Scope and Content Note
The John Alexander Logan Family Papers span the years 1836-1925, with the bulk of the material originating between 1860 and 1917. Most of the items pertain to the lives and activities of John Alexander Logan and his wife Mary Simmerson Cunningham Logan. Material relating to Mary Logan Tucker, George Edwin Tucker, John Alexander Logan, Jr., and other family members is also present. The collection is organized in seven series, General Correspondence; Family Correspondence; Subject File; Speech, Article, and Book File; Scrapbooks; Miscellany and Oversize and includes correspondence, legal and military papers, speeches, articles, drafts of books, plays, poetry, scrapbooks, maps, memorabilia, photographs, printed matter, and miscellaneous material.
Topics reflected in the collection include the Civil War, Reconstruction, the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, the presidential campaigns of 1880 and 1884, Memorial Day, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Grand Army of the Republic, the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, the District of Columbia Belgian Relief Fund, the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, the Spanish-American Red Cross, and woman's suffrage.
Principal correspondents include Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, William Jennings Bryan, George B. Cortelyou, Grenville Mellen Dodge, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert Todd Lincoln, John Sherman, and William T. Sherman.