David French Boyd papers. William T. Sherman letters, 1859-1891.

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David French Boyd papers. William T. Sherman letters, 1859-1891.

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Letters prior to the Civil War are handwritten transcriptions by David F. Boyd of William T. Sherman's letters to Gen. G. Mason Graham, John Sherman, David F. Boyd, and the faculty of Louisiana State Seminary and Military Academy.They pertain to Sherman's role as superintendent, and to the political conflict between the North and the South. Letters from the Reconstruction period, refer to voting fraud in Louisiana, civil rights and suffrage for African Americans, activities of the Ku Klux Klan, the election of 1876, the jetty system in New Orleans, Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, higher education in Louisiana, and local and national political issues. Many letters offer professional advice to Boyd and reflect Sherman's efforts to secure the superintendency of the Military Academy at Cairo, Egypt, for Boyd.

.3 linear ft.1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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Boyd, David French, 1834-1899

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David French Boyd (1834-1899) was an officer in the Confederate Army who for a time was a prisoner of war on a Union boat moored in Alexandria, La. After the war, Boyd was instrumental in the founding of Lousiana State University. From the guide to the David French Boyd Letter, ., 1864, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) Boyd graduated from the University of Virginia in 1856, and later served in the Confederate Army. From ...