Gouverneur Kemble Warren Papers, 1848-1882
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The papers of Gouverneur Kemble Warren (1830-1882) are of great value to scholars because he meticulously recorded and saved an extensive volume of material that presents much insight into his impressive thirty-two year military career. The papers are arranged generally chronologically within these series:
- Correspondence,
- Official Reports and Military Papers,
- Printed and Bound Materials,
- Letterbooks,
- Newspaper Clippings, Scrapbooks, and Photographs, and
- Maps.
The papers are of particular interest for their in-depth information into the following areas:
- Nineteenth century Western exploration and surveys by the Army Corps of Topographical Engineers, as documented in the journals, official reports, and maps of Warren, his superiors, and assistants. Of particular interest are a study of the various possible transcontinental railroad routes, which involved Warren's creation of the first comprehensive map of the United States west of the Mississippi in 1857; survey expeditions of the lower Mississippi's flood plains and rapids; and extensive explorations of the vast Nebraska Territory (which covered what is today Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, much of Montana, and part of Wyoming).
- General Warren's Civil War years, during which he rose from lieutenant colonel of the Fifth New York Volunteer Regiment to major-general in command of the Fifth Corps, Army of the Potomac. He saw action at Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg, among many other battles. His carefully preserved files of all these include exhaustive research into Five Forks, the last major battle of the war, after which Warren was relieved of his command.
- The inner workings of the late nineteenth century military Court of Inquiry, recorded here in correspondence, notes, newspaper clippings, official reports, and testimony from Warren's Inquiry into his removal at Five Forks.
For these and other areas the Warren papers are an important source for historical research into many aspects of the United States military in the years surrounding and including the Civil War.
Biographical Note
Gouverneur Kemble Warren was born on 8 January 1830 in Cold Spring, New York. He entered the United States Military Academy at nearby West Point at the age of sixteen, graduated second in his class in 1850, and was assigned to the Army Corps of Topographical Engineers.
From 1850 to 1853 Warren served on several important survey expeditions, including surveys of the lower Mississippi delta in 1850-1851 to explore means of flood prevention, and of the upper Mississippi rapids in 1853 to facilitate navigation of this vital trade route. From 1853 to 1855 he assisted in a government study to determine the best possible transcontinental railroad route, examining reports of all explorations west of the Mississippi back to Lewis and Clark. As part of this analysis, Warren began work on the first comprehensive map of the trans-Mississippi United States.
In 1855 Lt. Warren served as chief topographical officer in General William S. Harney's expedition against the Sioux in southern Nebraska Territory (in present-day Nebraska and South Dakota). His topographical report of the region won him much acclaim before Congress and led to greater responsibility in future explorations. In 1856 Warren commanded a successful survey mission in northern Nebraska Territory along the Missouri River and sixty miles up the Yellowstone (in present-day North Dakota and eastern Montana). This was followed in 1857 with a dangerous survey of the the Niobrara River and the Sioux-occupied Black Hills. These three expeditions were integral both to the Pacific Railroad report and to the building of military roads into the Nebraska Territory.
Warren spent the following year in Washington compiling his findings into official reports and completing his Map of the United States from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean, which accompanied Secretary of War Jefferson Davis' final report to Congress on the results of the transcontinental railroad route investigation. From 1859 to 1861 he served as an assistant mathematics professor at West Point.
In May 1861 Warren was given a leave of absence from the Academy to accept the offer of a lieutenant-colonelcy in the 5th New York Volunteer Regiment. By the end of the month Warren and his regiment were stationed outside Fortress Monroe, Virginia, seeing their first action at Big Bethel Church on 9 June. Warren spent the remainder of the year drilling his regiment and utilizing his engineering skills in the construction of the Baltimore and Washington defenses. In October he was promoted colonel of volunteers and given full command of his regiment.
In General McClellan's 1862 Peninsula campaign Warren led his regiment at the siege of Yorktown before being given command of a brigade. He was slightly wounded at Gaine's Mill on 27 June. At Malvern Hill on 29 June his command repulsed a Confederate division, and was engaged the next day at Harrison's Landing. On 30 August Warren fought at the second battle of Bull Run, earning praise for a strategic holding maneuver in which he lost over fifty percent of his command. Understrength, his brigade was held in reserve at Antietam in September and Fredericksburg in December. On 26 September Warren was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers.
