Papers, 1802-1824.

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Papers, 1802-1824.

Collection contains McCall's papers including the inspection roll of Captain Hugh McCall's Company; letters concerning McCall's duties as military storekeeper in Savannah, including one from Quartermaster General Thomas Sidney Jesup; a letter from William Williams relative to published court reports; a letter from McCall to Joseph Jones requesting historical data on Jones's family; a letter from McCall to John Clark, governor of Georgia, concerning the imprisonment and trial of General Hopkins and his son; and a letter from Edmund Pendleton Gaines pertaining to the yellow fever epidemic in Savannah in 1820.

9 items.

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Jones, Joseph E.

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McCall, Hugh, 1805-1897

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Georgia historian. From the description of Papers, 1802-1824. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 39537441 ...

Hopkins, General

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Gaines, Edmund Pendleton, 1777-1849

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Soldier, U.S. Army; served in War of 1812, Black Hawk War, Florida War and Mexican War; commanded Western Department and later Eastern Department; at odds with War Department over frontier defense during most of his career. From the description of Letter : Sand Hills near Augusta, Ga., 1825 Sept. 30. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 31023735 U.S. Army general. From the description of Papers, 1815-1857. (Duke University Library). WorldCa...

Jesup, Thomas Sidney, 1788-1860

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Quartermaster-general of the U.S. army, 1818-1860. Appointed commander of U.S., Georgia, and Alabama troops fighting the Creeks in Alabama, May 19, 1836, and of the army in Florida during the Second Seminole War, Dec. 6, 1836. From the description of Letter : Tampa Bay, [Fla.], to C.C. Clay, Governor of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala., 1836 Nov. 17. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 38110737 Thomas Sidney Jesup was a soldier in the U.S. Army. He rose to the rank of Major Gen...

United States. Army

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...