Bragg and Polk Papers

[Aaron Vinson]

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg...0/pdf/SERIALSET-01941_00_00-007-0006-0000.pdf
I've recently come across this pdf and was wondering where the documents inside are? There doesn't seem to be a way to access them online but there are many documents in here that I, and probably many others would be interested in. Any help finding these or pointing me in the right direction would be appreciated.

 

[Bryce]

I know that when the time came to assemble the official records, the war department put a former confederate in charge of acquiring confederate manuscripts. For example, the National Archives now has the BushrodvJohnson papers. There are other papers for confederate generalsthere as well.

 

[lupaglupa]

Good question. I was able to find part, the letters between Bragg and his wife, at this site:

https://txarchives.org/utcah/finding_aids/01322.xml

Another parcel of items from Bragg is at this site:

Finding aid for the Braxton Bragg Papers

It looks like they are scattered and the same may be true for the Polk items.

 

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Leonidas Polk Papers

Leonidas Polk Papers, 1767-1935

finding-aids.lib.unc.edu

https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/12/resources/2967

Leonidas Polk Family Papers | FromThePage

Leonidas Polk Family Papers - collection overview. Leonidas Polk, first Bishop of Louisiana, founded the University of the South. Born to a wealthy planter family in North Carolina, Polk first attended West Point, but turned his attention toward the episcopacy. In the immediate antebellum period...

fromthepage.com

Polk Family Papers, 1850-1961

The Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries

www.lib.ncsu.edu

Braxton Bragg papers

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Braxton Bragg Papers, 1852-1864

finding-aids.lib.unc.edu

https://archivesguides.sewanee.edu/repositories/5/archival_objects/20958

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjytOzaqq2OAxW5L1kFHRWyKq0QFnoECCcQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.galvestonhistorycenter.org%2Fmedia%2Fmanuscripts%2F32-0008_Bragg.pdf&usg=AOvVaw3zwzMA4TjAOimGkPwRhl6v&opi=89978449

Braxton Bragg Papers, 1856-1876 (bulk 1861-1864)

<P>Braxton Bragg was born March 21, 1817, in Warrenton, North Carolina. After graduating from West Point in 1837, he served in the Seminole Wars and Mexican War. He married Eliza (Elise) Brooks Ellis in 1856. In early 1861 he commanded state forces in Louisiana, and in March of that year was...

mohistory.org

https://assets.cengage.com/gale/psm/9500089C.pdf

HTHs,
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