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Confederate States of America
A Register of Its Records in the Library of Congress        



Prepared by Manuscript Division staff 
Revised and expanded by Patrick Kerwin with the assistance of Ahmed-Jahmal Johnson 
2003
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress 
Washington, D.C.
Contact information: http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/mss/address.html
Finding aid encoded by Library of Congress 
Manuscript Division, 2003


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Collection Summary

Title:    Records of the Confederate States of America , 1854 - 1889 (bulk 1861 - 1865 ) 
ID No.:    MSS16550 
Creator: Confederate States of America 
Extent:    18,500 items ; 124 containers plus 2 oversize ; 28 linear feet ; 71 microfilm
reels 
Repository:    Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 
Abstract:    Correspondence, proclamations, messages of the president, court cases,
minute books, docket books, customs records, financial records, letterbooks, orders,
reports, and other records of the Confederate Department of Justice, Department of State,
Department of the Treasury, Post Office Department, Navy Department, and War
Department. Includes Confederate constitutional documents and the James Wolcott
Wadsworth collection of diplomatic correspondence and letters of Raphael Semmes.

Selected Search Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
Library's online catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject
or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically therein. 
Names:
Confederate States of America 
Baker, Bolling--Correspondence. 
Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893--Correspondence 
Benjamin, J. P. (Judah Philip), 1811-1884--Correspondence 
Clay, C. C. (Clement Claiborne), 1816-1882--Correspondence 
Conger, Lewis--Correspondence 
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889--Correspondence 
DeLeon, Edwin, 1828-1891--Correspondence 
Guirot, Anthony J.--Correspondence 
Helm, Charles J.--Correspondence 
Heyliger, Lewis--Correspondence 
Hotze, Henry, 1833-1887--Correspondence 
Lamar, L. Q. C. (Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus), 1825-1893--Correspondence 
Mann, A. Dudley (Ambrose Dudley), 1801-1889--Correspondence 
Mason, J. M. (James Murray), 1798-1871--Correspondence 
Memminger, C. G. (Christopher Gustavus), 1803-1888--Correspondence 
Pickett, John T. (John Thomas), 1822-1884--Correspondence 
Quintero, John A.--Correspondence 
Reagan, John H. (John Henninger), 1818-1905--Correspondence 
Semmes, Raphael, 1809-1877--Correspondence 
Slidell, John, 1793-1871--Correspondence 
Stephens, Alexander Hamilton, 1812-1883--Correspondence 
Thompson, Jacob, 1810-1885--Correspondence 
Trescott, William Henry, b. 1822--Correspondence 
Walker, Leroy Pope, 1817-1884--Correspondence 
Yancey, William Lowndes, 1814-1863--Correspondence 
Confederate States of America. Army. Army of Tennessee--Surgeons 
Confederate States of America. Congress 
Confederate States of America. Constitution 
Wadsworth, James Wolcott, 1846-1926. James Wolcott Wadsworth collection 
Confederate States of America. Dept. of Justice. Records of the Confederate States of
America. Dept. of Justice 
Confederate States of America. Dept. of State. Records of the Confederate States of
America. Dept. of State 
Confederate States of America. Dept. of the Treasury. Records of the Confederate States
of America. Dept. of the Treasury 
Confederate States of America. Navy. Records of the Confederate States of America.
Navy 
Confederate States of America. Post-Office Dept. Records of the Confederate States of
America. Post-Office Dept. 
Confederate States of America. War Dept. Records of the Confederate States of America.
War Dept. 

Subjects:
Diplomatic and consular service, Confederate 
Executive departments--Confederate States of America 
Legislative bodies--Confederate States of America 
Belgium--Foreign relations--Confederate States of America 
Confederate States of America--Foreign relations--Belgium 
Confederate States of America--Foreign relations--France 
Confederate States of America--Foreign relations--Great Britain 
Confederate States of America--Foreign relations--Mexico 
Confederate States of America--Armed forces 
Confederate States of America--Officials and employees 
Confederate States of America--Politics and government 
France--Foreign relations--Confederate States of America 
Great Britain--Foreign relations--Confederate States of America 
Mexico--Foreign relations--Confederate States of America 
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 

Administrative Information
Provenance:
The records of the Confederate States of America, also known as the Pickett Papers, were
purchased by the United States in 1872 from John T. Pickett, former diplomatic agent of
the Confederacy, and transferred by the Department of the Treasury to the Library of
Congress in 1906 and 1910. Other items received by gift, purchase, or transfer also
comprise part of the collection, including approximately one hundred additions between
1898 and 1956. The James Wolcott Wadsworth Collection was given to the Library as an
addition to the records by James W. Wadsworth in 1926. The Department of the Treasury
also transferred a large group of Confederate treasury records in 1920, and in 1921, much
of the material processed as part of the War Department series was received from
descendants of Confederate officers.

