James Jenkins Gillette papers, 1857-1884.

Open to research.

Correspondence, military papers, receipts, court records, and other papers relating primarily to Gillette's Civil War service with the 4th Maryland Infantry Regiment and the 71st New York Militia Regiment and to his activities as U.S. Commissioner of Claims for Mobile, Ala. Subjects include the battles of Antietam, First Bull Run, Second Bull Run, and Chancellorville; the Atlanta, Gettysburg, and Shenandoah Valley campaigns; and Gillette's life as a prisoner of war in Richmond, Va. Other papers relate to the U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands; the chancery court in Mobile, Ala.; Mobile and Ohio Railroad; elections of 1878 and 1880; and 1880 Republican National Convention. Includes letters (1862-1863) of Gillette's friend Tom Elliott to Sally Maxwell.

U.S. Army officer and commissioner of subsistence and U.S. commissioner of claims.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009111