General Warren was appointed Chief Topographical Engineer, Army of the Potomac, on 3 February 1863, and served mainly as an advisor to General Hooker at Chancellorsville in early May. On 12 May he was named Chief Engineer.
In the midst of a Confederate attack on the Union left at Gettysburg on 2 July 1863, Warren realized that Little Round Top, a low mountain which commanded the entire Union left flank, was left unoccupied. Acting quickly, he virtually commandeered a regiment of troops from Syke's corps and rushed them to the top just in time to repulse a Confederate charge, thus saving the Union flank and most likely the battle. Warren was wounded again in the subsequent defense of Little Round Top. In August he was promoted major-general of volunteers and given temporary command of the wounded General W.S. Hancock's II Corps.
Warren repulsed a heavy Confederate attack at Bristoe Station in mid-October. However, his last-minute cancellation of an assault at Mine Run on 30 November began to raise doubts about his willingness to act offensively, doubts which would linger, and eventually resulted in his removal from command.
Warren was given permanent command of V Corps on 23 March 1864, in time for General Grant's long Wilderness Campaign. Warren and his new corps were engaged at the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor in May and June, losing over 12,000 of the 28,000 troops in the command within a forty-three day period. On 18 June they were involved in the unsuccessful initial assaults on Petersburg, then took part in the long siege which followed. On 30 July Warren's corps was one of those scheduled to participate in the assault which was to follow the explosion of a huge mine placed in a seventy-five foot tunnel under the Petersburg defenders. Although personal enemies tried to implicate him in the failure of this plan, Warren showed conclusively that he could not make his assault because IX Corps remained between his corps and the breach until after the Confederates had recovered from the explosion. In August and December, Warren earned distinction with his independent commands against the Weldon Railroad, a vital supply line to Petersburg.
The February 1865 engagement at Dabney's Mill served as prelude to the controversial battle at Five Forks from 29 March to 1 April, in which General Sheridan, under Grant's authority, removed Warren from command of V Corps. Grant and Sheridan both felt that Warren was overcautious in committing his troops offensively, and when Warren was delayed by conflicting orders in reinforcing Sheridan at Five Forks, Sheridan took the opportunity to remove him.
The friction between Grant and Warren lay in their conflicting ideas on the handling of troops. Grant, aware of his great numerical superiority over the Confederate army, constantly took the offensive without regard for casualties because he knew that he could afford to take losses much more easily than the Confederates could. Warren, on the other hand, was unwilling to attack unless he could be reasonably sure of victory without the loss of a large number of his men.
After his removal from command, General Warren was given command first of Petersburg and the Southside Railroad, and then of the Department of Mississippi, before resigning his volunteer commission on 19 May 1865. He remained in the regular army, however, now as major.
In addition to preparing official maps and reports of his Civil War campaigns, Major Warren spent 1866-1867 conducting surveys of the Mississippi River system. In 1869 he planned and built the Rock Island Bridge over the Mississippi. Throughout the 1870's he engaged in extensive bridge-building and harbor-improvement projects on the Mississippi, along the Atlantic Coast, and in the Great Lakes. On 4 March 1879 he was promoted lieutenant-colonel of engineers.
Throughout the post-war period, Warren had never ceased in his efforts to obtain an investigation into his removal from command at Five Forks. Finally, in December 1879, President Hayes ordered a Court of Inquiry. The Court convened in January 1880 and closed in July 1881 to consider a verdict. The verdict came in November 1882, exonerating Warren of all major accusations related to the Five Forks affair. However, Warren would never know his name had finally been cleared: he died on 8 August 1882 of "acute liver failure" related to diabetes.
Warren left his wife, Emily Chase Warren, whom he had married on 17 June 1863, a son, Sydney, and a daughter, Emily.
