Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1820-02-08 - 1891-02-14
William T. Sherman (1820-1891), American soldier, businessman, educator, and author.
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
William Henry Brewer papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 100
Overview:
Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, lectures, articles, essays, genealogical materials, photographs and other papers of William Henry Brewer, scientist, teacher, and writer.The collection spans Brewer's entire career including his student days at the Yale Analytical Laboratory, his work with the California State Geological Survey, his various teaching positions in California, New York and at Yale and all his other many and varied activities. Of special and specific interest are Brewer's letters...
Dates:
1830-1927
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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William Henry Brewer papers
Horace Capron papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 128
Overview:
Mainly correspondence between U.S. and Japanese officials dealing with the business of the Kaitakushi (of which General Capron was commissioner and adviser), a department of the Japanese Government in charge of the settlement of Hokkaido. Persons prominent in the collection include David Amomen, Thomas Antisell, Murray S. Day, Joseph Henry, Thornton A. Jenkins, Governor K. Kuroda, Benjamin S. Lyman, Henry S. Monroe, George M. Robeson, John R. Rogers, William Tecumseh Sherman, and James R....
Dates:
1837-1884
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Horace Capron papers
Carrington Family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 130
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, pamphlets, printed material, scrapbooks, sermons, and other papers relating to members of the Carrington family. Henry Beebee Carrington (1824-1912) and his grandfather, David Lewis Beebe (1763-1803), are two central figures in the papers. Material relating to David Lewis Beebe, including essays and sermons, documents his religious duties in Connecticut and family concerns in Ohio. Henry Beebee Carrington material includes correspondence, a diary, a...
Dates:
1749-1929
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Carrington Family papers
Evarts family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 200
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, writings, legal and financial material, congressional papers, family memorabilia, and other papers of various members of the Evarts family of Vermont, Boston, and New York. The principal figures, however, are Jeremiah Evarts (1781-1831), author, editor, lawyer, and philanthropist, and his son, William Maxwell Evarts (1818-1901), lawyer and statesman. The papers of Jeremiah Evarts relate to his work and writings on Congregational orthodoxy, his travels for...
Dates:
1753-1960, bulk 1798-1901
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Evarts family papers
S. Griswold Flagg collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 216
Overview:
Materials relating to the Civil War including correspondence of military leaders on both sides, military documents, commissions, orders, inventories and administrative records, and private correspondence of important figures in the war. There are also letters from soldiers in the field and citizens viewing the progress of the war. In addition there are many autographs and memorabilia including Confederate war bonds, patriotic stationery and about a dozen photographs. In all some 120 names are...
Dates:
1825-1938
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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S. Griswold Flagg collection
Anson Conger Goodyear Collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 244
Overview:
Correspondence, diaries, proclamations, and drafts of letters chiefly relating to the Civil War, but also including letters from the Jacksonian period. The major portion of the collection concerns the siege of Fort Sumter with letters from both Major Robert Anderson and General P.G.T. Beauregard. Included also are a diary kept by General S. Wylie Crawford during the siege and two letters from Abraham Lincoln. Other portions of the collection concern Lincoln as a political figure; the relations...
Dates:
1813-1890
Letter : New York, to Kate Foote, 1887 Jun 2
Part of Collection — Box: 48, Folder: GROUP 1591, F-3
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS with envelope.
Accompanied by a newspaper clipping titled "Heroes of the War," which is an excerpt from an article by Sherman in the North American Review.
Accompanied by a newspaper clipping titled "Heroes of the War," which is an excerpt from an article by Sherman in the North American Review.
Dates:
1887 Jun 2
Letter : St. Louis, to G. T. Lanigan, 1875 Dec 19
Part of Collection — Box: 48, Folder: GROUP 1591, F-1
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS mentioning his memoirs and his plans for Christmas.
Dates:
1875 Dec 19
Mary Ann Phelps Montgomery collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 801
Overview:
A collection of autograph letters and manuscripts, many of leading American public figures, collected by Mary Ann Phelps Montgomery. Fifteen letters are addressed to her father, Governor John Smith Phelps (1814-1866) of Missouri, six were written by James G. Blaine (1830-1893), and five by Thomas C. Reynolds of Missouri. The collection includes items signed by four American presidents, several European heads of state, and prominent members of European nobility.
Dates:
1746-1939
Peter Palmquist Cased Photographs Collection
Collection
Call Number: WA Photos 402
Overview:
This collection consists of daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, and collodion processes primarily mounted in contemporary decorative cases, collected by Peter Palmquist to document photographers, photographic processes and presentation techniques in the United States, especially in California, and in Great Britain, circa 1844-1899.
Dates:
circa 1844-1899
Thomas Howard Ruger papers
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2699
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, reports, printed material, and maps that document the military career and personal life of United States Army general Thomas Howard Ruger, focusing on his years in Montana, the Dakotas, and Missouri, 1879-1895. The collection contains significant documentation of the relationship between Native Americans and the United States government, especially the Lakota, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Arapaho, Crow, and Chiricahua Apache communities. Correspondence and records...
Dates:
1821-1958, bulk 1878-1907
Signature, n.d.
Part of Collection — Box: 48, Folder: GROUP 1591, F-2
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Signature clipped from a document.
Dates:
n.d.
Terry family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 482
Overview:
Papers of five family members, the children and daughter-in-law of Alfred and Clarissa Terry, make up the major part of the collection. The most prominent figure is Alfred Howe Terry, a Civil War general in the Union army, whose correspondence and military papers relate to the Fitz-John Porter case, the Indian campaigns (1870s) and reminiscences of military service and the Civil War. Included are orders for the court martial of General Custer and drawings supposedly given to Terry by Sitting...
Dates:
1795-1939
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Terry family papers
William Gilman Thompson autograph collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 484
Overview:
Collection of autograph letters and photographs accumulated by Thompson, a physician.
Dates:
1771-1924
Alexander Stewart Webb papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 684
Overview:
Correspondence and papers of Alexander Stewart Webb which detail his personal, military, and academic activities. Webb's military service at Fort Pickens, Florida; as a member of the Army of the Potomac, and with General George Meade during the Civil War is documented, as is his tenure as president of the College of the City of New York.
Dates:
1818-1930