurses and

agents of, 600, 915; miscellaneous affairs of, 74, 256,

476, 600,602,650,653, 864,

935; conflict with the Army

Medical Department, 578;

mentioned, 246, 309, 458,

871

U.S. Work Projects Administration, 970

United States Army and Navy

Journal, 173

Upperville, Va.: skirmish at,

377

Usher, John Palmer, 971

Vallandigham, Clement Laird,

571

Van Cise, Edwin A., 972

Van Dorn, Earl, 66, 272, 613,

973

Van Dyke, Richard Smith, 974

Van Horn, Arthur, 975

Van Horn, Mary, 975

Van Norman, C. R., 976

Van Vliet, Stewart, 847

Vance, Robert B., 977

Vance, Zebulon Baird, 118, 594,

755

Vanderbilt (U.S.S.), 687

Varnell's Station, Ga.: sketch of

fortifications at, 888

384
Varney, John H., 671

Vermont: recruiting service in,

112

Vermont troops: (cavalry) 1st,

698; (infantry) 2d, 309, 773;

6th, 652; 16th, 1030; 17th,

1030

Veteran Reserve Corps, 69, 696

Veterans: (C.S. Army) treatment

of, 721, 745, 888; (U.S.

Army) aid for, 98; (U.S.

Navy) disabled, 3

Vevay Reveille Enterprise

(1946), 427

Vichy, France, 918

Vicksburg, Miss.: Farragut's

bombardment of, 473, 686,

800, 874; Confederate garrison at, 464, 555; Siege of,

91, 187, 288, 292, 473, 539,

555, 868, 975; Battle of, 68;

fall of, 53, 464, 555; treatment of noncombatants in,

63; suffering in, 53; see also

Vicksburg Campaign

Vicksburg Campaign, 63, 68,

159,175, 231, 264, 274, 279,

288, 290, 317, 355, 367,

378,434,455,473,491,552,

573, 630, 702, 725, 734,

760, 804-805, 827, 850-51,

973, 1020-21, 1026, 1037;

see also Yazoo Pass expedition; Champion's Hill, Battle of; Jackson, Battle of;

Grant, Ulysses S.; Sherman,

William T.

Vidalia, La.: treatment of noncombatants in, 63

Viele, Egbert, 524

Vienna, Austria, 444

Views, 1034

Villepigue, John B., 973

Vindicator (U.S.S.): design and

performance of, 832

Virginia: ordinance of secession,

830; war governors, 118,

540, 721, 912; popular support for the war in, 537,

786, 956, 991; military

affairs in, 420,496,612,754,

1014; suppression of

Loyalist sentiment in, 989;

indifference toward invasion, 596; fortifications in,

535, 991, 1021; depredations in, 16, 43, 442, 465,

574, 619; impact of the

war in, 85, 419; wartime

travel in, 786; map of (incomplete), 1046; campaigns

in, 35, 44, 78, 82, 102,

112,135,174,184,200,202,

215, 226, 229, 296, 311,

371,376,426,436,438,442,

452, 496, 500, 522, 551-52,

571, 576, 681, 717, 748,

806, 855, 869, 938, 943,

1014, 1022, 1046; see also

names of individual battles and campaigns

Virginia, Union Department of, 41

Virginia, University of: copies

of documents at, 444, 453

Virginia troops: C.S. Army

(artillery) 20th Heavy

Artillery, 147; (cavalry) 1st,

261; 2d, 837; 12th, 499,923;

14th, 296; (infantry) 2d,

200; 8th, 532; 9th, 743; 21st,

827; 24th, 567, 614; 33d,

859; 40th, 995; 58th, 588;

morale among, 956. U.S.

Army (infantry) 1st Loyal

Eastern Virginia Volunteers, 903

Vliet, Stewart Van, 571

385
Volunteers; see individual State

troops

Voorhees, Daniel W., 571

Wabash (U.S.S.), 92, 561, 905,

927

Wachusett (U.S.S.), 65, 788

Waddel, John Newton, 978

Wade, Benjamin Franklin, 167,

979, 980

Wade, Henry, 979

Wade, James F., 979

Wadsworth, Craig W., 980

Wadsworth, James, 980

Wadsworth, James Samuel, 980,

1002

Wadsworth, James W., 980

Wagoners, 772

Walke, Henry, 565

Walker, Alexander, 234

Walker, Andrew J., 981

Walker, C. P., 208

Walker, Edward T., 567

Walker, Francis, 41

Walker, H. P., 718

Walker, James, 982

Walker, James A., 872

Walker, Leroy Pope: correspondence of, 66, 82, 189, 718,

955; as C.S. Secretary of

War, 596

Walker, Nicholas, 983

Walker, Robert John, 984

Walker, William, 981

Walker, William S., 211

Wallace, Lewis, 546, 985

Wallach, Richard, 986

Waller, Edward, 931

Walthall, Edward C, 105, 708

Walton, John T., 987

Wanamaker, Winfield S., 988

War correspondents, 78, 140,

610, 761-62, 850, 1002

War Department: (C.S.

