Item Nos. 5345-5764, 1868–1869

Topics include:

Politics



Government



Family and Friends



Business (i.e. requests for jobs or appointments, complaints that "rebels" are getting jobs, claims for war damages, concerns about political "disabilities,” and information about railroads and the West)

(folder 1 -- politics in Dakota Territory; reparations for damage to a church in Mannington, WV; compensation for soldiers of Revolution and War of 1812; the "impeachment trial;” folder 8 -- news article about WTW and Van Winkle votes in the impeachment trial of President Johnson, and signature of F.W. Seward [item 5489]; folder 10 -- patent office requests are found; folder 13 -- autograph of Ulysses S. Grant [item 5604]; folders 14-16 -- general communications as previously mentioned; folder 17 -- autographs of Governor Boreman [item 5668] and Governor Stevenson [item 5677]; folders 18-21 -- general communications as previously mentioned; folder 19 -- general communications as previously mentioned; request for help from a woman who lost two sons in the war, example of the times [item 5719])