civil war manuscripts - American Memory from the Library of Congress

the Battle of Shiloh and the capture of Atlanta. Principal correspondents
during the war include Robert Anderson, Nathaniel
P. Banks, Frank P. Blair, Don Carlos Buell, Ambrose E.
Burnside, Eugene A. Carr, Samuel P. Chase, George W. Cullum,
Samuel R. Curtis, William Dennison, John A. Dix, Grenville
M. Dodge, Thomas Ewing, Ulysses S. Grant, Henry W. Halleck,
John H. Hammond, Stephen A. Hurlbut, Richard W. Johnson,
Thomas W. Knox, Jacob G. Lauman, Mortimer D. Leggett,
Abraham Lincoln, George B. McClellan, Robert H. Milroy,
Edward O. C. Ord, David D. Porter, Lovell H. Rousseau, John
M. Schofield, Carl Schurz, William Sooy Smith, Frederick
Steele, George Stoneman, David Stuart, George H. Thomas,
Lorenzo Thomas, David Tod, and Cadwallader C. Washburn.
Finding aid and microfilm copy (51 reels) available.
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Papers, 1808-91.
Microfilm, 15 reels.
Chiefly personal correspondence and papers of the Sherman
and Thomas Ewing families. Includes military orders,
drafts of Sherman's military reports, letters from Sherman to
his wife concerning his role in the war, and miscellaneous
related items. Provides some information on the Shiloh, Vicksburg,
Chattanooga, Atlanta, Savannah, and Carolinas campaigns,
generalship, and the politics of war.
Published guide available.
Originals at the University of Notre Dame.
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Shields, J. E. Lt., USA
Letter, 1861. 1 item.
Letter from Shields to Col. J. B. Thurman(?), Oct. 1, 1861,
Cape Girardeau, Mo., concerning the rental of the steamboat
Luella. A note on the verso by Gen. U. S. Grant approves Shields'
rejection of the requested rental price and orders the vessel
retained in government service if needed.
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Shiner, Michael Mechanic, Washington, D.C., Navy Yard
Diary, 1813-69. 1 v.
Contains remarks on the arrival of various regiments in
Washington, the organization of workers at the Washington
Navy Yard to help oppose Gen. Jubal A. Early in July 1864,
the arrival of British and French warships, and visits by President
Lincoln to troops along Washington's defensive perimeter.
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