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Castleman, John Breckinridge, 1841-1918. John Breckinridge Castleman collection, 1854-1911.

Title: John Breckinridge Castleman collection, 1854-1911.

The Castleman papers mainly consist of correspondence. Some letters, collected by Castleman, were written by, to, and about Confederate agents in Canada during the Civil War. One letter contains an account of a visit to Captain John Y. Beall before his execution. Other Confederate correspondents include Judah P. Benjamin, Clement C. Clay, Jefferson Davis, Jacob Thompson, and Bennett H. Young. Later correspondence addresses Kentucky politics and the Kentucky Militia's service in Texas in 1836-1837. The collection also includes a brief article by Castleman entitled "The Kentucky Mounted Gun Men and the Sabine War."

ArchivalResource: .33 cubic feet.

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Confederate States of America Records, 1854-1889, (bulk 1861-1865)

Title: Confederate States of America Records 1854-1889 (bulk 1861-1865)

Correspondence, proclamations, messages of the president, court cases, minute books, docket books, customs records, financial records, letterbooks, orders, reports, and other records of the Confederate Department of Justice, Department of State, Department of the Treasury, Post Office Department, Navy Department, and War Department. Includes Confederate constitutional documents and the James Wolcott Wadsworth collection of diplomatic correspondence and letters of Raphael Semmes.

ArchivalResource: 18,500 items; 124 containers plus 5 oversize; 28 linear feet; 71 microfilm reels

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Houston, George S. (George Smith), 1811-1879. Papers, 1831-1899.

Title: Papers, 1831-1899.

Correspondence and account books. The correspondence pertains to Alabama politics (especially 1845-1850), Texas lands, and other matters. Includes letters of condolence on the deaths of Houston and other members of the family. Correspondents include J.A.S. Acklen, O.H. Bynum, Reuben Chapman, C.C. Clay, Jr., C.C. Clay, Sr., Jeremiah Clemens, Jefferson Davis, M.C. Gallaway, David Hubbard, J.S. Kennedy, A.C. Mathews, F.G. Norman, F.A. O'Neal, and J.E. Saunders.

ArchivalResource: 475 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19643068 View

Hubbard, David, 1792-1874. David Hubbard papers, 1807-1871.

Title: David Hubbard papers, 1807-1871.

Papers, predominantly incoming correspondence, of David Hubbard. Includes correspondents such as John C. Calhoun, James K. Polk, D.H. Lewis, Nicholas Biddle, Clement Claiborne Clay, Richard K. Crallé, Ephraim H. Foster, William R. King, Andrew B. Moore, J.A. Nooe, and Henry A. Wise. Topics include land transactions and national as well as Tennessee and Alabama politics. Correspondents frequently mention the national bank, slavery, economic problems of the country, Democratic and Whig politics, the elections of Martin Van Buren, James K. Polk, and Abraham Lincoln, and black Republicanism. Sale of Indian lands in Alabama and Mississippi involving Hubbard's Chickasaw Company in the 1830s and 1840s is also frequently mentioned. Family correspondence features letters of George Campbell Brown, Lizinka Campbell Brown Ewell, Eliza Campbell Hubbard, and Rebecca Stoddert Hubbard. Land records, accounts, and legal documents round out the collection.

ArchivalResource: 240 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27089240 View

Fox, John, 1805-1884. John Fox papers, 1784-1910 [microform].

Title: John Fox papers, 1784-1910 [microform].

Family and business papers (2139 items) of John Fox, and of his business associate, William L. Miller. Topics mentioned include the settlement of various estates; the militia; antebellum student life at the University of Virginia and South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina); railroads; African American slaves and slavery; cotton production, local politics; secession; living conditions in Richmond, Virginia, during Civil War; John Fox's post-war debts. Later papers document a sawmill in Wilcox Co., Ala., owned by brother Daniel and operated by brother Washington Fox, and Daniel Fox's service in the Alabama legislature and his comments on Alabama governor Benjamin Fitzpatrick, C. C. Clay, Jr., internal improvements, and public schools; the American Party; crime and law enforcement in the Confederacy; and Reconstruction and African American politicians during Reconstruction.

