Samuel Wylie Crawford papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
Subjects: Correspondence; United States; United States. Army; Military supplies; Medical care; Powhatan (Side-wheel steamer); Supplies and stores; Siege, 1861; History
Description: Correspondence, memoranda, diary, registers and returns of troops and artillery, sketches, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to events while Crawford was an assistant surgeon at Fort Sumter during the early months of 1861.  Includes correspondence of F.W. Pickens with Jefferson Davis, copies of correspondence between Robert Anderson and G.T. Beauregard before the bombardment of Fort Sumter, and a statement by David Dixon Porter concerning the side-wheel steamer Powhatan and the provisioning of Fort Sumter.  Correspondents include Ellison Capers, Maxcy Gregg, Robert E. Lee, A.G. Magrath, C.G. Memminger, John C. Pemberton, and R.S. Ripley.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Eva Anderson Lawton, 1916-1918.

Gift, Luther M. Cornwall, 1939.

Purchase, 1915.

Physician and army officer of Pennsylvania.

Collection material in English.

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