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Lee, Stephen D. (Stephen Dill), 1833-1908. Letter, 1904 Sept. 29, Columbus, Miss.

Title: Letter, 1904 Sept. 29, Columbus, Miss.

States his role in the bombardment of Fort Sumter in 1861.

ArchivalResource: [1] leaf ; 18 cm.

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Mickle, William E. (William English), 1846-1920. Papers, 1863-1903.

Title: Papers, 1863-1903.

Letters, a printed circular, and other items.

ArchivalResource: 37 items.

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Halbert, Henry S. (Henry Sale), 1837-1916. Papers, 1821-1918.

Title: Papers, 1821-1918.

Papers 1821-1918, containing correspondence, transcripts, legal documents, notes and articles. Much of the collection is concerned with Halbert's research on the Choctaw Indians and is documented in notes, articles, and his manuscript history of the Choctaw Indians. Halbert's service on the frontier and in the Civil War with Texas units is also recorded in notes and correspondence with other veterans. The papers also include notecards of tombstone records in Columbus, Mississippi; reminiscenses of life in the federal prison camp on Ship Island in Misissippi; transcripts of newspaper articles going back to 1835; notes about the early explorers of the southeast; notes on colonial and territorial government; and drafts of Alabama county histories. The collection has some materials of genealogical interest. Original materials include records from the Lawrence County Circuit Court and Orphans Court records regarding the guardianship of Sarah A. Rootes of Madison County. Genealogical information about the Halbert family is also in the papers. The bulk of the correspondence in the collection covers the years 1900-1916 and it reflects Halbert's interest and research. Halbert family letters from earlier years are also in the papers. In addition, the correspondence includes 1918 letters from Thomas M. Owen, reporting the particulars of Halbert's death to his friends. Correspondents with Halbert include John M. Allen, George L. Burr, Stephen D. Lee, T. H. Lewis, William F. Love, Dunbar Rowland, Edward C. Walthall, John Sharp Williams, and James W. A. Wright.

ArchivalResource: 8.4 cubic ft. (8 records center cartons and 1 archives box).

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Chamberlain, Sylvester. Letters received, 1885-1898.

Title: Letters received, 1885-1898.

Letters received, 1885-1898, from William Tecumseh Sherman, Stephen D. Lee, James Longstreet, John C. Frémont, Fitzhugh Lee, John M. Schofield, Charles S. Venable, William Lamb, and D.C. Buell, in response to questions posed by Chamberlain. Subjects include the Whitworth "Whistling Dick" and Brooke rifle guns allegedly used at Vicksburg; Gen. Pemberton and the battle of Champion Hills; the charge of Pickett's Division at Gettysburg; Hood's assault and the chain of command at Franklin, Tenn.; Grant's command at Cairo, Ill.; the blockade and attacks upon Fort Fisher by the American Navy; D.C. Buell's role in the War Dept., and the composition of the principal armies of the Union.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (13 items)

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Lee, Stephen D. (Stephen Dill), 1833-1908. ALS : Columbus, Miss., to Charles Colcock Jones, 1883 Nov. 15.

Title: ALS : Columbus, Miss., to Charles Colcock Jones, 1883 Nov. 15.

In response to an inquiry from Jones, Lee replies that he has no likeness or letters of L.T. Harrison, but will continue his investigations.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 27 cm.

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Henderson, William Henry, 1842-1892. Civil War letters of William Henry Henderson, 1862-1931.

Title: Civil War letters of William Henry Henderson, 1862-1931.

Correspondence to and from William Henry Henderson.

ArchivalResource: 15 items.

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Confederate officers photographs, 1861 - [1864?].

Title: Confederate officers photographs, 1861 - [1864?].

Images of Confederate officers were taken during the Civil War and then mass produced into a card form. These cards, called cartes-de-visites, were collected by individuals and many were kept in albums. These cartes-de-visites were donated from the Robert Steiner III estate and include twenty-three original cartes-de-visites of Confederate commanders.

ArchivalResource: 23 photographs (1 folder).

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United Confederate Veterans. United Confederate Veterans records, 1900.

