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Wardwell, J. Henry, b. 1844. Diary, 1863.

Title: Diary, 1863.

Civil War pocket diary kept from 1 Jan. - 3 Aug. 1863 (with gaps) by J. Henry Wardwell of the Department of the Gulf while stationed in Baton Rouge and the Mississippi River area. His daily entries reflect on the weather, his health, boredom and inactivity, guard duty, and fighting in the area. The diary also includes a few personal accounts of supplies purchased.

ArchivalResource: 1 small v. in a folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32400390 View

William Franklin Patterson Papers, 1812-1937, (bulk 1851-1864)

Title: William Franklin Patterson Papers 1812-1937 (bulk 1851-1864)

Civil engineer and army officer. Correspondence, military records, writings, newspapers, notes, and fragments relating principally to Patterson’s Civil War service in the Union Army.

ArchivalResource: 230 items; 1 container; .4 linear feet; 1 microfilm reel

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010135 View

Holabird, Samuel Beckley, 1826-1907. S. B. Holabird and earlier family papers, ca. 1760-1905 (bulk 1846-1884).

Title: S. B. Holabird and earlier family papers, ca. 1760-1905 (bulk 1846-1884).

Account books, journals, and other record books, correspondence, certificates, and other papers of General S.B. Holabird, his wife Mary Grant Holabird, and earlier generations of their families, most relating to business and military matters. Holabird, an 1849 graduate of West Point, served in New Orleans as Chief Quartermaster of the army's Dept. of the Gulf (Dec. 1862-July 1865) and as Quartermaster General of the U.S. (July 1883-June 1890). The collection includes records of cotton, other commodities, and other things confiscated from specific plantations and other Confederate owners and sold under Holabird's direction during the Civil War. Also includes his writings on various military topics and operations of quartermaster offices, his commission certificates signed by presidents and secretaries of war, and a patent certificate for a tent he designed (22 July 1884). Also in the collection are materials (ca. 75 items, primarily 1770s) relating to Massachusetts during the American Revolution and activities of its Philadelphia-based purchasing agents, William Barrell and Jonathan Mifflin, in securing supplies; bills for tents produced for the Continental Army; and account book (1760-1770) of Col. Amos Bird, great grandfather of S.B. Holabird. Includes a letter (1776 Apr. 17) signed by John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, and Elbridge Gerry (delegates of Massachusetts Bay Colony), sent to the Council of Egg Harbor, New Jersey; and a receipt (1776 July 31) for 400.00 dollars (150 pounds) from William Barrell to the General Assembly of Massachusetts Bay Colony, signed by Samuel Adams, John Adams, and Robert Treat Paine.

ArchivalResource: 1 oversize folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/717282953 View

Shepley, George Foster, 1819-1878. George Shepley letter to the Common Council of the City of New Orleans, 1862 June 5.

Title: George Shepley letter to the Common Council of the City of New Orleans, 1862 June 5.

Letter, dated June 5, 1862, written in secretarial hand and signed by Shepley, calls on the Common Council of New Orleans to employ the unemployed and "starving labor" in the city on various public works projects. Shepley also notes that whenever the repairs are necessary because of contractor neglect or non-performance, then the city will be imbursed for all expenditures.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Eltinge, Peter, ca. 1842-1877. Eltinge-Lord family papers, 1856-1871.

Title: Eltinge-Lord family papers, 1856-1871.

Correspondence of Peter Eltinge, an officer in the 156th New York Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War, relating to his service in the Dept. of the Gulf (1863-1864), Maryland and Virginia (1864), and Georgia and the Carolinas (1865), participation in the occupation of Georgia; and operation of a grocery store in Memphis, Tenn., and speculation in cotton after the war. Topics include politics, temperance, economic conditions, blacks in the Union Army, and black agricultural labor during Reconstruction. Also, naval records and other papers of George P. Lord of Camden, Del., brother-in-law of Peter Eltinge, chiefly relating to his duty as a navel officer on ironclads of the Mississippi Squadron (1861-1865), including the U.S.S. Chillicothe, U.S.S. Ozark, and U.S.S. Osage. Topics include the Red River Expedition of 1864 and the regulation of commerce on the Mississippi River.

