Hayes Lowe
Tulane
Wed Jun 13 12:24:31 2001
Tulane University Library's Special Collection:
The Civil War
Preserving documents pertaining to the American Civil War is a special mission of the Tulane University Manuscripts Department. The Manuscripts Department preserves more than ninety collections dealing with the Civil War, plus the extensive holdings of the Louisiana Historical Association papers. The majority of the collections are of private letters of individuals fighting for either the Confederate or Union side. All major theatres of operation are represented. Naturally, they are mainly the letters of Louisiana Confederates.
Among the major collections are the papers of:
P.G.T. Beauregard, LA Confederate general, 291 items (1839-1888)
Cross Keys Plantation, Tensas Parish, Louisiana, plantation, 6 linear feet (1829-1983). Correspondence, diaries, financial records, scrapbooks, and other papers documenting the Cross Keys Plantation of Tensas Parish, Louisiana, and the Watson, McCall, and Cook families. The plantation was run by women during most of its existence. Topics documented include soldiers' views of the Civil War and World Wars I and II, plantation life, the role of women in the South, southern agriculture, social life in the rural South, the homefront during World Wars I and II, and other subjects.
Thomas Jonathan Jackson, VA Confederate general, 204 items (1848-1863)
Albert Sidney Johnston, KY and TX Confederate general, ca. 2,150 items (1838-1862)
William Preston Johnston [see Educators]
Joseph Jones [see Medicine]
Robert Edward Lee, 45 items (1858-1865)
Louisiana Guard Artillery Battles, nd, 1 leaf. M 1111. List of battles in which the Louisiana Guard Artillery participated. Includes name of battle, date, and names of wounded or killed. Battles noted span from October 5, 1861 to December 8, 1862.
Monroe, John, to Jefferson Davis, telegrams, April 27, 1862, 28 leaves M 1109 (use copy in 504 (18)). Telegrams from New Orleans Mayor John T. Monroe, and his deputy, Ducote Daponte, to Confederate President Jefferson Davis concerning Admiral Farraguts demands for the surrender of New Orleans. Dispatched in play by play fashion, they describe the progress of the Federal forces, the action taken against them, the attitude of the people of New Orleans, and, finally, the terms demanded by Farragut.
Petition to Abraham Lincoln from members of the Louisiana Legislature for the release of John Gauche; March 17, 1865. 504 (18). Signed by members of the legislature, Governor Madison Wells, and President Abraham Lincoln, with a note in Lincolns hand Let this man be discharged on taking the oath of Dec. 8, 1863. A. Lincoln, April 10, 1865. Lincoln granted the petition fours days before his assassination.
George G. Shepley, ME U.S. general, 1 volume letter book (1864-1865)
John Henry Stibbs, IW U.S. general, 1,447 items (1819-1917)
Richard Taylor, LA Confederate general, 141 items (1856-1933)
M. Jeff Thompson, MO Confederate general, 141 items (1856-1933)
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The Louisiana Historical Association Collection
In addition to the Civil War holdings listed above, the Manuscripts Department preserves the extension collection of the Louisiana Historical Association. Among its holdings are:
the correspondence of Jefferson Davis, 7,231 items (1861-1888)
ca. 4,000 pieces of official correspondence, orders and reports from the Confederate Army
289 diaries and personal reminiscences of personal Confederate papers and documents on over 3,000 Confederate soldiers
photographs, newspapers, sheet music and papers of memorial associations and veterans organizations
The complete, printed, paperback-bound inventory to the extensive Louisiana Historical Association Collection is available for $10, plus $5 s/h,