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Jonathan D. Dunlap papers

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Description: The collection includes three volumes and miscellaneous papers, notes, letters, and receipts. One volume contains the constitution and by-laws and meeting proceedings of the Associated Veterans of the Mexican War, but the majority of the collection, including one letter book and one docket, is related to Dunlap's work as Deputy Marshal and deals with land problems, especially related to railroads, civil cases, legal papers, arrests, his expenses, and other matters related to his official duties. Some of the correspondence in the letter book talks about silver mines and mining. B. B. Redding, land agent for the Central Pacific Railroad Company, and Jerome Madden, land agent for the Southern Pacific Railroad Company are addressees of several letters by Dunlap. The receipts are for expenses related to Associated Veterans of the Mexican War sponsored events including a funeral for Captain J. D. Hunter.
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Production date: 1870-1890.
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Jonathan D. Hale papers

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The voluminous correspondence, notebooks, affidavits, eyewitness testimonies, and published pamphlets of the family of Jonathan D. Hale contain a wealth of previously unknown information about the Civil War in Tennessee and Kentucky, including the organization of Unionist communities; women's contributions to the war effort; guerrilla warfare; the fate of Unionists' slaves; Reconstruction in East Tennessee and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan; and complicated and bitter politics of veterans' affairs in the wake of the Civil War. The letters, orders, reports, and communications written during Hale's services with General George H. Thomas (1816–1870) is a unique resource for historians of Civil War civilian scouts and guides, a topic that remains largely unexplored. The papers of Jonathan Davis Hale and Pheroba Ann Chilton Hale chiefly contain correspondence between husband and wife, 1850s-1890s, concentrated 1861-1870. Includes 88 letters from Pheroba to Jonathan, 1862-1865; 12 letters from Pheroba to Jonathan, 1869-1870, detailing problems at the Mill after Jonathan fled the Klan; 62 letters from Jonathan to Pheroba; Jonathan's notebook, 1864-1872; 40 pages of memoranda and correspondence of Hale, 1862-1865, as General Thomas' Chief Scout; another Hale notebook containing signed testimonial statements and other commentary from those injured, charging as guerrillas, Champ Ferguson, Galen Elliott and Henry Sublett, 1865; plus other war related material including unrecorded pamphlets, etc, 1872-1892. There are also letters by General William S. Rosecrans as well as the Ku Klux Klan (threatening Hale's life for his role in Champ Ferguson's death). Other subjects include: Ulysses S. Grant, scouts and spies in the Civil War, etc.

mssJDH 1-377

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Jonathan B. Labrant papers

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Correspondence between Jonathan Labrant and his wife Mary Melissa and his parents and siblings (chiefly between 1862 and 1864), miscellaneous letters addressed to the Labrants, photographs and documents. One letter is in German. Jonathan Labrant's Civil War letters cover his service in Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas, including encouters with fugitive slaves, "black rebels," and Confederacy sympathizers, and discuss military actions, camp life - rations, inspections, drills, etc., recruiting in Illinois in 1863, and war news. His correspondence with other veterans of the 58th Regiment includes discussions of the history of the regiment and current political affairs. His wife's letters give updates on friends and family, local news, and describe challenges faced by a young mother running a household.

mssHM 73100-73223

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Hale, J. D. (Jonathan D.). Statement

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JDH 117

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Hale, J. D. (Jonathan D.). Petition

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JDH 103

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Account with J. D. (Jonathan D.) Hale

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JDH 335

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Griffin, A. Letter to J. D. (Jonathan D.) Hale

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JDH 32

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