A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of
Research Collections in American Legal History
Letters Received by the
Attorney General, 1809–1870:
Federal Government Correspondence
A UPA Collection
from
Cover: Honorable James Buchanan and cabinet, c. 1857–1861. Photo courtesy of the National
Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland.
Research Collections in American Legal History
Letters Received by the
Attorney General, 1809–1870:
Federal Government Correspondence
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Department of Justice in the custody of the National Archives of the United States. No
copyright is claimed in these official U.S. government records.
Guide by
Kristen M. Taynor
A UPA Collection from
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Letters received by the Attorney General, 1809–1870 [microform] : federal government
correspondence.
microfilm reels. –– (Research collections in American legal history)
Reproduces letters and accompanying news clippings, reports, and other materials from
among the records of the U.S. Department of Justice in the custody of the National
Archives of the United States, providing insight into aspects of the legal and social
history of the United States.
Accompanied by a printed guide compiled by Kristen M. Taynor.
ISBN 1-55655-984-4
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Scope and Content Note .............................................................................................
Source Note..................................................................................................................
Editorial Note ..............................................................................................................
Abbreviations ..............................................................................................................
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Reel Index
Attorney General’s Papers––Letters Received
Reels 1–9
Department of Treasury ..........................................................................................
1
Reels 10–14
Department of War .................................................................................................
13
Reel 15
Department of War cont..........................................................................................
Department of Interior ............................................................................................
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20
Reels 16–19
Department of Interior cont. ...................................................................................
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Reel 20
Department of Interior cont. ...................................................................................
Department of State ................................................................................................
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29
Reels 21–23
Department of State cont. .......................................................................................
30
Reel 24
Department of State cont. .......................................................................................
Department of the Navy..........................................................................................
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35
Reel 25
Department of the Navy cont..................................................................................
37
Reel 26
Department of the Navy cont..................................................................................
Executive Office of the President ...........................................................................
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39
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Reels 27–29
Executive Office of the President cont. ..................................................................
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Reel 30
Executive Office of the President cont. ..................................................................
Department of Post Office ......................................................................................
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45
Reel 31
Department of Post Office cont. .............................................................................
Office of the Attorney General ...............................................................................
House of Representatives........................................................................................
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47
48
Reel 32
House of Representatives cont................................................................................
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Reel 33
House of Representatives cont................................................................................
Office of the Vice President....................................................................................
Department of Agriculture......................................................................................
Commissioner of Public Buildings .........................................................................
Office Superintendent Public Printing ....................................................................
Library of Congress ................................................................................................
Superintendent of Public Documents......................................................................
Senate......................................................................................................................
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51
51
51
51
51
51
51
Reel 34
Senate cont. .............................................................................................................
Supreme Court ........................................................................................................
Solicitor of the Court of Claims..............................................................................
Court of Claims.......................................................................................................
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53
Principal Correspondents Index................................................................................
Subject Index...............................................................................................................
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SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
In a letter dated October 3, 1864, S. B. Godkins wrote to President Abraham Lincoln
concerning presidential appointments of judges. According to Godkins, “the basing of the
appointment to the Indiana judgeship upon the recommendations of Members of Congress would
be unjust and wrong in principle;… It is wrong in principle because the office does not belong to
the politicians. On that day when Andrew Jackson, at the instigation of Mr. Van Buren[,] put up
all the offices of government at auction, and knocked them down to the highest bidder, taking his
pay in party services, it opened a fountain of corruption whose depth has never been sounded,
and whose flow, it is greatly to be feared, will never cease…. I claim that the judicial power, at
least should be held sacred; that it should not be subjected to this contamination. We may, I trust
in God we shall, escape the present perils [of civil war]. But whether a Republican government
can permanently exist is a question yet to be solved. In my opinion its greatest peril lies just
here” (Reel 28, Frames 0253–0255).
Godkins’s concerns over the integrity of judicial appointments and the longevity of the
republic showcase the serious and still-relevant issues covered in Letters Received by the
Attorneys General, 1809–1870: Federal Government Correspondence. Documents in this
collection also showcase the sometimes rough, and seemingly uncivilized, actions of the early
republic. A military commission, in 1870, tried Edward M. Yerger for the murder of Major
Joseph G. Crane. Yerger had allegedly written to Crane, “Sir, are you willing to disrobe yourself
of all military protection and meet me instanter on the street?” (Reel 30, Frame 0137) Thus,
while Godkins lamented judicial appointments, others were dueling on the streets. At its heart,
Federal Government Correspondence is the story of an adolescent nation’s struggle to forge an
identity; it is a scholar’s storehouse of commentary on the early republic and the rush to civil
conflict. The correspondence begins just a few decades after the War of Independence and only
a few short years after the War of 1812, and the residual issues of those trying times can be seen
throughout this collection.
Federal Government Correspondence consists mainly of letters from federal departments to
respective attorneys general with occasional circulars, newspaper clippings, reports, and general
orders. Federal officials relayed information to the attorneys general to help with decisions
important to their departments and employees. The collection collates material by federal
department or entity with each in rough chronological order. Departments covered include the
Departments of Treasury, War, Navy, State, and Post Office; as well as other federal entities
including Congress, the Executive Office of the President, and the Supreme Court.
Correspondents constitute a virtual “who’s who” of the early republic from Presidents James
Monroe, Millard Fillmore, and Andrew Johnson, to cabinet secretaries Lewis Cass and Howell
Cobb of the Buchanan administration; Hugh McCulloch, Edwin M. Stanton, and Gideon Welles
of the Lincoln administration; and Daniel Webster of the Harrison, Tyler, and Fillmore
administrations.
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General topics cover nearly every existing state and territory, including Indian affairs; federal
pay and allowances; expense accounts; daily tasks of U.S. marshals, district attorneys, and court
officers; railroads; public lands; law enforcement; foreign relations, mainly with the United
Kingdom, France, Mexico, and Spain; land claims; treaties; diplomatic and consular service;
maritime law, including large numbers of ship seizures for varying reasons; military affairs,
including appointments, promotions, ranks, pay, and pensions; courts-martial; piracy; prize
cases; slavery; matters coming across the president’s desk; government employee resignations;
postal services, including contracts, rates, laws, and mail theft; cases tried or pending in courts;
requests from members of Congress for attorney general opinions on matters important to them
or their constituents; questions regarding congressional roles and duties; congressional
resolutions; proposed legislation; and congressional committee proceedings.
Many of these general topics harbor riveting and heartbreaking accounts of life in the early
republic. Federal Government Correspondence chronicles post–Civil War America, and covers
topics such as rights of freedmen and freedwomen and Reconstruction. Reel 13, Frames 0894–
1285, contain nearly four hundred pages of material on the military commission trial of Isaac
Owens for the murder of two freedmen, William Mickle and York Owens (no relation). Mickle
and York Owens had been “arrested” by a posse that included Isaac Owens for allegedly stealing
meat from Isaac Owens’s smokehouse. Upon arrival at the jail yard, Isaac Owens allegedly shot
both men with his double-barreled shotgun. Documents chronicle commission proceedings,
including testimony by white and black witnesses and one eleven-year-old girl who witnessed
the shootings, and re-create events surrounding the alleged murders through lengthy statements
by counsel and military officers. The case provides insight on issues involving jurisdiction,
federal-state relations under the Reconstruction acts, race relations in Kershaw County, South
Carolina, and law enforcement. The case also involves the use of posses (to arrest Mickle and
York Owens) and mob violence (a mob of freedmen allegedly surrounded the jail after the
murders took place). The commission ultimately found Isaac Owens guilty of manslaughter, not
murder, because they did not find “malice aforethought” in his actions. They sentenced Owens to
five years hard labor (Frames 1157–1159).
Reel 14, Frames 0166–0280, contain a copy of the Report of Major General Meade’s
military operations and administration of civil affairs in the Third Military District and
Department of the South for the year 1868. Meade’s report covers Reconstruction events in
Florida, Georgia, and Alabama, specifically elections, the readmittance process, and new
constitutions for each state. The report contains copies of telegrams sent and received by Meade
and his staff during 1868 as well as general orders regarding the Third Military District issued
for 1868 (both in chronological order).
Reel 14, Frames 1179–1205, also contain documents detailing post–Civil War events.
Frames 1179–1180 present a letter dated February 12, 1869, and addressed to “Dr. Pierson.”
The letter is part of a set of documents detailing race relations in Andersonville, Georgia,
specifically tensions surrounding commemoration of Union graves at the Andersonville Prison
cemetery. The letter states, “The citizens of this community are aware of a few facts relative to
yourself which I will proceed to designate. In the first place, they know you to be a wandering
vagrant carpet bagger without visible means of support, and living at present on the earnings of
those who are endeavoring to make an honest living by teaching. You have also proved yourself
to be a scoundrel of the deepest dye, by maliciously interfering in matters which do not in the
least concern you to the detriment of some of our citizens. This therefore is to warn you to leave
this county forthwith. Twentyfour (24) hours from the above date is the time allowed for you to
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leave. If after the said time your devilish countenance is seen at this place or vicinity your
worthless life will pay the forfeit. Congressional reconstruction, the military nor anything else
under heaven will prevent summary justice being meted out to such an incarnate fiend as
yourself.” The letter is simply signed “By order of Committee.” Frames 1181–1205 follow this
letter with statements from black citizens of Andersonville and letters from H. W. Pierson
(presumably the Dr. Pierson) detailing “outrages” committed by the white population on black
citizens. In one statement, George Smith says, “I attended the election at Ellaville[.] [N]one of
the radicals that had been Ku Kluxed tried to vote, but a good many radicals did try to vote but
the judge made them all show their tickets and if they were for [Ulysses S.] Grant they would not
let them vote. I saw how they treated others and did not try to put my vote in. I went early in the
morning and the white men and colored democrats voted until about noon when I went home”
(Frame 1192).
The riveting and heartbreaking portions of this collection also document the pre–Civil War
era with tales of slavery and the slave trade. Reel 27 contains material regarding the seizure of
the brig Echo off the coast of South Carolina in 1858. A U.S. naval vessel seized the Echo,
along with its cargo of slaves, and transported the slaves to Castle Pinckney and Fort Sumter in
Charleston, South Carolina. U.S. Marshal D. H. Hamilton discussed the condition of the slaves
stating, “I found that out of their number, three hundred and six, one fifth at least, were suffering
from various and severe disease, some dying, others blind or going blind … The Africans were
in a state of perfect nudity both men and women, for the covering of the latter amounted to
nothing … [I] trust that those in the State of So[uth] Ca[rolina] who advocate [the slave trade’s]
renewal, and who have visited this exhibition of cruelty and inhumanity, are quite cured of any
advocacy of a traffic which entails so much suffering upon any family of the human race”
(Frames 0890–0891). Frame 0911 begins a list of the surviving Africans from the Echo with
their name, age, height, complexion, and relevant body markings.
In addition to these riveting events, Federal Government Correspondence ties together other
LexisNexis microfilm collections that are also based on letters received in the Office of the
Attorney General and on official opinions issued by attorneys general. Reel 17, Frame 0429, for
example, has documents pertaining to misconduct charges by David B. Martin against Charles N.
Pine (Martin was a book keeper in the marshal’s office, and Pine was a U.S. marshal). The
misconduct charges against Pine are also documented in LexisNexis’s Letters Received by the
Attorney General, 1809–1870: Northern Law and Order. On Reel 2, Frame 0505, Secretary of
Treasury Levi Woodbury requests, on April 7, 1840, an opinion by the attorney general on the
prohibition of the coastwise slave trade. Attorney General Henry D. Gilpin responded that same
month with an official opinion that is covered in LexisNexis’s Official Opinions of the Attorneys
General of the United States regarding the Slave Trade. On Reel 2, Frames 0519–0520,
Woodbury again asks for an official opinion on whether registry papers could be issued to the
purchasers of the former slave ship Amistad. Gilpin again wrote an official opinion telling
Woodbury that the papers could not be granted and this opinion is again covered in LexisNexis’s
Official Opinions.
From the serious to the mundane, Federal Government Correspondence offers researches a
storehouse of material on the early American republic. As an example of the mundane, Reel 29,
Frames 0383–0385, contains a letter from John S. Hollingshead dated October 8, 1866, to
President Andrew Johnson. Hollingshead requested that government employees be given a leave
of absence to attend a Grand Temperance Demonstration to occur on October 15. Frame 0534
contains the president’s reply and approval for government employees to be absent for the
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demonstration “as far as may be consistent with public interests.” The president’s response was
signed by his son, and private secretary, Robert. As an example of the serious, Reel 29, Frames
0784–0787, contain a letter dated February 21, 1868, from Andrew Johnson to Edwin M. Stanton
notifying Stanton that he had been “removed from office as Secretary for the Department of
War.” These frames also contain a letter of the same date from Johnson to Brigadier General
Lorenzo Thomas, adjutant general of the army, notifying Thomas that he had been “authorized
and empowered to act as Secretary of War ad interim.” This removal of Stanton from office later
led to Johnson’s impeachment. Through these and other letters received by the attorney general
from U.S. attorneys and marshals, the federal courts and other federal officials, state government
officials, and private citizens, Federal Government Correspondence offers scholars a vital
glimpse at the inner workings of the early republic.
Other collections from LexisNexis that may be of interest include Letters Received by the
Attorney General, 1809–1870: Southern Law and Order, Northern Law and Order, and Western
Law and Order; Letters Received by the Attorney General, 1871–1884: Southern Law and Order
and Western Law and Order; Papers of the American Slave Trade: Series A–Series D; Race,
Slavery and Free Blacks, Series I and Series II.
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SOURCE NOTE
All documents microfilmed for Letters Received by the Attorney General, 1809–
1870: Federal Government Correspondence are held by the National Archives and
Records Administration in College Park, Maryland. The files selected are from Record
Group 60: General Records of the Department of Justice, Entry 9A: Records of the
Attorney General’s Office: Letters Received, 1809–1870.
The records come from the following federal departments and agencies (with the
number of boxes of the original documents noted in parentheses):
Department of Treasury (13 boxes)
Department of War (11 Boxes)
Department of Interior (8 boxes)
Department of State (8 boxes)
Department of the Navy (7 boxes)
Executive Office of the President (7 boxes)
Department of Post Office (2 boxes)
Office of the Attorney General (2 boxes)
House of Representatives (2 boxes)
Office of the Vice President (1 box)
Department of Agriculture (1 box)
Commissioner of Public Buildings (1 box)
Office Superintendent Public Printing (1 box)
Library of Congress (1 box)
Superintendent of Public Documents (1 box)
Senate (1 box)
Supreme Court (1 box)
Solicitor of the Court of Claims (1 box)
Court of Claims (1 box)
EDITORIAL NOTE
LexisNexis has filmed all documents in their entirety from Entry 9A: Records of the
Attorney General’s Office: Letters Received, 1809–1870. This collection contains a
small number of removed and stolen documents that were returned to the collection and
all notations by the National Archives regarding these documents have been filmed by
LexisNexis in addition to the returned documents themselves. Most of the
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correspondence by Abraham Lincoln on Reels 27 and 28 are photostats (i.e. copies of the
originals with white writing on black background).
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ABBREVIATIONS
The following abbreviations are used three or more times in the Reel Index.
CSA
Confederate States of America
D.C.
District of Columbia
KKK
Ku Klux Klan
NGC
North German Confederation
UK
United Kingdom
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REEL INDEX
The following index is a listing of the folders that compose Letters Received by the
Attorney General, 1809–1870: Federal Government Correspondence. The four-digit
number on the far left is the frame number at which a particular file folder begins. This is
followed by the folder title and the date(s) of the folder. Substantive issues are
highlighted under the heading Major Topics, as are prolific and prominent correspondents
under the heading Principal Correspondents. Topics and correspondents are listed in the
order in which they appear on the film, and each is listed only once per folder.
Reel 1
Frame No.
0001
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, 1794, 1809–1818.
Major Topics: Joseph Scott expense accounts; distilleries; instructions for
surveyors of public lands; William Rector; criminal procedure against
Theron Rudd for fraud.
Principal Correspondents: Samuel H. Smith; Josiah Meigs; William H.
Crawford.
0116 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, 1819.
Major Topics: Discovery of slave, Hannah, on board General Jackson; land
ownership and rights to Virginia Military Tract (Ohio); military bounty
lands; searches and seizures.
Principal Correspondents: Duncan McArthur; Josiah Meigs; William H.
Crawford.
0196 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, 1820–1822.
Major Topics: Tariffs; searches and seizures; public lands; government
securities; land ownership and rights; certificates of registry; sentence
against Lewis A. Stollenwerck.
Principal Correspondents: Charles J. Ingersoll; William H. Crawford.
0325 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, 1823–1824.
Major Topics: U.S. v. William P. Anderson; John H. Peterson federal pay and
allowances for surveying; James Leander Cathcart claim under AdamsOnís Treaty (1819 U.S.-Spain treaty); customs bonds; personal debts;
disbursement of government revenues.
Principal Correspondents: Joseph Anderson; S. Pleasonton; William H.
Crawford.
0428 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, 1825–1826.
Major Topics: Land claims; General Land Office; claim for seized tea; tariffs;
seizure of Ten Sisters for violation of Embargo Act (1808); public lands;
comparison of U.S. and UK national wealth and public debt.
Principal Correspondents: Richard Rush; George Graham; S. Pleasonton.
1
Frame No.
0542
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, 1827.
Major Topics: Land claims in St. Louis, Mo. (documents in English, French,
and Spanish); claim for seized tea; tariffs; witness compensation;
securities; land claim by heirs of David Bradford; Thomas Tab claim
under Treaty of Ghent (1814) for loss of slaves.
Principal Correspondents: Richard Rush; Charles J. Ingersoll; Joseph
Anderson.
0692 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, 1828–1829.
Major Topics: Georgia claims against Creek Indians; Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal Company; Bank of the U.S.; claims to government securities owned
by Sarkies Ter Johannes; land claims in Missouri, Louisiana, and
Arkansas Territory; Indian lands; Auguste Chouteau land claim (St. Louis,
Mo.); military bounty lands; Yazoo land fraud.
Principal Correspondents: Richard Rush; S. Pleasonton; George Graham;
Samuel D. Ingham.
0849 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, 1830.
Major Topics: Peter Johnson land claim in Alabama; tariffs and fines on
foreign vessels trading in the U.S.; John Smith land claim in Alabama;
expenses for negotiating treaty with Chickasaw and Choctaw (1826);
military pensions for War of Independence veterans.
Principal Correspondents: Samuel D. Ingham; Virgil Maxey; George
Graham; Thomas F. Gordon.
0931 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, 1831.
Major Topics: Instructions for depositing government revenues in banks; U.S.
statutes regarding insolvent debtors; Department of Treasury–Department
of War disagreement regarding Indian appropriations; budget surpluses;
presidential appointment of Bank of the U.S. directors.
Principal Correspondents: George Graham; Samuel D. Ingham; Virgil
Maxey; Louis McLane; John Henry Eaton.
Reel 2
0001
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, 1832–1833.
Major Topics: Bank of the U.S.; William Vawters and military pay for War of
Independence veterans; personal debts; Solomon Juneau land grant in
Milwaukee, Wis.; federal pay and allowances; expense accounts; FrancoAmerican Treaty (July 4, 1831) for settling U.S.-France claims.
Principal Correspondents: Louis McLane; Levi Woodbury.
0143 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, 1834–1835.
Major Topics: Banks and banking; settlement of U.S.-France claims.
Principal Correspondents: Virgil Maxey; Levi Woodbury.
0210 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, 1836.
Major Topics: Military pay; deposit of government revenues into banks;
postal contracts.
Principal Correspondent: Levi Woodbury.
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Frame No.
0340
0349
0528
0621
0698
0771
0856
0986
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, 1839.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, 1840.
Major Topics: Planters’ Bank of Mississippi account statements for deposit of
government revenues; government contracts; land claims; federal pay and
allowances; slave trade; Amistad.
Principal Correspondent: Levi Woodbury.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, 1841.
Major Topics: U.S. marshal expense accounts; public land surveys; land
claims in Louisiana and Missouri.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, January–June
1842.
Major Topics: Indian lands; U.S. v. William M. Price for fraudulent pay and
allowances; federal employee travel and expenses; rights of Clark
Woodrooff to public lands; U.S.-Belgium trade; tariffs.
Principal Correspondent: Walter Forward.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, July–December
1842.
Major Topics: Public lands; William Otis expense accounts; preemption rights
on Miami Indian lands; federal pay and allowances.
Principal Correspondents: Walter Forward; McClintock Young.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, 1843–1844.
Major Topics: Zephaniah Kingsley claim under Adams-Onís Treaty (1819
U.S.-Spain treaty); purchase of Bank of the U.S. building in Philadelphia,
Pa., for use as custom house.
Principal Correspondents: James William McCullob; John C. Spencer;
McClintock Young.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, 1845.
Major Topics: U.S. v. Richard King and Daniel W. Coxe; land ownership and
rights; land claims in Louisiana; deeds and conveyances to land in
Wilmington, N.C., and Savannah, Ga.; Planters’ Bank of Mississippi
account statements for deposit of government revenues.
Principal Correspondent: Robert J. Walker.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, 1846.
Major Topics: Instructions for disbursing government revenues; tariffs.
Principal Correspondents: Robert J. Walker; George L. Welcker; Seth Barton.
Reel 3
0001
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, 1847.
Major Topics: Status of Cherokee Commission established under Treaty of
New Echota (1835 U.S.-Cherokee treaty); deeds and conveyances for
lighthouse sites; land claims in Louisiana; Peruvian claims to Esther;
postal contract for service between New York and Liverpool, UK;
steamboats; USS Macedonian.
Principal Correspondent: Robert J. Walker.
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Frame No.
0123
0249
0357
0423
0494
0646
0754
Treasury—Letters Received, 1848.
Major Topics: Preemption rights; public lands; Miami Indian lands in Indiana;
Peruvian claims to Esther; land claims from Spanish land grants;
Department of Treasury policies.
Principal Correspondents: Richard M. Young; McClintock Young; Robert J.
Walker; S. Pleasonton.
Attorney General’s Papers––Letters Received—Treasury, January–June
1849.
Major Topics: Deeds and conveyances to Wiscasset, Maine, custom house
site; deeds and conveyances for lighthouse sites; private minting
operations.
Principal Correspondents: S. Pleasonton; William M. Meredith.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, July–December
1849.
Major Topics: Deeds and conveyances for lighthouse sites; federal pay and
allowances.
Principal Correspondent: William M. Meredith.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, 1850.
Major Topics: Tariffs on diamonds; government regulation of passenger
vessels; cabinet department use of and legislation regarding government
appropriations.
Principal Correspondent: William M. Meredith.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, 1851.
Major Topics: Bank of the U.S. assets; deeds and conveyances for lighthouse
and custom house sites; government regulation of passenger vessels.
Principal Correspondents: Elisha Whittlesey; S. Pleasonton; Peter Hamilton;
Thomas Corwin.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, 1852.
Major Topics: Joseph L. Heywood expense accounts; deeds and conveyances
for custom house and lighthouse sites; land claims to military reservation
in San Francisco, Calif.; Joseph S. Sanchez property damage and loss
claim; seizure of Ellen Morrison for transporting black men into
prohibited U.S. ports; James Gavet.
Principal Correspondents: William L. Hodge; Elisha Whittlesey; Thomas
Corwin.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, January–June
1853.
Major Topics: Federal pay and allowances during leaves of absence; deeds
and conveyances for custom house and lighthouse sites; California Land
Commission expenses; Texas public debt; tariffs and liability for
confiscated liquor; fishing bounties for codfish industry.
Principal Correspondents: Elisha Whittlesey; William L. Hodge; Thomas
Corwin; James Guthrie.
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Frame No.
0875
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, July–December
1853.
Major Topics: Claims under Adams-Onís Treaty (1819 U.S.-Spain treaty);
federal pay and allowances; arrest of James Collier for fraud; seizure of
Bellona for exceeding passenger limits.
Principal Correspondents: James Guthrie; Elisha Whittlesey.
0979 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, 1854.
Major Topics: John G. Boker fraud claim for tariffs on paintings; deeds and
conveyances for lighthouse sites; misconduct charges against John M.
Mott; government contracts for U.S. capitol building extension;
government inspections of lighthouses.
Principal Correspondents: Elisha Whittlesey; James Guthrie; Henry W.
Halleck.
1138 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, January–March
1855.
Major Topics: Land claims for public lands in San Francisco, Calif.; fishing
bounties for codfish industry; deeds and conveyances for custom house
sites; military appointments and promotions.
Principal Correspondents: James Guthrie; Elisha Whittlesey.
Reel 4
0001
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, April–August
1855.
Major Topics: Deeds and conveyances for lighthouse and custom house sites;
Thomas Fillebrown Jr. expense accounts; Navy Hospital Fund; federal pay
and allowances.
Principal Correspondents: James Guthrie; Elisha Whittlesey.
0092 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, September–
December 1855.
Major Topics: Presidential appointment of court clerks; jury compensation;
fishing bounties for codfish industry; court clerk pay and allowances;
instructions for handling claims; William L. Blanchard postal contract;
banks and banking.
Principal Correspondents: Elisha Whittlesey; James Guthrie.
0289 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, January–August
1856.
Major Topics: William L. Blanchard postal contract; interest payments to
Georgia for Indian warfare expenses; federal pay and allowances for
locating military bounty lands; seizure of Amelia in Port-au-Prince, Haiti,
for piracy; federal pay and allowances during leaves of absence.
Principal Correspondents: Elisha Whittlesey; James Guthrie.
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Frame No.
0431
0576
0723
0922
1033
1097
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, September–
December 1856.
Major Topics: Deeds and conveyances for lighthouse and custom house sites;
government contract bids for Galveston, Tex., custom house.
Principal Correspondent: James Guthrie.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, January–June
1857.
Major Topics: Deeds and conveyances for lighthouse and custom house sites;
federal pay and allowances for resigning Nebraska Territory judge, James
Bradley; instructions for disbursement of government revenues; claims for
property damage and loss during Mexican War; certificates of registry.
Principal Correspondents: James Guthrie; Elisha Whittlesey; Howell Cobb.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, July–December
1857.
Major Topics: Deeds and conveyances for public building sites; taxation of
canal traffic; Caleb Cushing expense accounts; handling of government
revenues by Beverly C. Sanders; Sanders salary claim; J. J. Davenport
leave of absence.
Principal Correspondents: Howell Cobb; Elisha Whittlesey.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, January–March
1858.
Major Topics: Expense accounts; constitutional law and issuance of passports
by Massachusetts.
Principal Correspondents: Junius Hillyer; Charles Levi Woodbury.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, April–July 1858.
Major Topics: Military pay for Edisto Island, S.C., militia; deeds and
conveyances for lighthouse sites; surety bonds; federal pay and
allowances; U.S. v. John J. Walker.
Principal Correspondents: Howell Cobb; W. Medill.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, August–December
1858.
Major Topics: Claims to estate of George A. Gardiner; seizure of Mystic
Valley for transporting unaccompanied slave from New York City to Key
West, Fla.; U.S. v. William T. Kendall for operating Steamboat Star
without a licensed engineer.
Principal Correspondents: Howell Cobb; W. Medill; Junius Hillyer.
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1859.
Major Topic: Deeds and conveyances for public building sites.
Principal Correspondents: Howell Cobb; Junius Hillyer; W. Medill.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, July–December
1859.
Major Topics: Government contracts for military rations; professionals’ fees
in handling estate of George A. Gardiner; federal-state relations and
proceeds from public land sales; government contracts for lighthouses.
Principal Correspondents: Howell Cobb; Junius Hillyer.
Galveston Custom House, 1857–1860, Treasury.
Major Topics: C. B. Cluskey & Co.; government contract bids for Galveston,
Tex., custom house; contract disputes; specifications for custom house.
Principal Correspondents: Howell Cobb; John G. Tod; A. H. Bowman;
Edwin W. Moore.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, January–June
1860.
Major Topics: Murder on board E. A. Rawlins; slave trade; U.S. marshal
expense accounts; government contracts for labor at bonded warehouses in
New York City.
Principal Correspondents: W. Medill; Junius Hillyer; Howell Cobb.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, July–December
1860.
Major Topics: Seizure of General Miramon and Marques de la Habana
(Mexican ships); deeds and conveyances for public building sites; seizure
of bark William for slave trading.
Principal Correspondent: Howell Cobb.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, 1861.
Major Topics: Deeds and conveyances for public building sites; presidential
appointment of U.S. marshals; CSA supplies passing through Kentucky;
blockade running.
Principal Correspondents: John A. Dix; Salmon P. Chase; Elisha Whittlesey;
Edward Jordan.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, 1862.
Major Topics: Tariffs; seizure of Cincinnati Gas Light and Coke Company
stocks; Asahel S. Levy and David S. Coddington v. Virginia Levy et al.
regarding Uriah P. Levy will.
Principal Correspondents: Elisha Whittlesey; Salmon P. Chase.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, 1863.
Major Topics: Deeds and conveyances for public building sites; Walter
Akenhead personal property in Louisiana; banks receiving government
revenues; confiscation cases; criminal procedure against Thomas
Hornbrook for issuing interstate commerce permits.
Principal Correspondent: Salmon P. Chase.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, January–June
1864.
Major Topic: Banks receiving government revenues.
Principal Correspondents: F. E. Spinner; Salmon P. Chase.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, July–December
1864.
Major Topics: Prize cases; banks receiving government revenues.
Principal Correspondents: Edward Jordan; F. E. Spinner.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, January–June
1865.
Major Topics: Confiscation cases; banks receiving government revenues;
taxation of canal traffic; preemptive seizure of Carlotta for intended use to
aid CSA.
Principal Correspondents: Hugh McCulloch; F. E. Spinner; John F. Collins.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, July–December
1865.
Major Topics: Banks receiving government revenues; confiscation cases;
seizure of cotton in Alabama; CSA government contracts; revenue cases in
Springfield, Ohio; abandoned and captured property in former CSA;
seizure of William E. French & Co. distillery (Boston, Mass.) for tax
evasion; prize cases.
Principal Correspondents: F. E. Spinner; Hugh McCulloch; William E.
Chandler; Edward Jordan.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, January–May
1866.
Major Topics: Seizure of cotton claimed by “blockade running companies”;
confiscation cases; interstate commerce with former CSA; U.S. v. William
C. Barney et al. regarding fraud and jurisdiction at Brooklyn Navy Yard
(N.Y.); Rufus Waples federal pay and allowances; banks receiving
government revenues; seizure of cotton in Alabama; Theodore Nunn and
William A. Thompson claim to seized cotton on behalf of Planters Cotton
Factory (Autaugaville, Ala.); estate of N. H. Harrison claim to seized
cotton; Fenians.
Principal Correspondents: Hugh McCulloch; Edward Jordan; F. E. Spinner;
Charles D. Norton.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, June–July 1866.
Major Topics: Confiscation cases in Florida; misconduct charges against
District Attorney R. W. Corwine and U.S. Marshal Alexander C. Sands in
revenue cases (Southern District of Ohio); cotton tariffs; interstate
commerce with former CSA; seizure of cotton in Alabama; seizure of
Mobile, Ala., custom house records; misconduct charges against James M.
Tomeny; Fenians.
Principal Correspondent: Hugh McCulloch.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, August–October
1866.
Major Topics: Constitutional law and stamp taxes; alcoholic beverage tax;
tax sales of land in former CSA; misconduct charges against District
Attorney R. W. Corwine and U.S. Marshal Alexander C. Sands in revenue
cases (Southern District of Ohio); seizure of distilled liquors;
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congressional powers and taxation of state court processes; federal-state
relations; sovereignty; ownership and rights to CSA government land;
Internal Revenue informants; transfer of railroad track to Brunswick and
Albany Railroad Company; prize cases.
Principal Correspondents: Hugh McCulloch; Edward Jordan.
1003 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, November–
December 1866.
Major Topics: Tax sale of E. M. Seabrook plantation on Bulls Island, S.C.;
seizure of Pacific and Orizaba; deed to San Francisco, Calif., mint site;
deeds to government property.
Principal Correspondents: Hugh McCulloch; Edward Jordan.
1129 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, January–
February 1867.
Major Topics: Seizure of M. C. Rowe for smuggling; Beals & Dixon
government contract for granite; taxation of cotton grown in Choctaw
Nation.
Principal Correspondents: Hugh McCulloch; Edward Jordan.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, March–May 1867.
Major Topics: Francis J. Brooke property loss claim; John Joliffe
professionals’ fee claim; lawyer liens on Court of Claims judgments;
taxation; distilleries; claims for property damage and loss at bonded
warehouses; Alabama finances; honoring government securities held by
former CSA citizens.
Principal Correspondents: E. A. Rollins; Hugh McCulloch; Edward Jordan.
0156 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, June–August
1867.
Major Topics: Deeds for lighthouse sites; claims for steamboats damaged or
lost in Civil War; confiscation case informants; Yellow Beaver et al. v.
County of Miami, State of Kansas regarding jurisdiction over Indian
relations; Joseph Fellows et al. v. Robert Denniston regarding taxation of
Indian lands; taxation of cotton grown in Choctaw Nation; seizure of
cotton in Louisiana; seizure of Fenian firearms; government receivers.
Principal Correspondents: Hugh McCulloch; E. A. Rollins; James C.
Kennedy.
0333 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, September–
November 1867.
Major Topics: Decatur cotton case; proceeds from confiscation cases; seizure
of Fenian firearms; political parties; elections; railroad track claimed by
Brunswick and Albany Railroad Company.
Principal Correspondents: Hugh McCulloch; Ulysses S. Grant; James H.
McNeely.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, December 1867.
Major Topics: Deeds to public building sites; James C. Clapp misconduct in
prize cases; civil service job tenure; presidential appointments; Tenure of
Office Act (1867).
Principal Correspondents: Hugh McCulloch; Robert W. Taylor.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, January–May
1868.
Major Topics: Decatur cotton case; civil service job tenure; Tenure of Office
Act (1867); misconduct charges against Joseph Bloomgart; Detroit House
of Corrections (Mich.); misconduct charges against Henry S. Fitch; deeds
for public building sites; claims for property damage and loss at bonded
warehouses.
Principal Correspondents: E. A. Rollins; Hugh McCulloch; Edward Jones.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, June–July 1868.
Major Topics: Misconduct charges against district attorney and U.S. Marshal
Alexander Magruder (Northern District of Florida) in confiscation cases;
misconduct charges against Denton D. Stark (Western District of
Arkansas); U.S. v. Dewitt regarding illegal sale of illuminating oil and
congressional powers; seizure of Frederick A. DeWolf & Co. goods; sale
of liquor to Indians; misconduct charges against George L. Little (Eastern
District of Missouri) in revenue cases; seizure of cotton in South Carolina.
Principal Correspondents: Hugh McCulloch; Edward Jordan.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, August–October
1868.
Major Topics: Distilleries; job tenure of collectors of customs; alcoholic
beverage tax; Treaty with the Choctaw and Chickasaw (1866); tax sales of
land in former CSA; Florida Railroad Company; claim for Robert
Campbell Jr. (ship) lost in Civil War; presidential powers to remove civil
servants from office.
