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Confederate officers photograph album, n.d.

Title: Confederate officers photograph album, n.d.

This collection contains one hundred ninety two cartes-de-visite photographs of officers who served in the Confederate army. The majority of the officers served as either major generals or brigadier generals in the Confederate forces. The collection includes the photographs of many lesser known officers, as well as the famous; such as Lee, Beauregard, Morgan, Jackson, and Stuart. The collection also includes photos of past American presidents and European royalty. Acid free photocopies have been placed in the original photograph album and the originals are in a separate container. Both copies have the subject's name on it. The cartes-de-visites were taken by photographers in Mobile, Nashville, and New York; and are roughly two by five inches.

ArchivalResource: .66 cubic ft. (2 archives containers).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122548140 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.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01500/catalog View

Forney, John Horace, 1829-1902. Family photographs, [18--]-1902.

Title: Family photographs, [18--]-1902.

Collection containing 13 black and white photographic prints and 6 tintypes. Three prints are of General Forney: as a Second Lieutenant in the 7th Regiment, U.S.A., as a major general during the Battle of Vicksburg, and his last portrait taken in 1902. Two prints are of his wife Septima as a young girl and in 1898 with three of their daughters. The remaining photographs and tintypes are largely unidentified, although the last name Davis is cited on at least one photograph.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145410141 View

Beauregard, G.T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893. Papers, 1861-1863.

Title: Papers, 1861-1863.

These papers consist of photostats of file copies of letters written and received by Beauregard during 1862. There is also an invoice of ordnance and ordnance stores turned over by Captain J. L. White, 19 December 1861, and Beauregards "Remarks relative to Iron Clad Gun Boats," dated 14 November 1863. The letters are as follows: a). Letter from Beauregard to Samuel Cooper, 19 May 1862, commenting on the strategic location of Corinth. b). Telegram from Beauregard to Cooper, 14 June 1862, requesting that Gen ragg temporarily replace him. c). Letter from George Randolph, Secretary of War, to Beauregard, 23 June 1862, including copies of a telegram and a letter, all relating to turning over command to Gen. Bragg. d). Memorandum from Col. Johnston to Pres. Davis, 24 June 1862, of a conversation with Beauregard concerning the military situation in the West. e). Letter from Beauregard to Cooper, 25 June 1862, advising him that he will take leave to rest. f). Letter from Beauregard to Gen. Forney, offering suggestions, dated 18 July 1862. g). Letter from Beauregard to Gen. Smith dated 25 July 1862, commenting on improvements of the defenses of Charleston. h). Letter from Beauregard to Col. Huger, 2 August 1862, reviewing the possibility of retaking New Orleans. i). Letter from Dr. Brodie to C. J. Villiers reporting on Beauregard's health.

ArchivalResource: 11 items (20 prints).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145408219 View

Croom, Cicero Stephens, 1839-1884. Family papers, 1833-1902 (bulk 1840-1881).

Title: Family papers, 1833-1902 (bulk 1840-1881).

Primarily correspondence between various Croom Family members and their friends from 1840-1900. Of particular interest are the letters from Stephens Croom to his parents and sister during the Civil War. Also includes a journal kept by Stephens Croom during the siege of Vicksburg, Miss., and student essays written by him at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1856-1859).

ArchivalResource: 5.5 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43957966 View