The Albert B. Chandler papers, 1858-1911.

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The Albert B. Chandler papers, 1858-1911.

Contains the following types of materials: correspondence, memoirs; magazines; newspapers. Contains information pertaining to the following war and time period: Civil War -- General; 1865-97. Contains information pertaining to the following military units and organizations: United States (U.S.) Military Telegraph, Department of the Potomac; Staff, War Department. General description of the collection: The Albert B. Chandler papers include civilian's papers; cipher clerk's remembrances of Lincoln and Stanton; his civilian career traced with growth of telegraph and elect companies; family genealogy traced back to Massachusetts, 1637; and numerous biographical sketches of Chandler.

1 box.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7575446

U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center

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Chandler, Albert R.

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Stanton, Edwin McMasters, 1814-1869

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American jurist and politician. From the description of Letter signed : "War Department," to William Pitt Fessenden, 1862 May 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270580939 U.S. secretary of war 1862-1868. From the description of Telegram (draft) : ms. : Washington, D.C., to Ulysses S. Grant, Appomattox C.H., Va., 1865 Apr. 9. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122380613 Secretary of War; Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. ...

Chandler family

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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...