Montgomery C. Meigs papers
Contributors: Meigs, Montgomery, 1847-1931
Language: eng
Number of pages: 11000
Subjects: Buildings, structures; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Dept.; United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.); United States; Architecture; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers; History; Correspondence; Buildings; Description and travel; Aqueducts; United States. Pension Bureau
Description: Correspondence, diaries, journals, notebooks, family papers, military papers, drawings, maps, plans, scrapbooks, photographs, sketches and studies, and other papers relating primarily to Meigs's work in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, his service as quartermaster general during the Civil War, and family matters.  supervising construction in Maryland and Washington, D.C., on the Washington Aqueduct, additions to the U.S. Capitol, and the Pension Office building.  Also includes material relating to the death of his son John Rodgers Meigs, and travels in Europe and Texas.  Family papers include correspondence of Meig's wife, Louisa Rodgers Meigs, his father, Charles D. Meigs, and his brother, Emlen, and the papers of his son Montgomery Meigs (1847-1931).

Correspondents include Spencer Fullerton Baird, James Buchanan, Bernhard Ernst von Bülow, Ambrose Everett Burnside, Simon Cameron, Adolph Cluss, Jefferson Davis, John B. Floyd, Horace Greeley, Joseph Henry, Joseph Holt, Charles P. Manning, George Brinton McClellan, Helmuth graf von Moltke, David Dixon Porter, Frederick William Seward, William Henry Seward, William T. Sherman, Edwin McMasters Stanton, and Joseph Gilbert Totten.
Notes: Open to research.

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Microfilm edition available, in part, no. 18,202.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1981-1985.

Gift, Meigs family, 1920-1986.

Purchases and transfers, 1976-2001.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Army officer, engineer, architect, and scientist.

Collection material in English.

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