ArchivalResource: 6 rolls of microfilm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/73807238 View

Fox, John, 1805-1884. John Fox papers, 1784-1892.

Title: John Fox papers, 1784-1892.

Family and business papers of John Fox, and of his business associate, William L. Miller. Topics mentioned include the settlement of various estates; the militia; antebellum student life at the University of Virginia and South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina); railroads; slaves and slavery; cotton production, local politics; secession; living conditions in Richmond during the war; John Fox's post-war debts; a sawmill in Wilcox Co., Ala., owned by brother Daniel and operated by brother Washington Fox; Daniel's service in the Alabama legislature and his comments on Alabama governor Benjamin Fitzpatrick, C.C. Clay, Jr., internal improvements, and public schools; the American Party; crime and law enforcement in the Confederacy; and Reconstruction and African-American politicians during Reconstruction.

ArchivalResource: 2,139 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19562243 View

Clay, C. C. (Clement Claiborne), 1816-1882. Clement C. Clay papers, 1861-1870.

Title: Clement C. Clay papers, 1861-1870.

Correspondence of an Alabama resident and former confederate diplomat, regarding land investments and travels in Minnesota.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder, containing 6 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122659146 View

Yancey, William Lowndes, 1814-1863. Papers, 1834-1941.

Title: Papers, 1834-1941.

Papers, 1834-1941, containing personal and political correspondence; notes; printed materials including speeches, pamphlets, periodicals, clippings and scrapbooks, a copybook and typescripts; a diary; notebooks and biographical material. The bulk of the collection, and the most valuable materials, consist of the correspondence, notes and speeches. Among the many prominent correspondents are Jefferson Davis, Earl Russell, Robert Toombs, South Carolina Governor Francis Pickens and Dixon H. Lewis. The correspondence, notes and speeches reflect Yancey's stand on contemporary issues such as states rights, secession, the Democratic party platform, the Civil War, and European recognition of the Confederacy. The clippings and scrapbooks contain articles from many local, regional and national newspapers, and many are reprints of Yancey's speeches and letters. The typescripts are copies of various letters, notes, speeches and articles prepared for publication in the Alabama Quarterly. The diary, although very brief, records Yancey's arrival in Europe. The bulk of the biographical materials and many of the other papers appear to have possibly been gathered by Yancey's biographer, John Witherspoon DuBose. The mileage books, notebooks, periodicals, copybook and the majority of the pamphlets are originals. The political notes and clippings are mostly originals with corresponding typescripts or copies. The correspondence and speeches are primarily typescripts and copies.

ArchivalResource: 2.33 cubic ft. (6 archives boxes and 1 oversized archives box).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145409956 View

Wigfall, Louis Trezevant. Wigfall, Louis Trezevant Papers, 1833-1874

Title: Wigfall, Louis Trezevant Papers, 1833-1874

A secessionist and staunch believer in slavery and the chivalric code, Louis Trezevant Wigfall was active in Texas politics, taking part in the Galveston County Democratic convention, 1848, and serving in the Texas House of Representatives, 1850-1857.

ArchivalResource: 5 in.

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Clay, C. C. (Clement Claiborne), 1816-1882. C. C. Clay papers, 1811-1925; (bulk 1821-1915).

Title: C. C. Clay papers, 1811-1925; (bulk 1821-1915).

Collection includes personal, business, and political correspondence, accounts, diaries, memoranda, college notes, scrapbooks, and clippings of Clement Claiborne Clay, and of his father, Clement Comer Clay; his mother, Susanna Claiborne Withers Clay; his wife, Virginia Caroline Tunstall Clay; and brothers, Hugh Lawson Clay and John Withers Clay. Letters deal with family matters, including Alabama and Washington, D.C., social life, education, the management of cotton plantations, civic affairs in Huntsville; state and national politics and elections; Clay Sr.'s governorship; Clay Jr.'s service in both the U.S. and Confederate senates; ante-bellum politics; the organization of the Confederacy; Reconstruction politics, including Clay Jr.'s arrest, imprisonment, and his wife's efforts to obtain his release; Clay Jr.'s efforts to retrieve his property and re-establish farming operations, and to settle his father's estate; Virginia Clay's dissatisfaction with Reconstruction period social life, her tour of Europe, 1884-1885, and her efforts to operate the plantation after her husband's death.