Processing History:
The records of the Confederate States of America were arranged, described, and
microfilmed in 1967. The finding aid describing the collection was revised in 2001 to
include additions to the collection. State Department records are described in The
Handbook of Manuscripts in the Library of Congress (1918), pp. 70-75, and published in
part in the Official Records of Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion,
Series II, Volume 3. The Librarians Annual Reports note the arrival of other material.

Transfers:
Some photographs, lithographs, and illustrative material have been transferred to the
Library's Prints and Photographs Division where they are identified as part of these
papers.

Copyright Status:
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of the Confederate States of America
in these records and in other collections in the custody of the Library of Congress is
governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).

Microfilm:
A microfilm edition of part of these papers is available on seventy-one reels. Consult a
reference librarian in the Manuscript Division concerning availability for purchase or
interlibrary loan.

Preferred Citation:
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information:
Container or reel number, Records of the Confederate States of America, Manuscript
Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Scope and Content Note

The records of the Confederate States of America span the years 1854-1889, with the
bulk of the material concentrated in the period 1861-1865. The collection relates to the
formation of the government of the Confederacy and the conduct of its internal, external,
and military affairs. 
With few exceptions, the collection consists of official or semiofficial records generated
by departments of the Confederate government and their agents. The departments of state,
justice, treasury, navy, and war and the post office are represented, along with material
relating to the president, the congress, and the constitution.

Most numerous are the records of the Department of State containing correspondence
exchanged for most of the period between Secretary of State Judah P. Benjamin and
departmental agents and diplomats abroad, particularly those stationed in Belgium,
France, Great Britain, and Mexico. The records are supplemented by the inclusion of the
James Wolcott Wadsworth Collection of similar material. Other records of the
department relate to administrative and financial affairs, passports, pardons, appointments
to office, applications for office, and maritime and domestic affairs of the Confederacy.
As noted below, the records of the Department of State were once known as the "Pickett
Papers."

The records of the treasury and post office departments are chiefly concerned with
subordinate offices. The records of the War Department contain early correspondence of
the secretary of war, general orders, strength returns, muster rolls and quartermaster
records. Justice Department material consists of records of Confederate courts in
Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi.

Proclamations, messages, and other papers of President Jefferson Davis, acts and
resolutions of the Confederate congress, material relating to the constitution and
secession, and miscellaneous items complete the collection. A Miscellany series includes
documents relating to the state governments of Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Tennessee, and Virginia, printed and published material covering the statues and
proclamations of the Confederate government, and blank official forms.

Prior to the evacuation of Richmond, Virginia, by the Confederate government, Judah P.
Benjamin ordered the records packed in wooden cases for removal from the capital and
placed them in the custody of the chief clerk of the department, William J. Bromwell.
Bromwell hid the records of in a barn near Charlotte, North Carolina.Following a quarrel
with Benjamin, Bromwell disclosed the location of the records to John T. Pickett, who
had been a Confederate agent in Mexico and whose personal papers are also in the
Library of Congress. Pickett sold the records to the United States in 1872 for
$75,000. Among the nearly one hundred additions was the transfer in 1920 of a
group of Confederate treasury records from the United States Treasury Department. In
1921, much material now in the War Department series was received from descendants of
Confederate officers. The series entitled Additions consists of several miscellaneous
groups of records formerly organized under separate headings. The material consists
chiefly of Confederate financial bonds.

Correspondence of many of the leading officials of the Confederate States appears in the
records. In addition to the dominant figure, Secretary of State Judah P. Benjamin, other
correspondents include Bolling Baker, G. T. Beauregard, Clement C. Clay, Lewis
Conger, Jefferson Davis, Edwin DeLeon, Anthony J. Guirot, Charles J. Helm, Lewis
Heyliger, Henry Hotze, L. Q. C. Lamar, A. Dudley Mann, James M. Mason, Christopher
G. Memminger, John T. Pickett, John A. Quintero, John H. Reagan, Raphael Semmes,
John Slidell, Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Jacob Thompson, William H. Trescott,
LeRoy P. Walker, and William Lowndes Yancey.

