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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 34 Collections and/or Records:

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William Allen Papers

Identifier: MSS10520
Abstract

Lawyer, farmer, and U.S. representative and senator from and governor of Ohio. Correspondence, speeches, memoranda, financial records, printed material, maps, and other papers largely relating to Allen's service as United States senator (1837-1848) and governor (1873-1875) of Ohio.

Dates 1796-1879; Majority of material found within 1840-1876
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Robert Anderson Papers

Identifier: MSS10967
Abstract

United States Army officer. Correspondence, letterbooks, printed material, writings, and official documents relating to Anderson’s military duty in the Black Hawk War, Mexican War, and Civil War, and to his writings on coast defense, ordnance, and artillery tactics. Includes papers of his daughter, Eba Anderson Lawton, historian and biographer of her father.

Dates 1819-1948; Majority of material found within ( 1836-1870)
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G. T. Beauregard Papers

Identifier: MSS12203
Abstract 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;...
Dates 1844-1883; Majority of material found within ( 1861-1865)
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Calvin Benjamin Papers

Identifier: MSS84365
Abstract

United States Army officer. Chiefly correspondence, with transcribed excerpts and notes, relating to Benjamin's service under General Zachary Taylor during the Mexican War.

Dates circa 1838-1882; Majority of material found within ( 1843-1851)
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Burbank-Van Voorhis Families Papers

Identifier: MSS58602
Abstract

Members of the Burbank and Van Voorhis (Voorhees) families. Diaries, correspondence, and military papers of Burbank and Van Voorhis family members spanning the War of 1812, Mexican War, Civil War, and American occupation of the Philippines in the early twentieth century.

Dates 1814-1913
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C. B. Comstock Papers

Identifier: MSS16527
Abstract

Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, notebooks, orders, reports, and drawings primarily concerning Comstock's Civil War service as chief engineer of the Army of the Potomac. Also includes material relating to the Mexican War and Comstock's tenure as president of the United States Mississippi River Commission, 1884.

Dates 1847-1908; Majority of material found within ( 1862-1890)
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Caleb Cushing Papers

Identifier: MSS17509
Abstract

United States cabinet official and representative from Massachusetts, army officer, diplomat, and lawyer. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, journals, writings, speeches, notes, notebooks, legal file, business papers, biographical material, newspaper clippings, printed material, maps, photographs, and other papers reflecting Cushing's role in national and international affairs of the mid-nineteenth century.

Dates circa 1785-1906; Majority of material found within 1820-1878
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Custis-Lee Family Papers

Identifier: MSS17558
Abstract

Correspondence, letterbooks, genealogical papers, notebooks, financial records, indentures, clippings, photographs, and other papers documenting the activities of several generations of the Custis and Lee families of Virginia, who served as diplomats, statesmen, politicians, planters, and military officers during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Dates 1700-circa 1928; Majority of material found within ( 1770-1870)
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Jefferson Davis Papers

Identifier: MSS17921
Abstract

President of the Confederate States of America. Correspondence and related articles, speeches, clippings, reports and notes documenting Davis's political career and his family.

Dates 1795-1913; Majority of material found within ( 1850-1906)
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Columbus Delano Family Papers

Identifier: MSS18184
Abstract

Family members include Columbus Delano, U.S. secretary of the interior and representative from Ohio, and his son, John Sherman Delano, businessman. Correspondence, financial records, photograph album, and miscellany relating to Ohio and national politics and patronage, the Republican Party, western lands, railroad expansion, and personal and financial matters.

Dates 1845-1889
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George P. Fisher Papers

Identifier: MSS20636
Abstract

Public official and judge of the supreme court of the District of Columbia. Correspondence, legal papers, commissions, biographical sketches, essays, speeches, and other material relating to Fisher's legal career and other topics.

Dates 1772-1905
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Robert Garrett Family Papers

Identifier: MSS21980
Abstract

Garrett family of Baltimore, Md. Family members represented include Robert Garrett, railroad official, financier, and merchant, and his son John W. Garrett, railroad official and financier. Correspondence, business documents, and other papers relating to mercantile affairs in Baltimore, Maryland, and to Robert Garrett & Sons and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.

Dates 1778-1925; Majority of material found within ( 1830-1863)
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Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough Papers

Identifier: MSS23044
Abstract

Naval officer. Correspondence, military records, financial papers, printed material, illustrations, and other papers concerning Goldsborough's career in the United States Navy.

