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26th Marine Expeditionary Unit - Second Liberian Civil War Digital Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-20240201
Scope and Contents

208 digital images that document the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit's role in Second Liberian Civil War and 14 PowerPoint presentation files containing Daily Unclassified Intelligence Updates on the region. Also includes 1 Word document that contains information on Liberia that was provided to the 26th MEU and 1 text document provided by the donor with information on the collection.

Dates: 2003
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit - Second Liberian Civil War Digital Collection

McHarg Family Papers 2

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS266
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The McHarg Family Papers: Part 2 contain a small number of documents related to U.S. Civil War officer Horace Porter, financier and railroad president Henry K. McHarg, and Civil War assistant quartermaster of volunteers John McHarg. Porter married into the McHarg family during the Civil War. The McHarg Family Papers: Part 2 further document the history of the Porter and McHarg families and supplement the McHarg Family Papers: Part 1 already preserved in the Georgetown University Library...
Dates: 1856 - 1992; Majority of material found within 1856 - 1928
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / McHarg Family Papers 2

Edwin C. Fishel Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS278
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Edwin C. Fishel Papers contain research material generated by Civil War historian Edwin C. Fishel for his book "The Secret War for the Union: The Untold Story of Military Intelligence in the Civil War." Of note is correspondence between Fishel and noted Civil War historians, such as Bruce Catton, James M. McPherson, and Stephen W. Sears. Also, Fishel's extensive subject files on a variety of topics are retained. In addition, drafts of Fishel's masterpiece are preserved, and copies of his...
Dates: 1918 - 1999; Majority of material found within 1980 - 1990
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Edwin C. Fishel Papers

McHarg Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS248
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The McHarg Family Papers (1 box, 0.5 linear feet) contain some fifty substantial Civil War letters, dated 1861 to 1864, including a few penned by Union officer Horace Porter, exchanged among members of the McHarg family, in addition to five remarkable baseball letters, dated 1864, with lengthy discussion and even three detailed box scores concerning an amateur baseball club in Albany, New York. A small number of manuscripts, printed matter, and letters written after the Civil War rounds out...
Dates: 1861 - 1922; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1864
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / McHarg Family Papers

R. Emmett Curran Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-180305
Scope and Contents The papers of R. Emmett Curran consist of materials related to his work as a historian and author, including publications such as A History of Georgetown University and John Dooley's Civil War.Includes unpublished manuscripts and drafts on the history of Catholics in America, the Civil War, and 19th century Baltimore, as well as additional works on Georgetown University history. From the donor: "There are six boxes containing various drafts of the Georgetown history, as well as...
Dates: 1960s-2010s
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / R. Emmett Curran Papers

Horace Porter Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS249
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Horace Porter Collection consists of 13.0 linear feet of photographs, manuscripts, letters, clippings, prints, and printed ephemera, together with a large assortment of valuable artifacts connected with General Porter's career. Porter, best known for his role as aide-de-camp to General Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War, was a noted soldier, railroad executive, diplomat, and son of Governor David Rittenhouse Porter (1788-1867) of Pennsylvania. The collection includes a variety of...
Dates: 1855 - 1921
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Horace Porter Collection

Carolyn Smith Collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: GTM-140106
Content Description Articles, monographs and printed source material relating to history of Catholic families in Maryland, and Southern American history including American Civil War.Folder list1. Browning, Sister Mary Carmel, OSU. Think Big: A partial biography of Reverend Tong, SJ. (1970). Inscribed by the author to Smith. 2. Smith, Lancaster. “Impeaching a ‘National Expert’ in a Catastrophic Collision Case.” For the Defense, vol. 23, no. 6, June 1981. 3. St. Ferdinand’s...
Dates: 1789 - 1981
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Carolyn Smith Collection

John W. Blaney Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-20230821
Scope and Contents This collection is currently unprocessed and access to it may therefore be limited. Researchers are advised to contact the Booth Family Center for Special Collections for more information on access to this collection.The collection documents the career of Ambassador John W. Blaney, including materials related to the Liberian civil war, the Cold War and the fall of the Soviet Union, United Nations involvement in Southern Africa, and his post-State...
Dates: 1971 - 2023
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / John W. Blaney Papers

Charles Ewing - William T. Sherman Family papers

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Identifier: GTM-000008
Scope and Contents This collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, documents, ledgers, scrapbooks, photographs, and printed material concerning the Ewing and Sherman families. Included are 10 ALS's (l859-91) from William T. Sherman to his daughter Minnie Sherman Fitch and grand-daughter, Eleanor Sherman Fitch; AMs, "Speech at West Point" (1887), written and delivered by Sherman; material from General Charles Ewing, including leaves from a letter book (1880s), diary (1862, 1864), and photostat...
Dates: 1850 - 1933
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Charles Ewing - William T. Sherman Family papers

William O. Dundas collection

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Identifier: GTM-710820
Dates: 1839-1920
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / William O. Dundas collection

Daniel S. Curtis Papers

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Identifier: GTM-131013
Scope and Contents Note The Daniel S. Curtis Papers consist of documents relating to Curtis' service as a Union soldier in the American Civil War. A few letters date to his service with the 28th Wisconsin Volunteers. Several original letters from Lafayette C. Baker, a specialist in military intelligence and commander of the 1st District of Columbia Cavalry, to Curtis are retained. Those particular letters concern Curtis' recruiting for Baker's unit, especially in the state of Maine, and orders sent to Curtis. ...
Dates: 1862 - 1890
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Daniel S. Curtis Papers

