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Z 0112.000
FRENCH (SAMUEL G.) PAPERS

1844 - 1904

Personal and business correspondence, newspaper clippings, speeches, articles, miscellaneous papers of Major General Samuel G. French, C.S.A. General French was born in New Jersey on November 22, 1818; graduated from the United States Military Academy on July 1, 1843; served in the Mexican War; resigned from the Army on May 31, 1856; lived in Warren County, Miss., from 1856 to 1861; entered the Confederate States Army and became a Major General on August 31, 1862; served at Greenville, Miss., as president of the Board of Levee Commissioners for the Counties of Bolivar, Washington, and Issaquena in 1866–1869; and died in Florida on April 20, 1910.

The papers pertain generally to the personal and business affairs of French and to Confederate military history and activities of Confederate veterans. Fifteen pieces are letters or copies of letters written by French. The correspondence (507 pieces) covers the period from May 29, 1844, to March 26, 1904, and is distributed by dates as follows:

Some letters of interest in the collection are as follows: The newspaper clippings (106 pieces) cover the period from May 26, 1846 to June 3, 1903. The volume is the manuscript (570 pages) of Samuel G. French, Two Wars: An Autobiography (Nashville: Confederate Veteran 1901. pp. 16, pp. 404).