Confederate States of America records, 1854-1889 (bulk 1861-1865).

By: Contributor(s): Material type: Mixed materialsMixed materialsDescription: 18,500 items; 124 containers plus 2 oversize; 71 microfilm reels; 28 linear feetSubject(s): Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Microfilm edition available, no. 13,744.
Action note:
  • Microfilm 10,164 previously cataloged separately under Confederate States of America. Army of Tennessee.
Summary: Correspondence, proclamations, messages of the president, court cases, minute books, docket books, customs records, financial papers, letterbooks, orders, reports, accounts, receipts, and other records relating to the formulation of the government of the Confederacy and the conduct of its internal, external, and military affairs. Includes records of the departments of state, justice, treasury, navy, war and post office along with material related to the president, congress, and constitution.Summary: Records of the Department of State have been traditionally known as the Pickett Papers and include correspondence of secretary of state J. P. Benjamin with diplomats in Belgium, France, Great Britain, and Mexico, the James Wolcott Wadsworth collection of related material, and other records.Summary: Correspondents include Bolling Baker, G. T. Beauregard, J. P. Benjamin, C. C. Clay, Lewis Conger, Jefferson Davis, Edwin DeLeon, Anthony J. Guirot, Charles J. Helm, Lewis Heyliger, Henry Hotze, L. C. Q. Lamar, A. Dudley Mann, J. M. Mason, C. G. Memminger, John T. Pickett, John A. Quintero, John H. Reagan, Raphael Semmes, John Slidell, Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Jacob Thompson, William Henry Trescott, LeRoy Pope Walker, and William Lowndes Yancey.
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Correspondence, proclamations, messages of the president, court cases, minute books, docket books, customs records, financial papers, letterbooks, orders, reports, accounts, receipts, and other records relating to the formulation of the government of the Confederacy and the conduct of its internal, external, and military affairs. Includes records of the departments of state, justice, treasury, navy, war and post office along with material related to the president, congress, and constitution.

Records of the Department of State have been traditionally known as the Pickett Papers and include correspondence of secretary of state J. P. Benjamin with diplomats in Belgium, France, Great Britain, and Mexico, the James Wolcott Wadsworth collection of related material, and other records.

Correspondents include Bolling Baker, G. T. Beauregard, J. P. Benjamin, C. C. Clay, Lewis Conger, Jefferson Davis, Edwin DeLeon, Anthony J. Guirot, Charles J. Helm, Lewis Heyliger, Henry Hotze, L. C. Q. Lamar, A. Dudley Mann, J. M. Mason, C. G. Memminger, John T. Pickett, John A. Quintero, John H. Reagan, Raphael Semmes, John Slidell, Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Jacob Thompson, William Henry Trescott, LeRoy Pope Walker, and William Lowndes Yancey.

Microfilm edition available, no. 13,744.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1967.

Microfilm of originals in private hands. [S.l.].

Private

Some photographs, lithographs, and illustrative materials transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Collection material in English.

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

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003052

Microfilm 10,164 previously cataloged separately under Confederate States of America. Army of Tennessee.

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