Ord Family Papers 2

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Identifier: GTM-GAMMS267
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Ord Family Papers: Part 2 provide a wealth of documentary material on members of the distinguished Ord family, especially Edward Otho Cresap Ord (1818-1883) and Edward Otho Cresap Ord II (1858-1923). This collection fills in details about the career of American Civil War notable Edward Otho Cresap Ord and includes his letters from California in 1848 touching on the Mexican War and the gold rush; his correspondence to his brother Doctor James Lycurgus Ord between 1848 and 1873; some...
Dates: 1848 - 1969; Majority of material found within 1848 - 1923
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Ord Family Papers 2

Isaiah Garrett, Jr. Letters

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Identifier: GTM-141219
Collection-level Scope and Contents note The Isaiah Garrett, Jr. Letters is comprised of 41 autograph letters written by Isaiah Garrett Jr. between February 19th, 1859 and December 14th, 1865. Twenty-five of the letters are addressed to his older brother, Frank, fifteen are addressed to his parents, and one is addressed to his sister, Sarah. Thirty-seven of the forty-one letters were written while Garrett was a student at Georgetown University on the eve of the American Civil War, one was written in Baton Rogue, LA in 1859, two...
Dates: 1859 - 1865
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Isaiah Garrett, Jr. Letters

Peter J. Sullivan Papers

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Identifier: GTM-GAMMS437
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Peter J. Sullivan Papers document the life and times of Peter J. Sullivan (1821-1883), who was a Union officer in the American Civil War and the U.S. Minister to Colombia from 1867 to 1869. While there are a limited number of documents concerning his Civil War career, the majority of the papers describe his work as U.S. Minister to Colombia. The papers include a large run of letters to and from U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward; U.S. Consul in Cartagena, Colombia Augustus S....
Dates: 1843 - 1950; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1869
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Peter J. Sullivan Papers

James O. Hall Papers

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Identifier: GTM-930826
Collection level scope and content note The James O. Hall Papers comprise the research files and correspondence of James O. Hall (1912-2007), a noted scholar of the American Civil War in general and the Lincoln assassination in particular.The James O. Hall Papers contain research materials about the alleged missing pages from John Wilkes Booth's diary, the alleged meetings between Samuel A. Mudd and Booth, the effort to exhume the body of Booth, and the book "Dark Union" by Ray A. Neff and Leonard Guttridge, among...
Dates: 1960 - 2007
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / James O. Hall Papers

Ord Family Papers 3

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Identifier: GTM-GAMMS277
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Ord Family Papers: Part 3 provide more biographical details about several key members of the prominent Ord family. This collection includes sixteen letters dated 1847 to 1858 from War of 1812 veteran James Ord to his son, medical doctor James Lycurgus Ord, mostly regarding family news and touching on social life in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan and political events in Washington, D.C. and California. Also, this portion of the family's papers contains numerous letters dated 1841 to 1865...
Dates: 1841 - 1901; Majority of material found within 1841 - 1865
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Ord Family Papers 3

De Luca Family Papers and Photographs

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Identifier: GTM-190709
Scope and Contents This collection is currently unprocessed and access to it may therefore be limited. Researchers are advised to contact the Booth Family Center for Special Collections for more information on access to this collection.The collection contains over 1,700 photographs and 400 documents recording the history of the De Luca family over 8 decades involving the American Civil War, the unification of Italy, the Japanese invasion of China and the Siege of...
Dates: 1860 - 1945
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / De Luca Family Papers and Photographs

Loughborough Family papers 1

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Identifier: GTM-GAMMS95
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Loughborough Family Papers contains letters and Civil War documents of members of the Loughborough family arranged in seven folders in one box. Although a small collection, the Loughborough Family Papers contain an interesting peek at three interesting parts of American history: the sailing of the U.S.S. Constitution, the Civil War and the San Francisco Earthquake of April, 1906. In October 1814, Alexander Lufborough, a recent attendee of Georgetown College, was stationed on the U.S.S....
Dates: 1803-1952
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Loughborough Family papers 1

Breedin family papers

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Identifier: GTM-800422
Scope and contents note The Breedin Family Papers, which include letters, manuscripts, and photographs, are comprised mainly of correspondence between various members of the Breedin and Singleton families from the 1850s to the 1870s. The bulk of the correspondence is addressed to members of the family of Enoch C. Breedin (1797-1856) and Lucy Payne Singleton (1808-1860) of Winchester, Virginia. Lucy Singleton Breedin was the daughter of General James Singleton and Judith Throckmorton Ball (1776-1852) and the sister...
Dates: 1811-1976
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Breedin family papers

Margaret K. Bearden Papers 2

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Identifier: GTM-GAMMS288
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Margaret K. Bearden Papers: Part 2 consist of a portion of the research files of Civil War historian Margaret K. Bearden. Margaret K. Bearden is a well renown expert on the Lincoln assassination, especially on John H. Surratt and the Surratt family. In addition to correspondence with other notable Civil War historians; such as David Rankin Barbee, Otto Eisenschiml, James O. Hall, Alfred Isacsson, Richard D. Mudd, and E.H. Swaim; the collection includes clippings and articles on various...
Dates: 1865 - 1999; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1979
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Margaret K. Bearden Papers 2

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