Davis, Jefferson
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1808 - 1889
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Earle C. Douglas, Jr. autograph collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 0458
Abstract
This collection contains the autographs of Jefferson Davis, Judah P. Benjamin, and Steven R. Mallory.
Dates:
ca. 1870
Jefferson Davis Association records
Collection
Identifier: UA 0018
Abstract
The records consist of drafts, galley proofs, revisions, page proofs, and typescripts. Also included are grant records, accounting receipts, correspondence, and other administrative files of the Jefferson Davis Association. Raw digital materials for the documentary "Jefferson Davis - an American President" (2008) are found in the Audio-Visual series.
Dates:
1963 - 2015
Jefferson Davis letters and related materials collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 0005
Abstract
Original handwritten letters between U.S. Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his government and military colleagues, and his wife, Varina. Colleagues include General William H. Emory, Senator Stephen A. Douglas, Sidney W. Burbank, Secretary of War John B. Floyd, General Joseph E. Johnston, Col. Abraham Myers, General James Chesnut, and William H. Sanders. The bulk of the letters date from the 1850s and 1860s. Additional materials are letters to and from other persons, U.S. and...
Dates:
1838 - 1890
Kuntz Louisiana U.S. Civil War collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 0256
Abstract
Correspondence, military documents, posters, receipts, and clippings chiefly relating to the Civil War in New Orleans and Louisiana. Includes bills of sale and lists of slaves, correspondence to Thomas Overton Moore, governor of Louisiana, and from Jefferson Davis.
Dates:
1811 - 1959
Papers of Jefferson Davis documents and reference collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 0638
Abstract
This collection includes the wealth of documentation identified from across the United States and beyond and assembled for the purpose of the publication of the Papers of Jefferson Davis, a 14-volume set, funded by the NHPRC, and other activities and persons, beginning in the 1960s and running through 2015. Many of the speeches and letters published in the edition, either in full or summarized, are present in this collection as photocopies or on microfilm. Not every document featured in the...
Dates:
1815-2015, bulk 1850-1880; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1880
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- American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865) 4
- Correspondence 4
- Records (documents) 3
- Enslavement 2
- Politics and government 2
- African Americans 1
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 1
- Drawings 1
- Family histories 1
- Governors 1
- Louisiana 1
- Louisiana--New Orleans 1
- Maps 1
- Southern States 1
- United States 1
- Video recordings 1
- autographs 1
- photographs 1
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