TY  - GEN
AU  - Gillette,James Jenkins
TI  - James Jenkins Gillette papers,
KW  - Elliott, Tom,
KW  - Maxwell, Sally
KW  - Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - Militia
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - Maryland Infantry Regiment, 4th (1862-1865)
KW  - Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
KW  - Commissioners of Claims
KW  - Congress
KW  - Elections
KW  - Republican National Convention
KW  - Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862
KW  - Atlanta Campaign, 1864
KW  - Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861
KW  - Bull Run, 2nd Battle of, Va., 1862
KW  - Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va., 1863
KW  - Courts
KW  - Alabama
KW  - Mobile
KW  - Gettysburg Campaign, 1863
KW  - Presidents
KW  - Election
KW  - 1880
KW  - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
KW  - Shenandoah Valley Campaign, 1862
KW  - Maryland
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Mobile (Ala.)
KW  - Pennsylvania
KW  - Richmond (Va.)
KW  - Prisoners and prisons
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1877-1881
KW  - Virginia
KW  - Army officers
KW  - itoamc
N1  - Open to research
N2  - 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
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009111
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009111.3
ER  -