claims produced an extensive file, arranged by case number, 1-10842. The records, like the other case files, consist of documents presenting the facts in the cases; evidentiary materials, furnished chiefly by the Office of Indian Affairs; and the findings of the court. A list of the names of tribes involved is in the inventory cited below, and their names are indexed in the reports of the court cited elsewhere. National Archives, Preliminary Inventory [No. 58] of the Records of the United States Court of Claims, comp. by Gaiselle Kerner (Washington, 1953). Printed materials on the decisions of the Court of Claims include the reports regularly submitted to Congress, 1855-63, and printed in the congressional series; a list of these reports is in Hicks, Materials of Legal Research (3d ed.), p. 487, and in U. S. Superintendent of Documents, Tables of and Annotated Index to Congressional Series, p. 253. Compilations of the reports in bound volumes are in law libraries. The reports contain much documentation on individual cases, including petitions, opinions of the Attorney General, claimants' briefs or arguments, opinions, bills for the relief of claimants, and documentary evidence. A statement of judgments of the Court of Claims, 1863-67, is in H. Misc. Doc. 50, 40 Cong., 1 sess., Serial 1312. Sec. 9 of an act of June 25, 1868 (15 Stat. 77), requiring the submission by the court of annual statements of judgments, resulted in a long series of such statements that were published as congressional documents. Beginning in 1891 there are also lists of judgments on Indian depredation claims. Lists of dismissed cases are also in the congressional series. For congressional cases see also U. S. Congress, House, Digest of Claims Referred by Congress to the Court of Claims From the 48th to the 51st Congress, Both Inclusive, for a Finding of Facts Under the Provisions of the Act Approved March 3, 1883, Known as the Bowman Act, comp. by J. B. Holloway (Wash ington, 1891); U. S. Court of Claims, Reports of the Court of Claims, in Congressional Cases, to the Sixty-Second Congress, Third Session, and Sixty-Third Congress, First Session (Washington, 1913; in Serials 6366, 6504, 6535, 6536, 6548); and U. S. Court of Claims, Congressional Claims; Motion to Dismiss for Want of Jurisdiction Under Act of March 4, 1915, Sec. 5 (the Crawford Amendment); Schedule of Congressional Claims Attached Thereto, December Term, 1914 (Washington, 1915). The last title contains a list of 2, 254 claims, with docket numbers, names of claimants, names of attorneys, and information on the nature of the claims. Other special lists that were compiled for the Senate Committee on Claims include List of War Claims, Including a Few Exceptional Cases of Claims for Churches; Also List of Other Claims to Which Objections Appear, Such as Laches, No Proof of Loyalty, Insufficient Evidence as to Facts, Evidence of Payment, and Statutory Bars, With a Statement of Each Case. (Washington, 1912), Churches and Institutions of Learning Destroyed by United States Military Forces During the Civil War, but Not as an Act of Military Necessity, the Materials Having Been Appropriated and Used (Washington, 1912), and List of War Claims Confined Entirely to Claims for Use and Occupation or Rent of Church Buildings, College Buildings, and Other Public Buildings by the Military Forces of the United States During the War, Coupled in Some Cases With a Claim for Damages Done to the Building During the Occupancy. With a Statement of Each Case. (Washington, 1912). A list of Indian tribal claims, The publication of a regular phabetical list of cases, an analyti- The most comprehensive digest Records in Other Custody. --Extensive runs of book and other records have been retained by the Court of Claims. The journal from 1855 contains a daily record of proceedings with the names of judges present; information on cases argued; admissions of attorneys; lists of cases reported to Congress or continued; a record of court orders, judgments, appointments, commissions, and oaths of office; announcements and memorial proceedings; lists of commissioners; and rules of practice. Besides dockets for different kinds of cases, there is a card index, 1855-date, arranged alphabetically by name of claimant. An index to Indian depredation cases has sections for both claimants and Indian tribes against which suits were brought. There are also a register of attorneys admitted to practice, 1855-1918, and a card roster of attorneys, 1855-date. A card roster of court personnel, 1855-date, brings together information from scattered sources. The rules of practice adopted by the court on May 8, 1863, required claimants to have petitions setting forth their claims printed for presentation to the court and also required the printing of testimony and briefs. These printed records of claims date from the October Term 1863 and consist of hundreds of bound volumes. IV. THE PRESIDENCY A few records that were accumulated in the White House and used by successive Presidents are now in the National Archives. Most Presidents, however, regarding such records as their personal papers, have carried them off in accordance with the precedent established by George Washington and followed by his successors. Many of these papers, after years in possession of the President's families, have eventually been acquired by' libraries and historical societies. Record Group 130. --Four volumes pertain to the Civil War. A register of nominations sent by the President to the Senate lists the department or office to which the nomination belonged, the name of the man nominated, the State of his residence, the date of his nomination, the office to which he was nominated and its locality, whether the nomination was confirmed or rejected, the date of confirmation or rejection, the date of commission, and remarks. Similar information appears in a register of nominations to diplomatic and military posts. A register of Army court-martial cases, Jan. 1863-Apr. 1865, contains data under the following headings: charge, plea, sentence, recommendation of the commanding general, report of the Judge Advocate General, action of the President, and date. Another register, of acts and resolutions of Congress, gives titles, dates of approval, and bill numbers. Letters from the President and Executive orders