Papers of Lewis T. Pim, 1838-1888 (bulk 1861-1885)

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Papers of Lewis T. Pim, 1838-1888 (bulk 1861-1885)

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Military and professional papers of Lewis T. Pim, chiefly special orders, commissions, communications, circulars, etc., with a few personal letters, documenting his Civil War and post-war career. Correspondents include John C. Breckenridge, Simon Bolivar Buckner, D. H. Maury, G.T. Beauregard, and J. E. Johnston. The correspondence also includes letters from Edwin Samuel Gaillard (1827-1885), a fellow Confederate veteran and the dean of Louisville Medical College. Also included are numerous clippings from Confederate and post-war Louisiana and Missouri newspapers; Confederate banknotes, Pim's 1865 oath of allegiance and presidential pardon; his veterans' organizations insignia, a leaflet version of Dixie "written by Ina Marie Porter in 1861, while at school in Greenville, Ala." and a certificate of American citizenship issued to Honore Picot (1838).

109 pieces; also newspapers clippings and ephemera; pasted in a large scrapbook.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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Maury, Dabney Herndon, 1822-1900

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Buckner, Simon Bolivar, 1823-1914

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Simon Bolivar Buckner, governor of Kentucky during 1887-91, was born near Munfordville, Kentucky, in 1823, to Aytell Hartswell and Elizabeth Ann Buckner. He entered West Point in 1840 and saw active duty in the Mexican War after graduation. He later became head of Kentucky's state militia, then joined the Confederate Army as brigadier general at the start of the Civil War. After the war, Buckner was a journalist and businessman in New Orleans until he was allowed to return to Kentucky in 1868. I...

Johnston, Joseph E. (Joseph Eggleston), 1807-1891

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Gaillard, E. S. (Edwin Samuel), 1827-1885

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Pim, Lewis T., 1828-1888.

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Lewis T. Pim (1828-1888), Confederate surgeon and Missouri physician. A Pennsylvania native, Pim moved to Missouri with his family in the 1830s. He graduated from Kemper College in St. Louis, (later the Missouri Medical College), where he studied medicine with Joseph Nash McDowell (1805-1868), and then went on to study at the Jefferson Medical College and the University of Pennsylvania and working in hospitals in New York, Baltimore, Cincinnati, and Louisville. Having served as chief physician t...