Correspondence and Forms
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Belknap, William W. (William Worth), 1829-1890
label: Collection Creator
content: Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881
label: Collection Creator
content: Greely, Adolphus Washington
label: Collection Creator
content: Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893
label: Collection Creator
content: Hazen, William Babcock, 1830-1887
label: Collection Creator
content: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
label: Collection Creator
content: Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888
label: Collection Creator
content: Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
label: Collection Creator
content: Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
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content: William Babcock Hazen Papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1856-1886 and undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0427, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: This series is divided into nineteen subseries:

Subseries 1, Military Posts and Civil War Battles, 1856-1870

Subseries 2, Military Posts, 1869-1880

Subseries 3, Inspections by Generals Ruling and Hazen, January 19, 1867

Subseries 4, Indian Tribes, 1869-1871

Subseries 5, Old Soldiers, 1869-1886

Subseries 6, General Hazen in Europe, 9/1887-6/24/1868

Subseries 7, Hazen-Garfield "Post Traders" 1871-1882

Subseries 8, Civil War Charges - Court Martial (Re: General Stanley), 1879-1886

Subseries 9, Selected Correspondence, 1842-1885

Subseries 10, Weather Service and Proteus Court of Inquiry, 1880-1883

Subseries 11, Signal Corps, 1880-1885

Subseries 12, Hazen Court Martial (Re: Secretary of War, 1885), 1882-1885

Subseries 13, Greely Expedition/Cape Sabine, 1881-1884

Subseries 14, A Narrative of Military Service, 1885

Subseries 15, Memory of General McPherson, 1865

Subseries 16, Miscellaneous Letters and Forms (Freedmen Funds), 1862-1882

Subseries 17, Secretary of War, William W. Belknap, 1869

Subseries 18, United States Senate, 1866-1871

Subseries 19, Hazen Stones River Monument, 1864-1870
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series covers General Hazen's career from graduation at West Point to service in California, Oregon, Texas, the Civil War, military post inspections, Indian tribe affairs, observations of two European battles, court martials, his appointment as chief signal officer, the Arctic expedition, military forms, a book, A Narrative of Military Service, and the first Civil War monument at Stones River, Tennessee.