ArchivalResource: 8,568 items (20 lin. ft)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19465412 View

C. C. Clay Papers, 1811-1925

Title: C. C. Clay Papers, 1811-1925

Clement Claiborne Clay (1816-1882) was a lawyer, U. S. Senator, Confederate diplomat, and planter from Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama. He was married to Virginia Carolina (Tunstall) Clay (1825-1915). His father, Clement Comer Clay (1789-1866) was a U.S. Congressman and Governor of Alabama. Collection includes personal, business, and political correspondence, accounts, diaries, memoranda, college notes, scrapbooks, and clippings of Clement Claiborne Clay, and of his father, Clement Comer Clay; his mother, Susanna Claiborne Withers Clay; his wife, Virginia Caroline Tunstall Clay; and brothers, Hugh Lawson Clay and John Withers Clay. Letters deal with family matters, including Alabama and Washington, D.C., social life, education, the management of cotton plantations, civic affairs in Huntsville; state and national politics and elections; Clay Sr.'s governorship; Clay Jr.'s service in both the U.S. and Confederate senates; ante-bellum politics; the organization of the Confederacy; Reconstruction politics, including Clay Jr.'s arrest, imprisonment, and his wife's efforts to obtain his release; Clay Jr.'s efforts to retrieve his property and re-establish farming operations, and to settle his father's estate; Virginia Clay's dissatisfaction with Reconstruction period social life, her tour of Europe, 1884-1885, and her efforts to operate the plantation after her husband's death.

ArchivalResource: 20 Linear Feet; 8,568 Items

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Benjamin, J. P. (Judah Philip), 1811-1884,. Letters : from James P. Holcombe and C. C. Clay, Jr. [stats], 1864.

Title: Letters : from James P. Holcombe and C. C. Clay, Jr. [stats], 1864.

Letters sent to Benjamin in his capacity as Secretary of State for the Confederate States of America. They concern a diplomatic mission to Canada from the C. S. A., during which Holcombe and Clay met with an envoy from the U. S. who encouraged actions towards peace in part to secure the states from possible foreign invasion.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (11 leaves) ; 40 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612798830 View

Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence, 1828-1914. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain autograph letter signed, 1865.

Title: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain autograph letter signed, 1865.

ALS, Camp, 1st Div., 5th Corps, Army of the Potomac, to H.W. Benedict, Albany, enclosing the signature of C.C. Clay, Jr.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/319063921 View

Wigfall (Louis Trezevant) Papers 1934; 1935., 1839-1874

Title: Wigfall (Louis Trezevant)Papers 1839-1874

A secessionist and staunch believerin slavery and the chivalric code, Louis Trezevant Wigfall was active in Texaspolitics, taking part in the Galveston County Democratic convention, 1848, andserving in the Texas House of Representatives, 1850-1857. Photostats and transcriptsof correspondence, a speech, legal documents, genealogy and family history,newspaper accounts, and literary productions comprise the papers.

ArchivalResource:

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Black, Jeremiah S. (Jeremiah Sullivan), 1810-1883. Jeremiah Sullivan Black Papers, 1813-1894 (inclusive), 1842-1884 (bulk), [microform].

Title: Jeremiah Sullivan Black Papers

The papers consist of correspondence, a ledger, scrapbooks, and other papers of statesman Jeremiah Sullivan Black, U.S. Attorney General, 1857-1860 and Secretary of State, 1860-1861. Among the subjects discussed are events in Kansas before the Civil War, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859, the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, the Credit Mobilier scandal, the trial of Jefferson Davis, and Black's efforts on behalf of Clement Claiborne Clay and Jacob Thompson. Much of the correspondence is that of Black's son Chauncey Forward Black and includes his letters concerning Ward Hill Lamon's The Life of Abraham Lincoln and letters written by Samuel Jackson Randall concerning Pennsylvania politics. Included among the prominent correspondents are Edwin McMasters Stanton, James Buchanan, Thomas Francis Bayard, Montgomery Blair, Caleb Cushing, James Abram Garfield, Joseph Holt, and Reverdy Johnson.

