John Alexander Logan family papers
Contributors: Logan, John A., Mrs., 1838-1923; Logan, John Alexander, 1865-1899; Tucker, George Edwin; Tucker, Mary Logan, b. 1860 or 1.
Language: eng
Number of pages: 46000
Subjects: Correspondence; World War, 1914-1918; History; United States. Army; Memorial Day; Exhibitions; Society of the Army of the Tennessee; World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.); Suffrage; Elections; Impeachments; United States; American Association of the Red Cross; Grand Army of the Republic; War work; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); Women; Veterans; Societies
Description: Correspondence, legal and military papers, drafts of speeches, articles, and books, scrapbooks, maps, memorabilia, and printed matter relating chiefly to the military, political, and social history of the Civil War and postwar period.  Topics include Reconstruction, the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, presidential campaigns of 1880 and 1884, Memorial Day, Grand Army of the Republic, Society of the Army of the Tennessee, World's Columbian Exposition, American Red Cross, Belgian relief work, and woman's suffrage.  Principal correspondents include Clara Barton, William Jennings Bryan, George B. Cortelyou, Grenville M. Dodge, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert Todd Lincoln, John Sherman, and William T. Sherman.
Notes: Open to research.

Deposit, Mary Logan Tucker and John A. Logan III, 1925-1941.

Converted to gift, John A. Logan III, 1952.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.

Chiefly papers of John Alexander Logan (1826-1886), Union Army officer and U.S. senator and representative from Illinois; and of his wife, Mary Simmerson (Cunningham) Logan (1838-1923), author.  Other family members represented include John Alexander Logan, Jr., George E. Tucker, and Mary Logan Tucker.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001029