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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Zachariah Chandler papers, 1854-1899 (bulk 1854-1879)</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Chandler, Zachariah</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1813-1879</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, principally letters received by Chandler from 1854 to 1879, relating chiefly to the early political history of Michigan and to the politics of the Civil War and Reconstruction.  Reflects the views of the antislavery element of the Republican Party when Chandler was serving in the U.S. Senate on the Republican Congressional Committee and the Joint Committee on the Conduct of War and while he was chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce.  Also contains an autograph book.  Correspondents include Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, James Gillespie Blaine, Simon Cameron, John A. J. Creswell, George Armstrong Custer, John Murray Forbes, Marsh Giddings, Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley, Abraham Lincoln, Levi P. Morton, Edwin McMasters Stanton, Lyman Trumbull, and Benjamin Franklin Wade.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition available, no. 13,731.</note>
  <note>Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1967.</note>
  <note>U.S. secretary of the interior and U.S. senator from Michigan.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006046">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006046</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1816-1894</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Blaine, James Gillespie</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1830-1893</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Cameron, Simon</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1799-1889</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Creswell, John A. J. (John Angel James)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1828-1891</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Custer, George A. (George Armstrong)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1839-1876</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Forbes, John Murray</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1813-1898</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Giddings, Marsh</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1816-1875</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1822-1885</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Greeley, Horace</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1811-1872</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lincoln, Abraham</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1809-1865</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Morton, Levi P. (Levi Parsons)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1824-1920</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Stanton, Edwin McMasters</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1814-1869</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Trumbull, Lyman</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1813-1896</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wade, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1800-1878</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Congress.</namePart>
      <namePart>Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War.</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Congress.</namePart>
      <namePart>Senate.</namePart>
      <namePart>Committee on Commerce.</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Department of the Interior</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Officials and employees</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Republican Congressional Committee.</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Antislavery movements</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Slavery</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Michigan</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1837-1950</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1861-1865</temporal>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1865-1877</temporal>
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    <occupation>Cabinet officers</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Senators, U.S. Congress</occupation>
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