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Warmoth, Henry Clay, 1842-1931. Henry Clay Warmoth papers, 1798-1953.

Title: Henry Clay Warmoth papers, 1798-1953.

The collection includes correspondence and diaries related to Warmoth's service in the Union Army, his tenure as governor of Louisiana during Reconstruction, and political affairs in Louisiana. Topics discussed include civil rights; the Freedmen's Bureau; the Fourteenth Amendment; suffrage for Louisiana freedmen; segregation on railroads; opposition to President Grant; violence in Louisiana; elections and election fraud; the Republican Party, both local and national, and party factionalism; management of the United States Mint in New Orleans; and the construction of railroads, levees, and canals. There are also letters, diaries, plantation journals, daybooks, ledgers, slave lists, and scrapbooks related to Magnolia Plantation, sugar refining, investment in railroads, and his service as Collector of Customs for the Port of New Orleans, 1889-1893. The 1865-1867 diary provides an eye witness account of the New Orleans Race Riot of 30 July 1866. Photographs depict Warmoth and his family; structures, machinery, and workers at Magnolia Plantation; and other scenes and individuals. Frequent and notable correspondents include Henry C. Dibble, Thomas Jefferson Durant, Charles Foster, Francis J. Herron, William Pitt Kellogg, Effingham Lawrence, W.L. McMillan, Stephen B. Packard, P.B.S. Pinchback, John R.G. Pitkin, Lionel A. Sheldon, George A. Sheridan, J.H. Sypher, J.R. West, and H.W. Whittlesay. There are also a few letters from presidents Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, and William H. Taft, as well as a few letters from notable Civil War generals such as Benjamin F. Butler, James Longstreet, and John A. McClernand, and an 1868 letter of warning to Warmoth from the Ku Klux Klan.

ArchivalResource: ca. 5000 items (10.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24111427 View

Philip Case Lockwood memorial collection of Civil War portraits and autographs, 1862-ca. 1886.

Title: Philip Case Lockwood memorial collection of Civil War portraits and autographs, 1862-ca. 1886.

Scrapbook collection of Civil War photographs and autographs, assembled by Philip Case Lockwood.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (.38 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00542/catalog View

William G. Ritch Collection, 1539-1901, bulk 1845-1882

Title: William G. Ritch Collection, 1539-1901, bulk 1845-1882

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http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf4d5nb057 View

West, J. R. (Joseph Rodman), b. 1822. Papers, 1862.

Title: Papers, 1862.

Journal of march from Camp Wright, San Diego, California to Tucson, Arizona Territory records weather, distance, route and other remarks; description of road from Fort Bennett to Tucson, Arizona Territory.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. : maps.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13922916 View

McNulty, James Madison. Letter and history : [Santa Fe, N.M.?], to Brig Gen. W.A. Hammond, Washington, D.C., [1863?].

Title: Letter and history : [Santa Fe, N.M.?], to Brig Gen. W.A. Hammond, Washington, D.C., [1863?].

Letter from James M. McNulty to Brig. Gen. W.A. Hammond, then U.S. surgeon general, complying with Hammond's July 27, 1863, request that McNulty send his history on the genesis of the California Column and its 1,000 mile march from California, across Arizona and New Mexico, to the Rio Grande, Apr. 13-Aug. 8, 1862.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (41 p.) ; 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38491102 View

Clendenen, Clarence C. (Clarence Clemens). The Column from California, 1972.

Title: The Column from California, 1972.

Book length manuscript detailing the military campaigns of the California Column regiment in New Mexico during the Civil War. Also includes 21 illustrations in separate folder. Also includes publication submission letter from Clarence C. Clendenen to the Editor of the University of Southern California Press. Also includes letter from Robert A. Clark to Doyce Nunis discussing manuscript.

ArchivalResource: 1 typewritten manuscript, 256 pages.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/464227925 View

West, J. R. (Joseph Rodman), b. 1822. Joseph Rodman West letters, 1873, 1876.

Title: Joseph Rodman West letters, 1873, 1876.

Joseph Rodman West in Washington, D.C., engages in routine correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 2 letters.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/773818161 View

West, J. R. (Joseph Rodman), b. 1822. Joseph R. West deed, 1871 Mar. 17.

Title: Joseph R. West deed, 1871 Mar. 17.

This deed records the purchase of property in Washington, D.C., by Joseph R. West shortly after commencing his term as U.S. Senator for Louisiana.

ArchivalResource: 1 deed.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/439881007 View

Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part III: The Civil War: The Union, 1804-1915.

Title: Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part III: The Civil War: The Union, 1804-1915.

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

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes (4 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01501/catalog View