Adams, Dan Weiseger, 1820-1872,. Autographs of Civil War officers and U.S. Statesmen.
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Autographs of Civil War officers and U.S. Statesmen.
Papers consist of letters and documents chiefly compiled for their autograph value. Numerous letters concern military tactics during the Civil War and political matters. Letters of interest, 1810-1840s, include George McDuffie on the Force Bill; Henry Laurence Pinckney on nulllification and the deposit question; Dan Weisiger Adams on Mississippi politics; and Ward Hunt discussing the importance support for the Whig cause. There are also letters or autographs from Pascoe Grenfel, Lewis Cass, John Parker Hale, Braxton Bragg, Philip Francis Thomas, and Charles Clark. Letters of interest, 1850s, include: Walker Brooke giving addresses of ex-governors and former members of Congress; S.D. Watkins concerning political controversy and the election of 1856; Lewis P.W. Balch mentioning the threat of war with the south and events at Harper's Ferry; and Roger Pryor to [Henry A. Wise?] on the publication of a manuscript at the advice of R.K. Meade, Frank Ruffin and George W. Randolph. In addition there are letters from William Morris Meredith, [Joseph P. Bradley?], Albert Gallatin Brown, Daniel Stevens Dickinson, John Minor Botts, William Matthew Fenton, Henry Flagg French, William Bigler, John Parker Hale, Robert Augustus Toombs, John Jones McRae, Isaac Toucey, Samuel Deanes, and Miles White. Letters of interest, 1860s, include: John L. Morgan to A.R. Boteler concerning the disposition of troops in Utah and the attitudes of the Mormon Church; David Flavel Jamison countermanding an order for embarkation of troops on the Marion; Samuel Taylor Glover inquiring about the steps taken by the Missouri Legislature to preserve the Union; Benjamin James Lea concerning men and regiments in his command; and Edward A. Palfrey concerning supply movements. Other items of interest, 1860s, include: special orders signed by John Archer Coke for a free Negro to report as a shoemaker; document detailing bales of cotton hauled away from a Vicksburg plantation; and an account of William Tecumseh Sherman. In addition there are letters and documents, 1860s, from Francis Preston Blair, George T. Swann, Thaddeus Stevens, Benjamin Gratz Brown, Francis Wilkinson Pickens, Richard Napoleon Barchelder, Walter Cauthen Cutting, Benjamin Franklin Butler, and John Schuyler Crosby. Letters of interest, 1870s, include: Edward Alfred Pollard concerning the completion of his book "The Lost Curse"; Edward Swift discussing his experiences in the Mexican War and the relation to the situation in Cuba; a broadside communication from Irvin McDowell regarding his impressions of the Fitz-John Porter case. Autographs, 1870s, include Stewart Lyndon Woodford, Richard W. Johnson, Thurlow Weed, Emmons Clark, John Wood, Benjamin Harvey Hill, Hiram Casey Young, James Edmund Bailey, Isham Green Harris, Haywood Yancey Riddle, Otho Robards Singleton, Fernando Wood and John Wood. Autographs, 1880s, inclue John Henninger Reagan, William Paris Chilton, Joseph E. Johnston, Samuel West Peel, William Ruffin Cox, William Hayne Perry, and Benjamin Franklin Butler. There are also undated autographs of Ambrose E. Burnside, Simon Cameron, Roscoe Conkling, Stephen A. Douglas, Andrew Johnson, Winfield Scott, Alexander Stewart Webb, and M.C. Yancey.
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