Search Manuscripts/Mixed Material

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    Rufus D. Pettit papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, military orders, and map pertaining chiefly to Pettit's participation in the manhunt for President Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, and to Pettit's actions and observations in the days following the assassination. Includes his hand-drawn map of the area near Bryantown and Port Tobacco, Maryland, where he conducted the search for the assassin; copies of letters (1865 April 15-29) written by Pettit to...
    • Contributor: Pettit, Rufus D.
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    Charles Kline papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence including originals and transcripts of letters, envelopes, newspaper clippings, pension documents, a copy of a photograph, and a drawing relating mainly to Kline's Civil War service with the 115th New York Infantry Regiment, Company D. Subjects include Kline's capture at Harpers Ferry, W. Va., and time in a prison camp in Chicago, Ill.; daily camp life; his service near Alexandria, Va., and Hilton...
    • Contributor: Kline, Charles
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    Winthrop Henry Phelps papers, Catalog Record Only Diary (1864 May 15-1865 December 31) entitled A Chaplain's Life in the Civil War, describing Phelps' tours of duty with the 19th Connecticut Infantry (later 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery) at forts in Alexandria, Va., and Washington, D.C., and nine Civil War engagements, including battles at Spottsylvania (1864 May) and Petersburg, Va. (1865 March-April). The diary, compiled and edited (1945) by Ethel L. Phelps, is...
    • Contributor: Phelps, Winthrop Henry
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    Daniel Roberdeau papers, Catalog Record Only Letterbook (560 pages) of outgoing correspondence pertaining chiefly to Roberdeau's commercial activities including his distillery in Alexandria, Va., and to the West Indies trade. Letters include comments on contemporary political and military events. Recipients include John Adams, William Ellery, John Hancock, David Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Laurens, Richard Henry Lee, James Lovell, Alexander McDougall, James Milligan, Charles Pearce, and Bushrod Washington.
    • Contributor: Roberdeau, Daniel
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    Sarah Rosetta Wakeman correspondence,
    Sarah Rosetta Wakeman papers Catalog Record Only
    Photocopies of Wakeman's letters to her family while serving with the 153rd New York Infamtry Regiment as Private Lyons Wakeman. Letters written primarily from Washington, D.C., and Alexandria, Va., with several later letters from Louisiana.
    • Contributor: Wakeman, Sarah Rosetta
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    John C. Babcock papers, Catalog Record Only Letters with drawings (1861-1864) from Babcock to relatives in Illinois concerning his work as an architect in Chicago, Ill.; service as a confidential agent in the Provost Marshal General's Bureau in Washington, D.C.; the incarceration of female prisoners at "Prison Greenhough," Confederate spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow's house in Washington; reaction to the Trent Affair, 1861; secessionist sentiment in Alexandria, Va.; the gathering of intelligence...
    • Contributor: Babcock, John C.
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    A.P. Cutts correspondence,
    A. P. Cutts papers Catalog Record Only
    ALS, undated, from Cutts addressed to a Mrs. Lee relating to personal matters. Makes reference to travel to Fredericksburg and Alexandria, Va., and to the purchase or hire of a girl. Includes typewritten transcript.
    • Contributor: Cutts, A. P.
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    Jacob Gerhard Koch papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, letterbooks, diary, account books, ledgers, inventories, indexes, receipts, and estate and other papers documenting Koch's activities as a merchant and marine insurance broker in Amsterdam (1787-1790), Alexandria, Va. (1790-1792), and Philadelphia, Pa. (1792-1817), and reflecting his business dealings in Europe, Latin America, and North America. His diary (1817-1818) describes a trip to Paris, France. Also includes a 1941 published version of the memoirs...
    • Contributor: Koch, Jacob Gerhard
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    Martin Thomas McMahon military pass,
    Martin Thomas McMahon papers Catalog Record Only
    Military pass (January 6) issued to Mrs. Spalding, Mrs. Parker, and Mr. Davis for travel to Alexandria, Va., signed by Captain McMahon, aide to Gen. George B. McClellan, Army of the Potomac.
    • Contributor: McMahon, Martin Thomas