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1. Gibson-Getty-McClure families papers, 1777-1926

   2,500 items. 7 containers. 2.8 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   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 his Civil War service with the Army of the Potomac in Virginia, to various military campaigns against Native American groups, to the Fitz-John Porter court-martial, and to personal and family affairs; and papers of Charles McClure (1835-1902) and members of his family relating to his military service with the United States Army at Santa Fe, New Mexico, at other posts in the United States and in the Philippine Islands during the Spanish-American War.