Dates 1797-1874
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Ulysses S. Grant Papers

Identifier: MSS23333
Abstract

United States president and army officer. General and family correspondence, speeches, reports, messages, manuscript of Grant’s memoirs (1885), military records, financial and legal records, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, memorabilia, and miscellaneous papers relating to Grant’s career in the military, politics, and government.

Dates 1819-1974; Majority of material found within 1843-1885
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William Hamilton Papers

Identifier: MSS24646
Abstract Correspondence of the Hamilton family, primarily of brothers, John Hamilton, Texas pioneer and soldier; and of William Hamilton, lawyer and soldier. Letters of John Hamilton are addressed to his mother, Rosanna Boyd Hamilton, and other family members from his home in Zavala, Texas. William Hamilton's letters were written primarily during his service as a private in Company D, 2nd Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves, U.S. Army of the Potomac, to his mother, Rosanna Boyd Hamilton, in Harrisburg,...
Dates 1838-1896; Majority of material found within 1862-1865
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Samuel Peter Heintzelman Papers

Identifier: MSS25676
Abstract

Union army officer. Correspondence, diaries, journals, and military papers detailing Heintzelman’s service in the United States Army from his years at the United States Military Academy through the Civil War. Includes descriptions of activities in conflicts with Native American groups in Florida, the Southwest, and California, and during the Mexican War.

Dates 1822-1913; Majority of material found within 1850-1865
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Thomas Sidney Jesup Papers

Identifier: MSS27789
Abstract

Army officer and quartermaster general. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, reports, essays, family papers, financial records, journals, maps, photographs, printed matter, and miscellaneous items relating to various military campaigns and to Jesup's career as quartermaster general of the army.

Dates 1780-1907
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Humphrey Marshall Papers

Identifier: MSS85411
Abstract

Lawyer, army officer, United States representative from Kentucky, and Confederate States of America representative from Virginia. Correspondence, diaries, financial and legal papers, notes, speeches, writings, printed matter and other material relating chiefly to Humphrey Marshall's activities as a lawyer, soldier, and politician.

Dates 1771-2002; Majority of material found within ( 1846-1856)
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George Brinton McClellan Papers

Identifier: MSS31898
Abstract

Army officer and governor of New Jersey. Correspondence, diaries, military papers, memoranda, telegrams, notes, writings, printed copies of speeches, articles, and books relating primarily to McClellan's Civil War service, particularly the Yorktown and Maryland campaigns.

Dates 1783-1898; Majority of material found within 1850-1885
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Frank Ross McCoy Papers

Identifier: MSS31989
Abstract

Army officer. General and family correspondence, diaries, military and subject files, notebooks, dispatch books, speeches and writings, financial papers, scrapbooks, and other material pertaining chiefly to McCoy’s military career and to various diplomatic assignments.

Dates 1847-1957; Majority of material found within 1892-1954
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Louis McLane Correspondence

Identifier: MSS57083
Abstract

Lawyer, U.S. representative and senator from Delaware, diplomat, and cabinet officer. Correspondence primarily between McLane and members of his family relating to social life in Washington, D.C., his diplomatic duties, and national and congressional politics.

Dates 1795-1894; Majority of material found within ( 1817-1855)
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John McLean Papers

Identifier: MSS32326
Abstract

U.S. representative from Ohio, U.S. postmaster general, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and Ohio Supreme Court associate justice. Correspondence, financial data, docket book, printed matter, a file of reports, opinions and briefs arranged by case name, and other papers relating to McLean’s service as postmaster general and Supreme Court justice.

Dates 1816-1866; Majority of material found within 1829-1860
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William Medill Papers

Identifier: MSS32524
Abstract

Lawyer, United States representative and governor of Ohio, and United States government official. Correspondence, account books, and miscellaneous material primarily relating to Medill’s service as assistant postmaster general (1845), commissioner of Indian affairs (1845-1850), and first comptroller of the United States treasury (1857-1861).

Dates 1834-1864
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Franklin Pierce Papers

Identifier: MSS36194
Abstract

President of the United States, U.S. representative and senator from New Hampshire, and lawyer. Correspondence, diary kept by Pierce while serving in the Mexican war, writings including drafts of Pierce's messages to Congress, and an engraved portrait.

Dates 1820-1869
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Ninian Pinkney Papers

Identifier: MSS50062
Abstract

Naval surgeon. Correspondence, speeches, articles, and notes relating mainly to Pinkney's surgical cases in Peru, his observations on the Mexican War and Civil War, his plan to reorganize the Army Medical Corps, and his interest in politics.

Dates 1822-1913; Majority of material found within ( 1840-1870)