Title: United Confederate Veterans records, 1900.

The United Confederate Veteran records consist almost entirely of register books from the 1900 reunion held in Louisville, Ky. The sixteen registers cover the states of Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. The collection also includes three miscellaneous items also related to the reunion.

ArchivalResource:

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Barclay, Julius Preston, 1924-. Photograph album chiefly of the Minor, Southall and Venable families of Charlottesville, Va., ca. 1860-1900.

Title: Photograph album chiefly of the Minor, Southall and Venable families of Charlottesville, Va., ca. 1860-1900.

Members of the families depicted include John B. Minor, Charles L. Minor, Raleigh C. Minor, James C. Southall, James P.C. Southall, Stephen O. Southall, and Frank Venable. A Michael Miley photograph of Robert E. Lee in 1865 is included. In addition there are photographs of Wade Hampton, 1877, Stephen D. Lee, the Rev. George Petrie, and Justus Scheibert.

ArchivalResource: 65 photographs ; Cabinet card or smaller.

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Holmes family. Holmes family correspondence, 1876-1903 (bulk 1876, 1890-1903).

Title: Holmes family correspondence, 1876-1903 (bulk 1876, 1890-1903).

Letters (1876) between George S. Holmes in Charleston and Mary L. Burckmyer of Greenville concerning social life, hunting, rifle clubs and local militia units in Charleston, political news leading up to and after the 1876 Presidential election, and reports of yellow fever and diphtheria epidemics. Also includes letters (1890-1903) to James Gadsden Holmes, Adjutant General, S.C. Division of the United Confederate Veterans, from Stephen D. Lee, president of the Mississippi Historical Society, T.N. Waul of Texas, government officials in Washington, D.C. and at West Point regarding the Civil War, inquiries into the status of officers, and other matters.

ArchivalResource: 55 items.

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Rigby, William T. Correspondence, 1908.

Title: Correspondence, 1908.

Rigby wrote the editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Virginia, requesting publication of two letters concerning funding for a statue for General Stephen D. Lee in the Vicksburg National Military Park. Carbon Copies of the letters donating money for the state are included.

ArchivalResource: 3 leaves.

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Lee, Stephen D. (Stephen Dill), 1833-1908. Stephen D. Lee papers, 1864-1907.

Title: Stephen D. Lee papers, 1864-1907.

Correspondence reflecting Lee's Civil War service in command of all cavalry in the department of Alabama, East Louisiana, Mississippi, and West Tennessee, and his later years as college president; including letters, 8 July 1864, Tupelo, [Miss.], to Gen. B[raxton] Bragg, re an order concerning Gen. [E. Kirby] Smith's troops; and 31 Jan. 1890, Agricultural College, Miss., to [Matthew Calbraith Butler], re the "race issue" then before the Senate, mentioning land near Costa Rica suitable for "negro colonization," and suggesting that President [Rutherford B.] Hayes favored such a plan although it was not favored by Gen. [Wade] Hampton or "any northern representative man." Also includes biographical sketch, clipped from Confederate Veteran, Apr. 1894, p. 70.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

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Harrison, James T. (James Thomas), 1811-1879. James T. Harrison papers, 1770-1896 [manuscript].

Title: James T. Harrison papers, 1770-1896 [manuscript].

The collection is chiefly correspondence among Harrison family members, especially between James Thomas Harrison and his father, Thomas Harrison, and between Thomas and his brother, Isham Harrison, while Thomas was in South Carolina and James and Isham were in Mississippi. Topics include acquiring land in Mississippi, the U.S. public lands policy, the sale of slaves, the possibility of the acquisition of Texas by the U.S., and the progress of James's career as a lawyer. Also included are numerous letters from James Harrison to his wife, Regina, while he was away on trips in the northeast and Canada, and in Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana. During the Civil War, there are letters from James Harrison to Regina from Richmond, where he was serving in the Confederate Congress, including mentions of meetings with Confederate president Davis, and, after the Civil War, from Washington, D.C., where he was trying to claim his seat in Congress. Early materials include financial and legal documents pertaining to Anson and Richmond counties, N.C., probably collected by the Blewett family. A few of these papers concern Revolutionary War soldiers. Scattered throughout the collection are papers of the Earle and Sloan families of South Carolina, who were related to James Thomas Harrison through his mother.

