Autographs of Civil War officers and U.S. Statesmen.

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Autographs of Civil War officers and U.S. Statesmen.

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Papers consist of letters and documents chiefly compiled for their autograph value. Numerous letters concern military tactics during the Civil War and political matters. Letters of interest, 1810-1840s, include George McDuffie on the Force Bill; Henry Laurence Pinckney on nulllification and the deposit question; Dan Weisiger Adams on Mississippi politics; and Ward Hunt discussing the importance support for the Whig cause. There are also letters or autographs from Pascoe Grenfel, Lewis Cass, John Parker Hale, Braxton Bragg, Philip Francis Thomas, and Charles Clark. Letters of interest, 1850s, include: Walker Brooke giving addresses of ex-governors and former members of Congress; S.D. Watkins concerning political controversy and the election of 1856; Lewis P.W. Balch mentioning the threat of war with the south and events at Harper's Ferry; and Roger Pryor to [Henry A. Wise?] on the publication of a manuscript at the advice of R.K. Meade, Frank Ruffin and George W. Randolph. In addition there are letters from William Morris Meredith, [Joseph P. Bradley?], Albert Gallatin Brown, Daniel Stevens Dickinson, John Minor Botts, William Matthew Fenton, Henry Flagg French, William Bigler, John Parker Hale, Robert Augustus Toombs, John Jones McRae, Isaac Toucey, Samuel Deanes, and Miles White. Letters of interest, 1860s, include: John L. Morgan to A.R. Boteler concerning the disposition of troops in Utah and the attitudes of the Mormon Church; David Flavel Jamison countermanding an order for embarkation of troops on the Marion; Samuel Taylor Glover inquiring about the steps taken by the Missouri Legislature to preserve the Union; Benjamin James Lea concerning men and regiments in his command; and Edward A. Palfrey concerning supply movements. Other items of interest, 1860s, include: special orders signed by John Archer Coke for a free Negro to report as a shoemaker; document detailing bales of cotton hauled away from a Vicksburg plantation; and an account of William Tecumseh Sherman. In addition there are letters and documents, 1860s, from Francis Preston Blair, George T. Swann, Thaddeus Stevens, Benjamin Gratz Brown, Francis Wilkinson Pickens, Richard Napoleon Barchelder, Walter Cauthen Cutting, Benjamin Franklin Butler, and John Schuyler Crosby. Letters of interest, 1870s, include: Edward Alfred Pollard concerning the completion of his book "The Lost Curse"; Edward Swift discussing his experiences in the Mexican War and the relation to the situation in Cuba; a broadside communication from Irvin McDowell regarding his impressions of the Fitz-John Porter case. Autographs, 1870s, include Stewart Lyndon Woodford, Richard W. Johnson, Thurlow Weed, Emmons Clark, John Wood, Benjamin Harvey Hill, Hiram Casey Young, James Edmund Bailey, Isham Green Harris, Haywood Yancey Riddle, Otho Robards Singleton, Fernando Wood and John Wood. Autographs, 1880s, inclue John Henninger Reagan, William Paris Chilton, Joseph E. Johnston, Samuel West Peel, William Ruffin Cox, William Hayne Perry, and Benjamin Franklin Butler. There are also undated autographs of Ambrose E. Burnside, Simon Cameron, Roscoe Conkling, Stephen A. Douglas, Andrew Johnson, Winfield Scott, Alexander Stewart Webb, and M.C. Yancey.

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Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861

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Stephen Arnold Douglas (April 23, 1813 – June 3, 1861) was an American politician and lawyer from Illinois. He was one of two Democratic Party nominees for president in the 1860 presidential election, which was won by Abraham Lincoln. Douglas had previously defeated Lincoln in the 1858 United States Senate election in Illinois, known for the Lincoln–Douglas debates. During the 1850s, Douglas was one of the foremost advocates of popular sovereignty, which held that each territory should be allowe...

Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866

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Winfield Scott (June 13, 1786 – May 29, 1866) was an American military commander and political candidate. He served as a general in the United States Army from 1814 to 1861, taking part in the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War, the early stages of the American Civil War, and various conflicts with Native Americans. Scott was the Whig Party's presidential nominee in the 1852 presidential election, but was defeated by Democrat Franklin Pierce. He was known as Old Fuss and Feathers for his insi...