Organization of the Papers
The collection is arranged in eleven series:

Department of State, 1859-1868, n.d. 
Executive and Legislative Branches of the Confederacy, 1861-1865 
Confederate Constitutional Documents, 1861-1883 
Department of Justice, 1860-1867 
Department of the Treasury, 1860-1865 
Post Office Department, 1861-1865 
War Department, 1861-1865, n.d. 
Navy Department, 1861-1865 
Miscellany, 1858-1872, n.d. 
Additions, 1854-1889, n.d. 
Oversize, 1862-1863, n.d.

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Container List
            
 Available on microfilm. Shelf no. 13,744 

 

BOX 1-65 
REEL 1-35 Department of State, 1859 - 1868 , n.d.  

 
 
BOX 1-7 
REEL 1-7 Diplomatic Missions, 1861 - 1868 , n.d.  
 
Correspondence, instructions, dispatches, and related material exchanged between the
Department of State and its representatives to other nations.  
 Arranged by locality and chronologically therein. Listings of the principal commissioners
are given where applicable.
 
 
BOX 1  
REEL 1 Washington, 1861  
 Forsyth, John  
 Pickett, John T.  
 Virginia, Alexander Hamilton Stephens, 1861  
 Great Britain  
 1861-1863  
 Fearn, Walker  
 Huger, Benjamin  
 MacFarland, J. E.  
 Mann, A. Dudley  
 Mason, James M.  
 Rost, Pierre A.  
 Slidell, John  
 Trescott, William H.  
 Yancey, William Lowndes  
 
BOX 2  
REEL 2 1861-1864  
 Mason, James M.  
 Spence, James  
 
BOX 3  
REEL 3 France, 1861-1864  
 Thouvenel, M.  
 Slidell, John  
 
BOX 4  
REEL 4 Belgium, 1861-1864  
 Davis, Jefferson  
 Mann, A. Dudley  
 Pius IX, Pope  
 Spain, Pierre A. Rost, 1861-1864  
 Papal States, P. N. Lynch, 1864  
 Mexico  
 1861-1862, John T. Pickett  
 
BOX 5  
REEL 5-6 1861-1868, John T. Pickett  
 1861-1862, John T. Pickett  
 
BOX 7  
REEL 7 1862-1865  
 Cripps, John S.  
 Preston, William  
 Ricken, Charles  
 Russia, Lucius Q. C. Lamar, 1863  

 
 
BOX 7-17 
REEL 7-10 Consular and Other Missions, 1861 - 1865 , n.d.  
 
Correspondence, instructions, dispatches, and related material exchanged between the
Department of State and Confederate officials and agents in foreign countries.  
 Arranged by locality and chronologically therein. Listings of the principal officials and
agents are given where applicable.
 
 
BOX 7  
REEL 7 Locality  
 Canada, 1864  
 Clay, Clement C.  
 Dawson, George  
 Holcombe, James P.  
 Lee, E. G.  
 Thompson, Jacob  
 Cork, Ireland, Robert Dowling, 1863-1864  
 Fort Brown, Tex., 1862  
 Havana, Cuba, 1861-1864  
 Helm, Charles J.  
 Magruder, J. B.  
 Pickett, John T.  
 Ireland, 1863-1864, n.d.  
 Bannon, John  
 Capstan, James L.  
 Hotze, Henry  
 Lalor, James F.  
 Italy, Dudley A. Mann, 1861-1862  
 London, England, Henry Hotze, 1862-1864  
 
BOX 8  
REEL 8 Matamoras, Mexico, 1862-1864  
 Avengo, Bernard  
 Fitzpatrick, Richard  
 Heyliger, Lewis  
 Slidell, John  
 Nassau and New Providence, Lewis Heyleiger, 1862-1864  
 New Leon and Coahuila, Mexico, John A. Quintero, 1861-1864, n.d.  
 
BOX 9  
REEL 9 Paris, France, 1862-1864  
 DeLeon, Edwin  
 McRae, Colin  
 St. George's, Bermuda, Norman J. Walker, 1863-1864  
 Vera Cruz, Mexico, Emile LaSere, 1864  
 Miscellaneous translations, John Slidell, n.d.  
 Keys to the Confederate ciphers, n.d.  
 Special personal instructions to all agents, n.d.  
 