ArchivalResource: About 200 items (0.5 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24250514 View

Kitson, Henry Hudson, 1863?-1947. Kitson papers, 1887-1934 (bulk 1902-1909, 1920-1931).

Title: Kitson papers, 1887-1934 (bulk 1902-1909, 1920-1931).

Correspondence, contracts, legal documents, photographs, sketches, details, blueprints, invoices, receipts, clippings, pamphlets, notes, calling cards, advertisements, negatives, proofs, postcards, prints, bank statements, cancelled checks, financial records, and an account book of Henry Hudson Kitson and Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson, 1887-1934 (bulk 1902-1909 and 1920-1931). Materials relate primarily to Henry's work as a sculptor of public monuments.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear ft. (5 boxes)

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Kitson Papers, 1887-1934 (Bulk 1902-1909, 1920-1931)

Title: Kitson Papers 1887-1934 (Bulk 1902-1909, 1920-1931)

The Kitson Papers consist of materials of various forms related primarily to the work of Henry Hudson Kitson, a sculptor of public monuments. The collection also contains papers of Kitson's first wife, Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson, who was also a sculptor. The bulk of the correspondence consists of letters to Henry Kitson from individuals and organizations who commissioned work from him. Legal documents, especially signed and unsigned contracts, are in the collection. Photographs, mostly unidentified but also including studies for known sculpture subjects, comprise a sizable portion of the collection. The collection contains rough sketches of works and details of works, also mostly unidentified as to subject. Some blueprints are included. Financial records in the collection consist most notably of invoices and receipts from contractors providing materials and services for the Kitsons' projects.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 Linear feet; (5 boxes)

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Lee, Stephen D. (Stephen Dill), 1833-1908. Stephen D. Lee letter, 1897 June 29.

Title: Stephen D. Lee letter, 1897 June 29.

Stephen D. Lee at Mississippi A&M College writes an inconsequential letter to Mrs. Elizabeth Boorom Raub.

ArchivalResource: 1 letter.

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Murray, J. Ogden. Papers, 1872-1915.

Title: Papers, 1872-1915.

Letters, 1885-1915, written to J. Ogden Murray, chiefly concerning his book about the Immortal Six Hundred, and including as correspondents William Edwin Allen (of Bristol, Va., concerning his father, Alphonso S. Allen, a prisoner at Johnson's Island, including names of other prisoners), Jay Guy Cisco (Tennessee newspaper editor, concerning Tennessee politics ca. 1908-1909), T.S. Doyle (of Staunton and Basic City, Va., concerning his prison experiences, especially the education he received from fellow prisoners), historian Lamar Fontaine (of Lyon, Miss., concerning his views on Abraham Lincoln), Junius L. Hempstead (of Jennings and New Orleans, La., concerning Confederate veterans' affairs), Stephen D. Lee (of Columbus, Miss., concerning sources for information on death rates among Confederate prisoners), and historian Marcus J. Wright; minutes, 1905-1906, of the Society of the Immortal Six Hundred and miscellaneous papers, 1886-1914, pertaining to Murray's membership in other veterans' groups; and writings about Civil War subjects by Murray, including essays on Confederate soldiery, Robert E. Lee, and the history of Winchester, Va., and Civil War reminiscences and diaries of Murray, Junius L. Hempstead, Samuel Thompson Anderson, and others.

ArchivalResource: 416 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30536720 View

Calhoun, William L. Papers, 1892-1901.

Title: Papers, 1892-1901.

Collection contains letters from John McIntosh Kell, adjutant general of Ga., and letters from Stephen D. Lee concerning the Confederate Veterans Assoc. and the Confederate Soldiers' Home at Atlanta.

