Benham, Donald creator collector. mixed material monographic eng 300 1 0.4. Correspondence, speeches, military orders and records, financial and legal records, and other papers of Union Army officers and soldiers concerning recruitment, enlistment, camp life, battle engagements, military strategy, and distribution of military supplies. Other subjects include diplomatic policy, abolition and slavery, and social conditions in the South during its occupation by Union forces. Includes records of the U.S. Navy Potomac Flotilla pertaining to communications in the Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River region; correspondence of Horace Greeley concerning Abraham Lincoln, prosecution of the war, and political battles in Washington, D.C.; an eyewitness account of Robert E. Lee's evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia, and his subsequent retreat westward; and a speech by William Woods Averell concerning his life and military career relating, in part, to wartime espionage and spy networks in Washington, D.C., following the First Battle of Bull Run. Open to research. Collector. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010307 Averell, William Woods 1832-1900 Greeley, Horace 1811-1872 Correspondence Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward) 1807-1870 Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 United States. Army Military life United States. Army Recruiting, enlistment, etc United States. Army Supplies and stores United States. Navy. Potomac Flotilla. Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861 Slavery United States Strategy History 19th century Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.) History Civil War, 1861-1865 Confederate States of America Social conditions Maryland History Civil War, 1861-1865 Petersburg (Va.) History Civil War, 1861-1865 Potomac River History Civil War, 1861-1865 Richmond (Va.) History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States Foreign relations 1861-1865 United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Secret service United States Politics and government 1861-1865 Virginia History Civil War, 1861-1865 Washington (D.C.) History Civil War, 1861-1865 Collectors mm2009085495 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms010307 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms010307.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010307 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010307.3 Open to research. DLC 090911 20260227111731.0 mm2009085495