TY  - GEN
AU  - Poe,O.M.
TI  - O.M. Poe papers,
KW  - Bache, Hartman,
KW  - Chandler, Zachariah,
KW  - Howard, Jacob Merritt,
KW  - Raynolds, W. F.
KW  - Sherman, William T.
KW  - Turnbull, Charles N.,
KW  - Williamson, R. S.
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - Officers
KW  - Army of the Ohio
KW  - Canals
KW  - Great Lakes (North America)
KW  - Illinois
KW  - Michigan
KW  - Lighthouses
KW  - Military engineering
KW  - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
KW  - Georgia
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Huron, Lake (Mich. and Ont.)
KW  - Hennepin Canal (Ill.)
KW  - Sault Sainte Marie Canal (Mich.)
KW  - South Carolina
KW  - Spectacle Reef (Mich.)
KW  - Tennessee
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Engineering and construction
KW  - Army officers
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Engineers
N1  - Open to research
N2  - Correspondence, diaries, writings, speeches, reports, orders, notebooks, family papers, biographical material, newspaper clippings, maps, drawings, memorabilia, and other papers relating primarily to Poe's military service as an engineer during the Civil War and Reconstruction and his friendship with Gen. William T. Sherman whom he served as aide-de-camp from 1873 to 1884.  Includes material on his stint as chief engineer with the Army of the Ohio, campaigns with Sherman in Georgia, South Carolina, and Tennessee, and other engagements in the western theater of the war.  Postwar engineering projects documented include the Spectacle Reef lighthouse on Lake Huron, the Hennepin Canal (the portion known then as the Illinois-Mississippi Canal), and the canal at Saulte Ste. Marie, Mich.  Includes over one hundred letters between Poe and Sherman.  Other correspondents include Hartman Bache, Zachariah Chandler, Jacob Merritt Howard, W.F. Raynolds, Charles N. Turnbull, and R.S. Williamson
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008037
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008037.3
ER  -