Aaron Burton Levisee papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 18
Subjects: Politics and government; Practice of law; Judges; Confederate States of America. Army; University of Michigan; Presidents; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); Internal revenue; Confederate States of America; Election; Republican Party (La.); Personal narratives; Education; History
Description: Diaries (1847-1895; volumes 1-5, 7) documenting Levisee's activities as a student at the University of Michigan, school teacher in Alabama, lawyer in Louisiana, soldier in the Confederate army, judge and state legislator in Louisiana during Reconstruction, Republican elector for the state of Louisiana in the presidential election of 1876, and later as an internal revenue  agent in California and the Pacific Northwest.  Also includes obituaries and other clippings.
Notes: Open to research.

Excerpts from volume 4 (1880-1883) of the diary also available in a typewritten transcript by Marion L. Cotter.

Typewritten transcript, in part. [S.l.].

Gift, Marion L. Cotter, 1992.

Lawyer and state legislator in Louisiana; later moved to California and the Pacific Northwest.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009125