ArchivalResource: 2,245 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19536515 View

United States. Army. Connecticut Infantry Regiment, 28th (1862-1863). 28th Connecticut Infantry Regiment muster roll, 1863 Feb.-June.

Title: 28th Connecticut Infantry Regiment muster roll, 1863 Feb.-June.

Muster roll of the 28th Regiment of the Connecticut Volunteers, Army of the Gulf, commanded by Charles L. Norton. The regiment fought at the Battle of Irish Bend and participated in the seige of Port Hudson, La. The roll indicates the number of men in the regiment who were killed, wounded, sick, transferred or promoted during the period.

ArchivalResource: 1 muster roll.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/225080890 View

United States. Army. Dept. of the Gulf. [A bound collection of general orders pertaining to the United States Army, Dept. of the Gulf, during the American Civil War].

Title: [A bound collection of general orders pertaining to the United States Army, Dept. of the Gulf, during the American Civil War]. [1862-1864]

ArchivalResource: 4 v. ; 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58760230 View

Moses A. Cleveland collection 1864-1917 1864-1892 Cleveland, Moses A. collection

Title: Moses A. Cleveland collection 1864-1917 1864-1892 Cleveland, Moses A. collection

The Moses A. Cleveland collection contains a copy of Cleveland's Civil War diary, a scrapbook of his postwar correspondence, and two drafts of his autobiography, which he composed in 1892 and copied in 1909. Cleveland, who worked primarily as a carpenter in New England and Ohio, served with the 7th Massachusetts Light Artillery Battery near the Gulf of Mexico during the war.

ArchivalResource: 4 volumes

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-3385?rgn=main;view=text View

Anonymous Civil War order, circa 1864.

Title: Anonymous Civil War order, circa 1864.

Draft copy of an order from Headquarters, Department of the Gulf, U. S. Army, requesting that the 9th Connecticut and the 14th Maine regiments together with a section of the Thompson's Battery be sent to St. Charles, Ark., to rid the area of Confederate soldiers.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70271345 View

Dwight Family. Dwight family papers, 1815-1942, bulk: 1847-1885.

Title: Dwight family papers, 1815-1942, bulk: 1847-1885.

Family correspondence of William and Elizabeth A. Dwight and their children--William Jr., Wilder, Daniel A., Howard, Charles, and Chapman Dwight--and a long series of letters from Elizabeth to her step-mother Ruth H. White. Family letters detail life in Salem and Springfield, Mass., business, travel, and schooling of the Dwight children at Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard College, Kingley's Military School, and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. There are a large number of Civil War letters of Wilder (2nd Mass. Infantry), William, Jr. (70th New York Infantry and U.S. Dept. of the Gulf stationed at New Orleans), Charles (70th New York Infantry), and Howard Dwight (24th Mass. Infantry and 1st U.S. Western Cavalry), including an account of the Battle of Antietam. In addition, there are business papers and an account book of William Dwight Sr., kept while serving as treasurer of the Laconia and Pepperrell Cotton Mills in Biddeford, Maine, as treasurer of the Saco Water Power Company, and also as President of the White Water Valley Railroad in Ohio.

ArchivalResource: 75 boxes, 1 vol., and 3 oversize containers.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11580407 View

Cleveland, Moses A., b. 1822. Moses A. Cleveland diary [typed transcription], 1864-1865.

Title: Moses A. Cleveland diary [typed transcription], 1864-1865.

