Manuscripts

Thomas Sumner Greene papers, (bulk 1863-1866)

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Description: Military records, mostly pertaining to the 47th Regiment of Colored Infantry including military orders, muster rolls, invoices, commissions, receipts, and certificates. Also, a character sketch and a letter of recommendation for Thomas Sumner Green, a typescript of My recollections of the Civil War, written by Thomas Sumner Greene in 1917, and letters to his parents from Tennessee and Louisiana, September 1862 to April 1865. One letter is written on the verso of a copy of the Selma Federal Union, the first Union newspaper printed in Selma, Alabama, 1850 April 28.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1854-1917.
Call number: mssGreene
Creator: Greene, Thomas Sumner (1842-approximately 1917)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Acquired from Jack R. Brown, October 1969.; Gift of Isabelle Greene, March 1997.

Montgomery Slaughter papers, (bulk 1862-1863)

Manuscripts

Letters and communications from Rufus King, Edwin Vose Sumner, and other Union military authorities received by Montgomery Slaughter during the Union occupation of Fredericksburg in Apr. - Dec. 1862 and letters about contributions made by various communities of the Confederate States to the citizens of Fredericksburg in Jan. - Mar. 1863.

mssHM 37813-37862

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Charles Sumner papers

Manuscripts

Primarily letters from Charles Sumner to Elizabeth Georgiana (Leveson-Gower) Campbell, Duchess of Argyll regarding relations of the United States with Great Britain and British opinion of the Civil War; letters also discuss Reconstruction and Andrew Johnson.

mssHM 51903-51972

E. V. Sumner Maj. Genl. U.S.A

Visual Materials

Image of a full-length portrait of American Civil War Union Major General Edwin Vose Sumner seated on horseback in military uniform, landscape visible in background.

priJLC_MIL_002396

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Charles A. Sumner letter to Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro

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Sumner writes of the 1862 efforts of Jacob Beideman of "defending his large real estate property rights in this city by a newspaper," and describes the results. Sumer writes of the political efforts of his group: "We saved every homestead in the city" from what he calls "an organized party of scoundrels; chief among them were the newspaper manipulators." With a brief printed biography of Sumner.

mssHM 26264

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Charles Sumner Senate Chamber protest manuscript

Manuscripts

Protest and second protest (upon being requested to appear before a Committee appointed by the Senate to investigate the sale of Arms to France) against the formation and constitution of the Committee as contrary to Parliamentiary Law, autograph manuscript with portions in hand of a clerk. Bound with portrait of Sumner. (32 pages).

mssHM 788

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Charles Sumner correspondence

Manuscripts

Letters from Charles Sumner to Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson-Gower Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, American sculptor and writer William Wetmore Story, and others, concerning the relations of the United States with Great Britain and British opinion of the Civil War; national politics in the years immediately preceding, during and after the war, President Andrew Johnson, travels in England, France, and Italy, and law and literature.

mssHM 25934-25991

Thomas Sumner Greene papers, (bulk 1863-1866)

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