ArchivalResource: 36 reels

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Jeremiah S. Black Papers, 1813-1904, (bulk 1856-1880)

Title: Jeremiah S. Black Papers 1813-1904 (bulk 1856-1880)

Lawyer, public official of Pennsylvania, United States attorney general, and United States secretary of state. Correspondence, legal files, speeches, writings, scrapbooks, family papers, and other papers relating primarily to various legal matters in which Black was involved.

ArchivalResource: 10,070 items; 80 containers; 34 linear feet; 36 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001039 View

Hunter, R. M. T. (Robert Mercer Taliaferro), 1809-1887. Letters of R.M.T. Hunter [manuscript], 1846, 1857.

Title: Letters of R.M.T. Hunter [manuscript], 1846, 1857.

In a letter, 1857 March 25, Hunter, Lloyds, Essex County, Va., writes to Roger Atkinson Pryor concerning Pryor's pro-Southern newspaper, "The South," and the Tariff of 1857. Hunter desires to increase the paper's circulation, mentions Senator Clement Claiborne Clay's offer to help and asks Pryor's aid in re-electing Clay. He emphasizes the importance of newspapers in the "great battle for state rights and Southern rights." He also outlines his position on the tariff and mentions President Pierce's veto of Dorothea Dix's bill concerning use of tax revenue for care of the insane. In an [1846] February 26 letter from Washington, William Schouler, editor of the "Ohio State Journal" writes to an unnamed recipient over the Tariff of 1846. He relays a report that Hunter will kill the current version of the bill in the Senate and reports on activities of Senator Simon Cameron and Treasury Secretary Robert J. Walker.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

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Clay, C. C. (Clement Claiborne), 1816-1882. Clement Claiborne Clay papers, 1864-1866 (inclusive), [microform].

Title: Clement Claiborne Clay papers, 1864-1866 (inclusive), [microform].

The papers of Clement Claiborne Clay, Confederate diplomat, covering his mission to Canada and him imprisonment at Fortress Monroe, 1864-1866. The papers contain correspondence, diaries, check stubs from St. Catherine's Bank, a copy of a speech, and a letter to the "New York News."

ArchivalResource: 1 reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122568834 View

Clay, Clement Claiborne, Jr. 1816-1882. Autograph letter signed : Washington, to the President, 1854 May 30.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Washington, to the President, 1854 May 30.

Recommending Jefferson Falkner for a judgeship in the territories and Benjamin F. Porter for a similar appointment.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270903846 View

Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896. Charles Carleton Coffin papers, 1861-1890.

Title: Charles Carleton Coffin papers, 1861-1890.

Thirty-seven addresses or book chapters by Coffin on patriotic and historical subjects, ca. 1870-1890, and souvenirs of his reporting days during the Civil War consisting of Confederate papers found in the streets of Richmond April 3, 1865. The Civil War material includes appointments for 3 officers; copy of General Beauregards letter of resignation; copies of reports including casualty reports from Marmadukes raid into Missouri and the defense of James Island in Charleston Harbor, 16-20 June 1862; letters to Col. Frances Henney Smith, Superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute; correspondence between Generals Robert E. Lee and Henry W. Halleck on alleged Union atrocities; and some material on provisions for prisoners of war in Richmond. There are misc. CSA government documents like an 1863 annual report from the office of the Secretary of War and Treasury Department documents along with misc. state governments documents such as the resolutions passed at a meeting of the citizens of Amelia County, VA on 23 February 1865. There is a small group of letters sent to Jefferson Davis, his wife, and Judah P. Benjamin, Secretary of War. Correspondents include Clement Claiborne Clay, Thomas F. Drayton; S. Bassett French, Ambrosio Jose Gonzales, Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, Christopher Gustavus Memminger, Virginia McLaurine Mosby, Jacob Thompson, and Nathaniel Beverly Tucker. There is also a group of 345 letters sent to VA governors John Letcher and William Smith; 53 letters sent between Confederate soldiers from VA and their families; correspondence sent to Edward J. Harden, a GA Superior Court Judge; a collection of poetry and letters contributed to the Richmond Examiner, Richmond Sentinel and Savannah Morning News concerning problems in the army and civilian life; and correspondence (bulk 1857) sent to Ziba Oakes, a Charleston slaver trader.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64665331 View