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Letters and other items received

Creator: Kansas. Governor (1863-1865 : Carney)

Date: 1863-1865

Level of Description: Series

Material Type: Government record

Call Number: Unavailable

Unit ID: 193411

Space Required/Quantity: 0.40 cubic feet

Title (Main title): Letters and other items received

Titles (Other):

  • Correspondence files

Part of: Records of the Kansas Governor's Office. Records of the Kansas Governor's Office : administration of Governor Thomas Carney (1863-1865).

Scope and Content

Scope and content: Letters and other documents received concerning the appointments of justices of the peace, commissioners of deeds, federal & military personnel, miscellaneous support staff, normal school directors, notaries public, the State geologist, and university regents; State & territorial bonds, the sale of college & university lands, county affairs, criminal cases, a proposal to move freed Missouri slaves to Kansas, federal affairs, Native Americans, the Legislature, military matters, promotion of settlements, distribution of public documents, relief for victims of William Quantrill’s raids, the Kansas School for the Deaf (Olathe), and the U.S. Sanitary Commission’s Metropolitan Fair (New York City, 1864).

Contents: Folders 1-10. Appointments -- folder 11. College and university lands, 1863 -- folder 12. County affairs, 1863 - 1865 -- folder 13. Criminal matters, 1863 - 1864 -- folder 14. Emancipation of slaves, 1863 -- folder 15. Federal government, 1863 - 1864 -- folder 16. Indians, 1863 -- folder 17. Legislature, 1864 -- folder 18. Military affairs, 1863 - 1864 -- folder 19. Miscellaneous [sic], 1862 - 1864 -- folder 20. Promotion of settlement, 1863 - 1864 -- folder 21. Public documents, 1864 -- folder 22. Quantrill Raid relief, 1863 - 1864 -- folder 23. School for the Deaf, 1863 -- folder 24. U.S. Sanitary Commission Fair, 1864.

Locators:

Locator Contents
027-03-06-04   

Index Terms

Subjects

    Kansas. Governor (1863-1865 : Carney) -- Records and correspondence
    Kansas -- Officials and employees -- Selection and appointment
    Kansas -- Politics and government
    Missouri -- Politics and government
    United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
    Carney, Thomas, 1824-1888 -- Political activity
    Quantrill, William Clarke, 1837-1865
    Civil-military relations -- Kansas
    Criminal justice, Administration of -- Kansas
    Indians of North America -- Kansas
    Interstate controversies -- Kansas
    Quantrill's Raid (Lawrence, Kan.), 1863

Creators and Contributors


Agency Classification:

    Kansas State Agencies. Governor's Office. Specific Administrations. Carney, Thomas Administration.