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Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

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Henry L. Abbot Family Papers

Identifier: MSS84936
Abstract

Correspondence, memoirs, diaries, writings, photographs, legal and financial records, genealogical material, military records, printed matter, and mementos primarily documenting the professional and family activities of Henry L. Abbot and his family during the Civil War.

Dates 1770-2001; Majority of material found within ( 1832-1870)
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Edward Bates Papers

Identifier: MSS12039
Abstract

Lawyer, politician, and United States attorney general. Correspondence, diary, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and other material reflecting Bates’s career in Missouri state politics and the United States House of Representatives and as United States attorney general.

Dates 1818-1904; Majority of material found within ( 1861-1864)
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Donald Benham Civil War Collection

Identifier: MSS85495
Abstract

Collector. Correspondence, financial and legal records, military orders and records, speeches, and miscellaneous items comprising the Civil War collection of Donald Benham.

Dates 1806-1918; Majority of material found within ( 1850-1870)
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James Gordon Bennett Papers

Identifier: MSS 12427
Abstract

Newspaper publisher. Correspondence, clippings, drafts of articles, and printed material reflecting Bennett’s career as publisher of the New York Herald.

Dates 1845-1934; Majority of material found within ( 1861-1864)
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Zachariah Chandler Papers

Identifier: MSS15552
Abstract Secretary of the interior and senator from Michigan. Correspondence, principally letters received, only a few dating after 1879, relating chiefly to the politics of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Reflects the views of the antislavery element of the Republican Party when Chandler was serving on the Republican Congressional Committee and the Joint Committee on the Conduct of War and as chairman of the Committee on Commerce. Also includes material pertaining to the early political history of...
Dates 1854-1899; Majority of material found within 1854-1879
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Nathan W. Daniels Diary and Scrapbook

Identifier: MSS84934
Abstract Union army officer and lecturer and advocate for civil rights and the Freedmen's Bureau. Married Cora Hatch, Spiritualist medium and lecturer. Handwritten diary with photographs, illustrations, and newspaper clippings in three volumes kept by Daniels during his Civil War service and Reconstruction. The third volume was written primarily by his wife, Cora Hatch. Also included are a typescript of summaries and transcripts of the diaries by C. P. Weaver and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings...
Dates 1861-1867
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Herndon-Weik Collection of Lincolniana

Identifier: MSS25791
Abstract Collection composed of the papers of Abraham Lincoln, United States president, United States representative from Illinois, and lawyer; William Henry Herndon, Lincoln's law partner, collector, and biographer from Springfield, Illinois; and Jesse William Weik, lawyer of Greencastle, Indiana, and coauthor of Herndon's Lincoln. Includes records (1933) of the Weik Manuscript Corporation and miscellaneous material collected chiefly by Herndon and Weik for use in...
Dates circa 1824-1933
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Letitia T. Howe Collection

Identifier: MSS84018
Abstract

Autographs and documents pertaining to Abraham Lincoln and Caleb Cushing.

Dates 1822-1876; Majority of material found within ( 1840-1865)
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Andrew Johnson Papers

Identifier: MSS27839
Abstract

U. S. president, vice president, senator, representative, and army officer. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, messages and speeches, courts-martial and amnesty records, financial records, lists, newspaper clippings, printed matter, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Johnson's presidency.

Dates 1783-1947; Majority of material found within 1865-1869
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Abraham Lincoln Papers

Identifier: MSS30189
Abstract

United States president and representative and lawyer from Illinois. Correspondence and other papers relating primarily to Abraham Lincoln's presidency and the Civil War.

Dates 1774-1948
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Low-Mills family papers

Identifier: MSS30619
Abstract

Prominent family engaged in China trade. Correspondence, diaries, journals, writings and genealogical material documenting the Low, Mills, Hillard, and Loines families from the early years of the nineteenth century until the middle of the twentieth. Of special interest are papers concerning the family's activities in the China trade and the journal of Harriet Low Hillard documenting her stay in Macau, 1829-1834.

Dates 1767-1971; Majority of material found within ( 1806-1940)
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Manton Marble Papers

Identifier: MSS31286
Abstract

Editor and publisher. Correspondence, drafts of articles and letters, financial papers, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other material relating to Marble’s career as editor and owner of the New York World, and as a senior member of the national Democratic Party.

Dates 1838-1916; Majority of material found within ( 1864-1898)
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John G. Nicolay Papers

Identifier: MSS34736
Abstract

Presidential secretary and biographer. Correspondence, research notes, notebooks, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous material documenting Nicolay's public career, particularly his tenure as secretary to President Abraham Lincoln and his numerous literary activities, including his works on Lincoln.

Dates 1811-1943; Majority of material found within 1860-1901
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Edmund Ruffin Diaries

Identifier: MSS51839
Abstract

Plantation owner and publisher. Diaries detailing Ruffin's activities and opinions as an experimentalist in agriculture, anti-Unionist and slavery advocate, and describing plantation life in his Virginia estates.

Dates 1856-1865
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Carl Schurz Papers

Identifier: MSS39156
Abstract

United States cabinet officer, diplomat, senator from Missouri, Union army officer, journalist, and reformer. Correspondence, speeches, articles, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and scrapbooks pertaining to Liberal Republicanism, tariff reduction, civil service reform, anti-imperialism, election campaigns, and the administration of Rutherford B. Hayes in which Schurz served as secretary of the interior.

Dates 1837-1983; Majority of material found within 1860-1906
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Edwin McMasters Stanton Papers

Identifier: MSS41202
Abstract

Lawyer, United States attorney general, and United States secretary of war. Correspondence, letterbooks, reports, maps, printed material, and memorabilia relating chiefly to Stanton's role as secretary of war under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson and to his role in the politics of Reconstruction. Other topics include the Civil War, the radical wing of the Republican Party, and Lincoln's assassination.

Dates 1818-1921; Majority of material found within 1862-1870
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Gideon Welles Papers

Identifier: MSS45054
Abstract

Secretary of the navy and newspaper editor. Correspondence, diaries, writings, naval records, scrapbooks, and other papers relating to Welles's work as editor of the Hartford Times; his activities as a member of the Democratic Party and, later, the Republican Party in state and national politics; the role of the navy in the Civil War; and the presidential administrations of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson.

Dates 1777-1911; Majority of material found within 1820-1876
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Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection

Identifier: MSS18630
Abstract

Collector. Correspondence, literary manuscripts, diaries, commonplace books, notes and notebooks, and other papers of Walt Whitman collected by Feinberg. Also contains material relating to Whitman's life and writings including the papers of Richard Maurice Bucke, Charles E. Feinberg, John Johnston, William Douglas O'Connor, and Horace and Anne Montgomerie Traubel.

Dates 1763-1985; Majority of material found within 1841-1981
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Charles Wilkes Papers

Identifier: MSS45716
Abstract Naval officer and explorer. Official and family correspondence, journals and diaries, legal and financial papers, autobiography and other writings, and scientific notebooks relating to Wilkes's command of an expedition (1838-1842) to the Antarctic, Hawaii and various other Pacific islands, and the northwest coast of the United States; his capture of J. M. Mason and John Slidell in the Trent affair (1861); and his command of the James River Flotilla and West...
Dates 1607-1959; Majority of material found within ( 1841-1865)