BOX 10  
REEL 10 Special commissions issued to agents, 1861-1865  
 
BOX 11  
REEL 10 Instructions and dispatches, 1862-1865  
 Agents  
 Avengo, Bernard  
 DeLeon, Edwin  
 Dowling, Robert  
 Fitzpatrick, Richard  
 Helm, Charles J.  
 Hotze, Henry  
 LaSere, Emile  
 Quintero, John A.  
 Walker, Norman J.  
 
BOX 12  
REEL 10 Cuba, 1861-1862  
 Great Britain, 1861-1862  
 France, 1861-1862  
 Mexico, 1861-1862  
 
BOX 13  
REEL 10 Russia, Lucius Q. C. Lamar, 1862-1864  
 
BOX 14  
REEL 10 Great Britain, 1862-1864  
 Holcombe, James P.  
 Mason, James M.  
 
BOX 15  
REEL 10 France, 1862-1864  
 Slidell, John  
 
BOX 16  
REEL 10 Belgium, A. Dudley Mann, 1862-1864  
 
BOX 17  
REEL 10 Mexico, John A. Quintero, 1862-1864  
 Papal States, P. N. Lynch, 1862-1864  
 Spain, Pierre A. Rost, 1862-1864  

 
 
BOX 18 
REEL 11 Foreign Consulates, 1861 - 1864 , n.d.  
 
Correspondence and other related material with diplomatic representatives of foreign
nations.  
 Arranged alphabetically by name of country and chronologically therein.
 
 
BOX 18  
REEL 11 Austria, 1862-1864  
 Belgium, 1862-1864  
 Bremen, 1862  
 France, 1861-1864  
 La Question Americaine  
 Translations, Alfred Paul  
 Great Britain, 1861-1864, n.d.  
 Italy, 1861-1864  
 Netherlands, 1863  
 Prussia, 1864  
 Spain, 1861-1864  
 Miscellany  
 Raven, Ernst  
 Torrier, J.  

 
 
BOX 19-25 
REEL 12-15 Records, 1861 - 1865  
 
Correspondence, memoranda, letters of marque, claims for damage, and other related
material concerning marine, administrative, and domestic activities.  
 Arranged by subject and chronologically therein.
 
 
BOX 19  
REEL 12 Maritime, 1861-1863  
 
BOX 20  
REEL 13 Administrative, 1861-1865  
 Domestic, 1861-1865  
 
BOX 21  
REEL 13 Index to letters received, 1864  
 
BOX 22  
REEL 13 Letters sent  
 1861-1864  
 
BOX 23  
REEL 13 1864-1865  
 
BOX 24  
REEL 14 Letters received  
 1861-1863  
 
BOX 25  
REEL 15 1863-1865  

 
 
BOX 25-27 
REEL 15-16 Property Files, 1862 - 1864 , n.d.  
 
Correspondence, estimates, memoranda, and indexes relating to the loss and destruction
of property in the Confederacy.  
 Arranged by subject.
 
 
BOX 25  
REEL 15 Slaves, 1862-1864  
 Railroads, n.d.  
 
BOX 26  
REEL 16 Index to lists of property stolen or destroyed  
 Undated  
 
BOX 27  
REEL 16 Undated  

 
 
BOX 28 
REEL 16 Diary of Judah P. Benjamin, 1861 - 1864  
 
A daily account of events from 22 Feb. 1862-12 Dec. 1864.  

 
 
BOX 29-34 
REEL 17-19 Financial Records, 1861 - 1865  
 
Correspondence, accounts, receipts, records, memoranda, appropriations, estimates,
checks, warrants, and ledgers relating to the expenses of the State Department and its
agents.  
 Arranged by subject and chronologically therein.
 
 
BOX 29  
REEL 17-18 Miscellany, 1861-1864  
 
BOX 30  
REEL 19 Disbursing clerk's cash books, 1864-1865  
 
BOX 31  
REEL 19 Diplomatic account book, 1861-1865  
 
BOX 32  
REEL 19 Foreign service ledger, 1861-1865  
 
BOX 33  
REEL 19 Appropriation expense record book, 1861-1865  
 
BOX 34  
REEL 19 Departmental requests to the Treasury, 1861-1865  

 
 
BOX 35-38 
REEL 20-21 Pardons and Passports, 1861 - 1865  
 
Records of passports and pardons issued, applications for passports, lists, passports
granted, and a record book.  
 Arranged by subject and chronologically therein.
 
