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1. G.T. Beauregard papers, 1844-1883

   6,500 items. 54 containers. 5.6 linear feet. 9 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   United States and Confederate Army officer, engineer, railroad executive, and public official. Correspondence, scrapbooks, and military papers, including letterbooks, headquarters records, telegrams and dispatches, orders, endorsements, and rosters. The bulk of the papers, 1861-1865, relate primarily to Beauregard's career as a general in the Confederate Army, especially at Fort Sumter and Charleston, South Carolina; Manassas and Petersburg, Virginia; Shiloh, Tennessee; Corinth, Mississippi; and Atlanta, Georgia. Other topics include Beauregard's work as an engineer, public official, and railroad executive in New Orleans and his service under General Winfield Scott in the Mexican War.

2. Jedediah Hotchkiss papers, 1835-1908

   20,000 items. 74 containers. 29.6 linear feet. 61 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Confederate army officer, topographical and mining engineer, and historian. Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, subject files, writings, financial papers, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous printed material relating principally to Hotchkiss's service with the Confederate army as a topographical engineer in Virginia and his involvement with various land and mining schemes in West Virginia, especially the Gauley Coal Company, Guyandot Coal Land Association, and North Flat-Top Land Association. Includes genealogical papers relating to the Hotchkiss and Beecher families, copies of William Barton Rogers's notebooks for his geological survey of Virginia, and papers of Hotchkiss's wife, Sara Anne Comfort Hotchkiss.

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3. Jubal Anderson Early papers, 1829-1930

   5,000 items. 16 containers plus 2 oversize. 9 linear feet. 1 microfilm reel. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   United States and Confederate Army officer, lawyer, and state legislator of Virginia. Correspondence, diaries, military papers, speeches and articles, clippings, a scrapbook, printed matter, and maps dated largely after the Civil War.

4. Edward Willis papers, 1854-1906

   200 items. 4 containers plus 4 oversize. 2.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Confederate Army officer and merchant. Correspondence, ledgers, memorandum books, requisition books, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and other papers relating mainly to Willis's service as chief quartermaster of G. T. Beauregard's division in the Confederate Army.

5. John Singleton Mosby papers, 1861-1904

   40 items. 2 containers. .4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Confederate army officer, lawyer, and author. Correspondence, orders, commissions, reports, circulars, and other material relating mainly to Mosby's Civil War activities.

6. Cadmus M. Wilcox papers, 1846-1887

   1,200 items. 3 containers. 1.0 linear foot. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Confederate army officer. Correspondence, maps, autobiography, drafts, notes, and copies of reports relating to the Army of Northern Virginia and to various Civil War campaigns. Includes material on the Mexican War.