Principal Correspondents: Hugh McCulloch; Benjamin Harris Brewster.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, November–
December 1868.
Major Topics: Revenue cases; searches and seizures; U.S. v. Brulatour & Co.
regarding tariff increases; expropriation of personal property; leasing and
renting; National Mechanics and Farmers Bank (Albany, N.Y.); national
banks.
Principal Correspondent: Hugh McCulloch.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, January–
February 1869.
Major Topics: Baltimore, Md. loan to Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company;
income taxes; revenue cases; jury and witness compensation; misconduct
charges against U.S. Marshal James J. Byrne (Eastern District of Texas).
Principal Correspondent: Hugh McCulloch.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, March–April
1869.
Major Topics: U.S. v. E. B. Olmsted for fraud; Henry Boecker distillery;
misconduct charges against U.S. Marshal Dickson (Georgia); revenue
cases; National Mechanics and Farmers Bank (Albany, N.Y.); national
banks; use of “Tice meters” in distilleries.
Principal Correspondents: Hugh McCulloch; Charles Cowlan; George S.
Boutwell; Thomas W. Olcott; H. R. Hubbard.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, May–June 1869.
Major Topics: Revenue cases; military bounties; Internal Revenue informants;
U.S. v. Brulatour & Co. regarding tariff increases; federal pay and
allowances for women employees; neutrality laws.
Principal Correspondents: George S. Boutwell; William A. Richardson; Hugh
McCulloch; Robert W. Taylor.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, July–August 1869.
Major Topics: Revenue cases; postal contracts; illegal distilleries.
Principal Correspondents: George S. Boutwell; Michael Scanlon; William A.
Richardson; Columbus Delano.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, September–
October 1869.
Major Topics: Revenue cases; C. B. Blacken federal pay and allowances;
seizure of Lizzie Baker; National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers;
misconduct charges against U.S. Marshal J. J. Holland (Northern District
of Florida); Indian slavery and forced labor cases in New Mexico
Territory; Civil Rights Act (1866).
Principal Correspondents: Columbus Delano; William A. Richardson; W.
Krzyzanowski; George S. Boutwell; J. F. Hartley.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, November–
December 1869.
Major Topics: Distillation process; revenue cases; U.S. v. the officers of the
steamship Cuba.
Principal Correspondents: Columbus Delano; George S. Boutwell; William
A. Richardson.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, January–
February 1870.
Major Topics: Treasury employee pay and allowances; revenue cases;
Treasury employee expense accounts; National Asylum for Disabled
Volunteer Soldiers; Indiana claim for Civil War expenses; The Internal
Revenue Record and Customs Journal (periodical); U.S. v. the bark John
Griffin regarding tariffs.
Principal Correspondent: George S. Boutwell.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, March 1870.
Major Topics: Revenue cases; criminal procedure against William H. Lyon
for stealing from Ocean Bird.
Principal Correspondent: George S. Boutwell.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, April 1870.
Major Topics: Revenue cases; enforcement of revenue laws; personal debt.
Principal Correspondents: George S. Boutwell; S. J. Conklin; Columbus
Delano.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, May 1870.
Major Topics: Revenue cases; U.S. v. Horace C. Gilson regarding sureties.
Principal Correspondents: George S. Boutwell; H. L. Preston; Columbus
Delano.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, June 1870.
Major Topics: Misconduct charges against U.S. Marshal T. H. Pernell
(Western District of Texas); revenue cases; U.S. v. W. T. Bennett regarding
seizure of Groot, Kuck & Co. distillery (Charlotte, N.C.); enforcement of
revenue laws.
Principal Correspondents: Columbus Delano; George S. Boutwell; J. W.
Douglass.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, July 1870.
Major Topics: Regulation of fur trade in Department of Alaska; revenue cases.
Principal Correspondents: George S. Boutwell; J. F. Hartley.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, August 1870.
Major Topics: Revenue cases; certificate of registry and license for Grey
Cloud; public building appropriations.
Principal Correspondent: William A. Richardson.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, September–
October 1870.
Major Topics: Revenue cases; U.S. v. David E. Saunders Jr. for fraud against
North National Bank (Boston, Mass.); Marine Hospital Service;
government subsidies to Union Pacific Railroad Company; Treasury
employee pay and allowances.
Principal Correspondents: William A. Richardson; George S. Boutwell.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Treasury, November–
December 1870.
Major Topics: Revenue cases; taxation of “coastwise vessels”; U.S. v.
Rhomberg regarding seizure of distillery; government subsidies to
railroads; Jonathan Sturges et al. v. John H. Draper regarding tariffs; U.S.
v. J. W. Powell et al. regarding distilleries and bonded warehouses; cotton
seizures.
Principal Correspondents: George S. Boutwell; J. F. Hartley; J. W. Douglass.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, 1808–1821.
Major Topics: Trespass on Cherokee Indian lands; courts-martial of
Pennsylvania militia failing to serve in War of 1812; military pensions;
deed to Pea Patch Island, Del.; government contracts; Andrew Jackson
military pay; court-martial of Benjamin S. Bull for mutiny.
Principal Correspondents: John C. Calhoun; Andrew Jackson.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, 1822–1829.
Major Topics: Government contracts for Dauphin Island, Ala., fortifications;
Gilbert C. Russell property claim; military pay; Nimrod Farrow and
Richard Harris personal debts for Dauphin Island contract; interest
payments to Virginia for U.S. government War of 1812 debts; claims for
Indian slaves under Treaty of Indian Springs (1821 U.S.-Creek treaty);
Pay Department; military pensions for War of Independence veterans.
Principal Correspondents: John C. Calhoun; James Barbour; John Henry
Eaton.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, 1830–1833.
Major Topics: Sam Houston license to trade with Cherokee Indians; U.S.Cherokee treaties; military bounty lands; military pensions for War of
Independence veterans; pension claims; government regulation of liquor
trade with Indians.
Principal Correspondents: John Henry Eaton; Lewis Cass.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, 1834.
Major Topics: Leonard P. Cheatham and William L. McClintock government
contracts for Cherokee Indian removal; military pensions; land claims
under Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek (1830 U.S.-Choctaw treaty) and
Treaty of Cusseta (1832 U.S.-Creek treaty); military pay.
Principal Correspondents: Lewis Cass; James L. Edwards.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, 1835–1838.
Major Topics: Treaty with the Cherokee (March 14, 1835); Indian lands;
military pensions; Treaty with the Chickasaw (1834); Treaty of Dancing
Rabbit Creek (1830 U.S.-Choctaw treaty); Illinois militia military pay.
Principal Correspondents: Lewis Cass; James L. Edwards.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, 1839–1841.
Major Topics: Indian treaties; Missouri–Iowa Territory disputed border;
fortifications; military rules and regulations.
Principal Correspondents: Joel Roberts Poinsett; John C. Spencer.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, January–June 1842.
Major Topics: Deeds for fortification site in Detroit, Mich.; Charles Scott land
ownership and rights; land claims under Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek
(1830 U.S.-Choctaw treaty); military pensions.
Principal Correspondents: John C. Spencer; T. Hartley Crawford; John B.
Forester.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, 1843–1844.
Major Topics: Cherokee claims; Virginia claims for War of Independence
military pensions; deeds for fortification site on Penobscot River (Maine);
Choctaw orphan lands; deeds for public land in Detroit, Mich.
Principal Correspondents: James Madison Porter; William Wilkins;
T. Hartley Crawford.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, July–December 1842.
Major Topics: Deeds for fortification site in Stoney Point, N.Y.; Cherokee
claims under Treaty of New Echota (1835); Creek Indian lands in
Alabama; deeds to land in Detroit, Mich.; mineral lands in Iowa Territory;
Indian lands under Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek (1830 U.S.-Choctaw
treaty); deeds for marine hospital sites.
Principal Correspondents: John C. Spencer; T. Hartley Crawford.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, 1845–1846.
Major Topics: Deeds for fortification sites in Key West, Fla.; War of
Independence military pensions; deeds for fortification sites in Kittery,
Maine; Harpers Ferry, Va., armory; Tortugas Island, Fla.
Principal Correspondents: William Wilkins; William L. Marcy.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, 1847–1848.
Major Topics: Deeds to public lands in Buffalo Creek, N.Y.; military
pensions; taxation of Harpers Ferry, Va., armory; deeds for fortification
sites; James E. Stewart claim for providing military rations.
Principal Correspondents: George L. Welcker; William L. Marcy; James L.
Edwards.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, 1849–1850.
Major Topics: Deeds for fortification sites on Lake Borgne (La.); deeds to
land in Harpers Ferry, Va.; D. Randall expense accounts; compensation of
collectors of customs at Mexican ports; Seminole Indians in Florida;
Indian wars and warfare; deeds to Fort Gansevoort (N.Y.); deeds for
fortification sites on Amelia Island, Fla.
Principal Correspondents: William L. Marcy; George W. Crawford; Charles
M. Conrad.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, 1851–1852.
Major Topics: Mexican War; West Point professors’ federal pay and
allowances; compensation of receivers at Mexican ports; planning for a
military asylum; state claims for expenses in raising volunteer units for
Mexican War.
Principal Correspondent: Charles M. Conrad.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, 1858.
Major Topic: Military housing for West Point professors.
Principal Correspondent: John B. Floyd.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, 1859.
Major Topics: Deeds and conveyances; expropriation of property and
government contracts for Washington Aqueduct (D.C.); Catholic Church
land claim to Fort Vancouver (Wash. State); sale of firearms from
Washington Arsenal (D.C.); constitutional law and construction of
Washington Aqueduct in Maryland.
Principal Correspondents: John B. Floyd; A. A. McGaffey; W. R. Drinkard.
War Dept., Utah Papers—Conflict between Civil & Military Officers, 1857–
1859.
Major Topics: Mormon Church; civil-military relations in Utah Territory;
military occupation of Utah Territory; arrest; criminal procedure.
Principal Correspondents: Fitz John Porter; Henry Heth.
War Dept., Claims of William De Groot, 1859–1861. Washington Aqueduct.
Major Topics: A. A. McGaffey government iron contract for Washington
Aqueduct (D.C.); William H. De Groot government brick contract for
Washington Aqueduct (D.C.); De Groot property damage and loss claim.
Principal Correspondents: John B. Floyd; James Cooper.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, 1860–1861.
Major Topics: Trespassers at Fort Gratiot (Mich.); rights-of-way for Chicago,
Detroit, and Canada Grand Trunk Junction Railroad Company;
government contracts; federal pay and allowances; Lime Point, Calif.;
Jeremy F. Gilmer; habeas corpus.
Principal Correspondents: John B. Floyd; W. R. Drinkard; Joseph Holt;
Simon Cameron; Thomas A. Scott.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, 1862.
Major Topics: Deeds for military sites; Russell, Majors, and Waddell
government contract; bills of exchange; John B. Floyd; Pierce & Bacon
claim.
Principal Correspondents: C. P. Buckingham; Jeremiah S. Black.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, 1863.
Major Topics: Court-martial of Henry Bright Jr.; mistreatment of Attorney
General Edward Bates by War Department sentry; seizure of Adolphus
Adler personal property; confiscation cases; George A. Magruder; bank
notes.
Principal Correspondents: Edward R. S. Canby; P. H. Watson; Edwin M.
Stanton.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, 1864.
Major Topics: Leasing and renting; George H. Stewart personal property;
property rights of CSA citizens; civil-military relations in New Mexico
Territory; misconduct charges against Judge Joseph G. Knapp; prisoner
exchange of CSA Colonel J. J. Clarkson; cavalry horses; land claims in
Washington Territory.
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Principal Correspondents: C. A. Dana; Alexander Bliss; Lewis “Lew”
Wallace; William Whiting; Frank Higgins; Edwin M. Stanton; Robert
Ould; Richard Delafield.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, January–April 1865.
Major Topics: Presidential draft board; amendments to Enrollment Act
(1863); 13th Regiment, U.S. Colored Artillery (Heavy); military pay of
colored troops.
Principal Correspondents: Edwin M. Stanton; C. A. Dana.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, May–June 1865.
Major Topics: Military bounties for military deserters; abandoned CSA
property; Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
Principal Correspondents: C. A. Dana; Edwin M. Stanton; O. O. Howard.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, July 1865.
Major Topics: Land claims in Columbus, Miss.; abandoned property in North
Carolina; government property in Chattanooga, Tenn.; misconduct charges
against Major A. D. Sternberg; muster roll (1864) of Company G, 186th
Regiment, New York Volunteers; seizure of Governor Troupe (CSA ship).
Principal Correspondents: O. O. Howard; C. A. Dana; Edwin M. Stanton.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, August–September
1865.
Major Topics: Abandoned land in Louisiana; seizure of and payment for
Mustang, Matamoras, and James Hale (Mexican ships); abandoned land
in North Carolina and Tennessee; Southern Methodist Publishing House.
Principal Correspondents: William Fowler; Nathaniel P. Banks; E. D.
Townsend.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, October 1865.
Major Topics: Abandoned land in Virginia, West Virginia, South Carolina,
and Florida; Enrollment Act (1863); military deserters; voluntary military
service.
Principal Correspondents: William Fowler; Edwin M. Stanton.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, November–December
1865.
Major Topics: Public opinion of quarantine facilities in Sandy Hook, N.J.;
cholera; federal-state relations; New York City harbor (1861 map); Report
of the Commissioners of Quarantine (N.Y.) regarding quarantine facilities
and public health; John Swinburne; yellow fever; statistical data on health
and vital statistics; merchant vessels and spread of yellow fever; Theodore
Walser; Report upon the subject of Quarantine Warehouses in the Port of
New York.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, January–March 1866.
Major Topics: Lawsuits against military personnel; civil-military relations;
Hiram Walker civil procedure against Captain C. R. Crane; Cape Fear,
N.C., district court documents.
Principal Correspondents: Edwin M. Stanton; Thomas T. Eckert.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, April–August 1866.
Major Topics: Military bounties for military deserters; theft of Eastern District
of Tennessee court documents; prize cases; Richard H. Johnson claim to
Arkansas True Democrat (newspaper) office; property damage and loss
claims.
Principal Correspondents: Joseph Holt; Edwin M. Stanton; Thomas T. Eckert.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, September–December
1866.
Major Topics: Deed to Macon, Ga., armory; lawsuits against military
personnel; deeds to military sites; military bounties for colored troops
(who were formerly slaves); murder of Eben White (7th U.S. Colored
Troops) by John Sothoron in Benedict, Md.; military rules and regulations
regarding bounties; murder charges against Lieutenant J. G. Sanders;
French Forrest claim for confiscated personal property.
Principal Correspondent: Edwin M. Stanton.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, January 1867.
Major Topics: Murder of colored troops in North Carolina; blockade running;
General S. P. Heintzelman refusal to obey arrest warrant; Galveston, Tex.;
civil-military relations; military government reports on Florida, Louisiana,
Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee,
Alabama, and Mississippi.
Principal Correspondent: Edwin M. Stanton.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, February 1867.
Major Topics: Violations of Civil Rights Act (1866); seizure of P. G. T.
Beauregard property in Memphis, Tenn.
Principal Correspondent: Edwin M. Stanton.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, U.S. v. Mears &
Palmer, February 1867.
Major Topic: Criminal procedure against A. W. Mears and John J. Palmer
(employees of U.S. Military Railroads in Chattanooga, Tenn.) for selling
government property.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, March–May 1867.
Major Topics: U.S. v. 43 acres of land in the City of Macon, on which the
“new armory” stands regarding land ownership and rights to Macon, Ga.,
armory site; Captured and Abandoned Property Act (1863); Confiscation
Act (1862); property seized in Macon, Ga., by Ordnance Department;
conveyance of land for armory to CSA government; sale of armory
property; Reconstruction Act (March 2, 1867) and state governments;
deeds to military cemetery sites; voting rights; Virginia state constitution.
Principal Correspondents: Joseph Holt; Edwin M. Stanton; James W.
Throckmorton.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, June–September 1867.
Major Topics: General orders regarding property damage and loss claims;
treason cases; deeds to military sites; court-martial of Fitz John Porter;
presidential powers over courts-martial.
Principal Correspondents: Edwin M. Stanton; E. D. Townsend; Ulysses S.
Grant; John Pope; Fitz John Porter.
0700 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, Oct.–Nov. 1867.
Major Topics: Deeds to military cemetery sites; Thomas W. Walker military
pay while president of Norwich University (Northfield, Vt.); James B. Fry
brevet promotion; expense account processing; government property in
Texas (1861); states’ rights; Texas Committee of Public Safety.
Principal Correspondents: Ulysses S. Grant; W. A. Nichol; Thomas J.
Devine; S. A. Maverick; P. N. Luckett; David H. Vinton; Sackfield
Maclin; Robert H. K. Whiteley; David E. Twiggs.
0848 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, December 1867.
Major Topic: Public buildings in York, Pa.
Principal Correspondent: Ulysses S. Grant.
0894 Case of Isaac Owens, March 1868.
Major Topic: Military commission trial of Isaac Owens for the murder of
William Mickle and York Owens (Camden, S.C.).
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, January–June 1868.
Major Topics: Deeds to military cemetery sites; eligibility of John B. Gordon
to be governor of Georgia; Reconstruction acts and state governments;
Mississippi state rights; readmittance of North Carolina, South Carolina,
Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida; Report of Major General
Meade’s military operations and administration of civil affairs in the
Third Military District and Department of the South for the year 1868;
Alabama, Florida, and Georgia state governments; Georgia legislature;
civil-military relations; riot in Camilla, Ga.
Principal Correspondents: Ulysses S. Grant; Edwin M. Stanton; George G.
Meade; John M. Schofield.
0281 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, July 1868.
Major Topics: Deeds to military sites; military bounties for Indians; property
damage and loss claims; Lucien Birdseye rent claim for Point Lookout,
Md., property.
Principal Correspondents: John M. Schofield; James A. Hardie.
0363 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, August–September
1868.
Major Topics: Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands; deeds
to military cemetery sites; military bounties for Indians; Court of Claims
proceedings; government contract for removal of Scotland wreck; Neptune
Submarine Co.; murder of W. D. Speer by William Barry aboard Octavia.
Principal Correspondent: John M. Schofield.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, October–December
1868.
Major Topics: James B. Fry brevet promotion; confiscation of property
conveyed to CSA government in Macon, Ga.; Henry S. Fitch; deeds to
military sites; J. E. Johnston brevet promotion.
Principal Correspondents: John M. Schofield; E. D. Townsend.
0751 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, January–March 1869.
Major Topics: Amoskeag Manufacturing Company government contract for
cavalry weapons; List of Murders Perpetrated by whites upon Freedmen,
since April 1866 in the Southern States As reported by the Officers and
Agents of the Freedmen’s Bureau; murder of Apache-Mohave Indians in
La Paz, Arizona Territory; military appointments and promotions; military
budgets and appropriations; Benjamin R. Helms military discharge.
Principal Correspondents: John M. Schofield; A. B. Dyer; Joseph Holt;
William Redwood Price; John A. Rawlins.
0957 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, April–July 1869.
Major Topics: Deeds to military cemetery sites; land ownership and rights to
Macon, Ga., armory site; James B. Fry brevet promotion; land use by
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands; land ownership
and rights to Confederate Laboratory site (Macon, Ga.); Reconstruction
acts and voting rights, loyalty oaths, elections, and the state constitution in
Virginia; race relations in and military cemetery at Andersonville, Ga.;
KKK; use of posse comitatus in revenue collection.
Principal Correspondents: John A. Rawlins; Edward R. S. Canby; H. W.
Pierson.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, August 1869.
Major Topics: Murder of Augustine Hibbard by Charles Watts on San Juan
Island, Washington Territory; Tennessee debt to U.S. for railroad material;
Memphis, Clarksville and Louisville Railroad; Louisville and Nashville
Railroad; Edgefield and Kentucky Railroad; lawsuits against military
personnel.
Principal Correspondent: John A. Rawlins.
0165 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, September–October
1869.
Major Topics: Martial law; theft of government property in Richland Parish,
La.; military discharge of Edward Tarble (aka Frank Brown) for underage
enlistment; lawsuits against military personnel.
Principal Correspondent: William T. Sherman.
0269 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, November–December
1869.
Major Topics: Lawsuits against military personnel; deeds to military cemetery
sites; U.S. v. William H. Harris for defrauding the government.
Principal Correspondents: William W. Belknap; William H. Harris.
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0412
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0693
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, January–February
1870.
Major Topics: Second Auditor expense account; land ownership and rights to
military reservations.
Principal Correspondent: William W. Belknap.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, March–April 1870.
Major Topics: Deeds to military cemetery sites; land ownership and rights to
military reservations; disputed Richmond, Va., mayoralty between Henry
K. Ellyson and George Cahoon.
Principal Correspondent: William W. Belknap.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, May–June 1870.
Major Topics: Lawsuits against military personnel; tax sale of Presidio
Military Reservation (San Francisco, Calif.); court-martial of Thomas
Jones for murder; Union Pacific Railroad telegraph services.
Principal Correspondents: William W. Belknap; Ed Schriver.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, July–August 1870.
Major Topics: Deeds to military sites; lawsuits against military personnel;
arrest of Solomon and Moritz Barth for selling liquor to Navajo Indians;
civil-military relations in Barth case.
Principal Correspondents: Ed Schriver; William W. Belknap; D. R. Burnham;
William Redwood Price.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, September–October
1870.
Major Topics: Navigation improvements to Superior Bay; military bounties;
lawsuits against military personnel; navigation improvements to Hudson
River (near Albany, N.Y.); Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad Company
property damage and loss claim.
Principal Correspondent: William W. Belknap.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—War, November–December
1870.
Major Topics: Richard B. Dunn claim for animal feed and forage; sale of
military reservation at Fort Snelling, Minn.; Henry S. Wetmore removal
from judgeship in Chatham County, Ga.
Principal Correspondent: William W. Belknap.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, 1849.
Major Topics: Churchill Gibbs military pension claim for War of
Independence service; statistical data on public land grants (by state and
territory); Miguel Eslava and Jonathan Hunt land claims on Bayou Duran
in Alabama; Chauncey Reid military bounty land claim.
Principal Correspondents: J. J. Barbour; Thomas Ewing; J. L. Edwards.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, 1850–1851.
Major Topics: Gideon S. Bailey federal pay and allowance claim; Ann
Mortimer Barron military pension claim for William Barron’s War of
Independence service; “Bringier” land claims in Louisiana; census;
criminal procedure against Governor John A. Quitman regarding filibuster
expedition to Cuba; court clerk, district attorney, and U.S. marshal pay
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and allowances; land grants to Indiana and Ohio for Wabash and Erie
Canal; Waddy Thompson professionals’ fee claim for legal aid and
services to Cherokee Nation.
Principal Correspondents: Thomas Ewing; J. Butterfield; John A. Quitman;
Horatio J. Harris; Alexander H. H. Stuart; Elisha Whittlesey.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, 1852.
Major Topics: Land grants to Illinois for a railroad; use of Indian trust funds
to settle claims against tribes; Virginia claims for War of Independence
service; military bounty lands.
Principal Correspondent: Alexander H. H. Stuart.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, 1853.
Major Topics: Military bounty lands; Vespian Ellis; Virginia claims for War
of Independence service; Virginia Land Scrip Act (1852); patent laws;
Patent Office rules and regulations; Indian treaties.
Principal Correspondents: Robert McClelland; J. J. Barbour.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, 1854.
Major Topics: Land claims; Indian treaties.
Principal Correspondents: Robert McClelland; John Wilson.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, 1853, U.S. v. Palmer
Cook & Co.
Major Topics: Land ownership and rights to Presidio Military Reservation
(San Francisco, Calif.); federal-state relations; leasing and renting;
Theodore Shillaber; John B. Steinburger; Joseph C. Palmer; Charles A.
Cook; Edward Jones.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, January–June
1855.
Major Topics: U.S. marshal expense accounts; Utah Territory court expenses;
federal pay and allowances.
Principal Correspondent: Elisha Whittlesey.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, July–September
1855.
Major Topics: Use of and salary for assistant counsel in U.S. v. Palmer Cook
& Co.; pension claims.
Principal Correspondents: Elisha Whittlesey; Robert McClelland; S. W. Inge.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, October–December
1855.
Major Topics: U.S. marshal expense accounts; Sebastian Military Reservation
(Calif.); U.S. v. George W. Lightfoot for theft.
Principal Correspondents: Robert McClelland; Elisha Whittlesey.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, January–February
1856.
Major Topics: Courthouses; military pension claims.
Principal Correspondents: Robert McClelland; Elisha Whittlesey.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, March 1856.
Major Topics: U.S. marshal expense accounts (Northern and Southern
Districts of Ohio); John Bedel; U.S. marshal pay and allowances; H. H.
Robinson.
Principal Correspondents: Elisha Whittlesey; Robert McClelland.
0997 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, April–July 1856.
Major Topics: Arrest of John Montgomery for removing trespassers from
Kansas Territory Indian lands; Joseph L. Heywood expense accounts.
Principal Correspondents: Robert McClelland; John Montgomery; Elisha
Whittlesey.
1110 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, August–December
1856.
Major Topics: Land ownership and rights to swampland in Florida; Joseph L.
Heywood expense accounts.
Principal Correspondents: Robert McClelland; Elisha Whittlesey.
1181 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, January–April
1857.
Major Topics: Land ownership and rights; public lands in Arkansas.
Principal Correspondents: Robert McClelland; Jacob Thompson.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, May–June 1857.
Major Topics: Government investment of Indian trust funds; military
pensions; federal pay and allowances, and rules and regulations for
assigning military bounty lands; specifications for Galveston, Tex.,
custom house.
Principal Correspondents: Jacob Thompson; Thomas A. Hendricks.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, July–August 1857.
Major Topic: Lawsuit against John Montgomery for removing trespassers
from Kansas Territory Indian lands.
Principal Correspondent: Jacob Thompson.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, September–
December 1857.
Major Topic: Patents.
Principal Correspondent: Jacob Thompson.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, January–February
1858.
Major Topics: Patents; pensions; F. W. Green expense accounts; federal pay
and allowances.
Principal Correspondents: Charles Mason; Jacob Thompson.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, March–May 1858.
Major Topics: Military bounty lands; Virginia claims for War of
Independence service; federal pay and allowances.
Principal Correspondents: Thomas A. Hendricks; Jacob Thompson.
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0340
0429
0502
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0613
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, June–July 1858.
Major Topics: Courthouses; district attorney and U.S. marshal pay and
allowances.
Principal Correspondents: Jacob Thompson; Moses Kelly.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, August 1858.
Major Topics: Land grant to Iowa for Des Moines River navigation
improvements; detention of Junior in Sydney, New South Wales.
Principal Correspondent: Jacob Thompson.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, September–
December 1858.
Major Topics: Land claims to Portland City, Oregon Territory; furnishing
Richmond, Va., courthouse; War of Independence military pensions;
U.S. marshal expense accounts.
Principal Correspondents: Howell Cobb; Jacob Thompson.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, January–February
1859.
Major Topics: Obed Hussey reaping machine patent (includes drawings);
David B. Martin misconduct charges against Charles N. Pine for fraud.
Principal Correspondent: Jacob Thompson.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, March–May 1859.
Major Topics: U.S. marshal expense accounts; professionals’ fees; Indian
lands and land grant to Wisconsin for Fox and Wisconsin River navigation
improvements.
Principal Correspondent: Jacob Thompson.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, June–September
1859.
Major Topics: Joseph Ganahl pay and allowance claim for enforcing slave
trade laws in Georgia and South Carolina; land claims; professionals’ fees.
Principal Correspondent: Jacob Thompson.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, October–December
1859.
Major Topics: Land grants to Louisiana and Arkansas; William Brindle pay
and allowance claim; sale of Indian lands in Kansas Territory; Jacob
Thompson et al. v. Drury W. Bowman regarding real estate business.
Principal Correspondent: Jacob Thompson.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, January–May 1860.
Major Topics: District attorney pay and allowances; Thomas W. Bartley;
James C. Spencer; mail theft.
Principal Correspondents: Elisha Whittlesey; Jacob Thompson.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, June–August 1860.
Major Topics: Printing; American Philosophical Society property
(Philadelphia, Pa.).
Principal Correspondent: Jacob Thompson.
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0799
0897
0938
0993
1122
1179
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, September–
October 1860.
Major Topics: District attorney pay and allowances; D. G. Benbrook land
claim.
Principal Correspondent: Jacob Thompson.
October–December 1860––D.C. Jail Investigation.
Major Topics: Complaints by Dr. Duhamel and Belinda Graham Bacon
against U.S. Marshals P. Willson and William Selden for management of
D.C. Penitentiary; food supply; clothing; diseases; prison guards;
prisoners.
Principal Correspondent: Robert Ould.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, November–
December 1860.
Major Topic: Treaty with the Choctaw and Chickasaw (1855).
Principal Correspondents: Jacob Thompson; John Bedel.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, January–May 1861.
Major Topics: Federal pay and allowances for selling Indian lands in Kansas
Territory; claim to Hot Springs, Ark.; military pensions.
Principal Correspondents: Moses Kelly; Caleb B. Smith.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, June–August 1861.
Major Topics: Regulation of trade with Indians; William Brindle expense
accounts; federal pay and allowances for selling public lands; purchase of
American Philosophical Society property (Philadelphia, Pa.); courthouses.
Principal Correspondents: Caleb B. Smith; James C. Van Dyke; Jeremiah S.
Black; F. Fraley.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, October–December
1861.
Major Topic: Federal pay and allowances.
Principal Correspondents: Caleb B. Smith; Edward Bates.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, January–February
1862.
Principal Correspondent: Caleb B. Smith.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, March–April 1862.
Major Topic: Construction of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad track in D.C.
Principal Correspondent: Caleb B. Smith.
0035 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, May 1862.
Major Topic: Courts-martial and confinement of military personnel to D.C.
Penitentiary.
Principal Correspondent: Caleb B. Smith.
0069 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, June–August 1862.
Principal Correspondents: John P. Usher; Caleb B. Smith.
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0365
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, September–
October 1862.
Major Topics: John Hanna pay and allowance claim; preemption rights to
public lands in Rock Island, Ill.
Principal Correspondents: Caleb B. Smith; John Hanna; John P. Usher.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, November–
December 1862.
Major Topics: Federal pay and allowances; Peter Lammond expense accounts.
Principal Correspondents: Caleb B. Smith; Elisha Whittlesey.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, January–March
1863.
Major Topics: Compensation due the Chippewa, Ottawa, and Pottawatomie
Indians; Indian treaties.
Principal Correspondent: John P. Usher.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, April–June 1863.
Major Topic: Misconduct charges against U.S. Marshal Albert Sanford.
Principal Correspondents: John P. Usher; William T. Otto.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, July–August 1863.
Major Topic: Expense accounts.
Principal Correspondents: John P. Usher; William T. Otto.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, September–
October 1863.
Major Topic: Expense accounts.
Principal Correspondent: John P. Usher.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, November–
December 1863.
Principal Correspondents: John P. Usher; William T. Otto.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, January–February
1864.
Major Topics: Misconduct charges against U.S. Marshal Albert Sanford;
Indian lands in Minnesota.
Principal Correspondent: William T. Otto.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, March–April 1864.
Major Topics: Expense accounts; Methodist Episcopal Church land claim in
Oregon.
Principal Correspondents: William T. Otto; John P. Usher.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, May–July 1864.
Major Topic: Expense accounts.
Principal Correspondents: William T. Otto; George C. Whiting; John P.
Usher.
Northern District of Illinois (Federal Courts), April 30, 1861–January 28,
1870.
Principal Correspondent: Thomas Drummond.
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0585
0635
0681
0714
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0776
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, August–December
1864.
Major Topic: Expense accounts.
Principal Correspondents: John P. Usher; George C. Whiting; William T.
Otto.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, January–March
1865.
Major Topic: Expense accounts.
Principal Correspondents: Hallet Kilbourn; George C. Whiting.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, April–May 1865.
Major Topics: Expense accounts; land ownership and rights.
Principal Correspondents: John P. Usher; George C. Whiting; James Harlan.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, June–July 1865.
Major Topic: Expense accounts.
Principal Correspondents: George C. Whiting; William T. Otto; James
Harlan.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, August–September
1865.
Principal Correspondents: James Harlan; Matthew Hopkins.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, October 1865.
Major Topics: Expense accounts; Miami Indian appropriations; Indian lands
in Kansas.
Principal Correspondents: George C. Whiting; James Harlan.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, November–
December 1865.
Major Topic: Pensions for former Confederates.
Principal Correspondent: James Harlan.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, January 1866.
Major Topics: Expense accounts; land grant to Iowa for Des Moines River
navigation improvements; swamplands.
Principal Correspondents: E. Kilpatrick; James Harlan.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, February–March
1866.
Major Topics: Kansas taxation of Indian lands; industrial standards for
transcontinental railroad; criminal procedure in murder of Flack (Choctaw
Indian).
Principal Correspondent: James Harlan.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, April 1866.
Major Topics: Expense accounts; criminal procedure in murder of Flack
(Choctaw Indian).
Principal Correspondents: James Harlan; Melvin A. Pingree.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, May–June 1866.
Major Topics: Arrest of Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians in Arkansas; federal
pay and allowances.
Principal Correspondents: W. P. Clarke; William T. Otto; Jeremiah S. Black.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, July 1866.
Major Topics: Expense accounts; U.S. marshal pay and allowances.
Principal Correspondent: W. P. Clarke.
1050 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, August–September
1866.
Major Topics: Land claims in San Francisco, Calif.; Rancho Laguna de la
Merced (Calif.); preemption rights; Treaty between the United States of
America and the Cherokee Nation of Indians (July 19, 1866); Cherokee
Neutral Lands (Kansas); American Emigrant Company.
Principal Correspondents: James Harlan; William T. Otto.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, October–December
1866.
Major Topic: Expense accounts.
Principal Correspondents: John C. Cox; O. H. Browning.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, January–April
1867.
Major Topics: John H. B. Latrobe; Treaty between the United States and the
Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations (July 10, 1866); property damage and
loss claims; James G. Blunt; licenses for trading with Indians; Indian wars
and warfare; Louis V. Bogy; taxation of cotton grown by Indians.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, May–June 1867.
Major Topic: Expense accounts.
Principal Correspondents: John C. Cox; William T. Otto.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, July 1867.
Major Topics: Expense accounts; district attorney pay and allowances; Kansas
taxation of Indian lands.
Principal Correspondents: William T. Otto; O. H. Browning.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, August–December
1867.
Major Topic: William Selden expense accounts.
Principal Correspondents: O. H. Browning; William T. Otto.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, January–February
1868.
Major Topic: Expense accounts.
Principal Correspondents: William T. Otto; O. H. Browning.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, March–April 1868.
Major Topic: Expense accounts.
Principal Correspondents: William T. Otto; O. H. Browning.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, May–July 1868.
Major Topics: Expense accounts; Sarah Dean pension claim.
Principal Correspondents: William T. Otto; James A. Morgan.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, August 1868.
Major Topics: Expense accounts; Union Pacific Railroad Company;
government subsidies to railroads.
