Christiancy and Pickett families' papers, 1835-1998. - 1,000 items. 2 1 containers plus oversize. 0.6 linear feet.

Open to research.

Includes letters (1862-1864) written by Henry Clay Christiancy and his brother James Isaac Christiancy, Union Army officers from Michigan serving in Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania during the Civil War. An annotated transcription of Henry Clay Christiancy's diary (1862-1864) contains maps and photographs. Pickett family notebooks (1835-1998) contain correspondence, notes, writings, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, estate papers, genealogy, and other papers of or relating to Confederate Gen. George E. Pickett and his charge at the battle of Gettysburg, but also to his wife, La Salle Corbell Pickett, and her career as a lecturer after his death. The collection also contains military certificates (1846-1861) of General Pickett. Also includes correspondence of George E. Pickett III relating to his grandparents and Pickett family genealogy.


Some photographs
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
transferred to


Families related by the marriage of George E. Pickett, Jr., and Ida Elizabeth Christiancy in 1891.


Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009159

mm 99084388


Christiancy family.
Pickett family.


Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863.


Kentucky--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Michigan--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Pennsylvania--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States--History--Campaigns.--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--History--Maps.--Civil War, 1861-1865
Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.