civil war manuscripts - American Memory from the Library of Congress

Quartermaster records, official correspondence, clippings,
pamphlets, orders, reports, and letterbooks. Provides information
on defensive operations along the coasts of South Carolina
and Georgia, the Siege of Petersburg, and troop movements in
Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama. Miscellaneous items include
photographs of prisoners of war at Fort Warren, Mass., plans
for the manufacture of various types of torpedoes, The Soldier's
Pocket Bible, engraved views of the bombardments of Fort
Sumter, Fort Walker, Fort Beauregard, and Port Royal, S.C.,
poems, the diary of Capt. J. E. Edings, a manuscript history of
Gen. Thomas F. Drayton's brigade, engraved portraits of Jefferson
Davis, Braxton Bragg, Hannibal Hamlin, James Longstreet,
J. E. B. Stuart, Leonidas Polk, and Ben McCulloch, and postwar
articles and clippings on Confederate blockade running.
Pamphlets include W. A. Harris, The Record of Fort Sumter,
From Its Occupation by Major Anderson, to Its Reduction by
South Carolina Troops (1862); Report of the Chief of the Department
of the Military of South Carolina (1862); Report of the
Adjutant and Inspector General of South Carolina (1863); Operations
on Morris Island (1863); Report of the Congressional Committee
on the Operations of the Army of the Potomac (1863); and
General Washington and General Jackson, on Negro Soldiers
(1863).
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Wills, David (1831-1894)
Papers, 1863-1940. 13 items.
In part, transcripts.
Includes a letter from Gen. George G. Meade to Wills, Nov.
13, 1863, on the dedication of Gettysburg National Cemetery,
and Wills' recollections of the Gettysburg Address.
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Wilson, Henry
(1812-1875) U.S. Senator, Massachusetts
Papers, 1851-75. ca. 200 items.
Includes a letter from Gen. Willis A. Gorman to Wilson,
Dec. 22, 1861, concerning charges that Gorman flogged and
returned fugitive slaves; a letter from Gen. Joseph Hooker to
Wilson, Apr. 4,1862, on rank disputes, depredations, and problems
with blacks in the Peninsular Campaign; a letter from
Gen. Benjamin F. Butler to Wilson, May 7, 1864, on the progress
of his army in the Siege of Petersburg; and a personal letter
from Gen. Edward Ferrero to Wilson, Feb. 18, 1865.
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