Typed transcription of the Civil War diary of Moses A. Cleveland, private in the Mass. Light Artillery, 7th Battery, and the U.S. Dept. of the Gulf during the Red River Campaign and the campaign against Mobile, Alabama. The diary describes troop movements; life at camp and training exercises; weather conditions; diseases, injuries, and deaths; fighting along the Red River and at Mansura, La.; action at Mobile, Ala., including the Battles of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely; news of Robert E. Lee's surrender and Abraham Lincoln's assassination; the end of the war; the explosion of the Mobile magazine in May 1865; and the long passage home. Cleveland also describes New Orleans, La., Mobile, Ala., and Houston, Tx., and writes about correspondence with family and friends, slavery and freed blacks, his admiration for Abraham Lincoln, the condition of the Confederate army, punishments for fighting and insubordination at camp, and the sight of Union soldiers recently released from a Confederate prison. Included is a transcription of a letter from Cleveland to his wife, sermons by Cleveland, songs, and poems. Transcribed with an introduction by Dr. Olga Fairfax. The transcription was made from a copy in private hands written by Cleveland in 1899. The text differs from another copy given to the MHS by Cleveland in 1898 (Ms. N-2056 Tall; also on microfilm, P-376, reel 2). Both copies were probably made by Cleveland from an original diary or notes kept in 1864-1865.

ArchivalResource: 1 narrow box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/752199483 View

Landry, Severin. Severin Landry and family papers, 1838-1887 (bulk 1843-1882).

Title: Severin Landry and family papers, 1838-1887 (bulk 1843-1882).

The collection includes personal letters (1838-1842) of Severin Landry from New Orleans and Assumption Parish to Zulme Fernandez in Paris, Missouri. Included are letters to Landry from his children and from Fernandez; and letters to Fernandez from her brother, Manuel. Business correspondence includes letters and receipts for sales of sugar and molasses from weighers and gaugers and commission merchants Henry Tete, E. M. Scott, F. J. Da Silva and Co., Charles Oger, and Englehardt and Block of New Orleans; and Merrick & Towne of Philadelphia. Financial papers include bills for goods and services (1848-1883); bills of lading for the steamers Lafourche, Trent, and H. J. Dickey (1865-1883); a permit granting Landry the right to use a new sugar refining process (1860); doctors' bills; and promissory notes. The collection includes a letter from George W. Jones of Magnolia Plantation regarding the visit of a slave to his wife on Jones' estate; a payroll record for payments to freedmen (1864-1865); court subpoenas (1859-1881); a permit to carry arms (1864); and plantation regulations and a circular issued by the Department of the Gulf concerning compensation and treatment of freedmen (1864-1869). A daybook (1846-1849) and a journal (1846-1865) kept by Dufossard Landry record sales of plantation produce.

ArchivalResource: 148 items.2 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86142712 View

Ely, John, 1816-1869. John Ely letter, 1863 May 9.

Title: John Ely letter, 1863 May 9.

Letter by Union Provost Marshal Captain John Ely, on official letterhead, Parish of Jefferson, Carrollton, addressed to Mr. Chas. W. Muncaster, ordering him "...to leave this Parish and go within the Enemies lines...agreeably to Genl. Order No. 35 from Headquarters Department of the Gulf."

ArchivalResource: 1 letter.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154316221 View

Burrud, John B. Papers of John B. Burrud, 1862-1870, (bulk 1862-1865).

Title: Papers of John B. Burrud, 1862-1870, (bulk 1862-1865).

Letters from John B. Burrud to his wife Ocena A. Newton Burrud (1862, Sept. 18 - 1865, Nov. 18); his Civil War pocket diary, and song book (ca. 1870). In the candid and emotional letters to his beloved wife, Burrud, an accomplished letter-writer, shared his war experiences, political views, religious sentiments, and intense longing for his home and family. The letters, many written over two or three days, cover the regiment's organization in Auburn N.Y in September 1862; training in New York City; the voyage to Louisiana; the 1863 campaing in Louisiana and duty at Morgan City, Bayou Beouf, and Patternsolville; Burrud's month-long stay in St. James Hospital in New Orleans; the Red River and the Shenandoah Valley Campaigns of 1864, including the battles of Pleasant Hill (1864, Apr. 9), the third Winchester (Sept. 19), Fisher's Hil (Sept. 22-23), and Cedar Creek (Oct. 19); duty at Middletown and Winchester, Va. (1864, Oct. 27 - April 1865), and Washington, D.C. (1865, April - June); the Grand Review (1865, May 23 - 25); and duty at Savannah and Hawkinsville, Ga. (1865, June - November). Three pocket diaries cover the years of 1863, 1864, and 1865; the entries contain accounts of campaign and battles, duties, detachments, and details; war and political news, etc. The song book is a record of Burrud's class of "vocal music" at Marion Collegiate Institute, including names of the pupils and other miscellaneous records.

