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Found in 5 Collections and/or records:

 Collection

Gibson-Getty-McClure Families Papers

Identifier: MSS22681
Abstract Correspondence, diaries, financial papers, military papers, and miscellany relating to various members of these allied families from the area of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Includes correspondence of General George Gibson (d. 1861) and the jurist John Bannister Gibson (1780-1853) and papers, 1777-1854, relating to the Revolutionary War service of their father, Colonel George Gibson (1747-1791); papers of George Washington Getty (1819-1901) and members of his family relating primarily to...
Dates 1777-1926; Majority of material found within 1880-1901
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Ulysses S. Grant Papers

Identifier: MSS23333
Abstract

United States president and army officer. General and family correspondence, speeches, reports, messages, manuscript of Grant’s memoirs (1885), military records, financial and legal records, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, memorabilia, and miscellaneous papers relating to Grant’s career in the military, politics, and government.

Dates 1819-1974; Majority of material found within 1843-1885
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George Brinton McClellan Papers

Identifier: MSS31898
Abstract

Army officer and governor of New Jersey. Correspondence, diaries, military papers, memoranda, telegrams, notes, writings, printed copies of speeches, articles, and books relating primarily to McClellan's Civil War service, particularly the Yorktown and Maryland campaigns.

Dates 1783-1898; Majority of material found within 1850-1885
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Montgomery C. Meigs Papers

Identifier: MSS32540
Abstract

Army officer, engineer, architect, and scientist. Correspondence, diaries and journals, notebooks, family papers, military papers, drawings and plans, scrapbooks, and other papers relating primarily to Meigs's work in the United States Army Corps of Engineers, his service as quartermaster general during the Civil War, and family matters.

Dates 1799-1971; Majority of material found within 1849-1892
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Stephen C. Rowan Papers

Identifier: MSS22236
Abstract

United States Navy officer. Journals and a letterbook relating to Rowan's naval service.

Dates 1826-1890; Majority of material found within ( 1841-1870)