ArchivalResource: 8 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154271549 View

Ernest Haywood Collection of Haywood Family Papers, 1752-1967

Title: Ernest Haywood Collection of Haywood Family Papers, 1752-1967

The Haywood family of Raleigh, N.C., included such prominent members as John Haywood (1755-1827), state treasurer, 1787-1827, member of the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina, 1789-1827, and first mayor of Raleigh; his wife Eliza Williams Haywood (b. 1781), member of the Raleigh Female Tract Society; his son George Washington Haywood (1802-1890), state attorney for Wake County, N.C., and plantation owner in Greene County, Ala.; John's daughter Eliza Eagles Haywood (1798-1877); his son Edmund Burke Haywood (1825-1894), surgeon in the Confederate army; his grandson Ernest Haywood (1860-1946), lawyer in Raleigh; and his nephew by marriage Alfred Williams (fl. 1825-1860), partner in the drugstore firm of Williams & Haywood, Inc., and plantation owner in Marengo County, Ala. The collection includes correspondence, business papers, legal documents, medical records, account books, pictures, and other items documenting the lives of members of the Haywood family and their relatives, friends, and associates. Many items relate to the career of John Haywood as North Carolina state treasurer, including much material on banking in the state and on state and national politics, 1790s-1820s. Other items relate to Haywood's plantation in Edgecombe County, N.C. There are also letters concerning students and various affairs at the University of North Carolina, 1790s-1880s. Personal correspondence especially documents activities of Eliza Williams Haywood, her mother and sisters, and her children, circa 1800-1830. After 1830, many of the papers relate to the plantation and legal affairs of George Washington Haywood and the plantation affairs of his cousin Alfred Williams. A number of papers and volumes relate to Edmund Burke Haywood, including records he kept of Confederate hospitals that he supervised in the Raleigh area. Other volumes include household accounts, plantation journals and accounts, merchant account books, guest registers for the Yarborough House hotel in Raleigh, recipe books, school notebooks, a volume, 1820s, of reflections on the social role of women and related matters, and by James Reid, 1769. The Religion of the Bible and K W County Compared,

ArchivalResource: 10,000; 24.0

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Garnett, Robert S. (Robert Selden), 1819-1861. Papers from members of the Lee family [manuscript] 1770-1865.

Title: Papers from members of the Lee family [manuscript] 1770-1865.

Letters of Arthur Lee, Charles Lee, Edmund Jennings Lee, George Washington Custis Lee, Henry Lee, Robert E. Lee, Stephen D. Lee & William Lee. Recipients include Robert Carter Nicholas, Madame Izard, John Hopkins, Richard Bland Lee, Sally Lee, Robert Seldon Garnett, General R. Jones, Henry R. Craig, H.A. Risley and the Rev. Francis Sprigg. Topics include the division of the "Green Spring" estate between John Paradise and the Lees, plantation matters; the significance of General Horatio Gates's defeat at Camden, S. C.; the battle of Bladensburg with a mention of Generals Robert Young and Walter Smith; and the re-establishment of the "Southern Churchman" after the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

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Lee, Stephen D. (Stephen Dill), 1833-1908. Papers, 1902-1907.

Title: Papers, 1902-1907.

Collection contains letters of Lee, concerning personal matters and reminiscences of his service in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36200160 View

Shellenberger, John K., b. 1843?. John K. Shellenberger correspondence, 1862-1913.

Title: John K. Shellenberger correspondence, 1862-1913.

Chiefly post-Civil War letters to Shellenberger in response to his articles on the battle of Franklin, Tenn. Correspondents, many of whom participated in the battle, include Mendal Churchill, Joseph Conrad, E. C. Dawes, John Quincy Lane, William Gates Le Duc, Stephen D. Lee, David Sloane Stanley, Edward G. Whitesides, and Thomas John Wood. Also includes two letters of Gen. Jacob D. Cox pertaining to a promotion for Col. Emerson Opdycke for performance in the battle.

ArchivalResource: 20 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70981026 View

Walter, Harvey Washington, 1819-1878. Harvey Washington Walter papers, 1849-1899 [manuscript].

Title: Harvey Washington Walter papers, 1849-1899 [manuscript].