ArchivalResource: 222 pieces.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122396710 View

Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893. General orders from Headquarters Department of the Gulf, 1862.

Title: General orders from Headquarters Department of the Gulf, 1862.

Pamphlet entitled, "General orders from Headquarters Department of the Gulf," documents the general orders issued by Maj. Gen. Benjamin Franklin Butler while New Orleans was under martial law.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (35 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71058392 View

U.S. Army Department of the Gulf. Military Operations in Texas Collection, 1862-1864

Title: Military Operations in Texas Collection, 1862-1864

The Military Operations in Texas Collection, 1862-1864, consists of official copies of correspondence concerning Union military operations along the Texas Gulf coast and the Texas-Mexico border.

ArchivalResource: 4 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/777002704 View

Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894. General orders no. 105, 1864 Aug. 1.

Title: General orders no. 105, 1864 Aug. 1.

General order of General Nathaniel Banks from the headquarters of the Department of the Gulf of the U.S. Army, issued by George B. Drake, assistant adjutant general. The orders stipulate that all Black troops mustered into the U.S. Army will receive the same uniform, clothing, arms, rations, and other provisions alloted to other soldiers, and that Black volunteers will be granted the same amount of bounty as white volunteers. The order further decrees that Black soldiers who were free in 1861 and mustered into military service are entitled to any pay, bounty, and clothing allowed by law to free persons at the time of their enlistment.

ArchivalResource: 1 order.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/214325604 View

Meyer, John, 1824-1902. Diary of John Myer, 1863, Jan. 2 -- Dec. 31.

Title: Diary of John Myer, 1863, Jan. 2 -- Dec. 31.

John Myer's diary for the year 1863 when the 28th Regiment was part of the Department of the Tennessee and, since July 1863, the Department of Gulf. Long, detailed daily entries cover the military campaigns and operations -- Gorman's expedition up the White River (Jan. 13-19); expedition from Helena, Ark. to Yazoo Pass (Feb. 13 - Apr. 5); operations against Fort Pemberton and Greenwood (Mar. 13 - Apr. 5); expedition to St. Francis River (Apr. 5-11); the battles of Port Gibson (May 1); Bayou Pierre (May 2-3); Fourteen-Mile Creek (May 12 -13); Champion Hill (May 17); Big Black River (May 17); siege of Vicksburg, Miss. (May 18 - July 4); the siege of Jackson (Miss)' duty at Carrollton and Brashear City, La. (Aug. 2 - Oct. 3); Western Louisiana Campaign (Oct. 3 - Nov. 3), and duty at New Iberia and New Orleans, La. The diary also discusses the soldiers' health; war and political news; encounters with Union loyalists and African Americans, etc

ArchivalResource: 1 pocket diary.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/754851805 View

U.S. Army Department of the Gulf. Military Operations in Texas Collection, 1862-1864

Title: Military Operations in Texas Collection, 1862-1864

The Military Operations in Texas Collection, 1862-1864, consists of official copies of correspondence concerning Union military operations along the Texas Gulf coast and the Texas-Mexico border.

ArchivalResource: 4 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/777002704 View

Nathaniel Prentiss Banks Papers, 1829-1911, (bulk 1860-1880)

Title: Nathaniel Prentiss Banks Papers 1829-1911 (bulk 1860-1880)

United States representative, governor of Massachusetts, and army officer. Family and general correspondence, diaries and notebooks, letterbooks, military papers, speeches and writings, scrapbooks, clippings, printed matter, and miscellany relating chiefly to Banks’s political career and as an army officer during the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 50,000 items; 110 containers plus 3 oversize; 44.5 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010141 View

Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894. Orders of General Nathaniel Banks, 1864 July.

