Letters : concerning the Civil War, 1881 and undated.

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Letters : concerning the Civil War, 1881 and undated.

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Letter from Hannah C. Stearns to her brother Thomas concerning how Union troops, specifically mentioning the Massachusetts 6th, traveled to Washington, D.C. after the battle in Baltimore of 19 April 1861, and the part that [Nicholas P.] Trist played in the plan to move the troops. Also includes a second written copy of the account, slightly different, by Stearns. With a second letter, incomplete, concerning a deal between Confederate Secretary of War George Wythe Randolph and Union General Benjamin Butler to exchange Southern cotton for food and other goods needed by the Confederate Army, and the disciplining of Randolph by Jefferson Davis for this action. This letter was written by one of Randolph's siblings (reference to him as "brother" in the letter), but not to Randolph.

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Butler, Benjamin Franklin, 1818-1893

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Benjamin Franklin Butler was born in Deerfield, New Hampshire, the sixth and youngest child of John Butler and Charlotte Ellison Butler. His father served under General Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812 and later became a privateer, dying of yellow fever in the West Indies not long after Benjamin was born. He was named after Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. His elder brother, Andrew Jackson Butler (1815–1864), would serve as a colonel in the Union Army during t...

Stearns, Thomas, fl. 1881,

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United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 6th (1861-1864)

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Trist, Nicholas Philip, 1800-1874

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U. S. diplomat; grandson-in-law of Thomas Jeferson. From the description of N. P. Trist letter to Henry Carey [manuscript] 1869 Apr. 2. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647946227 Nicholas Philip Trist attended West Point; was a Louisiana planter, 1821-1824; U.S. State Department clerk, 1828-1834; consul to Havana, Cuba, 1834-1840; State Department chief clerk, 1845-1847; and chief negotiator of the treaty ending the Mexican War, 1847. He was also a lawyer and pa...

Stearns, Hannah C.,

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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 ...