Personal and official letters from Confederate General Braxton Bragg, on whose staff Walter served as judge advocate, concerning cases for court martial and inquiry, points of military law, and Bragg's efforts to collect and preserve papers for his defense if needed in connection with his military operations. Other correspondence includes war-time letters from relatives at home in Holly Springs describing depredations by Union forces, several letters from Walter's sons at school at the University of Mississippi, postwar correspondence with General William Tecumseh Sherman, a childhood friend, primarily concerning political appointments and favors, and miscellaneous letters from Nathan Bedford Forrest, L. C. Q. Lamar, and Stephen D. Lee. Also included are Walter's diary, 1849, of a trip by rail, steamboat, and coach from Mississippi up the eastern seaboard to Boston, returning by way of the Great Lakes and Michigan, and the diary of Fredonia Brown (Mrs. Harvey W.) Walter, 1850- 1852, possibly kept at Holly Springs, giving details about her daily life.

ArchivalResource: 43 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25255399 View

Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part II: The Civil War and the Confederacy, 1832-1915.

Title: Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part II: The Civil War and the Confederacy, 1832-1915.

Autograph letters and documents of officers and statesmen associated with the Confederacy in the Civil War, collected by Frederick Myers Dearborn.

ArchivalResource: 10 boxes (5 linear ft.)

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Photographic Portrait File

Title: Photographic Portrait File

ArchivalResource:

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Dunovant, Richard G. M., b. 1821. Papers, 1861.

Title: Papers, 1861.

Official papers, Jan. 2-Apr. 30, 1861, pertaining mostly to the fortification, provisioning, and garrisoning of the forts and batteries around Charleston harbor. Includes copies of general and special orders from the Adjutant and Inspector General's offices, construction reports, requisitions, and lists of officers and men. Correspondents include George T. Andrews, Ellison Capers, States Rights Gist, Maxcy Gregg, Walter Gwynn, David Flavel Jamison, David R. Jones, Stephen Dill Lee, Junior Mitchel, James Johnson Pettigrew, J.J. Pope, Jr., Roswell S. Ripley, and Francis Wilkinson.

ArchivalResource: 145 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19536550 View

Benjamin Franklin Papers Part 6 -- Letters to Franklin, 1781-1782

Title: Benjamin Franklin Papers Part 6 -- Letters to Franklin 1781-1782

This is part of the large inventory for the Benjamin Franklin Papers (Mss B F85). For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

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Lee, Stephen D. (Stephen Dill), 1833-1908. Letter of Stephen Dill Lee, Agricultural College, Miss., to Robert Coster, N.Y., regarding a list of Confederate officers [manuscript] 1895 March 11.

Title: Letter of Stephen Dill Lee, Agricultural College, Miss., to Robert Coster, N.Y., regarding a list of Confederate officers [manuscript] 1895 March 11.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647936910 View

Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Civil War collection, 1724-1933 (inclusive); 1861-1912 (bulk).

Title: Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Civil War collection, 1724-1933 (inclusive); 1861-1912 (bulk).

A collection of images, manuscripts, and printed material, mostly relating to the Massachusetts soldiers and regiments in the American Civil War. Some material relates to other Union regiments and the Confederate States of America.

ArchivalResource: 47 linear feet (143 boxes, 2 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00124/catalog View

Alabama. Governor (1863-1865 : Watts). Administrative files, 1859-1865.

Title: Administrative files, 1859-1865.

This series consists of bonds; distillation files; elections, commissions, appointments and exemptions; extraditions; land patents; military files; oaths of office; pardons, paroles and clemencies; petition against impressment of slaves - Office of Chief Agent (Mobile) to Gov. Watts; and proclamations. Topics include the issuance of licences to distill alcohol; impressment of slave labor; exemptions from military conscriptions, requests for pardons and paroles and the administering of oaths to officials. Particularly interesting are the documents in the military files. One item is a report that lists the Alabama troops in Stephen D. Lee's Corps in the Army of Tennessee as of 1865 January 18. The other items give estimates by Acting Adjutant and Inspector General Hugh P. Watson on the total number of Alabamians that have served in the military during the Civil War as of 1864 October 31. The bulk of the series consists of bonds; distillation files; pardons, paroles and clemencies; and oaths of office.