Principal Correspondents: William T. Otto; O. H. Browning; Andrew
Johnson.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, September–
December 1868.
Major Topics: J. C. Burnett property damage and loss claim; trade with
Delaware Indians; expense accounts; Internal Revenue informants; leasing
portion of Fort Leavenworth Military Reservation (Kans.); Frederick A.
DeWolf & Co. trade with Kiowa and Comanche Indians; seizure of trade
goods.
Principal Correspondents: William T. Otto; O. H. Browning.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, January 1869.
Major Topic: Expense accounts.
Principal Correspondent: William T. Otto.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, February–June
1869.
Major Topics: Expense accounts; federal pay and allowances; civil service
system; Eastern Cherokee Indians trust fund; seizure of Frederick A.
DeWolf & Co. trade goods.
Principal Correspondents: William T. Otto; Jacob D. Cox; Nathaniel G.
Taylor; O. H. Browning.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, July–August 1869.
Major Topic: Expense accounts.
Principal Correspondent: William T. Otto.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, September–
October 1869.
Major Topic: Expense accounts.
Principal Correspondents: Jacob D. Cox; William T. Otto.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, November–
December 1869.
Major Topics: Removal of Eastern Cherokee Indians; Treaty of New Echota
(1835 U.S.-Cherokee treaty); Eastern Cherokee lands in North Carolina.
Principal Correspondents: Jacob D. Cox; E. S. Parker; William T. Otto.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, January–March
1870.
Major Topics: Expense accounts; removal of Eastern Cherokee Indians.
Principal Correspondents: William T. Otto; E. S. Parker; James G. Blunt.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, April–June 1870.
Major Topics: Expense accounts; misconduct charges against U.S. marshals in
Western District of Arkansas and Indian Territory; Indian Intercourse
Act (1834); jurisdiction; Eastern Cherokee lands in North Carolina.
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Principal Correspondents: Jacob D. Cox; William T. Otto; E. S. Parker;
James W. Terrell.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, July–August 1870.
Major Topics: Presidential duties; Eastern Cherokee delegation visit to D.C.;
military pensions.
Principal Correspondent: Jacob D. Cox.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, September–
October 1870.
Major Topics: John W. Wright mishandling of Indian military pay claims;
legal aid and services; Cherokee Indian military pension claims; land grant
for Ottawa University (Kans.); land grants for Oregon Central Railroad.
Principal Correspondents: Jacob D. Cox; D. N. Cooley; James Harlan; John
W. Wright; E. S. Parker; William F. Cady; John N. Craig.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Interior, November–
December 1870.
Principal Correspondents: Columbus Delano; William T. Otto.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, 1813–1818.
Major Topics: Courts-martial of Pennsylvania militia failing to serve in War
of 1812; patents; piracy; Nancy (ship); seizure of British military deserter
in New Orleans, La., and detention on board British sloop of war Beaver;
R. R. Felix; civil-military relations.
Principal Correspondents: Thomas Sergeant; James Monroe; John Quincy
Adams; Charles Bagot.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, January 1815–
September 1818.
Major Topics: Courts-martial of Pennsylvania militia failing to serve in War
of 1812; patents; military rules and regulations for Pennsylvania militia.
Principal Correspondents: Thomas Sergeant; John Quincy Adams; William
Thornton.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, 1819–1824.
Major Topics: Alien property rights; Mexican War of Independence;
extradition of runaway slave James Barry to St. Croix; seizure of British
citizen in South Carolina; South Carolina law regarding “free persons of
colour.”
Principal Correspondents: James Smith Wilcocks; John Quincy Adams; John
Cowper.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, 1825–1830.
Major Topics: Treaty of Ghent (1814); arrest of French merchant seaman in
Georgia; jurisdiction; Michael Withers patent for “winged gudgeon”;
Jacob Frederick Torlade Pereira d’Azambuja v. Joaquim Barrozo Pereira
regarding Portuguese royal succession and diplomatic and consular
service; Pedro IV (Portugal); Miguel I (Portugal); Maria II (Portugal);
U.S.-Portugal relations.
Principal Correspondents: Henry Clay; Roux de Rochelle; Joaquim Barrozo
Pereira; Martin Van Buren; Daniel Brent; Jacob Frederick Torlade Pereira
d’Azambuja.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, February–November
1831.
Major Topics: Alexander H. Everett pay and allowance claim; diplomatic and
consular service; pay and allowance claims for 1830 census.
Principal Correspondents: Martin Van Buren; Edward Livingston; Alexander
H. Everett.
1115 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, 1832–1834.
Major Topics: John Goulding patent; right of asylum.
Principal Correspondents: Edward Livingston; Louis McLane.
1159 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, 1835–1836.
Major Topic: Arkansas statehood.
Principal Correspondents: John Forsyth; William S. Fulton.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, 1838–1849.
Major Topics: Consular rules and regulations; French tariffs; aid to destitute
merchant seamen; Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842); U.S.-Canada border;
topographical surveys; patents; Henry Bonner.
Principal Correspondents: John Forsyth; Joseph Hobson; James D. Graham;
James Buchanan; Daniel Webster; John M. Clayton; D. C. Croxall.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, 1850–1853.
Major Topics: Runaway slaves, William and Ellen Craft; U.S.-Prussia
extradition treaty (1852); consular and commercial agent rules and
regulations; aid to destitute merchant seamen.
Principal Correspondents: Daniel Webster; Joseph S. Fay; William L. Marcy.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, January–December
1854.
Major Topics: Filibuster expedition to Mexico; seizure of Astracan for
passenger vessel violations; Edward K. Smith; law enforcement in Suisun
Valley, Calif.; consular and commercial agent rules and regulations.
Principal Correspondents: William L. Marcy; Franklin Pierce; J. N. Almonte.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, February–July 1855.
Major Topics: Congressional powers; federal-state relations.
Principal Correspondent: William L. Marcy.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, August–December
1855.
Major Topics: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848); filibuster expedition to
Nicaragua; maritime law.
Principal Correspondents: William L. Marcy; J. A. Thomas.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, January–June 1856.
Major Topics: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848); Gadsden Purchase
(1853); U.S.-Mexico relations; Antonio López de Santa Anna; diplomatic
and consular service.
Principal Correspondent: William L. Marcy.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, July–December 1856.
Major Topics: Maritime law; diplomatic and consular service; Northern
Railway of France; fraud; extradition; filibuster expedition to Nicaragua.
Principal Correspondent: William L. Marcy.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, January–May 1857.
Major Topics: Maritime law; U.S. v. Simon Elbrecht regarding deaths on
board Benjamin Aymar.
Principal Correspondents: William L. Marcy; Lewis Cass.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, June–December 1857.
Major Topics: Expatriation; Official Register of the United States; consular
pay and allowances; seizure of Spanish property in Key West, Fla.;
alleged rape of Jane Haggard and murder of William Henry Pechey by
Captain George Conway on board Switzerland.
Principal Correspondent: Lewis Cass.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, 1858.
Major Topics: Seizure of Fashion for violating neutrality laws; seizure of
Lizzie Thompson and Georgiana by Peru; coolie trade; Mexican fee on
U.S. citizens; Benjamin W. Perkins claim against Russia for gunpowder
contract; Otto Lilienfeld; U.S.-Prussia extradition treaty.
Principal Correspondent: Lewis Cass.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, January–December
1859.
Major Topics: Official Register of the United States; consular fees; arrest and
sentence of William Tyler for murder; jurisdiction.
Principal Correspondent: Lewis Cass.
State Department, Letters & Enclosures Relating to Various Discoveries of
Guano Islands, 1859.
Major Topics: Land ownership and rights; guano on Pacific Islands;
Independence Island; Enderbury Island; Phoenix Islands; Thomas Long;
Charles A. Williams; Pacific Commercial Advertiser.
Principal Correspondent: Lewis Cass.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, January–December
1860.
Major Topics: Extradition of Gustav Schilling; seizure of Alice Rogers (ship);
consular fees and U.S.–Prince Edward Island trade; marriage and
citizenship.
Principal Correspondents: Lewis Cass; William Henry Trescot.
0090 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, 1861.
Major Topics: William H. De Groot government contract claim; Washington
Aqueduct (D.C.); confiscation cases; Joseph Garneau.
Principal Correspondents: Jeremiah S. Black; John B. Floyd; William H.
Seward.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, January–June 1862.
Major Topics: Privateers; political prisoners; Pierce Butler v. Simon Cameron
for false arrest; U.S. v. Teresita (prize case).
Principal Correspondents: F. W. Seward; William H. Seward.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, July–December 1862.
Major Topics: Citizenship; U.S. v. Teresita (prize case); Hiawatha v. U.S.
(prize case); confiscation cases in New Mexico Territory; British naval
personnel imprisoned at Fort McHenry.
Principal Correspondents: William H. Seward; Charles Edwards; E. Delafield
Smith.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, January–August 1863.
Major Topics: Murder of John B. Ashby by Enoch Giles on board Hamlet;
blockade running; Jorge Auge claim to Domingo (ship); U.S. seizure of
Clyde (British ship) for transporting CSA property; British seizure of
Mariquita (U.S. ship) for slave trading.
Principal Correspondents: William H. Seward; F. W. Seward; Richard Lyons.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, September–December
1863.
Major Topics: Prize cases; U.S. seizure of Clyde (British ship) for transporting
CSA property; arrest of Spanish military deserters.
Principal Correspondents: Richard Lyons; William H. Seward; F. W. Seward.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, January–July 1864.
Major Topics: Postal service; seizure of The New Orleans Bee (newspaper);
Felix Limety.
Principal Correspondents: Robert A. Wilson; William H. Seward.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, August–December
1864.
Major Topics: Neutrality; impressment of Netherlands merchant seamen;
prize cases; Spanish military forces crossing the Isthmus of Panama;
Mexico-France relations.
Principal Correspondents: William H. Seward; Theodorus Marinus Roest
Van Limburg.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, January–May 1865.
Major Topics: Political parties and elections in Port Angeles, Washington
Territory; Clallam County Union Convention; St. Albans, Vt., raid;
Bennett H. Young; filibuster expeditions to Mexico.
Principal Correspondents: Jared C. Brown; William H. Seward; William
Hunter.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, June–August 1865.
Major Topics: U.S. claim to CSS Chameleon (aka Tallahassee); maritime law;
presidential proclamations; amnesty oaths.
Principal Correspondents: Charles Francis Adams; William H. Seward;
William Hunter.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, September–October
1865.
Major Topics: Immigration to Mexico; relocation of Idaho Territory capital.
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Principal Correspondent: William H. Seward.
0937 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, November–December
1865.
Major Topics: U.S. arms trade with Mexico and France; neutrality; French
intervention in Mexico; colonization of Lower California; settlement of
U.S. claims against New Granada; P. A. Herran; J. M. Hurtado; Elias W.
Leavenworth; Convention between the U.S. and New Granada (September
1857); presidential proclamations of Andrew Johnson and Abraham
Lincoln.
Principal Correspondents: William H. Seward; Matias Romero; José A.
Godoy; M. Murillo; Francisco Parraga.
1139 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, January–April 1866.
Major Topics: French intervention in Mexico; Edouard Drouyn de L’Huys;
U.S.-France relations; neutrality; confiscation of R. O. Boggers property;
Fenians.
Principal Correspondent: William H. Seward.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, May–June 1866.
Major Topics: Seizure of Roanoke; American Guano Company; Baker Island;
Fenians.
Principal Correspondents: William H. Seward; E. M. Allen; George G.
Meade.
0059 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, July–August 1866.
Major Topics: Fenian prisoners in Canada; seizure of Meteor; Paris Universal
Exposition (1867); Spanish naval bombardment of Valparaiso, Chile; war
claims.
Principal Correspondents: William H. Seward; Gabriel G. Tassara.
0133 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, September–December
1866.
Major Topics: Citizenship of Stanislas Pongoski; expatriation; U.S.-Russia
relations; statistical data on consular fees; civil-military relations on San
Juan Island, Washington Territory; R. W. Gibbes claim against New
Granada; Convention between the U.S. and New Granada (September
1857).
Principal Correspondents: William H. Seward; Jared C. Brown.
0282 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, January–May 1867.
Major Topics: Settlement of U.S. claims against New Granada; presidential
pardon of Simeon Hart; governors of Idaho Territory; David W. Ballard;
seizure of R. R. Cuyler; publishing U.S. statutes; purchase of Alaska.
Principal Correspondents: William H. Seward; E. Pershine Smith; Gabriel G.
Tassara; Caleb Cushing.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, June–September 1867.
Major Topics: Fenians; filibuster expeditions to Mexico; coolie trade; seizure
of Meteor.
Principal Correspondents: William H. Seward; William Hunter.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, October–December
1867.
Major Topics: Florida laws barring “free persons of colour”; Pacific Mail
Steamship Company claim against New Granada; taxation at Isthmus of
Panama; Treaty between the U.S. and New Granada (1846); U.S.–New
Granada relations; criminal procedure against U.S. citizen John Warren in
Dublin, Ireland; jurisdiction; citizenship; U.S.-France extradition treaty;
bankruptcy.
Principal Correspondents: William H. Seward; Thomas M. Foote; Victor de
D. Paredes; William L. Marcy; Lewis Cass; Frederick W. A. Bruce; E.
Pershine Smith.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, January–April 1868.
Major Topics: Lemuel Wells and sale of Caroline (ship); claims against
Brazil; maritime law.
Principal Correspondents: William H. Seward; E. Pershine Smith.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, May–July 1868.
Major Topics: Filibuster expeditions to Mexico; Henry B. Sainte Marie
payment for services claim; military deserters; U.S.-NGC relations;
treaties and conventions; NGC constitution; claims against Brazil
regarding Caroline (ship).
Principal Correspondents: Ramon S. Diaz; William H. Seward; E. Pershine
Smith.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, August–December
1868.
Major Topics: Filibuster expeditions to Cuba; Haitian civil war; naval battles
and engagements in Haiti; slave trade in Apalachicola Bay, Fla.;
fraudulent sale of Oneoto and Catawba (ironclads) by Department of the
Navy; Spain-Peru relations.
Principal Correspondents: William H. Seward; Charles Sumner; William M.
Evarts.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, January–May, 1869.
Major Topics: Murder of British citizen George Parker in Augusta, Ark., by
Arkansas State Militia; presidential appointment to consulship in Kiu
Kiang, China; filibuster expeditions to Haiti and Cuba; Florida (ship);
Quaker City (ship); Territory of Arizona v. Oscar Buckalew regarding
legislative appointments.
Principal Correspondents: Hamilton Fish; Evariste Laroche; Francis C.
Barlow; William H. Seward; Edward Thornton; George Parker.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, June–August 1869.
Major Topics: Seizure of Hornet; filibuster expeditions to Cuba; Spanish
gunboats; Spain-Peru relations; military deserters; U.S.-NGC relations;
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property loss claim.
Principal Correspondents: J. C. B. Davis; Hamilton Fish.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, September–October
1869.
Major Topics: Death of Secretary of War John A. Rawlins; filibuster
expeditions to Cuba; kidnapped freedmen sold as slaves in Cuba; Hornet
(ship); John Woolford.
Principal Correspondents: Hamilton Fish; James M. Ogden; Francis C.
Barlow.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, November–December
1869.
Major Topics: Pinkerton’s National Police Agency payment for services
claim; U.S. v. Hornet; Fenian expedition against Canada.
Principal Correspondents: Hamilton Fish; Henry W. Davies.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, January–April 1870.
Major Topics: Fenians; filibuster expedition to Mexico; seizure of SS
Catharine Whiting for neutrality violation.
Principal Correspondents: Hamilton Fish; George P. Foster.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, May–September 1870.
Major Topics: Railroad transportation of Fenians; Tenure of Office Act
(1867); filibuster expeditions to Tahiti and New Caledonia; election of
probate judges in Utah Territory; filibuster expedition to Mexico;
neutrality.
Principal Correspondents: Hamilton Fish; J. C. B. Davis; John W. Shaffer;
Thomas F. Wilson.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—State, October–December
1870.
Major Topics: George Edwards (black merchant seaman); Fenians; Benjamin
F. Fifield payment for services claim; settlement of claim against Fraser,
Trenholm & Co.; kidnapping of Margaret Robinson.
Principal Correspondents: Hamilton Fish; Thomas F. Wilson.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, 1815–1818.
Major Topic: Public lands.
Principal Correspondents: James Monroe; Benjamin W. Crowninshield.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, 1819–1820.
Major Topics: Navy pay and allowances; John Darby expense accounts.
Principal Correspondents: Smith Thompson; Benjamin Homans.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, 1821–1823.
Major Topics: Military pensions; courts-martial; navy pay and allowances.
Principal Correspondents: Smith Thompson; Samuel Southard.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, 1824–1825.
Major Topics: Marine Corps pay and allowances; appointment of navy
pursers.
Principal Correspondents: Samuel Southard; Richard S. Coxe.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, 1826–1827.
Major Topic: Blossom Smith & Demon navy contract.
Principal Correspondent: Samuel Southard.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, 1828–1829.
Major Topics: Appointment of navy pursers; Robert Pottinger; Greome K.
Spence; military pensions.
Principal Correspondents: Richard S. Coxe; Samuel Southard; John Branch.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, 1830.
Major Topics: Military pensions; transportation of Africans to Liberia; navy
pay and allowances.
Principal Correspondent: John Branch.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, 1831.
Major Topic: Thomas W. Newell.
Principal Correspondents: John Branch; Levi Woodbury.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, 1832.
Major Topics: Military pensions; Norfolk Draw Bridge Company; bridges;
Pensacola Navy Yard (Fla.); Board of Navy Commissioners.
Principal Correspondent: Levi Woodbury.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, 1833–1834.
Major Topics: Board of Navy Commissioners; prize cases; Naval Academy
rules and regulations.
Principal Correspondents: Levi Woodbury; John Rodgers.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, 1836.
Major Topic: Navy pay and allowances.
Principal Correspondent: Mahlon Dickerson.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, 1840.
Major Topic: Navy budgets and appropriations.
Principal Correspondents: James K. Paulding; John McLean.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, 1842.
Major Topics: Prize money for seizure of Amistad; R. B. Randolph expense
accounts; navy pay and allowances; naval expedition and survey to Pacific
Ocean.
Principal Correspondents: Abel P. Upshur; R. B. Randolph; A. O. Dayton;
Albion K. Parris; James K. Paulding.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, 1843–1844.
Major Topics: Military rations for Marine Corps officers; opium trade in
China; navy pay and allowances.
Principal Correspondents: David Henshaw; John Y. Mason.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, January–February,
1845.
Major Topics: Destruction of government property; Solomon E. Cohen.
Principal Correspondents: John Y. Mason; Henry Eagle.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, March 11–July, 1845.
Major Topics: Property in Memphis, Tenn., for navy yard; deeds and
conveyances; land ownership and rights.
Principal Correspondent: George Bancroft.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, 1846.
Major Topic: Property loss claims for Texas naval vessels.
Principal Correspondents: George Bancroft; John Y. Mason.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, 1847.
Major Topics: Property in Annapolis, Md., for Naval Academy; deeds and
conveyances; land ownership and rights.
Principal Correspondents: John Y. Mason; A. Randall.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, 1848.
Major Topics: Marine Corps quartermasters; military health facilities and
services at navy yard in Memphis, Tenn.
Principal Correspondents: John Y. Mason; G. J. Pendergrast.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, 1849–1851.
Major Topics: James W. Schaumburg; Senate Committee on Military Affairs;
military appointments and promotions; navy duty assignments and
releases; Marine Corps pay and allowances; Perry E. Brocchus; seizure of
brig Independence for slave trading; prize cases; Jackson Morton navy
contract for bricks; criminal procedure against Lewis Carley for murder;
court jurisdiction; court-martial of John S. Devlin; mail steamers; military
law; court-martial of A. A. Nicholson.
Principal Correspondents: William Ballard Preston; William A. Graham.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, 1852–1854.
Major Topics: Naval survey of San Francisco Bay for navy yard site; Mare
Island, Calif.; navy pay and allowances; naval expedition to Chile.
Principal Correspondents: John P. Kennedy; John D. Sloat; G. W. T. Bissell;
James C. Dobbin; Jefferson Davis.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, 1855–1856.
Major Topics: Legislation reforming the navy; New York and Liverpool
U.S.M.S.S. Co. postal contract; mail steamers; Edward K. Collins postal
contract.
Principal Correspondents: James C. Dobbin; Edward K. Collins.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, 1857.
Major Topics: Legislation reforming the navy; Edward K. Collins postal
contract; navy pay and allowances.
Principal Correspondents: James C. Dobbin; Isaac Toucey.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, 1858–1860.
Major Topics: Court-martial of Michael McDonald for attempted murder;
Chiriqui Improvement Company; Ambrose W. Thompson; Cadwalader
Ringgold; H. N. Harrison navy pay claim; navy pursers; Samuel R.
Swann.
Principal Correspondent: Isaac Toucey.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, 1861.
Major Topics: Navy pay and allowances; Naval Reserve; military
appointments and promotions; navy suspensions and demotions.
Principal Correspondent: Gideon Welles.
1024 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, February–June, 1862.
Major Topics: Navy pay and allowances; Marine Corps pay and allowances;
U.S. v. The Schooner Napoleon (prize case).
Principal Correspondent: Gideon Welles.
1091 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, July–December, 1862.
Major Topics: Navy officers; navy pay and allowances.
Principal Correspondent: Gideon Welles.
1159 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, 1863.
Major Topics: Naval Academy appointments; prize cases.
Principal Correspondent: Gideon Welles.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, February–July, 1864.
Major Topics: Prize cases; criminal procedure against Navy Agent Isaac
Henderson for fraud.
Principal Correspondents: Gideon Welles; Nathaniel Wilson.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, August 1864.
Major Topics: Navy officer claims to prize money; court-martial of
Commodore Charles Wilkes.
Principal Correspondent: Gideon Welles.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, September–
November, 1864.
Major Topic: Navy officer appointments and promotions.
Principal Correspondent: Gideon Welles.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, December 1864.
Major Topics: Board for the Examination of Officers for Promotion;
promotion of Lieutenant Commander S. Livingston Breese.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, January–July, 1865.
Major Topics: Navy officer claims to prize money; Kingsbury & Co. navy
contract.
Principal Correspondent: Gideon Welles.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, August–December,
1865.
Major Topic: Blockade.
Principal Correspondent: Gideon Welles.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, 1866.
Major Topics: Board for the Examination of Officers for Promotion;
retirement of Commander John C. Carter; Army and Navy Journal (April
7, 1866); military appointments and promotions; prize money claims.
Principal Correspondent: Gideon Welles.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, January–July, 1867.
Major Topics: Seizure of steamer Pearl; blockade running; navy pay and
allowances for retired officers; habeas corpus; minors enlisting in navy;
Charles Gormley; civil-military relations; court jurisdiction.
Principal Correspondent: Gideon Welles.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, August–December
1867.
Major Topics: Navy pay and allowances for retired officers; habeas corpus;
minors enlisting in navy; civil-military relations; Michael Kelly; Charles
Gormley; court jurisdiction.
Principal Correspondents: Thomas O. Selfridge; Gideon Welles; M. Smith.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, 1868–1869.
Major Topics: Commodore Charles Wilkes prize money claim; seizure of
steamer Peterhoff; court-martial of George W. Lendeney.
Principal Correspondents: Gideon Welles; Charles Wilkes; Adolph E. Borie.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, 1869.
Major Topics: Presidential powers and navy officers; navy pay and
allowances; prize money claims.
Principal Correspondents: Adolph E. Borie; George M. Robeson.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Navy, 1870.
Principal Correspondent: George M. Robeson.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, 1814–1819.
Major Topics: Conveyance of land in Prince George’s County, Md., to U.S.;
seizure of Good Friends; tariffs; presidential appointments; piracy.
Principal Correspondent: James Monroe.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, 1820–1823.
Major Topics: Judiciary Square city hall (D.C.); presidential powers.
Principal Correspondent: James Monroe.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, 1823 (cont.)–1824.
Major Topic: Imprisonment of debtors.
Principal Correspondent: James Monroe.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, 1825–1829.
Major Topics: Treaties and conventions; misconduct charges against Andrew
Erwin; slave trade; military brevet pay.
Principal Correspondents: James Monroe; Andrew Erwin; Andrew Jackson.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, 1830–1844.
Major Topics: Yazoo land fraud; naval coast survey; railroad use of public
lands.
Principal Correspondents: Andrew Jackson; John Tyler; A. O. Dayton.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, 1845–1848.
Major Topics: Rights-of-way on public lands; appropriations for navigation
improvements to St. Louis, Mo., harbor; Leslie Combs claim against
Texas; Texas public debt; land claims under Treaty of Dancing Rabbit
Creek (1830 U.S.-Choctaw treaty).
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, 1849–1850.
Major Topics: Citizenship of Vladislaus Wankowicz; Tonawanda Indian
Reservation (N.Y.); Seneca Indians and treaties with the U.S.; land
ownership and rights; Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Company; bridges
and navigation of Ohio River.
Principal Correspondent: Charles Ellet Jr.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President––Christiana (Pa.)
Riot, 1852.
Major Topics: Murder of Edward Gorsuch; expense accounts in Christiana,
Pa., riot cases; Frederick Zarracher; U.S. v. Castner Hannaway et al.; John
L. Thompson; William Proudfoot.
Principal Correspondents: J. Franklin Reigart; Millard Fillmore; Elisha
Whittlesey; John W. Ashmead.
1852 [Unlabeled folder].
Major Topic: Leaves of absence.
Principal Correspondent: Millard Fillmore.
U.S. vs. Gardiner, 1852.
Major Topics: U.S. v. George A. Gardiner; fraud; witnesses; John H. Mears;
Gardiner’s mine in San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
Principal Correspondents: George W. Slocum; P. R. Fendall.
Letters Received from President, 1851.
Major Topics: Edward R. Smith; Astragar (ship); government regulation of
passenger vessels.
Principal Correspondent: Millard Fillmore.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, 1853.
Major Topics: Seizure of Ellen Morrison for transporting black men into
prohibited U.S. ports; expense accounts in U.S. v. George A. Gardiner;
presidential appointments; Enoch E. Camp; J. H. Lewis expense accounts;
Henry Bennett; James Crutchett property loss claim.
Principal Correspondents: P. R. Fendall; Franklin Pierce; Stephen A.
Douglas.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, 1854.
Major Topics: Erie, Pa.; treason cases and riots and disorders in Missouri;
timber cutting on public lands; U.S. v. George A. Gardiner; equestrian
statue of George Washington.
Principal Correspondents: Thomas C. Reynolds; Thomas S. Bryant; Franklin
Pierce.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, 1855.
Major Topics: H. L. Kinney; Thomas W. Fabeus; filibuster expedition to
Nicaragua; William T. Joynes payment for services claim; federal pay and
allowances.
Principal Correspondents: William T. Joynes; Franklin Pierce.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, 1856–1857.
Major Topics: Leaves of absence; presidential appointments; William Hall
actions in State of Iowa v. Jonas Wyeth (bigamy case); interstate relations;
D.C. municipal laws.
Principal Correspondents: Franklin Pierce; Samuel Dickins.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, 1858–1859.
Major Topics: Anti–filibuster expedition legislation; district attorney pay and
allowances; preemption rights, public lands, and townsite in Superior City,
Wis.; John O. Sargent; Chippewa Indians; citizenship of Indians;
jurisdiction over Africans from seized brig Echo; South Carolina laws
against “free persons of color”; slave trade; federal-state relations;
government contracts.
Principal Correspondents: James Buchanan; James Conner; D. H. Hamilton;
William P. Preston.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, 1860.
Major Topics: Presidential appointments; Quartermaster’s Department;
construction of Washington Aqueduct (D.C.).
Principal Correspondents: James Buchanan; Charles Thomas; Montgomery
C. Meigs.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, 1861.
Major Topic: Presidential appointments.
Principal Correspondent: A. H. Chapman.
Photostats—Lincoln documents, 1864–65, from Attorney General’s Papers.
Major Topics: Presidential appointments; assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Principal Correspondent: Abraham Lincoln.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, 1862.
Major Topic: Presidential appointments.
Principal Correspondents: Abraham Lincoln; John G. Nicolay.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, January–April
1863.
Major Topic: Michigan judicial districts.
0058 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, May–December
1863.
Major Topics: Court-martial of John V. W. Vandenburg; federal-state
relations.
0104 Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, January–August
1864.
Major Topics: Presidential appointments; John V. W. Vandenburgh; military
pay of Samuel Harrison (chaplain, 54th Massachusetts Volunteer
Infantry); resignation of Judge J. W. North; Virginia Daily Union (August
25, 1864).
Principal Correspondents: John G. Nicolay; Abraham Lincoln.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, September–
December 1864.
Major Topics: Presidential appointments; judges; John V. W. Vandenburgh.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, January–
February 1865.
Major Topics: Pennsylvania judicial districts; presidential appointments; land
grant to Iowa for Des Moines River navigation improvements.
Principal Correspondent: John G. Nicolay.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, March 1865.
Major Topic: Personal property of Samuel B. Churchill.
Principal Correspondents: Samuel B. Churchill; John G. Nicolay; Abraham
Lincoln.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, April 1865.
Major Topic: Warfare against Navajo and Apache Indians.
Principal Correspondents: Andrew Johnson; Abraham Lincoln.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, May 1865.
Major Topics: Treason cases; Clarksburg, W.Va.; morality; property damage
and loss claims.
Principal Correspondents: Leonard Jones; A. Balch; C. F. Williams.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, June 1865.
Major Topics: Presidential appointments; confiscation cases; property damage
and loss claims.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, July 1865.
Major Topics: Presidential appointments; loyalty oaths; property damage and
loss claims; land grant to Iowa for Des Moines River navigation
improvements; confiscation cases; Florida Emigration Society of Northern
Ohio.
Principal Correspondents: Andrew Johnson; Abel P. Usher; John Friend.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, August 1865.
Major Topics: Confiscation cases; presidential pardons; seizure of Nassau
(prize case); presidential appointments; property damage and loss claims.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, September 1865.
Major Topics: Property damage and loss claims; presidential pardons;
amnesty oaths; elections; confiscation cases; seizure of The Methodist
Book Concern (publishing house).
Principal Correspondent: J. A. Peters.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, October 1865.
Major Topics: Confiscation of Richard H. Johnson personal property;
Arkansas True Democrat property; The Former Glory of the African Race
(pamphlet); history of Africa; confiscation cases.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, November–
December 1865.
Major Topics: Confiscation cases; Arkansas; amnesty oaths.
Principal Correspondent: A. B. Williams.
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Major Topic: Historic documents in attorney general records.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, January–
February 1866.
Major Topics: Blockade running; confiscation cases; seizure of sloop Ann L.
Whitman.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, March–April
1866.
Major Topics: Confiscation cases; securities of The American Telegraph
Company.
Principal Correspondents: Ulysses S. Grant; Andrew Johnson; Richard
Busteed.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, May 1866.
Major Topics: Confiscation cases in Florida; Joseph W. Scott; John Broward;
B. F. Goodwin and seizure of steamer Frolic; misconduct charges against
James M. Tomeny.
Principal Correspondent: James M. Tomeny.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, June 1866.
Major Topics: Confiscation cases; court-martial of Samuel E. Rankin; military
honors for Confederates; William A. West expense accounts.
Principal Correspondents: James Harlan; James Speed.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, July–September
1866.
Major Topics: Enforcement of revenue laws; confiscation cases; William D.
Miller property damage and loss claim; Court of Claims jurisdiction;
Dallas Male and Female Academy (Selma, Ala.); land claims in Selma,
Ala.; government securities held by John N. Tazewell; Colonel William
Gates military pay claim.
Principal Correspondents: Robert W. Taylor; E. D. Townsend.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, October–
December 1866.
Major Topics: Temperance demonstration; amnesty oaths; James Segar claim
for military occupation of personal property; presidential pardons;
Lafayette Maynard v. U.S.; requests for general amnesty proclamation.
Principal Correspondents: John S. Hollingshead; James Segar.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, January–March
1867.
Major Topics: Violations of Civil Rights Act (1866); murder of freedmen.
Principal Correspondents: Edwin M. Stanton; Andrew Johnson.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, April–June 1867.
Major Topics: Voter registration in Texas; misconduct charges against Judge
George B. Saunders.
Principal Correspondents: Robert Johnson; James W. Throckmorton; James
A. Abraham.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, July–August
1867.
Major Topics: Reconstruction acts and state governments; civil-military
relations in North Carolina; criminal procedure against William L. Sanders
for counterfeiting; bail.
Principal Correspondent: Daniel E. Sickles.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, September–
November 1867.
Major Topics: Adultery charges against Elizabeth D. Wilson and Judge
Charles B. Darwin; Elizabeth D. Wilson v. F. A. Wilson (divorce case);
presidential pardons; Bryce Wilson.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, December 1867.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, December 1867
cont.
Major Topics: Confiscation cases; Henry Jenkins; property damage and loss
claim by Importing and Exporting Company of Georgia.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, January–May
1868.
Major Topics: Military pay; removal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton;
political parties and judicial powers; criminal procedure against A. S.
Mansfield.
Principal Correspondents: William G. Moore; Andrew Johnson.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, June–December
1868.
Major Topics: Death of James Buchanan; presidential appointments; John M.
Binckley investigation of Internal Revenue officers; Charles Weston
military discharge; misconduct charges against Samuel G. Courtney in
revenue cases; amnesty oaths.
Principal Correspondents: William M. Hall; William G. Moore; Andrew
Johnson; John M. Binckley; Samuel G. Courtney.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, January–April
1869.
Major Topics: Imprisonment of George B. Davis (revenue case); Charles
Weston military discharge; presidential appointments; Whiskey Ring
cases; U.S. v. William Fullerton et al.; right of property; Eight-Hour Law.
Principal Correspondents: John M. Binckley; Charles Weston; John W.
Noble.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, May–December
1869.
Major Topics: KKK violence in Georgia; murder of Joseph Adkins; theft of
Francis S. Driscoll and George E. Palmer property; presidential powers;
death of Edwin M. Stanton.
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Principal Correspondents: Horace Porter; J. S. Powell; Sallie Adkins; Ulysses
S. Grant.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, January–June
1870.
Major Topics: Military commission trial of Edward M. Yerger for the murder
of Joseph G. Crane (Jackson, Miss.); presidential powers and
appointments; James W. Davis lawsuit against Union Pacific Railroad
Company for contract dispute; enforcement of revenue laws in Tennessee.
Principal Correspondents: Joseph Holt; Horace Porter; George W. Emery.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—President, July–December
1870.
Major Topics: Frivolous lawsuits against the U.S.; presidential appointments;
KKK violence in Georgia; Methodist Episcopal Church; black churches;
Wanderer (ship) and slave trade.
Principal Correspondents: Andrew J. Rodgers; Horace Porter; Ulysses S.
Grant; Joseph W. McClurg; William G. Fitch.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Post Office, 1818–1840.
Major Topics: Mail theft; postal rates; postal regulations; franking privilege.
