Preliminary Guide to the James Scott Macgregor Papers
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Davidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
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Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Preliminary Guide to the James Scott Macgregor Papers, ca. 1860-1880s
Collection number: Wyles Mss 48
Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara
Contact Information:
- Department of Special Collections
- Davidson Library
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Santa Barbara, CA 93106
- Phone: (805) 893-3062
- Fax: (805) 893-5749
- Email: special@library.ucsb.edu
- URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/speccoll.html
- Processed by:
- D. Tambo
- Date Completed:
-
16 October 2002
- Encoded by:
- David C. Gartrell
© 2002 Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: James Scott Macgregor Papers,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1860-1880s
Collection Number: Wyles Mss 48
Creator:
Macgregor, James Scott
Extent:
.2 linear feet
(1 half-size document box)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical Location: Del Sur
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Preferred Citation
James Scott Macgregor Papers. Wyles Mss 48. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Mrs. Philip LeF. Denniston, 1978.
Biography
James Scott MacGregor was a Major with the Pennsylvania Infantry, 139th Regiment (Vol), Co. K. Further information about him
and his regiment may be found in works such as the History of Pennsylvani Volunteers, 1861-5, by Samuel P. Bates (Harrisburg:
B. Singerly, 1870).
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains correspondence from James Scott MacGregor to his wife, photographs, and ephemera, mainly relating
to his participation in the Civil War.
Related Material
Wyles SC 815 (oversize) contains the marriage certificate of James Scot MacGregor and Margaret Mackay, East Liberty, Pennsylvania,
13 Sept. 1860.
Series 1.
Correspondence to MacGregor's wife
Box 1: 5
Three images of Mr. and Mrs. MacGregor in front of log cabin at Harper's Ferry during the Civil War, and one image of MacGregor
later in life, n.d.
Box 1: 6
Clippings (news from the war front and later death notice), n.d.
Box 1: 7
Discharge document, 21 June 1865
Box 1: 9
MacGregor, James -- Civil War address, 1860s
