John Page Nicholson papers and Civil War collection, 1861-1921.

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John Page Nicholson papers and Civil War collection, 1861-1921.

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John P. Nicholson's collection of Civil War manuscripts. Included are items created during the war - official reports, dispatches, communications, soldiers' letters, diaries, maps, etc., and manuscripts written after the war -- veterans' memoirs, regimental histories, poems, copies of war diaries, etc. Included are Nicholson's own Civil War letters and a typescript copy of the diary that he kept during his military service. Also included are correspondence and papers accumulated by Nicholson during his work on the translation of Comte de Paris' book, his service with the Legion of Honor and his work for the Board of Commissioners on Gettysburg monument.

995 pieces.4 boxes.70 bound volumes and scrapbooks.

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Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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