Title: Orders of General Nathaniel Banks, 1864 July.

Orders of Major General Nathaniel Banks, relayed by Colonel John P. Shertmore of the Office of the Chief of Calvary of the Department of the Gulf to Colonel Hawkes Fearing. In the order Banks instructs Fearing to inspect mounted pickets on duty around the city of New Orleans and correct irregularities that exist. Stating that pickets should not demand passes of commissioned officers and should refrain from using insulting language, Banks warns that commanding officers will be held strictly accountable for the conduct of their men.

ArchivalResource: 1 order.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/219644679 View

Palfrey, John Carver, 1833-1906. Papers.

Title: Papers. 1816-1874.

Union soldier, engineer. Graduated Harvard 1853; West Point, 1857. A small collection of letters written chiefly by John C. Palfrey while serving with the engineers of the Department of the Gulf at New Orleans, Fort Gaines and Port Hudson during the Civil War. Correspondents include Benjamin F. Butler, Charles Eliot Norton, John G. Palfrey and Sylvanus Thayer. (CONTINUED) Collection includes an 1816 composition book of Mary Anne Hammond, an 1856 and 1874 diary of John C. Palfrey, and an 1871 journal of a trip to Ireland, England and Scotland by A.R. Palfrey, together with genealogical materials by Myrtle Palfrey Bumbry and family pictures.

ArchivalResource: ca. 100 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/7020896 View

Eltinge family. Eltinge-Lord family papers, 1856-1871.

Title: Eltinge-Lord family papers, 1856-1871.

Correspondence of Peter Eltinge, an officer in the 156th New York Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War, relating to his service in the Dept. of the Gulf (1863-1864), Maryland and Virginia (1864), and Georgia and the Carolinas (1865), participation in the occupation of Georgia; and operation of a grocery store in Memphis, Tenn., and speculation in cotton after the war. Topics include politics, temperance, economic conditions, blacks in the Union Army, and black agricultural labor during Reconstruction. Also, naval records and other papers of George P. Lord of Camden, Del., brother-in-law of Peter Eltinge, chiefly relating to his duty as a naval officer on ironclads of the Mississippi Squadron (1861-1865), including the U.S.S. Chillicothe, U.S.S. Ozark, and U.S.S. Osage. Topics include the Red River Expedition of 1864 and the regulation of commerce on the Mississippi River.

ArchivalResource: 2,245 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122524320 View

Beckwith, E. G. (Edward Griffin), 1818-1881. Papers of Edward Griffin Beckwith and John Laurence Fox, 1805-1909 (bulk 1837-1865).

Title: Papers of Edward Griffin Beckwith and John Laurence Fox, 1805-1909 (bulk 1837-1865).

Professional and personal papers of Edward Griffin Beckwith -- his journals, ledgers, accounts, military records, personal and official correspondence, chiefly related to his post-Mexican War service. His journals that he kept during his service in California and letters to his wife recount his life in the West, including details of death of John William Gunnison and his encounters with Mormons. The collection also contains letters of John Laurence Fox to his parents, wife, and son written between 1837 and 1864. Included are letters dealing with the Exploring Expedition, the mission to the Mediterranean, slave trade in West Africa, Matthew C. Perry's mission to Japan, foreign intervention in China, Taiping Rebellion, and the Civil War. This portion of the collection also contains his surgeon's commission (1847), and newspapers clippings related to the death of Charles Eben Fox.

ArchivalResource: ca. 1000 pieces.11 boxes : also 2 ledgers, 5 letterbooks, and 4 oversized folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122499739 View

Conner, Phineas S. (Phineas Sanborn), 1839-1909,. Scrapbook, 1861-1899 (bulk 1861-1866; 1898-1899).

Title: Scrapbook, 1861-1899 (bulk 1861-1866; 1898-1899).

