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    <title>James Harrison Wilson papers, circa 1862-1923 (bulk 1890-1915)</title>
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    <namePart>Wilson, James Harrison</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1837-1925</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, journal, speeches, writings, military orders, scrapbook, and other papers relating to the Civil War, railroad affairs, national politics, foreign policy, the Spanish-American War, Cuban affairs, and the China Relief Expedition (1900-1901).  Subjects include Civil War campaigns, the postwar Army, the St. Louis and Southeastern Railway Company and railway building in the Mississippi River Valley, life in China in the 1880s and in 1900, Republican Party politics, and the interests of Wilson as a biographer.  Includes drafts and typescripts of Wilson's books, Heroes of the Great Conflict; Life and Services of William Farrar Smith (1904), The Life of Charles A. Dana (1907), Under the Old Flag (1912), and The Life of John A. Rawlins (1916).  Includes extracts of Rawlins's letters.</abstract>
  <abstract>Correspondents include Charles Francis Adams, Adam Badeau, Simeon E. Baldwin, Tasker Howard Bliss, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clark Corbin, E.H. Crowder, Shelby M. Cullom, Charles A. Dana, Grenville Mellen Dodge, Stuyvesant Fish, Hamlin Garland, Frederick John Kingsbury, Robert Todd Lincoln, Henry Cabot Lodge, William McKinley, John Bassett Moore, George Haven Putnam, Whitelaw Reid, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Francis Lynde Stetson, Moorfield Storey, Oswald Garrison Villard, Paul M. Warburg, Horace White, Edward Francis Winslow, and John Russell Young.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Soldier, railroad builder, and author.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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      <namePart>Adams, Charles Francis</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1835-1915</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Badeau, Adam</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1831-1895</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Baldwin, Simeon E. (Simeon Eben)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1840-1927</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bliss, Tasker Howard</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1853-1930</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Carnegie, Andrew</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1835-1919</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Corbin, Henry Clark</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1842-1909</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Crowder, E. H. (Enoch Herbert)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1859-1932</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Cullom, Shelby M. (Shelby Moore)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1829-1914</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dana, Charles A. (Charles Anderson)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1819-1897</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dana, Charles A. (Charles Anderson)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1819-1897</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dodge, Grenville Mellen</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1831-1916</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Fish, Stuyvesant</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1851-1923</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Garland, Hamlin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1860-1940</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Kingsbury, Frederick John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1823-1910</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lincoln, Robert Todd</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1843-1926</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lodge, Henry Cabot</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1850-1924</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>McKinley, William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1843-1901</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Moore, John Bassett</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1860-1947</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Putnam, George Haven</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1844-1930</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Rawlins, John A. (John Aaron)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1831-1869</namePart>
    </name>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Rawlins, John A. (John Aaron)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1831-1869</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Reid, Whitelaw</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1837-1912</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Roosevelt, Theodore</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1858-1919</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Root, Elihu</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1845-1937</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Smith, William Farrar</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1824-1903</namePart>
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      <namePart>Stetson, Francis Lynde</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Storey, Moorfield</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1845-1929</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Villard, Oswald Garrison</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1872-1949</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Warburg, Paul M. (Paul Moritz)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1868-1932</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>White, Horace</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1834-1916</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Winslow, Edward Francis</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1837-1914</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Young, John Russell</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1840-1899</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Army.</namePart>
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      <namePart>Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )</namePart>
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      <namePart>China Relief Expedition (1900-1901)</namePart>
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    <topic>International relief</topic>
    <geographic>China</geographic>
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    <topic>Railroads</topic>
    <geographic>Mississippi River Valley</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Railroads</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Spanish-American War, 1898</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>China</geographic>
    <topic>Social conditions</topic>
    <temporal>1644-1912</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Cuba</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>1895-</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <temporal>1865-1921</temporal>
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  <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>Campaigns</topic>
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    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1865-1933</temporal>
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      <title>Heroes of the great conflict; life and services of William Farrar Smith, major general, United States volunteers in the civil war; a sketch. 1904</title>
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      <title>Under the old flag; recollections of military operations in the War for the Union, the Spanish War, the Boxer Rebellion, etc. 1912</title>
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