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Preliminary Guide to the Mortimer Leggett Collection
Wyles Mss 21
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Title: Mortimer Leggett Collection
Dates: ca. 1800-1896
Collection number: Wyles Mss 21
Collection Size:
0.8 linear feet
(2 document boxes).
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library.
Dept. of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Abstract: Collection of a Civil War Union general, primarily correspondence from Civil War and post-war era. Includes correspondence
with Ulysses S. Grant.
Physical location: Del Sur.
Languages:
English
None.
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.
Mortimer Leggett Collection. Wyles Mss 21. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Gift of Joy Breitling, 1991.
Scope and Content of Collection
Collection of a Civil War Union general, primarily correspondence from Civil War and post-war era. Includes correspondence
with Ulysses S. Grant, James A. Garfield, and Rutherford B. Hayes.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Leggett, Mortimer Dormer, 1821-1896
Grant, Ulysses S., 1852-1929.
Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881.
Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Correspondence.
Wilson, Harrison [25th Ohio Infantry]. Collection of Civil War related material, including a letter (ALS) from [Gen.] M[ortimer]
D. Leggett, 1883, asking for his remembrances of the Battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864, and a 16-page typescript of his Civil
War experiences, recounted in 1923. (Wyles SC 125).
Civilian general, Mary Catherine Stow. Main Library E467.1.L444 S76 1956.