Significant to the study of military medical history during the Civil War and Reconstruction as well as the history of the Spanish-American War, the scrapbook contains a rich collection of letters, circulars, parchment broadsides, black-and-white photographs, ephemera, reports, and other materials. The collection of papers documents Conner's service as a Union Army medical officer and a member of the commission to investigate the War Department following the Spanish-American War. Many of the papers date from the Civil War period and include Conner's presidential appointment as assistant surgeon, U.S. Army. The appointment is signed by Abraham Lincoln, with a counter signature by Edwin M. Stanton, secretary of war. Conner's commission as brevet captain in the U.S. Army, on parchment and signed by President Andrew Johnson, is also included. Other documents, particularly letters and circulars issued by order of the surgeon general, pertain to Conner's responsibilities at Columbian Hospital, Washington, D.C.; University Hospital in New Orleans (Union Department of the Gulf), and in Raleigh, N.C., where he served as medical director in the Department of North Carolina. Some of these items reflect Surgeon General William A. Hammond and Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes' efforts to collect data and specimens from surgeons in the field. Of note are orders concerning the preservation of surgical and medical specimens for the Army Medical Museum. A circular from Hammond also directed medical officers to report on medical conditions in the field and troop morale. Other items related to the Civil War period include oaths by Confederate prisoners; railroad and steamer tickets; a list of Confederate patients at the Fort Columbus (N.Y.) hospital; an order by Gen. Thomas West Sherman concerning contrabands (presumably fugitive slaves) who were to report to Conner in New Orleans; a list of medical officers and their duty stations; and color sketches of University Hospital, New Orleans. Also includes Medical Department petitions to the House Military Committee concerning the rank and pay of medical officers as well as the printed charges against John H. Gee, keeper of the Confederate prison at Salisbury, N.C. Also includes orders to investigate an outbreak of smallpox and the condition of freedmen in Raleigh. To a lesser extent, the scrapbook reflects Conner's membership on the Commission to Investigate the Conduct of the War Department in the War with Spain. Members of the commission included Grenville M. Dodge, James A. Sexton, Charles Denby, Evan P. Howell, John M. Wilson, James A. Beaver, Alexander McCook, Richard Weightman, Francis B. Jones, Urban A. Woodbury, and Stephen C. Mills. An autograph copy of the report made by the commission is sewn into the binding. Other items relating to the commission include a telegraph from William McKinley, ephemera, a photograph of the commission, and portrait photographs of Grenville Dodge, John M. Wilson, and Francis B. Jones. Dodge's work, Transcontinental railways, is sewn in.

ArchivalResource: 30 leaves ; 54 x 41 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122525469 View

New Orleans, Opelousas, and Great Western Railroad Company. New Orleans, Opelousas, and Great Western Railroad Company account books, 1863-1865.

Title: New Orleans, Opelousas, and Great Western Railroad Company account books, 1863-1865.

Account books and letter book kept by Capt. E. A. Morse for the New Orleans, Jackson, and Great Northern Railroad Company and the New Orleans, Opelousas, and Great Western Railroad Company while they were operated under the control of the United States Army at the latter part of the Civil War. Letter book contains copies of orders, circulars, and published notices issued by Morse and C. W. Greene, Assistant Superintendent, to conductors, station agents and mechanics of the Opelousas railroad. Additionally, there is a photograph of a Lafourche locomotive (filed in Picture Collection, E:67).

ArchivalResource: 4 v.1 photograph ; 5 1/4 x 9 in. mounted on board.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/260090753 View

Jenkins, James Scott, b. 1842. Papers, 1864-1865.

Title: Papers, 1864-1865.

Transcript of a court inquiry concerning a magazine explosion in Mobile, Alabama, orders, inspection reports, and lists of regiments and staff of the Department of the Gulf.

ArchivalResource: 0.2 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17463300 View

Slauson, Daniel D. Daniel D. Slauson papers, 1852-1872.

Title: Daniel D. Slauson papers, 1852-1872.

