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Box 6

 Container

Contains 10 Results:

Box 6: Dispatch Books, Telegram Books, Account Book, Letter Book and Memorandum Book

 File — Box: 6
Identifier: id149791
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Papers of Joseph E. Johnston, C.S.A. General during the American Civil War, including correspondence which reflect his long military career and interest in his nephews, John Warfield Johnston and John Preston Johnston. The papers include a diary, 1857, of Johnston's survey of the southern boundary of Kansas and eighteen volumes of Civil War dispatches and telegrams. The collection also includes a diary, 1 May-31 July 1864, of Thomas B. Mackall; letters received by...
Dates: 1825-1891

Telegram Book of Joseph E. Johnston during the Carolinas campaign and the surrender of his troops, 1865 February 25 - March 5

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 2
Identifier: id149793
Scope and Contents

6 pp. MsV. Including Joseph E. Johnston's notes on General W.T. Sherman's Memoirs. 3 pp. Also including note of General T.G. Rhett's address. 1 p. Filmed.

Dates: 1865 February 25 - March 5

Dispatch Book of Joseph E. Johnston during the Caroliinas campaign and the surrender of his troops, 1865 February 25 - May 8

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 3
Identifier: id149794
Scope and Contents

48 pp. MsV. Including Returns of Troops, 17 March 1865-24 April 1865. 5 pp. Also including a memo on wounded Confederate and Federal troops. 1 p. Also including NCls regarding Johnston, 1864, 37 pp., and loose clippings, 2 pp. Portions of this volume were copied for the "Official Records of the War of the Rebellion." Filmed.

Dates: 1865 February 25 - May 8

Account Book for sales of Joseph E. Johnston's "Narrative of Military Operations", 1873 December 2 - 1875 February 2

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 7
Identifier: id149798
Scope and Contents

Principle accounts are with Major A.D. Banks and D. Appleton & Co. MsV. 125 pp. Not filmed.

Dates: 1873 December 2 - 1875 February 2

Letter Book of Joseph E. Johnston concerns sales of his book and other matters, 1874 March 14 - 1875 June 28

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 8
Identifier: id149799
Scope and Contents

150 pp. MsV. Including copies of correspondence regarding his insurance business in Richmond, Va., 20 February 1875-5 June 1878. 113 pp. Also including correspondence with the Home Insurance COmpany, headed Washington, D.C., 19 January 1883-19 February 1883. 4 pp. Not filmed.

Dates: 1874 March 14 - 1875 June 28

Memorandum Book of Joseph E. Johnston, 1882

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 9
Identifier: id149800
Scope and Contents

Gives accounts for travel in North Carolina and Virginia, as well as population counts of cities in those states; also account of Joseph E. Johnston with Pan Electric Association. 11 pp. MsV. Not filmed.

Dates: 1882