Christiancy and Pickett families' papers
Contributors: Christiancy, James Isaac, 1843-1899; Pickett, George E. (George Edward), 1825-1875; Pickett, George E. (George Edward), 1891 or 2-1959; Pickett, La Salle Corbell, 1848-1931
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1000
Subjects: Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863; Campaigns; History; Maps
Description: Includes letters (1862-1864) written by Henry Clay Christiancy and his brother James Isaac Christiancy, Union Army officers from Michigan serving in Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania during the Civil War.  An annotated transcription of Henry Clay Christiancy's diary (1862-1864) contains maps and photographs.  Pickett family notebooks (1835-1998) contain correspondence, notes, writings, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, estate papers, genealogy, and other papers of or relating to Confederate Gen. George E. Pickett and his charge at the battle of Gettysburg, but also to his wife, La Salle Corbell Pickett, and her career as a lecturer after his death.  The collection also contains military certificates (1846-1861) of General Pickett.  Also includes correspondence of George E. Pickett III relating to his grandparents and Pickett family genealogy.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Suzanne Pickett Zbar, 1999.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Families related by the marriage of George E. Pickett, Jr., and Ida Elizabeth Christiancy in 1891.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009159