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Collection Manuscript/Mixed Material David Homer Bates papers, 1837-1926

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Title

  • David Homer Bates papers, 1837-1926

Summary

  • Correspondence, diary, daily journal (1863-1865), drafts and annotated proof sheets of Bates's writings, newspaper clippings, printed matter, facsimiles, photographs, and other papers. Includes eleven Abraham Lincoln manuscripts and letters of Civil War commanders such as Jefferson Columbus Davis, Richard Stoddert Ewell, James Lawson Kemper, Edmund Kirby-Smith, and Robert E. Lee. Journal kept by Bates while he served as manager of the War Department telegraph office in Washington, D.C., serves as a record of military intelligence activities in the Civil War and of military telegraphic communication. Other correspondents include Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Thompson Eckert, and Robert Todd Lincoln.

Names

  • Bates, David Homer, 1843-1926
  • Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Headings

  • -  Carnegie, Andrew,--1835-1919--Correspondence
  • -  Davis, Jefferson Columbus,--1828-1879--Correspondence
  • -  Eckert, Thomas Thompson,--1825-1910--Correspondence
  • -  Ewell, Richard Stoddert,--1817-1872--Correspondence
  • -  Kemper, James Lawson,--1823-1895--Correspondence
  • -  Kirby-Smith, Edmund,--1824-1893--Correspondence
  • -  Lee, Robert E.--(Robert Edward),--1807-1870--Correspondence
  • -  Lincoln, Robert Todd,--1843-1926--Correspondence
  • -  United States.--War Department
  • -  Military telegraph
  • -  United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
  • -  United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military intelligence

Notes

  • -  Arranged in five series. Series 1: Civil War File, 1861-1865; Series 2: Correspondence, 1864-1926; Series 3: Facsimiles, 1862-1865; Series 4: Miscellany, 1837-1926; and Series 5: Scrapbooks, 1907-1908.
  • -  Microfilm edition available, no. 18,925.
  • -  Microfilm produced from originals in the Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1984.
  • -  Purchase, 1962.
  • -  Telegrapher.
  • -  Collection material in English.
  • -  Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010083
  • -  Forms part of: Alfred Whital Stern collection of Lincolniana.

Medium

  • 2 microfilm reels.

Repository

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • mm84061627

Access Advisory

  • Open to research.

Online Format

  • pdf
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Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

Finding Aid

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Bates, David Homer, and Abraham Lincoln. David Homer Bates papers, -1926. Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/mm84061627/.

APA citation style:

Bates, D. H. & Lincoln, A. David Homer Bates papers, -1926. [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/mm84061627/.

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Bates, David Homer, and Abraham Lincoln. David Homer Bates papers, -1926. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/mm84061627/>.