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Sinks, Augustus G. Augustus G. Sinks papers, 1861-1865.

Title: Augustus G. Sinks papers, 1861-1865.

This collection contains a copy of Augustus G. Sink's Four Years in Dixie a history of the 46th Indiana Regiment during the Civil War. Also included is a copy of the complete musters roll of the 46th Indiana, copies of Newspaper clippings concerning the 46th Indiana, and a copy of Sinks' obituary.

ArchivalResource: 5 items 3 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/247223985 View

New Harmony Manuscripts, 1812-1871

Title: New Harmony Manuscripts 1812-1871

ArchivalResource: 91 folders

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=VAA4026 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

Malcom Chesney Shurtleff Papers, 1827-1928

Title: Malcom Chesney Shurtleff Papers

Handwritten and typed extracts from correspondences between the United States State Department and American diplomats in Peru. Course notes from courses taken at the University of Minnesota and Harvard University on subjects including British imperial history, international law, and Latin American history. Additional notes and sketch of a voyage through the Panama Canal and clippings from newspapers and magazines concerning Latin America.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear foot

http://library.brown.edu/riamco/render.php?eadid=US-RPB-ms81.3&view=title View

Fairbanks mss., 1819-1939

Title: Fairbanks mss., 1819-1939

Consists of letters and papers of Charles Warren Fairbanks, 1852-1918, U.S. senator from Indiana and vice president (1905-1909), and his son, Warren Charles Fairbanks, 1878-1938, newspaper publisher. The Charles Warren Fairbanks material, which comprises the bulk of the collection, consists of correspondence with prominent political figures, businessmen, bankers, friends, relatives and constituents; manuscript and printed speeches of Fairbanks; law office papers; bills and receipts; miscellaneous papers; newspaper clippings; invitations; calling cards; pictures; slides of Fairbanks's trip around the world, 1909-1910; and miscellaneous printed matter. The Warren Charles Fairbanks papers, 1918-1938, relate to the settlement of the estate of his father, Charles Warren Fairbanks; the Indianapolis News; the Fairbanks Blue ridge farms in Piatt County, Illinois; and the Fairbanks Valley farms in Greene County, Illinois.

ArchivalResource: 150,006 items

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Li-VAA1250 View

Wallace, Lew, 1827-1905. Papers, 1799-1923 (bulk 1846-1906).

Title: Papers, 1799-1923 (bulk 1846-1906).

Official and personal correspondence, notebooks, ms. of autobiography, drawings, clippings, scrapbooks, and other papers, relating to Wallace's activities as an army officer during the Mexican and Civil wars, governor of New Mexico territory (1878-1881), U.S. minister to Turkey (1881-1885), and author, and his efforts to obtain arms and men for Mexican rebels fighting the French (1865-1867), lecturing, business interests in Crawfordsville and Indianapolis, Ind., and New Mexico, his involvement in the court-martial of conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and in the trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of Andersonville Prison, Ga., and his membership on a committee to oversee counting disputed ballots in Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina, after the 1876 presidential election. Papers of Wallace's wife, Susan Elston Wallace (1830-1907), include family correspondence, letters (1881-1882) to her son from Europe, Turkey, and Egypt, and correspondence with publishers regarding her own writings. Letter books of Wallace's son and business agent, Henry Lane Wallace (1853-1926), relate to the family's business interests and a lawsuit involving a theatrical production of Ben-Hur. Papers of Wallace's father-in-law, Isaac C. Elston (1798-1867), of Crawfordsville, Ind., chiefly relate to his interests in developing Michigan City, Ind. (1830-1849). Elston family correspondence (chiefly 1864-1866) is from Crawfordsville, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Washington, D.C. Correspondents include Stephen Vincent Benét, Billy the Kid, James G. Blaine, Don Carlos Buell, Edward Canby, William Cannon, José M.J. Carvajal, William E. Chandler, Schuyler Colfax, Francis Marion Crawford, George W. Curtis, Caleb Cushing, Henry Winter Davis, Porfirio Díaz, William M. Evarts, Charles W. Fairbanks, Calvin Fletcher, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, John C. Frémont, James A. Garfield, Lucretia Garfield, Richard J. Gatling, Ulysses S. Grant, Henry W. Halleck, Murat Halstead, Marcus A. Hanna, Benjamin Harrison, Edward Hatch, Rutherford B. Hayes, William Randolph Hearst, William Hendricks, William R. Holloway, Alvin P. Hovey, José María Iglesias, Edmund Kirby-Smith, Frederick Knefler, Mary H. Krout, Henry S. Lane, Abraham Lincoln, Robert T. Lincoln, Benson J. Lossing, George W. McCrary, John A. Mclernand, Robert H. Milroy, George W. Morgan, Oliver P. Morton, Reuben D. Mussey, Edward F. Noyes, Robert Dale Owen, James B. Pond, Albert G. Porter, John Baptist Purcell, Whitelaw Reid, William S. Rosecrans, Carl Schurz, Winfield Scott, William H. Seward, William F. Shanks, John Sherman, William T. Sherman, Edwin M. Stanton, Herman Sturm, John M. Thayer, Maurice Thompson, Will Henry Thompson, Benjamin H. Ticknor, John Tipton, John George Walker, David Wallace, Albert S. White, and Henry Lane Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 2 v. and 36 boxes.

