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Found in 5 Collections and/or records:

 Collection

Calvin Benjamin Papers

Identifier: MSS84365
Abstract

United States Army officer. Chiefly correspondence, with transcribed excerpts and notes, relating to Benjamin's service under General Zachary Taylor during the Mexican War.

Dates circa 1838-1882; Majority of material found within ( 1843-1851)
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Caleb B. Smith Papers

Identifier: MSS40303
Abstract

Lawyer, statesman, jurist, and United States representative from Indiana. Principally correspondence from 1849, the last year of Smith's term as a Whig from Indiana in the House of Representatives.

Dates 1841-1862; Majority of material found within ( 1849)
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Zachary Taylor Papers

Identifier: MSS42440
Abstract

U.S. president and army officer. Correspondence, autobiographical account, military papers, estate records, printed matter, map, and other papers relating chiefly to Taylor's presidency, his military service, and the management of his Louisiana plantation by his son.

Dates 1814-1931
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United States War Department Records

Identifier: MSS76072
Abstract

Correspondence, letterbooks, ledgers, account books, legal records, lists, and other material relating primarily to the United States Arsenal in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, later know as the Frankford Arsenal, and to superintendents of military stores William Irvine and his son Callender Irvine.

Dates 1794-1848
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Martin Van Buren Papers

Identifier: MSS43828
Abstract United States president, vice president, secretary of state, and senator from New York. Correspondence, drafts of writings, speeches, and messages to Congress, autobiographical material, notes, certificate, legal record book, estate record book, and other papers pertaining to slavery and the antislavery movement, banking and the Second Bank of the United States, party politics in New York State and at the national level relating to the Federalist, National Republican, Whig, and Democratic...
Dates 1787-1910; Majority of material found within 1820-1850