Bates, David Homer 1843-1926 creator mixed material monographic eng 2 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. Open to research. 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 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 mm 84061627 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms010083 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms010083.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010083 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010083.3 Open to research. DLC 840405 20260227111721.0 mm 84061627