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    <title>Calvin Benjamin papers, circa 1838-1882 (bulk 1843-1851)</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Benjamin, Calvin</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">-1847</namePart>
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  <abstract>Chiefly correspondence, along with transcribed excerpts and notes, relating to Benjamin's service under Gen. Zachary Taylor during the Mexican War.  Also documents  Benjamin's assignment with the United States Coast Survey on the Chesapeake Bay.  Includes letters (1849-1851) written by his brother, Judson Benjamin, while serving as a Baptist missionary in Burma.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>U.S. Army officer.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009075">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009075</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Benjamin, Judson</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Taylor, Zachary</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1784-1850</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Army</namePart>
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    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Mexican War, 1846-1848</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States Coast Survey.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Baptists</topic>
    <topic>Missions</topic>
    <geographic>Burma</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Mexican War, 1846-1848</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)</geographic>
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    <occupation>Army officers</occupation>
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