Montgomery C. Meigs papers, 1799-1971 (bulk 1849-1892).

By: Contributor(s): Material type: Mixed materialsMixed materialsDescription: 11,000 items; 52 containers plus 10 oversize; 50 microfilm reels; 27 linear feetSubject(s): Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Microfilm edition available, in part, no. 18,202.
Summary: Correspondence, diaries, journals, notebooks, family papers, military papers, drawings, maps, plans, scrapbooks, photographs, sketches and studies, and other papers relating primarily to Meigs's work in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, his service as quartermaster general during the Civil War, and family matters. supervising construction in Maryland and Washington, D.C., on the Washington Aqueduct, additions to the U.S. Capitol, and the Pension Office building. Also includes material relating to the death of his son John Rodgers Meigs, and travels in Europe and Texas. Family papers include correspondence of Meig's wife, Louisa Rodgers Meigs, his father, Charles D. Meigs, and his brother, Emlen, and the papers of his son Montgomery Meigs (1847-1931).Summary: Correspondents include Spencer Fullerton Baird, James Buchanan, Bernhard Ernst von Bülow, Ambrose Everett Burnside, Simon Cameron, Adolph Cluss, Jefferson Davis, John B. Floyd, Horace Greeley, Joseph Henry, Joseph Holt, Charles P. Manning, George Brinton McClellan, Helmuth graf von Moltke, David Dixon Porter, Frederick William Seward, William Henry Seward, William T. Sherman, Edwin McMasters Stanton, and Joseph Gilbert Totten.
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Correspondence, diaries, journals, notebooks, family papers, military papers, drawings, maps, plans, scrapbooks, photographs, sketches and studies, and other papers relating primarily to Meigs's work in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, his service as quartermaster general during the Civil War, and family matters. supervising construction in Maryland and Washington, D.C., on the Washington Aqueduct, additions to the U.S. Capitol, and the Pension Office building. Also includes material relating to the death of his son John Rodgers Meigs, and travels in Europe and Texas. Family papers include correspondence of Meig's wife, Louisa Rodgers Meigs, his father, Charles D. Meigs, and his brother, Emlen, and the papers of his son Montgomery Meigs (1847-1931).

Correspondents include Spencer Fullerton Baird, James Buchanan, Bernhard Ernst von Bülow, Ambrose Everett Burnside, Simon Cameron, Adolph Cluss, Jefferson Davis, John B. Floyd, Horace Greeley, Joseph Henry, Joseph Holt, Charles P. Manning, George Brinton McClellan, Helmuth graf von Moltke, David Dixon Porter, Frederick William Seward, William Henry Seward, William T. Sherman, Edwin McMasters Stanton, and Joseph Gilbert Totten.

Microfilm edition available, in part, no. 18,202.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1981-1985.

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

Army officer, engineer, architect, and scientist.

Collection material in English.

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

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006021

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