Halleck, H. W. 1815-1872.

H.W. Halleck papers, 1843-1896 (bulk 1862). - 230 items. 1 container. 0.4 linear feet.

Open to research.

Correspondence, telegrams, military notebook, scrapbook, and other papers pertaining chiefly to Halleck's command of the Union Army's departments of the Missouri and Mississippi. Topics include treatment of surgeons on the battlefield, capture of Fort Donelson by Ulysses S. Grant, and conscription. Correspondents include Don Carlos Buell, George W. Cullum, Samuel Ryan Curtis, John A. Dix, Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, George Brinton McClellan, Montgomery C. Meigs, Benjamin M. Prentiss, John McAllister Schofield, Thomas Alexander Scott, William T. Sherman, Frederick Steele, George Stoneman, William Kerley Strong, Lorenzo Thomas, and Z.B. Tower.


Army officer, lawyer, and businessman.


Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009255

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Buell, Don Carlos, 1818-1898 --Correspondence.
Cullum, George W. 1809-1892 --Correspondence.
Curtis, Samuel Ryan, 1805-1866 --Correspondence.
Dix, John A. 1798-1879 --Correspondence.
Grant, Ulysses S. 1822-1885.
Grant, Ulysses S. 1822-1885 --Correspondence.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 --Correspondence.
McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885 --Correspondence.
Meigs, Montgomery C. 1816-1892 --Correspondence.
Prentiss, Benjamin M. 1819-1901 --Correspondence.
Schofield, John McAllister, 1831-1906 --Correspondence.
Scott, Thomas Alexander, 1823-1881 --Correspondence.
Sherman, William T. 1820-1891 --Correspondence.
Steele, Frederick, 1819-1868 --Correspondence.
Stoneman, George, 1822-1894 --Correspondence.
Strong, William Kerley, 1805-1867 --Correspondence.
Thomas, Lorenzo, 1804-1875 --Correspondence.
Tower, Z. B. 1819-1900 --Correspondence.


United States. Army --Recruiting, enlistment, etc.
United States. Army --Surgeons.
United States. Army. Department of Mississippi.
United States. Army. Department of the Missouri.


Fort Donelson, Battle of, Tenn., 1862.


Tennessee--History--Campaigns.--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.


Army officers.
Businessmen.
Lawyers.