Manuscripts

James M. McClintock collection

Description: A collection of documents, letters, journals, and photographs related to James M. McClintock. The military documents include general and special orders and reports pertaining to the operation of the Signal Corps in Kentucky, Mississippi, and Georgia and McClintock's military career. Also included are official letters received by McClintock from 1862 to 1864; correspondents include William Tecumseh Sherman and Oliver Otis Howard. There is also a fair copy of a two-volume journal that McClintock kept from 1861 to 1869; the journal contains brief daily entries describing weather, locale, and troop movements. The first volume includes the muster roll of Company F of 51st Regiment of Ohio Infantry. Also, a historical sketch by William Ware dealing with McClintock's service with General Sherman at Savannah, Georgia, in December 1864. The photographs in the collection are of McClintock and other members the U.S. Signal Corps.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1861-1909
Call number: mssMcClint
Creator: McClintock, James M(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Maxwell Hunley, 1959.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.
Associated people: Howard, O. O. (1830-1909,); Sherman, William T. (1820-1891,)
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James M. McClintock collection

Manuscripts

A collection of documents, letters, journals, and photographs related to James M. McClintock. The military documents include general and special orders and reports pertaining to the operation of the Signal Corps in Kentucky, Mississippi, and Georgia and McClintock's military career. Also included are official letters received by McClintock from 1862 to 1864; correspondents include William Tecumseh Sherman and Oliver Otis Howard. There is also a fair copy of a two-volume journal that McClintock kept from 1861 to 1869; the journal contains brief daily entries describing weather, locale, and troop movements. The first volume includes the muster roll of Company F of 51st Regiment of Ohio Infantry. Also, a historical sketch by William Ware dealing with McClintock's service with General Sherman at Savannah, Georgia, in December 1864. The photographs in the collection are of McClintock and other members the U.S. Signal Corps.

mssMcClint

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Edward D. Tuttle letters to James H. McClintock

Manuscripts

The collection consists of 21 pieces of correspondence, including nine Civil War letters and nine letters between Tuttle and two early State Historians of Arizona, James McClintock and George Kelly. The collection also includes one manuscript of Tuttle's reminiscences of the Civil War and the early years of the Arizona Territory.

mssHM 26562-26584

Siege of Atlanta, Gen. Sherman and staff inspecting batteries

Visual Materials

Image of General William T. Sherman and other officers inspecting batteries during the siege of Atlanta, Georgia, in the summer of 1864 during the American Civil War; dead man at bottom right.

priJLC_PRG_002014

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Brock Collection: Papers of James Miles Moore, (bulk 1863-1865)

Manuscripts

Official correspondence and documents, chiefly referring to requisitions for stores: for stoves and fuel, office supplies and equipment, building materials, and the sale of government buildings. Many of the letters are addressed to Daniel Henry Rucker, Chief Quartermaster of the Washington Depot, or bear his endorsements. Included are letters regarding supplies for Freedmens' Hospital, Army Medical Museum, National Baseball club, and U.S. Burial Corps

mssBR Box 121 (2)

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Joel B. Clough Collection of United States Military Railroad Photographs / (bulk approximately 1863-approximately 1864)

Visual Materials

Collection of photographs depicting Union railroad engineering projects in Virginia during the Civil War from 1863-1864, given to Captain J. B. Clough on his retirement from the construction corps of the United States Union Army. The photographs were taken by Andrew J. Russell. Of particular note are views of bridge and railroad constructions in Alexandria, Fort Davis, Manassas, Culpeper, Potomac Creek, Bull Run, Fredericksburg, as well as images of wharfs, town views, military convalescent camps, soldiers, and the deck and sailors of the Russian frigate "Osliaba." The collection also includes a pen-and-ink drawing on board, with hand-colored lettering, entitled: "A Testimonial to Joel B. Clough from the Members of the Construction Corps, U.S. Military R. Rds of VA., dated December, 1864." The "Testimonial" is illustrated with several Civil War scenes drawn by artist William M. Merrick. The collection also includes a brass-handled walking stick inscribed to Joel B. Clough on the occasion of his birthday from the City Eng[inee]r Corps, 1874.

photCL 301

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McClintock, James H

Manuscripts

Professional and personal papers of Otis R. Marston and his collection of the materials on the history of Colorado River and Green River regions.

mssMarston papers

James M. McClintock collection

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