Principal Correspondents: Return J. Meigs Jr.; John McLean; William T.
Barry; Amos Kendall.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Post Office, 1841–1842.
Major Topics: Charles H. Douglass expense accounts; postal services on
Indian lands; James Reeside personal debt for postal services; Josiah F.
Caldwell postal contract; claims, payments for goods and services.
Principal Correspondents: Charles A. Wickliffe; Elisha Whittlesey.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Post Office, 1843–1844.
Major Topics: Ward Taylor postal contract; claims, payments for goods and
services; accounting and auditing in postal service cases; bank notes
(listed by state); tariffs (listed by item).
Principal Correspondents: Ward Taylor; Elisha Whittlesey; Charles A.
Wickliffe; Matthew St. Clair Clarke.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Post Office, 1845–1850.
Major Topics: Postal service cases; newspaper postal rates; Postal Convention
between her Britannic Majesty and the United States of America;
statistical data on postal rates.
Principal Correspondents: Cave Johnson; P. G. Washington; Jacob Collamer.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Post Office, 1851–1852.
Major Topics: Postal employee expense accounts; postal laws and regulations;
franking privilege; postal rates; Charles M. Strader; William L. Blanchard
postal contract.
Principal Correspondents: Nathan K. Hall; P. G. Washington; Samuel D.
Hubbard.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Post Office, 1853–1855.
Major Topics: Mail theft; postal contracts.
Principal Correspondent: James Campbell.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Post Office, 1856.
Major Topics: Mail theft; George H. Giddings postal contract; accounting and
auditing in postal service cases; statistical data on postal service by mail
steamer; postal rates.
Principal Correspondents: James Campbell; William F. Phillips.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Post Office, 1857.
Major Topics: Post offices; postal contracts; Cornelius Vanderbilt postal
contract; mail steamers.
Principal Correspondents: James Campbell; William F. Phillips; Aaron V.
Brown.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Post Office, 1858.
Major Topics: George Chorpenning postal contract; postal employee pay and
allowances.
Principal Correspondents: Aaron V. Brown; Horatio King.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Post Office, 1859.
Major Topics: Postal contracts; Boston, Mass., post office; George
Chorpenning postal contract; U.S.-Europe postal service.
Principal Correspondents: Joseph Holt; Caleb Cushing; John S. Bagg.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Post Office, 1860.
Major Topics: Postal regulations; delivery of mass media items; Department
of Post Office appropriations.
Principal Correspondent: Joseph Holt.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Post Office, 1861–1863.
Major Topics: Postal contracts; post offices; presidential pardons and postal
service cases.
Principal Correspondents: Montgomery Blair; Alexander W. Randall.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Post Office, 1864.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Post Office, 1865.
Major Topics: Postal regulations; postal contracts.
Principal Correspondents: Alexander W. Randall; William Dennison;
William M. Evarts.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Post Office, 1866.
Major Topic: Loyalty oaths.
Principal Correspondents: J. N. Arnold; Alexander W. Randall.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Post Office, 1867.
Major Topics: Pacific Mail Steamship Company postal contract; Tenure of
Office Act (1867) and postal employees; presidential appointments;
Jurisdiction of the Auditors and Comptrollers of the Treasury of the
United States in the Adjustment of Public Accounts (pamphlet); Alexis
Coquillard and Joseph Bertrand claim against Pottawatomie Indians;
accounting and auditing; George Chorpenning v. U.S. regarding postal
contract claim.
Principal Correspondents: Alexander W. Randall; Joseph A. Ware.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Post Office, 1868.
Major Topics: Murray, Eddy & Co.; postal distribution schemes; U.S. v. Boyd
regarding capture of mail steamer Electric Spark by CSS Florida; The
Commercial Navigation Company of the State of New York; ships and
shipbuilding; steamboats; mail steamers; merchant seamen.
Principal Correspondents: Alexander W. Randall; Joseph A. Ware.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Post Office, 1869.
Major Topics: Franking privilege; George F. Nesbitt postal contract.
Principal Correspondents: Alexander W. Randall; John A. J. Creswell.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Post Office, 1870.
Major Topics: Postal contract claims; Tenure of Office Act (1867) and postal
employees; U.S. v. William B. Thompson and U.S. v. John Visscher for
mail theft; Kansas Pacific Railway Company postal contract.
Principal Correspondents: John A. J. Creswell; J. W. Marshall.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Attorney General’s Office,
ca. 1845–1860.
Major Topics: Books and bookselling; case law; public printers.
Principal Correspondent: George M. Bibb.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Attorney General’s Office,
January–April 1861.
Major Topics: Establishment of Militia Bureau; militia rules and regulations;
presidential powers and duties; U.S. government land purchases.
Principal Correspondent: Titian J. Coffey.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Attorney General’s Office,
May–December 1861.
Major Topic: Establishment of Militia Bureau.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Attorney General’s Office,
1862–1864.
Major Topics: Land ownership and rights to Hunnewell Point, Maine; land
claims.
Principal Correspondents: J. B. Kerr; J. Hubley Ashton.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Attorney General’s Office,
1865–1866.
Major Topics: Land ownership and rights to Dutch Reformed Church property
in New York City; jurisdiction; government contracts; professionals’ fees
claims.
Principal Correspondents: A. B. McCalmont; Titian J. Coffey.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Attorney General’s Office,
1867.
Principal Correspondent: J. Hubley Ashton.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Attorney General’s Office,
January–March 1868.
Principal Correspondent: Frank U. Stitt.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Attorney General’s Office,
April 1868.
Major Topics: Government inspectors in Mobile, Ala.; U.S. statutes; U.S.-UK
extradition treaties.
Principal Correspondent: P. H. Binckley.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Attorney General’s Office,
May–December 1868.
Major Topics: Public buildings in York, Pa.; Vincent P. Gomez v. U.S.
regarding land claim in California; seizure of Mohawk; certificates of
registry.
Principal Correspondent: P. H. Binckley.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Attorney General’s Office,
1869.
Major Topics: Wages and salaries for Office of the Attorney General
employees; oaths of office.
Principal Correspondent: T. Lyle Dickey.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Attorney General’s Office,
1870–1871.
Major Topics: Death of Edwin M. Stanton; oaths of office; land ownership
and rights in Macon, Ga.; H. B. Titus; U.S. v. Charles J. Ballard et al.
regarding federal pay and allowances.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Attorney General’s Office,
1868.
Major Topics: Government investigation of Pardon Clerk Frank U. Stitt;
pardon of William Jackson; counterfeiting.
Principal Correspondents: A. Bentley; Frank U. Stitt; William P. Wood.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—House of Representatives,
1812–1837.
Major Topics: Land ownership and rights; Creek Indian lands; property
damage and loss claims.
Principal Correspondents: Hopkins Holsey; Lewis Williams.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—House of Representatives,
1838–1844.
Major Topics: Right of Illinois to incorporate a state bank; property rights of
heirs of Jack Pitchlynn.
Principal Correspondents: Benjamin F. Butler; Aaron V. Brown.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—House of Representatives,
1845–1853.
Major Topics: House Committee on Revolutionary Claims; Thomas Sumpter
claim; Thomas Welch and Reed Petit land claims in Alabama; New York
laws regarding passenger vessels and immigration; Henry Leef and John
McKee property loss claim in seizure of Mary Teresa; Henry O’Rielly
patent claim; telegraph; U.S. v. Chester Beebe; U.S. v. Robert G. Ward
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and Fayette Mauzy; Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842) and runaway slaves
to Canada.
Principal Correspondents: Reuben Chapman; James M. H. Beale.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—House of Representatives,
1854.
Major Topics: Land grant to Minnesota Territory; Ebenezer A. Lester
government contract claim.
Principal Correspondent: George S. Houston.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—House of Representatives,
1855–1857.
Major Topics: Justin S. Morrill; Utah Territory laws; polygamy; Mormon
Church.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—House of Representatives,
1858.
Major Topics: Criminal procedure against John D. Williamson; federal pay
and allowances; military pensions.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—House of Representatives,
1859.
Major Topic: Federal pay and allowances for congressional employees.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—House of Representatives,
1860.
Major Topics: U.S. marshal vacancy in Utah Territory; Theodore McKean;
Missouri Compromise (1820); public lands in Missouri.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—House of Representatives,
January–June 1861.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—House of Representatives,
July–December 1861.
Major Topics: Loyalty oaths; Colorado Territory.
Principal Correspondent: Hiram P. Bennet.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—House of Representatives,
1862.
Major Topic: Federal pay and allowances.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—House of Representatives,
1863.
Major Topics: Seizure of Mowry Silver Mines (Arizona Territory); seizure of
British ship Circassian; blockade; prize law.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—House of Representatives,
January–February 1864.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—House of Representatives,
March 1864.
Major Topic: Taxation.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—House of Representatives,
April–December 1864 [misfiled 1869 documents].
Major Topics: Regulation of trade with Yankton Sioux Indians; newspaper
publication of U.S. statutes and treaties; government advertising;
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presidential appointments; lawsuit against Benjamin F. Butler; leaves of
absence; The Weekly Arizona Miner (December 12, 1868).
Principal Correspondents: Francisco Perea; Newton Edmunds; Benjamin F.
Butler.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—House of Representatives,
1865.
Major Topics: Leaves of absence; presidential appointments; military pay for
Missouri State Militia.
Principal Correspondent: J. B. Henderson.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—House of Representatives,
1866.
Major Topics: Mississippi legislature; loyalty oaths; confiscation cases in
Missouri; Missouri State Times (July 26, 1866); Fenian firearms.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—House of Representatives,
January–March 1867.
Major Topics: Legislation for federal pay and allowances; newspaper
publication of U.S. statutes and treaties.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—House of Representatives,
April–August 1867.
Major Topics: Newspaper publication of U.S. statutes and treaties; House
Judiciary Committee; seizure of Frolic.
Principal Correspondent: James F. Wilson.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—House of Representatives,
September–December 1867.
Major Topic: Woolworth & Moffat property loss claim against Cheyenne
Indians.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—House of Representatives,
1868.
Major Topics: Joint Select Committee on Retrenchment; criminal procedure
against A. S. Mansfield; newspaper publication of U.S. statutes and
treaties.
Principal Correspondent: T. A. Jenckes.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—House of Representatives,
1869.
Major Topics: Leaves of absence; presidential appointment of George A.
Pearre.
Principal Correspondent: C. P. Clever.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—House of Representatives,
1870.
Major Topics: Judicial powers in Idaho Territory; leaves of absence; judges;
presidential appointments.
Principal Correspondents: James A. Johnson; Thomas J. Bowers; J. Frank
Chavez; Abraham Morrell; Benjamin F. Butler; Benjamin F. Fifield.
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Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Vice President, 1835, 1858,
1862.
Principal Correspondent: George Calvert.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Vice President, 1870.
Principal Correspondent: Schuyler Colfax.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Agriculture, 1862–1869.
Principal Correspondents: Horace Capron; Isaac Newton.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Commissioner of Public
Buildings, 1822.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Office Superintendent
Public Printing, 1854–1869.
Major Topic: Printing of government documents.
Principal Correspondent: John D. Defrees.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Library of Congress, 1846–
1868.
Major Topics: Mexican books deposited at Library of Congress; Richard S.
Spofford.
Principal Correspondents: Richard S. Spofford; Ainsworth R. Spofford.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Library of Congress, 1870.
Major Topics: Copyright laws; librarian of congress duties.
Principal Correspondent: Ainsworth R. Spofford.
Superintendent of Public Documents, March 23, 1870.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Senate, 1824–1840.
Major Topics: Committee of Claims; topographical survey of D.C.
Principal Correspondent: John Reed.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Senate, 1841–1853.
Major Topics: Land claims; David Hines property damage claim; street
gradients in D.C.
Principal Correspondents: John J. Crittenden; Stephen R. Mallory.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Senate, 1854–1855.
Major Topics: David Hines property damage claim; street gradients in D.C.;
Ebenezer A. Lester government contract; steam engines and boilers for
Charleston Navy Yard (S.C.).
Principal Correspondent: David Hines.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Senate, 1856–1857.
Major Topics: Navy rules and regulations; transatlantic telegraph cable; U.S.UK relations.
Principal Correspondent: Asbury Dickins.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Senate, 1858–1860.
Major Topic: Land ownership and rights.
Principal Correspondents: Asbury Dickins; Stephen R. Mallory; R. W.
Johnson.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Senate, 1861.
Major Topics: Official Register of the United States; leaves of absence;
presidential appointments.
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0818
0869
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Senate, 1862.
Major Topic: Presidential appointments.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Senate, 1863–1865.
Major Topics: Presidential appointments; certificate of registry for steamer
Mohawk; voting rights.
Principal Correspondents: J. W. Forney; Charles Sumner.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Senate, 1866.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Senate, 1867.
Major Topic: Taxation of Choctaw Indians.
Principal Correspondent: Allen Wright.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Senate, 1868–1869.
Major Topics: Murder of U.S. Marshal Leonard Arms; criminal procedure
against Lucius P. Bryan for mail theft.
Principal Correspondents: Edmund G. Ross; James Dixon.
January 16, 1869––1869 Senate.
Major Topics: Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Nott and Company
property loss claim against China; U.S. v. James Neill et al.; alcoholic
beverage tax; presidential appointments.
Principal Correspondent: Lyman Trumbull.
Reel 34
0001
0128
0158
0243
0270
0280
0333
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Senate, 1870.
Major Topics: Regulation of Chinese immigration; murder of black American
London Jackson; voting rights; West Virginia election laws; voter
registration; Enforcement Act (1870); federal pay and allowances.
Principal Correspondents: Lyman Trumbull; Frederick A. Sawyer.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Supreme Court, 1816–1840.
Principal Correspondents: William Thomas Carroll; E. B. Caldwell.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Supreme Court, 1841–1864.
Major Topics: Supreme Court expense accounts; presidential appointment of
Stephen J. Field; capture of slave ship; land ownership and rights;
contracts.
Principal Correspondents: A. G. McGrath; Agnes Mary Grant.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Supreme Court, 1865–1866.
Major Topics: City of San Francisco v. U.S.; land claims and land ownership
and rights in San Francisco, Calif.
Principal Correspondents: D. W. Middleton; Stephen J. Field.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Supreme Court, 1867.
Principal Correspondent: D. W. Middleton.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Supreme Court, 1868–1869.
Principal Correspondent: D. W. Middleton.
1-20-69, 1869 Supreme Ct.
Major Topics: Blanton Duncan property loss claim (Ky.); Blanton Duncan v.
U.S.; Confiscation Act (1862); U.S. v. Blanton Duncan.
Principal Correspondents: D. W. Middleton; Blanton Duncan.
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0473
0496
0524
0543
0565
0636
0662
0708
0762
0837
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Supreme Court, 1870.
Major Topic: Joseph P. Bradley.
Principal Correspondent: D. W. Middleton.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Solicitor of the Court of
Claims, 1855–1860.
Major Topic: Presidential appointment of John D. McPherson and Daniel
Ratcliffe.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Solicitor of the Court of
Claims, 1861.
Major Topic: Presidential appointment of Charles Gibson and John D.
McPherson.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Solicitor of the Court of
Claims, 1862–1866.
Major Topic: Presidential appointments.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Solicitor of the Court of
Claims, 1867–1870.
Major Topics: Directory of claims; Richard R. Tyers v. U.S.; use of treasury
notes to pay claims; Thomas H. Talbot; statistical data on claims; claims
against China; professionals’ fees.
Principal Correspondent: Thomas H. Talbot.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Court of Claims, 1816–1860.
Major Topics: Presidential appointments; land claims in Florida.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Court of Claims, 1861–1865.
Major Topic: Presidential appointments.
Principal Correspondents: Samuel H. Huntington; James C. Welling.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Court of Claims, 1867–1868.
Major Topics: Presidential appointments; cotton seizure cases; Alexander
Collie v. U.S.
Principal Correspondent: David T. Corbin.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Court of Claims, 1869.
Major Topics: Court schedules; witnesses.
Attorney General’s Papers—Letters Received—Court of Claims, 1870.
Major Topic: Henry A. Ealer v. U.S. (cotton seizure case).
Principal Correspondent: Samuel H. Huntington.
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PRINCIPAL CORRESPONDENTS INDEX
The following index is an alphabetical listing of the principal correspondents in this
microform publication. The first number after each entry refers to the reel, while the four-digit
number following the colon refers to the frame number at which a particular file folder
containing the document from the source begins. Hence, 29: 0510 directs the researcher to the
folder that begins at Frame 0510 of Reel 29. By referring to the Reel Index, which constitutes the
initial section of this guide, researchers will find a document list including folder titles and major
topics in the order in which they appear in the film.
Barbour, James
10: 0208
Barlow, Francis C.
23: 0927; 24: 0001
Barrozo Pereira, Joaquim
20: 0717
Barry, William T.
30: 0350
Barton, Seth
2: 0986
Bates, Edward
17: 1122
Beale, James M. H.
32: 0001
Bedel, John
17: 0897
Belknap, William W.
15: 0269–0789
Bennet, Hiram P.
32: 0462
Bentley, A.
31: 1060
Bibb, George M.
31: 0452
Binckley, John M.
29: 0802, 0982
Binckley, P. H.
31: 0727, 0763
Bissell, G. W. T.
25: 0590
Black, Jeremiah S.
11: 0929; 17: 0993; 18: 0975; 22: 0090
Abraham, James A.
29: 0510
Adams, Charles Francis
22: 0783
Adams, John Quincy
20: 0436–0567
Adkins, Sallie
30: 0001
Allen, E. M.
23: 0001
Almonte, J. N.
21: 0347
Anderson, Joseph
1: 0325, 0542
Arnold, J. N.
31: 0050
Ashmead, John W.
27: 0001
Ashton, J. Hubley
31: 0613, 0705
Bagg, John S.
30: 1057
Bagot, Charles
20: 0436
Balch, A.
28: 0416
Bancroft, George
25: 0001, 0146
Banks, Nathaniel P.
12: 0540
Barbour, J. J.
15: 0924; 16: 0060
55
Caldwell, E. B.
34: 0128
Calhoun, John C.
10: 0001, 0208
Calvert, George
33: 0193
Cameron, Simon
11: 0819
Campbell, James
30: 0801, 0855, 0922
Canby, Edward R. S.
11: 1001; 14: 0957
Capron, Horace
33: 0202
Carroll, William Thomas
34: 0128
Cass, Lewis
10: 0410, 0535, 0628; 21: 0719–1145;
22: 0001; 23: 0449
Chandler, William E.
6: 0204
Chapman, A. H.
27: 1068
Chapman, Reuben
32: 0001
Chase, Salmon P.
5: 0711–1133
Chavez, J. Frank
33: 0001
Churchill, Samuel B.
28: 0337
Clarke, Matthew St. Clair
30: 0524
Clarke, W. P.
18: 0975, 1022
Clay, Henry
20: 0717
Clayton, John M.
21: 0001
Clever, C. P.
32: 1159
Cobb, Howell
4: 0576, 0723, 1033, 1097; 5: 0001–
0614; 17: 0340
Blair, Montgomery
30: 1177
Bliss, Alexander
12: 0001
Blunt, James G.
19: 1086
Borie, Adolph E.
26: 0509, 0573
Boutwell, George S.
8: 0119–1120; 9: 0001–0460, 0779,
0968
Bowers, Thomas J.
33: 0001
Bowman, A. H.
5: 0201
Branch, John
24: 0686, 0726, 0775
Brent, Daniel
20: 0717
Brewster, Benjamin Harris
7: 0894
Brown, Aaron V.
30: 0922, 1004; 31: 1157
Brown, Jared C.
22: 0694; 23: 0133
Browning, O. H.
19: 0001, 0211–0383, 0499, 0541, 0736
Bruce, Frederick W. A.
23: 0449
Bryant, Thomas S.
27: 0456
Buchanan, James
21: 0001; 27: 0730, 0991
Buckingham, C. P.
11: 0929
Burnham, D. R.
15: 0553
Busteed, Richard
29: 0090
Butler, Benjamin F.
31: 1157; 32: 0624; 33: 0001
Butterfield, J.
15: 1079
Cady, William F.
20: 0172
56
Crittenden, John J.
33: 0329
Crowninshield, Benjamin W.
24: 0410
Croxall, D. C.
21: 0001
Cushing, Caleb
23: 0282; 30: 1057
Dana, C. A.
12: 0001–0419
Davies, Henry W.
24: 0083
Davis, J. C. B.
23: 1119; 24: 0204
Davis, Jefferson
25: 0590
Dayton, A. O.
24: 1022; 26: 0922
de D. Paredes, Victor
23: 0449
Defrees, John D.
33: 0220
Delafield, Richard
12: 0001
Delano, Columbus
8: 0467–0803; 9: 0055–0272; 20: 0378
Dennison, William
31: 0010
de Rochelle, Roux
20: 0717
Devine, Thomas J.
13: 0700
Diaz, Ramon S.
23: 0711
Dickerson, Mahlon
24: 0946
Dickey, T. Lyle
31: 0833
Dickins, Asbury
33: 0457, 0514
Dickins, Samuel
27: 0599
Dix, John A.
5: 0711
Dixon, James
33: 0818
Coffey, Titian J.
31: 0518, 0659
Colfax, Schuyler
33: 0199
Collamer, Jacob
30: 0642
Collins, Edward K.
25: 0700
Collins, John F.
6: 0077
Conklin, S. J.
9: 0055
Conner, James
27: 0730
Conrad, Charles M.
11: 0246, 0382
Cooley, D. N.
20: 0172
Cooper, James
11: 0751
Corbin, David T.
34: 0708
Corwin, Thomas
3: 0494–0754
Courtney, Samuel G.
29: 0802
Cowlan, Charles
8: 0119
Cowper, John
20: 0567
Cox, Jacob D.
19: 0736, 0910, 0974; 20: 0001–0172
Cox, John C.
19: 0001, 0169
Coxe, Richard S.
24: 0588, 0686
Craig, John N.
20: 0172
Crawford, George W.
11: 0246
Crawford, T. Hartley
10: 0851–1081
Crawford, William H.
1: 0001–0325
Creswell, John A. J.
31: 0341, 0375
57
Fifield, Benjamin F.
33: 0001
Fillmore, Millard
27: 0001, 0113, 0201
Fish, Hamilton
23: 0927, 1119; 24: 0001–0298
Fitch, William G.
30: 0250
Floyd, John B.
11: 0446, 0502, 0751, 0819; 22: 0090
Foote, Thomas M.
23: 0449
Forester, John B.
10: 0851
Forney, J. W.
33: 0680
Forsyth, John
20: 1159; 21: 0001
Forward, Walter
2: 0621, 0698
Foster, George P.
24: 0117
Fowler, William
12: 0540, 0621
Fraley, F.
17: 0993
Friend, John
28: 0594
Fulton, William S.
20: 1159
Godoy, José A.
22: 0937
Gordon, Thomas F.
1: 0849
Graham, George
1: 0428, 0692–0931
Graham, James D.
21: 0001
Graham, William A.
25: 0409
Grant, Agnes Mary
34: 0158
Grant, Ulysses S.
7: 0333; 13: 0535–0848; 14: 0001;
29: 0090; 30: 0001, 0250
Dobbin, James C.
25: 0590–0799
Douglas, Stephen A.
27: 0222
Douglass, J. W.
9: 0272, 0968
Drinkard, W. R.
11: 0502, 0819
Drummond, Thomas
18: 0499
Duncan, Blanton
34: 0333
Dyer, A. B.
14: 0751
Eagle, Henry
24: 1167
Eaton, John Henry
1: 0931; 10: 0208, 0410
Eckert, Thomas T.
12: 0916, 1061
Edmunds, Newton
32: 0624
Edwards, Charles
22: 0271
Edwards, J. L.
15: 0924
Edwards, James L.
10: 0535, 0628; 11: 0141
Ellet, Charles, Jr.
26: 1061
Emery, George W.
30: 0127
Erwin, Andrew
26: 0880
Evarts, William M.
23: 0821; 31: 0010
Everett, Alexander H.
20: 1041
Ewing, Thomas
15: 0924, 1079
Fay, Joseph S.
21: 0156
Fendall, P. R.
27: 0123, 0222
Field, Stephen J.
34: 0243
58
Holsey, Hopkins
31: 1113
Holt, Joseph
11: 0819; 12: 1061; 13: 0332; 14: 0751;
30: 0127, 1057, 1127
Homans, Benjamin
24: 0447
Hopkins, Matthew
18: 0681
Houston, George S.
32: 0140
Howard, O. O.
12: 0348, 0419
Hubbard, H. R.
8: 0119
Hubbard, Samuel D.
30: 0734
Hunter, William
22: 0694, 0783; 23: 0384
Huntington, Samuel H.
34: 0662, 0837
Inge, S. W.
16: 0629
Ingersoll, Charles J.
1: 0196, 0542
Ingham, Samuel D.
1: 0692, 0849, 0931
Jackson, Andrew
10: 0001; 26: 0880, 0922
Jenckes, T. A.
32: 1063
Johnson, Andrew
19: 0499; 28: 0388, 0594; 29: 0090,
0438, 0727, 0802
Johnson, Cave
30: 0642
Johnson, James A.
33: 0001
Johnson, R. W.
33: 0514
Johnson, Robert
29: 0510
Jones, Edward
7: 0584
Guthrie, James
3: 0754–1138; 4: 0001–0576
Hall, Nathan K.
30: 0734
Hall, William M.
29: 0802
Halleck, Henry W.
3: 0979
Hamilton, D. H.
27: 0730
Hamilton, Peter
3: 0494
Hanna, John
18: 0100
Hardie, James A.
14: 0281
Harlan, James
18: 0585–0932, 1050; 20: 0172;
29: 0210
Harris, Horatio J.
15: 1079
Harris, William H.
15: 0269
Hartley, J. F.
8: 0625; 9: 0460, 0968
Henderson, J. B.
32: 0807
Hendricks, Thomas A.
17: 0001, 0226
Henshaw, David
24: 1092
Heth, Henry
11: 0606
Higgins, Frank
12: 0001
Hillyer, Junius
4: 0922, 1097; 5: 0001, 0110, 0407
Hines, David
33: 0406
Hobson, Joseph
21: 0001
Hodge, William L.
3: 0646, 0754
Hollingshead, John S.
29: 0377
59
Mason, John Y.
24: 1092, 1167; 25: 0146–0345
Maverick, S. A.
13: 0700
Maxey, Virgil
1: 0849, 0931; 2: 0143
McArthur, Duncan
1: 0116
McCalmont, A. B.
31: 0659
McClelland, Robert
16: 0060, 0278, 0629–1181
McClurg, Joseph W.
30: 0250
McCullob, James William
2: 0771
McCulloch, Hugh
6: 0077–1129; 7: 0001–1017; 8: 0001–
0289
McGaffey, A. A.
11: 0502
McGrath, A. G.
34: 0158
McLane, Louis
1: 0931; 2: 0001; 20: 1115
McLean, John
24: 0976; 30: 0350
McNeely, James H.
7: 0333
Meade, George G.
14: 0001; 23: 0001
Medill, W.
4: 1033, 1097; 5: 0001, 0407
Meigs, Josiah
1: 0001, 0116
Meigs, Montgomery C.
27: 0991
Meigs, Return J., Jr.
30: 0350
Meredith, William M.
3: 0249–0423
Middleton, D. W.
34: 0243–0473
Monroe, James
20: 0436; 24: 0410; 26: 0651–0880
Jones, Leonard
28: 0416
Jordan, Edward
5: 0711; 6: 0001, 0204, 0402, 0832–
1129; 7: 0001, 0716
Joynes, William T.
27: 0536
Kelly, Moses
17: 0271, 0938
Kendall, Amos
30: 0350
Kennedy, James C.
7: 0156
Kennedy, John P.
25: 0590
Kerr, J. B.
31: 0613
Kilbourn, Hallet
18: 0557
Kilpatrick, E.
18: 0776
King, Horatio
30: 1004
Krzyzanowski, W.
8: 0625
Laroche, Evariste
23: 0927
Lincoln, Abraham
27: 1111, 1166; 28: 0104, 0337, 0388
Livingston, Edward
20: 1041, 1115
Luckett, P. N.
13: 0700
Lyons, Richard
22: 0380, 0503
Maclin, Sackfield
13: 0700
Mallory, Stephen R.
33: 0329, 0514
Marcy, William L.
11: 0001–0246; 21: 0156–0719;
23: 0449
Marshall, J. W.
31: 0375
Mason, Charles
17: 0154
60
Peters, J. A.
28: 0909
Phillips, William F.
30: 0855, 0922
Pierce, Franklin
21: 0347; 27: 0222–0599
Pierson, H. W.
14: 0957
Pingree, Melvin A.
18: 0932
Pleasonton, S.
1: 0325, 0428, 0692; 3: 0123, 0249,
0494
Poinsett, Joel Roberts
10: 0786
Pope, John
13: 0535
Porter, Fitz John
11: 0606; 13: 0535
Porter, Horace
30: 0001–0250
Porter, James Madison
10: 0929
Powell, J. S.
30: 0001
Preston, H. L.
9: 0170
Preston, William Ballard
25: 0409
Preston, William P.
27: 0730
Price, William Redwood
14: 0751; 15: 0553
Quitman, John A.
15: 1079
Randall, A.
25: 0172
Randall, Alexander W.
30: 1177; 31: 0010–0341
Randolph, R. B.
24: 1022
Rawlins, John A.
14: 0751, 0957; 15: 0001
Reed, John
33: 0294
Montgomery, John
16: 0997
Moore, Edwin W.
5: 0201
Moore, William G.
29: 0727, 0802
Morgan, James A.
19: 0434
Morrell, Abraham
33: 0001
Murillo, M.
22: 0937
Newton, Isaac
33: 0202
Nichol, W. A.
13: 0700
Nicolay, John G.
27: 1166; 28: 0104, 0284, 0337
Noble, John W.
29: 0982
Norton, Charles D.
6: 0402
Ogden, James M.
24: 0001
Olcott, Thomas W.
8: 0119
Otto, William T.
18: 0255, 0290, 0349–0446, 0522, 0635,
0975, 1050; 19: 0169–1086;
20: 0001, 0378
Ould, Robert
12: 0001; 17: 0799
Parker, E. S.
19: 0974, 1086; 20: 0001, 0172
Parker, George
23: 0927
Parraga, Francisco
22: 0937
Parris, Albion K.
24: 1022
Paulding, James K.
24: 0976, 1022
Pendergrast, G. J.
25: 0345
Perea, Francisco
32: 0624
61
Sloat, John D.
25: 0590
Slocum, George W.
27: 0123
Smith, Caleb B.
17: 0938–1179; 18: 0001–0163
Smith, E. Delafield
22: 0271
Smith, E. Pershine
23: 0282, 0449–0711
Smith, M.
26: 0451
Smith, Samuel H.
1: 0001
Southard, Samuel
24: 0511–0686
Speed, James
29: 0210
Spencer, John C.
2: 0771; 10: 0786, 0851, 1081
Spinner, F. E.
5: 1133; 6: 0001–0402
Spofford, Ainsworth R.
33: 0248, 0279
Spofford, Richard S.
33: 0248
Stanton, Edwin M.
11: 1001; 12: 0001–0419, 0621, 0916,
1061; 13: 0001–0201, 0332, 0535;
14: 0001; 29: 0438
Stitt, Frank U.
31: 0713, 1060
Stuart, Alexander H. H.
15: 1079; 16: 0001
Sumner, Charles
23: 0821; 33: 0680
Talbot, Thomas H.
34: 0565
Tassara, Gabriel G.
23: 0059, 0282
Taylor, Nathaniel G.
19: 0736
Taylor, Robert W.
7: 0488; 8: 0289; 29: 0288
Taylor, Ward
30: 0524
Reigart, J. Franklin
27: 0001
Reynolds, Thomas C.
27: 0456
Richardson, William A.
8: 0289–0803; 9: 0588, 0779
Robeson, George M.
26: 0573, 0639
Rodgers, Andrew J.
30: 0250
Rodgers, John
24: 0883
Rollins, E. A.
7: 0001, 0156, 0584
Romero, Matias
22: 0937
Ross, Edmund G.
33: 0818
Rush, Richard
1: 0428–0692
Sawyer, Frederick A.
34: 0001
Scanlon, Michael
8: 0467
Schofield, John M.
14: 0001–0751
Schriver, Ed
15: 0461, 0553
Scott, Thomas A.
11: 0819
Segar, James
29: 0377
Selfridge, Thomas O.
26: 0451
Sergeant, Thomas
20: 0436, 0494
Seward, F. W.
22: 0203, 0380, 0503
Seward, William H.
22: 0090–1139; 23: 0001–0927
Shaffer, John W.
24: 0204
Sherman, William T.
15: 0165
Sickles, Daniel E.
29: 0546
62
Van Limburg, Theodorus Marinus Roest
22: 0616
Vinton, David H.
13: 0700
Walker, Robert J.
2: 0856, 0986; 3: 0001, 0123
Wallace, Lewis “Lew”
12: 0001
Ware, Joseph A.
31: 0081, 0210
Washington, P. G.
30: 0642, 0734
Watson, P. H.
11: 1001
Webster, Daniel
21: 0001, 0156
Welcker, George L.
2: 0986; 11: 0141
Welles, Gideon
25: 0969–1159; 26: 0001–0101, 0234–
0509
Welling, James C.
34: 0662
Weston, Charles
29: 0982
Whiteley, Robert H. K.
13: 0700
Whiting, George C.
18: 0446, 0522, 0557, 0585, 0635, 0714
Whiting, William
12: 0001
Whittlesey, Elisha
3: 0494–1138; 4: 0001–0289, 0576,
0723; 5: 0711, 0863; 15: 1079;
16: 0525–1110; 17: 0668; 18: 0163;
27: 0001; 30: 0429, 0524
Wickliffe, Charles A.
30: 0429, 0524
Wilcocks, James Smith
20: 0567
Wilkes, Charles
26: 0509
Wilkins, William
10: 0929; 11: 0001
Williams, A. B.
28: 1125
Terrell, James W.
20: 0001
Thomas, Charles
27: 0991
Thomas, J. A.
21: 0492
Thompson, Jacob
16: 1181; 17: 0001–0767, 0897
Thompson, Smith
24: 0447, 0511
Thornton, Edward
23: 0927
Thornton, William
20: 0494
Throckmorton, James W.
13: 0332; 29: 0510
Tod, John G.
5: 0201
Tomeny, James M.
29: 0137
Torlade Pereira d’Azambuja, Jacob
Frederick
20: 0717
Toucey, Isaac
25: 0799, 0839
Townsend, E. D.
12: 0540; 13: 0535; 14: 0495; 29: 0288
Trescot, William Henry
22: 0001
Trumbull, Lyman
33: 0869; 34: 0001
Twiggs, David E.
13: 0700
Tyler, John
26: 0922
Upshur, Abel P.
24: 1022
Usher, Abel P.
28: 0594
Usher, John P.
18: 0069, 0100, 0221–0349, 0406, 0446,
0522, 0585
Van Buren, Martin
20: 0717, 1041
Van Dyke, James C.
