Inventory of the Edward Everett Papers 1846-1906 (bulk: 1846-1852)

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Inventory of the Edward Everett Papers 1846-1906 (bulk: 1846-1852)

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Edward Everett (1818-1905?), soldier, military clerk, illustrator and cartographer was born in London, England 31 March 1818. In 1840, his father, Charles Everett, a successful import/export dealer in London, relocated the family to Quincy, Illinois. By his twenties, Edward Everett had already shown exemplary aptitude for drawing, mechanics, chemistry and engineering. A few days after war was declared against Mexico (1846) Edward Everett and his brother Charles Everett volunteered to serve with the U. S. Army in the Mexican War. Edward Everett served as a peace-keeper and member of Company A, First Illinois Volunteers. Soon after arriving in South Texas, however, after a forced march of 150 miles from outside New Orleans, to reach San Antonio de Bexar in order to guard stores left there, Everett was severely wounded. On 11 Sept. 1846, while acting in his role as sergeant of the patrol guard, to arrest a man inciting riot in the town, Everett was shot in the knee, a wound which eventually left him crippled. Unable to continue on with his regiment under Brigadier General John E. Wool to Saltillo, Everett was confined to the military tent hospital in San Antonio, and thereafter declared permanently disabled from active military service. Everett began writing about Texas and Mexico in letters to his brother Samuel W. Everett back home in Illinois, and in his journals, while he was recuperating from his wound. Everett continued recording his observations after being re-assigned as Assistant Quartermaster for Captain James Harvey Ralston, a position Everett held during the remainder of the war. During this period, Everett produced many fine illustrations, later published as engravings in a government report, of the Spanish mission buildings in the area, including the Alamo Mission buildings. The memoir included in the papers gives a particularly immediate account of the Alamo buildings' decay, and attempts in the spring of 1847 at renovating them for an army stores depot and officers' workshops, according to plans drawn up by Everett. The Edward Everett Papers (1846-1906 (bulk: 1846-1847) consist chiefly of handwritten letters, journal entries, a memoir, a proof copy of a report from the U. S. Secretary of War on Army operations in Texas and on the Rio Grande during the Mexican War (1846-1848), as well as plans, maps and nine handcolored copies of lithographic engravings drawn by Everett, which vividly chronicle southwest Texas cultural as well as military history during the late1840s. Letters (1847-1863) are mainly letters handwritten in ink by Edward Everett to his brother, Samuel W. Everett, from 1846-1847. Also included are three sets of journal entries for Sept. 1846-Jan. 1847. The handwritten memoir covers the years 1846-1848, with additional material added and dated 1899. One pencil annotation suggests that the memoir was donated in 1899 to the Quincy Historical Society, later known as The Illinois Historical Society. The memoir was actually published under the title in . Engravings, Maps and Plans (ca. 1846-1849) includes nine copies of lithographed illustrations drawn by Edward Everett and engraved by C. B Graham Lithographers in Washington, D.C. A proof copy of the (31st Congress, 1st Session, Senate. Executive Document 32), published in 1850, is annotated throughout by Everett in pencil, and includes the published engravings. For this publication Everett was at least responsible for eight engravings of the San Antonio de Bexar area, including the Alamo church, as well as locations in Mexico; a plan of the ruined Alamo as it was in 1846, before being renovated according to Everett's direction, as a U. S. Army suppy depot and workshops. Engravings include nine copies of the lithographed prints. Everett's proofs of the lithographic prints have all been exquisitely hand tinted, in contrast to the severe black and white reproductions in the printed report. Maps include one copy of a published map, possibly also by Everett, though it has been attributed to Josiah Gregg, which also appeared in the 1850 Army Operations report, titled Plans are represented by two copies of an illustration drawn by Everett for the 1849 Army operations report showing plans of the Alamo before renovation, titled "Plans of the Ruins of the Alamo near San Antonio De Bexar, 1846." Also present is one manuscipt plan, titled "Plan of San Antonio de Bexar, Texas, 1848," which is labeled as "Drawn from recollection by E. E." Military Experience, Transactions of the Illinois Historical Society for 1905 Report of the Secretary of War, communicating ... the Operations of the Army of the United States in Texas and the Adjacent Mexican states on the Rio Grande Map Showing the Route of the Arkansas Regiment from Shreveport La. to San Antonio de Bexar Texas.

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