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Firum, William, et al. West Virginia
Testimonial, 1862. 1 item.
Signed testimonial, Jan. 17, 1862, naming ten dangerous
secessionists: A. G. Davis, D. M. Dent, D. W. Dent, Felix Dent,
George Dent, James Dent, Samuel Dorsenberry, John Jamison,
Milton Stuart, and E. Taylor.
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Fish, Hamilton (1808-1893) Chairman, Union
League Defense Committee
Papers, 1732-1914. ca. 61,000 items.
Includes seven letters to Fish from Wickham Hoffman
(Assistant Adjutant General to Gen. Thomas W. Sherman),
1862-64, concerning conditions in New Orleans, La., under
military rule, expeditions and skirmishes along the Mississippi
River, the Red River Campaign of 1863, the training
and performance of black soldiers, and the generalship of
Nathaniel P. Banks, Benjamin F. Butler, and Thomas W. Sherman.
Also, four letters from Capt. Thomas Turner to Fish written
from the \J.S.S. New Ironsides, 1863-65, concerning the blockade
of Charleston Harbor, the bombardment of Fort Sumter,
the construction and performance of Federal monitors, and the
administrative talents of Gustavus V. Fox; two letters from
William Aiken to Fish, Apr.-May 1865, Charleston, S.C., on
the occupation of Charleston; a letter from James P. Holcombe
to Judah P. Benjamin, Nov. 16, 1864, Richmond, Va., on the
Niagara Falls "peace conference"; and a letter from Jacob
Thompson to Judah P. Benjamin, Dec. 3,1864, Toronto, Canada,
on Confederate activities in Canada and plans by the Knights
of the Golden Circle to seize the steamer Michigan in Lake
Erie and free Confederate prisoners of war on Johnson's Island.
Finding aid available.
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Fisher, George Purnell Judge; Public Official,
(1817-1899) Washington, D.C.
Papers, 1772-1905. ca. 200 items.
In part, transcripts.
Includes a 17-page account of the trial of John H. Surratt
for the assassination of President Lincoln written "by the Judge
who presided at the Trial," and the "Confession of Atzerodt
relative to the Assassination of President Lincoln," by Samuel
B. Arnold.
Finding aid available.
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Fisk, Clinton Bowen (1828-1890) Gen., USA
Letters, 1862. 2 items.
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