17: 0993
63
Woodbury, Charles Levi
4: 0922
Woodbury, Levi
2: 0001–0349; 24: 0775–0883
Wright, Allen
33: 0783
Wright, John W.
20: 0172
Young, McClintock
2: 0698, 0771; 3: 0123
Young, Richard M.
3: 0123
Williams, C. F.
28: 0416
Williams, Lewis
31: 1113
Wilson, James F.
32: 0967
Wilson, John
16: 0278
Wilson, Nathaniel
26: 0001
Wilson, Robert A.
22: 0546
Wilson, Thomas F.
24: 0204, 0298
Wood, William P.
31: 1060
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SUBJECT INDEX
The following index is a guide to the major topics in this microform publication. The first
number after each entry refers to the reel, while the four-digit number following the colon refers
to the frame number at which the file containing information on the subject begins. Hence,
13: 0001 directs researchers to frame 0001 of Reel 13. By referring to the Reel Index, which
constitutes the initial segment of this guide, the researcher will find topics listed in the order in
which they appear on the film.
report for Third Military District
14: 0001
Adultery
29: 0639
Advertising
government 32: 0624
Africa
Africans on seized brig Echo 27: 0730
The Former Glory of the African Race
(pamphlet) 28: 1029
history of 28: 1029
transportation of Africans to Liberia
24: 0726
see also Slaves and slavery
Agricultural machinery
reaping machine patent 17: 0429
Agriculture Department
see Department of Agriculture
Aid
see Federal aid programs
Akenhead, Walter
personal property 5: 1005
Alabama
cotton seizures 6: 0204, 0402, 0693
Creek Indian lands 10: 1081
Dallas Male and Female Academy
29: 0288
Dauphin Island 10: 0208
land claims 1: 0849; 15: 0924; 29: 0288;
32: 0001
military government report on 13: 0141
Mobile 6: 0693; 31: 0727
Planters Cotton Factory 6: 0402
7th U.S. Colored Troops
murder of Eben White 13: 0001
13th Regiment, U.S. Colored Artillery
(Heavy)
12: 0213
54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
chaplain military pay 28: 0104
Abandoned and captured property
Captured and Abandoned Property Act
(1863) 13: 0332
CSA 6: 0204; 12: 0348
Florida 12: 0621
Louisiana 12: 0540
North Carolina 12: 0419, 0540
South Carolina 12: 0621
Tennessee 12: 0540
Virginia 12: 0621
West Virginia 12: 0621
Accounting and auditing
general 31: 0081
Planters’ Bank of Mississippi 2: 0349,
0856
postal service cases 30: 0524, 0855
public accounts pamphlet 31: 0081
see also Expense accounts
Adams-Onís Treaty (1819)
claims under 1: 0325; 2: 0771; 3: 0875
Adkins, Joseph
murder of 30: 0001
Adler, Adolphus
seizure of personal property 11: 1001
Administrative law and procedure
fines 1: 0849
65
Ann L. Whitman (sloop)
seizure of 29: 0005
Annapolis, Maryland
U.S. Naval Academy property 25: 0172
Annuities
see Trust funds
Apache Indians
warfare against 28: 0388
Apache-Mohave Indians
murder of 14: 0751
Apalachicola Bay, Florida
slave trade in 23: 0821
Appointments
see Military appointments and
promotions
see Presidential appointments
Appropriations
see Budget of the U.S.
see Military budgets and appropriations
Arizona Territory
murder of Apache-Mohave Indians
14: 0751
seizure of Mowry Silver Mines 32: 0531
Territory of Arizona v. Buckalew
23: 0927
The Weekly Arizona Miner 32: 0624
Arkansas
claim to Hot Springs 17: 0938
general 28: 1125
Indian arrests 18: 0975
land grants 17: 0613
military government report on 13: 0141
murder in Augusta 23: 0927
public lands 16: 1181
statehood 20: 1159
Western District 7: 0716; 20: 0001
Arkansas State Militia
murder of British citizen 23: 0927
Arkansas Territory
land claims 1: 0692
Arkansas True Democrat (newspaper)
12: 1061; 28: 1029
Armories
see Arsenals
Alabama cont.
readmittance after Civil War 14: 0001
state finance 7: 0001
state government 14: 0001
Alaska
Department of Alaska 9: 0460
purchase of 23: 0282
Albany, New York
Hudson River improvements 15: 0693
National Mechanics and Farmers Bank
7: 1017; 8: 0119
Alcoholic beverage tax
6: 0832; 7: 0894; 33: 0869
Alice Rogers (ship)
seizure of 22: 0001
Aliens
property rights 20: 0567
Allowances
see Federal pay and allowances
Amelia (ship)
seizure for piracy 4: 0289
Amelia Island, Florida
deeds to fortification sites 11: 0246
American Emigrant Company
18: 1050
American Guano Company
23: 0001
American Philosophical Society
Philadelphia property 17: 0737, 0993
The American Telegraph Company
securities 29: 0090
Amistad (ship)
2: 0349; 24: 1022
Amnesty oaths
22: 0783; 28: 0909, 1125; 29: 0377,
0802
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company
government contract 14: 0751
Anderson, William P.
1: 0325
Andersonville, Georgia
race relations and military cemetery
14: 0957
Animal feed and forage
Richard B. Dunn claim for 15: 0789
66
Augusta, Arkansas
murder of George Parker 23: 0927
Autaugaville, Alabama
Planters Cotton Factory 6: 0402
Bacon, Belinda Graham
D.C. Penitentiary complaint 17: 0799
Bail
29: 0546
Bailey, Gideon S.
pay and allowance claim 15: 1079
Baja California
see California, Lower
Baker Island
23: 0001
Ballard, Charles J.
31: 0955
Ballard, David W.
23: 0282
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
track construction in D.C. 18: 0001
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
city of Baltimore loan to 8: 0001
Bank notes
11: 1001; 30: 0524
Bank of the U.S.
appointment of directors 1: 0931
assets 3: 0494
general 1: 0692; 2: 0001
purchase of building 2: 0771
Bankruptcy
23: 0449
Banks and banking
bills of exchange 11: 0929
general 2: 0143; 4: 0092
government revenues 1: 0931; 2: 0210;
5: 1005, 1133; 6: 0001, 0077, 0204,
0402
Illinois incorporation of state bank
31: 1157
national banks 7: 1017; 8: 0119
National Mechanics and Farmers Bank
(Albany, N.Y.) 7: 1017; 8: 0119
North National Bank (Boston, Mass.)
9: 0779
Barney, William C.
6: 0402
Arms trade
U.S., with Mexico and France 22: 0937
Arms, Leonard
murder of 33: 0818
Army and Navy Journal
26: 0306
Arrest
bail 29: 0546
Barth, Moritz 15: 0553
Barth, Solomon 15: 0553
Choctaw and Chickasaw 18: 0975
Collier, James 3: 0875
false 22: 0203
French merchant seaman 20: 0717
general 11: 0606
Montgomery, John 16: 0997
refusal to obey warrant 13: 0141
Spanish military deserters 22: 0503
Tyler, William 21: 1051
Arsenals
Harpers Ferry, Va. 11: 0001, 0141
Macon, Ga. 13: 0001, 0332; 14: 0957
Washington Arsenal (D.C.) 11: 0502
Artillery
13th Regiment, U.S. Colored Artillery
(Heavy) 12: 0213
Ashby, John B.
murder of 22: 0380
Assassination
of Abraham Lincoln 27: 1111
Assets
see Business assets and liabilities
Astracan (ship)
seizure of 21: 0347
Astragar (ship)
27: 0201
Asylum
see Right of asylum
Asylums
see Military health facilities and services
Atlantic Ocean
transatlantic telegraph cable 33: 0457
Attorney General’s Office
see Office of the Attorney General
Auge, Jorge
claim to Domingo (ship) 22: 0380
67
Bertrand, Joseph
claim against Pottawatomie Indians
31: 0081
Biennial Register
see Official Register of the United States
Bigamy
27: 0599
Bills of exchange
11: 0929
Binckley, John M.
investigation of Internal Revenue
officers 29: 0802
Birdseye, Lucien
rent claim 14: 0281
Black Americans
murder of London Jackson 34: 0001
see also Slaves and slavery
Black churches
30: 0250
Black populations
state laws against “free persons of color”
20: 0567; 23: 0449; 27: 0730
transportation of black men into
prohibited ports 3: 0646; 27: 0222
Black troops
7th U.S. Colored Troops 13: 0001
13th Regiment, U.S. Colored Artillery
(Heavy) 12: 0213
54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
28: 0104
military bounties 13: 0001
military pay 12: 0213
murder of 13: 0141
Blacken, C. B.
pay and allowances 8: 0625
Blanchard, William L.
postal contract 4: 0092, 0289; 30: 0734
Blockade
claims by companies running 6: 0402
general 26: 0279; 32: 0531
running of 5: 0711; 13: 0141; 22: 0380;
26: 0379; 29: 0005
Bloomgart, Joseph
misconduct charges against 7: 0584
Barron, Ann Mortimer
military pension claim 15: 1079
Barron, William
War of Independence service 15: 1079
Barrozo Pereira, Joaquim
20: 0717
Barry, James
extradition of 20: 0567
Barry, William
murder of W. D. Speer 14: 0363
Barth, Moritz
arrest 15: 0553
Barth, Solomon
arrest 15: 0553
Bartley, Thomas W.
17: 0668
Bates, Edward
mistreatment of 11: 1001
Bayou Duran (Alabama)
land claims on 15: 0924
Beals & Dixon
government contract 6: 1129
Beauregard, P. G. T.
seizure of property 13: 0201
Beaver (sloop of war)
detention of British military deserter
20: 0436
Bedel, John
16: 0865
Beebe, Chester
32: 0001
Belgium
trade with U.S. 2: 0621
Bellona (ship)
seizure of 3: 0875
Benbrook, D. G.
land claim 17: 0767
Benedict, Maryland
murder of Eben White 13: 0001
Benjamin Aymar (ship)
deaths on board 21: 0719
Bennett, Henry
27: 0222
Bennett, W. T.
9: 0272
68
Bradford, David
land claims of heirs 1: 0542
Bradley, James
pay and allowances 4: 0576
Bradley, Joseph P.
34: 0473
Brazil
claims against 23: 0645, 0711
Breese, S. Livingston
promotion of 26: 0130
Brevet promotions
see Military appointments and
promotions
Bricks and tiles
contracts for 11: 0751; 25: 0409
Bridges
general 24: 0813
Norfolk Draw Bridge Company
24: 0813
Ohio River 26: 1061
Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Company
26: 1061
Bright, Henry, Jr.
court-martial 11: 1001
Brindle, William
expense accounts 17: 0993
pay and allowance claim 17: 0613
Brocchus, Perry E.
25: 0409
Brooke, Francis J.
property loss claim 7: 0001
Brooklyn Navy Yard (New York)
fraud and jurisdiction 6: 0402
Broward, John
29: 0137
Brown, Frank
see Tarble, Edward
Brunswick and Albany Railroad
Company
railroad track 6: 0832; 7: 0333
Bryan, Lucius P.
criminal procedure against 33: 0818
Buchanan, James
death of 29: 0802
Buckalew, Oscar
23: 0927
Blossom Smith & Demon
navy contract 24: 0654
Blue Book
see Official Register of the United States
Blunt, James G.
19: 0052
Board for the Examination of Officers for
Promotion
26: 0130, 0306
Board of Navy Commissioners
24: 0813, 0883
Boecker, Henry
distillery 8: 0119
Boggers, R. O.
confiscation of property 22: 1139
Bogy, Louis V.
19: 0052
Boker, John G.
claim for fraudulent tariffs 3: 0979
Bonded warehouses
labor at 5: 0407
property damage and loss claims
7: 0001, 0584
U.S. v. Powell 9: 0968
Bonds
see Securities
Bonner, Henry
21: 0001
Books and bookselling
general 31: 0452
Mexican books at Library of Congress
33: 0248
Borders
Missouri–Iowa Territory dispute
10: 0786
U.S.-Canada 21: 0001
Boston, Massachusetts
North National Bank 9: 0779
post office 30: 1057
William E. French & Co. distillery
6: 0204
Bounties
see Fishing bounties
see Military bounties
Bowman, Drury W.
17: 0613
69
Chicago, Detroit, and Canada Grand
Trunk Junction Railroad Company
11: 0819
Chiriqui Improvement Company
25: 0839
Cincinnati Gas Light and Coke
Company 5: 0863
The Commercial Navigation Company
of the State of New York 31: 0210
Frederick A. DeWolf & Co. 7: 0716;
19: 0541, 0736
Florida Railroad Company 7: 0894
Fraser, Trenholm & Co. 24: 0298
Groot, Kuck & Co. 9: 0272
Importing and Exporting Company of
Georgia 29: 0683
Kansas Pacific Railway Company
31: 0375
Kingsbury & Co. 26: 0234
Murray, Eddy & Co. 31: 0210
Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad
Company 15: 0693
Neptune Submarine Co. 14: 0363
New York and Liverpool U.S.M.S.S.
Co. 25: 0700
Norfolk Draw Bridge Company
24: 0813
Nott and Company 33: 0869
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
23: 0449; 31: 0081
Pierce & Bacon 11: 0929
Russell, Majors, and Waddell 11: 0929
Union Pacific Railroad Company
9: 0779; 30: 0127
Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Company
26: 1061
William E. French & Co. 6: 0204
Woolworth & Moffat 32: 1026
see also Employment
see also Leasing and renting
see also Publishers and publishing
see also Real estate business
Business assets and liabilities
Bank of the U.S. 3: 0494
Butler, Benjamin F.
lawsuit against 32: 0624
Budget of the U.S.
cabinet departments and government
appropriations 3: 0423
Department of Post Office
appropriations 30: 1127
Indian appropriations 1: 0931; 18: 0714
navigation appropriations 26: 0982
public building appropriations 9: 0588
see also Military budgets and
appropriations
Budget surpluses
1: 0931
Buffalo Creek, New York
deeds to public lands 11: 0141
Buildings
office buildings 12: 1061
purchase of 2: 0771
see also Public buildings
Bull, Benjamin S.
court-martial 10: 0001
Bulls Island, South Carolina
tax sale of plantation 6: 1003
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and
Abandoned Lands
general 12: 0348; 14: 0363
land use by 14: 0957
list of murdered freedmen 14: 0751
Burnett, J. C.
property damage and loss claim 19: 0541
Business
American Emigrant Company 18: 1050
American Guano Company 23: 0001
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company
14: 0751
The American Telegraph Company
29: 0090
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
8: 0001
bankruptcy 23: 0449
“blockade running companies” 6: 0402
Blossom Smith & Demon 24: 0654
Brunswick and Albany Railroad
Company 6: 0832; 7: 0333
C. B. Cluskey & Co. 5: 0201
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company
1: 0692
70
Canals
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company
1: 0692
taxation of traffic 4: 0723; 6: 0077
Wabash and Erie Canal 15: 1079
Cape Fear, North Carolina
court documents 12: 0916
Capitol, Washington, D.C.
building extension 3: 0979
Capture
see Searches and seizures
Captured and Abandoned Property Act
(1863)
13: 0332
Carley, Lewis
criminal procedure against 25: 0409
Carlotta (ship)
seizure of 6: 0077
Caroline (ship)
23: 0645, 0711
Carter, John C.
retirement of 26: 0306
Case law
Butler v. Cameron 22: 0203
Chorpenning v. U.S. 31: 0081
Collie v. U.S. 34: 0708
cotton cases 7: 0333, 0584; 34: 0708
Duncan v. U.S. 34: 0333
Ealer v. U.S. 34: 0837
Fellows v. Denniston 7: 0156
general 31: 0452
Gomez v. U.S. 31: 0763
Hiawatha v. U.S. 22: 0271
Levy and Coddington v. Levy 5: 0863
Maynard v. U.S. 29: 0377
riot cases 27: 0001
San Francisco v. U.S. 34: 0243
slavery and forced labor 8: 0625
State of Iowa v. Wyeth 27: 0599
Sturges v. Draper 9: 0968
Territory of Arizona v. Buckalew
23: 0927
Thompson v. Bowman 17: 0613
Butler v. Cameron
22: 0203
Byrne, James J.
misconduct charges against 8: 0001
C. B. Cluskey & Co.
5: 0201
Cabinet departments
government appropriations 3: 0423
Cables
transatlantic telegraph 33: 0457
Cahoon, George
Richmond, Va., mayoralty 15: 0412
Caldwell, Josiah F.
postal contract 30: 0429
California
land claims 31: 0763
Lime Point 11: 0819
Mare Island 25: 0590
Rancho Laguna de la Merced 18: 1050
San Francisco 3: 0646, 1138; 6: 1003;
15: 0461; 16: 0354; 18: 1050;
34: 0243
San Francisco Bay 25: 0590
Suisun Valley 21: 0347
California Land Commission
expenses 3: 0754
California, Lower
colonization 22: 0937
Camden, South Carolina
murders in 13: 0894
Cameron, Simon
22: 0203
Camilla, Georgia
riot 14: 0001
Camp, Enoch E.
27: 0222
Canada
border with U.S. 21: 0001
Chicago, Detroit, and Canada Grand
Trunk Junction Railroad Company
11: 0819
Fenians 23: 0059, 1119; 24: 0083
Prince Edward Island 22: 0001
runaway slaves to 32: 0001
71
Case law cont.
Torlade Pereira d’Azambuja v. Barrozo
Pereira 20: 0717
treason cases 13: 0535; 28: 0416
U.S. v. Anderson 1: 0325
U.S. v. Ballard 31: 0955
U.S. v. Barney 6: 0402
U.S. v. Beebe 32: 0001
U.S. v. Bennett 9: 0272
U.S. v. Boyd 31: 0210
U.S. v. Dewitt 7: 0716
U.S. v. Duncan 34: 0333
U.S. v. Elbrecht 21: 0719
U.S. v. Fullerton 29: 0982
U.S. v. Gilson 9: 0170
U.S. v. Hannaway 27: 0001
U.S. v. Harris 15: 0269
U.S. v. Hornet 24: 0083
U.S. v. Kendall 4: 1097
U.S. v. King and Coxe 2: 0856
U.S. v. Lightfoot 16: 0736
U.S. v. Neill 33: 0869
U.S. v. Olmsted 8: 0119
U.S. v. Palmer Cook & Co. 16: 0354,
0629
U.S. v. Powell 9: 0968
U.S. v. Price 2: 0621
U.S. v. Rhomberg 9: 0968
U.S. v. Saunders 9: 0779
U.S. v. the bark John Griffin 8: 1120
U.S. v. the officers of the steamship
Cuba 8: 0803
U.S. v. Thompson 31: 0375
U.S. v. Visscher 31: 0375
U.S. v. Walker 4: 1033
U.S. v. Ward and Mauzy 32: 0001
Whiskey Ring 29: 0982
Wilson v. Wilson 29: 0639
Yellow Beaver v. County of Miami, State
of Kansas 7: 0156
see also Confiscation cases
see also Postal service cases
see also Prize cases
Catawba (ironclad)
fraudulent sale of 23: 0821
Cathcart, James Leander
claim 1: 0325
Catholic Church
land claim 11: 0502
Cavalry
horses 12: 0001
weapons contract 14: 0751
Census
15: 1079; 20: 1041
Certificates of registry
general 1: 0196; 4: 0576; 31: 0763
Grey Cloud (ship) 9: 0588
Mohawk (steamer) 33: 0680
Charleston, South Carolina
navy yard 33: 0406
Charlotte, North Carolina
Groot, Kuck & Co. 9: 0272
Chatham County, Georgia
removal of judge 15: 0789
Chattanooga, Tennessee
government property 12: 0419
U.S. Military Railroads 13: 0243
Cheatham, Leonard P.
Indian removal contract 10: 0535
Cherokee Commission
status of 3: 0001
Cherokee Indians
claims 10: 0929, 1081; 20: 0172
contracts for removal 10: 0535
legal aid and services to 15: 1079
trade with 10: 0410
treaties with U.S. 10: 0410, 0628;
18: 1050; 19: 0974
trespass on lands 10: 0001
see also Eastern Cherokee
Cherokee Neutral Lands (Kansas)
18: 1050
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company
1: 0692
Cheyenne Indians
claims against 32: 1026
Chicago, Detroit, and Canada Grand
Trunk Junction Railroad Company
11: 0819
72
Citizenship
expatriation 21: 0795; 23: 0133
general 22: 0271; 23: 0449
of Indians 27: 0730
marriage 22: 0001
Pongoski, Stanislas 23: 0133
U.S. citizens 21: 0905; 23: 0449
Wankowicz, Vladislaus 26: 1061
City and town planning
Judiciary Square (D.C.) city hall
26: 0731
Civil procedure
against C. R. Crane 12: 0916
Civil rights
race relations 14: 0957
voter registration 29: 0510; 34: 0001
see also Freedmen and freedwomen
see also Ku Klux Klan
see also Slaves and slavery
Civil Rights Act (1866)
8: 0625; 13: 0201; 29: 0438
Civil service system
general 19: 0736
job tenure 7: 0488, 0584
presidential powers over 7: 0894
Civil War
claims 7: 0156; 8: 1120
loss of Robert Campbell Jr. (ship)
7: 0894
see also Confederate States of America
see also Reconstruction Acts
Civil-military relations
Barth case 15: 0553
general 12: 0916; 13: 0141; 14: 0001;
20: 0436; 26: 0379, 0451
New Mexico Territory 12: 0001
North Carolina 29: 0546
San Juan Island, Wash. Territory
23: 0133
Utah Territory 11: 0606
see also Military government
Claims
Adams-Onís Treaty (1819) 1: 0325;
2: 0771; 3: 0875
Auge, Jorge 22: 0380
Birdseye, Lucien 14: 0281
Chickasaw Indians
arrests 18: 0975
expenses for treaty negotiations 1: 0849
treaties with U.S. 7: 0894; 10: 0628;
17: 0897; 19: 0052
Children
underage military service 15: 0165;
26: 0379, 0451
Chile
23: 0059; 25: 0590
China
claims against 33: 0869; 34: 0565
consular appointment 23: 0927
opium trade 24: 1092
U.S. regulation of emigration 34: 0001
Chippewa Indians
18: 0221; 27: 0730
Chiriqui Improvement Company
25: 0839
Choctaw Indians
arrests 18: 0975
expenses for treaty negotiations 1: 0849
murder of Flack 18: 0819, 0932
orphan lands 10: 0929
taxation of 6: 1129; 7: 0156; 33: 0783
treaties with U.S. 7: 0894; 10: 0535,
0628, 0851, 1081; 17: 0897;
19: 0052; 26: 0982
Cholera
12: 0695
Chorpenning, George
general 31: 0081
postal contract 30: 1004, 1057
Chouteau, Auguste
land claim 1: 0692
Christiana, Pennsylvania
27: 0001
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day
Saints
11: 0606; 32: 0212
Churchill, Samuel B.
personal property 28: 0337
Cincinnati Gas Light and Coke Company
seizure of company stock 5: 0863
Circassian (ship)
seizure of 32: 0531
73
Perkins, Benjamin W. 21: 0905
personal property seizures 13: 0001
Peru 3: 0001, 0123
Pierce & Bacon 11: 0929
postal contracts 31: 0081, 0375
prize money 26: 0038, 0234, 0306, 0509,
0573
professionals’ fees 7: 0001; 15: 1079;
31: 0659
property damage and loss 3: 0646;
4: 0576; 7: 0001, 0156, 0584;
11: 0751; 12: 1061; 14: 0281;
15: 0693; 19: 0052, 0541; 23: 1119;
25: 0146; 27: 0222; 28: 0416–0909;
29: 0288, 0683; 31: 1113; 32: 0001,
1026; 33: 0329, 0406, 0869;
34: 0333
to railroad track 7: 0333
Robert Campbell Jr. (ship) 7: 0894
Russell, Gilbert C. 10: 0208
Segar, James 29: 0377
states 11: 0382
Sumpter, Thomas 32: 0001
tea 1: 0428, 0542
U.S.-France 2: 0001, 0143
wages and salaries 4: 0723
war 16: 0001, 0060; 17: 0226; 23: 0059
see also Court of Claims
see also Land claims
Clallam County, Washington Territory
union convention 22: 0694
Clapp, James C.
misconduct in prize cases 7: 0488
Clarksburg, West Virginia
28: 0416
Clarkson, J. J.
prisoner exchange 12: 0001
Clerks
see Courts
Clothing and clothing industry
17: 0799
Clyde (ship)
seizure by U.S. 22: 0380, 0503
Coastal zone
naval survey 26: 0922
Claims cont.
Boker, John G. 3: 0979
Brazil, against 23: 0645, 0711
Cathcart, James Leander 1: 0325
China, against 34: 0565
Combs, Leslie 26: 0982
Committee of Claims 33: 0294
Committee on Revolutionary Claims
(House) 32: 0001
compensation 11: 0246, 0382
cotton 6: 0402
to CSS Chameleon 22: 0783
directory of 34: 0565
Dunn, Richard B. 15: 0789
estate of George A. Gardiner 4: 1097
Fraser, Trenholm & Co., against
24: 0298
general 34: 0565
Georgia 1: 0692
Gibbes, R. W. 23: 0133
government contracts 22: 0090
government securities 1: 0692
handling instructions 4: 0092
Hot Springs, Ark. 17: 0938
Indiana 8: 1120
Indians, against 16: 0001; 31: 0081
Indians, by 10: 0208, 0929, 1081;
18: 0221; 20: 0172
Johnson, Richard H. 12: 1061
Lester, Ebenezer A. 32: 0140
lost slaves 1: 0542
military pay 29: 0288
military rations 11: 0141
New Granada, against 22: 0937;
23: 0282
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
23: 0449
patents 32: 0001
pay and allowances 15: 1079; 17: 0568,
0613; 18: 0100; 20: 1041; 25: 0839
payment with treasury notes 34: 0565
payments for goods and services
23: 0711; 24: 0083, 0298; 27: 0536;
30: 0429, 0524
pensions 10: 0410, 0929; 15: 0924,
1079; 16: 0629, 0821; 19: 0434
74
Coastwise trade
taxation of vessels 9: 0968
Coddington, David S.
5: 0863
Codfish
industry fishing bounties 3: 0754, 1138;
4: 0092
Cohen, Solomon E.
24: 1167
Colleges and universities
Norwich University 13: 0700
Ottawa University 20: 0172
Collie v. U.S.
34: 0708
Collier, James
arrest 3: 0875
Collins, Edward K.
postal contract 25: 0700, 0799
Colombia
see New Granada
Colonization
California, Lower 22: 0937
Colorado Territory
32: 0462
Colored troops
see Black troops
Columbus, Mississippi
land claims 12: 0419
Comanche Indians
trade with 19: 0541
Combs, Leslie
claim against Texas 26: 0982
Commercial law
agents’ rules and regulations 21: 0156,
0347
see also Contracts
The Commercial Navigation Company of
the State of New York
31: 0210
Commissioner of Public Buildings
33: 0215
Committee of Claims
33: 0294
Committee of Public Safety (Texas)
13: 0700
Committee on Foreign Affairs (Senate)
see Foreign Relations Committee
(Senate)
Committee on Military Affairs (Senate)
25: 0409
Committee on Revolutionary Claims
(House)
32: 0001
Company G, 186th Regiment, New York
Volunteers
12: 0419
Compensation
juries 4: 0092; 8: 0001
witnesses 8: 0001
see also Claims
Compulsory military service
Enrollment Act (1863) 12: 0213, 0621
impressment 22: 0616
presidential draft board 12: 0213
Confederate Laboratory (Macon,
Georgia)
land ownership and rights to 14: 0957
Confederate States of America (CSA)
abandoned and captured property
6: 0204; 12: 0348
citizens 7: 0001; 12: 0001
confiscation of property 14: 0495
conveyance of land to 13: 0332
CSS Chameleon 22: 0783
government contracts 6: 0204
government land 6: 0832
Governor Troupe (ship) 12: 0419
interstate commerce with former states
6: 0402, 0693
military honors for soldiers 29: 0210
pensions 18: 0754
prisoner exchanges 12: 0001
seizure of Carlotta (ship) for intended
aid to 6: 0077
supplies 5: 0711
tax sales of land 6: 0832; 7: 0894
transportation of property belonging to
22: 0380, 0503
Confiscation
see Searches and seizures
75
Convention between the U.S. and New
Granada (1857)
22: 0937; 23: 0133
Conveyances
see Deeds and conveyances
Conway, George
21: 0795
Cook, Charles A.
16: 0354
Coolie trade
21: 0905; 23: 0384
Copyright
laws 33: 0279
Coquillard, Alexis
claim against Pottawatomie Indians
31: 0081
Coral reefs and islands
Amelia Island 11: 0246
Baker Island 23: 0001
Bulls Island 6: 1003
Dauphin Island 10: 0208
Edisto Island 4: 1033
Enderbury Island 21: 1145
Independence Island 21: 1145
Mare Island 25: 0590
New Caledonia 24: 0204
Pacific Islands 21: 1145
Pea Patch Island 10: 0001
Phoenix Islands 21: 1145
Prince Edward Island 22: 0001
St. Croix 20: 0567
Tahiti 24: 0204
Tortugas Island 11: 0001
Corwine, R. W.
misconduct charges 6: 0693, 0832
Cotton
Decatur case 7: 0333, 0584
seizures of 6: 0204, 0402, 0693; 7: 0156,
0716; 9: 0968; 34: 0708, 0837
tariffs 6: 0693
taxation of 6: 1129; 7: 0156; 19: 0052
Counsel
see U.S. attorneys
Counterfeiting
29: 0546; 31: 1060
Confiscation Act (1862)
13: 0332; 34: 0333
Confiscation cases
Florida 6: 0693; 29: 0137
general 5: 1005; 6: 0077–0402;
11: 1001; 22: 0090; 28: 0514–1125;
29: 0005, 0090, 0210, 0288, 0683
informants 7: 0156
misconduct charges in 7: 0716
Missouri 32: 0858
New Mexico Territory 22: 0271
proceeds from 7: 0333
Congress
Joint Select Committee on Retrenchment
32: 1063
see also House of Representatives
see also Senate
Congressional employees
pay and allowances 32: 0368
Congressional powers
general 6: 0832; 21: 0439
U.S. v. Dewitt 7: 0716
Constitutional law
passport issuance 4: 0922
stamp taxes 6: 0832
Washington Aqueduct (D.C.) 11: 0502
see also Citizenship
see also Civil-military relations
see also Federal-state relations
Constitutions
NGC 23: 0711
Virginia 13: 0332; 14: 0957
Consular fees
general 21: 1051; 23: 0133
Prince Edward Island trade 22: 0001
Consular service
see Diplomatic and consular service
Contracts
disputes 5: 0201; 30: 0127
general 34: 0158
Perkins, Benjamin W. 21: 0905
see also Government contracts and
procurement
see also Navy contracts and procurement
see also Postal contracts
76
Crane, C. R.
civil procedure against 12: 0916
Crane, Joseph G.
murder of 30: 0127
Creek Indians
Georgia claims against 1: 0692
lands 10: 1081; 31: 1113
Treaty of Cusseta (1832) 10: 0535
Treaty of Indian Springs (1821) 10: 0208
Crime and criminals
forced labor 8: 0625
mutiny 10: 0001
smuggling 6: 1129
see also Fraud
see also Piracy
see also Robbery and theft
see also Treason cases
see also Violence
Criminal procedure
against
Bryan, Lucius P. 33: 0818
Carley, Lewis 25: 0409
Henderson, Isaac 26: 0001
Hornbrook, Thomas 5: 1005
Lyon, William H. 9: 0001
Mansfield, A. S. 29: 0727; 32: 1063
Mears, A. W. 13: 0243
Palmer, John J. 13: 0243
Quitman, John A. 15: 1079
Rudd, Theron 1: 0001
Sanders, William L. 29: 0546
Warren, John 23: 0449
Williamson, John D. 32: 0258
general 11: 0606
juries 4: 0092; 8: 0001
murder of Choctaw Indian 18: 0819,
0932
see also Arrest
see also Pardons
see also Sentences, criminal procedure
Crutchett, James
property loss claim 27: 0222
CSA
see Confederate States of America
CSS Chameleon
U.S. claim to 22: 0783
Court documents
Cape Fear, N.C. 12: 0916
theft of 12: 1061
Court of Claims
general 34: 0636–0837
jurisdiction 29: 0288
lawyer liens on judgments 7: 0001
proceedings 14: 0363
see also Solicitor of the Court of Claims
Courthouses
16: 0821; 17: 0271, 0340, 0993
Courtney, Samuel G.
misconduct charges against 29: 0802
Courts
clerks 4: 0092; 15: 1079
documents 12: 0916, 1061
expenses 16: 0525
jurisdiction 25: 0409; 26: 0379, 0451
schedules 34: 0762
state 6: 0832
see also Case law
see also Supreme Court
Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Bright, Henry, Jr. 11: 1001
Bull, Benjamin S. 10: 0001
confining military personnel at D.C.
Penitentiary 18: 0035
Devlin, John S. 25: 0409
general 24: 0511
Jones, Thomas 15: 0461
Lendeney, George W. 26: 0509
McDonald, Michael 25: 0839
Nicholson, A. A. 25: 0409
Pennsylvania militia 10: 0001; 20: 0436,
0494
Porter, Fitz John 13: 0535
presidential powers over 13: 0535
Rankin, Samuel E. 29: 0210
Vandenburg, John V. W. 28: 0058
Wilkes, Charles 26: 0038
Coxe, Daniel W.
2: 0856
Craft, Ellen
21: 0156
Craft, William
21: 0156
77
Stanton, Edwin M. 30: 0001; 31: 0955
see also Homicide
Debt
see Public debt
Decatur cotton case
7: 0333, 0584
Deeds and conveyances
custom houses 3: 0249, 0494–0754,
1138; 4: 0001, 0431, 0576
Detroit, Mich. 10: 1081
Fort Gansevoort (N.Y.) 11: 0246
fortifications 10: 0851, 0929, 1081;
11: 0001, 0141, 0246
general 11: 0502; 25: 0001, 0172
government property 6: 1003
Harpers Ferry, Va. 11: 0246
land conveyances 13: 0332; 14: 0495;
26: 0651
lighthouses 3: 0001, 0249, 0357, 0494–
0754, 0979; 4: 0001, 0431, 0576,
1033; 7: 0156
Macon, Ga., armory 13: 0001
marine hospitals 10: 1081
military bases, posts, and reservations
11: 0929; 13: 0001, 0535; 14: 0281,
0495; 15: 0553
military cemeteries 13: 0332, 0700;
14: 0001, 0363, 0957; 15: 0269,
0412
Pea Patch Island, Del. 10: 0001
public buildings 4: 0723; 5: 0001, 0614,
0711, 1005; 7: 0488, 0584
public lands 10: 0929; 11: 0141
San Francisco, Calif. 6: 1003
Savannah, Ga. 2: 0856
Wilmington, N.C. 2: 0856
Delaware
deed to Pea Patch Island 10: 0001
Delaware Indians
trade with 19: 0541
Denniston, Robert
7: 0156
Department of Agriculture
33: 0202
Department of Alaska
regulation of fur trade 9: 0460
CSS Florida
capture of Electric Spark 31: 0210
CSS Tallahassee
see CSS Chameleon
Cuba
filibuster expeditions 15: 1079;
23: 0821–1119; 24: 0001
sale of freedmen as slaves 24: 0001
Cuba (steamship)
8: 0803
Cushing, Caleb
expense accounts 4: 0723
Custom houses
deeds and conveyances 3: 0249, 0494–
0754, 1138; 4: 0001, 0431, 0576
Galveston, Tex. 4: 0431; 5: 0201;
17: 0001
Mobile, Ala., records 6: 0693
purchase of Bank of the U.S. building
2: 0771
Customs administration
bonds 1: 0325
collectors of customs 7: 0894; 11: 0246
see also Tariffs
D.C.
see District of Columbia
Darby, John
expense accounts 24: 0447
Darwin, Charles B.
adultery charges against 29: 0639
Dauphin Island, Alabama
10: 0208
Davenport, J. J.
leave of absence 4: 0723
Davis, George B.
imprisonment of 29: 0982
Davis, James W.
contract dispute 30: 0127
De Groot, William H.
