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Barker, Jacob, 1779-1871. Papers of Jacob Barker, 1813-1863 (bulk 1813-1823).

Title: Papers of Jacob Barker, 1813-1863 (bulk 1813-1823).

Letters and documents relating to the loans to the Government in 1814 and Barker's claims.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122499627 View

Campbell, George Washington, 1769-1848. Autograph letter signed : Washington, to Henry Wheaton, [no year].

Title: Autograph letter signed : Washington, to Henry Wheaton, [no year].

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270882867 View

Taggart, Samuel, 1754-1825. Letters, 1814-1817, to the Rev. Jedidiah Morse [manuscript].

Title: Letters, 1814-1817, to the Rev. Jedidiah Morse [manuscript].

Taggart's letters are chiefly concerned with Congressional activities and the War of 1812, particularly the financing of the war effort. He discusses loans, taxes, the National Bank, and the Embargo; the Commissioners at Ghent; the Hartford Convention; conscription; the British in New Orleans; the destruction of Washington; Federalist Party successes in North Carolina; and the purchase of Jefferson's library. A post-war letter describes New England opposition to mail transportation on Sundays, and religious revivals. Samuel Dexter, George W. Campbell, William Ellery Channing, James Madison, James Monroe, and Daniel Webster are mentioned.

ArchivalResource: 7 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647825559 View

Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation, Sub-Committee on Music Papers, 1941-1946

Title: Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation, Sub-Committee on Music Papers 1941-1946

The collection represents the working papers of the sub-committee: correspondence from members to, among others, Aaron Copland, Leonard Feist, Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern, Erich Leinsdorf, Alan Lomax, and Walter Toscanini; song book pamphlets ("Army Hit Kits"), sheet music; non-music publications; and administrative papers.

ArchivalResource: circa 10,000 items; 45 boxes; 18 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu005002 View

Anderson, William P. Letter : Nashville, [Tenn.], to George W. Campbell, Washington City, 1809 Jan. 9.

Title: Letter : Nashville, [Tenn.], to George W. Campbell, Washington City, 1809 Jan. 9.

Jan. 9, 1809, letter to George W. Campbell, a Republican member of the House of Representatives from Tennessee, mainly regarding Campbell's land claims (he had purchased N.C. military warrants) in middle Tennessee. Anderson also discusses Col. Edward Ward's application to become public receiver of monies from the sale of lands in southern Tennessee (relinquished by the Cherokees in 1806); the desirability of obtaining Chickasaw lands located between the Tennessee and Mississippi Rivers; and the Cherokee desire to sell and remove west of the Mississippi.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 folded sheets (8 p.)) ; 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36150286 View

Polk, Brown, and Ewell family papers, 1803-1896 [manuscript].

Title: Polk, Brown, and Ewell family papers, 1803-1896 [manuscript].

The collection includes financial papers and correspondence of the Polk family of North Carolina and Tennessee; family correspondence of the Campbell family of Tennessee; and military, financial, business, and family papers of the Brown and Ewell families of Tennessee. Polk family papers include correspondence between William Polk of Raleigh, N.C., and his son Lucius Junius Polk of Maury County, Tenn., regarding the management of William's land in Tennessee, cotton growing, agriculture, relations with slaves and overseers, and Tennessee and national politics. Campbell family papers consist of a few legal and financial documents and correspondence of Liszinka Campbell Brown (1820-1872) and her brother George Washington Campbell, Jr., regarding family matters, European travel, plantation life, slave insurrections, and Indian wars. Brown and Ewell family papers include those of Lt. Gen. Richard Stoddart Ewell and Major George Campbell Brown, consisting of military papers and personal correspondence relating to their service in the Confederate Army, imprisonment at the close of the war, and defense of Ewell's military record (particularly at First Manassas and Gettysburg). There are also business and financial papers regarding the management of the family's Spring Hill plantation in Maury County, Tenn., including items relating to cotton growing and sheep raising, problems with securing labor, and legal and financial concerns; correspondence with agents and family members regarding the family's Melrose and Tarpley plantations in Bolivar County, Miss.; and letters from other family members. There are also volumes kept by Campbell Brown for household expenses for the Spring Hill plantation and of memoranda during his Civil War service.

