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Lovel Newton Parker papers, (bulk 1862-1865)
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Mansfield Lovell papers, (bulk 1862-1865)
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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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William T. Sherman papers, (bulk 1862-1865)
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Collection of Sherman's military, political, and personal correspondence, chiefly covering the Civil War. Included is a group of Sherman's letters to David Dixon Porter and individual letters and communications addressed to Ulysses S. Grant, George H. Thomas, Joseph Dana Webster, and others, concerning the Yazoo Expedition, March to the Sea and the occupation of Savannah. Also included are a few orders, including Sherman's draft of Farewell Address to the Armies of Tennessee and Georgia, and some post-war correspondence, including individual letters to Andrew Jackson, Horatio King, John Sherman, and others.
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John C. Lockwood papers, (bulk 1920-1925)
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The three volumes of manuscript memoirs cover John Lockwood's life as a gold miner, member of the U.S. 7th cavalry regiment, employee of the Hudson's Bay Company, and stagecoach driver in Utah and California. There are eleven pieces of correspondence, which are between Lockwood and various people regarding military pensions and the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Little Bighorn; the other authors are Elizabeth Custer, Senator Peter Norbeck, and Representative Harold Knutson. The group also includes 23 pieces of ephemera including 58 newspaper clippings about the Battle of Little Bighorn and its anniversary celebration. Subjects covered are: National Indian War Veterans, coaching in the southwest, Comanche the horse, the Crow, Sioux, Cheyenne, and Nez Percé Indians, gold mining in the Black Hills, military veterans, Montana and South Dakota. Persons covered are: George Crook, George Custer, Chief Gall, Chief Joseph, Nelson Miles, Rain in the Face, Marcus Reno, army scout Charley Reynolds, Sitting Bull, Samuel Sturgis, and Alfred Terry
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Ely Samuel Parker papers, (bulk 1832-1894)
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A collection of 135 items from 1802 to 1894, it consists of correspondence, documents, and manuscripts of Ely Samuel Parker relating to Native American affairs and personal matters; also included are papers of Parker's brother, Nicholson Henry Parker. The material covers many subjects including Seneca Indians of Western New York; Native American political and cultural affairs; the removal of Native Americans to lands west of the Mississippi; protests against emigration; Schermerhorn's exploring party; The Treaty of 1838 and the Amending Treaty; and the opposition and repudiation by the Senecas. The collection also includes material on the Seneca Mission Station on Buffalo Creek and studies in the Seneca language; a list of Native Americans of the Six Nations who took part in the War of 1812; a dictionary of the Seneca language; and a census of Seneca Indians, 1855 to 1857. In addition, there are Ely Samuel Parker's school compositions, chiefly about Native American life and culture, and confidential correspondence with Mrs. Harriet Maxwell Converse, American folklorist and historian of the Iroquois.
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Francis B. Harris papers, (bulk 1862-1864)
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The small collection contains diaries, letters, documents, and a cabinet photograph of Francis B. and Margaret Harris, taken in Long Beach before 1908. Harris's diaries and letters, mostly to his wife, Margaret, cover the entire period of his military service in Maryland and Virginia, including accounts of the battles of Chancellorsville, Bristoe Station, Mine Run Campaign, and the 1864 Overland Virginia campaign, as well as his extended stay at Lincoln Hospital in Washington, D.C., in the summer of 1863. The documents include Harris's military and pension records, a certificate of the Grand Army of the Republic, and a list of soldiers in Upper Pittsgrove, New Jersey, written by Harris in June 1866. Accompanying the collection are some transcripts of parts of the collection, and related material, done by a national park service employee that had access to the original material.
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Jeb Stuart military papers, (bulk 1862-1863)
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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.
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