11: 0751; 22: 0090
Dean, Sarah
pension claim 19: 0434
Death and dying
on board Benjamin Aymar 21: 0719
Buchanan, James 29: 0802
Rawlins, John A. 24: 0001
78
Desertion
see Military deserters
Detention
see Searches and seizures
Detroit, Michigan
Chicago, Detroit, and Canada Grand
Trunk Junction Railroad Company
11: 0819
deeds to land 10: 0851–1081
Devlin, John S.
court-martial 25: 0409
Diamonds
tariffs on 3: 0423
Dickson (U.S. marshal)
misconduct charges against 8: 0119
Diplomatic and consular service
consular fees 21: 1051; 22: 0001;
23: 0133
general 20: 1041; 21: 0552, 0650
pay and allowances 21: 0795
Portugal 20: 0717
presidential appointments 23: 0927
rules and regulations 21: 0001, 0156,
0347
Directories
claims 34: 0565
tariffs 30: 0524
Diseases and disorders
12: 0695; 17: 0799
Distilleries
Boecker, Henry 8: 0119
distillation process 8: 0803
general 1: 0001; 7: 0001, 0894
illegal 8: 0467
Tice meters 8: 0119
U.S. v. Powell 9: 0968
U.S. v. Rhomberg 9: 0968
William E. French & Co. 6: 0204
District attorneys
see U.S. attorneys
District courts
see Federal district courts
District of Columbia
Judiciary Square city hall 26: 0731
municipal laws 27: 0599
penitentiary 17: 0799; 18: 0035
Department of Interior
15: 0924, 1079; 16: 0001–1181;
17: 0001–1179; 18: 0001–1050;
19: 0001–1086; 20: 0001–0378
Department of Post Office
30: 0350–1177; 31: 0001–0375
Department of State
20: 0436–1159; 21: 0001–1145;
22: 0001–1139; 23: 0001–1119;
24: 0001–0298
Department of the Navy (cabinet
department)
23: 0821; 24: 0410–1167; 25: 0001–
1159; 26: 0001–0639
see also Navy
Department of the South
military operations and administration of
civil affairs in 1868 14: 0001
Department of Treasury
employees 8: 1120; 9: 0779
general 1: 0001–0931; 2: 0001–0986;
3: 0001–1138; 4: 0001–1097;
5: 0001–1133; 6: 0001–1129;
7: 0001–1017; 8: 0001–1120;
9: 0001–0968
General Land Office 1: 0428
Indian appropriations 1: 0931
policies 3: 0123
public accounts pamphlet 31: 0081
use of treasury notes to pay claims
34: 0565
Department of War
death of John A. Rawlins 24: 0001
general 10: 0001–1081; 11: 0001–1001;
12: 0001–1061; 13: 0001–0848;
14: 0001–0957; 15: 0001–0789
Indian appropriations 1: 0931
Militia Bureau 31: 0518, 0589
mistreatment of attorney general
11: 1001
Office of the Auditor 15: 0370
Ordnance Department 13: 0332
Pay Department 10: 0208
Des Moines River
navigation improvements 17: 0310;
18: 0776; 28: 0284, 0594
79
District of Columbia cont.
railroad track construction 18: 0001
street gradients 33: 0329, 0406
topographical survey of 33: 0294
visit by Eastern Cherokee delegation
20: 0112
Washington Arsenal 11: 0502
see also Washington Aqueduct
Divorce
Wilson v. Wilson 29: 0639
Domingo (ship)
claim to 22: 0380
Douglass, Charles H.
expense accounts 30: 0429
Draft
see Compulsory military service
Draper, John H.
9: 0968
Driscoll, Francis S.
theft of property 30: 0001
Drouyn de L’Huys, Edouard
22: 1139
Dublin, Ireland
criminal procedure against U.S. citizen
23: 0449
Duhamel, Dr.
D.C. Penitentiary complaint 17: 0799
Duncan v. U.S.
34: 0333
Duncan, Blanton
23: 1119; 34: 0333
Dunn, Richard B.
animal feed and forage claim 15: 0789
Dutch Reformed Church
property in New York City 31: 0659
Ealer v. U.S.
34: 0837
E. A. Rawlins (ship)
murder on board 5: 0407
Eastern Cherokee Indians
delegation visit to D.C. 20: 0112
land in North Carolina 19: 0974;
20: 0001
removal of 19: 0974, 1086
trust fund 19: 0736
Eastern District of Missouri
misconduct charges 7: 0716
Eastern District of Tennessee
theft of court documents 12: 1061
Eastern District of Texas
misconduct charges 8: 0001
Echo (brig)
27: 0730
Edgefield and Kentucky Railroad
15: 0001
Edisto Island, South Carolina
militia pay 4: 1033
Edwards, George
24: 0298
Eight-Hour Law
29: 0982
Elbrecht, Simon
21: 0719
Elections
effect of Reconstruction Acts in Virginia
14: 0957
general 7: 0333; 28: 0909
laws 34: 0001
Port Angeles, Wash. Territory 22: 0694
probate judges 24: 0204
Electric Spark (steamer)
capture of 31: 0210
Ellen Morrison (ship)
seizure of 3: 0646; 27: 0222
Ellis, Vespian
16: 0060
Ellyson, Henry K.
Richmond, Va., mayoralty 15: 0412
Embargo Act (1808)
violations of 1: 0428
Employment
Eight-Hour Law 29: 0982
federal employees 2: 0621; 32: 0368
job tenure 7: 0488, 0584, 0894
labor 5: 0407
women’s employment 8: 0289
Enderbury Island
21: 1145
Enforcement
see Law enforcement
80
postal employees 30: 0734
processing 13: 0700
Randall, D. 11: 0246
Randolph, R. B. 24: 1022
Scott, Joseph 1: 0001
Selden, William 19: 0263
Supreme Court 34: 0158
Treasury employees 8: 1120
U.S. Marshals Service 2: 0528; 5: 0407;
16: 0525, 0736, 0865; 17: 0502
in U.S. v. Gardiner 27: 0222
West, William A. 29: 0210
Expropriation
of property 7: 1017; 11: 0502
Extradition
Barry, James 20: 0567
general 21: 0650
Schilling, Gustav 22: 0001
Extradition treaties
U.S., with
France 23: 0449
Prussia 21: 0156, 0905
UK 31: 0727
Fabeus, Thomas W.
27: 0536
Farrow, Nimrod
personal debts 10: 0208
Fashion (ship)
seizure of 21: 0905
Federal aid programs
destitute merchant seamen 21: 0001,
0156
Federal district courts
Cape Fear, N.C., documents 12: 0916
Federal employees
congressional 32: 0368
travel and expenses 2: 0621
see also Military personnel
Federal pay and allowances
Bailey, Gideon S. 15: 1079
Blacken, C. B. 8: 0625
Bradley, James 4: 0576
claims 17: 0568, 0613; 18: 0100;
20: 1041
congressional employees 32: 0368
consular 21: 0795
Enforcement Act (1870)
34: 0001
Engineers
licenses 4: 1097
Enrollment Act (1863)
12: 0213, 0621
Erie, Pennsylvania
27: 0456
Erwin, Andrew
misconduct charges against 26: 0880
Eslava, Miguel
land claim 15: 0924
Esther (ship)
Peru claims to 3: 0001, 0123
Europe
postal service with U.S. 30: 1057
Everett, Alexander H.
pay and allowances claim 20: 1041
Executive Office of the President
26: 0651–1061; 27: 0201–1166;
28: 0001–1125; 29: 0001–0982;
30: 0001–0250
Expatriation
21: 0795; 23: 0133
Expeditions
see Filibuster expeditions
Expense accounts
Brindle, William 17: 0993
California Land Commission 3: 0754
Christiana, Pa., riot cases 27: 0001
Cushing, Caleb 4: 0723
Darby, John 24: 0447
Douglass, Charles H. 30: 0429
Fillebrown, Thomas, Jr. 4: 0001
general 2: 0001; 4: 0922; 18: 0290,
0316, 0406, 0446, 0522–0635, 0714,
0776, 0932, 1022; 19: 0001, 0169,
0211, 0338–0910, 1086; 20: 0001
Green, F. W. 17: 0154
Heywood, Joseph L. 3: 0646; 16: 0997,
1110
Lammond, Peter 18: 0163
Lewis, J. H. 27: 0222
Office of the Auditor for Department of
War 15: 0370
Otis, William 2: 0698
81
Fifield, Benjamin F.
payment for services claim 24: 0298
Filibuster expeditions
Cuba 15: 1079; 23: 0821, 0927, 1119;
24: 0001
Fenians 23: 1119; 24: 0083
Haiti 23: 0927
legislation against 27: 0730
Mexico 21: 0347; 22: 0694; 23: 0384,
0711; 24: 0117, 0204
New Caledonia 24: 0204
Nicaragua 21: 0492, 0650; 27: 0536
Tahiti 24: 0204
Fillebrown, Thomas, Jr.
expense accounts 4: 0001
Finance
see State finance
Fines, administrative procedure
1: 0849
Firearms
Fenian 7: 0156, 0333; 32: 0858
Washington Arsenal (D.C.) 11: 0502
Fishing bounties
codfish industry 3: 0754, 1138; 4: 0092
Fitch, Henry S.
7: 0584; 14: 0495
Flack (Choctaw Indian)
murder of 18: 0819, 0932
Florida
abandoned land 12: 0621
confiscation cases 6: 0693; 29: 0137
deeds to fortification sites 11: 0001,
0246
Key West 4: 1097; 21: 0795
land claims 34: 0636
laws barring “free persons of colour”
23: 0449
military government report on 13: 0141
Northern District 7: 0716; 8: 0625
Pensacola Navy Yard 24: 0813
readmittance after Civil War 14: 0001
Seminole Indians 11: 0246
slave trade in Apalachicola Bay 23: 0821
state government 14: 0001
Federal pay and allowances cont.
court clerks 4: 0092; 15: 1079
Everett, Alexander H. 20: 1041
fraudulent 2: 0621
general 2: 0001, 0349, 0698; 3: 0357,
0875; 4: 0001, 1033; 11: 0819;
16: 0525; 17: 0154, 0226, 1122;
18: 0163, 0975; 19: 0736; 27: 0536;
32: 0258, 0501; 34: 0001
leaves of absence 3: 0754; 4: 0289
legislation for 32: 0926
military bounty lands 4: 0289; 17: 0001
postal employees 30: 1004
selling land 17: 0938, 0993
surveying 1: 0325
Treasury employees 8: 1120; 9: 0779
U.S. attorneys 15: 1079; 17: 0271, 0668,
0767; 19: 0211; 27: 0730
U.S. Marshals Service 15: 1079;
16: 0865; 17: 0271; 18: 1022
in U.S. v. Ballard 31: 0955
Waples, Rufus 6: 0402
West Point professors 11: 0382
women employees 8: 0289
Federal-State relations
general 6: 0832; 12: 0695; 16: 0354;
21: 0439; 27: 0730; 28: 0058
public land sales 5: 0110
see also States’ rights
Fees
see Consular fees
see Professionals’ fees
see User charges
Felix, R. R.
20: 0436
Fellows v. Denniston
7: 0156
Fenians
Canada expedition 23: 1119; 24: 0083
firearms 7: 0156, 0333; 32: 0858
general 6: 0402, 0693; 22: 1139;
23: 0001, 0384; 24: 0117, 0298
imprisonment in Canada 23: 0059
railroad transportation 24: 0204
Field, Stephen J.
presidential appointment 34: 0158
82
swampland ownership and rights
16: 1110
Tortugas Island 11: 0001
Florida (ship)
23: 0927, 1119
Florida Emigration Society of Northern
Ohio
28: 0594
Florida Railroad Company
7: 0894
Floyd, John B.
11: 0929
Food supply
17: 0799
Forced labor
New Mexico Territory 8: 0625
Foreign military forces
Spain 22: 0616
Foreign relations
France 22: 0616, 1139
Mexico 21: 0552; 22: 0616
New Granada 23: 0449
NGC 23: 0711, 1119
Peru 23: 0821, 1119
Portugal 20: 0717
privateers and privateering 22: 0203
Russia 23: 0133
Spain 23: 0821, 1119
UK 33: 0457
see also Neutrality
Foreign Relations Committee (Senate)
33: 0869
Foreign trade
arms trade 22: 0937
Belgium 2: 0621
Importing and Exporting Company of
Georgia 29: 0683
opium in China 24: 1092
Prince Edward Island 22: 0001
see also Tariffs
Forests and forestry
timber cutting on public lands 27: 0456
The Former Glory of the African Race
(pamphlet)
28: 1029
Forrest, French
claim for seized property 13: 0001
Fort Gansevoort (New York)
deeds and conveyances 11: 0246
Fort Gratiot (Michigan)
trespass at 11: 0819
Fort Leavenworth Military Reservation
(Kansas)
leasing portion of 19: 0541
Fort McHenry (Baltimore, Maryland)
British naval personnel at 22: 0271
Fort Snelling (Minnesota)
sale of military reservation 15: 0789
Fort Vancouver (Washington State)
land claim to 11: 0502
Fortifications
Dauphin Island, Ala. 10: 0208
deeds and conveyances 10: 0851–1081;
11: 0001–0246
general 10: 0786
Fox River (Wisconsin)
navigation improvements 17: 0502
France
arms trade 22: 0937
arrest of merchant seaman 20: 0717
claims 2: 0143
extradition treaty 23: 0449
foreign relations 22: 0616, 1139
Franco-American Treaty 2: 0001
intervention in Mexico 22: 0937, 1139
Northern Railway of France 21: 0650
Paris Universal Exposition (1867)
23: 0059
tariffs 21: 0001
Franco-American Treaty
2: 0001
Franking privilege
30: 0350, 0734; 31: 0341
Fraser, Trenholm & Co.
claims against 24: 0298
Fraud
against the government 15: 0269
Brooklyn Navy Yard (N.Y.) 6: 0402
Collier, James 3: 0875
counterfeiting 29: 0546; 31: 1060
83
Gardiner, George A.
estate 4: 1097; 5: 0110
general 27: 0123, 0222, 0456
mine in Mexico 27: 0123
Garneau, Joseph
22: 0090
Gates, William
military pay claim 29: 0288
Gavet, James
3: 0646
General Jackson (ship)
discovery of slave on board 1: 0116
General Land Office
1: 0428
General Miramon (ship)
seizure of 5: 0614
General orders
property damage and loss claims
13: 0535
Georgia
Andersonville 14: 0957
arrest of merchant seaman 20: 0717
Camilla riot 14: 0001
claims against Creek Indians 1: 0692
deeds to land in Savannah 2: 0856
eligibility for governor 14: 0001
enforcement of slave trade laws 17: 0568
Importing and Exporting Company of
Georgia 29: 0683
interest payments 4: 0289
KKK violence 30: 0001, 0250
Macon 13: 0001, 0332; 14: 0495, 0957;
31: 0955
military government report on 13: 0141
misconduct charges against U.S. marshal
8: 0119
readmittance after Civil War 14: 0001
removal of judge in Chatham County
15: 0789
state government 14: 0001
Georgiana (ship)
seizure of 21: 0905
Gibbes, R. W.
claim against New Granada 23: 0133
Fraud cont.
general 21: 0650; 27: 0123
Henderson, Isaac 26: 0001
ironclad sales 23: 0821
pay and allowances 2: 0621
Pine, Charles N. 17: 0429
Rudd, Theron 1: 0001
tariffs on paintings 3: 0979
tax fraud and evasion 6: 0204
U.S. v. Olmsted 8: 0119
U.S. v. Saunders 9: 0779
Yazoo land fraud 1: 0692
Frederick A. DeWolf & Co.
Indian trade 19: 0541
seizure of goods 7: 0716; 19: 0736
Freedmen and freedwomen
kidnapping of 24: 0001
murder of 14: 0751; 29: 0438
Freedmen’s Bureau
see Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and
Abandoned Lands
Frolic (steamer)
seizure of 29: 0137; 32: 0967
Fry, James B.
brevet promotion 13: 0700; 14: 0495,
0957
Fullerton, William
29: 0982
Fur industry
regulation of 9: 0460
Furloughs and leaves
Davenport, J. J. 4: 0723
general 27: 0113, 0599; 32: 0624, 0807,
1159; 33: 0001, 0581
pay and allowances during 3: 0754;
4: 0289
Furniture and furniture industry
Richmond, Va., courthouse 17: 0340
Gadsden Purchase (1853)
21: 0552
Galveston, Texas
custom house 4: 0431; 5: 0201; 17: 0001
general 13: 0141
Ganahl, Joseph
pay and allowance claim 17: 0568
84
removal of shipwreck 14: 0363
Russell, Majors, and Waddell 11: 0929
U.S. capitol building extension 3: 0979
Washington Aqueduct (D.C.) 11: 0502
Government documents
printing of 33: 0220
Superintendent of Public Documents
33: 0292
Government inspections
lighthouses 3: 0979
Mobile, Ala. 31: 0727
Government investigations
D.C. Penitentiary 17: 0799
Internal Revenue officers 29: 0802
Stitt, Frank U. 31: 1060
Government investments
Indian trust funds 17: 0001
Government property
Chattanooga, Tenn. 12: 0419
deeds and conveyances 6: 1003
destruction of 24: 1167
selling of 13: 0243
Texas 13: 0700
theft of 15: 0165
Government regulation
see Rules and regulations
Government revenues
bank receipt of 1: 0931; 2: 0210;
5: 1005, 1133; 6: 0001, 0077, 0204,
0402
disbursements 1: 0325; 2: 0986; 4: 0576
handling of 4: 0723
law enforcement 9: 0055, 0272;
29: 0288
Planters’ Bank of Mississippi 2: 0349,
0856
see also Revenue cases
Government securities
claims to 1: 0692
general 1: 0196
held by former CSA citizens 7: 0001
Tazewell, John N. 29: 0288
Governor Troupe (ship)
seizure of 12: 0419
Gibbs, Churchill
military pension claim 15: 0924
Gibson, Charles
presidential appointment 34: 0524
Giddings, George H.
postal contract 30: 0855
Giles, Enoch
murder of John B. Ashby 22: 0380
Gilmer, Jeremy F.
11: 0819
Gilson, Horace C.
9: 0170
Gomez v. U.S.
31: 0763
Good Friends (ship)
seizure of 26: 0651
Goodwin, B. F.
seizure of steamer Frolic 29: 0137
Gordon, John B.
eligibility for governor 14: 0001
Gormley, Charles
26: 0379, 0451
Gorsuch, Edward
murder of 27: 0001
Goulding, John
patent 20: 1115
Government contracts and procurement
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company
14: 0751
Beals & Dixon 6: 1129
Cheatham, Leonard P. 10: 0535
CSA 6: 0204
Dauphin Island, Ala., fortifications
10: 0208
De Groot, William H. 11: 0751;
22: 0090
Galveston, Tex., custom house 4: 0431;
5: 0201
general 2: 0349; 10: 0001; 11: 0819;
27: 0730; 31: 0659
labor at bonded warehouses 5: 0407
Lester, Ebenezer A. 32: 0140; 33: 0406
lighthouses 5: 0110
McClintock, William L. 10: 0535
McGaffey, A. A. 11: 0751
military rations 5: 0110
85
Harbors and ports
Mexico 11: 0246, 0382
Report upon the subject of Quarantine
Warehouses in the Port of New York
12: 0695
transportation of black men into
prohibited ports 3: 0646; 27: 0222
Harpers Ferry, Virginia
armory 11: 0001, 0141
deeds to land 11: 0246
Harris, Richard
personal debts 10: 0208
Harris, William H.
15: 0269
Harrison, H. N.
navy pay claim 25: 0839
Harrison, N. H.
estate claim to seized cotton 6: 0402
Harrison, Samuel
military pay 28: 0104
Hart, Simeon
presidential pardon 23: 0282
Health condition
statistical data 12: 0695
Heintzelman, S. P.
refusal to obey arrest warrant 13: 0141
Helms, Benjamin R.
military discharge 14: 0751
Henderson, Isaac
criminal procedure against 26: 0001
Herran, P. A.
22: 0937
Heywood, Joseph L.
expense accounts 3: 0646; 16: 0997,
1110
Hiawatha v. U.S.
22: 0271
Hibbard, Augustine
murder of 15: 0001
Highways
street gradients in D.C. 33: 0329, 0406
Hines, David
property damage claim 33: 0329, 0406
Historic documents and artifacts
in attorney general records 29: 0001
Governors
eligibility of John B. Gordon 14: 0001
Idaho Territory 23: 0282
Quitman, John A. 15: 1079
Granite
Beals & Dixon contract 6: 1129
Grants
see Federal aid programs
see Land grants
Green, F. W.
expense accounts 17: 0154
Grey Cloud (ship)
certificate of registry and license 9: 0588
Groot, Kuck & Co. (Charlotte, North
Carolina)
seizure of distillery 9: 0272
Guano
American Guano Company 23: 0001
Pacific Islands 21: 1145
Gunboats
Spain 23: 1119
Gunpowder
Benjamin W. Perkins contract claim
21: 0905
Habeas corpus
11: 0819; 26: 0379, 0451
Haggard, Jane
rape of 21: 0795
Haiti
civil war 23: 0821
filibuster expeditions 23: 0927
naval battles and engagements 23: 0821
seizure of Amelia (ship) in Port-auPrince 4: 0289
Hall, William
actions in bigamy case 27: 0599
Hamlet (ship)
murder of John B. Ashby on board
22: 0380
Hanna, John
pay and allowance claim 18: 0100
Hannah (slave)
discovery on board General Jackson
(ship) 1: 0116
Hannaway, Castner
27: 0001
86
general 31: 1113, 1157; 32: 0001–1159;
33: 0001
Judiciary Committee 32: 0967
Houston, Sam
Indian trade license 10: 0410
Hudson River
navigation improvements 15: 0693
Hunnewell Point, Maine
land ownership and rights to 31: 0613
Hunt, Jonathan
land claim 15: 0924
Hurtado, J. M.
22: 0937
Hussey, Obed
patent 17: 0429
Idaho Territory
governors 23: 0282
judicial powers 33: 0001
relocation of capital 22: 0874
Illinois
incorporation of state bank 31: 1157
land grants 16: 0001
militia military pay 10: 0628
Northern District 18: 0499
preemption rights in Rock Island
18: 0100
Illuminating oil
U.S. v. Dewitt 7: 0716
Immigration and emigration
American Emigrant Company 18: 1050
Florida Emigration Society of Northern
Ohio 28: 0594
immigration to Mexico 22: 0874
New York state laws 32: 0001
passports and visas 4: 0922
regulation of Chinese 34: 0001
see also Citizenship
Importing and Exporting Company of
Georgia
property damage and loss claim 29: 0683
Impressment
Netherlands merchant seamen 22: 0616
Income taxes
8: 0001
Independence (brig)
seizure of 25: 0409
History
Africa 28: 1029
Holland, J. J.
misconduct charges against 8: 0625
Homicide
arrest and sentence of William Tyler
21: 1051
on board E. A. Rawlins (ship) 5: 0407
charges against
Carley, Lewis 25: 0409
Sanders, J. G. 13: 0001
court-martial of
Jones, Thomas 15: 0461
McDonald, Michael 25: 0839
list of murdered freedmen 14: 0751
of
Adkins, Joseph 30: 0001
Apache-Mohave Indians 14: 0751
Arms, Leonard 33: 0818
Ashby, John B. 22: 0380
black troops 13: 0141
Crane, Joseph G. 30: 0127
Flack (Choctaw) 18: 0819, 0932
freedmen 29: 0438
Gorsuch, Edward 27: 0001
Hibbard, Augustine 15: 0001
Jackson, London 34: 0001
Mickle, William 13: 0894
Owens, York 13: 0894
Parker, George 23: 0927
Pechey, William Henry 21: 0795
Speer, W. D. 14: 0363
White, Eben 13: 0001
Hornbrook, Thomas
criminal procedure against 5: 1005
Hornet (ship)
23: 1119; 24: 0001
Horses
cavalry 12: 0001
Hospitals and nursing homes
see Marine hospitals
Hot Springs, Arkansas
claim to 17: 0938
House of Representatives
Committee on Revolutionary Claims
32: 0001
87
Treaty between the United States of
America and the Cherokee Nation of
Indians (July 19, 1866) 18: 1050
Treaty of Cusseta (1832) 10: 0535
Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek (1830)
10: 0535, 0628, 0851, 1081;
26: 0982
Treaty of Indian Springs (1821) 10: 0208
Treaty of New Echota (1835) 3: 0001;
10: 1081; 19: 0974
Treaty with the Cherokee (March 14,
1835) 10: 0628
Treaty with the Chickasaw (1834)
10: 0628
Treaty with the Choctaw and Chickasaw
(1855) 17: 0897
Treaty with the Choctaw and Chickasaw
(1866) 7: 0894
Indian wars and warfare
against Navajo and Apache 28: 0388
general 11: 0246; 19: 0052
Georgia expenses 4: 0289
Indiana
claim for Civil War expenses 8: 1120
land grants 15: 1079
Miami Indian lands 3: 0123
Indians
appropriations 1: 0931; 18: 0714
arrests 18: 0975
Cherokee Commission 3: 0001
citizenship of 27: 0730
claims 1: 0692; 10: 0208, 0929, 1081;
16: 0001; 18: 0221; 20: 0172;
31: 0081; 32: 1026
compensation to 18: 0221
delegation visit to D.C. 20: 0112
jurisdiction over relations with 7: 0156
legal aid and services to 15: 1079
military bounties 14: 0281, 0363
military pay 20: 0172
murder of 14: 0751; 18: 0819, 0932
Navajo 15: 0553; 28: 0388
Seminole 11: 0246
slavery and forced labor 8: 0625
Independence Island
21: 1145
Indian Intercourse Act (1834)
20: 0001
Indian lands
Cherokee Neutral Lands 18: 1050
Choctaw orphan lands 10: 0929
Creek 10: 1081; 31: 1113
Eastern Cherokee 19: 0974; 20: 0001
general 1: 0692; 2: 0621; 10: 0628
Kansas 18: 0714
Miami 2: 0698; 3: 0123
Minnesota 18: 0365
postal service on 30: 0429
preemption rights on 2: 0698
sales of 17: 0613, 0938
taxation of 7: 0156; 18: 0819; 19: 0211
trespass on 10: 0001; 16: 0997; 17: 0110
under Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek
(1830) 10: 1081
Wisconsin 17: 0502
Indian removal
Eastern Cherokee 19: 0974, 1086
government contracts for 10: 0535
Indian reservations
Tonawanda Indian Reservation (N.Y.)
26: 1061
Indian Territory
misconduct charges against U.S.
marshals 20: 0001
Indian trade
Delaware Indians 19: 0541
Frederick A. DeWolf & Co. 19: 0541,
0736
licenses for 10: 0410; 19: 0052
liquor 7: 0716; 10: 0410; 15: 0553
regulation of 17: 0993; 32: 0624
Indian treaties
Cherokee, with U.S. 10: 0410
expenses for negotiations 1: 0849
general 10: 0786; 16: 0060, 0278;
18: 0221
Seneca, with U.S. 26: 1061
Treaty between the United States and the
Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations
(July 10, 1866) 19: 0052
88
taxation of 6: 1129; 7: 0156; 19: 0052;
33: 0783
trust funds 16: 0001; 17: 0001; 19: 0736
Industrial standards
transcontinental railroad 18: 0819
Informants
confiscation cases 7: 0156
Internal Revenue Service 6: 0832;
8: 0289; 19: 0541
Inspections
see Government inspections
Intellectual property
copyright 33: 0279
see also Patents
Interest payments
Georgia 4: 0289
Virginia 10: 0208
Interior Department
see Department of Interior
The Internal Revenue Record and Customs
Journal (periodical)
8: 1120
Internal Revenue Service
enforcement of revenue laws 30: 0127
informants 6: 0832; 8: 0289; 19: 0541
investigation of officers 29: 0802
use of posse comitatus in revenue
collection 14: 0957
see also Revenue cases
Interstate commerce
permits 5: 1005
with former CSA 6: 0402, 0693
Interstate relations
27: 0599
Intervention
see Military intervention
Investments
see Government investments
Iowa
land grants 17: 0310; 18: 0776;
28: 0284, 0594
Iowa Territory
disputed border 10: 0786
mineral lands 10: 1081
Iowa v. Wyeth
27: 0599
Ireland
criminal procedure in Dublin 23: 0449
Iron and steel industry
A. A. McGaffey contract 11: 0751
Ironclad vessels
fraudulent sales of 23: 0821
Islands
see Coral reefs and islands
Isthmus of Panama
Spanish military forces crossing
22: 0616
taxation at 23: 0449
Jackson, Andrew
military pay 10: 0001
Jackson, London
murder of 34: 0001
Jackson, Mississippi
murder of Joseph G. Crane 30: 0127
Jackson, William
pardon of 31: 1060
James Hale (ship)
seizure of 12: 0540
Jenkins, Henry
29: 0683
Job tenure
civil service system 7: 0488, 0584
collectors of customs 7: 0894
John Griffin (bark)
8: 1120
Johnson, Andrew
presidential proclamations 22: 0937
Johnson, Peter
land claim 1: 0849
Johnson, Richard H.
12: 1061; 28: 1029
Johnston, J. E.
brevet promotion 14: 0495
Joint Select Committee on Retrenchment
32: 1063
Joliffe, John
professionals’ fee claim 7: 0001
Jones, Edward
16: 0354
Jones, Thomas
court-martial 15: 0461
89
Miami County lawsuit 7: 0156
Kansas Pacific Railway Company
postal contract 31: 0375
Kansas Territory
Indian lands 16: 0997; 17: 0110, 0613,
0938
Kelly, Michael
26: 0451
Kendall, William T.
4: 1097
Kentucky
Blanton Duncan claim 34: 0333
CSA supplies passing through 5: 0711
Key West, Florida
deeds to fortification sites 11: 0001
seizure of Spanish property 21: 0795
transportation of unaccompanied slaves
4: 1097
Kidnapping
freedmen 24: 0001
Robinson, Margaret 24: 0298
King, Richard
2: 0856
Kingsbury & Co.
navy contract 26: 0234
Kingsley, Zephaniah
claim 2: 0771
Kinney, H. L.
27: 0536
Kiowa Indians
trade with 19: 0541
Kittery, Maine
deeds to fortification sites 11: 0001
Kiu Kiang, China
consular appointment 23: 0927
Knapp, Joseph G.
misconduct charges against 12: 0001
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
general 14: 0957
violence in Georgia 30: 0001, 0250
La Paz, Arizona Territory
murder of Apache-Mohave Indians
14: 0751
Labor
government contracts for 5: 0407
Joynes, William T.
payment for services claim 27: 0536
Judges
general 28: 0224; 33: 0001
misconduct charges against 12: 0001
North, J. W. 28: 0104
pay and allowances 4: 0576
probate 24: 0204
Saunders, George B. 29: 0510
Wetmore, Henry S. 15: 0789
see also Judicial powers
Judgments, civil procedure
lawyer liens on 7: 0001
Judicial powers
general 29: 0727
Idaho Territory 33: 0001
Judiciary Committee (House)
32: 0967
Judiciary Square (D.C.)
city hall 26: 0731
Juneau, Solomon
land grant 2: 0001
Junior (ship)
detention in Sydney, New South Wales
17: 0310
Juries
compensation 4: 0092; 8: 0001
Jurisdiction
Africans on brig Echo 27: 0730
Brooklyn Navy Yard (N.Y.) 6: 0402
courts 25: 0409; 26: 0379, 0451;
29: 0288
general 6: 0832; 20: 0717; 21: 1051;
23: 0449; 31: 0659
Indian relations 7: 0156
Jurisdiction of the Auditors and
Comptrollers of the Treasury of the United
States in the Adjustment of Public
Accounts (pamphlet)
31: 0081
Kansas
Fort Leavenworth Military Reservation
19: 0541
Indian lands 18: 0714, 0819, 1050;
19: 0211
Ottawa University 20: 0172
90
Land ownership and rights
CSA property 6: 0832
Dutch Reformed Church property
31: 0659
general 1: 0196; 2: 0856; 16: 1181;
18: 0585; 21: 1145; 25: 0001, 0172;
26: 1061; 31: 1113; 33: 0514;
34: 0158
Hunnewell Point, Maine 31: 0613
Macon, Ga. 13: 0332; 14: 0957;
31: 0955
military reservations 15: 0370, 0412;
16: 0354
public lands 2: 0621
San Francisco, Calif. 34: 0243
Scott, Charles 10: 0851
swampland in Florida 16: 1110
Virginia Military Tract (Ohio) 1: 0116
Land surveys
see Topographical surveys
Land use
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and
Abandoned Lands 14: 0957
Latrobe, John H. B.
