James Madison Wells microfilm, 1865-1866.

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James Madison Wells microfilm, 1865-1866.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/414101296

The papers are primarily 22 letters sent from James Madison Wells to Andrew Johnson pertaining to the government of Louisiana during the early years of Reconstruction. Correspondence with William Polk, Maj. Gen. S.A. Hurlbut, Abraham Lincoln, and A.P. Dostie are also included. The letters are taken from the George S. Denison Papers and the Andrew Johnson Papers in the Manuscripts Division of the Library of Congress.

29 letters.

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7436637

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Hurlbut, Stephen Augustus, 1815-1882

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American army officer and diplomat. From the description of Telegram (not autograph) : Head Quarters 16th Army Corps, 1863 July 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269555752 American army officier and diplomat. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Memphis, Tennessee, to Col. J.C. Kelton, 1863 Nov. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269530212 A native of South Carolina, Hurlbut became a lawyer and state legislator in Illinois. A Union general ...

Wells, James Madison, 1808-1899

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Born near Alexandria, La., in 1808, James Madison Wells was the son of Samuel Levi Wells II, a member of the Louisiana constitutional convention in 1811. After completing his education at St. Joseph's College in Bardstown, Ky., and at Cincinnati Law School, Wells returned to Louisiana to manage his family's plantations. He married Mary Ann Scott in 1833. Wells was an active Whig but transferred his allegiance to the Democratic Party after the Whig Party's collapse in the 1850s, supporting Stephe...

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

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Andrew Johnson (b. December 29, 1808, Raleigh, North Carolina-d. July 31, 1875, Carter's Station, Tennessee) became the seventeenth president of the United States after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1808. He began his political career in Greenville, Tennessee in 1828. At the time of this letter he was the Democratic senator from Tennessee. Emerson Etheridge was born in Carrituck County, North Carolina. As a representative of Tennes...

Dostie, A. P. (Anthony Paul), 1821-1866

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Dentist, Chicago, Illinois and New Orleans, Louisiana; Union sympathizer during Civil War; appointed state auditor. From the description of Document: New Orleans, La., 1865 Mar 24. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 33373988 ...

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...