Johnston family : papers, 1798-1943.

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Johnston family : papers, 1798-1943.

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Included is family correspondence of Albert Sidney Johnston, his Johnston relations, and the Preston relations of his first wife. Much of the correspondence concerns military affairs during the Civil War, including administrative communications received by Albert Sidney Johnston and letters received by his son, an aide de camp to Jefferson Davis. Extensive correspondence of William Preston Johnston and his wife Rosa Duncan Johnston, discussing wartime conditions and letters during the period of William Preston Johnston's imprisonment and exile. Later correspondence concerns William P. Johnston's career as a faculty member at Washington and Lee College, 1866-1877, as president of Louisiana State University, 1881-1883, and president of Tulane University, from 1883. Many letters of Johnston's children are included. Additional material includes correspondence, 1798-1943; miscellaneous papers, 1833-1861, of the Duncan family of New Orleans; autobiography of William P. Johnston (typed p. 102); diary, 1880-1901, of George Anderson Robinson; genealogical data on the Barret, Brown, Covington, Duncan, Goldsborough, Hancock, Johnston, Patton, Poignand, Preston, Provoost, Robinson, and Yoder families. Correspondents include James Breckinridge, Major William Preston, William Campbell Preston, Caroline Hancock Preston, Henrietta Preston Johnston, John J. Crittenden, James Guthrie, Simon Bolivar Buckner, John Cabell Breckinridge, Winfield Scott, Josiah Gorgas, Benjamin Huger, Leroy Pope Walker, Judah P. Benjamin, Braxton Bragg, William J. Hardee, General William Preston, George Washington Custis Lee, William Campbell Preston Breckinridge, John Hunt Morgan, Randall Lee Gibson, John Echols, Varina Howell Davis, Basil W. Duke, Robert E. Lee, Margaret Junkin Preston, Wade Hampton, Alexander Lamar, Joseph Jefferson, Josiah Stoddard Johnston, Charles Dudley Warner, and John Mason Brown.

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Papers of Albert Sidney Johnston (1803-1862), soldier, secretary of war of the Republic of Texas; and his son, William Preston Johnston (1831-1899), Confederate soldier, and educator. From the description of Johnston family : papers, 1798-1943. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49243984 ...

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