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Collection Montgomery C. Meigs Papers

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Selected Archival Resources

For Library of Congress collections, please click on the catalog record links for a fuller description and additional links to available online finding aids, indexes, and digital collections.

  • Architect of the Capitol Archives, Records Management and Archives Branch, Curator Division, Architect of the Capitol, Washington, D.C. Contact the Architect of the Capitol for more information about access to historical records.
  • Bancroft-Bliss Families Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Simon Cameron Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Denison-Rodgers Family Papers, Coll. 356, Manuscripts Collection, G. W. Blunt White Library, Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc., Mystic, Conn. Finding aid available online External.
  • First Washington Book Club Minutes, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Benjamin B. French Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Ulysses S. Grant Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • H. W. Halleck Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Joseph Henry Collection, Record Unit 7001, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Finding aid available online External.
  • Joseph Holt Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Oliver Otis Howard Papers, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Me. Finding aid available online External.
  • William R. Hutton Papers, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Finding aid available online External.
  • Andrew Johnson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Abraham Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Meigs and Rodgers Family Papers, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Ga. Finding aid available online External.
  • Meigs Family Papers, 1848-1958, (Accession 2162), Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Del. Finding aid available online External.
  • Meigs Family Papers, 1866-1931, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Springfield, Ill. Catalog record available online External.
  • Montgomery C. Meigs Papers, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Finding aid available online External.
  • Montgomery C. Meigs Papers and Plans, 1856-1892, Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library, Wilmington, Del. Catalog record available on WinterCat online catalog.
  • Montgomery C. Meigs Recollections of the Relations of President Lincoln and Secretary Stanton in the Military Conduct of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Springfield, Ill. Catalog record available online External.
  • Montgomery Meigs (1847-1931) Papers, Manuscripts Department, The Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif. Finding aid available online External.
  • National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. Montgomery Meigs’s long military career and work in the construction of the built environment in Washington, D.C., produced federal records located across record groups held by the National Archives, including Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General (Record Group 92) and the Office of the Supervising Engineer and Architect of the Pension Office (Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior, Record Group 48). Please consult the National Archives online catalog for more information on records related to Montgomery Meigs.
  • John G. Nicolay Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Olmsted Associates Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Rodgers Family Papers, 1740-1987, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Rodgers Family Papers, 1788-1944, Naval Historical Foundation Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • William T. Sherman Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Edwin McMasters Stanton Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • United States. Architect of the Capitol. United States. Architect of the Capitol Records, 1851-1864. Microfilm publication. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Thomas Ustick Walter Architectural Archives, Athenaeum of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Penn. Catalog record available online External.

