Sylvanus Cadwallader papers, 1818-1904 (bulk 1862-1866 and 1880-1898).
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Mixed materialsDescription: 250 items; 1 container; 0.4 linear feetSubject(s): - Babcock, Orville Elias, 1835-1884 -- Correspondence
- Badeau, Adam, 1831-1895 -- Correspondence
- Bennett, James Gordon, 1795-1872 -- Correspondence
- Boudinot, Elias, 1740-1821 -- Correspondence
- Bower, Theodore S. -- Correspondence
- Brady, John A
- Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1795-1858 -- Correspondence
- Cadwallader, Mary Isabella Paul
- Carson, Samuel Price, 1798-1838 -- Correspondence
- Chandler, William E. (William Eaton), 1835-1917 -- Correspondence
- Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 -- Correspondence
- Curtis, George William, 1824-1892 -- Correspondence
- Dana, Charles A. (Charles Anderson), 1819-1897 -- Correspondence
- Dent, Frederick T. (Frederick Tracy), 1820-1892 -- Correspondence
- Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879 -- Correspondence
- Grant, Frederick Dent, 1850-1912 -- Correspondence
- Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
- Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 -- Correspondence
- Hudson, Frederic, 1819-1875 -- Correspondence
- Macon, Nathaniel, 1757-1837 -- Correspondence
- McCullagh, Joseph B. (Joseph Burbridge), 1842-1896 -- Correspondence
- Meade, George Gordon, 1815-1872 -- Correspondence
- Pendleton, George H. (George Hunt), 1825-1889 -- Correspondence
- Porter, Horace, 1837-1921 -- Correspondence
- Rawlins, John A. (John Aaron), 1831-1869
- Richie, Thomas -- Correspondence
- Roane, Spencer, 1762-1822 -- Correspondence
- Rublee, Horace, 1829-1896 -- Correspondence
- Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 -- Correspondence
- Stanton, Edwin McMasters, 1814-1869 -- Correspondence
- Townsend, George Alfred, 1841-1914 -- Correspondence
- Wilson, James Harrison, 1837-1925 -- Correspondence
- Cadwalader family
- Paul family
- Freemasonry
- Journalism -- United States
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Journalists
- Wisconsin -- Officials and employees
- Journalists
- Public officials
Open to research.
Correspondence; writings; newspaper articles by and about Cadwallader and his wife, Mary Isabella Paul Cadwallader; Civil War passes; list of staff serving under Gen. Ulysses S. Grant; drawing of Capt. John A. Brady; appointments to office in Wisconsin; Masonic degrees; and other papers relating primarily to Cadwallader's activities as Civil War correspondent reporting on Grant's operations, to the career of Gen. John A. Rawlins, and to Cadwallader (Cadwalader) family matters. Includes Paul family correspondence; and several letters collected by Cadwallader: one letter (1833) from Nathaniel Macon to Samuel Price Carson and two letters from Spencer Roane, one to Henry Clay (1820) and the other to Thomas Richie (undated).
Correspondents include Orville Elias Babcock, Adam Badeau, James Gordon Bennett, Elias Boudinot, Theodore S. Bower, Benjamin F. Butler, William E. Chandler, George William Curtis, Charles A. Dana, Frederick T. Dent, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Dent Grant, Ulysses S. Grant, Frederic Hudson, Joseph B. McCullagh, George Gordon Meade, George H. Pendleton, Horace Potter, Horace Rublee, William T. Sherman, Edwin McMasters Stanton, George Alfred Townsend, and James Harrison Wilson.
Journalist and public official.
Collection material in English.
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