 
BOX 35  
REEL 20 Passport applications, 1861-1865  
 Passport lists, n.d.  
 Blank passports  
 
BOX 36  
REEL 21 Passports issued with a descriptive list  
 1863-1864  
 
BOX 37  
REEL 21 1864-1865  
 
BOX 38  
REEL 21 Pardon record book, 1862-1864  

 
 
BOX 39-40 
REEL 21 Presidential Proclamation File, 1861 - 1865 , n.d.  
 
Drafts, manuscript copies, and printed copies of proclamations and messages of Jefferson
Davis and other leaders of the Confederacy.  
 Arranged by subject.
 
 
BOX 39  
REEL 21 Presidential proclamations, 1861-1865  
 
BOX 40  
REEL 21 Manuscripts of proclamations, 1861-1864  
 Printed messages of Jefferson Davis, 1862-1865  
 Printed proclamations, 1861  
 Proclamation of Queen Victoria, 1861  

 
 
BOX 41-47 
REEL 22-25 Public Office File, 1861 - 1865 , n.d.  
 
Applications for office, records of commissions and appointments issued, confirmations
of appointments, acting appointments, oaths of office, letters of resignation, and related
correspondence.  
 Arranged by subject and chronologically therein.
 
 
BOX 41  
REEL 22 Commissions and appointments  
 1861-1862  
 
BOX 42  
REEL 22 1862-1864  
 
BOX 43  
REEL 22 Index to commissions and appointments, n.d.  
 
BOX 44  
REEL 22 Commissions and appointments, 1864-1865  
 
BOX 45  
REEL 22 Record book of acting appointments, 1862-1864  
 
BOX 46  
REEL 23-24 List of applications for appointments, n.d.  
 Applications for appointments, 1861-1865  
 Senate confirmation of appointments, 1861-1864  
 
BOX 47  
REEL 25 Correspondence relating to appointments, 1861-1865  
 Oaths of office, 1861-1865  
 Letters of resignation, 1861-1864  

 
 
BOX 48-49 
REEL 26 Miscellany, 1859 - 1864  
 
An address book, orders, resolutions, copyrights, prisoner exchange records, memoranda,
printed forms, and miscellaneous material relating to Fort Sumter, S.C., foreign loans,
Indian affairs, and Lord John Russell.  
 Arranged by subject.
 
 
BOX 48  
REEL 26 General  
 Address of the London Peace Society, London, England, to the people of the United
States  
 Correspondence, 1859-1864  
 Books ordered by the State Department  
 Congressonal resolutions  
 Copyright records  
 Evacuation of Fort Sumter, S.C.  
 Anderson, Robert  
 Beauregard, G. T.  
 Campbell, John A.  
 Lincoln, Abraham  
 Exchange of prisoners  
 Foreign loans  
 Erlanger & Co.  
 Slidell, John  
 Indian affairs  
 Miscellaneous correspondents  
 Russell, John Russell, Earl (copies)  
 Secretary of state  
 Memoranda, 1863-1864  
 Cast-iron guns  
 Economic matters in Europe  
 Cost of armaments in France  
 Notes relating to printed forms  
 
BOX 49  
Box  (NOT FILMED) Printed forms, 1861-1865  

 
 
BOX 50-52 
REEL 27-28 Newspaper Clippings, 1860 - 1864  
 
Clippings from Confederate, Union, and foreign newspapers.  
 Arranged, where possible, by country and by newspaper therein.
 
 
BOX 50  
REEL 27 Southern U. S.  
 Northern U. S.  
 Mexico  
 
BOX 51  
REEL 28 France  
 
BOX 52  
REEL 28 Great Britain  

 
 
BOX 53-65 
REEL 29-35 James Wolcott Wadsworth Collection, 1861 - 1865  
 
Correspondence of Department of State officials with commissioners, other officials, and
agents, generally in foreign countries. This series largely duplicates material in the
Diplomatic Missions and the Consular and Other Missions subseries.  
 Arranged by locality and chronologically therein.
 
