Archival Manuscript/Mixed Formats (Collection)Sylvanus Cadwallader papers, 1818-1904
Personal name
Main title
- Sylvanus Cadwallader papers, 1818-1904 (bulk 1862-1866 and 1880-1898).
Links
Links
- Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010055
- Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010055.3
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Description
- 250 items.
- 1 container.
- 0.4 linear feet.
Access advisory
- Open to research.
Finding aids
- Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010055
Local shelving no.
- MMC-0175
Biography/History note
- Journalist and public official.
Organized/Arranged
- Arranged by type of material.
Summary
- Correspondence; writings; newspaper articles by and about Cadwallader and his wife, Mary Isabella Paul Cadwallader; Civil War passes; list of staff serving under General Ulysses S. Grant; drawing of Captain John A. Brady; appointments to office in Wisconsin; Masonic degrees; and other papers relating primarily to Cadwallader's activities as Civil War correspondent reporting on Grant's operations, to the career of General John A. Rawlins, and to Cadwallader (Cadwalader) family matters. Includes Paul family correspondence; and several letters collected by Cadwallader: one letter (1833) from Nathaniel Macon to Samuel Price Carson and two letters from Spencer Roane, one to Henry Clay (1820) and the other to Thomas Richie (undated).
- Correspondents include Orville Elias Babcock, Adam Badeau, James Gordon Bennett, Elias Boudinot, Theodore S. Bower, Benjamin F. Butler, William E. Chandler, George William Curtis, Charles A. Dana, Frederick T. Dent, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Dent Grant, Ulysses S. Grant, Frederic Hudson, Joseph B. McCullagh, George Gordon Meade, George H. Pendleton, Horace Potter, Horace Rublee, William T. Sherman, Edwin McMasters Stanton, George Alfred Townsend, and James Harrison Wilson.
LC Subjects
- Babcock, Orville Elias, 1835-1884--Correspondence.
- Badeau, Adam, 1831-1895--Correspondence.
- Bennett, James Gordon, 1795-1872--Correspondence.
- Boudinot, Elias, 1740-1821--Correspondence.
- Bower, Theodore S.--Correspondence.
- Brady, John A.
- Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1795-1858--Correspondence.
- Cadwallader, Mary Isabella Paul.
- Carson, Samuel Price, 1798-1838--Correspondence.
- Chandler, William E. (William Eaton), 1835-1917--Correspondence.
- Clay, Henry, 1777-1852--Correspondence.
- Curtis, George William, 1824-1892--Correspondence.
- Dana, Charles A. (Charles Anderson), 1819-1897--Correspondence.
- Dent, Frederick T. (Frederick Tracy), 1820-1892--Correspondence.
- Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879--Correspondence.
- Grant, Frederick Dent, 1850-1912--Correspondence.
- Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885.
- Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885--Correspondence.
- Hudson, Frederic, 1819-1875--Correspondence.
- Macon, Nathaniel, 1757-1837--Correspondence.
- McCullagh, Joseph B. (Joseph Burbridge), 1842-1896--Correspondence.
- Meade, George Gordon, 1815-1872--Correspondence.
- Pendleton, George H. (George Hunt), 1825-1889--Correspondence.
- Porter, Horace, 1837-1921--Correspondence.
- Rawlins, John A. (John Aaron), 1831-1869.
- Richie, Thomas--Correspondence.
- Roane, Spencer, 1762-1822--Correspondence.
- Rublee, Horace, 1829-1896--Correspondence.
- Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891--Correspondence.
- Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869--Correspondence.
- Townsend, George Alfred, 1841-1914--Correspondence.
- Wilson, James Harrison, 1837-1925--Correspondence.
- Cadwalader family.
- Paul family.
- Freemasonry.
- Journalism--United States.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Journalists.
- Wisconsin--Officials and employees.
- Journalists.
- Public officials.
Notes
- Collection material in English.
Acquisition source
- Purchase, 1965.
Cite as
- Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Sylvanus Cadwallader Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
LCCN
- mm 79014712
Other standard no.
- MSS14712
Repository
- Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home
Type of material
- Archival Manuscript/Mixed Formats (Collection)