ArchivalResource: About 1000 items (2.5 linear ft).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25968342 View

United States Sanitary Commission records. Army and Navy Claim Agency archives, 1861-1870

Title: United States Sanitary Commission records. Army and Navy Claim Agency archives 1861-1870

The United States Sanitary Commission established the Army and Navy Claim Agency (ANCA) in Washington, D.C. on April 1, 1864 to serve as the USSC’s central office to assist Union soldiers, sailors, and their families in prosecuting claims on the federal government for pensions, back pay, bounty, commutation of rations, prize money, and other benefits, without cost. The Army and Navy Claim Agency Archives comprise the records of the Army and Navy Claim Agency; the records of the Pension Agency, its predecessor organization; the registers and cash books of its subsidiary local agencies; and the records of two quasi-independent USSC claim agencies whose origins predate the establishment of the Army and Navy Claim Agency: the Protective War Claim Association of the State of New York, located in New York City, and the Protective War Claim and Pension Agency, located in Philadelphia.

ArchivalResource: 506.37 linear feet; 1190 boxes, 46 volumes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/18809 View

War of 1812 mss., 1776-1879

Title: War of 1812 mss., 1776-1879

Consists of individual items acquired separately either as a gift or purchase from a variety of sources, relating to the War of 1812.

ArchivalResource: 3181 items

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Li-VAC1213 View

Brown-Ewell family papers, 1781-1984.

Title: Brown-Ewell family papers, 1781-1984.

The collection is comprised of papers of George Washington Campbell, the Polk family, Plunkett family, Brown family, and Richard S. Ewell. Correspondence relates in part the activities and experiences of these allied families in the 19th and 20th centuries. Of particular interest is the antebellum political and Civil War military papers of the families; including letters written to General William Polk from prominent individuals discussing politics and other matters, and letters written by Confederate General Richard S. Ewell while a prisoner of war in 1865. Correspondents include Pierre G.T. Beauregard, John Bell, Montgomery Blair, George Washington Campbell, William Eastin, William H. Eaton, Benjamin S. Ewell, Thomas I. Green, Felix Grundy, Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson, Joseph E. Johnston, Abraham Lincoln, James Otey, James K. Polk, Leonidas Polk, John Randolph, Horatio Seymour, William T. Sherman, Martin Van Buren, Felix K. Zollicoffer, and others. Family members represented include Lizinka Campbell Brown Ewell, her son, George Campbell Brown, her daughter, Harriot Brown Turner, Percy Brown, Joseph Plunkett, James Dace Plunkett, Thomas Plunkett, and other family members.

ArchivalResource: 7 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49230544 View

Edgar, John, 1733-1830. Letter: Kaskaskia, Ill., to George Washington Campbell, Nashville, Tenn., 1821 Nov. 19.

Title: Letter: Kaskaskia, Ill., to George Washington Campbell, Nashville, Tenn., 1821 Nov. 19.

Enquires as to whereabouts of papers relating to an 1806 claim against the United States; attached is a draft of Campbell's reply.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.); 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29888325 View

Overton, John, 1766-1833. John Overton papers, 1790-1840 [microfilm manuscript].

Title: John Overton papers, 1790-1840 [microfilm manuscript].

Correspondence, chiefly of John Overton, Nashville, Tenn., lawyer, judge, and land speculator. Topics include Tennessee and national politics, legal issues, land speculation, and Andrew Jackson's political career. Correspondents include Joseph Anderson (1757-1837), John Bell (1797-1869), Thomas Hart Benton (1782-1858), William Blount (1749-1800), Willie Blount (1767-1835), George Washington Campbell (1769-1848), Newton Cannon (1781-1841), William Charles Coles Claiborne (1775-1817), Henry Clay (1777-1852), William Cocke (1747-1828), John Coffee, William Dickson (1770-1816), John Henry Eaton (1790-1856), Thomas Emmerson, Edmund Pendleton Gaines (1777-1849), John Haywood (1762-1826), Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson (1843-1926), William Berkeley Lewis (1784-1866), Philip Lindsley (1786-1855), John Sevier (1745-1815), Martin Van Buren, Hugh Lawson White (1773-1840), and James Winchester (1752-1826). Also included are eight original items, primarily Overton family personal correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 468 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24678705 View

Campbell, George Washington, 1769-1848. Letter, 1814.

