civil war manuscripts - American Memory from the Library of Congress

Lorenzo Thomas, Stewart Van Vliet, and Gideon Welles.
Finding aid available.
848
Papers, 1848-93.
Microfilm, 2 reels.
Contains a letter from Fitz-John Porter to Sherman, June
28, 1861, concerning Confederate spies in western Maryland,
troop positions, and strategy; a letter from Fitz-John Porter to
Sherman, July 26, 1861, defending himself against criticism
for his failure to prevent Gen. T. J. Jackson from reaching the
Manassas battlefield; and miscellaneous letters relating to the
war from Samuel F. Du Pont, James A. Garfield, Henry W.
Halleck, James A. Hardie, William S. Rosecrans, Gideon Welles,
and John Wool.
849
Sherman, Thomas West (1813-1879) Gen., USA
Collection, 1860-62. 2 items.
Letter from Sherman to his former aide-de-camp, Adam
Badeau, Apr. 3, 1862, Port Royal, S.C., thanking Badeau for
his services during the Port Royal expedition.
850
Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891) Gen., USA
Papers, 1810-96. ca. 18,000 items.
In part, transcripts.
Political and military correspondence between General
Sherman and Senator John Sherman, letters from Mrs. Ellen
Ewing Sherman to Senator Sherman, 1861-62, concerning her
husband's health and career, and official correspondence on
the situation in Kentucky in 1861, General Sherman's attitude
toward newspaper correspondents, the Shiloh, Corinth, and
Vicksburg campaigns, the Arkansas Post expedition, military
organization, the treatment of blacks, discipline, generalship,
conscription, military strategy, rank disputes, appointments
and promotions, and the suffering of noncombatants in the
South. Also contains information on the relief of General Burnside
at Knoxville, Tenn., the Meridian Campaign, the Battle of
Missionary Ridge, Sherman's role in the Battle of 1st Manassas,
and the Atlanta Campaign. Miscellaneous items comprise military
accounts, telegrams, intelligence reports, orders, clippings,
maps, drafts of the Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
(1875), the Report of Lieutenant General U. S. Grant of the
Armies of the United States—1864-65 (1865), "Particulars of
the Death of Maj. Gen. James B. McPherson," by William E.
Strong, 1876, and certificates commemorating Sherman's role at
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