Box Folder(s) Contents
Correspondence
1 1-12 Letters from G.K. Warren to Emily C. Warren, 1862-1868
2 1-12 Letters from G.K. Warren to Emily C. Warren, 1869-1881 & undated
3 1 Envelopes with cancelled stamps, addressed to Emily C. Warren,
1880-1881
2 Letters from Emily C. Warren to G.K. Warren, 1863-1882 & undated
3-7 Letters from G.K. Warren to family and friends, 1848-1882
8 Drafts of letters from G.K. Warren to the President and Secretary
of State regarding a Court of Inquiry
9-12 Letters incoming to G.K. Warren, 1851-1871
4 1-6 Letters incoming to G.K. Warren, 1872-1882
7-8 Drafts and partial letters written by G.K. Warren,
most undated
9 G.K. Warren's receipts from the Stevens House (a New York City
boarding house), January 1880 - August 1881
10-11 Letters from Sylvanus Warren to G.K. Warren, 1848-1858
12 Letters from William J. Warren to G.K. Warren, 1852-1882
5 1 Letters of Emily C. Warren to family and friends, 1863-1919
2-14 Letters incoming to Emily C. Warren, 1880-1929
6 1-3 Letters incoming to Emily C. Warren, undated
4-6 Letters from G.K. Warren to Albert Stickney (Warren's attorney for the Court of Inquiry), 1880-1882
7 Letters from A. Stickney to G.K. Warren, 1880-1882
8 Letters outgoing from A. Stickney, 1881-1911
9-10 Letters incoming to A. Stickney, 1863-1911
11 Correspondence between Emily C. Warren and A. Stickney, 1882-1917
12 Letters from General A.A. Humphreys to A. Stickney, 1882
7 1 Letters to and from Sylvanus Warren, 1835-1855
2 Various financial records concerning the Sylvanus Warren Estate
3 Letters incoming to William J. Warren, 1857-1876 & undated (most
concerning the death of Robert Warren in 1876)
4-6 Contributions to the Warren Fund (a collection for the assistance
of Warren's widow and family), 1882-1884
7-8 Correspondence among Warren's family and friends, 1864-1911 (regarding
family news as well as Warren's death)
9-10 Letters to and from Miss Emily Warren (daughter), 1912-1946 (many regarding Warren's life and career)
11 Letters incoming to Miss Emily Warren, 1933 (regarding Taylor's biography of Warren)
12-14 Notes and memos of Mrs. and Miss Emily Warren regarding Warren
15 Miscellaneous printed material collected by Miss Emily Warren, some regarding the Civil War or Warren's career
8 1-2 Letters of Charlotte Cushman (a popular actress of the day) to A.S. Chase (Warren's father-in-law), 1830-1875 & undated
3-4 Invitations and calling cards, undated
5 G.K. Warren autographs, 1846-1849; 1850 West Point class standing
6 Chase Family Geneology (compiled by Miss Emily Warren)
7-14 G.K. Warren's correspondence regarding the Court of
Inquiry (including drafts, partial letters, and personal notes)
9 1 Cancelled checks written by Warren, 1879-1881
2 G.K. Warren's last will and testament, and additional financial
information
Official Reports and Military Papers
Western US Land Survey Expeditions
3 W.H. Hutton. Report of Yellowstone expedition, 1856. Journal for
28 June to 27 October 1856
4 Alfred Sully. Report of expedition from Fort Rigely to Fort Pierce,
25 August to 22 September 1856
5 William D. Smith. Report of expedition from Fort Randall to Fort
Kearney, 2 to 21 October 1856
6-7 J. Hudson Snowden. Journal, 27 June to 15 November 1857 (Snowden
was a member of Warren's 1857 Nebraska expedition)
8 J. Hudson Snowden. Journal, Fort Laramie to Fort Randall, 12 September
to 31 October 1857 (At Fort Laramie Snowden, Lt. McMillan, and
Dr. Moffitt separated from the main party, reuniting on 15 October)
9 P.M. Engel. Report of a reconnaissance to Laramie Peak, 22 to
27 August 1857. Also includes report of a reconnaissance near the
mouth of the Niobrara River, 30 October to 1 November 1857
10-12 G.K. Warren. Meteorological Report for Nebraska Territory, 1857
13 Dr. Samuel H. Moffitt. Medical report for 1857 Nebraska expedition
14 D.P. Woodbury. Report of examination of Grand Island, 1847
15 G.K. Warren. Draft of a report on the tributaries of the Niobrara
River and the Nebraska Territory, written 29 January 1858
16 A) Memo to Captain Simpson regarding a map drawn by Warren
B) Notes regarding navigation of the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers,
23 March 1858
C) Annual Report of Capt. A.A. Humphreys, T.E., in charge of the
Office of Explorations and Surveys, War Dept., December 1858
10 1 Various notes regarding Native Americans, explorations, and surveys
2 Notes of introduction for individual Native Americans, 1852-1855
3-5 Sketches from the 1856 and 1857 expeditions
6 Prints depicting Western scenes and landscapes, by Gustavus Sohon,
1858 (11 items)