Government) official correspondence and records,

189, 411, 753, 1021; (U.S.

Government) official correspondence and reports,

896,1037; orders and circulars, 768; annual report of

the Secretary of War, 896;

administration of, 141

"War Statistics," 31

Ward, Charles, 990

Ward, James H., 59

Ward, James Pegram, 991

Ward, James Thomas, 989

Ward, John, 990

Ward, William N., 991

Ward, William N., Jr., 991

Ward, William Thomas, 103

Ward family of Richmond

County, Va., 991

Waring, George E., 34

Waring, George S., 685

Warm Springs, Ga.: refugees at,

672

Warren, Gouverneur Kemble:

correspondence of, 913, 998;

military record of, 710;

photographs of, 739, 938

Warren County, Miss.: report

on destitute families in, 591

Warrenton, Miss., 536

Warrenton, Va., 572

Warships: life on, 170, 592; see

also names of individual

vessels

Washburn, Cadwallader Colden,

850, 870

Washburn, Israel, 992

Washburne, Elihu Benjamin,

140, 546, 993

Washington, J. E. McPherson:

life of, 560

Washington, John A., 994

Washington, Lawrence, 994

386
Washington family, 994

Washington, D.C.: life in during

the war, 40, 58, 164, 330,

385, 751, 990, 1042, 1064;

military and political events

in, 58, 366, 424, 552, 568,

646, 668, 693, 765, 801;

prisons in, 33; defense of,

18, 428, 601, 679, 685, 729,

821, 853, 960, 981, 1042;

Confederate sympathizers

and spies in, 716, 939;

military hospitals in, 52,69,

1019; celebrates the fall of

Richmond, 515, 732; effect

of Lincoln assassination on,

783; mentioned, 633-34,

646, 871, 897, 986, 995,

1062

Washington, N.C., 84

Washington, University of:

copies of documents at, 317,

903

Washington arsenal, 601

Washington Artillery, 447, 692,

894

Washington Clay Guards, 679

Washington Navy Yard, 654,

725, 853, 1003

Washington raid; see Early's

Washington raid

Wasp (U.S.S.), 388

Water Witch (U.S.S.), 84;

drawing of, 463; loss of, 635

Waterman, Isaac S., 32

Watkins, Louise Ward, 995

Watmough, Pendleton G., 905

Watson, John Crittenden, 350,

996

Watson, Peter H., 215, 582

Watterson, Henry, 997

Waud, Alfred R., 998

Waud, Paul, 998

Wayman, Dorothy Godfrey, 999

Waynesboro, Va., 413

Weapons; see Arms and

ammunition

Weaver, Henry Clay, 1000

Weaver, Willis, 1001

The Web of Victory (1955), 627

Webb, Charles Henry, 1002

Webb, Robert F., 598

Weber, Gustav C, 824

Webster, Harrie, 1003

Weed, Thurlow, 319, 1004

Weehawken (U.S.S.), 183, 784;

torpedo attacks on, 867

Weeks, Benjamin Franklin,

1005

Weeks, Charles, 478

Weeks, George W., 571

Weeks, James H., 991

Weems, Lack, 88

Weitzel, Godfrey, 616; generalship of, 641

Welles, Edgar T., 251

Welles, Gideon, 1006;

correspondence of, 3, 91,

154, 177, 183, 232, 254,

262, 280, 292, 313, 316,

422, 546, 606, 611, 660,

673, 737, 764, 784, 796,

847-48, 896, 913, 995,

1057; orders of, 293, 907;

account of the reenforcement of Fort Pickens, 336;

notes on, 924; mentioned,

454

Welling, James C, 571

Wells, David Ames, 1007

Wells, George, 237

Wells, James Madison, 1008

Welsh soldiers, 491

Welsman, J. T., 1052

Welton, Alfred, 453

Wentworth, Edwin Oberlin,

1009

West, James B., 1010

387
West, Robert M., 854

West, Military Division of

the (C.S. Army), 789

West Gulf Blockading

Squadron, 13, 30, 293,

407; see also Blockade

West India Squadron, 832,

1028; see also Blockade

West Liberty, Ky.: skirmish at,

215

West Tennessee, Military

District of, 364

West Virginia: campaigns in,

44, 175, 200, 296, 335,

519, 521-22, 729, 925, 975,

1014, 1060; war governor

in, 721; Union sentiment

in, 348; secessionists in,

305

Western Department (C.S.

