Volume 6
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: 1879 November 15 to 1880 September 14
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content: Box 3
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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 6 is a bound scrapbook with numbered pages and an index, but no notes. The volume covers a variety of topics, with a large concentration focusing on the Zulu War, Army affairs and policy, debates over the retirement of Army officers, the 1880 presidental candidates, and natural history/archaeological finds.

Volume 6 includes articles describing the Zulu War and its outcome, the ongoing debate over military retirements, a debate personally affected Meigs since he was one of the officers scheduled to retire if the number of authorized retirees was increased, the intensifying Afghan War, and stories about the presidential candidates for the 1880 election. There are a number of articles about Winfield Scott Hancock, the Democratic candidate, and James A. Garfield, the Republican candidate, detailing their views and pasts. There are some accounts about President Grant, ranging from interviews to letters he wrote and then published in various newspapers. There are also advertisements displaying a variety of new inventions and products, including one showing machine guns.

Some of the publications appearing in this volume areThe Daily Graphic, The Daily Evening Telegraph, the New York Times, and the The New-York Daily Tribune.