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BOX 1-49 REEL 1-21 General Correspondence and Other Papers, 1830-1947
Correspondence and related material in bound volumes.
Arranged chronologically. Span dates of the correspondence have been revised to include enclosures and related material added at a later date. The altered dates are indicated in brackets following the dates noted in the original finding aid.
BOX 1 REEL 1 1830, May 29-1862, July 1 [1830-1896, undated]
BOX 2 REEL 1 1861, Apr. 18-May 7 [1861-1881, undated]
BOX 3 REEL 1 1861, Apr. 21-1863, Jan. 22 [1861-1893, undated]
BOX 4 REEL 2 1862, Aug. 6-1863, Feb. 28 [1862-1889, undated]
BOX 5 REEL 2 1862, Sept. 3-1863, June 14 [1862-1892, undated]
BOX 6 REEL 2 1862, June 3-1863, Jan. 22 [1862-1878, undated]
BOX 7 REEL 3 1862, June 27-1863, Oct. 23 [1862-1879, undated]
BOX 8 REEL 3 1863, Jan. 8-1866, Aug. 24 [1863-1882, undated]
BOX 9 REEL 3 1866, Aug. 26-1870, Feb. 24 [1862-1883, undated]
BOX 10 REEL 4 1868, Apr. 6-1871, Dec. 19 [1868-1871, undated]
BOX 11 REEL 4 1869, Dec. 13-1874, May 13 [1863-1947, undated]
BOX 12 REEL 4 1874, May 14-1876, Jan. 19 [1863-1907, undated]
BOX 13 REEL 5 1876, Jan. 20-1877, Dec. 31 [1876-1880, undated]
BOX 14 REEL 5 1878, Jan. 1-1879, Jan. 31 [1862-1882, undated]
BOX 15 REEL 6 1878, Mar. 28-May 8 [1862-1879, undated]
BOX 16 REEL 6 1878, Apr. 12-Oct. 22 [1878-1885, undated]
BOX 17 REEL 7 1878, July 2-Aug. 27 [1878-1879, undated]
BOX 18 REEL 7 1878, Aug. 28-Sept. 30 [1862-1878, undated]
BOX 19 REEL 8 1878, Oct. 1-Dec. 30 [1862-1879, undated]
BOX 20 REEL 8 1878, Dec. 31-1879, Mar. 31 [1878-1884, undated]
BOX 21 REEL 9 1879, Apr. 1-June 23 [1879, undated]
BOX 22 REEL 9 1879, June 24-1880, Jan. 21 [1878-1890, n.d]
BOX 23 REEL 10 1880, Jan. 22-May 22 [1880-1881, undated]
BOX 24 REEL 10 1880, May 12-Sept. 12 [1880, undated]
BOX 25 REEL 10 1880, Sept. 15-Dec. 23 [1880, undated]
BOX 26 REEL 11 1880, Dec. 24-1881, Feb. 15 [1879-1882, undated]
BOX 27 REEL 11 1881, Feb. 16-Sept. 29 [1862-1883, undated]
BOX 28 REEL 12 1881, Sept. 30-Dec. 28 [1862-1883, undated]
BOX 29 REEL 12 1881, Dec. 27-1882, Feb. 2 [1880-1882, undated]
BOX 30 REEL 12 1882, Feb. 4-May 20 [1880-1886, undated]
BOX 31 REEL 13 1882, May 22-Oct. 2 [1882, undated]
BOX 32 REEL 13 1882, Oct. 2-Dec. 29 [1882-1883, undated]
BOX 33 REEL 14 1882, Dec. 30-1883, Mar. 14 [1882-1883, undated]
BOX 34 REEL 14 1883, Mar. 2-1884, Feb. 6 [1861-1892, undated]
BOX 35 REEL 15 1884, Feb. 8-1886, Mar. 1 [1862-1884, undated]
BOX 36 REEL 15 1886, Mar. 3-June 26 [1886, undated]
BOX 37 REEL 16 1886, June 27-July 2 [1886, undated]
BOX 38 REEL 16 1886, July 3-26 [1879-1886, undated]
BOX 39 REEL 17 1886, July 27-1888, May 22 [1862-1891, undated]
BOX 40 REEL 17 1888, May 1-Dec. 27 [1887-1891, undated]
BOX 41 REEL 17 1889, "Granger's Review"
BOX 42 REEL 18 1889, Jan. 11-Nov. 30 [1862-1889, undated]
BOX 43 REEL 18 1889, Dec. 3-1891, Mar. 27 [1862-1891, undated]
BOX 44 REEL 19 1891, Mar. 28-1892, Nov. 3 [1890-1892, undated]
BOX 45 REEL 19 1892, Nov. 7-1895, May 6 [1863-1895, undated]
BOX 46 REEL 20 1895, May 7-1897, Sept. 9 [1862-1897, undated]
BOX 47 REEL 20 1897, Sept. 10-1898, Aug. 16 [1862-1898, undated]
BOX 48 REEL 21 1898, Aug. 17-1899, Dec. 27 [1897-1899, undated]
BOX 49 REEL 21 1899, Dec. 22-1904, Jan. 30 [1849-1904, undated]
BOX 50 REEL 22-23 Letterbooks, 1860-1888