signed by him are in the files of most of the departments and agencies, which also contain letters received by them bearing endorsements by the President. Statutes, Executive orders, and proclamations signed by the President are in the general records of the U. S. Government, once maintained by the Department of State. Applications, recommendations, petitions, acceptances, and resignations addressed to the President are in the general records of the State Department and in the Attorney General's papers. Original messages of the President are in records of the House of Representatives and the Senate, and among Senate records are letters of nomination for appointment signed by the President. Surveys have been made in the National Archives for materials relating to Presidents Lincoln and Johnson. During 1948-49 a search for Lincoln letters, telegrams, and other documents was made by Helen D. Bullock for the Abraham Lincoln Association of Springfield, Ill. A card catalog embodying her findings is in the National Archives. Ten years later a search for Andrew Johnson's papers was made by F. Helen Beach for the editor of the Papers of Andrew Johnson. The President's messages (without accompanying documents) are pub lished in James D. Richardson, ed., A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789 1897 (H. Misc. Doc. 210, 53 Cong., 2 sess., Serial 3265; Washington, 1896-99. 10 vols.). Records in Other Custody. --As has been noted, it was long-established practice for Presidents to take their papers with them when they left office. This practice was followed by James Buchanan, by Abraham Lincoln's administrator, and by Andrew Johnson. No guide to Government records relating to the Civil War would be complete without some discussion of them and their publication. Buford Rowland, "The Papers of the Presidents," American Archivist, 13:195-211 (July 1950). Abraham Lincoln Papers Soon after Lincoln's death his papers were shipped by Judge David Davis, administrator of his estate, to Davis' home in Bloomington, Ill. ; later they were deposited in a bank vault there. In 1874 Robert Todd Lincoln lent the papers to John G. Nicolay and John Hay for use in their biography of Lincoln and their collection of his writings. About 30 years later the papers were returned to Robert Lincoln in Chicago. After his retirement the younger Lincoln removed to Washington in 1912 and took the papers with him. After working on them for some years he deposited them in 1919 in the Library of Congress, and he gave them to the Library in 1923. Before being opened to the public in 1947, the Robert Todd Lincoln collection of Lincoln papers was arranged chronologically, restored, bound, cataloged, indexed, and microfilmed. The 169 volumes for the period of Lincoln's Presidency contain many letters from Cabinet members, generals, and Members of Congress; applications for office make up about half of the collection. Apart from this collection, the Library of Congress has a considerable quantity of other Lincoln manuscripts from diverse sources and still more in the Herndon-Weik collection and the John G. Nicolay papers. Other important groups of Lincoln papers are in the Chicago Historical Society, the William Rainey Harper Memorial Library of the University of Chicago, the Illinois State Historical Library, the Brown University Library, the Henry E. Huntington Library, the Houghton Library of Harvard University, and the New York Public Library. Besides original manuscripts, the Illinois State Historical Library at Springfield has a microfilm of the Robert Todd Lincoln collection and the photostats collected by the Abraham Lincoln Association for the compilation of Lincoln's writings edited by Roy P. Basler. The library keeps up the catalog prepared by the association and collects newly discovered Lincoln documents for publication in a supplementary volume. The Nicolay and Hay papers in the same library contain telegrams from State Governors giving the official returns in the presidential election of 1864, each bearing the name of the State in Lincoln's hand. Brown University has 485 telegrams written by Lincoln, 1862-65. The papers of John Hay, Lincoln's secretary and biographer, are in the Illinois State Historical Library. The papers of Edward D. Neill, one of the President's private secretaries during 1864-65, in the Minnesota Historical Society, contain some communications addressed to Lincoln. Descriptions of Lincoln collections are in a series of articles in the Abraham Lincoln Quarterly, Mar. 1940-Mar. 1943; Albert H. Griffith, "Lincoln Literature, Lincoln Collections, and Lincoln Collectors," Wisconsin Magazine of History, 15: 148-167 (Dec. 1931); Harry E. Pratt, "Lincolniana in the Illinois State Historical Library," Illinois State Historical Society, Journal, 46:373-400 (Winter 1953); and Carl Sandburg, Lincoln Collector; the Story of Oliver R. Barrett's Great Private Collection (New York, 1949.) All earlier compilations of Lincoln writings have been superseded by The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy P. Basler, Marion Dolores Pratt, and Lloyd A. Dunlap and published by the Rutgers University Press in 9 volumes in 1953. This carefully edited collection contains 6, 870 items, more than three times the number in the second edition of James Buchanan Papers Buchanan not only kept the letters he received but also made memoranda of important conversations and transactions. After he retired from office he obtained from his correspondents copies of his own letters of which he had kept no copies. His papers were lent to George Ticknor Curtis in 1880 for use in writing a biography, and later they were given to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. The collection includes both official and private correspondence. Other collections of Buchanan letters are in the Dickinson College Library, Franklin and Marshall College Library, Lancaster County Historical Society, Library of Congress, New-York Historical Society, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Pierpont Morgan Library, Princeton University Library, and Rutherford B. Hayes Library. The Library of Congress also has Buchanan's letters to his niece, Harriet Lane Johnston, who served as his hostess in the White House, and letters to many other persons whose papers are in the Library. |