05302cpcaa2200877 a 4500 mm 79041202 DLC 20260227111657.0 cr ||||||||||| 791116|||||||||||| eng mm 79041202 ms 65000931 mm 85076248 DLC dacs DLC DLC W lcmd Stanton, Edwin McMasters, 1814-1869. Edwin McMasters Stanton papers, 1818-1921 (bulk 1862-1870). 7,650 items. 46 containers plus 1 oversize. 14 microfilm reels. 8.4 linear feet. Arranged in 6 series. Series 1: Correspondence, 1831-1870; Series 2: War Department, 1862-1863; Series 3: Letterbooks, 1863-1865; Series 4: Miscellany, 1818-1921; Series 5: Addition, 1856-1869; and Series 6: Oversize, 1818-1869. Open to research. Correspondence, letterbooks, reports, printed matter, memorabilia, maps, and other papers relating chiefly to Stanton's role as U.S. secretary of war under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson and to his role in the politics of Reconstruction. Other topics include the conduct of the Civil War, the radical wing of the Republican Party, Lincoln's assassination, and Stanton's evaluation of U.S. Army generals. Correspondents include the Stanton family, George Bancroft, Henry Ward Beecher, James Buchanan, Benjamin F. Butler, Simon Cameron, Salmon P. Chase, Roscoe Conkling, Charles A. Dana, Thomas Ewing, William Pitt Fessenden, William Lloyd Garrison, Ulysses S. Grant, John Hay, Andrew Johnson, Reverdy Johnson, Francis Lieber, Abraham Lincoln, George Brinton McClellan, Winfield Scott, William Henry Seward, Philip Henry Sheridan, William T. Sherman, Thaddeus Stevens, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Sumner, Benjamin Tappan, Lyman Trumbull, and Gideon Welles. Microfilm edition available, no. 17,814. Microfilm produced from originals in Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service. Lawyer, U.S. attorney general, and U.S. secretary of war. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010150 Bancroft, George, 1800-1891 Correspondence. Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887 Correspondence. Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 Correspondence. Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893 Correspondence. Cameron, Simon, 1799-1889 Correspondence. Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873 Correspondence. Conkling, Roscoe, 1829-1888 Correspondence. Dana, Charles A. (Charles Anderson), 1819-1897 Correspondence. Ewing, Thomas, 1789-1871 Correspondence. Fessenden, William Pitt, 1806-1869 Correspondence. Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879 Correspondence. Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Correspondence. Hay, John, 1838-1905 Correspondence. Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875. Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875 Correspondence. Johnson, Reverdy, 1796-1876 Correspondence. Lieber, Francis, 1800-1872 Correspondence. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Assassination. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Correspondence. McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885 Correspondence. Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866 Correspondence. Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872 Correspondence. Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888 Correspondence. Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 Correspondence. Stevens, Thaddeus, 1792-1868 Correspondence. Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 Correspondence. Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 Correspondence. Tappan, Benjamin, 1773-1857 Correspondence. Trumbull, Lyman, 1813-1896 Correspondence. Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878 Correspondence. Stanton family Correspondence. United States. War Department. Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) Generals United States. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) United States Armed Forces Officers. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865. United States Politics and government 1861-1865. United States Politics and government 1865-1877. Cabinet officers. itoamc Lawyers. itoamc Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010150 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010150.3 42306 42306