Cameron, Simon, 1799-1889

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Simon Cameron was born in Maytown, Pennsylvania in 1799, to Charles Cameron (d. January 16, 1814) and his wife Martha McLaughlin (d. abt. November 10, 1830). Cameron was the third of five sons; and had three younger sisters. One story claimed that Cameron was orphaned at nine, and later apprenticed to a printer, Andrew Kennedy, editor of the Northumberland Gazette before entering the field of journalism. If Cameron were apprenticed to Kennedy at age nine (~1808) for a then-standard period of ...

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...

Balch, L. P. W. (Lewis Penn Witherspoon), 1814-1875

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Hale, John P. (John Parker), 1806-1873

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American statesman. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to A. Middleton, 1856 Apr. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270505990 From the description of Autograph letter signed : "Senate Chamber," to Captain Palmer, 1861 Jan. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270503647 U.S. district attorney, U.S. representative and senator from New Hampshire, and U.S. minister to Spain; resident of Dover, N.H. From the description of John P. Ha...

Adams, Dan Weiseger, 1820-1872,

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Belknap, William Worth, 1829-1890

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William Worth Belknap was born in Newburgh, New York on September 22, 1829, the son of career soldier William G. Belknap and Anne (Clark) Belknap. Belknap's father had fought with distinction in the War of 1812, Florida War, and Mexican–American War. Belknap attended the local schools in Newburgh, and graduated from Princeton University in 1848. In addition to attending Princeton with Hiester Clymer, the Democratic Congressman who later led the investigation into Belknap's War Department corrupt...

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...

Conkling, Roscoe, 1829-1888

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Roscoe Conkling was a New York politician and lawyer, serving in Congress as both Senator and Representative. He resigned abruptly to protest Federal appointments in New York, and returned to his law practice. He later declined an appointment to the United States Supreme Court. From the description of Roscoe Conkling letter to D.B. Sickels, 1876 Apr. 20. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 52734482 Roscoe Conkling was a Senator (1867-81) and Congre...

Randolph, George Wythe, 1818-1867

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Confederate secretary of war. From the description of Letter : to Bettie D. George, Charlottesville, Va., 1862 September 25. (Charlottesville-Albemarle History Collection). WorldCat record id: 29536517 Army general and Secretary of War for the Confederate States of America. From the description of George Wythe Randolph letter, 1862 July 17. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 259801913 ...

Webb, Alexander S. (Alexander Stewart), 1835-1911

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President of City College, 1870-1903. From the description of Papers, 1855-1917. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155504204 President of the College of the City of New York. From the description of Typed letter signed : New York, to Ida B. Forbes, 1897 Jan. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270589007 Alexander S. Webb: joined U.S. Army in 1855; served in Minnesota and Florida, and in 1857 became professor of mathematics at West Point; served in Civil War,...

Bailey, James Edmund, 1822-1885

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Batchelder, Richard Napoleon, 1832-1901,

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Davis, Varina, 1826-1906

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Second wife of Confederate States of America president Jefferson Davis. From the description of Letter and article: New York [N.Y.], 1905 Oct. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 29417912 First Lady of Confederacy. From the description of Letter: Montgomery [Al.], 1863 March [1]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122415155 Author; wife of Jefferson Davis [1808-1889], president of the Confederacy. From the description of V...

Porter, Fitz-John, 1822-1901

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U.S. Army officer during the Civil War and public official, New York and New Jersey. From the description of Letters, 1894-1895. (Portsmouth Athenaeum Library & Museum). WorldCat record id: 70975832 American army officer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Morristown, to an unidentified Senator, [1876?] Feb. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270618668 From the description of Autograph telegram signed : [n.p.], to General Morell, Miner...

Whig Party (U.S.)

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Meade, Richard, 1812-1892.

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Ruffin, Frank G.

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Francis ("Frank") Gildart Ruffin (1816-1892), was a planter of Chesterfield County, Va., Confederate colonel, 2nd auditor of Virginia, editor, and political writer. Ruffin served as chairman of the Virginia Sinking Fund Commission, secretary of the Miller Manual Labor School, and editor of the Richmond (Va.) "Dispatch." Other prominent family members represented in the collection include Ruffin's uncle, Albert G. Ruffin (d. 1829), lawyer in Mississippi and Alabama and planter in Hanover County, ...

Yancey, M. C.

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Johnston, Joseph E. (Joseph Eggleston), 1807-1891

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Confederate general. From the description of Letter (copy), 1861 Sept. 11 : Manassas, Va., to G.T. Beauregard. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122489351 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Selma [Alabama], to Colonel Blanton Duncan, 1867 Jan. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270489683 From the description of Letter, October 9, 1861. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 443082432 Benjamin Stoddert E...