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Photographic Portrait File

Title: Photographic Portrait File

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General Frederick Steele Papers, 1845-1965 (inclusive), 1862-1868 (bulk)

Title: General Frederick Steele Papers, 1845-1965 (inclusive), 1862-1868 (bulk)

ArchivalResource: 10.5 linear ft.

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Canby, Edward Richard Sprigg, 1817-1873. General orders no. 48, 1864 Sept. 14.

Title: General orders no. 48, 1864 Sept. 14.

General order of Major General E.R.S. Canby, issued by C.T. Christensen, assistant adjutant general, from the headquarters of the Military Division of West Mississippi in New Orleans, La. Announcing that the exchange of prisoners between Confederate and Union armies has been suspended, the order stipulates that Confederate prisoners will now be transferred to depots in the North, accompanied by guards commanded by commissioned officers. The order also describes methods for documenting transfers of detachments of prisoners.

ArchivalResource: 1 order.

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Herron, Francis Jay, 1837-1902. Francis Jay Herron papers, 1861-1877 (bulk 1862-1865).

Title: Francis Jay Herron papers, 1861-1877 (bulk 1862-1865).

Correspondence, 1861-1877 (bulk 1862-1865), relating to Herron's activities while commanding the 3rd Division of the Army of the Frontier at the Battle of Prairie Grove (Ark.), while commanding the left wing of the investing forces at Vicksburg, while in command of the Yazoo Expedition, while commanding U.S. Forces on the Rio Grande, investigating corruption in the Department of Arkansas, and while commanding the Northern Division of Louisiana. Included are 55 letters from Governor Juan N. Cortina, of Matamoros, Tamaulipas Province, Mexico, relating to army desertions, boundary violations, requests for assistance, arrests of Mexican citizens, etc.; correspondence with Captain E. Von Donop and other Royal Navy officers about violations of British rights in the Gulf of Mexico; and correspondence with Mexican President Benito Juarez, U.S. Consul Leonard Pierce, Major Genral Samuel R. Curtis, Brigadier General John M. Schofield, Major General Nathaniel P. Banks, Major Christian T. Christensen, Brigadier General Charles P. Stone, Lieutenant General S.B. Buckner, and Assistant Special Agent of the Treasury Department G.W. Brackenridge, as well as numerous letters and telegrams from other officers and civilians.

ArchivalResource: 1.2 linear feet (3 boxes)

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Christensen, Christian T. (Christian Thomsen), b. 1832. Papers of Christian T. Christensen, 1862-1906 (bulk 1864-1904).

Title: Papers of Christian T. Christensen, 1862-1906 (bulk 1864-1904).

Personal correspondence of Christian T. Christensen, chiefly letters addressed to him. Included are letters received by Christensen on the occasion of his retirement from the Army in June 1865, a few official communications and personal letters received by Christensen during his war service, including a letter written in rebus (1864) and a telegram from James T. Holtzclaw negotiating the surrender of Mobile, Ala. (Apr. 1865); post-war letters from Eunice Ward Beecher and Henry Ward Beecher, (1877-1885), Lyman Abbott (1888-1904), William Tecumseh Sherman (1880-1881), and others, chiefly concerning his charity work and Civil War experience. Also included are Christensen's military commissions and other documents, an address entitled "Women's influence" that Christensen delivered at the Working Women's Club on Nov. 10, 1887, and a letter soliciting donations for the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute signed by Booker T. Washington (1904).

ArchivalResource: 70 pieces.2 boxes, also 1 oversized folder.

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Steele, Frederick, 1819-1868. General Frederick Steele papers, 1845-1965 (inclusive), 1862-1868 (bulk).

Title: General Frederick Steele papers, 1845-1965 (inclusive), 1862-1868 (bulk).

ArchivalResource: 10.5 linear feet.

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