Selected Related Resources

  • Abbott, Henry L. “Memoir of Montgomery C. Meigs, 1816-1892.” National Academy of Sciences. Biographical Memoirs. Vol. 3. Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, 1895. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Ahrens, Kent. “Constantino Brumidi’s ‘Apotheosis of Washington’ in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol.” Records of the Columbia Historical Society 49 (1973/1974): 187-208. LC catalog record .
  • Army, Thomas F., Jr. Engineering Victory: How Technology Won the Civil War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. LC catalog record.
  • Arlington House, National Park Service. “The Beginnings of Arlington National Cemetery.” National Park Service website.  Available online External.
  • Atkinson, Rick. Where Valor Rests: Arlington National Cemetery. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2007. LC catalog record. Reprint, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2015. LC catalog record.
  • Baker, Richard. “Senate Deciphers Montgomery Meigs’s Shorthand Journals.” Washington History 4, no. 2 (1992): 83-84. LC catalog record.
  • Bannister, Turpin C. “The Genealogy of the Dome of the United States Capitol.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 7, no. 1/2 (1948): 1-31. LC catalog record.
  • Bateman, Nancy. “Collections Highlight: By the Order of the President: The Commission Documents of Montgomery C. Meigs.” National Building Museum website article, posted February 1, 2018. Available online External.
  • Bell, John. “Obituary Notice of Charles D. Meigs, M.D.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 13, no. 90 (1873): 170-179. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Chronicling America, digitized historic American newspapers. Available online External through the Library of Congress.
  • Clark, John E. Clark, Jr. Railroads in the Civil War: The Impact of Management on Victory and Defeat. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. LC catalog record.
  • Curtis, William T. S. “Cabin John Bridge.” Records of the Columbia Historical Society 2 (1899): 293-307. LC catalog record.
  • Davis, Jefferson. The Papers of Jefferson Davis. Volume 5, 1853-1855. Edited by Lynda Lasswell Crist and Mary Seaton Dix. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985. LC catalog record.
  • Davis, Jefferson. The Papers of Jefferson Davis. Volume 6, 1856-1860. Edited by Lynda Lasswell Crist and Mary Seaton Dix. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989. LC catalog record.
  • DeFerrari, John. “On Pennsylvania Ave, Georgetown’s Other Aqueduct Bridge.” Streets of Washington blog, posted August 6, 2013. Available online External.
  • DeFerrari, John. “The Pension Building, Montgomery Meigs’ Eccentric Masterpiece.” Streets of Washington blog, posted January 20, 2014. Available online External.
  • DeFerrari, John. “Pride and Prejudice: The Names on Cabin John Bridge.” Streets of Washington blog, posted April 27, 2010. Available online External.
  • Dickinson, William C., Dean A. Herrin, and Donald R. Kennon, eds. Montgomery C. Meigs and the Building of the Nation’s Capital. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press for the United States Capitol Historical Society, 2001. LC catalog record.
  • East, Sherrod E. “The Banishment of Captain Meigs.” Records of the Columbia Historical Society 40/41 (1940): 97-143. LC catalog record.
  • East, Sherrod E. “Montgomery C. Meigs and the Quartermaster Department.” Military Affairs 25, no. 4 (Winter 1961-1962): 183-196. LC catalog record.
  • French, Benjamin B. Witness to the Young Republic: A Yankee’s Journal, 1828-1870. Edited by Donald B. Cole and John J. McDonough. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1989. LC catalog record.
  • Friedland, Elise A. “Pompeii on the Potomac: Constantino Brumidi’s Nineteenth-Century Roman-Style Murals for the Naval Affairs Committee Room in the United States Capitol.” The Capitol Dome 56, no. 1 (2019): 2-15. LC catalog record.
  • Goode, James Moore. “Architecture, Politics, and Conflict: Thomas Ustick Walter and the Enlargement of the United States Capitol, 1850-1865.” Ph.D. dissertation. The George Washington University, 1995.
  • Gugliotta, Guy. Freedom’s Cap: The United States Capitol and the Coming of the Civil War. New York: Hill and Wang, 2012. LC catalog record.
  • Hess, Earl J. Civil War Logistics: A Study of Military Transportation. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2017. LC catalog record.
  • Hess, Earl J. Civil War Supply and Strategy: Feeding Men and Moving Armies. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2020. LC catalog record.
  • Lincoln, Abraham. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Edited by Roy P. Basler. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1953-1955. LC catalog record. Available online External courtesy of the Abraham Lincoln Association.
  • Lyons, Linda Brody. A Handbook to the Pension Building: Home of the National Building Museum. Washington, D.C.: National Building Museum, 1989. LC catalog record.
  • Macqueen, P. O. “Cabin John Bridge.” The Military Engineer 24, no. 138 (1932): 566-568. LC catalog record.
  • McDaniel, Joyce L. “Caspar Buberl: The Pension Building Civil War Frieze and Other Washington, D.C. Sculpture.” Records of the Columbia Historical Society 50 (1980): 309-344. LC catalog record.
  • McElya, Micki. The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2016. LC catalog record.
  • McLaughlin, Charles C. “The Capitol in Peril? The West Front Controversy from Walter to Stewart.” Records of the Columbia Historical Society 69/70 (1969): 237-265. LC catalog record.