ArchivalResource: Originals: 0.5 cubic ft. (1 archives box).Copies: 2 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122439523 View

United Confederate Veterans. United Confederate Veterans collection, 1891-1906 (bulk 1903-1906).

Title: United Confederate Veterans collection, 1891-1906 (bulk 1903-1906).

The collection consists of records relating to the United Confederate Veterans from 1891-1906. Contains mostly correspondence among the officers of the organization concerning procedures, policies, reunions, and officers. Includes letters of John B. Gordon, Stephen D. Lee (General commanding), William F. Mickle (Adjutant General and Chief of Staff), Thomas H. Edgar (Adjutant to Mickle), M.R. Turner, Olive Steele, George W. Gordon, H.W. Graber, A.W. Hutton, and Phillip H. Fall.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38477871 View

Green, Thomas J. (Thomas Jefferson), 1802-1863. Thomas J. Green papers, 1820-1910.

Title: Thomas J. Green papers, 1820-1910.

Correspondence and other material, including papers relating to Green's efforts to raise money, ammunition, and men during the Texas Revolution and his interest in politics in Texas, California, and North Carolina; and correspondence of his son, Wharton Jackson Green (1831-1910), Confederate officer, with other Confederate officers, and including letters home while he was a prisoner at Johnson's Island; muster rolls (1836) from Texas; and muster rolls (1862-1864) of the 2nd North Carolina Battalion, C.S.A. Correspondents include Dr. Branch Tanner Archer, Bernard Bee, Sr., Edward Burleson, David Gouverneur Burnet, James Hamilton, George Washington Custis Lee, Stephen Dill Lee, William R. Smith, and William H. Wharton.

ArchivalResource: About 1500 items (2.0 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23289454 View

United Confederate Veterans. United Confederate Veterans records, 1899-1905 (bulk 1904-1905)

Title: United Confederate Veterans records, 1899-1905 (bulk 1904-1905)

The United Confederate Veteran records consist of a scrapbook, two minute books, and eight registers from the 1905 UCV Reunion in Louisville. The scrapbook contains correspondence from Confederate veterans around the country as well as from Louisvillians involved in the planning of the reunion. It also includes newspaper clippings related to the reunion and other topics of interest to former Confederates. The minute books contain meeting minutes as well as committee reports. The collection also contains one folder of loose material from the scrapbook and one folder of loose material from the second minute book. Although most of the collection dates from 1904 and 1905, a small amount of correspondence from 1899-1903 is included.

ArchivalResource: 1 cubic foot.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71323911 View

Butler, M. C. (Matthew Calbraith), 1836-1909. Matthew Calbraith Butler papers, 1860-1926, (bulk 1879-1898).

Title: Matthew Calbraith Butler papers, 1860-1926, (bulk 1879-1898).