7 Mississippi and Missouri Rivers flood plain map title page, in several
different languages
Civil War Years
8 G.K. Warren's checkbook kept while Chief Topographical Engineer,
Army of the Potomac, March to April 1863
9 Orderly book, Chief Topographical Engineer, February to June 1863.
Record of the daily business of the camp
10 A) Copies of two letters from Warren, 25 June and 27 August 1864
B) Franco-German War song
C) US Cavalry chain of command (undated)
D) Regulations for the care of field works, and the government of
their garrisons
11 A) G.K. Warren's report on II Corps at Auburn and Bristoe, 14 October
1864
B) General Meade's report to General Grant for 4 May to 1 November
1864, the Wilderness Campaign
12 Special and tri-monthly reports of casualties, 20 February 1864 to
7 February 1865
13 Report of the purchase of an unspecified liquid, listing "officer
purchasing" and "surgeon approving," 1 to 15 March 1865
14 A.F. Waud. Sketch of Beverly Mansion, headquarters of V Corps, 1864
15 G.K. Warren. Memo regarding maps of Five Forks, and a
statement on two maps used in the Court of Inquiry
16 Military map of Strasburg and its vicinity. June 1862
11 1 Original map data, Fredericksburg. February 1863. Includes both
original sketches and corrections of existing maps, used in the
preparation of official campaign maps
2-4 Original map data, Morrisville. 1863
5 Original map data, Dumfries. 1862-1863 Virginia Campaign
6 Original map data, Culpepper. 1863
7 Original map data, Fredericksburg region
8 Original map data, north of Orange to the Alexandria Railroad and
east of Bull Run. 1862-1863
Battle of Five Forks and the Warren Court of Inquiry
9-12 Correspondence between G.K. Warren and various Confederate officers,
1866-1880
12 1 G.K. Warren. Memo regarding the case and examination of General
Sheridan
2 Argument on behalf of General Sheridan, Respondent, at Court of
Inquiry, by Asa Bird Gardner (Sheridan's counsel at the Inquiry)
3-9 A. Stickney's notes on Warren's defense
10 A) G.K. Warren. Memo regarding certain points as to Warren's
operations, 31 March and 1 April 1865
B) G.K. Warren. Memo regarding criticism of Grant's last movement
C) G.K. Warren. Memo regarding the chronology of the Five Forks battle
11 Index to the published records of the Inquiry (2 copies)
12 A) Lists of witnesses
B) G.K. Warren's diary 20 August to 1 November, no year given
13-14 Dispatches brought by General J.L. Chamberlain (V Corps brigade
commander at Five Forks) before the Warren Court of Inquiry,
28 March to 4 April 1865
13 1-2 Dispatches brought by General J.L. Chamberlain before the Warren
Court of Inquiry, 5 to 18 April 1865
3-7 Reports of various organizations in V Corps on activities at the
battle of Five Forks
8-10 Copy of Warren's official report, movements of 29 March to 1 April 1865
11 A) 2 lists of documents concerning the Five Forks battle
B) Copy of critique of A. Stickney's account of the Five Forks battle
C) 3 scraps of paper with quotes on truth and falsehood, written by Warren
12 Several pamphlets related to courts-martial and courts of inquiry
13 Empty envelopes preserved for information regarding the Inquiry
written on them
14 1 Copies of dispatches from Meade to Warren, 11:45 pm 31 March 1865
2-14 Dispatches sent during Five Forks, from General Webb's files
15 1-3 Dispatches sent during Five Forks, from General Webb's files
4-7 Dispatches sent during Five Forks, from General Warren's files
8-10 Dispatches sent to and from General Humphreys during Five Forks
11-13 Dispatches sent by Grant during Dinwiddie Court House and Five
Forks
14 Dispatches sent to and from Meade's headquarters during Five Forks
16 A) Three bundles of printed testimony from the Court of Inquiry
B) One bundle "General Orders, Army of the Potomac 1863 - April 1864"
C) One bundle "Index to General Orders 1862"
17 1-3 Printed testimony from the Court of Inquiry
4 A) General Orders #132, 23 November 1882. Facts and opinions
regarding the Inquiry. This is the final recommendation of the Court
of Inquiry to President Arthur. 3 copies, one including a statement
by General W.T. Sherman giving his opinion of the findings
B) Report of operations of II Army Corps, 29 March to 9 April, with
significant margin notes
Post-War Military Career
5-6 Topographical sketches made by Warren along the Mississippi River,
1866
7-8 Reports and notes regarding the upper Mississippi River by G.K. Warren
and his assistants
9-10 G.K. Warren. Post-War engineering reports and memos
11 A) G.K. Warren. "Geographical Surveys in the United States." 1877
B) Circular on Western bridges, 21 December 1868
C) Warren report on Western rivers (incomplete)
