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Series I: Correspondence and Manuscripts, Catalogued
Series II: Arranged Material
Series III: Correspondence of General Isaac B. Pennypacker of Haddonfield, New Jersey
Series IV: Prints of photographs by Mathew Brady, circa 1860-1864

Collection of American Civil War documents, 1850-1917

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Series I: Correspondence and Manuscripts, Catalogued


Box 1 Adams Family

Box 1 Adams, Charles (6)

Box 1 Adams, Frank G. (179)


Box 2 Adams, George W. (300)

Box 2 Adams, John (5)

Box 2 Adams, Seth (2)

Box 2 Andrus, Clark N. (3)

Box 2 Ash, Nancy (l)

Box 2 Avriett, Martha (1)


Box 3 Badollet, Vigo (1)

Box 3 Balch, H.H. (1)

Box 3 Baker, O., Jr.

Box 3 Barchi, C.A. (1)

Box 3 Barnes, George C. (6)

Box 3 Battey, James L. (16)

Box 3 Beardon, Eliphus (1)

Box 3 Beauregard, G.T. (1)

Box 3 Beckwith, Capt. W.W. (7)

Box 3 Berry, Henry (2)

Box 3 Boggs, A. M, (1)

Box 3 Bond, Hiram Gilbert (1)

Box 3 Borough, H.C. (l)

Box 3 Bourne, William Oland (11)

Box 3 Boyd (?), W.H.P. (1)

Box 3 Brewster, James (4)

Box 3 Britten, Joseph W. (1)


Box 3A Brown, George Edgar


Box 3 Butte, L. P. (1)

Box 3 Chapman, W. (1)

Box 3 Coan, Lt. (?) (1)

Box 3 Coleman, R. L. (1)

Box 3 Cook, Willard (2)

Box 3 Coomes, James M. (3)

Box 3 Creasman, Nancy (1)

Box 3 Crothers, Samuel D. (1)

Box 3 Crowley, J. D. (1)

Box 3 Daily, S. (1)

Box 3 Davis, John H. (8)

Box 3 Dominguez, Vincente J. (1)

Box 3 Drown, Joshua (13)

Box 3 Eames, Albert (7)

Box 3 Ewing, W.L. & Co. (1)

Box 3 Fauntleroy, Mrs. J. (1)

Box 3 Flagg, Albert (7)

Box 3 Flagg, Charles B. (49)

Box 3 Foster, Abiel (1)

Box 3 Gardner, William (l)

Box 3 Gilman, John E. (1)

Box 3 Greene, Dana (l)

Box 3 Heaton, Jacob (l)

Box 3 Hendrick, James (1)

Box 3 Henries, H. C. (l)

Box 3 Hidden, Emily P. (3)

Box 3 Holmes, Alexander (2)

Box 3 Huntley, Ambrode A. (98)


Box 4 Hulse, Daniel (228)

Box 4 Jarvis, T. (1)


Box 5 Johnson, Adelbert (21)

Box 5 Johnston, R.M.I.C. (1)

Box 5 Jones, I. E. (1)

Box 5 Jordan, M. A. (l)

Box 5 Joynes, Edward T. (l)

Box 5 Kelley, E. M. (57)

Box 5 Kendall, E.M. (27)

Box 5 Kent, Evarts B. (l)

Box 5 Knapp, Arthur M. (l)

Box 5 Ladd, George W. (10)

Box 5 Lafever, Augustus (4)

Box 5 Lake, Israel (l4)

Box 5 Lawrence, John Tharp (1)

Box 5 Little, J. H. (1)

Box 5 Lovejoy, Benjamin G. (3)

Box 5 McDonald, John (23)

Box 5 McEwan, Wm. G. (1)

Box 5 McGill, Thomas (22)


Box 6 Paddock, Mary S. (1)

Box 6 Patrick, Brig. Gen M.P. (2)

Box 6 Perry, John (l)

Box 6 Perry, Raymond (1)

Box 6 Phillips, Dude (l)

Box 6 Pierson, John and Ruth (4)

Box 6 Pierson, Julia Ann Enoch (10)

Box 6 Pierson Family (9)

Box 6 Pitkin, Capt. P.P. (30)

Box 6 Place, Nancy (1)

Box 6 Plummer, Charles H. (2)

Box 6 Prescott, Samuel H. (1)

Box 6 Price, H. G. (l)

Box 6 Ramsey, E. D. (l)

Box 6 Read, Elijah (91)

Box 6 Read, Nathan (52)

Box 6 Rhodes, Gen. Elisha H (16)

Box 6 Ricketts, Frances Ann Lawrence (Mrs. James B.(6)

Box 6 Rivers, N.H. (1)

Box 6 Rodman

Box 6 Samuels, Green B. (1)

Box 6 Shaw, James, Jr. (3)

Box 6 Snyder, Thomas J. (1)

Box 6 Spofford, Florence P. (2)

Box 6 Steinwehr, Adolf von (l)

Box 6 Suratt, A. J. (2)

Box 6 Synch, J. M. (l)

Box 6 Taylor, Seneca W. (h)

Box 6 Thompson, William S. (1)

Box 6 Triminal, T. J. (l)

Box 6 Throop, George H.

Box 6 Tripp, Capt. Robt. C. (l)

Box 6 Tunholm, G. A. (l)

Box 6 Turner, Thomas (22)

Box 6 U.S. Civil War. Autographs (58p.)