Chiefly receipts, and correspondence with John L[awrence] Manning and Stephen D[ill] Lee re family and business news; including letter, 25 July 1867, Edgefield, S.C. to Col. B[enjamin] H[uger] Rutledge, Charleston, S.C. re court cases and schedules in U.S. Circuit Court, District of S.C.; letter, 21 July 1888, Department of State, Washington, D.C., from T[homas] F[rancis] Bayard, re foreign relations 1881-1886. Two letters, 20 Sept. 1889 and 24 Jan. 1890, New York, N.Y., A. Thompson, to Gen. S.D. Lee, Agricultural College, Mississippi, re expatriation of blacks, Back to Africa movement, and suggesting settlement sites in eastern South America; letter, 10 Apr. 1890, Atlanta, Ga., from H[enry] Turner to M.C. Butler, re social and economic conditions of African-Americans in the United States, and M.C. Butler's bill re establishment and funding of African-American colonies in Africa. Letter, 3 Dec. 1890, Wade Hampton, to M.C. Butler, re M.C. Butler's campaign for the U.S. Senate; letter, 26 Sept. 1898, to R[ussell] A[lexander] Alger, Secretary of War, U.S. Commission to Cuba, re annexation of Cuba to the United States; letter, 5 Nov. 1898, [Narcisco] Gonzales, re Spanish-American War. Two letters, 20 Mar. 1889 and 8 Dec. 1892, Washington, D.C. to Geo[rge] W[illiam] Daragan and D[onald] J[ohn] Auld, re Postmaster position in Sumter, S.C.; letter, 25 Apr. 1893, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. to A[lexander] R[obert] Lawton, Savannah, Ga., re recommendation of Richardson as Postmaster of Sumter, S.C.; 8 items, 18 Dec. 1901-18 Feb. 1902, re the settlement of the estate of James Edward Calhoun; letter, 23 Apr. 1902, Washington, D.C. to Lil [Butler] Edgefield, S.C., re Butler genealogy. Letters and clippings, 30 May 1857, 1863, and 16 Apr. 1909, re obituaries of Judge [Andrew Pickens] Butler, Maj. William Loudon Butler, and Gen. M.C. Butler; scrapbook, 1897-1906, containing speeches, and newspaper clippings re M.C. Butler.

ArchivalResource: 100 items and 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41867355 View

Capers, Ellison, 1837-1908. Ellison Capers papers, 1891; 1902; undated [manuscript].

Title: Ellison Capers papers, 1891; 1902; undated [manuscript].

Letters to Capers: one from Gen. Stephen Dill Lee concerning responsibility for strategic errors at Spring Hill, in the Nashville- Franklin campaign, 1864; and two about a Bible given by Capers to William Rowlinski during the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

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Stephen D. Lee Papers, 1784-1929

Title: Stephen D. Lee Papers, 1784-1929

Native of South Carolina and president of the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1880-1899. Papers of Lieut. Gen. Lee include miscellaneous collected letters, 1784-1860, of prominent American political figures, including John Quincy Adams, Judah B. Benjamin, Henry Clay, Alexander Hamilton, James Monroe, J. L. Petigru, Franklin M. Pierce, and Martin Van Buren. Civil War materials include letters from Lee to his wife; letters from friends, many of whom were Confederate officials, including Patton Anderson, Jefferson Davis, and Nathan B. Forrest, Roy L. Gibson, William J. Hardee, J. B. Hood, O. O. Howard, and Leonidas Polk; and military correspondence from Braxton Bragg, George William Brent, Abraham Buford, Nathan B. Forrest, Joseph E. Johnston, J. B. Magruder, Alex. P. Stewart, and Richard Taylor. Postwar correspondence includes letters from Jefferson Davis, D. H. Hill, J. B. Hood, J. E. Johnston, Robert E. Lee, R. D. Lilley, James Longstreet, W. N. Pendleton, R. B. Rhett, Jr., and Raphael Semmes. Other items include a diary recording the fall of Fort Sumpter and other events of 1861; personal and professional correspondence, 1909-1929, of Lee's son, Blewett Harrison Lee (b. 1867), lawyer of Chicago and New York; and genealogical data on the Blewett family of Mississippi, the Earle family of South Carolina, the de Graffenried family of Switzerland and North Carolina, the Hampton family of South Carolina, the Harris family of Virginia, the Harrison family of South Carolina and Mississippi, the Lee family of South Carolina and Mississippi, and the family of Samuel Taylor (d. 1798).

ArchivalResource: 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 267 items)

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Rigby, William Titus, 1841-1929. Papers of William Titus Rigby, 1839-1988.

Title: Papers of William Titus Rigby, 1839-1988.