Title: Letter, 1814.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84698346 View

Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Title: Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Autograph letters and documents of American political and military leaders collected by Frederick Myers Dearborn.

ArchivalResource: 28 boxes (14 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01499/catalog View

Brown, Thomas, of Kingston. Letter : Kingston, [Tenn.], to George W[ashington] Campbell, Washington City, 1813 Dec. 25.

Title: Letter : Kingston, [Tenn.], to George W[ashington] Campbell, Washington City, 1813 Dec. 25.

December 25, 1813, letter from Thomas Brown of Kingston, Tenn., to George Washington Campbell, U.S. senator from Tennessee and chairman of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs, regarding recent Creek War engagements, and militia recruitment and tax collection issues.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 folded sheet (4 p.)) ; 34 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36451849 View

Cooper family. Cooper family papers, 1716-1968.

Title: Cooper family papers, 1716-1968.

Primarily the papers of William Frierson Cooper, but also including papers of his father, Matthew Delamere Cooper, and other family members. Consists of correspondence, diaries, financial records, land and legal records, photographs, scrapbooks, and other papers. William Frierson Cooper's correspondence and diaries contain many references to prominent figures such as Andrew Jackson, Sam Houston, and James K. Polk. Cooper was a delegate at the Southern Convention in Nashville in 1850 and writes at length about the growing split between North and South and on Tennessee's eventual secession. Several volumes of notes on Cooper's travels in Europe during the Civil War are included. Correspondents include David Reeve Arnell, Joseph Bradley Varnum (aka Viator), George O. Sweet, and George Washington Campbell. The papers of Matthew Delamere Cooper document his activities as a planter and businessman, including his partnership with his brother-in-law, Duncan Brown Frierson, in a New Orleans commission house, M.D. Cooper and Co. Letters especially reflect the cotton market in New Orleans during the 1850s and 1860s. Also included are letters of two sons of M.D. Cooper, Edmund and Henry, both lawyers and state legislators of Shelbyville, Tennessee. Edmund was also a Union sympathizer and private secretary to Andrew Johnson. A few items relate to the shooting of Edward Ward Carmack and the involvement of Duncan Brown Cooper (son of M.D. Cooper) in that incident. There is a large amount of genealogical material for the Cooper and related families of Bond, Brown, Frierson, McNeilly, Sansom, Stockell, and Strickler. Other items of interest are materials relating to the death of Meriwether Lewis; Cooper family emigration to Mississippi and Texas; a diary and letter relating to the 2nd Seminole War, 1836; and a Mexican War diary of Albert Gallatin Cooper.

ArchivalResource: 3, 825 items and 43 volumes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35315235 View

Campbell, George Washington, 1769-1848. George Washington Campbell papers, 1793-1886.

Title: George Washington Campbell papers, 1793-1886.

Correspondence, diaries, reports, drafts, and letterbook relating chiefly to Campbell's service as U.S. senator, secretary of the treasury under James Madison, and minister to Russia (1818-1820). Includes correspondence with Richard Rush in London while minister to Russia and Campbell's report to the Dept. of State while commissioner under the Convention of 1831 with France; papers of Campbell's sons-in-law, David Hubbard and Richard Stoddert Ewell, reflecting Alabama and national politics prior to the Civil War and relating to military affairs; and correspondence and diary (1864-1869) of Major Campbell Brown, a stepson of General Ewell. Correspondents include John C. Calhoun, Edmund Pendleton Gaines, David Hubbard, Andrew Jackson, Robert E. Lee, James Madison, and Richard Rush.

ArchivalResource: 400 items.3 containers.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82380408 View

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845. [Letters] / Andrew Jackson.