 
BOX 53  
REEL 29 Correspondence with foreign agents  
 London, England  
 1861-1864, James M. Mason  
 
BOX 54  
REEL 29 1862-1864, Henry Hotze  
 
BOX 55A  
REEL 30 Paris, France, John Slidell  
 1862-1863  
 
BOX 55B  
REEL 30 1863-1864  
 
BOX 56  
REEL 31 1862-1864  
 
BOX 57  
REEL 31 Belgium, 1862-1864, Dudley A. Mann  
 
BOX 58  
REEL 32 Mexico  
 1861-1864, John A. Quintero  
 
BOX 59  
REEL 32 1861-1865  
 Avengo, Bernard  
 Fitzpatrick, Richard  
 LaSere, Emile  
 Pickett, John T.  
 Preston, William  
 Rieken, Charles  
 
BOX 60  
REEL 33 Miscellaneous agents, 1861-1864  
 Avengo, Bernard  
 DeLeon, Edwin  
 Dowling, Robert  
 Fitzpatrick, Richard  
 Helm, Charles J.  
 Hotze, Henry  
 Lynch, P. N.  
 Mason, James M.  
 Preston, William  
 Quintero, John A.  
 Rost, Pierre A.  
 Walker, Norman J.  
 
BOX 61  
REEL 33 Foreign countries, 1861-1864  
 Belgium  
 Cuba  
 France  
 Great Britain  
 Ireland  
 Russia  
 Spain  
 
BOX 62  
REEL 34 Canada  
 Cuba  
 Nassau  
 
BOX 63  
REEL 34 Extracts from letterbooks, 1861-1865  
 Benjamin, Judah P.  
 Clay, Clement C.  
 Dawson, George  
 Helm, Charles J.  
 Heyliger, Lewis  
 Holcombe, James P.  
 Maury, Dabney  
 Maxwell, A. E.  
 Thompson, Jacob  
 
BOX 64  
REEL 35 Miscellany, 1861  
 Washington commissions  
 Fort Sumter, S.C., negotiations  
 
BOX 65  
REEL 35 Department of the Navy, 1861-1863  
 Mallory, Stephen R.  
 Semmes, Raphael  

 

BOX 66-73 
REEL 35-36 Executive and Legislative Branches of the Confederacy, 1861 - 1865  
 
Correspondence, messages, proclamations by Jefferson Davis, lists, memoranda, and acts
and resolutions of the Confederate congress.  
 Arranged by subject and chronologically therein.
 
 
BOX 66 
REEL 35 Miscellany, 1861-1865  
 Annual message  
 Correspondence  
 Lists  
 Memoranda  
 Notices  
 Proclamations  
 Resolutions  
 Statutes at Large  
 Transcripts  
 
BOX 67 
REEL 35 Acts and Resolutions of Congress  
 1861  
 
BOX 68  
REEL 35 1861-1862  
 
BOX 69  
REEL 35 1862  
 
BOX 70  
REEL 36 1862  
 
BOX 71  
REEL 36 1863  
 
BOX 72  
REEL 36 1863-1864  
 
BOX 73  
REEL 36 1864  

 

BOX 74-76 
REEL 36-38 Confederate Constitutional Documents, 1861 - 1883  
 
Constitutions of the Confederacy, articles of secession of the Confederate states, and
related material.  
 Arranged by subject.
 
 
BOX 74 
REEL 36 Confederate constitution, facsimile, printed in New York, 1883 
 
BOX 75 
REEL 37 Fragments and drafts of constitution, 1861 
 Printed copies of the constitution with amendments, 1861 
 Amended constitution with holograph corrections, 1861 
 Copies of the provisional and permanent constitution, 1861 
 Ordinances of secession and related papers from individual Confederate states, 1861 
 
BOX 76 
REEL 38 Constitutions and other documents of the Confederate States, printed, 1861 

 

BOX 77-81 
REEL 38 Department of Justice, 1860 - 1867  
 
Court costs, minute books, docket books, garnishment petitions, rules, and related
material for the Confederate States of America and the United States and District courts
in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi.  
 Arranged by subject.
 
 
BOX 77 
REEL 38 Court costs, 1863-1867 
 Confederate States District Court of Alabama, 1863 
 United States District Court of Alabama, 1865-1867 
 
BOX 78 
REEL 38 Confederate States Court for the Northern District of Alabama, 1863 
 
BOX 79 
REEL 38 Confederate States District Court of the Northern Division of Mississippi,
records and minute book, 1861-1865 
 
BOX 80 
REEL 38 Trial docket 
 Confederate States District Court of Alabama, 1861-1863 
 United States District Court of Alabama, 1860 
 
BOX 81 
REEL 38 Records of the Confederate States District Court of Louisiana, 1861-1862 
 Garnishment petitions and rules, 1861-1862 

 

BOX 82-93 
REEL 39-49 Department of the Treasury, 1860 - 1865  
 
Correspondence to and from various officials of the Treasury Department, estimates of
funds needed, a letterbook, circulars of the United States Treasury Department, and
related material.  
 Arranged by subject and chronologically therein.
 
