Manuscripts

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

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Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1838-1888.
Call number: mssPim papers
Creator: Pim, Lewis T (1828-1888)(Opens in new tab)
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Portraits of Civil War military officers and other individuals

Visual Materials

Consists of 167 photographs including copy prints, cabinet cards, and carte-de-visites. Sitters include both Confederate and Union supporters. Notable portrait sitters are Alexander Sandor Asboth, Henry Watkins Allen, Edward Dickinson Baker, Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard (P.G.T. Beauregard), John Cabell Breckenridge, Simon Bolivar Buckner, Ambrose Everett Burnside, Benjamin Franklin Butler, Jefferson Davis, Abram Duryée, David Glasgow Farragut, Jessie Benton Frémont, Ulysses S. Grant, Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Henry Wager Halleck, David Hunter, Philip Kearny, Henry Warner Slocum, Edmund Kirby-Smith, James Henry Lane, Robert Edward Lee, Berian Magoffin, James King Fenno Mansfield, Matthew Fontaine Maury, Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel, George Brinton McClellan, Matthew Calbraith Perry, Gustavus Woodson Smith, Edwin McMasters Stanton, George Stoneman, William Lowndes Yancey. Photographers include Matthew Brady and Edward Anthony.

photPF 2495-2619

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Lewis N.T. Allen papers addenda, (bulk 1861-1865)

Manuscripts

This small group of material consists of one furlough certificate, special order no. 46 by James Oakes, five tintypes, a book catalog, and a printed booklet entitled Diary of a Union Soldier transcribed by Ralph Arthur Allen. There are two small diaries kept by Lewis N.T. Allen, written in pencil. The first diary spans from August 1, 1861 through September 8. The second diary spans from August 1, 1863 through August 13, 1864.

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Christian T. Christensen papers

Manuscripts

A collection of personal correspondence of Christian T. Christensen, chiefly letters addressed to him. Included are letters received by Christensen on the occasion of his retirement from the Army in June 1865, a few official communications and personal letters received by Christensen during his war service, and a telegram from James T. Holtzclaw negotiating the surrender of Mobile, Alabama (April 1865). The post-war correspondence includes letters from Eunice Ward Beecher and Henry Ward Beecher, Lyman Abbott, William Tecumseh Sherman, and others, chiefly concerning his charity work and Civil War experience. Also included are Christensen's military commissions and other documents, an address entitled "Women's influence" that Christensen delivered at the Working Women's Club on November 10, 1887, and a letter soliciting donations for the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute signed by Booker T. Washington (1904).

mssHM 50580-50642

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Lewis, Charlton T. (Charlton Thomas), 1834-1904 letters to Charlton Miner Lewis, 1866-1923, (1885-1888)

Manuscripts

This collection consists of the correspondence of clergyman, scholar, insurance counsel and prison reformer, Charlton T. Lewis (1834-1904), of West Chester, Pennsylvania, New York City, NY, and Morristown, New Jersey. Also includes correspondence from the family of his wife, Nancy Dunlap McKeen of Brunswick, Maine, dated 1797-1915.

mssLewisc

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Lewis, Charlton Miner, 1866-1923 letters to Charlton T. (Charlton Thomas) Lewis, 1834-1904, (1880-1885)

Manuscripts

mssLewisc

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Lewis, Joseph Jackson, 1801-1883 letters to Charlton T. (Charlton Thomas) Lewis, 1834-1904, (1861-1883)

Manuscripts

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

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