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040 _aDLC
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_cDLC
_dDLC
072 7 _aW
_2lcmd
100 1 _aPorter, Fitz-John,
_d1822-1901.
245 0 0 _aFitz-John Porter papers,
_f1830-1949
_g(bulk 1861-1898).
300 _a13,000
_fitems.
300 _a67
_fcontainers plus
_a10
_foversize.
300 _a31
_fmicrofilm reels.
300 _a26.8
_flinear feet.
506 0 _aOpen to research.
520 8 _aCorrespondence, telegrams, reports, memoranda, articles, autobiographical, biographical and genealogical material, financial and legal papers, annotated printed matter, scrapbooks, maps, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Porter's court-martial and cashiering out of military service on January 21, 1863, as a result of his conduct during the Second Battle of Bull Run on August 29, 1862, the review by a board of officers, his reinstatement, honorable retirement in 1879, congressional action taken, and presidential pardon. Documents support of fellow officers in Porter's charges of incompetence and slander against Generals John Pope and Irwin McDowell.
520 8 _aAlso includes material concerning the conduct of the 5th Army Corps under Porter's leadership in the Peninsular Campaign, at Malvern Hill, Second Manassas, and Antietam; autobiographical and biographical studies relating to Porter's early military career, particularly in the war with Mexico and the Utah Expedition (1857-1860); correspondence and military papers dealing with Porter's Texas Expedition (1861) and the first Shenandoah Valley Campaign under Robert Patterson; unpublished biographical works by Theodore Akerly Lord covering Porter's military career from the Mexican War to the Shenandoah Campaign as well as by Carswell McClellan concerning the court-martial; and an ms. translation from the German pertaining to Ferdinand Franz Mangold's campaign in Northern Virginia in August 1862.
520 8 _aCorrespondents include John C. Bullitt, Ulysses S. Grant, George Frisbie Hoar, Reverdy Johnson, George Brinton McClellan, George D. Ruggles, William Joyce Sewell, and Stephen Minot Weld.
530 _aMicrofilm edition excluding scrapbooks available,
_dno. 19,858.
533 _aMicrofilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division.
_bWashington, D.C. :
_cLibrary of Congress Photoduplication Service,
_d1988.
545 0 _aArmy officer and public official in New Jersey and New York, N.Y.
546 _aCollection material in English.
555 8 _aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms005015
600 1 0 _aBullitt, John C.
_q(John Christian),
_d1824-1902
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aGrant, Ulysses S.
_q(Ulysses Simpson),
_d1822-1885
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aHoar, George Frisbie,
_d1826-1904
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aJohnson, Reverdy,
_d1796-1876
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aLord, Theodore Akerly,
_d1844-1914.
600 1 0 _aMangold, Ferdinand Franz,
_d1832-1903.
600 1 0 _aMcClellan, Carswell,
_d1835-1892.
600 1 0 _aMcClellan, George Brinton,
_d1826-1885
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aMcDowell, Irvin,
_d1818-1885.
600 1 0 _aPatterson, Robert,
_d1792-1881.
600 1 0 _aPope, John,
_d1822-1892.
600 1 0 _aRuggles, George D.
_q(George David),
_d-1904
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aSewell, William Joyce,
_d1835-1901
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWeld, Stephen Minot,
_d1842-
_vCorrespondence.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bArmy.
_bCorps, 5th (1862-1865)
650 0 _aAntietam, Battle of, Md., 1862.
650 0 _aBull Run, 2nd Battle of, Va., 1862.
650 0 _aCourts-martial and courts of inquiry.
650 0 _aMalvern Hill, Battle of, Va., 1862.
650 0 _aMexican War, 1846-1848.
650 0 _aPeninsular Campaign, 1862.
650 0 _aShenandoah Valley Campaign, 1861.
651 0 _aManassas (Va.)
_xHistory.
651 0 _aMaryland
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865.
651 0 _aTexas
_xDiscovery and exploration.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865
_xCampaigns.
651 0 _aUtah
_xDiscovery and exploration.
651 0 _aVirginia
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865.
656 7 _aArmy officers.
_2itoamc
656 7 _aPublic officials
_zNew Jersey.
_2itoamc
656 7 _aPublic officials
_zNew York (State)
_zNew York.
_2itoamc
856 4 _3Finding aid
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms005015
856 4 _3Finding aid (PDF)
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms005015.3
999 _c39997
_d39997