TY  - GEN
AU  - Bates,David Homer
AU  - Lincoln,Abraham
TI  - David Homer Bates papers,
KW  - Carnegie, Andrew,
KW  - Davis, Jefferson Columbus,
KW  - Eckert, Thomas Thompson,
KW  - Ewell, Richard Stoddert,
KW  - Kemper, James Lawson,
KW  - Kirby-Smith, Edmund,
KW  - Lee, Robert E.
KW  - Lincoln, Robert Todd,
KW  - United States
KW  - War Department
KW  - Military telegraph
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Military intelligence
KW  - Telegraphers
KW  - itoamc
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010083
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010083.3
ER  -