03638cpcaa2200649 a 4500 mm 78022822 DLC 20260227111624.0 cr ||||||||||| 781030|||||||||||| eng mm 78022822 ms 68002035 DLC dacs DLC DLC W lcmd Gillette, James Jenkins, -1881. James Jenkins Gillette papers, 1857-1884. 2,000 items. 6 containers plus 1 oversize. 2.6 linear feet. Open to research. Correspondence, military papers, receipts, court records, and other papers relating primarily to Gillette's Civil War service with the 4th Maryland Infantry Regiment and the 71st New York Militia Regiment and to his activities as U.S. Commissioner of Claims for Mobile, Ala. Subjects include the battles of Antietam, First Bull Run, Second Bull Run, and Chancellorville; the Atlanta, Gettysburg, and Shenandoah Valley campaigns; and Gillette's life as a prisoner of war in Richmond, Va. Other papers relate to the U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands; the chancery court in Mobile, Ala.; Mobile and Ohio Railroad; elections of 1878 and 1880; and 1880 Republican National Convention. Includes letters (1862-1863) of Gillette's friend Tom Elliott to Sally Maxwell. U.S. Army officer and commissioner of subsistence and U.S. commissioner of claims. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009111 Elliott, Tom, active 1862-1863 Correspondence. Maxwell, Sally Correspondence. Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company. New York (State). Militia. United States. Army. Maryland Infantry Regiment, 4th (1862-1865) United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. United States. Commissioners of Claims. United States. Congress Elections. Republican National Convention. Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862. Atlanta Campaign, 1864. Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861. Bull Run, 2nd Battle of, Va., 1862. Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va., 1863. Courts Alabama Mobile. Gettysburg Campaign, 1863. Presidents United States Election 1880. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Shenandoah Valley Campaign, 1862. Maryland History Civil War, 1861-1865. Mobile (Ala.) History. Pennsylvania History Civil War, 1861-1865. Richmond (Va.) History Civil War, 1861-1865. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Prisoners and prisons. United States Politics and government 1877-1881. Virginia History Civil War, 1861-1865. Army officers. itoamc Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009111 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009111.3 39881 39881