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Benjamin F. Butler papers, 1778-1929

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BOX 183-196 Subject File, circa 1830-1909
Correspondence, notes, military orders and dispatches, financial papers, telegrams, statements, transcripts, and other papers.
Arranged alphabetically by topic and therein chronologically.
BOX 183 Butler, Andrew Jackson, 1860-1865
(2 folders)
Butler Club, congressional campaign, 1876
(2 folders)
Chemical Gold and Silver Ore Reducing Co., 1865
Civil War
Department of the Gulf, New Orleans, La.
French consul, 1862
(3 folders)
Miscellany, 1862-1865, 1886 See also Oversize
(2 folders)
BOX 184 Dispatches
Handwritten, 1863-1865
(3 folders)
Index, 1864
Typescripts
1861-1862
(4 folders)
BOX 185 1863
1864
Jan.-Sept.
(6 folders)
BOX 186 Oct.-Dec.
(3 folders)
1865
Miscellany, 1861-1869, 1888 See also Oversize
(3 folders)
Orders
Department of the Gulf, 1862
(2 folders)
BOX 187 (1 folder)
Department of Virginia and North Carolina, 1864
(7 folders)
BOX 188 Miscellaneous, 1861-1865
War Department, Adjutant General's Office, 1864
(3 folders)
War of the Rebellion, Vol. 36, Chapter 48, 1891
(4 folders)
BOX 189 (4 folders)
Financial records
Bills
Personal, 1859-1861
Yacht, America, 1880-1881, 1890-1892
Checks and drafts, 1854-1890
Miscellany, 1851-1874, 1883, 1890
BOX 190 Notebooks
1853-1869
(3 folders)
BOX 191 1871-1891
Receipts
1872-1883, 1890
(6 folders)
BOX 192 Stocks and bonds, 1846-1851, 1868-1894, 1904
(4 folders)
Lists of documents belonging to Butler, undated
Lower California Co., 1867
Massachusetts gubernatorial campaigns, 1871, 1879-1883
(3 folders)
Miscellaneous topics, 1863, 1884-1885
BOX 193 Mountain Mining Co., 1866-1867
National Home for Disabled Soldiers, 1882-1896
(3 folders)
Presidential campaign, 1884 See also Oversize
Presidential elections
1856
1860
1872
1880
Santo Domingo annexation, 1870-1871
BOX 194 Telegrams, miscellaneous, 1876-1880
(7 folders)
BOX 195 United States Cartridge Co., 1868-1870, 1877-1884
United States Congress
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Miscellany, 1863-1867
Statements, 1867
Telegrams, 1865-1867
(2 folders)
Testimony and depositions, 1866-1867
(5 folders)
BOX 196 Geneva award fund, 1874-1879, undated
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Alta Vela affair, 1868
Miscellany, 1867-1868
Testimony, 1868
Miscellany, 1878-1888
Washington, D.C., property, 1875-1891
Writings about Butler, circa 1859, 1864, 1896-1909
(2 folders)
Yeadon, Richard, autobiographical sketch and family material, circa 1830-circa 1865
BOX 197-200 Printed Matter, 1858-1929
Newspaper clippings, notebooks containing newspaper clippings, and complete newspapers.
Arranged by type of material.
BOX 197 Loose clippings
1865-1898
(12 folders)
BOX 198 1899-1902
(7 folders)
BOX 199 1903-1909, 1914-1918, 1924-1929
(10 folders)
BOX 200 Undated
Newspapers, 1858-1868 See Oversize
Notebooks, 1861-1902
(5 folders)
BOX 201-254 Letterbooks, 1861-1893
Bound volumes of correspondence.
Arranged into two groups, Set A covers the period 1861-1865, and Set B covers the period 1875-1893. Set A contains letters sent and letters received. Set B consists of letters sent. Arranged chronologically within the volumes.
BOX 201 Set A
Index
BOX 202 1862, 12 Mar.-26 July
BOX 203 1862, 28 July-14 Nov.
BOX 204 1862, 13 Nov.-1 May 1863
BOX 205 1862, 24 Mar. 1863-13 Dec. 1864
BOX 206 12 Oct. 1861-4 Mar. 1863
BOX 207 11 Nov. 1863-7 June 1865
BOX 208 30 Jan.-23 Oct. 1865
BOX 209 13 Nov. 1863-6 June 1864
BOX 210 Confidential, 11 Dec. 1863-3 Jan. 1865
BOX 211 Letters received, 20 Apr. 1861-15 Dec. 1862
BOX 212 Letters sent, 15 Apr. 1861-13 Feb. 1862
BOX 213 Letters from French and Spanish consuls, 8 May-1 Dec. 1862
BOX 214 Set B
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