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    <title>George Brinton McClellan papers, 1783-1898 (bulk 1850-1885)</title>
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    <namePart>McClellan, George Brinton</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1826-1885</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence; telegrams; memoranda; diaries; writings; notes; military papers; printed copies of speeches, articles, and books; McClellan family papers; scrapbooks; and other papers relating primarily to McClellan's Civil War service particularly in the Peninsular Campaign and Battle of Antietam, Md.  Includes materials relating to his 1864 report on the U.S. Army of the Potomac; years as a cadet and instructor at the United States Military Academy; service during the Mexican War; participation in exploratory expeditions to Arkansas, the Red River (Tex.-La.), Texas, and Washington Territory; travels in Europe studying European military systems; and campaign for U.S. president in 1864.  Also documents his service as governor of New Jersey; work as engineer and railroad company executive; and service as chief engineer of the New York (N.Y.) Dept. of Docks.  Subjects include the reorganization of the U.S. Army, national political affairs, and the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.  Includes diaries of Ellen Mary Marcy McClellan and other McClellan family members and papers of Joseph F. Minter.</abstract>
  <abstract>Correspondents include Benjamin Alvord; John Jacob Astor; Nathaniel Prentiss Banks; Samuel L.M. Barlow; J.G. Barnard; F.S. Blount; Don Carlos Buell; Ambrose Everett Burnside; Simon Cameron; Leslie Combs; Samuel Sullivan Cox; George Ticknor Curtis; William Dennison; John A. Dix; Edward Everett; Millard Fillmore; J. D. Foster; William Buel Franklin; George Gibbs; Joshua R. Giddings; Ulysses S. Grant; H.W. Halleck; Samuel Peter Heintzelman; Rufus Ingalls; Joseph E. Johnston; Amos Kendall; Hiram Ketchum; Robert E. Lee; Abraham Lincoln; Manton Marble; Randolph Barnes Marcy; Irvin McDowell; George Gordon Meade; Charles E. Mix; Louis Philippe Albert d'Orléans, comte de Paris; Joel Parker; Thomas B. Peddle; Allan Pinkerton; Fitz-John Porter; William Cowper Prime; William S. Rosecrans; Benjamin Rush; Winfield Scott; Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff; Gustavus Woodson Smith; Persifor Frazer Smith; Edwin McMasters Stanton; Isaac Ingall Stevens; Edwin V. Sumner; Charles E. Swann; Stephen W. Tichenor; E.D. Townsend; Clement L. Vallandigham; Stewart Van Vliet; Daniel W. Voorhees; George H. Weeks; James C. Welling; Henry Benjamin Whipple; Augustus Woodbury; John Ellis Wool; and the McClellan family.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition of a portion of these papers is available, no. 16,004.</note>
  <note>Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1974.</note>
  <note>Maps transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.</note>
  <note>U.S. Army officer and governor of New Jersey.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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      <namePart>Alvord, Benjamin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1813-1884</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Astor, John Jacob</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1822-1890</namePart>
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      <namePart>Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1816-1894</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Barlow, Samuel L. M. (Samuel Latham Mitchill)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1826-1889</namePart>
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      <namePart>Barnard, J. G. (John Gross)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1815-1882</namePart>
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      <namePart>Blount, F. S</namePart>
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      <namePart>Buell, Don Carlos</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1818-1898</namePart>
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      <namePart>Burnside, Ambrose Everett</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1824-1881</namePart>
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      <namePart>Cameron, Simon</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1799-1889</namePart>
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      <namePart>Combs, Leslie</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1793-1881</namePart>
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      <namePart>Cox, Samuel Sullivan</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1824-1889</namePart>
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      <namePart>Curtis, George Ticknor</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1812-1894</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dennison, William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1815-1882</namePart>
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      <namePart>Dix, John A. (John Adams)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1798-1879</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Everett, Edward</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1794-1865</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Fillmore, Millard</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1800-1874</namePart>
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      <namePart>Foster, J. D</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">active 1851-1852</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Franklin, William Buel</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1823-1903</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gibbs, George</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1815-1873</namePart>
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      <namePart>Giddings, Joshua R. (Joshua Reed)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1795-1864</namePart>
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      <namePart>Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1822-1885</namePart>
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      <namePart>Halleck, H. W. (Henry Wager)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1815-1872</namePart>
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      <namePart>Heintzelman, Samuel Peter</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1805-1880</namePart>
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      <namePart>Ingalls, Rufus</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1818-1893</namePart>
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      <namePart>Johnston, Joseph E. (Joseph Eggleston)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1807-1891</namePart>
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      <namePart>Kendall, Amos</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1789-1869</namePart>
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      <namePart>Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1807-1870</namePart>
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      <namePart>Lincoln, Abraham</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1809-1865</namePart>
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      <namePart>Marble, Manton</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1834-1917</namePart>
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      <namePart>Marcy, Randolph Barnes</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1812-1887</namePart>
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      <namePart>McDowell, Irvin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1818-1885</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Meade, George Gordon</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1815-1872</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Mix, Charles E</namePart>
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      <namePart>Paris, Louis Philippe Albert d'Orléans</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1838-1894</namePart>
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      <namePart>Parker, Joel</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1816-1888</namePart>
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      <namePart>Peddle, Thomas B</namePart>
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      <namePart>Pinkerton, Allan</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1819-1884</namePart>
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      <namePart>Porter, Fitz-John</namePart>
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      <namePart>Prime, William Cowper</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1825-1905</namePart>
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      <namePart>Rosecrans, William S. (William Starke)</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Rush, Benjamin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1811-1877</namePart>
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      <namePart>Scott, Winfield</namePart>
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      <namePart>Shurtleff, Nathaniel Bradstreet</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1810-1874</namePart>
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      <namePart>Smith, Gustavus Woodson</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1822-1896</namePart>
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      <namePart>Smith, Persifor Frazer</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1798-1858</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Stanton, Edwin McMasters</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1814-1869</namePart>
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      <namePart>Stevens, Isaac Ingalls</namePart>
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      <namePart>Sumner, Edwin V. (Edwin Vose)</namePart>
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      <namePart>Swann, Charles E</namePart>
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      <namePart>Townsend, E. D. (Edward Davis)</namePart>
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      <namePart>Vallandigham, Clement L. (Clement Laird)</namePart>
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      <namePart>Van Vliet, Stewart</namePart>
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      <namePart>Voorhees, Daniel W. (Daniel Wolsey)</namePart>
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      <namePart>Weeks, George H. (George Henry)</namePart>
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      <namePart>Welling, James C. (James Clarke)</namePart>
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      <namePart>Whipple, Henry Benjamin</namePart>
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      <namePart>Woodbury, Augustus</namePart>
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