Montgomery C. Meigs papers, 1799-1971

Collection Summary

Title	Montgomery C. Meigs papers, 1799-1971
Inclusive Dates	1799-1971
Bulk Dates	1849-1892
ID No.	MSS32540
Creator	Meigs, Montgomery C. (Montgomery Cunningham), 1816-1892
Extent	11,000 items
Extent	52 containers plus 10 oversize
Extent	27 linear feet
Extent	51 microfilm reels
Language	Collection material in English
Location	Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Finding Aid Permalink	Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006021
LCCN Permalink	LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm79032540
Summary	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.
Online Content	The papers of Montgomery C. Meigs are available on the Library of Congress Web site at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000104. To promote preservation of the originals, researchers are required to consult the online edition as available.