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Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878. Papers, 1777-1911 (bulk: 1820-1876)

Title: Gideon Welles Papers 1777-1911 (bulk 1820-1876)

Secretary of the navy and newspaper editor. Correspondence, diaries, writings, naval records, scrapbooks, and other papers relating to Welles's work as editor of the ; his activities as a member of the Democratic Party and, later, the Republican Party in state and national politics; the role of the navy in the Civil War; and the presidential administrations of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. Hartford Times

ArchivalResource: 15,070 items; 45 containers plus 1 oversize; 18.2 linear feet; 36 microfilm reels

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Jouett, James Edward, 1828-1902. Autograph letter signed : "Crusader," Key West, to Mr. Abert, 1860 May 11.

Title: Autograph letter signed : "Crusader," Key West, to Mr. Abert, 1860 May 11.

Thanking him for flowers sent to Mrs. Jouett, and commenting on the sailing qualities of the "Seminole".

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; (12mo)

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Century Company records

Title: Century Company records

The Century Company published the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, which was widely regarded as the best general periodical of its time, performing a role as cultural arbiter during the 1880s and 1890s. It was founded in New York City in 1881 and also published the children's magazine St. Nicholas, dictionaries, and books. The Century Company records date from 1870 to the 1930s and chiefly contain correspondence with contributors, readers, public figures, and literary agents. A number of manuscripts and proofs in the collection are extensively edited and taken with annotations on letters provide a detailed record of the outlook, standards, and functions of the company.

ArchivalResource: 60.4 linear feet; 151 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/504 View

Blackburn, Joseph C. S. (Joseph Clay Stiles), 1838-1918. Joseph C.S. Blackburn : papers, 1875-1898.

Title: Joseph C.S. Blackburn : papers, 1875-1898.

The letters include routine correspondence promising visits and declining invitations; and a group of five letters, 1895-1898, to Oliver H. Redd of Lexington, Ky., discussing Redd's work in Fayette County and Lexington in the senatorial race and James B. McCreary's chances in Mercer County, and expresses his doubts about receiving an army commission; and a letter of recommendation on Redd's behalf asking Colonel D.G. Colson to give Redd a position as major.

ArchivalResource: 10 items.

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Holman, William Steele, 1822-1897. Papers, 1836-1998.

Title: Papers, 1836-1998.

Consists of correspondence and other papers of William Steele Holman.

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Alfred Pirtle Papers, 1847-1924.

Title: Alfred Pirtle Papers, 1847-1924.

Papers consisting of correspondence, 1847-1923, including a volume of Civil War letters; a journal, 1859-1862; and Pirtle's writings for magazines and newspapers on local and Ky. history. Correspondents include Simon Bolivar Buckner, Thomas J. Chenoweth, John M. Harlan, James E. Jouett, John Bassett Moore, Henry Pirtle, and C. P. Summerall. Pirtle's Civil War letter book contains letters Pirtle wrote to his parents, Judge and Mrs. Henry Pirtle, sisters, brothers, covering his service in the 10th Ohio Volunteer Infantry under Major General Ormsby Mitchel on the march from Bowling Green, Ky. to Huntsville, Ala.; service under Major General Lovell H. Rousseau on the return march to Bowling Green in Sept. 1862 and as ordnance officer of the 3rd Division; Battle of Murfreesboro (Stones River); encampment near Murfreesboro 3 Jan.-23 June 1863. Also covers his service as aide-de-camp to General William H. Lytle of the 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 20th Army Corps, 20 Apr.-19 Sept 1863; Battle of Chickamauga; return to the 10th Ohio, Company F; service in and near Chattanooga; and description of the storming of Missionary Ridge. Also included are letters of recommendation for Pirtle from Colonel Curran Pope, Philip H. Sheridan, A. M. Cook, Lovell H. Rousseau, and George H. Thomas; and letters to Mrs. Henry Pirtle from Colonel William H. Lytle, James Barnard, Doctor T. S. Bell, Captain James W. Abert, and others, dated 1861-1863. Pirtle's journal, relates his residence at Gallatin, Tenn., in 1859 as an employee of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad; return to Louisville where he records the impact of the Civil War on Ky. and Mo.; flag raisings; peace meetings; recruiting; drilling; blockades; his encampment with the Citizen Guards, 21-27 May, 1861; routine of camp duties; sojourn at Ohio White Sulphur Springs with mother and sister, July-Aug., 1861; volunteer service in the Crittenden Union Zouaves, Sept.-Nov. 1861; loss by his brother, Doctor John Pirtle, of his command as major in the U.S. Army, Ky. Volunteers; Ohio River flood in 1862; defeat of General Felix K. Zollicoffer at Mill Springs 19 Jan. 1862; commission, Feb. 1862, as second lieutenant, Company H, 10th Ohio. Journal also relates his service in General Ormsby Mitchel's division on the march from Fort Jefferson to Huntsville, Ala. where he was encamped during the summer; aide-de-camp to General Lytle; change in command of the 3rd Division from Mitchel to General W. S. Smith; and from Smith to Rousseau; evacuation of Huntsville, 31 Aug. 1862; the return to Bowling Green in pursuit of Braxton Bragg and his army; and the column being impeded by slaves seeking freedom.

