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Chandler, Zachariah (1813-1879) U.S. Senator, Michigan
Papers, 1854-99. ca. 1,100 items.
Includes a few letters from volunteer officers concerning
military commissions and supplies. Principal wartime correspondents
are Nathaniel P. Banks, James G. Blaine, Simon
Cameron, Horace Greeley, Abraham Lincoln, Edwin M. Stanton,
and Benjamin F. Wade.
Finding aid, partial index, and microfilm copy (4 reels)
available.
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Chase, Cornelius
(1780-1868) Farmer; Educator; Clergyman
Family papers, 1815-1947. ca. 3,000 items.
Includes the papers of Cornelius Thruston Chase (1819-
1870), which comprise reports on Confederate hospitals in Virginia
and South Carolina, medical contracts with private physicians
in Richmond, Va., provision returns, circulars and special
orders relating to the Medical Department, CSA, lists of
deserters, quartermaster reports, reports on prisoners of war,
and reports on sick and wounded soldiers. Also contains correspondence
with slave traders (Browning, Moore and Company,
E. H. Stokes) operating in Virginia during the war, and a sketch
of Richmond, Va.
Finding aid available.
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Chase, Salmon Portland (1808-1873) U.S. Secretary
of the Treasury
Papers, 1755-1898. ca. 12,500 items.
Diaries kept by Chase during the war contain accounts of
Cabinet meetings, and private meetings with President Lincoln,
William Seward, Edwin M. Stanton, Henry Halleck, George B.
McClellan, and various other political and military leaders.
Subjects discussed include the evaluation, selection, and assignment
of generals, military strategy, the disposition of troops,
the use of black troops, the draft, war finance, and the Emancipation
Proclamation. Also includes correspondence with George
S. Denison, Chase's official and personal representative in New
Orleans, La., June 1862-Mar. 1865, and reports from officers
and Treasury agents in the South on the progress of the war,
conditions in the South and in the Confederate Army, and the
disposition and strength of Federal forces.
Finding aid, index, and microfilm copy (38 reels) available.
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