Box 6 Vars, N. B. (7)

Box 6 Wallace, Elliot M. (8)

Box 6 Weaver, Caius A. (1)

Box 6 Welles, Gideon (l)

Box 6 White, Cyrus (2)

Box 6 White, Edward D. (3)

Box 6 Whitson, Mrs. G. W. (1)

Box 6 Wilson, Micajah R. (1)

Box 6 Winder, John H. (3)

Box 6 Winter, William (l)

Box 6 ------, Ebenezer (l)

Box 6 ------, George (1)

Series II: Arranged Material


Box 7 Biographical sketches of two Civil War Soldiers: John Adair McDowell and Francis Markoe Cummins

Box 7 Broadsides and newspapers

Box 7 Confederate loan certificate, 1861

Box 7 Maps

Box 7 Memorabilia

Box 7 Military orders and reports

Box 7 Military passes, receipts and currency forms

Box 7 Miscellaneous documents

Box 7 Miscellaneous letters

Box 7 Miscellaneous military communications

Box 7 Miscellaneous personal letters, 1859-1866

Box 7 Muster rolls, l86l


Box 8 Arkansas Eastern District. St. Francis River Command

Box 8 Military and civil records, 1860-1866. 3 manuscripts vols.:

Box 8 1 vol. accounts

Box 8 2 vols. military records

Box 8 See also a photograph album in Box 9


Box 9 Photographs

Box 9 Photograph albums – 2

Box 9 Pictorial envelopes

Box 9 Print copies of photographs of Military Officers - 82


Flat Box 571 Confederacy in Petticoats, Cartoon of Jefferson Davis


Flat Box 599 Bound volume: Letters received by Isaac Pennypacker, 1899-1902 relating to his biography of General George W. Meade, General Meade, Appleton, 1901. (ca.186 items) The letters are in two categories:, 1899-1902

1: Relating to the problems of publishing

2: From relatives, friends, etc., offering comment, correction, or addition to material published in the book. Many of the incidents described in these letters were witnessed by the writers.

Series III: Correspondence of General Isaac B. Pennypacker of Haddonfield, New Jersey

Flat Box 599 Collection of 186 letters and notes received by Pennypecker, 1899 to 1902 with a few copies of his own for clarity. The total collection concerns Pennypacker"s civil war biography of General George D Meade "General Meade" published by Appleton in 1901 in the "Great Commander Series," under the general editorship of James Grant Wilson. The collection breaks down into to categories:, 1899, 1902, 1901

1. Letters from members of General Mead's family, veterans of the same Civil War campaigns, and former associates of General Meade These make corrections, comment, clarify incidents or are inclined to argue about Pennypecker's interpretation of battles and campaigns, especially when they feel that their hero or former regiment has been slighted. Thus here we get first hand unpublished accounts of many controversial Civil War incidents.

2. Letters relative to the problems of publishing the book. Correspondence from members of the firm of Appleton, reviewers, etc., concerning such things as editing, procurement of maps, sales, royalties, advertising, reviews.

Series IV: Prints of photographs by Mathew Brady, circa 1860-1864

Prints of photographs by Mathew Brady, c. 1860-1864. Silver prints, 13.5 x 16.5 mounted on board 16" x 20". Each print from the original Brady negative, printed circa 1950, from negatives which were subsequently donated to the Smithsonian Institution.

Entries for the identified portraits have been added to the General Portrait Collection file. Gift of Harvey V. Fondiller, 1983.


Flat Box 682 Arthur, Prince, Duke of Connaught

Flat Box 682 Bodisco, Mrs.

Flat Box 682 Boutwell, George

Flat Box 682 Bull Run

Flat Box 682 Burying the Dead

Flat Box 682 Captain of Gun Boat "Hunchback"

Flat Box 682 Cartridge Manufactory

Flat Box 682 Catacazy, Madame

Flat Box 682 Custer, George, General

Flat Box 682 Factory Hospital, Fredericksburg

Flat Box 682 Fairfax Station

Flat Box 682 Fessenden, William

Flat Box 682 First Connecticut Battery

Flat Box 682 Fish, Hamilton

Flat Box 682 Fourth Massachusetts Battery

Flat Box 682 Gage, Mr., and Brother

Flat Box 682 Grant, Jesse and Nelly

Flat Box 682 Grant, Ulysses S., General, Seated

Flat Box 682 Grant, Ulysses S., General, Standing

Flat Box 682 Grant, Ulysses S., President

Flat Box 682 Hancock, Winfield, General, Seated


Flat Box 683 Hancock, Winfield, General, Standing

Flat Box 683 Harwood, Miss

Flat Box 683 Hoar, Ebenezer

Flat Box 683 Hut; Eleventh Rhode Island V. M.

Flat Box 683 In the trenches at Fredericksburg

Flat Box 683 Lincoln, Abraham, Seated

Flat Box 683 Lincoln, Abraham, Standing

Flat Box 683 Logan, John Alexander, and Family

Flat Box 683 Machine Shops, Alexandria

Flat Box 683 Officers' quarters

Flat Box 683 Robeson, George

Flat Box 683 Shaffer, Mrs.

Flat Box 683 Sheridan, Philip, General

Flat Box 683 Stanton, Edwin

Flat Box 683 Unidentified Child

Flat Box 683 Unidentified Lady

Flat Box 683 Unidentified Little Girl

Flat Box 683 Unidentified Young Woman