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Manuscripts, American -- Washington (D.C.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

David Brydie Mitchell papers

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-606
Abstract Incoming and outgoing correspondence (including 42 letters from Georgia politician William H. Crawford, 1808-1822), mainly covering Mitchell’s two tenures as Georgia governor and during his appointment by President Madison as Creek Indian agent, 1817-1821. Content concerns national and local politics, foreign affairs, military matters and the approaching War of 1812, the Yazoo land fraud, Florida history, attitudes and actions towards African-Americans and Indians, and Mitchell’s attempts to...
Dates: 1777-1843; Majority of material found within 1805-1829

John D. Beach Letters

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Beach
Abstract

Correspondence from Pvt. Beach of the 55th Illinois Infantry, Company G, to his mother describing everyday camp life in La Grange and Memphis, Tenn., Washington, D.C., and Big Shanty [now Kennesaw], Ga.

Dates: 1862-1865

Thomas Lee Ballenger papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-Ballenger
Abstract

Correspondence and writings of author, educator, and historian Thomas Lee Ballenger; photographs, legal papers, and documents of the Cherokee Indians, their territory, and prominent individuals who contributed to Oklahoma's history; genealogical materials including detailed tables, charts, and diagrams of individual Cherokee families; and extensive collections of archaeological artifacts.

Dates: 1730-1968; Majority of material found within 1835 - 1968