Papers of Daniel D. Slauson consist primarily of medical reports that he completed while serving at the hospital of the Corps d'Afrique in Port Hudson, La.; personal correspondence; and letters from cotton factors in New Orleans, La., concerning sales of cotton from Slauson's plantations. Largely compiled while Slauson was serving in the hospital for African American soldiers in the 4th Regiment of Colored Cavalry at Port Hudson, La., the medical reports list the type of illness suffered by patients, number of patients afflicted, and deaths. Accompanying the reports are orders to vaccinate soldiers, muster rolls from the hospital department, and requests for medical supplies sent to the medical director of the Department of the Gulf. Numerous letters from cotton factors J. Burnet & Co. describe shipments and sales of cotton grown on Slauson's cotton plantations. Other papers pertaining to Slauson's plantations include sharecropping agreements with tenants of Slauson's lands, work contracts with laborers, and receipts from dry goods merchants for purchases of food, clothing, and other supplies. A loose section of a ledger for Johnson Plantation records purchases of dry goods at the plantation store and shows the amount and nature of items purchased and the names of customers. The papers also include a number of letters from J.G. Slauson, Daniel Slauson's brother, and from other relatives about the health and activities of family members and the status of crops on the family farm. Also found among the papers is a volume recording medical visits paid by Slauson during the period when he resided at Morchy Plantation and later Ernst Place in East Feliciana Parish, La. The entries show the date, name of patient, purpose of charge, and the notation of payment. An additional small memorandum book records random information about purchases of dry goods and other household supplies.

ArchivalResource: 540 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313749608 View

Augur, Christopher Columbus, 1821-1898. Papers, 1847-1887 (bulk 1861-1887).

Title: Papers, 1847-1887 (bulk 1861-1887).

Letters, telegrams, notes, maps, reports and scrapbook. 1 notebook from service in the Mexican War.

ArchivalResource: 0.63 linear ft. (1 1/2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22698621 View

Military Operations in Texas Collection 81-171., 1862-1864

Title: Military Operations in TexasCollection 1862-1864

The Military Operations in TexasCollection, 1862-1864, consists of official copies of correspondence concerningUnion military operations along the Texas Gulf coast and the Texas-Mexicoborder.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/01811/01811-P.html View

Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893. Benjamin Franklin Butler papers, undated.

Title: Benjamin Franklin Butler papers, undated.

Contains the following type of materials: orders. Contains information pertaining to the following war: Civil War. Contains information pertaining to the following military organization: U.S. Army Department of the Gulf. General description of the collection: The Benjamin Franklin Butler papers include copies of twelve orders issued by Butler (May 15 - November 11, 1862) to control the disruptive elements within the civilian populace and military garrison of New Orleans.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50149959 View

Civil War New Orleans orphanages receipts, 1863.

Title: Civil War New Orleans orphanages receipts, 1863.

Handwritten receipts of payment from the U. S. Army, Department of the Gulf, to the Female Orphan Asylum and St. Vincent's Infant Asylum, two orphanages run by the Catholic Church in New Orleans. The items reflect the nature of interaction between Federal occupation forces and the local population.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263962272 View

Elliot, Charles Darwin, 1837-1908. Charles Darwin Elliot diary and surveyor field books, 1863-1864.

Title: Charles Darwin Elliot diary and surveyor field books, 1863-1864.

The collection consists of Charles Darwin Elliot's diary and two surveyor field books. The diary begins with his entries in March 1864; his wife continued the diary until September 1864. Charles Darwin Elliot's portion of the diary describes troop movements around southern Louisiana, the threat of Confederate guerillas and Jayhawkers, correspondence with his wife, and brief observations on his daily activities. Emily Jane Elliot's contributions to the diary detail the journey from New Orleans, La., to Massachusetts following Charles Darwin Elliot's discharge; daily life and household activities; and relationships with her husband's family while the couple lived in Foxboro immediately after the war. In the diary, there is a list of tasks related to Elliot's surveying work, December 1863-March 1864. Included in the surveyor field books are topographical sketches of and notes from May 1863 about Bayou Boeuf, La., and undated information about eastern Connecticut.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/696811724 View

Bridges, Charles, b. ca. 1838. Charles Bridges/80th U.S. Colored Volunteers Civil War records, 1864-1865.

