Civil War papers of the governor of Arkansas, 1860-1865.

Benjamin, J. P. (Judah Philip), 1811-1884

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Judah Philip Benjamin, QC (August 6, 1811 – May 6, 1884) was a lawyer and politician who was a United States Senator from Louisiana, a Cabinet officer of the Confederate States and, after his escape to the United Kingdom at the end of the American Civil War, an English barrister. Benjamin was the first Jew to hold a Cabinet position in North America and the first to be elected to the United States Senate who had not renounced his faith. Benjamin was born to Sephardic Jewish parents from Londo...

Pike, Albert, 1809-1891

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General Albert Pike (1809-1891), grand commander of the Supreme Grand Council, Southern Jurisdiction, of the Scottish Rite, 1859-1891. From the description of Letter to Bro. Hayden /by Albert Pike, 1885 Feb 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702128274 After his work as commissioner to the Indian tribes west of the Arkansas, Pike was commissioned a brigadier general in the Confederate Army in November, 1861. He recruited Native American troops on the promise that they would o...

Shelby, Joseph Orville, 1830-1897

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Hindman, Thomas Carmichael, 1828-1868

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Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

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Mary Ann Lamar Cobb (1818-1889), wife of Gen. Howell Cobb (1815-1868). From the description of Letter to Mary Ann Lamar Cobb, 1888 Oct. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476494 Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was born in Kentucky. He attended Transylvania University for a short time before enrolling at West Point in 1824, at the age of 16. He graduated in 1828 and immediately joined the First Infantry. His regiment was engaged in the Blackhawk War of 1831. In 1833, he became a...

Jordan, Thomas, 1819-1895

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Confederate general, chief of staff to G.T. Beauregard. From the description of Memorandum, [1874?]. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122541762 Confederate general. From the description of ALS, 1882 Sept. 23, New York, N.Y., to G.T. Beauregard. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122475273 From the description of ALS : Memphis, to G.T. Beauregard, 1866 Oct. 26. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 1...

Rector, Henry M. (Henry Massey), 1816-1899

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Born in Kentucky, later moved to Arkansas where he served in the House of Representatives and the Senate as well as a justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court. Served as Governor of Arkansas, 1860-1862 and then joined the army to fight for the Confederacy. From the description of Letter, April 11, 1862. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 53969477 U.S. surveyor general for Arkansas, state legislator, and Arkansas governor. From the descriptio...

Seddon, James A. (James Alexander), 1815-1880

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Representative from Virginia; Confederate Secretary of War. From the description of Autograph letter in pencil signed : [n.p.], to R.J. Walker, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270633277 Confederate Secretary of War. From the description of Letter to Dr. [Lewis] [manuscript], 1853 November 9. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647986794 From the description of Papers, 1862-1865. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20313944 ...

Johnson, Robert Ward, 1814-1879

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American lawyer and congressman. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, D. C., to the President, 1857 Mar. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270491191 ...

Price, Sterling, 1809-1867

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Missouri governor. From the description of Papers, 1856. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36115930 Gov. of Missouri. From the description of Letter signed : City of Jefferson, to President Pierce, 1853 Nov. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270619013 ...

Kirby-Smith, Edmund, 1824-1893

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Edmund Kirby-Smith, son of General Edmund Kirby-Smith, was a citizen of the United States and an engineer by profession. From the guide to the Records of Land Transactions by Edmund Kirby-Smith and Virginia Téllez de Kirby-Smith in the Isla de Tacamichapa, Veracruz 32741540., 1884-1945, 1895-1925, (Benson Latin American Collection, General Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin) Confederate general, university chancellor, and mathematics professor from St. Augustine (S...

Pickens, F. W. (Francis Wilkinson), 1805-1869

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Pickens was a congressman from South Carolina and later governor of that state. From the description of Francis Wilkinson Pickens letters from various correspondents, 1832-1834. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612796541 From the guide to the Francis Wilkinson Pickens letters from various correspondents, 1832-1834., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Congressman and governor of South Carolina. From the description of...

Totten, James, 1818-1871.

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Holmes, T. H. (Theophilus Hunter), 1804-1880

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Theophilus Hunter Holmes was born November 13, 1804 to a prominent North Carolina family. In 1829 he graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point. Prior to the Civil War, Holmes served in various campaigns against Native Americans and also saw action in the Mexican War, where he was brevetted for gallantry at the battle of Monterrey. When the Civil War erupted in 1861, Holmes was living in New York City and engaged as the superintendent of the recruiting station for the U.S. A...

Walker, Leroy Pope, 1817-1884

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Lawyer, politician, and Confederate secretary of war (1861). From the description of Papers, 1861-1868. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 41150151 Leroy Pope Walker was the first Confederate Secretary of War and later Brigadier General. John Beauchamp Jones was the author of "A Rebel War Clerk's Diary" (Philadelphia, 1866), which presented a vivid picture of wartime Richmond. Therein he described seeing Walker in Montgomery on 19 May 1861, and, telling him of hi...

Bishop, Albert Webb

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Born in Alden, Erie County, N.Y. He graduated from Yale in 1853, studied law with his uncle, Horatio Ballard of Cortland, N.Y., and was admitted to the bar in 1856. He practiced for a short time before joining an artillery company in La Crosse, Wisconsin. After the Battle of Bull Run, he enlisted in the army, and served with the 1st Wisconsin Light Artillery and the 2nd Wisconsin Cavalry. He was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the 1st Arkansas Cavalry on 10 July 1862, and in Oct. 1864, he was co...

Flanagin, Harris, 1817-1874

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Harris Flanagin was born in New Jersey on 3 Nov. 1817. He moved to Greenville, Ark., then the county seat of Clark County, and began practicing law. In 1841 he served as deputy sheriff of Clark County. In 1842 Flanagin was elected state representative and served for two years. He was again elected to public office in 1848 and served in the state senate for the next two years. Flanagin married Martha E. Nash of Washington in 1851. They had three children: Duncan, Nash and Laura. Following Arkansa...

Cunningham, Edward, Jr.,

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