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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Jedediah Hotchkiss papers, 1835-1908 (bulk 1875-1898)</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Hotchkiss, Jedediah</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1828-1899</namePart>
    <role>
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  </name>
  <typeOfResource collection="yes" manuscript="yes">mixed material</typeOfResource>
  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>20,000</extent>
    <extent>74</extent>
    <extent>61</extent>
    <extent>29.6</extent>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, diaries (1845-1899), notebooks, subject files, writings, financial papers, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and printed material relating principally to Hotchkiss's service with the Confederate Army as a topographical engineer in Virginia and to his involvement with various land and mining schemes in West Virginia, especially the Gauley Coal Company, Guyandot Coal Land Association, and North Flat-Top Land Association.  Civil War diaries, notebooks, and journals describe troop movements and battles.  Includes genealogical papers relating to the Hotchkiss and Beecher families, copies of William Barton Rogers' notebooks (1835-1841) for his geological survey of Virginia, and papers of Hotchkiss's wife, Sara Anne Comfort Hotchkiss.</abstract>
  <abstract>Correspondents include William Allan, James Gillespie Blaine, William E. Chandler, Robert Lewis Dabney, John W. Daniel, Jubal Anderson Early, Stephen B. Elkins, John Brown Gordon, Nelson Hotchkiss, Stonewall Jackson, Joseph LeConte, Fitzhugh Lee, Robert E. Lee, William Mahone, S.S. McClure, Hunter McGuire, Dwight Lyman Moody, John Pelham, Jeb Stuart, Henry St. George Tucker, and Henry A. Wise.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition available, no. 17,917.</note>
  <note>Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service.</note>
  <note>Artifacts transferred to Smithsonian Institution.</note>
  <note>Some maps transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.</note>
  <note>Photographs and other pictorial material transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.</note>
  <note>Confederate Army officer, topographical and mining engineer, and historian.</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.ms006031">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006031</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Allan, William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1837-1889</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Blaine, James Gillespie</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1830-1893</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Chandler, William E. (William Eaton)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1835-1917</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dabney, Robert Lewis</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1820-1898</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Daniel, John W. (John Warwick)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1842-1910</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Early, Jubal Anderson</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1816-1894</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1841-1911</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gordon, John Brown</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1832-1904</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Jackson, Stonewall</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1824-1863</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>LeConte, Joseph</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1823-1901</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lee, Fitzhugh</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1835-1905</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1807-1870</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Mahone, William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1826-1895</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>McClure, S. S. (Samuel Sidney)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1857-1949</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>McGuire, Hunter</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1835-1900</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Moody, Dwight Lyman</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1837-1899</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Pelham, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1838-1863</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Stuart, Jeb</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1833-1864</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Tucker, Henry St. George</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1853-1932</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wise, Henry A. (Henry Alexander)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1806-1876</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Beecher family</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hotchkiss family</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Confederate States of America.</namePart>
      <namePart>Army.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Gauley Coal Company.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Guyandot Coal Land Association.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>North Flat-Top Land Association.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Coal mines and mining</topic>
    <geographic>West Virginia</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Geology</topic>
    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Land companies</topic>
    <geographic>West Virginia</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Land use, Rural</topic>
    <geographic>West Virginia</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Military topography</topic>
    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
    <topic>Campaigns</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
    <topic>Maps</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
    <topic>Maps</topic>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Army officers, Confederate</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Civil engineers</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Historians</occupation>
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      <title>Sara Anne Comfort Hotchkiss papers</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hotchkiss, Sara Anne Comfort.</namePart>
    </name>
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    <titleInfo>
      <title>William Barton Rogers notebooks. 1835-1841</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Rogers, William Barton,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1804-1882</namePart>
    </name>
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