Army), 409

Western Sanitary Commission,

80

Western Sanitary Fair,

Cincinnati, Ohio, 969

Westervelt, H. C, 1011

West Virginia troops: U.S.

Army (cavalry), 7th, 731

Wetmore, Henry S., 254

Whaley, Daniel, 1012

Wharton, John A., 1021

Wharton, T. J., 708

What We Did at Gettysburg

(1863), 826

Wheeler, Charles Scully, 1014

Wheeler, Henry, 1013

Wheeler, John Hill, 1014

Wheeler, Joseph, 789

Wheeler, Woodbury, 1014

Wheeling, W. Va.: Confederate

sympathizers at, 795;

mentioned, 329, 348, 721

Whelan, William, 3

Wherry, William M., 820

Whipple, Amiel Weeks: photograph of, 913

Whipple, Henry B., 571

White, B. F., 1015

White, John Chester, 1016,

1054

White, Julius, 913

White Hall, N.C.: skirmish

near, 1055

White House Landing, Va.,

700

White Oak Swamp, Battle of,

428, 589, 1023; see also

Peninsular Campaign

White River, Ark.: Federal

expedition on, 804

White River Station, Ark.:

Federal camp at, 725

Whiteley, L. A., 78

Whitesides, Edward G., 845

Whiting, Jasper S., 489, 1017

Whiting, William, 366

Whiting, William D., 373

Whiting, William Henry, 1018

Whitman, George W., 1019

Whitman, Walt, 119, 1019

Whitney, D. H., 864

Whitten, John, 1020

Whittier, Charles W., 445

"Who Began the War, and

What Was the Cause of

It?" 411

Wickham, Williams C, 912

Wigfall, F. Halsey, 1021

Wigfall, Louis Trezevant, 265,

532, 730, 1021

Wigfall, Charlotte, 1021

Wight, Frederick H., 1022

Wilcox, Cadmus Marcellus,

1023; report on the Battle

of Williamsburg, 870

Wilcox, John Alexander: correspondence of, 1023; death

of, 250

388
Wilcox, Sylvanus S.: death of,

314

Wild, Edward Augustus,

508, 1024

Wilda, R. W. A., 1025

Wilder, John Thomas:

surrender of, 888

Wilder, William Frank, 1026

Wilderness Campaign, 25, 112,

116, 174, 231, 309, 335,

341, 352-53, 386, 419,

429, 436, 452, 466, 500,

523, 526, 667, 687, 695,

699, 746, 758, 773, 793,

806, 869, 899, 938, 1009,

1016, 1023, 1037; tactics

in, 187; map of, 820

Wiley, Cornelia S., 1000

Wiley, Harvey Washington,

1027

Wilkes, Charles, 1028; defense

of, 832

Willard, Antonia, 1029

Willard, George L., 21

Willard, Joseph C, 1029

Willard family, 1029

Willcox, Orlando Bolivar, 326

Willets Point, N.Y.: transit

hospital at, 626

Willey, Henry Stevens, 1030

William Reynolds, RearAdmiral U.S.N., John

Fulton Reynolds, MajorGeneral U.S.V. (1880), 770

Williams, George S., 128

Williams, Jessie P., 299

Williams, John L., 1031

Williams, Margaret D., 1032

Williams, Seth, 466, 846

Williams, William W., 1033

Williamsburg, Va., Battle of,

106, 272, 428, 966; reports

on, 870, 1023

Williamsburg Light Artillery,

870

Willis, Edward, 1034

Wills, David, 1035

Wilmington, N.C.: blockade

of, 121, 1003, 1014;

Confederate defense of,

376; General Schofield's

advance on, 365; U.S.

