Ulysses S. Grant papers, 1819-1974 (bulk 1843-1908).
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Mixed materialsDescription: 50,000 items; 193 containers plus 6 oversize; 52 microfilm reels; 100 linear feetContained works: - Grant, Ulysses S. 1822-1885. Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant. 1885-1886
- Grant, U. S. 1881-1968. Ulysses S. Grant: warrior and statesman. 1969
- Augur, Christopher Columbus, 1821-1898 -- Correspondence
- Babcock, Orville Elias, 1835-1884 -- Correspondence
- Badeau, Adam, 1831-1895 -- Correspondence
- Belknap, William W. (William Worth), 1829-1890 -- Correspondence
- Bingham, John Armor, 1815-1900 -- Correspondence
- Boutwell, George S. (George Sewall), 1818-1905 -- Correspondence
- Bowers, Theodore Shelton, 1832-1866 -- Correspondence
- Bristow, Benjamin Helm, 1832-1896 -- Correspondence
- Burnside, Ambrose Everett, 1824-1881 -- Correspondence
- Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893 -- Correspondence
- Canby, Edward Richard Sprigg, 1817-1873 -- Correspondence
- Childs, George William, 1829-1894 -- Correspondence
- Creswell, John A. J. (John Angel James), 1828-1891 -- Correspondence
- Davis, Varina, 1826-1906 -- Correspondence
- Delano, Columbus, 1809-1896 -- Correspondence
- Dodge, Grenville Mellen, 1831-1916 -- Correspondence
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 -- Correspondence
- Fish, Hamilton, 1808-1893 -- Correspondence
- Ford, C. W. (Charles W.), -1873 -- Correspondence
- Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890 -- Correspondence
- Grant, Chapman, 1887- -- Correspondence
- Grant, Frederick Dent, 1850-1912 -- Correspondence
- Grant, Julia Dent, 1826-1902 -- Correspondence
- Halleck, H. W. (Henry Wager), 1815-1872 -- Correspondence
- Hamilton, Charles Smith, 1822-1891 -- Correspondence
- Hancock, Winfield Scott, 1824-1886 -- Correspondence
- Hurlbut, Stephen Augustus, 1815-1882 -- Correspondence
- Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875
- Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875 -- Correspondence
- Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 -- Correspondence
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Correspondence
- Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882 -- Correspondence
- Logan, John Alexander, 1826-1886 -- Correspondence
- McClernand, John A. (John Alexander), 1812-1900 -- Correspondence
- Meade, George Gordon, 1815-1872 -- Correspondence
- Mosby, John Singleton, 1833-1916 -- Correspondence
- Oglesby, Richard J. (Richard James), 1824-1899 -- Correspondence
- Ord, Edward Otho Cresap, 1818-1883 -- Correspondence
- Pierrepont, Edwards, 1817-1892 -- Correspondence
- Pope, John, 1822-1892 -- Correspondence
- Porter, David D. (David Dixon), 1813-1891 -- Correspondence
- Porter, Horace, 1837-1921 -- Correspondence
- Rawlins, John A. (John Aaron), 1831-1869 -- Correspondence
- Romero, Matías, 1837-1898 -- Correspondence
- Rosecrans, William S. (William Starke), 1819-1898 -- Correspondence
- Schofield, John McAllister, 1831-1906 -- Correspondence
- Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888 -- Correspondence
- Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 -- Correspondence
- Sickles, Daniel Edgar, 1825-1914 -- Correspondence
- Stanton, Edwin McMasters, 1814-1869 -- Correspondence
- Terry, Alfred Howe, 1827-1890 -- Correspondence
- Thomas, George Henry, 1816-1870 -- Correspondence
- Thomas, Lorenzo, 1804-1875 -- Correspondence
- Townsend, E. D. (Edward Davis), 1817-1893 -- Correspondence
- Washburne, E. B. (Elihu Benjamin), 1816-1887 -- Correspondence
- Wilson, James Harrison, 1837-1925 -- Correspondence
- Young, John Russell, 1840-1899 -- Correspondence
- Grant family
- United States. Army
- United States. War Department
- Mexican War, 1846-1848
- Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1868
- Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1880
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
- Japan -- Description and travel
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1869
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1869-1877
- Army officers
- Presidents -- United States
- Microfilm edition available for Series 1-7, no. 12,980.
- Microfilm edition available for Series 8-11, no. 23,822.
Open to research.
General and family correspondence, speeches, writings, reports, messages, military records, financial and legal records, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, memorabilia, and other papers relating to the Mexican War, Grant's pre-Civil War career, the Civil War, his service as U.S. secretary of war under President Andrew Johnson during Reconstruction, his 1868 presidential campaign and his presidency, his unsuccessful bid for the presidency in 1880, his travels in Japan, and his financial difficulties. Includes draft of his Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant (1885-1886); correspondence and memoirs of his wife, Julia Dent Grant; correspondence of his secretary, Adam Badeau; and galley proof of the biography, Ulysses S. Grant: Warrior and Statesman (1969) by Ulysses S. Grant III.
Correspondents include Christopher Columbus Augur, Orville Elias Babcock, William W. Belknap, John Armor Bingham, George S. Boutwell, Theodore Shelton Bowers, Benjamin Helm Bristow, Ambrose Everett Burnside, Benjamin F. Butler, Edward Richard Sprigg Canby, George William Childs, John A.J. Creswell, Varina Davis, Columbus Delano, Grenville Mellen Dodge, Frederick Douglass, Hamilton Fish, C.W. Ford, John Charles Frémont, Chapman Grant, Frederick Dent Grant, Julia Dent Grant, H.W. Halleck, Charles Smith Hamilton, Winfield Scott Hancock, Stephen Augustus Hurlbut, Andrew Johnson, Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln, John Alexander Logan, John A. McClernand, George Gordon Meade, John Singleton Mosby, Richard J. Oglesby, Edward Otho Cresap Ord, Edwards Pierrepont, John Pope, David D. Porter, Horace Porter, John A. Rawlins, Matías Romero, William S. Rosecrans, John McAllister Schofield, Philip Henry Sheridan, William T. Sherman, Daniel Edgar Sickles, Edwin McMasters Stanton, Alfred Howe Terry, George Henry Thomas, Lorenzo Thomas, E.D. Townsend, E.B. Washburne, James Harrison Wilson, and John Russell Young.
Microfilm edition available for Series 1-7, no. 12,980.
Microfilm edition available for Series 8-11, no. 23,822.
Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1964-2012.
U.S. president and army officer.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008146
Index published by the Library of Congress in 1965 available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet. Cataloged in record 64060011.
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