Volume 11
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Meigs, Montgomery C., 1816-1892
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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: 1881 November 30 to 1882 March 17
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content: Box 6
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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 11 is a bound scrapbook with numbered pages and an index with some handwritten notes. This volume was titled "Miscellaneous" by Meigs and features newspaper clippings and and handwritten notes about a variety of topics.

The largest collection of stories in Volume 11 relates to the retirement of a number of Army officers including Ulysses S. Grant and Montgomery C Meigs himself. Because of his own retirement, there are also a number of stories relating to the change of command for the Quartermaster General of the U.S. Army and the future of that branch of the Army. Meigs also includes stories about the rebuilding and expansion of the U.S. Navy as well as general civilian and military maritime news. There are reports on growing tensions in Egypt and the debates going on in England and France over military intervention there. There are accounts of the Civil War and  obituaries for notable leaders from the war.

Some of the publications represented in Volume 11 areThe Times Weekly Edition, the Army and Navy Journal, The Sun, The Daily Evening Telegraph, The Daily Graphic, and the The New-York Daily Tribune.