Christian Commission at,

965

Wilson, George S., 416

Wilson, Henry, 1036

Wilson, James Harrison, 1037;

correspondence of, 140,

315, 591, 716, 846;

raid to Selma, Ala., 352,

526; generalship of, 878

Wilson, John A., 827

Wilson, Lawrence, 1038

Wilson, Samuel Lewis, 1039

Wilson, Samuel S., 532

Wilson, Thomas, 1040

Wilson's Creek, Va., Battle

of, 917, 1049

Winchester, Va.: wartime life

in, 531; defenses of, 468;

Federal spies in, 846

Winchester, Va., Battle of:

(1862) 618; (1863) 500;

(1864) 25, 314, 500, 715

Winslow, John Ancrum, 1041

Winter, Asa C, 907

Winthrop, Robert C, 1042

Winthrop, W. W., 51

Winthrop family, 1042

Wirz, Henry, 1043; trial and

execution of, 696, 812

Wisconsin troops: (artillery)

6th Independent Battery

Light (Buena Vista)

Artillery, 539; (infantry)

4th, 976; 5th, 184; 6th,

442; 12th, 768; 14th, 805;

23d, 491; 36th, 203; 50th,

389
891

Wise, Henry Alexander, and

family, 1044

Wise, Henry Augustus, 1045

Wiser, Angelo, 1046

Wissahickon (U.S.S.), 158

Wistar, Isaac J., 81

Witherspoon, James H., 718,

883

Within Fort Sumter by One of

the Company (1861), 21

Wittenmyer, Annie, 1047

Wolcott, Christopher P., 581

Women: (Confederate) morale

of, 159, 563, 595, 716,

729; as prisoners of war,

33, 716; contribution to

the war effort, 23, 567,

645, 672, 733; on the field

of battle, 989, 1038.

(Federal) disguised as

soldiers, 618, 699; contribution to the war effort, 1,

54, 80, 101, 227, 246, 422,

434, 600, 682, 915, 969;

visiting husbands in the

war zone, 743, 850-51

Women's Loyal National

League, 1048

Wood, A. E., 527

Wood, Henry Clay, 1049

Wood, Henry S., 49

Wood, James Rodney, 695

Wood, Thomas Newton, 1050

Wood, Robert C, 471, 671

Wood, Thomas John, 148, 845

Wood, William, 91

Wood, William P., 438

Wood, William W., 1050

Wood family, 1050

Woodbury, Daniel P., 437

Woodbury, Levi and Charles

Levi, 1051

Woodford, Stewart Lyndon,

1052

Woodman, Harry, 1053

Woods, Mrs. L. J., 472

Woodson, Carter Godwin, 1054

Woodwell, Charles H., 1055

Woodworth, Selim Edwin,

1056

Wool, John Ellis: correspondence of, 101, 467, 571,

606, 848; conflict with

General Mansfield, 601

Wooling, W. C, 251

Woolsey, Georgina, 826

Woolsey, Melancthon B., 293

Worden, John Lorimer, 1057;

as a prisoner of war, 1045

Worden, Olivia, 1045, 1057

Worthington, Colonel, 847

Worthington, Jeremiah, 1053

Wragg, Thomas L., 1058

Wright, Benjamin Hall, 1059

Wright, C. J., 234

Wright, Edward, 1060

Wright, George, 403, 941

Wright, Horatio Gouverneur,

399

Wright, John R.: photograph

of, 661

Wright, Marcus Joseph: biographical sketch of, 324

Wright, Nathaniel, 1060

Wright, O. H., 469

Wright, Robert, 86

Wright, Dr. William, 864

Wright, William, 1060

Wright, William W., 1061

Wyandotte (U.S.S.), 822

Wyndham, Percy, 1062

Wythe County, Va.: morale of

soldiers from, 786

Yale University: copies of

390
documents at, 1019

Yancey, William L., 189

Yankee (U.S.S.), 254

Yazoo Pass expedition, 455,

491, 539, 565, 630, 725,

760, 832

Yazoo River: list of Confederate warships on, 734

Yellow fever: plan for infecting

Federal troops with, 719;

see also Disease

Yoder, Jacob, 1063

Yoder, Moses F., 1063

Yoder, Noah W., 1063

Yoder, Samuel S., 1063

York River, Va.: skirmishes

along, 842

Yorktown, Va.: report on

General Keyes' command

at, 921; mentioned, 397

Yorktown, Va., Siege of, 106,

184, 359, 404, 496, 578;

map of, 162; photograph of

batteries at, 938

Young, John Russell, 1064

Zollicoffer, Felix Kirk, 996

Zook, Samuel K.: photograph

of, 286

Zouaves de Afrique; see

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