19: 0052
Law
administrative law and procedure
1: 0849; 14: 0001
copyright 33: 0279
D.C. municipal laws 27: 0599
Eight-Hour Law 29: 0982
patent 16: 0060
prizes (naval) 32: 0531
neutrality 21: 0905
see also Constitutional law
see also Jurisdiction
see also Legislation
see also Maritime law
see also Postal laws and regulations
see also U.S. statutes
Law enforcement
revenue laws 9: 0055, 0272; 29: 0288;
30: 0127
slave trade laws 17: 0568
Suisun Valley, Calif. 21: 0347
surety bonds 4: 1033
Lake Borgne (Louisiana)
deeds to fortification sites 11: 0246
Lammond, Peter
expense accounts 18: 0163
Land claims
Alabama 1: 0849; 29: 0288; 32: 0001
Arkansas Territory 1: 0692
Benbrook, D. G. 17: 0767
Catholic Church 11: 0502
Chouteau, Auguste 1: 0692
Eslava, Miguel 15: 0924
Florida 34: 0636
general 1: 0428; 2: 0349; 16: 0278;
17: 0568; 31: 0613; 33: 0329
Gomez, Vincent P. 31: 0763
heirs of David Bradford 1: 0542
Hunt, Jonathan 15: 0924
Johnson, Peter 1: 0849
Louisiana 1: 0692; 2: 0528, 0856;
3: 0001; 15: 1079
Methodist Episcopal Church 18: 0406
military bounty lands 15: 0924
Mississippi 12: 0419
Missouri 1: 0542, 0692; 2: 0528
Oregon Territory 17: 0340
San Francisco, Calif. 3: 0646, 1138;
18: 1050; 34: 0243
Spanish land grants 3: 0123
Treaty of Cusseta (1832) 10: 0535
Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek (1830)
10: 0535, 0851; 26: 0982
Washington Territory 12: 0001
Land grants
Arkansas 17: 0613
Illinois 16: 0001
Indiana 15: 1079
Iowa 17: 0310; 18: 0776; 28: 0284, 0594
Juneau, Solomon 2: 0001
Louisiana 17: 0613
Minnesota Territory 32: 0140
Ohio 15: 1079
Oregon Central Railroad 20: 0172
Ottawa University (Kans.) 20: 0172
public lands 15: 0924
Spanish 3: 0123
Wisconsin 17: 0502
91
Library of Congress
general 33: 0248, 0279
librarian duties 33: 0279
Mexican books at 33: 0248
Licenses
Grey Cloud (ship) 9: 0588
Indian trade 10: 0410; 19: 0052
interstate commerce 5: 1005
steamboat engineers 4: 1097
Liens
lawyers on judgments 7: 0001
Lightfoot, George W.
16: 0736
Lighthouses and lightships
deeds and conveyances 3: 0001, 0249,
0357, 0494–0754, 0979; 4: 0001,
0431, 0576, 1033; 7: 0156
government contracts for 5: 0110
government inspections 3: 0979
Lilienfeld, Otto
21: 0905
Lime Point, California
11: 0819
Limety, Felix
22: 0546
Lincoln, Abraham
assassination of 27: 1111
presidential proclamations 22: 0937
Liquor and liquor industry
Indian trade 7: 0716; 10: 0410; 15: 0553
seizures of 6: 0832
tariffs and liability for confiscations
3: 0754
List of Murders Perpetrated by whites upon
Freedmen, since April 1866 in the
Southern States As reported by the Officers
and Agents of the Freedmen’s Bureau
14: 0751
Little, George L.
misconduct charges against 7: 0716
Liverpool, United Kingdom
3: 0001; 25: 0700
Lizzie Baker (ship)
seizure of 8: 0625
Lawsuits
against
Butler, Benjamin F. 32: 0624
military personnel 12: 0916;
13: 0001; 15: 0001–0269, 0461–
0693
Montgomery, John 17: 0110
Union Pacific Railroad Company
30: 0127
frivolous 30: 0250
Lawyers
liens on judgments 7: 0001
see also U.S. attorneys
Leasing and renting
Fort Leavenworth Military Reservation
(Kans.) 19: 0541
general 7: 1017; 12: 0001; 16: 0354
Lucien Birdseye rent claim 14: 0281
Leavenworth, Elias W.
22: 0937
Leaves of absence
see Furloughs and leaves
Leef, Henry
property loss claim 32: 0001
Legal aid and services
claim for 15: 1079
general 20: 0172
see also Deeds and conveyances
Legislatures
see State legislatures
see Territorial government
Lendeney, George W.
court-martial 26: 0509
Lester, Ebenezer A.
government contract 32: 0140; 33: 0406
Levy and Coddington v. Levy
5: 0863
Levy, Uriah P.
wills and probate 5: 0863
Lewis, J. H.
expense accounts 27: 0222
Liability
confiscated liquor 3: 0754
Liberia
transportation of Africans to 24: 0726
92
Mail
see Postal service
Mail steamers
Electric Spark 31: 0210
general 25: 0409, 0700; 30: 0922;
31: 0210
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
23: 0449; 31: 0081
statistical data 30: 0855
Maine
deeds 3: 0249; 11: 0001
ownership and rights to Hunnewell Point
31: 0613
Penobscot River 10: 0929
Malden Island
see Independence Island
Management
D.C. Penitentiary 17: 0799
see also Trust funds
Mansfield, A. S.
criminal procedure against 29: 0727;
32: 1063
Manufacturing and manufactured
products
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company
14: 0751
clothing and clothing industry 17: 0799
furniture and furniture industry 17: 0340
industrial standards 18: 0819
see also Distilleries
see also Mines and mining
Mare Island, California
25: 0590
Maria II (Queen of Portugal)
20: 0717
Marine Corps
officer rations 24: 1092
pay and allowances 24: 0588; 25: 0409,
1024
quartermasters 25: 0345
Marine Hospital Service
9: 0779
Marine hospitals
deeds and conveyances 10: 1081
Mariquita (ship)
seizure for slave trading 22: 0380
Lizzie Thompson (ship)
seizure of 21: 0905
Loans
Baltimore, Md. 8: 0001
interest payments 4: 0289; 10: 0208
Local government
Richmond, Va., mayoralty 15: 0412
Long, Thomas
21: 1145
López de Santa Anna, Antonio
21: 0552
Louisiana
abandoned land 12: 0540
cotton seizures 7: 0156
deeds to Lake Borgne fortification sites
11: 0246
land claims 1: 0692; 2: 0528, 0856;
3: 0001; 15: 1079
land grants 17: 0613
military government report on 13: 0141
The New Orleans Bee (newspaper)
22: 0546
readmittance after Civil War 14: 0001
seizure of British military deserter
20: 0436
theft of government property 15: 0165
Walter Akenhead personal property
5: 1005
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
15: 0001
Loyalty oaths
14: 0957; 28: 0594; 31: 0050; 32: 0462,
0858
Lyon, William H.
criminal procedure against 9: 0001
M. C. Rowe (ship)
seizure of 6: 1129
Macon, Georgia
armory 13: 0001, 0332; 14: 0957
Confederate Laboratory site 14: 0957
land ownership and rights 31: 0955
property seizures 13: 0332; 14: 0495
Magruder, Alexander
misconduct charges against 7: 0716
Magruder, George A.
11: 1001
93
McGaffey, A. A.
government contract 11: 0751
McKean, Theodore
32: 0397
McKee, John
property loss claim 32: 0001
McPherson, John D.
presidential appointment 34: 0496, 0524
Meade, George G.
Third Military District report 14: 0001
Mears, A. W.
criminal procedure against 13: 0243
Mears, John H.
27: 0123
Memphis, Clarksville and Louisville
Railroad
15: 0001
Memphis, Tennessee
navy yard 25: 0001, 0345
seizure of P. G. T. Beauregard property
13: 0201
Merchant seamen
aid to 21: 0001, 0156
arrests 20: 0717
Edwards, George 24: 0298
general 31: 0210
impressment of 22: 0616
Merchant vessels
spread of yellow fever 12: 0695
tariffs on foreign vessels 1: 0849
Meteor (ship)
seizure of 23: 0059, 0384
The Methodist Book Concern (publishing
house)
seizure of 28: 0909
Methodist Episcopal Church
18: 0406; 30: 0250
Mexican War
claims 4: 0576; 11: 0382
general 11: 0382
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
21: 0492, 0552
Mexican War of Independence
20: 0567
Maritime law
21: 0492, 0650, 0719; 22: 0783;
23: 0645
Marques de la Habana (ship)
seizure of 5: 0614
Marriage
adultery 29: 0639
bigamy 27: 0599
citizenship 22: 0001
divorce 29: 0639
polygamy 32: 0212
Martial law
15: 0165
Martin, David B.
17: 0429
Mary Teresa (ship)
seizure of 32: 0001
Maryland
Baltimore 8: 0001
Benedict 13: 0001
Point Lookout 14: 0281
Prince George’s County 26: 0651
U.S. Naval Academy 25: 0172
Washington Aqueduct (D.C.) 11: 0502
Mass media
postal services 30: 1127
Massachusetts
54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
28: 0104
Boston 30: 1057
issuance of passports 4: 0922
North National Bank 9: 0779
William E. French & Co. distillery
6: 0204
Matamoras (ship)
seizure of 12: 0540
Mauzy, Fayette
32: 0001
Maynard v. U.S.
29: 0377
Mayors
see Local government
McClintock, William L.
Indian removal contract 10: 0535
McDonald, Michael
court-martial 25: 0839
94
military housing 11: 0446
Presidio Military Reservation (San
Francisco, Calif.) 15: 0461
sale of military reservation 15: 0789
San Francisco, Calif. 3: 0646
see also Fortifications
see also Navy yards and naval stations
Military bounties
black troops 13: 0001
deserters 12: 0348, 1061
Indians 14: 0281, 0363
bounty land 1: 0116, 0692; 4: 0289;
10: 0410; 15: 0924; 16: 0001, 0060;
17: 0001, 0226
general 8: 0289; 15: 0693
rules and regulations 13: 0001
Military budgets and appropriations
general 14: 0751
navy 24: 0976
Military cemeteries and funerals
Andersonville, Ga. 14: 0957
deeds and conveyances 13: 0332, 0700;
14: 0001, 0363, 0957; 15: 0269,
0412
Military commission trials
Owens, Isaac 13: 0894
Yerger, Edward M. 30: 0127
Military deserters
arrests 22: 0503
bounties for 12: 0348, 1061
British 20: 0436
general 12: 0621; 23: 0711, 1119
Military discharges
Helms, Benjamin R. 14: 0751
Tarble, Edward 15: 0165
Weston, Charles 29: 0802, 0982
Military discipline
see Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
see Military discharges
see Military rules and regulations
Military forces
see Compulsory military service
see Foreign military forces
see Navy
see Voluntary military service
Mexico
arms trade with U.S. 22: 0937
books deposited at Library of Congress
33: 0248
California, Lower 22: 0937
fee on U.S. citizens 21: 0905
filibuster expeditions 21: 0347;
22: 0694; 23: 0384, 0711; 24: 0117,
0204
French intervention in 22: 0937, 1139
harbors and ports 11: 0246, 0382
immigration to 22: 0874
relations with France 22: 0616
relations with U.S. 21: 0552
San Luis Potosí 27: 0123
Miami Indians
appropriations 18: 0714
land 2: 0698; 3: 0123
Michigan
Detroit 7: 0584; 10: 0851–1081;
11: 0819
judicial districts 28: 0001
trespass at Fort Gratiot 11: 0819
Mickle, William
murder of 13: 0894
Miguel I (King of Portugal)
20: 0717
Military appointments and promotions
Board for the Examination of Officers
for Promotion 26: 0130, 0306
Breese, S. Livingston 26: 0130
Fry, James B. 13: 0700; 14: 0495, 0957
general 3: 1138; 14: 0751; 25: 0409,
0969; 26: 0306
Johnston, J. E. 14: 0495
navy officers 26: 0101
navy pursers 24: 0588, 0686
U.S. Naval Academy 25: 1159
Military bases, posts, and reservations
deeds and conveyances 11: 0929;
13: 0001, 0535; 14: 0281, 0495;
15: 0553
Fort Leavenworth Military Reservation
(Kans.) 19: 0541
land ownership and rights to 15: 0370,
0412; 16: 0354
95
Military personnel
13th Regiment, U.S. Colored Artillery
(Heavy) 12: 0213
Clarkson, J. J. 12: 0001
confined at D.C. Penitentiary 18: 0035
Gates, William 29: 0288
general orders 13: 0535
lawsuits against 12: 0916; 13: 0001;
15: 0001–0269, 0461–0693
misconduct charges against 12: 0419
mistreatment of attorney general
11: 1001
rosters of troops 12: 0419
Sanders, J. G. 13: 0001
White, Eben 13: 0001
see also Military pay
see also Military pensions
see also Naval personnel
Military rations and food
government contracts for 5: 0110
James E. Stewart claim 11: 0141
Marine Corps officers 24: 1092
Military rules and regulations
bounties 13: 0001
general 10: 0786
Pennsylvania militia 20: 0494
Military supplies and property
CSA 5: 0711
Military weapons
cavalry 14: 0751
Militia
Arkansas 23: 0927
courts-martial 10: 0001; 20: 0436, 0494
Edisto Island, S.C. 4: 1033
Illinois 10: 0628
Missouri 32: 0807
rules and regulations 20: 0494; 31: 0518
Militia Bureau
establishment of 31: 0518, 0589
Miller, William D.
property damage and loss claim 29: 0288
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
land grants 2: 0001
Mineral lands
Iowa Territory 10: 1081
Military government
martial law 15: 0165
military law 25: 0409
reports 13: 0141
see also Territorial government
Military health facilities and services
Marine Hospital Service 9: 0779
Memphis, Tenn. 25: 0345
National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer
Soldiers 8: 0625, 1120
planning for military asylum 11: 0382
Military honors
for Confederates 29: 0210
Military housing
West Point professors 11: 0446
Military intervention
France, in Mexico 22: 0937, 1139
see also Military occupation
Military law
25: 0409
Military occupation
of personal property 29: 0377
report for Third Military District
14: 0001
Utah Territory 11: 0606
Military pay
black troops 12: 0213
brevet ranks 26: 0880
Gates, William 29: 0288
general 2: 0210; 10: 0208, 0535;
29: 0727
Harrison, Samuel 28: 0104
Indian claims 20: 0172
Jackson, Andrew 10: 0001
militia 4: 1033; 10: 0628; 32: 0807
Walker, Thomas W. 13: 0700
War of Independence veterans 2: 0001
Military pensions
claims 15: 0924, 1079; 16: 0821;
20: 0172
general 10: 0001, 0535, 0628, 0851;
11: 0141; 17: 0001, 0938; 20: 0112;
24: 0511, 0686, 0726, 0813;
32: 0258
War of Independence 1: 0849; 10: 0208,
0410, 0929; 11: 0001; 17: 0340
96
Missouri
confiscation cases 32: 0858
disputed border 10: 0786
Eastern District 7: 0716
land claims 1: 0692; 2: 0528
public lands 32: 0397
riots and disorders 27: 0456
St. Louis 1: 0542, 0692; 26: 0982
treason cases 27: 0456
Missouri Compromise (1820)
32: 0397
Missouri State Militia
military pay 32: 0807
Missouri State Times
32: 0858
Mobile, Alabama
custom house records 6: 0693
government inspectors 31: 0727
Mohawk (steamer)
certificate of registry 33: 0680
seizure of 31: 0763
Montgomery, John
arrest 16: 0997
lawsuits against 17: 0110
Monuments and memorials
equestrian statue of George Washington
27: 0456
Morality
28: 0416
Morrill, Justin S.
32: 0212
Morton, Jackson
navy contract 25: 0409
Mott, John M.
misconduct charges against 3: 0979
Mowry Silver Mines (Arizona Territory)
seizure of 32: 0531
Murder
see Homicide
Murray, Eddy & Co.
31: 0210
Mustang (ship)
seizure of 12: 0540
Muster rolls
see Rosters of troops
Mines and mining
George A. Gardiner mine 27: 0123
Mowry Silver Mines 32: 0531
The Weekly Arizona Miner (newspaper)
32: 0624
Minnesota
Indian lands 18: 0365
sale of military reservation 15: 0789
Minnesota Territory
land grants 32: 0140
Mints and minting
private operations 3: 0249
U.S. Mint 6: 1003
Misconduct charges
against
Bloomgart, Joseph 7: 0584
Byrne, James J. 8: 0001
Clapp, James C. 7: 0488
Corwine, R. W. 6: 0693, 0832
Courtney, Samuel G. 29: 0802
Dickson (U.S. marshal) 8: 0119
Erwin, Andrew 26: 0880
Fitch, Henry S. 7: 0584
Holland, J. J. 8: 0625
Knapp, Joseph G. 12: 0001
Little, George L. 7: 0716
Magruder, Alexander 7: 0716
Mott, John M. 3: 0979
Pernell, T. H. 9: 0272
Pine, Charles N. 17: 0429
Sands, Alexander C. 6: 0693, 0832
Sanford, Albert 18: 0255, 0365
Saunders, George B. 29: 0510
Stark, Denton D. 7: 0716
Sternberg, A. D. 12: 0419
Tomeny, James M. 6: 0693; 29: 0137
U.S. attorneys 7: 0716
U.S. marshals 20: 0001
Mississippi
Columbus 12: 0419
Jackson 30: 0127
legislature 32: 0858
military government report on 13: 0141
Planters’ Bank of Mississippi 2: 0349,
0856
state rights 14: 0001
97
Des Moines River 17: 0310; 18: 0776;
28: 0284, 0594
Hudson River 15: 0693
improvements 17: 0502
Ohio River 26: 1061
Superior Bay 15: 0693
Navy
Board of Navy Commissioners 24: 0813,
0883
enlistment of minors 26: 0379, 0451
purser appointments 24: 0588, 0686
reform legislation 25: 0700, 0799
see also Marine Corps
Navy Board
see Board of Navy Commissioners
Navy budgets and appropriations
24: 0976
Navy contracts and procurement
Blossom Smith & Demon 24: 0654
Kingsbury & Co. 26: 0234
Morton, Jackson 25: 0409
Navy duty assignments and releases
25: 0409
Navy Hospital Fund
4: 0001
Navy officers
appointments and promotions 26: 0101
Breese, S. Livingston 26: 0130
Carter, John C. 26: 0306
general 25: 1091
presidential powers 26: 0573
prize money claims 26: 0038, 0234
retired pay and allowances 26: 0379,
0451
Navy pay and allowances
general 24: 0447, 0511, 0726, 0946,
1022, 1092; 25: 0590, 0799, 0969–
1091; 26: 0573
H. N. Harrison claim 25: 0839
Marine Corps 24: 0588; 25: 0409, 1024
retired officers 26: 0379, 0451
Navy pursers
25: 0839
Navy rules and regulations
general 33: 0457
U.S. Naval Academy 24: 0883
Mutiny
Bull, Benjamin S. 10: 0001
Mystic Valley (ship)
seizure of 4: 1097
Nancy (ship)
20: 0436
Napoleon (schooner)
25: 1024
Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad
Company
property damage and loss claim 15: 0693
Nassau (ship)
seizure of 28: 0754
National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer
Soldiers
8: 0625, 1120
National banks
7: 1017; 8: 0119
National Mechanics and Farmers Bank
(Albany, New York)
7: 1017; 8: 0119
National wealth
see Wealth
Navajo Indians
liquor trade 15: 0553
warfare against 28: 0388
Naval battles and engagements
in Haiti 23: 0821
Spain bombardment of Chile 23: 0059
Naval expeditions and surveys
Chile expedition 25: 0590
coast survey 26: 0922
Pacific Ocean 24: 1022
San Francisco Bay 25: 0590
Naval personnel
British 22: 0271
Henderson, Isaac 26: 0001
Wilkes, Charles 26: 0038, 0509
Naval Reserve
25: 0969
Naval vessels
Texas claims for 25: 0146
Navigation
appropriations 26: 0982
The Commercial Navigation Company
of the State of New York 31: 0210
98
harbor map 12: 0695
labor at bonded warehouses 5: 0407
quarantine warehouses report 12: 0695
transportation of unaccompanied slaves
4: 1097
New York State
The Commercial Navigation Company
of the State of New York 31: 0210
Company G, 186th Regiment, New York
Volunteers 12: 0419
deeds 10: 1081; 11: 0141, 0246
Hudson River improvements 15: 0693
laws 32: 0001
National Mechanics and Farmers Bank
7: 1017; 8: 0119
postal service with Liverpool, UK
3: 0001
Report of the Commissioners of
Quarantine 12: 0695
Tonawanda Indian Reservation 26: 1061
Newell, Thomas W.
24: 0775
Newspapers
Arkansas True Democrat 12: 1061;
28: 1029
Missouri State Times 32: 0858
The New Orleans Bee 22: 0546
Pacific Commercial Advertiser 21: 1145
postal rates 30: 0642
publication of U.S. statutes and treaties
32: 0624, 0926, 0967, 1063
Virginia Daily Union 28: 0104
The Weekly Arizona Miner 32: 0624
NGC
see North German Confederation
Nicaragua
filibuster expeditions 21: 0492, 0650;
27: 0536
Nicholson, A. A.
court-martial 25: 0409
Norfolk Draw Bridge Company
24: 0813
North Carolina
abandoned and captured property
12: 0419, 0540
Charlotte distillery 9: 0272
Navy suspensions and demotions
25: 0969
Navy yards and naval stations
Brooklyn Navy Yard (N.Y.) 6: 0402
Charleston Navy Yard (S.C.) 33: 0406
Memphis, Tenn. 25: 0001, 0345
Pensacola Navy Yard (Fla.) 24: 0813
San Francisco Bay (Calif.) 25: 0590
Nebraska Territory
judicial resignation 4: 0576
Negotiations
expenses for 1: 0849
Neill, James
33: 0869
Neptune Submarine Co.
14: 0363
Nesbitt, George F.
postal contract 31: 0341
Netherlands
impressment of seamen 22: 0616
Neutrality
general 22: 0616, 0937, 1139; 24: 0204
laws 8: 0289
seizures for violations 21: 0905;
24: 0117
New Caledonia
filibuster expeditions 24: 0204
New Granada
22: 0937; 23: 0133, 0282, 0449
New Jersey
quarantine facilities 12: 0695
New Mexico Territory
civil-military relations 12: 0001
confiscation cases 22: 0271
slavery and forced labor 8: 0625
New Orleans, Louisiana
British military deserter 20: 0436
The New Orleans Bee (newspaper)
seizure of 22: 0546
New South Wales
detention of Junior (ship) 17: 0310
New York and Liverpool U.S.M.S.S. Co.
postal contract 25: 0700
New York City
Dutch Reformed Church property
31: 0659
99
Office buildings
Arkansas True Democrat (newspaper)
12: 1061
Office of the Attorney General
employee wages and salaries 31: 0833
general 31: 0452–1060
historic documents 29: 0001
mistreatment of attorney general
11: 1001
Office of the Auditor for Department of
War
expense accounts 15: 0370
Office of the Vice President
33: 0193, 0199
Office Superintendent Public Printing
33: 0220
Official Register of the United States
21: 0795, 1051; 33: 0581
Ohio
Cincinnati Gas Light and Coke
Company 5: 0863
Florida Emigration Society of Northern
Ohio 28: 0594
land grants 15: 1079
Northern District 16: 0865
Southern District 6: 0693, 0832;
16: 0865
Springfield revenue cases 6: 0204
Virginia Military Tract 1: 0116
Ohio River
bridges on and navigation of 26: 1061
Olmsted, E. B.
8: 0119
Oneoto (ironclad)
fraudulent sale of 23: 0821
Opium
trade in China 24: 1092
Ordnance Department
propery seizure in Macon, Ga. 13: 0332
Oregon
Methodist Episcopal Church land claim
18: 0406
Oregon Central Railroad
land grants 20: 0172
Oregon Territory
Portland City land claims 17: 0340
North Carolina cont.
civil-military relations 29: 0546
court documents 12: 0916
Eastern Cherokee lands 19: 0974;
20: 0001
military government report on 13: 0141
murder of black troops 13: 0141
readmittance after Civil War 14: 0001
Wilmington 2: 0856
North Carolina Cherokee Indians
see Eastern Cherokee Indians
North German Confederation (NGC)
constitution 23: 0711
relations with U.S. 23: 0711, 1119
North National Bank (Boston,
Massachusetts)
fraud case 9: 0779
North, J. W.
resignation of 28: 0104
Northern District of Florida
misconduct charges 7: 0716; 8: 0625
Northern District of Illinois
courts 18: 0499
Northern District of Ohio
expense accounts 16: 0865
Northern Railway of France
21: 0650
Northfield, Vermont
Norwich University 13: 0700
Norwich University (Northfield,
Vermont)
president’s military pay 13: 0700
Nott and Company
claim against China 33: 0869
Nunn, Theodore
claim to seized cotton 6: 0402
Oaths
see Amnesty oaths
see Loyalty oaths
Oaths of office
31: 0833, 0955
Ocean Bird (ship)
theft from 9: 0001
Octavia (ship)
murder of W. D. Speer on board
14: 0363
100
Passenger ships
government regulation 3: 0423, 0494;
27: 0201
New York state laws 32: 0001
seizures of 3: 0875; 21: 0347
Passports and visas
constitutional law 4: 0922
Patent Office
rules and regulations 16: 0060
Patents
general 17: 0136, 0154; 20: 0436, 0494;
21: 0001
Goulding, John 20: 1115
laws 16: 0060
O’Rielly, Henry 32: 0001
reaping machine 17: 0429
Withers, Michael 20: 0717
Pay and allowances
see Federal pay and allowances
Pay Department
10: 0208
Pea Patch Island, Delaware
deed to 10: 0001
Pearl (steamer)
seizure of 26: 0379
Pearre, George A.
presidential appointment 32: 1159
Pechey, William Henry
murder of 21: 0795
Pedro IV (King of Portugal)
20: 0717
Pennsylvania
Christiana 27: 0001
Erie 27: 0456
judicial districts 28: 0284
militia 10: 0001; 20: 0436, 0494
Philadelphia 2: 0771; 17: 0737, 0993
York 13: 0848; 31: 0763
Penobscot River (Maine)
deeds to fortification sites 10: 0929
Pensacola Navy Yard (Florida)
24: 0813
Pensions
claims 10: 0410; 16: 0629; 19: 0434
former Confederates 18: 0754
O’Rielly, Henry
patent claim 32: 0001
Orizaba (ship)
seizure of 6: 1003
Orphans
Choctaw lands 10: 0929
Otis, William
expense accounts 2: 0698
Ottawa Indians
compensation 18: 0221
Ottawa University (Kansas)
land grants 20: 0172
Owens, Isaac
military commission trial 13: 0894
Owens, York
murder of 13: 0894
Pacific (ship)
seizure of 6: 1003
Pacific Commercial Advertiser
(newspaper)
21: 1145
Pacific Islands
21: 1145
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
claim against New Granada 23: 0449
postal contract 31: 0081
Pacific Ocean
naval expeditions and surveys 24: 1022
Painting
fraudulent tariffs 3: 0979
Palmer, George E.
theft of property 30: 0001
Palmer, John J.
criminal procedure against 13: 0243
Palmer, Joseph C.
16: 0354
Panama
Isthmus of 22: 0616; 23: 0449
Pardons
Jackson, William 31: 1060
presidential 23: 0282; 28: 0754, 0909;
29: 0377, 0639; 30: 1177
Paris Universal Exposition (1867)
23: 0059
Parker, George
murder of 23: 0927
101
Pierce & Bacon
claim 11: 0929
Pine, Charles N.
misconduct charges against 17: 0429
Pinkerton’s National Police Agency
payment for services claim 24: 0083
Piracy
general 20: 0436; 26: 0651
seizure of Amelia (ship) 4: 0289
Pitchlynn, Jack
heir property rights 31: 1157
Planning
military asylum 11: 0382
Plantations
tax sales of 6: 1003
Planters’ Bank of Mississippi
account statements 2: 0349, 0856
Planters Cotton Factory (Autaugaville,
Alabama)
6: 0402
Point Lookout, Maryland
Lucien Birdseye rent claim 14: 0281
Policies and procedures
Department of Treasury 3: 0123
Political parties
general 7: 0333; 29: 0727
Port Angeles, Wash. Territory 22: 0694
Political prisoners
22: 0203
Polygamy
32: 0212
Pongoski, Stanislas
citizenship 23: 0133
Port Angeles, Washington Territory
political parties and elections 22: 0694
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
seizure of Amelia (ship) for piracy
4: 0289
Porter, Fitz John
court-martial 13: 0535
Portland City, Oregon Territory
land claims 17: 0340
Ports
see Harbors and ports
Pensions cont.
general 17: 0154
see also Military pensions
Peonage
see Forced labor
Periodicals
Army and Navy Journal 26: 0306
The Internal Revenue Record and
Customs Journal 8: 1120
Perkins, Benjamin W.
claim against Russia 21: 0905
Permits
see Licenses
Pernell, T. H.
misconduct charges against 9: 0272
Personal debt
Farrow, Nimrod 10: 0208
general 1: 0325; 2: 0001; 9: 0055
Harris, Richard 10: 0208
imprisonment of debtors 26: 0822
Reeside, James 30: 0429
U.S. statutes 1: 0931
Personal property
Akenhead, Walter 5: 1005
Churchill, Samuel B. 28: 0337
expropriation of 7: 1017
military occupation of 29: 0377
seizures of 11: 1001; 13: 0001; 28: 1029
Stewart, George H. 12: 0001
Peru
claims to Esther (ship) 3: 0001, 0123
relations with Spain 23: 0821, 1119
ship seizures 21: 0905
Peterhoff (steamer)
seizure of 26: 0509
Peterson, John H.
pay and allowances 1: 0325
Petit, Reed
land claim 32: 0001
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
American Philosophical Society
property 17: 0737, 0993
Bank of the U.S. building 2: 0771
Phoenix Islands
21: 1145
102
franking privilege 30: 0350, 0734;
31: 0341
general 22: 0546
Indian lands 30: 0429
James Reeside debt 30: 0429
mail theft 17: 0668; 30: 0350, 0801,
0855; 31: 0375; 33: 0818
statistical data 30: 0855
U.S.-Europe 30: 1057
see also Mail steamers
Postal service cases
accounting and auditing 30: 0524, 0855
general 30: 0642
presidential pardons 30: 1177
Pottawatomie Indians
claims against 31: 0081
compensation 18: 0221
Pottinger, Robert
24: 0686
Powell, J. W.
9: 0968
Preemption rights
general 3: 0123; 18: 1050
Miami Indian lands 2: 0698
public lands 18: 0100
Superior City, Wis. 27: 0730
President
see Executive Office of the President
Presidential appointments
Bank of the U.S. directors 1: 0931
consul in Kiu Kiang, China 23: 0927
court clerks 4: 0092
Field, Stephen J. 34: 0158
general 7: 0488; 26: 0651; 27: 0222,
0599, 0991–1166; 28: 0104–0284,
0514–0754; 29: 0802, 0982;
30: 0127, 0250; 31: 0081; 32: 0624,
0807; 33: 0001, 0581–0680, 0869;
34: 0543, 0636–0708
Gibson, Charles 34: 0524
McPherson, John D. 34: 0496, 0524
Pearre, George A. 32: 1159
Ratcliffe, Daniel 34: 0496
U.S. marshals 5: 0711
Presidential draft board
12: 0213
Portugal
20: 0717
Posse comitatus
use in revenue collection 14: 0957
Post Office Department
see Department of Post Office
Post offices
30: 0922, 1057, 1177
Postal contracts and proposals
Blanchard, William L. 4: 0092, 0289;
30: 0734
Caldwell, Josiah F. 30: 0429
Chorpenning, George 30: 1004, 1057;
31: 0081
claims 31: 0375
Collins, Edward K. 25: 0700, 0799
general 2: 0210; 8: 0467; 30: 0801,
0922, 1057, 1177; 31: 0010
Giddings, George H. 30: 0855
Kansas Pacific Railway Company
31: 0375
Nesbitt, George F. 31: 0341
New York and Liverpool U.S.M.S.S.
Co. 25: 0700
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
31: 0081
service between New York and
Liverpool, UK 3: 0001
Taylor, Ward 30: 0524
Vanderbilt, Cornelius 30: 0922
Postal Convention between her Britannic
Majesty and the United States of America
30: 0642
Postal distribution schemes
31: 0210
Postal employees
expense accounts 30: 0734
pay and allowances 30: 1004
Tenure of Office Act (1867) 31: 0081,
0375
Postal laws and regulations
30: 0350, 0734, 1127; 31: 0010
Postal rates and revenues
30: 0350, 0642, 0734, 0855
Postal service
delivery of mass media items 30: 1127
103
Hiawatha v. U.S. 22: 0271
misconduct by James C. Clapp 7: 0488
seizure of Nassau 28: 0754
U.S. v. the Schooner Napoleon 25: 1024
U.S. v. Teresita 22: 0203, 0271
Prizes (naval)
law 32: 0531
money claims 24: 1022; 26: 0306, 0509,
0573
navy officer claims 26: 0038, 0234
Professionals’ fees
claims 7: 0001; 15: 1079; 31: 0659
general 17: 0502, 0568; 34: 0565
handling estate of George A. Gardiner
5: 0110
Professors
11: 0382, 0446
Prohibition
temperance demonstration 29: 0377
Promotions
see Military appointments and
promotions
Property
American Philosophical Society
17: 0737, 0993
Annapolis, Md. 25: 0172
of Arkansas True Democrat (newspaper)
28: 1029
claims 10: 0208
CSA 22: 0380, 0503
Dutch Reformed Church 31: 0659
expropriation of 7: 1017; 11: 0502
land use 14: 0957
Memphis, Tenn. 25: 0001
Point Lookout, Md. 14: 0281
seizures of 13: 0201, 0332; 14: 0495;
21: 0795; 22: 1139
theft of 30: 0001
see also Abandoned and captured
property
see also Government property
see also Personal property
see also Right of property
see also Rights-of-way and easements
see also Trespass
Presidential duties
31: 0518
Presidential pardons
see Pardons
Presidential powers
courts-martial 13: 0535
general 26: 0731; 30: 0001, 0127;
31: 0518
navy officers 26: 0573
removal of civil servants 7: 0894
see also Presidential appointments
Presidential proclamations
22: 0783, 0937; 29: 0377
Presidio Military Reservation (San
Francisco, California)
land ownership and rights to 16: 0354
tax sale of 15: 0461
Price, William M.
2: 0621
Prince Edward Island, Canada
trade with U.S. 22: 0001
Prince George’s County, Maryland
conveyance of land 26: 0651
Printing
17: 0737; 31: 0452; 33: 0220
Prisoners
exchanges 12: 0001
Fenians 23: 0059
general 17: 0799
political prisoners 22: 0203
Prisons
Detroit House of Corrections (Mich.)
7: 0584
Fort McHenry (Baltimore, Md.)