12 US Army Special Orders pertaining to G.K. Warren, 1870-1881
17 13 Official receipts and lists of surveying instruments
18 1 A) House of Representatives Document No.194 (43rd Congress, 1st
Session). St. Louis & Illinois bridge across the Mississippi River
B) House of Representatives Document No.76 (43rd Congress, 2nd
Session). Minnesota Rivers
2 House of Representatives Document No. 91 (44th Congress, 2nd Session).
Navigation of the Mississippi River (3 copies)
3 A) Senate Document No.32 (35th Congress, 2nd Session). Report of
the Secretary of War, communicating...a copy of the topographical
memoir and map of Col. Wright's late campaign against the Indians
in Oregon and Washington Territories, 1859. pp 1-82
B) Part of the above report, Section 13. Report of the Chief
Topographical Engineer, 22 November 1856. pp 357-374
4 A) Senate Document No.91 (47th Congress, 1st Session). Memorial of
Fitz-John Porter (2 copies, one including a letter from Porter to
Senator Sewell and Representative Bragg)
B) Various congressional reports and bills concerning Porter
C) Various congressional bills regarding military appropriations
D) Various congressional reports and bills concerning Emily C.
Warren's pension
E) Special Orders No.277, 9 December 1879, ordering Warren's Court
of Inquiry
5-8 Miscellaneous papers and pamphlets relating to G.K. Warren's post-
war life and career
9 A) G.K. Warren obituary notice
B) News clippings relating the dedication of Warren's Gettysburg
monument, 1888
Printed Reports
10 A) James Hall. Observations upon the carboniferous limestones of
the Mississippi valley, March 1857
B) A.A. Humphreys. A reply to certain portions of the Minority Report of
the Hon. Z. Kidwell, of the House of Representatives, Member of
the Select Committee Upon the Pacific Railroad, December 1856 (2
copies)
C) A.A. Humphreys. Letter to the Hon. W.M. Gwin. In relation to the
railroad to the Pacific by the 35th and 32nd Parallels, 15 April
1858 (2 copies)
11 A.A. Humphreys and G.K. Warren. An examination by direction of the
Hon. Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War, of the reports of explorations
for railroad routes from the Mississippi to the Pacific, made under
the orders of the War Department in 1853-1854 and of the explorations
made previous to that time, which have a bearing upon the subject,
1855
Bound Volumes
19 1-3 G.K. Warren, Journal, 1851-1853 (lower Mississippi flood plains,
Louisville, upper Mississippi rapids
4 G.K. Warren, Journal of survey of rapids of the upper Mississippi,
10 June to 13 December 1853
5 G.K. Warren, Journal while on Sioux expedition, 21 April to 2 December
1855
6 G.K. Warren, Journal, 1856 (Nebraska expedition)
7 G.K. Warren, Official journal, commanding explorations in Nebraska,
1857
8 G.K. Warren, Preliminary report of explorations of Nebraska and
Dakota, 1855-1857 (Washington, 1875)
