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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. Almon Ferdinand Rockwell papers, 1852-1900

   2,000 items. 9 containers. 3.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Army officer and superintendent of public buildings, Washington, D.C. Correspondence, diaries and journals concerning Rockwell's investments in commercial enterprises with James A. Garfield, Garfield's assassination and his appointment controversy with Roscoe Conkling, and Rockwell's Civil War experiences, including the Battle of Shiloh.