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Veatch, James Clifford, 1819-1895. Papers, 1843-1935.

Title: Papers, 1843-1935.

Primarily correspondence from Veatch's political career, 1866-1884. Pre-Civil War materials deal with business and politics in Spencer County, Ind. Civil War materials include officer correspondence, orders, and a command diary from 1864. Also included are two scrapbooks of news clippings, and 1935 genealogical materials. Topics include state and national Republican politics, and revenue collecting. Correspondents include William T. Sherman, Conrad Baker, D.D. Pratt, O.P. Morton, Walter Q. Gresham, Benjamin Harrison, Alvin P. Hovey, and A.G. Porter.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes, 7 bound v., and 4 reels microfilm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44012571 View

Indiana. Circuit Court (Posey County). Civil order book, 1840-1859.

Title: Civil order book, 1840-1859.

The collection, on one reel of microfilm, contains the Posey County, Ind. Circuit Court order book. The book holds orders, affadavits, and other legal items pertaining to the contest over McClure's will. In addition there are records of the Workingmen's Institutes in Indiana to whom Hovey donated money. These records contain the constitution and by-laws, membership list, and library inventory of the individual institutes.

ArchivalResource: 1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21667723 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

Cottman, George S. (George Streibe), 1857-1941. George S. Cottman papers, 1857-1937.

Title: George S. Cottman papers, 1857-1937.

The collection contains Cottman's correspondence from other Indiana and Midwestern writers about his work and the "Indiana Quarterly Magazine of History." Also included is his research on Indiana History, letters rearding the Western Association of writers, drafts of speeches and articles and his work on the history of newspapers in Indiana. Also included is the work of Cottman's father John Cottman, regarding the 19th Indiana Regiment during the Civil War and his farm near Beach Grove, Indiana.

ArchivalResource: 274 items 1 mss box, 1 vol.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/247223130 View

Hillyer, William Silliman, 1831-1874. Papers of William Silliman Hillyer, 1822 (1861-1874) 1931, [manuscript].

Title: Papers of William Silliman Hillyer, 1822 (1861-1874) 1931, [manuscript].

