ALS, 1862 September 18 : New York to E.H. Ives / Henry Martin.

Longstreet, James, 1821-1904

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U.S. railroad commissioner, army officer, and diplomat. From the description of James Longstreet papers, 1858-circa 1877. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980713 James Longstreet, military man, businessman, diplomat, and railway commissioner, was born 8 January 1821, in Edgefield District, South Carolina, and died 2 January 1904, in Gainesville, Georgia. He was a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy (1842) and served in the Mexican War before he resigned from the U.S. Army ...

Burnside, Ambrose Everett, 1824-1881

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Burnside was born in Liberty, Indiana and was the fourth of nine children of Edghill and Pamela (or Pamilia) Brown Burnside, a family of Scottish origin. His great-great-grandfather Robert Burnside (1725–1775) was born in Scotland and settled in the Province of South Carolina. His father was a native of South Carolina; he was a slave owner who freed his slaves when he relocated to Indiana. Ambrose attended Liberty Seminary as a young boy, but his education was interrupted when his mother died in...

Ives, E. H.

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Martin, Henry, 1852-1927

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Series of letters written to and by Henry Martin during his tenure as Superindendent of Indian Affiairs in the 1860s. Two 1861 lettters to Commissioner of Indian Affairs William P. Dole, both written by Martin in Salt Lake City, include Martin's descriptions of Mormons encamped on Indian Reserve land in Utah (with an "intention to...hold possession"), of conflicts between Ute Indians and white settlers, and of his sending contracts to Jones and Carwright for "freighting United States Indian Good...