Correspondence and Forms
Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Belknap, William W. (William Worth), 1829-1890
- Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881
- Greely, Adolphus Washington
- Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893
- Hazen, William Babcock, 1830-1887
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888
- Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
- Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
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- William Babcock Hazen Papers
- Sponsor
- Digitization of this collection was made possible by Andrew and Anya Shiva.
- Date
- 1856-1886 and undated
- Archival Repository
- Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Identifier
- NMAH.AC.0427, Series 2
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- William B. Hazen Papers, 1855-1909, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
- Arrangement
- This series is divided into nineteen subseries: Subseries 1, Military Posts and Civil War Battles, 1856-1870 Subseries 2, Military Posts, 1869-1880 Subseries 3, Inspections by Generals Ruling and Hazen, January 19, 1867 Subseries 4, Indian Tribes, 1869-1871 Subseries 5, Old Soldiers, 1869-1886 Subseries 6, General Hazen in Europe, 9/1887-6/24/1868 Subseries 7, Hazen-Garfield "Post Traders" 1871-1882 Subseries 8, Civil War Charges - Court Martial (Re: General Stanley), 1879-1886 Subseries 9, Selected Correspondence, 1842-1885 Subseries 10, Weather Service and Proteus Court of Inquiry, 1880-1883 Subseries 11, Signal Corps, 1880-1885 Subseries 12, Hazen Court Martial (Re: Secretary of War, 1885), 1882-1885 Subseries 13, Greely Expedition/Cape Sabine, 1881-1884 Subseries 14, A Narrative of Military Service, 1885 Subseries 15, Memory of General McPherson, 1865 Subseries 16, Miscellaneous Letters and Forms (Freedmen Funds), 1862-1882 Subseries 17, Secretary of War, William W. Belknap, 1869 Subseries 18, United States Senate, 1866-1871 Subseries 19, Hazen Stones River Monument, 1864-1870
- Collection Rights
- Rights situation uncertain, but most of the collection is probably in the public domain due to its age.
- Scope and Contents
- This series covers General Hazen's career from graduation at West Point to service in California, Oregon, Texas, the Civil War, military post inspections, Indian tribe affairs, observations of two European battles, court martials, his appointment as chief signal officer, the Arctic expedition, military forms, a book, A Narrative of Military Service, and the first Civil War monument at Stones River, Tennessee.
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503513405047-1503513405059-5
- Metadata Usage
- CC0