22: 0271
guards 17: 0799
imprisonment of debtors 26: 0822
imprisonment of George B. Davis
29: 0982
see also D.C. Penitentiary
Privateers and privateering
22: 0203
Prize cases
general 6: 0001, 0204, 0832; 12: 1061;
22: 0503, 0616; 24: 0883; 25: 0409,
1159; 26: 0001
104
pay and allowances for sales of 17: 0993
preemption rights on 18: 0100
proceeds from sales of 5: 0110
railroad use of 26: 0922
rights to 2: 0621
rights-of-way on 26: 0982
San Francisco, Calif. 3: 1138
Superior City, Wis. 27: 0730
surveying 1: 0001; 2: 0528
timer cutting on 27: 0456
Public money
see Government revenues
Public opinion
quarantine facilities 12: 0695
Public printing
31: 0452; 33: 0220
Public stores
see Bonded warehouses
Publishers and publishing
The Methodist Book Concern 28: 0909
Southern Methodist Publishing House
12: 0540
U.S. statutes 23: 0282
U.S. statutes and treaties 32: 0624, 0926,
0967, 1063
see also Printing
Purchases
see Alaska
see Real estate business
see Wholesale trade
Quaker City (ship)
23: 0927
Quarantine
12: 0695
Quartermasters
Marine Corps 25: 0345
Quartermaster’s Department
27: 0991
Quitman, John A.
criminal procedure against 15: 1079
R. R. Cuyler (ship)
seizure of 23: 0282
Race relations
Andersonville, Ga. 14: 0957
Raids
St. Albans, Vt. 22: 0694
Property damage and loss
claims 3: 0646; 4: 0576; 7: 0001, 0156,
0584; 11: 0751; 12: 1061; 14: 0281;
15: 0693; 19: 0052, 0541; 23: 1119;
25: 0146; 27: 0222; 28: 0416–0909;
29: 0288, 0683; 31: 1113; 32: 0001,
1026; 33: 0329, 0406, 0869;
34: 0333
destruction of government property
24: 1167
general orders 13: 0535
Property rights
see Right of property
Proudfoot, William
27: 0001
Prussia
extradition treaties with U.S. 21: 0156,
0905
Public buildings
appropriations 9: 0588
Commissioner of Public Buildings
33: 0215
deeds and conveyances 4: 0723; 5: 0001,
0614, 0711, 1005; 7: 0488, 0584
U.S. capitol 3: 0979
York, Pa. 13: 0848; 31: 0763
Public debt
interest payments to Virginia 10: 0208
Tennessee 15: 0001
Texas 3: 0754; 26: 0982
UK 1: 0428
Public demonstrations
temperance 29: 0377
Public documents
see Government documents
Public health
Report of the Commissioners of
Quarantine (N.Y.) 12: 0695
Public lands
Arkansas 16: 1181
deeds and conveyances 10: 0929;
11: 0141
general 1: 0196, 0428; 2: 0698; 3: 0123;
24: 0410
grants of 15: 0924
Missouri 32: 0397
105
Rawlins, John A.
death of 24: 0001
Readmittance
see Statehood
Real estate business
property purchases 2: 0771; 17: 0993;
31: 0518
property sales 13: 0332; 15: 0789;
17: 0613
Thompson v. Bowman 17: 0613
see also Property
see also Tax sales
Reaping machine
see Agricultural machinery
Receivers
compensation 11: 0382
government 7: 0156
Reconstruction Acts
effects in Virginia 14: 0957
March 2, 1867 13: 0332
state governments 14: 0001; 29: 0546
Rector, William
1: 0001
Reeside, James
personal debt 30: 0429
Reid, Chauncey
military bounty land claim 15: 0924
Religions
black churches 30: 0250
Catholic Church 11: 0502
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day
Saints 11: 0606; 32: 0212
Dutch Reformed Church 31: 0659
Methodist Episcopal Church 18: 0406
Rent
see Leasing and renting
Report of Major General Meade’s military
operations and administration of civil
affairs in the Third Military District and
Department of the South for the year 1868
14: 0001
Report of the Commissioners of
Quarantine (New York)
12: 0695
Railroads
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 18: 0001
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
8: 0001
Brunswick and Albany Railroad
Company 6: 0832; 7: 0333
Chicago, Detroit, and Canada Grand
Trunk Junction Railroad Company
11: 0819
Edgefield and Kentucky Railroad
15: 0001
Florida Railroad Company 7: 0894
government subsidies 9: 0779, 0968;
19: 0499
industrial standards 18: 0819
Kansas Pacific Railway Company
31: 0375
land grants for 16: 0001
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
15: 0001
Memphis, Clarksville and Louisville
Railroad 15: 0001
Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad
Company 15: 0693
Northern Railway of France 21: 0650
Oregon Central Railroad 20: 0172
public lands 26: 0922
Tennessee debt for material 15: 0001
track claims 7: 0333
transportation of Fenians 24: 0204
U.S. Military Railroads 13: 0243
Union Pacific Railroad 15: 0461
Union Pacific Railroad Company
30: 0127
Rancho Laguna de la Merced (California)
18: 1050
Randall, D.
expense accounts 11: 0246
Randolph, R. B.
expense accounts 24: 1022
Rankin, Samuel E.
court-martial 29: 0210
Rape
of Jane Haggard 21: 0795
Ratcliffe, Daniel
presidential appointment 34: 0496
106
Fox River 17: 0502
Hudson River 15: 0693
Ohio River 26: 1061
Penobscot River 10: 0929
Wisconsin River 17: 0502
Roanoke (ship)
seizure of 23: 0001
Robbery and theft
court documents 12: 1061
government property 15: 0165
Lyon, William H. 9: 0001
mail 17: 0668; 30: 0350, 0801, 0855;
31: 0375; 33: 0818
property 30: 0001
U.S. v. Lightfoot 16: 0736
Robert Campbell Jr. (ship)
claim for 7: 0894
Robinson, H. H.
16: 0865
Robinson, Margaret
kidnapping of 24: 0298
Rock Island, Illinois
preemption rights 18: 0100
Rosters of troops
Company G, 186th Regiment, New York
Volunteers 12: 0419
Royal succession
Portugal 20: 0717
Rudd, Theron
criminal procedure against 1: 0001
Rules and regulations
Chinese immigration 34: 0001
commercial agents 21: 0156, 0347
consular 21: 0001, 0156, 0347
fur trade 9: 0460
Indian trade 10: 0410; 17: 0993;
32: 0624
military bounty lands 17: 0001
militia 31: 0518
navy 33: 0457
passenger ships 3: 0423, 0494; 27: 0201
Patent Office 16: 0060
postal laws and regulations 30: 0350,
0734, 1127; 31: 0010
Report upon the subject of Quarantine
Warehouses in the Port of New York
12: 0695
Republic of New Granada
see New Granada
Retired military personnel
navy pay and allowances 26: 0379, 0451
Revenue cases
general 7: 1017; 8: 0001–1120; 9: 0001–
0968
imprisonment of George B. Davis
29: 0982
misconduct charges in 6: 0693, 0832;
7: 0716; 29: 0802
Springfield, Ohio 6: 0204
Revenues
see Government revenues
Revolutionary War
see War of Independence
Richland Parish, Louisiana
theft of government property 15: 0165
Richmond, Virginia
disputed mayoralty 15: 0412
furnishing courthouse 17: 0340
Right of asylum
20: 1115
Right of property
aliens 20: 0567
CSA citizens 12: 0001
general 29: 0982
heirs of Jack Pitchlynn 31: 1157
see also Land ownership and rights
Rights-of-way and easements
Chicago, Detroit, and Canada Grand
Trunk Junction Railroad Company
11: 0819
public lands 26: 0982
Ringgold, Cadwalader
25: 0839
Riots and disorders
Camilla, Ga. 14: 0001
Christiana, Pa. 27: 0001
Missouri 27: 0456
Rivers and waterways
Des Moines River 17: 0310; 18: 0776;
28: 0284, 0594
107
Sandy Hook, New Jersey
quarantine facilities 12: 0695
Sanford, Albert
misconduct charges against 18: 0255,
0365
Santa Ana
see López de Santa Anna, Antonio
Sargent, John O.
27: 0730
Saunders, David E., Jr.
9: 0779
Saunders, George B.
misconduct charges against 29: 0510
Savannah, Georgia
deeds and conveyances 2: 0856
Schaumburg, James W.
25: 0409
Schilling, Gustav
extradition of 22: 0001
Scotland (ship)
removal of wreck 14: 0363
Scott, Charles
land ownership and rights 10: 0851
Scott, Joseph
expense accounts 1: 0001
Scott, Joseph W.
29: 0137
Seabrook, E. M.
tax sale of plantation 6: 1003
Searches and seizures
British citizens 20: 0436, 0567
cotton 6: 0204, 0402, 0693; 7: 0156,
0716; 9: 0968; 34: 0708, 0837
custom house records 6: 0693
distilleries 6: 0204; 9: 0272
liquor 3: 0754; 6: 0832
Fenian firearms 7: 0156, 0333
general 1: 0116, 0196; 7: 1017
The Methodist Book Concern 28: 0909
Mowry Silver Mines 32: 0531
The New Orleans Bee (newspaper)
22: 0546
property 11: 1001; 13: 0001, 0201, 0332;
14: 0495; 21: 0795; 22: 1139;
28: 1029
Runaway slaves
Barry, James 20: 0567
to Canada 32: 0001
Craft, William and Ellen 21: 0156
Russell, Gilbert C.
property claim 10: 0208
Russell, Majors, and Waddell
government contract 11: 0929
Russia
Benjamin W. Perkins contract claim
21: 0905
U.S. relations 23: 0133
Sainte Marie, Henry B.
payment for services claim 23: 0711
Salaries
see Wages and salaries
Sales
see Real estate business
see Tax sales
see Wholesale trade
San Francisco Bay (California)
naval survey 25: 0590
San Francisco, California
deed to mint site 6: 1003
land claims 3: 0646, 1138; 18: 1050;
34: 0243
land ownership and rights 34: 0243
Presidio Military Reservation 15: 0461;
16: 0354
San Francisco v. U.S. 34: 0243
San Juan Island, Washington Territory
civil-military relations 23: 0133
murder of Augustine Hibbard 15: 0001
San Luis Potosí, Mexico
George A. Gardiner mine 27: 0123
Sanchez, Joseph S.
property damage and loss claim 3: 0646
Sanders, Beverly C.
4: 0723
Sanders, J. G.
murder charges against 13: 0001
Sanders, William L.
criminal procedure against 29: 0546
Sands, Alexander C.
misconduct charges against 6: 0693,
0832
108
ships 1: 0428; 3: 0646, 0875; 4: 0289,
1097; 5: 0614; 6: 0077, 1003, 1129;
8: 0625; 12: 0419, 0540; 17: 0310;
21: 0347, 0905; 22: 0001, 0380,
0503; 23: 0001, 0059, 0282, 0384,
1119; 24: 0117, 1022; 25: 0409;
26: 0379, 0509, 0651; 27: 0222,
0730; 28: 0754; 29: 0005, 0137;
31: 0210, 0763; 32: 0001, 0531,
0967; 34: 0158
stocks 5: 0863
tea 1: 0428, 0542
trade goods 7: 0716; 19: 0541, 0736
U.S. v. Rhomberg 9: 0968
Sebastian Military Reservation
(California)
16: 0736
Second Auditor
see Office of the Auditor for Department
of War
Securities
The American Telegraph Company
29: 0090
customs bonds 1: 0325
general 1: 0542
stocks 5: 0863
see also Government securities
Segar, James
personal property claim 29: 0377
Seizures
see Searches and seizures
Selden, William
expense accounts 19: 0263
management of D.C. Penitentiary
17: 0799
Selma, Alabama
29: 0288
Seminole Indians
11: 0246
Senate
Committee on Military Affairs 25: 0409
Foreign Relations Committee 33: 0869
general 33: 0294–0869; 34: 0001
Seneca Indians
treaties with U.S. 26: 1061
Sentences, criminal procedure
Stollenwerck, Lewis A. 1: 0196
Tyler, William 21: 1051
Separation of powers
see Congressional powers
see Jurisdiction
see Presidential powers
Service academies
see U.S. Military Academy
see U.S. Naval Academy
Shillaber, Theodore
16: 0354
Ships and shipbuilding
Alice Rogers 22: 0001
Amelia 4: 0289
Amistad 2: 0349; 24: 1022
Ann L. Whitman 29: 0005
Astracan 21: 0347
Beaver 20: 0436
Bellona 3: 0875
Benjamin Aymar 21: 0719
capture of slave ship 34: 0158
Carlotta 6: 0077
Caroline 23: 0645, 0711
Circassian 32: 0531
Clyde 22: 0380, 0503
CSS Chameleon 22: 0783
CSS Florida 31: 0210
Domingo 22: 0380
E. A. Rawlins 5: 0407
Echo 27: 0730
Ellen Morrison 3: 0646; 27: 0222
Esther 3: 0001, 0123
Fashion 21: 0905
Florida 23: 0927, 1119
general 31: 0210
General Jackson 1: 0116
General Miramon 5: 0614
Georgiana 21: 0905
Good Friends 26: 0651
Governor Troupe 12: 0419
Grey Cloud 9: 0588
gunboats 23: 1119
Hamlet 22: 0380
Hornet 23: 1119; 24: 0001
109
general 2: 0349; 5: 0407; 26: 0880;
27: 0730
ship seizures 5: 0614; 22: 0380;
25: 0409; 34: 0158
Wanderer (ship) 30: 0250
see also Coolie trade
Slaves and slavery
capture of slave ship 34: 0158
claims for lost slaves 1: 0542
Hannah 1: 0116
Indian claims 10: 0208
New Mexico Territory 8: 0625
selling freedmen in Cuba 24: 0001
transportation of unaccompanied slaves
4: 1097
see also Runaway slaves
Smith, Edward K.
21: 0347
Smith, Edward R.
27: 0201
Smith, John
land claim 1: 0849
Smuggling
seizure of M. C. Rowe (ship) 6: 1129
Solicitor of the Court of Claims
34: 0496–0565
Sothoron, John
murder of Eben White 13: 0001
South Carolina
abandoned land 12: 0621
Charleston Navy Yard 33: 0406
cotton seizures 7: 0716
Edisto Island militia pay 4: 1033
enforcement of slave trade laws 17: 0568
laws against “free persons of color”
20: 0567; 27: 0730
military government report on 13: 0141
murders in Camden 13: 0894
readmittance after Civil War 14: 0001
seizure of British citizen 20: 0567
tax sale of plantation 6: 1003
Southern District of Ohio
expense accounts 16: 0865
misconduct charges 6: 0693, 0832
Southern Methodist Publishing House
12: 0540
Ships and shipbuilding cont.
Independence 25: 0409
ironclad vessels 23: 0821
James Hale 12: 0540
Junior 17: 0310
Lizzie Baker 8: 0625
Lizzie Thompson 21: 0905
M. C. Rowe 6: 1129
Mariquita 22: 0380
Marques de la Habana 5: 0614
Mary Teresa 32: 0001
Matamoras 12: 0540
merchant vessels 1: 0849; 12: 0695
Meteor 23: 0059, 0384
Mustang 12: 0540
Mystic Valley 4: 1097
Nancy 20: 0436
Nassau 28: 0754
naval vessels 25: 0146
Ocean Bird 9: 0001
Octavia 14: 0363
Orizaba 6: 1003
Pacific 6: 1003
privateering 22: 0203
Quaker City 23: 0927
R. R. Cuyler 23: 0282
Roanoke 23: 0001
Robert Campbell Jr. 7: 0894
SS Catharine Whiting 24: 0117
Steamboat Star 4: 1097
submarines 14: 0363
Switzerland 21: 0795
Ten Sisters 1: 0428
Wanderer 30: 0250
William 5: 0614
see also Navigation
see also Navy yards and naval stations
see also Passenger ships
see also Steamboats
Shipwrecks
Scotland 14: 0363
Slave trade
Amistad 2: 0349; 24: 1022
Apalachicola Bay, Fla. 23: 0821
Echo (brig) 27: 0730
enforcement of laws 17: 0568
110
State Department
see Department of State
State finance
Alabama 7: 0001
Tennessee debt 15: 0001
Texas debt 3: 0754; 26: 0982
State governments
Alabama 14: 0001
claims for Mexican War expenses
11: 0382
Florida 14: 0001
Georgia 14: 0001
Reconstruction Acts 13: 0332; 14: 0001;
29: 0546
see also Federal-state relations
see also Governors
see also Territorial government
State laws
Florida 23: 0449
New York 32: 0001
South Carolina 20: 0567; 27: 0730
West Virginia 34: 0001
State legislatures
Georgia 14: 0001
Mississippi 32: 0858
Statehood
Arkansas 20: 1159
readmittance after Civil War 14: 0001
States’ rights
general 13: 0700
Illinois incorporation of state bank
31: 1157
Mississippi 14: 0001
Statistical data
claims 34: 0565
consular fees 23: 0133
health and vital statistics 12: 0695
postal rates 30: 0642
postal service 30: 0855
public land grants 15: 0924
Statues and monuments
see Monuments and memorials
Steam boilers and engines
Charleston Navy Yard (S.C.) 33: 0406
Steamboat Star (ship)
licensed engineer 4: 1097
Sovereignty
6: 0832
Spain
Adams-Onís Treaty (1819) 1: 0325;
2: 0771; 3: 0875
arrest of military deserters 22: 0503
gunboats 23: 1119
land grants 3: 0123
military forces 22: 0616
naval bombardment of Chile 23: 0059
relations with Peru 23: 0821, 1119
seizure of property 21: 0795
Specifications and drawings
Galveston, Tex., custom house 5: 0201;
17: 0001
reaping machine 17: 0429
Speer, W. D.
murder of 14: 0363
Spence, Greome K.
24: 0686
Spencer, James C.
17: 0668
Spofford, Richard S.
33: 0248
Springfield, Ohio
revenue cases 6: 0204
SS Catharine Whiting
seizure of 24: 0117
St. Albans, Vermont
raid 22: 0694
St. Croix
extradition of runaway slave 20: 0567
St. Louis, Missouri
harbor improvements 26: 0982
land claims 1: 0542, 0692
Stamps and postage meters
taxes on 6: 0832
Stanton, Edwin M.
death of 30: 0001; 31: 0955
removal as secretary of war 29: 0727
Stark, Denton D.
misconduct charges against 7: 0716
State constitutions
Virginia 13: 0332; 14: 0957
State courts
taxation of processes 6: 0832
111
Supplies
see Military supplies and property
Supreme Court
expense accounts 34: 0158
general 34: 0128–0473
Surety bonds
general 4: 1033
Horace C. Gilson, U.S. v. 9: 0170
Surveyors and surveying
instructions for 1: 0001
pay and allowances 1: 0325
see also Naval expeditions and surveys
see also Topographical surveys
Swamps
see Wetlands and marshes
Swann, Samuel R.
25: 0839
Swinburne, John
12: 0695
Switzerland (ship)
rape and murder on board 21: 0795
Sydney, New South Wales
detention of Junior (ship) 17: 0310
Tab, Thomas
claim for lost slaves 1: 0542
Tahiti
filibuster expeditions 24: 0204
Talbot, Thomas H.
34: 0565
Taney, Roger B.
10: 0534
Tarble, Edward
military discharge 15: 0165
Tariffs
confiscated liquor 3: 0754
cotton 6: 0693
diamonds 3: 0423
foreign vessels 1: 0849
France 21: 0001
general 1: 0196, 0428, 0542; 2: 0621,
0986; 5: 0863; 26: 0651
list of 30: 0524
paintings 3: 0979
Sturges v. Draper 9: 0968
U.S. v. Brulatour & Co.7: 1017; 8: 0289
U.S. v. the bark John Griffin 8: 1120
Steamboats
claims for 7: 0156
Cuba 8: 0803
Frolic 29: 0137; 32: 0967
general 3: 0001; 31: 0210
Mohawk 31: 0763; 33: 0680
Pearl 26: 0379
Peterhoff 26: 0509
see also Mail steamers
Steinburger, John B.
16: 0354
Sternberg, A. D.
misconduct charges against 12: 0419
Stewart, George H.
personal property 12: 0001
Stewart, James E.
military ration claim 11: 0141
Stitt, Frank U.
government investigation of 31: 1060
Stocks
see Securities
Stollenwerck, Lewis A.
sentence against 1: 0196
Stoney Point, New York
deeds to fortification sites 10: 1081
Strader, Charles M.
30: 0734
Streets
see Highways
Sturges v. Draper
9: 0968
Submarines
Neptune Submarine Co. 14: 0363
Subsidies
to railroads 9: 0779, 0968; 19: 0499
Suisun Valley, California
law enforcement 21: 0347
Sumpter, Thomas
claim 32: 0001
Superintendent of Public Documents
33: 0292
Superior Bay
navigation improvements 15: 0693
Superior City, Wisconsin
preemption rights, public lands, and
townsite 27: 0730
112
Ter Johannes, Sarkies
government securities 1: 0692
Territorial government
Idaho Territory capital 22: 0874
legislative appointments 23: 0927
Utah Territory laws 32: 0212
see also State governments
Territory of Arizona v. Buckalew
23: 0927
Texas
claims 25: 0146; 26: 0982
Committee of Public Safety 13: 0700
Eastern District 8: 0001
Galveston 4: 0431; 5: 0201; 13: 0141;
17: 0001
government property 13: 0700
military government report on 13: 0141
public debt 3: 0754; 26: 0982
voter registration 29: 0510
Western District 9: 0272
Theft
see Robbery and theft
Third Military District
14: 0001
Thompson, Ambrose W.
25: 0839
Thompson v. Bowman
17: 0613
Thompson, John L.
27: 0001
Thompson, Waddy
professionals’ fee claim 15: 1079
Thompson, William A.
claim to seized cotton 6: 0402
Thompson, William B.
31: 0375
Tice meters
use in distilleries 8: 0119
Timber
see Forests and forestry
Titus, H. B.
31: 0955
Tomeny, James M.
misconduct charges against 6: 0693;
29: 0137
Tax fraud and evasion
William E. French & Co. 6: 0204
Tax sales
E. M. Seabrook plantation 6: 1003
land in former CSA 6: 0832; 7: 0894
Presidio Military Reservation (San
Francisco, Calif.) 15: 0461
Taxation
alcohol 6: 0832; 7: 0894; 33: 0869
canal traffic 4: 0723; 6: 0077
coastwise vessels 9: 0968
general 7: 0001; 32: 0610
Harpers Ferry, Va., armory 11: 0141
income 8: 0001
of Indians 6: 1129; 7: 0156; 18: 0819;
19: 0052, 0211; 33: 0783
Isthmus of Panama 23: 0449
stamps 6: 0832
state court processes 6: 0832
Taylor, Ward
postal contract 30: 0524
Tazewell, John N.
government securities 29: 0288
Tea
claims for 1: 0428, 0542
Telegraph
The American Telegraph Company
29: 0090
general 32: 0001
transatlantic cable 33: 0457
Union Pacific Railroad services 15: 0461
Temperance
see Prohibition
Ten Sisters (ship)
seizure of 1: 0428
Tennessee
abandoned land 12: 0540
Chattanooga 12: 0419; 13: 0243
court documents 12: 1061
debt 15: 0001
enforcement of revenue laws 30: 0127
Memphis 13: 0201; 25: 0001, 0345
military government report on 13: 0141
Tenure of Office Act (1867)
general 7: 0488, 0584; 24: 0204
postal employees 31: 0081, 0375
113
see also Extradition treaties
see also Indian treaties
Treaty between the U.S. and New
Granada (1846)
23: 0449
Treaty between the United States and the
Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations (July
10, 1866)
19: 0052
Treaty between the United States of
America and the Cherokee Nation of
Indians (July 19, 1866)
18: 1050
Treaty of Cusseta (1832)
land claims under 10: 0535
Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek (1830)
general 10: 0628
Indian lands under 10: 1081
land claims under 10: 0535, 0851;
26: 0982
Treaty of Ghent (1814)
1: 0542; 20: 0717
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
21: 0492, 0552
Treaty of Indian Springs (1821)
claims under 10: 0208
Treaty of New Echota (1835)
3: 0001; 10: 1081; 19: 0974
Treaty of Washington
see Webster-Ashburton Treaty
Treaty with the Cherokee (March 14,
1835)
10: 0628
Treaty with the Chickasaw (1834)
10: 0628
Treaty with the Choctaw and Chickasaw
(1855)
17: 0897
Treaty with the Choctaw and Chickasaw
(1866)
7: 0894
Trespass
Fort Gratiot (Mich.) 11: 0819
on Indian lands 10: 0001; 16: 0997;
17: 0110
Tonawanda Indian Reservation (New
York)
26: 1061
Topographical surveys
D.C. 33: 0294
general 21: 0001
public lands 2: 0528
Torlade Pereira d’Azambuja v. Barrozo
Pereira
20: 0717
Tortugas Island, Florida
11: 0001
Townsite
Superior City, Wis. 27: 0730
Trade
see Foreign trade
see Indian trade
see Slave trade
Transportation
Africans to Liberia 24: 0726
bridges 24: 0813
of CSA property 22: 0380, 0503
horses 12: 0001
of unaccompanied slaves 4: 1097
see also Canals
see also Ships and shipbuilding
Treason cases
13: 0535; 27: 0456; 28: 0416
Treasury Department
see Department of Treasury
Treaties and conventions
Adams-Onís Treaty (1819) 1: 0325;
2: 0771; 3: 0875
Convention between the U.S. and New
Granada (1857) 22: 0937; 23: 0133
Franco-American Treaty 2: 0001
Gadsden Purchase (1853) 21: 0552
general 23: 0711; 26: 0880
negotiations 1: 0849
newspapers publishing 32: 0624, 0926,
0967, 1063
Postal Convention between her Britannic
Majesty and the United States of
America 30: 0642
Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842)
21: 0001; 32: 0001
114
U.S. Naval Academy
appointments 25: 1159
property in Annapolis, Md. 25: 0172
rules and regulations 24: 0883
U.S. statutes
Captured and Abandoned Property Act
(1863) 13: 0332
Civil Rights Act (1866) 8: 0625;
13: 0201; 29: 0438
Confiscation Act (1862) 13: 0332;
34: 0333
Embargo Act (1808) 1: 0428
Enforcement Act (1870) 34: 0001
Enrollment Act (1863) 12: 0213, 0621
general 31: 0727
Indian Intercourse Act (1834) 20: 0001
insolvent debtors 1: 0931
publishing of 23: 0282; 32: 0624, 0926,
0967, 1063
slave trade laws 17: 0568
Tenure of Office Act (1867) 7: 0488,
0584; 24: 0204; 31: 0081, 0375
Virginia Land Scrip Act (1852) 16: 0060
U.S. v. Anderson
1: 0325
U.S. v. Ballard
31: 0955
U.S. v. Barney
6: 0402
U.S. v. Beebe
32: 0001
U.S. v. Bennett
9: 0272
U.S. v. Boyd
31: 0210
U.S. v. Brulatour & Co.
7: 1017; 8: 0289
U.S. v. Dewitt
7: 0716
U.S. v. Duncan
34: 0333
U.S. v. Elbrecht
21: 0719
U.S. v. Fullerton
29: 0982
Trials
see Juries
see Military commission trials
see Witnesses
Trust funds
Eastern Cherokee 19: 0736
government investment of 17: 0001
use of Indian funds 16: 0001
Tyers v. U.S.
34: 0565
Tyler, William
arrest and sentence 21: 1051
UK
see United Kingdom
U.S. attorneys
misconduct charges against 6: 0693,
0832; 7: 0716
pay and allowances 15: 1079; 17: 0271,
0668, 0767; 19: 0211; 27: 0730
use of assistant counsel 16: 0629
U.S. capitol
see Capitol, Washington, D.C.
U.S. citizens
Mexican fees on 21: 0905
U.S. citizens abroad
Warren, John 23: 0449
U.S. Marshals Service
appointments 5: 0711
expense accounts 2: 0528; 5: 0407;
16: 0525, 0736, 0865; 17: 0502
misconduct charges against marshals
6: 0693, 0832; 8: 0001, 0119, 0625;
9: 0272; 18: 0255, 0365; 20: 0001
murder of Leonard Arms 33: 0818
pay and allowances 15: 1079; 16: 0865;
17: 0271; 18: 1022
Selden, William 17: 0799
vacancy in Utah Territory 32: 0397
Willson, P. 17: 0799
U.S. Military Academy
professors 11: 0382, 0446
U.S. Military Railroads
criminal procedure against employees
13: 0243
U.S. Mint
San Francisco, Calif. 6: 1003
115
Union Pacific Railroad
telegraph services 15: 0461
Union Pacific Railroad Company
general 19: 0499
government subsidies 9: 0779
James W. Davis lawsuit 30: 0127
United Kingdom (UK)
British citizens 20: 0567; 23: 0927
Circassian (ship) 32: 0531
Clyde (ship) 22: 0380, 0503
extradition treaties with U.S. 31: 0727
Mariquita (ship) 22: 0380
military deserter 20: 0436
national wealth and public debt 1: 0428
naval personnel 22: 0271
New York and Liverpool U.S.M.S.S.
Co. 25: 0700
postal convention with U.S. 30: 0642
postal service with New York 3: 0001
relations with U.S. 33: 0457
Treaty of Ghent (1814) 1: 0542;
20: 0717
Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842)
32: 0001
User charges
Mexican fees on U.S. citizens 21: 0905
USS Macedonian
3: 0001
Utah Territory
civil-military relations 11: 0606
court expenses 16: 0525
election of probate judges 24: 0204
laws 32: 0212
military occupation 11: 0606
U.S. marshal vacancy 32: 0397
Valparaiso, Chile
Spain naval bombardment of 23: 0059
Vandenburg, John V. W.
28: 0058–0224
Vanderbilt, Cornelius
postal contract 30: 0922
Vawters, William
2: 0001
Vermont
Norwich University 13: 0700
St. Albans raid 22: 0694
U.S. v. Gardiner
27: 0123, 0222, 0456
U.S. v. Gilson
9: 0170
U.S. v. Hannaway
27: 0001
U.S. v. Harris
15: 0269
U.S. v. Hornet
24: 0083
U.S. v. Kendall
4: 1097
U.S. v. King and Coxe
2: 0856
U.S. v. Lightfoot
16: 0736
U.S. v. Neill
33: 0869
U.S. v. Olmsted
8: 0119
U.S. v. Palmer Cook & Co.
16: 0354, 0629
U.S. v. Powell
9: 0968
U.S. v. Price
2: 0621
U.S. v. Rhomberg
9: 0968
U.S. v. Saunders
9: 0779
U.S. v. Teresita
22: 0203, 0271
U.S. v. the bark John Griffin
8: 1120
U.S. v. the officers of the steamship Cuba
8: 0803
U.S. v. the Schooner Napoleon
25: 1024
U.S. v. Thompson
31: 0375
U.S. v. Visscher
31: 0375
U.S. v. Walker
4: 1033
U.S. v. Ward and Mauzy
32: 0001
116
Walker, John J.
4: 1033
Walker, Thomas W.
military pay 13: 0700
Walser, Theodore
12: 0695
Wanderer (ship)
slave trade 30: 0250
Wankowicz, Vladislaus
citizenship of 26: 1061
Waples, Rufus
pay and allowances 6: 0402
War
Haiti 23: 0821
see also Civil War
see also Indian wars and warfare
see also Mexican War
see also Military intervention
War claims
23: 0059
War Department
see Department of War
War of 1812
courts-martial for failure to serve
10: 0001; 20: 0436, 0494
interest payments to Virginia 10: 0208
Treaty of Ghent (1814) 1: 0542;
20: 0717
War of Independence
military pay 2: 0001
military pensions 1: 0849; 10: 0208,
0410, 0929; 11: 0001; 15: 0924,
1079; 17: 0340
service claims 16: 0001, 0060; 17: 0226
Ward, Robert G.
32: 0001
Warehouses
see Bonded warehouses
see Quarantine
Warren, John
criminal procedure against 23: 0449
Washington Aqueduct (D.C.)
11: 0502, 0751; 22: 0090; 27: 0991
Washington Arsenal (D.C.)
sale of firearms 11: 0502
Veterans
military pay 2: 0001
Vice President
see Office of the Vice President
Violence
homicide 21: 0795
KKK in Georgia 30: 0001, 0250
rape of Jane Haggard 21: 0795
see also Kidnapping
Virginia
abandoned land 12: 0621
claims 10: 0929
constitution 13: 0332
effect of Reconstruction Acts 14: 0957
Harpers Ferry 11: 0001, 0141, 0246
interest payments 10: 0208
Richmond 15: 0412; 17: 0340
War of Independence claims 16: 0001,
0060; 17: 0226
Virginia Daily Union
28: 0104
Virginia Land Scrip Act (1852)
16: 0060
Virginia Military Tract (Ohio)
land ownership and rights to 1: 0116
Visscher, John
31: 0375
Vital statistics
statistical data 12: 0695
Voluntary military service
general 12: 0621
underage enlistments 15: 0165;
26: 0379, 0451
Voter registration
29: 0510; 34: 0001
Voting rights
13: 0332; 14: 0957; 33: 0680; 34: 0001
Wabash and Erie Canal
land grants for 15: 1079
Wages and salaries
assistant counsel 16: 0629
Beverly C. Sanders claim 4: 0723
Office of Attorney General employees
31: 0833
Walker, Hiram
civil procedure 12: 0916
117
Wilkes, Charles
court-martial of 26: 0038
prize money claim 26: 0509
William (bark)
seizure of 5: 0614
William E. French & Co. (Boston,
Massachusetts)
seizure of distillery 6: 0204
Williams, Charles A.
21: 1145
Williamson, John D.
criminal procedure against 32: 0258
Wills and probate
5: 0863
Willson, P.
management of D.C. Penitentiary
17: 0799
Wilmington, North Carolina
deeds and conveyances 2: 0856
Wilson, Bryce
29: 0639
Wilson v. Wilson
29: 0639
Winged gudgeon
patent for 20: 0717
Wiscasset, Maine
deed to custom house site 3: 0249
Wisconsin
Indian lands 17: 0502
land grants 2: 0001
Superior City 27: 0730
Wisconsin River
navigation improvements 17: 0502
Withers, Michael
patent for “winged gudgeon” 20: 0717
Witnesses
compensation 1: 0542; 8: 0001
general 27: 0123; 34: 0762
Women
rape of Jane Haggard 21: 0795
Women’s employment
pay and allowances 8: 0289
Woodrooff, Clark
rights to public lands 2: 0621
Woolford, John
24: 0001
Washington State
land claim to Fort Vancouver 11: 0502
Washington Territory
civil-military relations 23: 0133
land claims 12: 0001
murder on San Juan Island 15: 0001
Port Angeles 22: 0694
Washington, George
equestrian statue of 27: 0456
Watts, Charles
murder of Augustine Hibbard 15: 0001
Wealth
U.S. and UK 1: 0428
Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842)
21: 0001; 32: 0001
The Weekly Arizona Miner
32: 0624
Welch, Thomas
land claim 32: 0001
Wells, Lemuel
sale of Caroline (ship) 23: 0645
West Point
see U.S. Military Academy
West Virginia
abandoned land 12: 0621
Clarksburg 28: 0416
election laws 34: 0001
West, William A.
expense accounts 29: 0210
Western District of Arkansas
misconduct charges 7: 0716; 20: 0001
Western District of Texas
misconduct charges 9: 0272
Weston, Charles
military discharge 29: 0802, 0982
Wetlands and marshes
16: 1110; 18: 0776
Wetmore, Henry S.
removal as judge 15: 0789
Whiskey Ring
cases 29: 0982
White, Eben
murder of 13: 0001
Wholesale trade
illegal sale of illuminating oil 7: 0716
sale of firearms 11: 0502
118
Woolworth & Moffat
property loss claim 32: 1026
Wright, John W.
mishandling of Indian military pay
claims 20: 0172
Wyeth, Jonas
27: 0599
Yankton Sioux Indians
regulation of trade with 32: 0624
Yazoo land fraud
1: 0692; 26: 0922
Yellow Beaver v. County of Miami, State of
Kansas
7: 0156
Yellow fever
12: 0695
Yerger, Edward M.
military commission trial of 30: 0127
York, Pennsylvania
public buildings 13: 0848; 31: 0763
Young, Bennett H.
22: 0694
Zarracher, Frederick
27: 0001
119
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