Z 0593.000
RUGGLES (DANIEL) PAPERS


Military papers, correspondence, and telegrams of Brigadier General Daniel Ruggles, C.S.A., of Virginia, who was appointed on August 9, 1861, and paroled at Augusta, Georgia, on or about May 9, 1865. Most of the letters are from Mississippi and Louisiana to General Ruggles while he was serving in those states. There are more than 200 telegrams or copies of telegrams, some of which are as follows:

  • 48 from Ruggles
  • 31 from Colonel John A. Orr, of the Thirty-first Regiment of Mississippi Infantry, C.S.A.
  • 21 from Lieutenant Colonel C. R. Barteau
  • 37 from Captain F. Ingate
  • 11 from James M. Burton
  • 11 from Cap. J. H. Edmondson
  • 7 from Major E. G. Wheeler
  • 7 from Major G. N. Mayo
  • 7 from L. D. Sandridge
  • 6 from Major E. W. Upshaw
  • 3 from Brigadier General L. P. Walker
  • 2 from Major General E. Kirby Smith
  • 3 from Brigadier General A. P. Stewart
  • 7 from Brigadier General M. L. Smith
  • 1 from Gen. J. H. Forney
  • 1 from Gen. Saml. Jones