ArchivalResource: 6 cubic ft.

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Jones family. Papers of the Jones family and related Willis family, 1862-1959.

Title: Papers of the Jones family and related Willis family, 1862-1959.

The papers contain about twenty letters of family members generally conveying family news but including a description of a seance with spiritualist and medium "Foster" attended by Charles Colcock Jones, Jr. In addition there are deeds, 1882-1910, chiefly for land in Warwick County, Va.; estate accounts, 1903-1915; various family legal documents; a notebook of genealogical information; two railroad maps of the route from Charlottesville to Savannah; and miscellaneous items including advertising circulars, a terrapin recipe, poems, clippings, photographs, a carte-de-visite of Stonewall Jackson, and about $5500 in Confederate bills.

ArchivalResource: 172 items.1 reel : positive microfilm ; 35 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32136203 View

Jouett family. Jouett family : miscellaneous papers, 1789-1901.

Title: Jouett family : miscellaneous papers, 1789-1901.

Included is a 1789 promissory note signed by Jack Jouett; and two letters, from Admiral James E. Jouett to Alfred Pirtle giving news and describing the Battle of Mobile Bay.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

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Collum, Richard S. (Richard Strader). Account of U.S. Marines' expedition to Panama, 1885.

Title: Account of U.S. Marines' expedition to Panama, 1885.

Richard S. Collum, captain in the United States Marines Corps, wrote this account of the expedition to Panama in which two battalions of Marines and some sailors landed at Aspinwall (Colón) to subdue an insurgent uprising. His account includes a sketch of events leading to the revolt from March through May 1885. General order no. 9 of Admiral James Jouett is inserted. These events are now commonly referred to as the burning of Colón, or the Panama Incident.

ArchivalResource: .06 linear foot (1 volume)

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Jouett, James Edward, 1826-1902. James Edward Jouett : miscellaneous papers, 1861-1893.

Title: James Edward Jouett : miscellaneous papers, 1861-1893.

Jouett's 13 Aug. 1861 letter written from the frigate Santee to Captain Theodorus Bailey asks for a shore station and notes that he has not had a shore station in 17 years and only 13 months off duty; his 20 Feb. 1862 letter to William W. McKean, commander, Gulf Blockade Squadron, states his desire to command a gunboat; and a 5 Feb. 1893 letter to an unidentified friend notes that he was pleased by his retirement bill as passed by Congress, and notes that he was the only officer who ever captured a vessel of war and was not promoted a grade and given the thanks of Congress.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

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Account of U.S. Marines' expedition to Panama, 1885

Title: Account of U.S. Marines' expedition to Panama 1885

Richard S. Collum, captain in the United States Marines Corps, wrote this account of the expedition to Panama in which two battalions of Marines and some sailors landed at Aspinwall (Colón) to subdue an insurgent uprising. His account includes a sketch of events leading to the revolt from March through May 1885. General order no. 9 of Admiral James Jouett is inserted. These events are now commonly referred to as the burning of Colón, or the Panama Incident

ArchivalResource: .06 linear foot (1 volume)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/598 View

Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878. Papers, 1777-1911 (bulk: 1820-1876)

Title: Gideon Welles Papers 1777-1911 (bulk 1820-1876)

Secretary of the navy and newspaper editor. Correspondence, diaries, writings, naval records, scrapbooks, and other papers relating to Welles's work as editor of the ; his activities as a member of the Democratic Party and, later, the Republican Party in state and national politics; the role of the navy in the Civil War; and the presidential administrations of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. Hartford Times

ArchivalResource: 15,070 items; 45 containers plus 1 oversize; 18.2 linear feet; 36 microfilm reels

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