Correspondence, military papers, speeches, photographs, printed material and memorabilia. Military papers of Hillyer include district provost marshall reports; special and general orders of Grant, Sherman, Hillyer and others, especially one of congratulations on Port Gibson; passes; accounts; oaths of allegiance; and a receipt for Ulric Dahlgren's ring. Correspondence of Hillyer, his parents, children, and Grant chiefly pertains to the Civil War. There are discussions of the secession riots in St. Louis, and Grant's "Jew Order" of Dec. 17, 1862; a denial of Grant's drunkeness at Ft. Donelson; references to various services by blacks; and descriptions of the battles of Iuka, Holly Springs, Campbell's Station and Chickamauga, and of the Chattanooga campaign. Of unusual interest are a signed copy of Grant's letter to Simon B. Buckner demanding unconditional surrender at Ft. Donelson; a draft of a letter from Grant to Henry Halleck asking either relief from Command or full restoration to it; a letter of Grant's discussing his plans for the Vicksburg campaign; and a photocopy of Robert E. Lee's April 9, 1865, letter asking for a suspension of hostilities with a forwarding note by E.O.C. Ord mentioning Sheridan. Other Civil War papers concern a Union Army scout; a claim from a spy near Richmond who supplied information for Hugh Kilpatrick's Rappahannock raid; the military service of John H.H. Ward; the Senate investigation of George K. Leet; Hillyer's connection with Mann's Accoutrement Manufacturing Company; and a reunion of the Army of the Tennessee. Hillyer family letters include considerable correspondence between Anna Rankin Hillyer and Julia Dent Grant; and correspondence of Hillyer's father from Henderson, Ky., 1825-1833. There are impressions of a Mississippi voyage to New Orleans, 1834; Lafayette College, 1842; a temperance speech by Richard Johnson, 1842; Washington, D.C., 1868-1869, including Grant's inauguration, and visits to Johnson, Grant, and Hancock; and Sewanee and the University of the South, 1873. Additional items of interest include an 1870 letter from Horace Greeley mentioning Hillyer's Congressional nomination; a lampoon of Lew Wallace; and an account of how New York Daily News reporter Benjamin Wood scooped the news of Andrew Johnson's acquittal.

ArchivalResource: ca. 640 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647821186 View

Malcom Chesney Shurtleff Papers, 1827-1928

Title: Malcom Chesney Shurtleff Papers

Handwritten and typed extracts from correspondences between the United States State Department and American diplomats in Peru. Course notes from courses taken at the University of Minnesota and Harvard University on subjects including British imperial history, international law, and Latin American history. Additional notes and sketch of a voyage through the Panama Canal and clippings from newspapers and magazines concerning Latin America.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear foot

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Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874. Correspondence, 1829-1874

Title: Charles Sumner correspondence, 1829-1874

Letters to Charles Sumner, lawyer, Republican senator from Massachusetts, and anti-slavery campaigner; with a smaller number of letters from Sumner to others.

ArchivalResource: 33 cartons (43.1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00232/catalog View

Baker, Conrad, 1817-1885. Papers, 1858-1902.

Title: Papers, 1858-1902.

Personal and official papers of Baker, including the period he was lieutenant governor (1865-1867); correspondence of governors Morton and Baker; and records of Baker, Hord & Hendricks. Topics in Baker's papers include elections, Republican politics, claims from Morgan's Raid, the Central Indiana Hospital for the Insane, the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana, the creation of a women's prison, family matters, business interests in Evansville, and Baker's estate. Oliver P. Morton's correspondence discusses politics and government and the conduct of war. There is also a report by General Alvin P. Hovey regarding arrests and court martials.

ArchivalResource: 12 boxes, 1 oversize folder, 30 bound volumes, and 18 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39451615 View

Warren, William, 1844-ca. 1937. William Warren, Jr. papers, 1863-1908.

Title: William Warren, Jr. papers, 1863-1908.

This collection contains the personal correspondence and papers of William Warren, Jr. and information regarding the 24th Indiana Regiment.

ArchivalResource: 9 items 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/247224062 View

Nexsen, George W., fl. 1890. Justice of the Peace Appointment, 1890 May 14.

Title: Justice of the Peace Appointment, 1890 May 14.

Nexsen's appointment as Vanderburgh County, Indiana Justice of the Peace, May 14, 1890. Signed by Governor Alvin P. Hovey.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19771607 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