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Joseph E. Johnston papers, (bulk 1861-1865)

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    Joseph Hooker military papers

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    Correspondence, orders, reports, dispatches, reconnaissance reports, and other military documents accumulated by Hooker's headquarters from October 1861 through September 1864. Included are papers relating to the battles of Antietam and Chancellorsville. There are no items for the four months from October 1862 through January 1863.

    mssHooker

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    Brock Collection: Papers of Francis Harrison Pierpont, (bulk 1861-1868)

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    Correspondence accumulated by Pierpont during his gubernatorial service, chiefly received by his office in 1861-1868. Included are letters, communications, dispatches, etc. from Federal government and military agencies, petitions, applications, letters of recommendations, etc..$bAlso included are a few personal letters addressed to Pierpont, an article on the history of West Virginia, by Edmund Pendleton of Martinsburg, W. Va., and Pierpont's autobiographical sketches (1883). Correspondence include James S. Wheat, Ephraim Benoni Hall, and Peter Godwin Van Winkle

    mssBR Box 155

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    Jeb Stuart military papers, (bulk 1862-1863)

    Manuscripts

    A collection of 267 items from 1855 to 1864, which contains communications, letters, reports, general and special orders, petitions, addresses to the troops, and other military records accumulated by Stuart during his Civil War service; the bulk of the papers covers 1862 and 1863. Correspondents include Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Joseph Eggleston Johnston, James Longstreet, and others. Also included in the collection are a few pre-war documents.

    mssSA

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    Mansfield Lovell papers, (bulk 1862-1865)

    Manuscripts

    A collection of 422 items from 1835 to 1886, it consists of military, personal, and family papers of Mansfield Lovell. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence, dispatches, communications, reports, and other military records accumulated by Lovell during his military career, particularly his command of Department No. 1. Correspondents include Judah P. Benjamin, Johnson K. Duncan, Joseph E. Johnston, and others. Also included are Lovell's letter books, special and general order books, and items relating to Lovell's Court of Inquiry. The collection also includes a group of manuscripts dealing with Lovell's Mexican War experience, including his journals from 1848 to 1849, correspondence, memoranda, and other items. Personal and family papers include letters to Mansfield Lovell from his brother Joseph Lovell written from Yale, Williams College, Poughkeepsie Collegiate School, and elsewhere from 1836 to 1847, Lovell's valedictory address at West Point, notes on travel in Virginia, New York, and Canada from 1842 to1843, correspondence between Mansfield Lovell and Emily Plympton Lovell from 1862 to 1863, and miscellaneous papers dealing with the family property.

    mssML

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    Lewis T. Pim papers, (bulk 1861-1885)

    Manuscripts

    Military and professional papers of Lewis T. Pim, chiefly special orders, commissions, communications, circulars, etc., with a few personal letters, documenting his Civil War and post-war career. Correspondents include John C. Breckenridge, Simon Bolivar Buckner, D. H. Maury, G.T. Beauregard, and J. E. Johnston. The correspondence also includes letters from Edwin Samuel Gaillard (1827-1885), a fellow Confederate veteran and the dean of Louisville Medical College.

    mssPim papers

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    McKelvy family papers, (bulk 1861-1910)

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    Miscellaneous personal, professional, and business papers of Col. Samuel McKelvy, Samuel McKelvey, Jr., Jerome A. Quay, and other family members. Included are some letters written during the Civil War by Col. McKelvy, his children Samuel McKelvy, Jr. Hugh Roden McKelvy, and Marion Pride McKelvy Quay; dispatches, communications, and other official correspondence received by Col. McKelvy during his service as U.S. Marshall, and personal letters of various members of the extended McKelvy family and the related families of Pride, Quay, and Franks

    mssMcKelvy