Title: Charles Bridges/80th U.S. Colored Volunteers Civil War records, 1864-1865.

The majority of documents are printed forms that have been filled in. The resulting documents quantify the materials necessary to support this regiment during an 18-month period of the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71057683 View

Military Operations in Texas Collection 81-171., 1862-1864

Title: Military Operations in TexasCollection 1862-1864

The Military Operations in TexasCollection, 1862-1864, consists of official copies of correspondence concerningUnion military operations along the Texas Gulf coast and the Texas-Mexicoborder.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/01811/01811-P.html View

Reece, Thomas Madison, 1836-1894. Papers, 1857-1876.

Title: Papers, 1857-1876.

Morning reports, inventories of medical supplies, reports of sick and wounded, circulars, general and special orders, receipts and inspection reports make up the bulk of the collection. Daily reports from Camp Butler and Baton Rouge. Material concerning the Siege at Port Hudson, La. and sanitary conditions in the Union Army. Journal gives the medical history of the 118th and includes Reece's monthly reports of the Unit's field activities. A copy book kept at Baton Rouge records Reece's duties as surgeon in chief for the Department of the Gulf. Small amount of post Civil War material deals mostly with medical societies and a daybook, 1874-1876 and ledger, 1872-1875 gives a picture of his patients and practice in Abingdon.

ArchivalResource: 1.68 linear feet 4 boxes.

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Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894. General orders no. 122, 1864 Sept. 7.

Title: General orders no. 122, 1864 Sept. 7.

General orders of General Nathaniel Banks, issued by George B. Drake, Assistant Adjutant General, Headquarters of the Gulf, New Orleans, La. The order outlines measures taken to soften the effects of a recent strike of boiler makers and machinists in New Orleans. Stating that mechanics among enlisted men in the U.S. Army in New Orleans will be furloughed in order to perform needed boiler-making, carpentry, bricklaying, and other kinds of labor in the city, the order outlines wage schedules for white and African American workers and calls for commanding officers to draw up and submit lists of laborers in their ranks.

ArchivalResource: 1 order.

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Durell, Edward H. (Edward Henry), 1810-1887. Papers, 1794-1887.

Title: Papers, 1794-1887.

Correspondence, letter books, manuscripts, extracts, diaries, notes, and a catalog kept or collected by Durell (1794-1887). Correspondence and diaries pertain to Durell and other members of the family, including personal and romantic letters to and from Edward Durell, many in correspondence with Mary Seitz Gebhart, whom he married in 1875; and memorandum diaries of Daniel Meserve Durell, New Hampshire lawyer and chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas, primarily containing records of monetary transactions (1794-1841). Writings include his novel "The First Age"; extracts from military general orders, most originating from the headquarters of the Dept. of the Gulf in New Orleans (1 v., 1862-1865); extracts from the New Orleans newspaper "Daily True Delta" (2 v., 1860-1864); extracts from the Shreveport newspaper "South-Western" (2 v., 1861-1866); manuscript of stories (2 v.); an annotated version of "New Orleans as I Found It" by H. Didimus; and a translation of P.C. Roux's essay on the history of France, including Durell's notes.

ArchivalResource: 6.75 linear ft. (5 boxes, 21 v.)

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McBeth letter, 1864 Nov. 16.

Title: McBeth letter, 1864 Nov. 16.

In his letter, McBeth comments on the Confederate military situation around Baton Rouge, La., at the end of 1864.

ArchivalResource: 1 letter.

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McMillan, James Winning, 1825-1903. General order no. 1, circa 1862.

Title: General order no. 1, circa 1862.

General order of Colonel James W. McMillan of the U.S. Army, Department of the Gulf, issued by Mark A. Latham, assistant adjutant general, in Baton Rouge, La. The order states that commanders of regiments batteries and companies of cavalry and surgeons must immediately expel "all negroes without their lines" except servants of officers, and that all African American women currently quartered in army camps or buildings must also be removed.

ArchivalResource: 1 order.

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