Cornell University Library Digital Collections
Civil War telegram scrapbook, March 25 to May 27, 1865.
- Title:
- Civil War telegram scrapbook, March 25 to May 27, 1865.
- Collection:
- Images from the Rare Book and Manuscript Collections
- Date:
- 1865
- Site:
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Location:
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- ID Number:
- TXT2013_0002
- Catalog Record:
- 2904355
- Collection Number:
- 4975
- File Name:
- TXT2013_0002.pdf
- Work Type:
- telegrams
scrapbooks
- Subject:
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Communications
Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869
Dix, John A. (John Adams), 1798-1879
- Description:
- Scrapbook of contemporary copies of official War Department telegraph messages, from March 25 to May 27, 1865, documenting the end of the Civil War, Lee's surrender at Appomatox, and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Many of the telegrams were directed to Major General Dix or to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton.
- Cite As:
- Gustave Wambach, collector, Civil War telegram scrapbook, #4975. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- Gustave Wambach, collector, Civil War telegram scrapbook
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- Presumed to be in the public domain because of creation date.
