David Homer Bates papers
Contributors: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Language: eng
Subjects: Correspondence; United States; Military telegraph; United States. War Dept.; Military intelligence; History
Description: Correspondence, diary, daily journal (1863-1865), drafts and annotated proof sheets of Bates's writings, newspaper clippings, printed matter, facsimiles, photographs, and other papers.  Includes eleven Abraham Lincoln manuscripts and letters of Civil War commanders such as Jefferson Columbus Davis, Richard Stoddert Ewell, James Lawson Kemper, Edmund Kirby-Smith, and Robert E. Lee.  Journal kept by Bates while he served as manager of the War Department telegraph office in Washington, D.C., serves as a record of military intelligence activities in the Civil War and of military telegraphic communication.  Other correspondents include Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Thompson Eckert, and Robert Todd Lincoln.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition available, no. 18,925.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1984.

Purchase, 1962.

Telegrapher.  Died 1926.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and on Internet.

Forms part of: Alfred Whital Stern collection of Lincolniana.