Manuscripts

1861-1934

Description: Letters, orders, communications, dispatches, and other military records accumulated by William Ladew from 1857 to 1862. Also included are some family records and newspaper clippings dating from 1862 to 1934.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1826-1934.
Call number: mssLadew
Creator: Ladew, William (1823-1880)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Edward Ladew, February 1984.
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1859-1861

Manuscripts

Letters, orders, communications, dispatches, and other military records accumulated by William Ladew from 1857 to 1862. Also included are some family records and newspaper clippings dating from 1862 to 1934.

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1857-1859

Manuscripts

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William Ladew papers

Manuscripts

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1850-1861 October

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.

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1861 November-1862 February

Manuscripts

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1861-1862

Manuscripts

Collection includes correspondence, dispatches, communications, and other military documents received by David D. Porter during his command of the Union's Mississippi River Squadron during the U.S. Civil War from November 1862 to April 1864. Also included are telegrams to and from Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles and his assistant, Gustavus Vasa Fox, and a few postwar documents concerning naval affairs. Two contemporary copies of Ulysses S. Grant letters are present in the collection: Grant to Salmon P. Chase (enclosure of William P. Mellen letter to Stephen G. Hicks, 1863 December 4), 1863 September 26 (PR 194) and Grant to William P. Mellen, 1863 November 16 (PR 197).

mssPR

1861-1934

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