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Mejan, Eugene French Consul, New Orleans, La.
Papers, 1862. 85 items.
Chiefly correspondence and reports of Mejan, Gov. Thomas
0. Moore, Mayor John J. Monroe, and various officers of the
French brigade, Feb.-May 1862, concerning the service of foreign
volunteer organizations in New Orleans before and during
the Federal occupation, efforts to maintain French neutrality,
and the departure of the steamer Milan. Also includes Adm.
David G. Farragut's assurance not to interfere with the foreign
police guard in New Orleans. Largely in French.
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Meredith, William D. (b. 1844) Pvt.,
134th Indiana Volunteers
Documents, 1864. 2 items.
Discharge, Sept. 2, 1864, and certificate of honorable
service, Dec. 15, 1864.
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Merwin, James Burtis (1829-1917) Chaplain, USA
Collection, 1861-1910. 6 items.
Transcripts and facsimiles.
Diary, May 10—Sept. 5, 1864, describing Merwin's service
aboard the hospital ship Thomas P. Way, the arrival and care
of wounded soldiers at the "Transit Hospital" at Willets Point,
N.Y., the dispersal of convalescents to hospitals from Maine to
New Jersey, efforts to locate missing and wounded soldiers,
and efforts to notify the families of deceased soldiers. Also contains
a copy of a letter by Merwin, July 5, 1910, concerning a
discussion he witnessed between President Lincoln and Gen.
Benjamin F. Butler on what to do with 180,000 black soldiers
after the war; facsimiles of orders issued by Gen. Winfield
Scott and President Lincoln granting Merwin free access to
military camps; copy of an order by Charles McDougall, May
19, 1863; and a published postwar photograph of Mervin.
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Miers, Earl Schenck (1910-1972) Editor; Author
Papers, 1951-60. 3 items.
Manuscripts of The General Who Marched to Hell; William
Tecumseh Sherman and His March to Fame and Infamy (1951),
The Web of Victory; Grant at Vicksburg (1955); and Miers and
Paul M. Angle, The Tragic Years, 1860-1865; a Documentary
History of the American Civil War (1960).
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