  • Meigs, Henry B. Record of the Descendants of Vincent Meigs, Who Came from Dorsetshire, England, to America about 1635. Baltimore, Md.:  John S. Bridges & Co., 1901. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External and Internet Archive. Republished as updated edition, Westfield, N.J.: Return Jonathan Meigs 9th, 1935. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Meigs, John Rodgers. A Civil War Soldier of Christ and Country: The Selected Correspondence of John Rodgers Meigs, 1859-64. Edited by Mary A. Giunta. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. LC catalog record.
  • Meigs, Montgomery C. Annual Report of the Quartermaster General of the Operations of the Quartermaster’s Department for the Fiscal Year Ending on the ... Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, see available volumes between the years 1861 and 1881. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Meigs, Montgomery C. Capitol Builder: The Shorthand Journals of Montgomery C. Meigs, 1853-1859, 1861: A Project to Commemorate the United States Capitol Bicentennial, 1800-2000. Edited by Wendy Wolff. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 2001. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Meigs, Montgomery C. “General M. C. Meigs on the Conduct of the Civil War.” American Historical Review 26, no. 2 (1921): 285-303. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Meigs, Montgomery C. Reports of Captain M. C. Meigs, Accompanying the Annual Report of the Secretary of War, for the Year 1859. Washington, D.C.: George W. Bowman, 1860. LC catalog record.
  • Meigs, Montgomery C. The Three Days’ Battle of Chattanooga, 23d, 24th, 25th November, 1864. An Unofficial Dispatch from General Meigs to the Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War. Washington, D.C.: McGill & Witherow, 1864. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External and Internet Archive External.
  • Meneely, A. Howard. The War Department, 1861: A Study in Mobilization and Administration. New York: n.p., 1928. LC catalog record. Reprinted, New York: AMS Press, 1970. LC catalog record. Reprinted, Cranbury, N.J.: Scholar’s Bookshelf, 2006. LC catalog record.
  • Merritt, Raymond H. Engineering in American Society, 1850-1875. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1969. LC catalog record.
  • Miller, David W. Second Only to Grant: Quartermaster General Montgomery C. Meigs: A Biography. Shippensburg, Pa.: White Mane Books, 2000. LC catalog record.
  • O’Harrow, Robert, Jr. The Quartermaster: Montgomery C. Meigs: Lincoln’s General, Master Builder of the Union Army. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016. LC catalog record.
  • Peters, James Edward. Arlington National Cemetery, Shrine to America’s Heroes. Kensington, Md.: Woodbine House, 1986. LC catalog record. Second edition, Bethesda, Md.: Woodbine House, 2000. LC catalog record. Third edition, Bethesda, Md.: Woodbine House, 2008. LC catalog record.
  • Poole, Robert M. On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery. New York: Walker & Co., 2009. LC catalog record.
  • Prints & Photographs Online Catalog, Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress. Available online External. The site offers a number of photographs and illustrations of or including Montgomery C. Meigs and associated people and events. Includes Historic American Buildings Survey and Historic American Engineering Record studies of:
  • Risch, Erna. Quartermaster Support of the Army: A History of the Corps, 1775-1939. Washington, D.C.: Quartermaster Historian’s Office, Office of the Quartermaster General, 1962. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Ritchie, Donald A. “The Engineer and the Artist: Montgomery C. Meigs, Constantino Brumidi, and the Capitol Frescoes.” In To Make Beautiful the Capitol: Rediscovering the Art of Constantino Brumidi, compiled by Amy Elizabeth Burton, pages 2-17. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 2014. LC catalog record.
  • Royce, H. A. A Sketch of the Organization of the Quartermaster’s Department, from 1774 to 1868. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1869. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Skramstad, Harold K. “The Engineer as Architect in Washington: The Contribution of Montgomery Meigs.” Records of the Columbia Historical Society 69/70 (1969): 266-284. LC catalog record .
  • United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. History of the Washington Aqueduct. Washington, D.C.: Washington District, Corps of Engineers, 1953. LC catalog record.
  • United States. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1880-1901. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Ways, Harry C. The Washington Aqueduct, 1852-1992. [Washington, D.C.?]: H. C. Ways, [1996?]. LC catalog record.
  • Weigley, Russell F. “Captain Meigs and the Artists of the Capitol: Federal Patronage of Art in the 1850’s” Records of the Columbia Historical Society 69/70 (1969/1970): 285-305. LC catalog record.
  • Weigley, Russell F. “M. C. Meigs, Builder of the Capitol and Lincoln’s Quartermaster General: A Biography.” Ph.D. dissertation. University of Pennsylvania, 1956.
  • Weigley, Russell F. Quartermaster General of the Union Army: A Biography of M. C. Meigs. New York: Columbia University Press, 1959. LC catalog record.
  • Wilson, Mark R. The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861-1865. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. LC catalog record.

Compiled October 2020