31.
- Creator:
- Freaner, James L.
- Published / Created:
- n.d.
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-1665
- Collection Title:
- James L. Freaner letters and other papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 39
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- 33 ALS to Freaner from friends and associates, some of them Army officers and government officials, and 5 copies of letters he wrote to others. Eleven letters are from John Maginnis; these discuss Delta business and the court of inquiry, other New Orl...
- Description:
- Freaner, a correspondent for the New Orleans Delta during the Mexican War, signed his dispatches from the front "Mustang." He also carried the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to Washington, and became involved in a quarrel between General Winfield Scott a...
- Subject (Geographic):
- New Orleans (La.)--Description and travel and New Orleans (La.)--Newspapers
- Subject (Name):
- Dimond, Francis M., Freaner, James L., Maginnis, John, Patterson, Robert, 1792-1881, Pillow, Gideon Johnson, 1806-1878, Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866, Tasistro, Louis F. (Louis Fitzgerald), 1808-1868, and Twiggs, David Emmanuel, 1790-1862
- Subject (Topic):
- American newspapers--Louisiana--New Orleans, Mexican War, 1846-1848--Periodicals, and Mexican War, 1846-1848--Treaties
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Correspondence