9 G.K. Warren, Partial journal, 1866
10 G.K. Warren, Miscellaneous notes, ca. 1866-1870, regarding railroads
and bridges
11 G.K. Warren, Journal, 1869-1873. Mostly engineering notes, only a
few diary entries
12 G.K. Warren, Partial journal, 1880
13 Edgar W. Warren, Journal, 27 June to 16 November 1857 (a brother
of Warren and member of the Nebraska expedition
14 W.H. Hutton. Topographical sketches made under the direction of Lt.
G.K. Warren, U.S.T.E., summer 1856; notes of survey from Fort Union,
N.T., up the Yellowstone River, 22 July to 18 August 1856
15 J.H. Snowden. Survey book made under the direction of Lt. G.K. Warren,
T.E., 27 June to 14 November 1857 (South Pass expedition)
16 Specimen of the manifold letter book (with a few addresses in the
back)
Letterbooks
20 1-8 Volume 1. 23 April 1861 to 3 February 1863: Big Bethel, Hanover
Courthouse, Gaine's Mill, Malvern Hill, Groveton, Antietam,
Fredericksburg
21 1-5 Volume 2. 1 February to 1 May 1863: Falmouth
6-7 Volume 3. 1 May to 28 June 1863: Chancellorsville
22 1-2 Volume 3. 1 May to 28 June 1863: Chancellorsville
Volume 4. 28 June to 8 August 1863: Gettysburg
Volume 5. 8 August to 14 October 1863: Bristoe Station
23 1-4 Volume 6. 15 October to 31 December 1863: Mine Run
Volume 7. 1 January to 1 May 1864: Culpepper
Volume 7a. 1 to 7 May 1864: Wilderness
24 Volume 7b. 8 to 13 May 1864: Spotsylvania
Volume 7c. 13 to 21 May 1864: Spotsylvania Also, Report of the 5th
Corps, A.P., Genl. Grant's Campaign from Culpeper to Petersburg. As
seen by W.A. Roebling, Maj. and A.D. C., 1864, 154 pp..
25 Volume 8. 21 to 27 May 1864: North Anna
Volume 9. 28 May to 1 June 1864: Bethesda
Volume 10. 2 to 5 June 1864: Bethesda
26 Volume 11. 6 to 18 June 1864: Petersburg
Volume 12. 19 June to 4 July 1864: Petersburg
Volume 13. 5 to 18 July 1864: Petersburg
27 Volume 14. 18 to 30 July 1864: Petersburg
Volume 15. 31 July to 16 August 1864: Petersburg
Volume 16. 17 to 21 August 1864: Weldon Railroad
28 Volume 17. 22 August to 5 September 1864: Globe Tavern
Volume 18. 6 to 29 September 1864: Globe Tavern
Volume 19. 30 September to 13 October 1864: Peeble's Farm
29 Volume 20. 13 to 31 October 1864: Hatcher's Run
Volume 21. 1 November to 14 December 1864: Destruction of Weldon
Railroad
Volume 22. 14 December 1864 to 7 February 1865: Dabney's Mill
30 Volume 23. 8 February to 27 March 1865: Fort Stedman
30 Volume 24. 2 April to 25 September 1865: Surrender of Lee's Army;
Department of the Mississippi
Volume 25. 28 March to 1 April 1865: Five Forks (contains official
file)
31 Volume 26. Five Forks: Letters, memos, clippings, 1 April 1865 to
3 May 1866
Volume 27. Five Forks: Letters, memos, clippings, 1 March to 6 October
1866 (mostly concerning the publication of Warren's pamphlet)
Volume 28. Five Forks: Letters, memos, clippings, 25 April 1867 to
20 May 1879
32 Volume 29. Five Forks: Correspondence, 10 June 1879 to 27 February
1880
Volume 30. Five Forks: Correspondence, 4 March to 30 May 1880
33 Volume 31. Five Forks: Correspondence, 1 June to 30 October 1880
Volume 32. Five Forks: Correspondence, 2 November 1880 to 16 February
1882
Volume 33. Five Forks: Correspondence, 1880-1881, arranged according
to various topics
34 Volume 34. Five Forks: Correspondence, 1880-1881, arranged according
to various topics
Volume 35. Five Forks: Correspondence 1865-1881; also personal notes
and memos
35 Volume 36. Five Forks: Notes and memos, map information.
Correspondence, 23 January to 14 April 1880
Volume 37. Five Forks: `Complete set of Confederate correspondence
and memoranda of conversations,' April 1878 to October 1880
36 Volume 38. Five Forks: Correspondence with A. Stickney, 16 January 1880
to 6 April 1882
Volume 39. Five Forks: Correspondence with W.J. Warren, 13 January
1871 to 27 June 1882
Volume 40. Five Forks: Correspondence with A.A. Humphreys, 6 July
1865 to 24 March 1882
37 Volume 41. Five Forks: Correspondence with Col. L.L. Langdon, recorder
at the Court of Inquiry, 14 April 1880 to 21 October 1881
Volume 42. Five Forks: Pamphlet by G.K. Warren giving an account
of V Corps at Five Forks (with pencil notes), 1866. Also Warren's
official report to Meade for 29 to 31 March 1865 and press copies
of Webb dispatches
38 1 Large map of the Petersburg/Five Forks area
Volume 43. Five Forks: `Presentation of map information preliminary
to the Warren Court of Inquiry.' Contains annotated maps
Volume 44. Five Forks: Clippings concerning the Inquiry, 13 December
to 14 July 1880
39 Volume 45. Five Forks: Clippings regarding the Inquiry, 29 September
1880 to 2 April 1882
Volume 46. Correspondence File: Military and personal correspondence,
June 1865 to December 1867 (Military and personal matters not related
to the Five Forks battle or the Court of Inquiry. Mostly regarding
the Corps of Engineers and public works).