 
BOX 82 
REEL 39 Correspondence, 1860-1864  
 To A. J. Guirot, 1860-1864  
 
BOX 83  
REEL 40-41 To Bolling Baker, 1861-1862  
 To Lewis Conger, 1861-1862  
 
BOX 84  
REEL 42 From F. H. Hatch  
 1861-1862  
 
BOX 85  1861-1862  
 
BOX 86  
REEL 43 1861-1862  
 
BOX 87  
REEL 44 To F. H. Hatch, 1861  
 Baker, Bolling  
 Cabinet members  
 Clitherall, Alexander B.  
 Cruger, Lewis  
 Elmore, E. C.  
 Light House Bureau  
 Memminger, C. G.  
 Miscellany 
 (1 folder)  
BOX 88   
REEL 45  
 (10 folders)  
 To John Boston  
 1861  
 
BOX 89  
REEL 46-47 1862  
 
BOX 90 
REEL 48 Collectors' estimates of funds needed for customhouses and lighthouses, 1861 
 
BOX 91 
REEL 49 Register's Office, letterbook, 1863-1864  
 Jones, C. F.  
 Tyler, Robert  
 
BOX 92 
REEL 49 United States Treasury Department, circulars, 1861-1863 
 
BOX 93 
REEL 49 Miscellany, 1861-1865  
 Correspondence  
 Clark, M. H.  
 Hunter, R. M. T.  
 Memminger, C. G.  
 Tyler, Robert  
 Government expenditure list  
 An impression of the seal of the Treasury  
 Reports of the secretary  
 Tax and bond receipts  

 

BOX 94-108 
REEL 49-62 Post Office Department, 1861 - 1865  
 
Appointment Bureau letterbooks, lists, account books, contracts and schedules, a report
of the postmaster general, and related material.  
 Arranged by subject and chronologically therein.
 
 
BOX 94 
REEL 49 Appointment Bureau letterbooks  
 1861-1862  
 
BOX 95  
REEL 50 1862-1863  
 
BOX 96  
REEL 51 1863  
 
BOX 97  
REEL 51 1863-1865  
 
BOX 98 
REEL 52 Official letterbooks  
 1861-1862  
 
BOX 99  
REEL 52 1861-1863  
 
BOX 100 
REEL 53 Appointment Bureau lists: Alabama, Arkansas, and Texas, 1861-1864 
 (1 vol.)  
BOX 101   
REEL 53 
 (1 vol.)  
 
BOX 102 
REEL 53 Register of current accounts in post office in Arkansas, Florida, Tennessee, and
Texas, 1862 
 
BOX 103 
REEL 54 Contracts and schedules, 1861-1863  
 Mississippi  
 Nos. 601-7671  
 
BOX 104  
REEL 55 Nos. 7405-7488  
 
BOX 105  
REEL 56 Nos. 7490-7579  
 
BOX 106  
REEL 57-58 Nos. 7580-7599  
 Virginia  
 Nos. 4170-4199  
 
BOX 107  
REEL 59-60 Nos. 4201-4247  
 
BOX 108  
REEL 61-62 Nos. 291-4319  
 Report of the postmaster general, 1861-1862 

 

BOX 109-118 
REEL 63-68 War Department, 1861 - 1865 , n.d.  
 
Correspondence, reports, orders, circulars, a letterbook, regimental records, quartermaster
records, general orders, captured Union dispatches, field returns, certificates, lists, and
related material.  
 Arranged by subject.
 