The papers of William Titus Rigby document not only his life and career, but also that of his family, especially his father, Washington Augustus; his brother, Joshua and sister, Ellen Davis; his wife, Eva; and their children, William C., Charles L., and Grace Rigby Cameron. The papers consist of correpondence that spans more than three generations. It tells of student life at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa during the mid-nineteenth century, of early banking concerns in eastern Iowa, and of the battlefield experiences of William T. Rigby. He served in the 24th Iowa Infantry Regiment during the Civil War and saw action in the Vicksburg campaign. There are diaries kept by Washington Augustus Rigby in the 1830s and essays and sermons written by Joshua Hopkins Rigby. The subject files include such things as financial records (including mortgages, warranties, and tax papers), photographs, and genealogical materials. William Titus Rigby's work as commissioner of the Vicksburg National Military Park is well documented with correspondence, record books, newspaper clippings, and other printed material. Some of the correspondents include: William Boyd Allison, Robert G. Cousins, and Stephen D. Lee. More correspondents include: Frederick Dent Grant, John B. Gordon, William D. Hoard, Stuyvesant Fish, John A. T. Hall, David B. Henderson, Henry Cabot Lodge, Thomas B. Reed, Leslie M. Shaw.

ArchivalResource: Papers, 4 linear ft., (8 boxes)Photographs, .5 linear ft., (1 box)

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Murray, J. Ogden. Papers, 1872-1915.

Title: Papers, 1872-1915.

Letters, 1885-1915, written to J. Ogden Murray, chiefly concerning his book about the Immortal Six Hundred, and including as correspondents William Edwin Allen (of Bristol, Va., concerning his father, Alphonso S. Allen, a prisoner at Johnson's Island, including names of other prisoners), Jay Guy Cisco (Tennessee newspaper editor, concerning Tennessee politics ca. 1908-1909), T.S. Doyle (of Staunton and Basic City, Va., concerning his prison experiences, especially the education he received from fellow prisoners), historian Lamar Fontaine (of Lyon, Miss., concerning his views on Abraham Lincoln), Junius L. Hempstead (of Jennings and New Orleans, La., concerning Confederate veterans' affairs), Stephen D. Lee (of Columbus, Miss., concerning sources for information on death rates among Confederate prisoners), and historian Marcus J. Wright; minutes, 1905-1906, of the Society of the Immortal Six Hundred and miscellaneous papers, 1886-1914, pertaining to Murray's membership in other veterans' groups; and writings about Civil War subjects by Murray, including essays on Confederate soldiery, Robert E. Lee, and the history of Winchester, Va., and Civil War reminiscences and diaries of Murray, Junius L. Hempstead, Samuel Thompson Anderson, and others.

ArchivalResource: 416 items.

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Cumming, Kate, 1835-1909. Papers, 1795-1909.

Title: Papers, 1795-1909.

The bulk of this collection is composed of handwritten manuscripts of Kate Cummmings work, including "Gleanings from Southland," The Bostonians," and "Rose of Elgin." Some of her essays included in this collection include "Moral Training in Public Schools," "Tale of the South," and "Sir Walter Scott." The collection also includes correspondence dating from 1795 to 1908 concerning subjects such as shipping, family genealogy, family matters, the Civil War, and Reconstruction matters. Of particular interest are letters from Mary Randolph Custis Lee, discussing her views of the Southern cause and atrocities committed during the war. Mrs. Lee's letters also discuss the struggle of finding a photograph of her husband, General Robert E. Lee and his health. There is also one letter from Jefferson Davis thanking Kate for her book. Additional correspondents include General Steven D. Lee, Silas McBee, Dr. L. H. Stout (former surgeon for the Hospital of the Army of Tennessee), and General Marcus Wright. There are also a few letters written to Kate from family members living in Australia. The collection also contains Cumming family financial records and some Confederate material and ephemera. The collection also has diaries of Kate, her family and others, dating from 1844-1900. These tend to be rather sketchy in the information provided in them. There is also an arithmetic book (1813) which belonged to Kate's father, David.

ArchivalResource: 3.33 cubic feet (2 records center cartons, 1 archives box, 1 oversized box).

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Lee, Stephen D. (Stephen Dill), 1833-1908. ALS : Columbus, Miss., to Charles Colcock Jones, 1883 Dec. 23.

Title: ALS : Columbus, Miss., to Charles Colcock Jones, 1883 Dec. 23.

In response to a request from Jones, Lee sends a letter of L.T. Harrison.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 27 cm.

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