Volume 47. Correspondence File, 1868-1869
40 Volume 48. Correspondence File, 1870-1871
Volume 49. Correspondence File, 1872-1874
Volume 50. Correspondence File, 1875
41 Volume 51. Correspondence File, 1876
Volume 52. Correspondence File, 25 November 1876 to 12 July 1877
Volume 53. Correspondence File, 31 July to 26 November 1877
42 Volume 54. Correspondence File, 21 November 1877 to 18 May 1878
Volume 55. Correspondence File, 22 April to 30 November 1878
Volume 56. Correspondence File, 5 December 1878 to 22 June 1879
43 Volume 57. Correspondence File, 23 June to November 1879
Volume 58. File of miscellaneous personal correspondence, 1867-1882
Volume 59. 2nd Bull Run: Correspondence and clippings, 29 August
1862 to 22 August 1878, regarding the trial of Fitz-John Porter
(includes correspondence with Porter)
44 Volume 60. 2nd Bull Run: Correspondence and clippings, 5 August 1878
to 3 April 1879
Volume 61. 2nd Bull Run: Correspondence and clippings, 3 April 1879
to 24 March 1882
Volume 62. Bull Run Battlefield, Official Survey, 1878; Correspondence
and notes regarding Warren's 1878 survey
45 Volume 63. 5th New York Volunteer Regiment: papers relating to the
5th NY, 29 December 1865 to 6 June 1881. Much of this file is
concerned with activities of the 5th NY Volunteer Veteran Association
Volume 64. Chancellorsville: Correspondence and notes
Volume 65. Official circulars; correspondence regarding maps; campaign
information; Corps of Engineers memoranda, etc., 1865-1880
46 Volume 66. Gettysburg: Correspondence, clippings, notes. Many letters
to and from various officers and military historians, May 1866 to
July 1878
Volume 67. Gettysburg, October 1879 to February 1882. Mostly
newspaper clippings
Volume 68. General Grant's Hamburg remarks: Newspaper clippings and
some correspondence concerning statements Grant made to the press
while touring Europe in 1878 which caused excitement in the U.S. due
to their critical attitudes about the conduct of the war, 24 July
1878 to 31 January 1880
47 Volume 69. Preparation of Gettysburg campaign map: Correspondence
and notes regarding various maps of the area, 8 January to 2 July
1879
Volume 70. Commendations, 6 May 1863 to 31 December 1865. Some
messages of congratulations to Warren, laudatory clippings; mostly
commendations of others made by Warren
Volume 71. Commendations, 2 January 1865 to 27 December 1867
48 Volume 72. Commendations, 4 January 1868 to 28 January 1882
Volume 73. Applications, 9 August 1866 to 16 September 1869. Letters
of introduction addressed to Warren and solicitations for positions
with Warren. This volume is indexed.
Volume 74. Applications, 28 July 1870 to 1 May 1876
49 Volume 75. Applications, 23 May 1876 to 9 December 1880
Volume 76. Invitations, 1865-1874. Personal correspondence and
printed invitations for celebrations, dinners, reunions, etc.
Volume 77. Invitations, 1874-1879
50 Volume 78. Invitations, 1880-1882
Volume 79. "Sunday Herald Washington," A series of articles entitled
"The Army of the Potomac," 7 August 1881 to 19 March 1882. Some
correspondence which reveals original source of the series. Extensive
margin notes by Warren
Volume 80. "Grant-isms," January 1869 to December 1879. Newspaper
clippings which pertain to General U.S. Grant
51 Volume 81. "Grant-isms," 1880
Volume 82. "Grant-isms," 1881
Volume 83. "Grant-isms," 1883
52 Volume 84. Miscellaneous newspaper clippings
Volume 85. A collection of newspaper clippings about politics,
belonging to A. Stickney, given to the Warren family
Newspaper Clippings
53 1-6 Miscellaneous newspaper clippings
54 1 Newspaper clippings concerning the fiftieth Gettysburg anniversary
2 "Philadelphia Weekly Times," 24 February 1883, including an article
on the Five Forks battle (2 copies)