 
BOX 109 
REEL 63 Official correspondence, L. P. Walker, 1861 
 
BOX 110 
REEL 63 List of official communications, 1864-1865 
 
BOX 111 
REEL 64 Miscellany, 1861-1865  
 Correspondence  
 Letterbooks  
 Bee, Hamilton P.  
 Lopez, Albino  
 Report of the secretary  
 Transcripts from the papers of Jubal A. Early  
 
BOX 112 
REEL 64 Circulars and regulations 
 General Orders  
 Headquarters  
 Confederate States of America, Army  
 Army of Northern Virginia  
 Department of Northern Virginia  
 Army of the Potomac  
 Department of Virginia and North Carolina  
 Army of Tennessee  
 Department of the Trans-Mississippi  
 Miscellany  
 District of Arkansas, James Elliott  
 Alabama Brigade  
 Captured federal dispatches  
 
BOX 113 
REEL 65 Regimental papers, muster and pay rolls, 1861-1865, n.d.  
 Arkansas  
 Georgia  
 Louisiana  
 Mississippi  
 Virginia 
 (9 folders)  
BOX 114   
REEL 65  
 (25 folders)  
 
BOX 115  
REEL 66 Mississippi  
 Record book, 1863-1865 
 
BOX 116 
REEL 66 Quartermaster records, 1863-1864  
 Articles sold, lost, or destroyed  
 Disbursements  
 Receipts  
 Requisitions for forage  
 Reports of articles purchased  
 Reports of articles received from officers  
 Special requisitions  
 Quarterly returns, Lake, M.  
 
BOX 117  
REEL 67 Miscellany  
 Barbour, A. M.  
 Lake, M.  
 Mallory, C. R.  
 Thompson, George G.  
 Railroad tickets  
 Tax Receipts  
 
BOX 118  
REEL 68 Certificates  
 Furlough  
 Discharge  
 Death  
 Discharge book  
 Field returns  
 Oaths of officers  
 Officer reports  
 Ordnance reports  
 Requisition lists  
 Safe conduct passes  
 Wounded lists  

 

BOX 119-120 
REEL 69-70 Navy Department, 1861 - 1865  
 
Accounts, circulars, correspondence, reports, logbooks, certificates, and related material.  
 Arranged by subject.
 
 
BOX 119 
REEL 69 Accounts  
 Fort Sumter, 1863  
 Fort Tennesse, 1863  
 Missouri, 1863  
 Circulars, 1861 
 Miscellaneous correspondence and records, 1861-1864 
 Discharge certificates, 1864 
 Pay and receipt rates, 1861 
 Transcribed statements, 1884 
 
BOX 120 
REEL 69 Correspondence, Raphael Semmes, 1882 
 Reports, 1862 
 Register, 1862 
 Logs of vessels in Bermuda and Nassau, 1861-1865 

 

BOX 121-123 
REEL 70 Miscellany, 1858 - 1872 , n.d.  
 
Memoranda, letters, bills, lists, receipts, published material, and printed forms relating to
the provenance and description of the collection, several states (Georgia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia) within the Confederacy, and other facets of the
history of the Confederate States of America.  
 Arranged by subject and chronologically therein.
 
 
BOX 121 
REEL 70 Lists of the records 
 Report of Thomas O. Selfridge on the purchase of the Pickett Papers, 1872 
 South Carolina, ordnance correspondence, 1860-1861 
 North Carolina, executive correspondence, 1859-1864 
 Georgia, executive correspondence, 1861-1864 
 Tennessee, executive correspondence, 1858-1861 
 Virginia, executive correspondence, 1861 
 Table of distances, n.d. 
 Seal of the Confederacy 
 Crop subscriptions, 1861 
 Inaugural program, n.d. 
 Alabama's ordnance of secession, 1861 
 List of the officers of the Confederacy, n.d. 
 
BOX 122 
Box (NOT FILMED) Published statutes, orders, proclamations 
 
BOX 123 Blank forms See also Oversize  

 

BOX 124 Additions, 1854 - 1889 , n.d.  
 
Autographs, correspondence, register of surgeons, financial bonds, and other material.  
 Arranged alphabetically by type of material and chronologically therein. The register of
surgeons is available only on microfilm (one reel). Shelf no. 10,164.
 
 
BOX 124 Autographs, 1886-1889, n.d. 
 Bonds, 1854-1864, n.d. See also Oversize  
 (3 folders)  
 Miscellany, 1862-1865, n.d. 
 Register of surgeons, Army of Tennessee, 1861-1865 
Available only on microfilm. Shelf no. 10,164  

 

BOX OV 1-OV 2 
Box (NOT FILMED) Oversize, 1862 - 1863 , n.d.  
 
Blank forms and financial bonds.  
 Arranged and described according to the series, folders, and containers from which the
items were removed.
 
 
BOX OV 1 Miscellany  
 Blank forms (Container 123)  
 
BOX OV 2 Additions  
 Bonds, 1862-1863 (Container 124) 

 
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