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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Philip Henry Sheridan papers, 1853-1896 (bulk 1862-1887)</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Sheridan, Philip Henry</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1831-1888</namePart>
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    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>18,000</extent>
    <extent>120</extent>
    <extent>104</extent>
    <extent>46.4</extent>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, letterbooks, telegrams, memoir, speeches, reports, orders, financial records, scrapbooks, and other papers relating primarily to the Civil War, Reconstruction, Mexican border disputes, Indian wars, and Sheridan's service as commanding general of the U.S. Army.</abstract>
  <abstract>Civil War material relates to cavalry operations, the Appomattox, Shenandoah, and Tullahoma campaigns, the Winchester Raid, and engagements at Boonville, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Perryville, Ripley, and Stone River.  Also includes material on George A. Forsyth's Europe-Asia tour (1875-1876), the Piegan Expedition (1869-1870), Gouverneur K. Warren's court of inquiry (1881), Rebecca M. Bonsal's service as Union spy at Winchester, Va., reconnaissance of the Bighorn Mountains and the Bighorn and Yellowstone river valleys (1877), and Henry Page's service as quartermaster of the Army of the Potomac (1863-1865).  Correspondents include George A. Forsyth, James W. Forsyth, Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, Michael V. Sheridan, and William T. Sherman.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition available, no. 19,308.</note>
  <note>Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1986.</note>
  <note>In part, transcripts. [S.l.].</note>
  <note>Army officer.</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.ms006029">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006029</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bonsal, Rebecca M</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Forsyth, George A</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Forsyth, James W. (James William)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1836-1906</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1822-1885</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lincoln, Abraham</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1809-1865</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Page, Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">active 1863-1865</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sheridan, Michael V. (Michael Vincent)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1840-1918</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1820-1891</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Warren, G. K. (Gouverneur Kemble)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1830-1882</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Courts-martial and courts of inquiry</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Indians of North America</topic>
    <topic>Government relations</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Indians of North America</topic>
    <topic>Wars</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Indians of North America</topic>
    <topic>Wars</topic>
    <geographic>Montana</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Piegan Indians</topic>
    <topic>Wars</topic>
    <geographic>Montana</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Shenandoah Valley Campaign, 1864 (May-August)</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Appomattox (Va.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Asia</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Bighorn Mountains (Wyo. and Mont.)</geographic>
    <topic>Discovery and exploration</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Boonville (Mo.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Chickamauga (Ga.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Europe</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Georgia</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Kentucky</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Mexico</geographic>
    <topic>Boundaries</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Missionary Ridge (Tenn.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Mississippi</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Missouri</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Murfreesboro (Tenn)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Perryville (Ky.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Ripley (Miss.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Tennessee</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Tullahoma (Tenn.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Boundaries</topic>
    <geographic>Mexico</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
    <topic>Cavalry operations</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
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    <geographic>Winchester, 3rd Battle of, Winchester, Va., 1864</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Wyoming</geographic>
    <topic>Discovery and exploration</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Yellowstone River</geographic>
    <topic>Discovery and exploration</topic>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Army officers</occupation>
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