Zachary Taylor papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 650
Subjects: Correspondence; Politics and government; Plantations; Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842; Indians of North America; United States. Army; United States; Wars
Description: Correspondence, autobiographical account, military papers, estate papers, printed matter, map, and other papers.  Subjects include Taylor's presidency, his service in the U.S. Army especially in the 2nd Seminole Indian War, and the management of Taylor's plantation, Fashion, Saint Charles Parish, Louisiana, by his son, Richard Taylor.  Correspondents include John M. Clayton, George Washington Crawford, Jefferson Davis, Thomas Sidney Jesup, James K. Polk, Thomas W. Ringgold, and Winfield Scott.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition of Series 1-5 available, no. 11,823.

Microfilm produced from originals in Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1959.

In part, photocopies. [S.l.].

Gift, Walter J. Stauffer and Mrs. Lewis Hardie, 1952.

Other gifts and purchases, 1904-1980.

U.S. president and army officer.

Collection material in English.

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

Index published by the Library of Congress in 1960 available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and on Internet.  Cataloged in record 60060013.