TY  - GEN
AU  - Benham,Donald
TI  - Donald Benham Civil War collection,
KW  - Averell, William Woods,
KW  - Greeley, Horace,
KW  - Lee, Robert E.
KW  - Lincoln, Abraham,
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - Military life
KW  - Recruiting, enlistment, etc
KW  - Supplies and stores
KW  - Navy
KW  - Potomac Flotilla
KW  - Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Strategy
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Confederate States of America
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Maryland
KW  - Petersburg (Va.)
KW  - Potomac River
KW  - Richmond (Va.)
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - 1861-1865
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Secret service
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Virginia
KW  - Washington (D.C.)
KW  - Collectors
KW  - itoamc
N1  - Open to research
N2  - 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
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010307
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010307.3
ER  -