Bound volumes of copies of outgoing letters and loose sheets in folders.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX 50 REEL 22-23 1860, Nov. 1 - 1861, Mar. 30 (loose sheets)
1862, Aug. 26 - 1863, Feb. 2; 1876, Oct. 24
1862, Oct. 8 (single sheet)
1864, Aug. 26 - 1871, Apr. 221; 1887, July 25 - Nov. 7
1869, Dec. 11 - 1871, Dec. 15 (loose sheets)
1878, May 10 - 1879, June 11 (loose sheets)
1880, May 24 - 1883, Mar. 21
1883, Mar. 30 - 1888, July 29
1884, Mar. 23 - Nov. 16 (loose sheets)
Undated fragments (loose sheets)
BOX 51-53 REEL 23-25 Subject File, 1792-1914
Letters, memoranda, transcripts, printed matter, clippings, and other items.
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
BOX 51 REEL 23-25 Ascent in balloon at Yorktown, Va., 1862
Battles of 1st and 2nd Bull Run, 1861-1862
(2 folders)
Court-martial and trial
Proceedings of the court, 1862-1863
Retrial, undated
Memoranda regarding members of the court, undated
Cox, Jacob D., 1880, undated
Garfield, James A., undated
Grant, Ulysses S., undated
Holt, Joseph, undated
Johnston, Albert S., 1861, undated
Logan, John A., 1872, 1881-1883, undated
McClellan, George Brinton (1826-1885), 1862, 1885, undated
BOX 52 REEL 24-25 McDowell, Irvin, 1862-1863, undated
Pope, John, 1862, 1869, undated
Sherman, William T., undated
Wallace, Lew, undated
House and Senate debates, 1880, 1886-1890, undated
(2 folders)
Relief of Porter by Congress, undated
Petitions and memorials to Congress, 1874, undated
Presidential pardon, undated
List and bibliographies, 1863-1878, 1895, undated
BOX 53 REEL 25 Equestrian statue of Porter, 1903
Fifth Army Corps, 1861-1862
Patterson, Robert, 1792-1881 Pension for Harriet Pierson Porter, 1902-1914
BOX 53 REEL 25 Articles, 1861-1862
Handwritten and typed copies.
Arranged alphabetically by title.
BOX 53 REEL 25 "An incident of Army Life among the Mormons during the Utah troubles of 1859 to 1860," including extracts from diary, undated
"Texas Expedition," 1861
"Harrisburg Campaign," 1861
"Balloon Services," 1861-1862
Miscellany relating to Porter's court-martial, undated
BOX 53 REEL 25 Autobiographical, Biographical, and Genealogical Material, undated
Autobiographical writings, biographical sketches, genealogical charts, lists, and related items.
Arranged by type of material.
BOX 53 REEL 25 "A Cursory (but truthful) Narrative of my Recollections and Connections with the Rebellion," undated
General, undated
BOX 53-55 REEL 25-28 Miscellany, 1866-1941
Printed copies of Porter's letters, writings by others, maps, photographs, financial and legal papers, and other miscellaneous items.
Arranged by type of material.
BOX 53 REEL 25 Copies of Porter letters in the Collector, 1866-1889, 1941
Meade, George, account of Battle of Gettysburg, undated
General, 1874-1884, undated
BOX 54 REEL 25-26 “Campaign in Northern Virginia in August 1882, “ translation from German by Sara M. Day of Der Feldzug in Nord-Virginien im August 1862 (1881) by Ferdinand Franz Mangold, undated
Typewritten extracts
Handwritten transcripts
(8 folders)
BOX 55 REEL 27 Maps, undated See also Oversize
(4 folders)
BOX 55 REEL 28 Photographs, undated
Financial and legal papers, undated
BOX 55-65 REEL 28-30 Printed matter, 1862-1914
Pamphlets, broadsides, government and published documents, congressional reports, speeches, maps, newspaper clippings, and other material.
Arranged by type or topic and therein chronologically. Containers 57-65 have not been microfilmed.
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