Title: [Letters] / Andrew Jackson. [1804-1834]

Letter, 1804 Apr. 28, City of Washington [to] George W. Campbell. Concerns the upcoming appointment of the Governor of New Orleans (for which Jackson is in contention). Jackson says he did not visit Pres. Jefferson at Monticello to avoid the impression of courting favor. -- Letter, 1817 Mar. 18, Nashville [to] James Monroe, President of the United States. Jackson writes of his refusal to serve as the Secretary of War and discusses two other Monroe Cabinet choices (Adams for Dept. of State and Gov. Shelby for Secretary of War). -- Letter, 1829 Jun. 19, Washington. This letter is to members of the New Jersey State Legislature and General Assembly, thanking them for their confidence in him. -- Letter, 1830 Nov. 6, Washington [to] Robert M. Barton. Jackson defends himself against accusations made by General Desha, one of which concerned his appointing Major Eaton to his Cabinet. -- Letter, 1833 May 1, Washington [to] Rev. Andrew I. Crawford. Responds to Crawford's position on nullification and tariff. (Another copy in the Library of Congress?) -- Letter, 1835 Oct. 29, Washington [to] F. P. Blair. Jackson writes to the editor of the Globe, enclosing a check for a subscription. -- Hand-tinted portrait lithograph of Jackson holding the U.S. Constitution and a scale, with a cap of liberty in the background.

ArchivalResource: 7 items

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/244252243 View

George Washington Campbell letters, 1813-1814

Title: George Washington Campbell letters 1813-1814

United States Congress Member, Senator, Secretary of the Treasury, and Minster to Russia. Letters to Robert Brent (1813), Benjamin Austin (1814), and Jedidiah Huntington (1814).

ArchivalResource: 0.1; 1 folder

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/8172 View

Coalter, George. Letter : Fayetteville, Tenn., to George W. Campbell, Secretary of Treasury, Washington City, 1814 July 2.

Title: Letter : Fayetteville, Tenn., to George W. Campbell, Secretary of Treasury, Washington City, 1814 July 2.

July 2, 1814, letter from George Coalter of Fayetteville, Tenn., to George Washington Campbell, then Madison's treasury secretary, regarding the value of Campbell's lands in south central Tennessee (Bedford, Giles, Lincoln, and Franklin counties), and the welfare and education of relatives in the Fayetteville area. Coalter also discusses war news and urges the wider distribution of acts of Congress.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 folded sheet (4 p.)) ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36577920 View

Morfit, Henry Mason, d. 1868. Henry Mason Morfit papers, 1819-1858 (bulk 1844-1855).

Title: Henry Mason Morfit papers, 1819-1858 (bulk 1844-1855).

Correspondence and financial and business papers relating to Morfit's Washington, D.C., practice as a claims lawyer and as a minor political figure in the Jackson administrations. Correspondence primarily concerns business matters, especially the collection of claims. Other topics include slavery, French spoliation claims, land speculation in the South and West, finances, and patents. Correspondents include John Armstrong, Philip and Thomas Baltzell, George W. Campbell, Earl Douglas, John H. Eaton, William W. Eaton, Hugh Gelston, Joseph Giles, Duff Green, Jared Ingersoll, Thomas Ludlow, Alney McLean, Eustis Prescott, William H. Rhind, and Levi Woodbury.

ArchivalResource: 4,000 items.13 containers.5.2 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70981186 View

Macon, Nathaniel, 1757-1837. ALS : Washington, D.C., to Alexander James Dallas, 1814 Mar. 16.

Title: ALS : Washington, D.C., to Alexander James Dallas, 1814 Mar. 16.

Concerns Albert Gallatin's activities in peace negotiations with Britain; the appointment of George Washington Campbell as secretary of the Treasury; and the necessity of levying taxes to finance the war.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; 24 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122626228 View

United States. War Dept. Letter : [Washington, D.C.], to George W. Campbell, [Washington, D.C.], 1817 Jan. 18.

Title: Letter : [Washington, D.C.], to George W. Campbell, [Washington, D.C.], 1817 Jan. 18.

January 18, 1817, letter from the secretary of war, George Graham, to the U.S. senator from Tennessee, George W. Campbell, enclosing a copy of his Jan. 13 letter to Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson, which concerned the removal of intruders from lands north of the Tennessee River ceded to the U.S. by the Chickasaw Indians in a Sept. 20, 1816, treaty.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 folded sheet (4 p.) ; 26 cm + enclosure (1 folded sheet (4 p.) ; 26 cm.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40533355 View