Gillette, James Jenkins -1881 creator mixed material monographic eng 2,000 6 1 2.6 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. Open to research. 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 mm 78022822 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms009111 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms009111.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009111 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009111.3 Open to research. DLC 781030 20260227111624.0 mm 78022822