Volume 23
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Meigs, Montgomery C., 1816-1892
label: Collection Photographer
content: Russell, Andrew J., 1829-1902
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content: Montgomery C. Meigs Papers
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content: Montgomery C. Meigs Papers / Series 1: Scrapbooks
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content: 1885 May 11 to 1885 October 2
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content: Box 12
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Text
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content: Volume 23 is a bound scrapbook that features numbered pages and an index with some handwritten notes. This volume includes a variety of topics, with a special focus on the Civil War. There are articles detailing Civil War battles and leaders, as well as the post-war careers and trials of Civil War officers. Also included are stories about the "silver question," and continued conflicts with Native American groups. Meigs also included stories on yachts and yacht races, the war in the Sudan, debates over the boundaries of Afghanistan, and the break out of cholera around the world. 

Some of the publications represented in Volume 23 includeThe Evening Star, the Army and Navy Journal, theThe New-York Daily Tribune, and The Daily Graphic.