03174cpcaa2200493 4500 mm 84061627 DLC 20260227111721.0 cr ||||||||||| 840405|||||||||||| eng mm 84061627 ms 62004619 DLC dacs DLC DLC W lcmd Bates, David Homer, 1843-1926. David Homer Bates papers, 1837-1926. 2 microfilm reels. Arranged in 5 series. Series 1: Civil War File, 1861-1865; Series 2: Correspondence, 1864-1926; Series 3: Facsimiles, 1862-1865; Series 4: Miscellany, 1837-1926; and Series 5: Scrapbooks, 1907-1908. Open to research. Correspondence, diary, daily journal (1863-1865), drafts and annotated proof sheets of Bates's writings, newspaper clippings, printed matter, facsimiles, photographs, and other papers. Includes eleven Abraham Lincoln manuscripts and letters of Civil War commanders such as Jefferson Columbus Davis, Richard Stoddert Ewell, James Lawson Kemper, Edmund Kirby-Smith, and Robert E. Lee. Journal kept by Bates while he served as manager of the War Department telegraph office in Washington, D.C., serves as a record of military intelligence activities in the Civil War and of military telegraphic communication. Other correspondents include Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Thompson Eckert, and Robert Todd Lincoln. Microfilm edition available, no. 18,925. Microfilm produced from originals in the Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1984. Telegrapher. Died 1926. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010083 Forms part of: Alfred Whital Stern collection of Lincolniana. Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 Correspondence. Davis, Jefferson Columbus, 1828-1879 Correspondence. Eckert, Thomas Thompson, 1825-1910 Correspondence. Ewell, Richard Stoddert, 1817-1872 Correspondence. Kemper, James Lawson, 1823-1895 Correspondence. Kirby-Smith, Edmund, 1824-1893 Correspondence. Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 Correspondence. Lincoln, Robert Todd, 1843-1926 Correspondence. United States. War Department. Military telegraph. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Military intelligence. Telegraphers. itoamc Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. Abraham Lincoln papers. Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010083 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010083.3 44095 44095