John Page Nicholson papers and Civil War collection

John Page Nicholson's collection of Civil War manuscripts. Included are items created during the war - official reports, dispatches, communications, soldiers' letters, diaries, maps, etc., and manuscripts written after the war, such as veterans' memoirs, regimental histories, poems, copies of war diaries, etc. Included are Nicholson's own Civil War letters and a typescript copy of the diary that he kept during his military service. Also included are correspondence and papers accumulated by Nicholson during his work on the translation of Comte de Paris' book, his service with the Legion of Honor and his work for the Board of Commissioners on Gettysburg Monument.

Materials created by U.S. presidents include: James A. Garfield autograph letter signed to E.B. Andrews, 1863 April 14 (NI 68); Ulysses S. Grant, Oxford, Mississippi, autograph letter signed to John C. Pemberton, 1862 December 5 (NI 755); Ulysses S. Grant, before Vicksburg, autograph letter signed to John C. Pemberton, 1863 March 2 (NI 756); Ulysses S. Grant, Culpeper, autograph note signed to Edward Davis Townsend, 1864 April 18 (NI 1); Rutherford B. Hayes autograph letters signed to John Page Nicholson, 1885 April 25, 1889 March 1, 1890 May 27 (NI 797, NI 798, NI 209); William H. Taft, New Haven, typescript letters signed to John Page Nicholson, 1913 (NI 923-925). Items NI 1, NI 68, and NI 209 are in A Collection of Autograph Letters and Notes of the General Officers in the Service of the United States, 1861-1865 (Philadelphia: John Page Nicholson, 1896), volumes 1 and 3.