Edward Porter Alexander Papers, 1852-1910

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Edward Porter Alexander Papers, 1852-1910

Edward Porter Alexander was an engineer,United States and Confederate army officer, university professor, businessman, andplanter. Civil War papers include diaries and notebooks,voluminous postwar correspondence with other officers concerning a proposed historyof Longstreet's corps and preparation of Alexander's memoirs (published 1907),drafts of the manuscript and other writings, speeches, and collected histories ofvarious army units. Other papers include letters from the Adam Leopold Alexanderfamily of Savannah and Washington, Ga.; papers of the Alexander H. Mason family ofHagerstown, Md.; scattered business letters; E.P. Alexander's letters fromNicaragua, 1896-1899, while he served as arbitrator in the Costa Rica-Nicaraguaboundary dispute; diary of a trip to Panama and Nicaragua in 1900; papers concerningSouth Island property, Georgetown County, S.C.; memoirs of early life; andmiscellaneous writings.

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Alexander, Edward Porter, 1835-1910

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Edward P. Alexander was Chief of Artillery, 1st Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia, Confederate States Army. He was the author of several books on the Civil War and railroads, including THE WILDERNESS CAMPAIGN, MILITARY MEMOIRS OF A CONFEDERATE, THE CONFEDERATE VETERAN, FIGHTING FOR THE CONFEDERACY, SKETCH OF LONGSTREET'S DIVISION--YORKTOWN AND WILLIAMSBURG, and RAILWAY PRACTICE. From the description of E.P. Alexander circular letter, 1866. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat ...