Draft:James Gillette
James Jenkins Gillette (died November 25, 1880[1] or 1881)[2] was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War who served as a Freedmen's Bureau official after the war.
He served with the 4th Maryland Infantry Regiment and the 71st New York Militia Regiment. He wrote of the horrors of war.[3] After the war he was the U.S.????
Among his surviving papers are correspondence he wrote during and after the war.[4] His papers document efforts to educate freedmen.[5]
After the war he was a Freedmen's Bureau official.[6]
The Library of Congress has a collection of his papers.[7][8]
Same James Gillette 1880 Republican nominee for Congress from Alabama 1880?[9][10][11]
References[edit]
- ^ Association, New York University Alumni (October 3, 1894). "Biographical catalogue of the chancellors, professors and graduates of the Department of Arts and Science of the University of the City of New York". Alumni Association – via Google Books.
- ^ Division, Library of Congress Manuscript (October 3, 1986). Civil War Manuscripts: A Guide to Collections in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. Library of Congress. ISBN 9780844403816 – via Google Books.
- ^ Holtsträter, Knut (October 3, 2018). Lied und populäre Kultur / Song and Popular Culture 63 (2018): Jahrbuch des Zentrums für Populäre Kultur und Musik 63. Jahrgang - 2018. Musik im Krieg - Music in War. Waxmann Verlag. ISBN 9783830988779 – via Google Books.
- ^ "James Jenkins Gillette papers". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
- ^ Congress, Library of; Brannan, Beverly W. (October 3, 1993). The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture. Library of Congress. ISBN 9780160420764 – via Google Books.
- ^ Mauldin, Erin Stewart (November 2, 2018). Unredeemed Land: An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-086517-7 – via Google Books.
- ^ gillette, james jenkins. "Search results from Manuscript/Mixed Material, Available Online, Correspondence, English, Presidents, Virginia, Gillette, James Jenkins". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
- ^ "The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress". July 1969.
- ^ "DEMOCRATIC TRICKS IN ALABAMA.; GILLETTE'S STRONG SUPPORT--POSTMASTER WICKERSHAM'S CONDUCT". November 11, 1880 – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ Wiggins, Sarah Woolfolk (July 30, 1977). The Scalawag In Alabama Politics, 1865–1881. University of Alabama Press. ISBN 9780817305574 – via Google Books.
- ^ "United States Congressional Serial Set". U.S. Government Printing Office. October 3, 1882 – via Google Books.
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