Letter books of Amos Tappan Akerman [manuscript] 1871-76.

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Letter books of Amos Tappan Akerman [manuscript] 1871-76.

Official and unofficial correspondence, including letters of the last 6 months of Akerman's Cabinet service. Official letters deal with the appointment of Territorial judges, suppression of the Ku Klux Klan, amnesty for Confederate soldiers, advancement of the Republican Party in the South, and means of insuring Negro votes for the party. Includes many personal letters, and correspondence with William W. Belknap, B.F. Butler, Charles E. Butler, George S. Boutwell, D.T. Corbin, George William Curtis, C. Delano, Thomas F. Fullock, James A. Garfield, O.O. Howard, H.R. Hulburd, Edwin Parsons, John D. Pope, John Sherman, Alphonso Taft, D.A. Walker, J.K.H. Wilcox, and others.

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