Donald Benham Civil War collection
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Correspondence; Politics and government; United States. Army; Military life; United States. Navy. Potomac Flotilla; Supplies and stores; Recruiting, enlistment; Slavery; Campaigns; Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861; Secret service; Social conditions; Strategy; United States; Foreign relations; History
Description: Correspondence, speeches, military orders and records, financial and legal records, and other papers of Union Army officers and soldiers concerning recruitment, enlistment, camp life, battle engagements, military strategy, and distribution of military supplies.  Other subjects include diplomatic policy, abolition and slavery, and social conditions in the South during its occupation by Union forces.  Includes records of the U.S. Navy Potomac Flotilla pertaining to communications in the Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River region; correspondence of Horace Greeley concerning Abraham Lincoln, prosecution of the war, and political battles in Washington, D.C.; an eyewitness account of Robert E. Lee's evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia, and his subsequent retreat westward; and a speech by William Woods Averell concerning his life and military career relating, in part, to wartime espionage and spy networks in Washington, D.C., following the First Battle of Bull Run.
Notes: Open to research.

Purchase, 2009.

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Collection material in English.

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