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    <title>Ezra Ayers Carman papers, 1861-1909</title>
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    <namePart>Carman, Ezra Ayers</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1834-1909</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, drafts of chapters, notes, printed material, maps, and other papers comprising Carman's book file for his history of the American Civil War.  Subjects include campaigns in Maryland, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, the Potomac River, and the Shenandoah Valley; Abraham Lincoln and his relations with George Brinton McClellan and other Union officers; secession and the secession convention in Virginia; and slavery.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition available, in part, no. 21,925.</note>
  <note>Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 2003.</note>
  <note>Map transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.</note>
  <note>Some newspapers transferred to Library of Congress Serial and Government Publications Division.</note>
  <note>U.S. Army officer, civil servant, and author.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lincoln, Abraham</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1809-1865</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>McClellan, George Brinton</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1826-1885</namePart>
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    <topic>Officers</topic>
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    <topic>Secession</topic>
    <geographic>Southern States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Secession</topic>
    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Slavery</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Maryland</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
    <topic>Campaigns</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Potomac River</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Tennessee</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
    <topic>Campaigns</topic>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
    <topic>Campaigns</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>West Virginia</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
    <topic>Campaigns</topic>
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    <occupation>Army officers</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
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