3 Newspaper clippings concerning Warren and his career
4 Tree leaf from the Five Forks battlefield
Scrapbooks
Scrapbook: the Warren property at Cold Spring, New York. Letters,
financial information, sketches, 1867-1872
Scrapbook: newspaper clippings related to the Civil War, including
poetry and stories of men in battle, ca.1882
55 Scrapbook: newspaper clippings concerning Warren's death.
Biographical sketches, especially relating to Five Forks
Scrapbook: newspaper clippings on Warren's heroic deeds and his
monument
Scrapbook: compiled by Mary Tilden Chase during the Warren Court
of Inquiry. Extensive file of newspaper clippings
Hardbound Books
56 Abbot, Henry L. Memoir of Gouverneur Kemble Warren, Read Before the
National Academy, 17 April 1884
The Holy Bible, Old and New Testaments. New York: American Bible
Society, 1864. Autographed by G.K. Warren, 1863
Comstock, J.L. A System of Natural Philosophy. New York: Robinson,
Pratt, 1842. Autographed by G.K. Warren, 1843
Cooper, Ellwood. Forest Culture and Eucalyptus Trees. San Francisco:
Cubery & Co., 1876. Autographed by G.K. Warren, with inscription
card (pasted) reading "to General Warren, with compliments of author
through Luther E. Sleigh."
Cross, R.W. Jeremy L. The True Masonic Chart or Hieroglyphic Monitor
with the History of Freemasonry, by a brother. New York: A.S. Barnes,
1854
Davies, Charles. Elements of a Descriptive Geometry. New York: A.S.
Barnes, 1846.
Dedication Services at the Unveiling of the Bronze Statue of Major-
General G.K. Warren at Little Round Top, Gettysburg, Penn. 8 August
1888. Brooklyn: Eagle Press
Haswell, Charles H. Engineers and Mechanics Pocketbook, 26th ed.
New York: Harper, 1870. Autographed by G.K. Warren
Homer. The Iliad of Homer. trans. by Alexander Pope. London:
Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, 1864. Autographed by Maj. Gen. G.K.
Warren
Marcou, Jules. Geology of North America. Zurich, 1858 (paperback).
Inscription: "General G.K. Warren, Corps of Engineers USA from the
author Jules Marcou"
57 Ossian. The Poems of Ossian, trans. by James MacPherson. Boston:
Phillips, Sampson, & Co., 1850
Sappho. A tragedy in five acts, after the German of Franz Grill
Parger, by Edda Middleton. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1858.
Autographed by owner, Chas. L. Locke, a Confederate soldier, with
explanation by G.K. Warren of how he got possession of it
Shakespeare, William. The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1858. Autographed by Col. G.K. Warren,
1862
Swinton, William. Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, 1861-1865.
New York: Charles B. Richardson, 1866. Inscription: "To Gen. G.K.
Warren with affectionate regards of the author"
US Military Academy Cadet Register, 1847-1850. Official register
of officers and cadets, West Point, New York. Autographed by G.K.
Warren
US Military Academy Official Register of Officers and Cadets. 8
booklets: 1847 (pp 12-23), 1848 (2 copies, signed by G.K. Warren),
1849, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1854
Warren, Gouverneur K. Report on the Transportation Route Along the
Wisconsin and Fox Rivers, in the State of Wisconsin Between the
Mississippi River and Lake Michigan. Washington: Government Print
Office, 1876. Copies of letters to Gen. Parke and Gen. Humphreys
inserted concerning three summarizing paragraphs to be included in
the report
Warren Court of Inquiry, Argument of Mr. Albert Stickney, Counsel
for General Warren. First session, 1 December, 1879; last session
30 July 1881. Inscription: "To Col. Saml. R. Honey, with a map,
compliments G.K.W."
Photographs
58 Civil War Portraits. Several Civil War generals, as well as family
and friends of Warren
59 A) Portraits of Civil War generals and politicians, mostly Union
B) Sketch: "Coble and Lugger" (fishermen)
C) 2 post-battle photographs, Fredericksburg, 3 May 1863
60 A volume of photographs from "Photographs illustrative of operations
in construction and transportation, as used to facilitate the
movements of the armies of the Rappahannock," by Herman Haupt, 1863
61 A collection of photographs illustrating Brig. Gen. Herman Haupt's
experiments in improving efficiency in railroad destruction
62 Portraits of G.K. Warren and others. Views of the G.K. Warren
monument