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Size | 2.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 1,550 items) |
Abstract | Jeremy Francis Gilmer (1818-1883) was a United States Army Engineer, 1839-1861, and Confederate Chief of Engineers. Personal and military papers of Gilmer include a series of official army papers, 1851-1859, relating to the construction of fortifications on the Georgia and Florida coast; a diary, 1841-1842, at Fort Schuyler, N.Y.; letters, 1861-1864, from Gilmer to his wife Louisa Fredericka Alexander Gilmer, and other Civil War papers; a Confederate order book, 1863-1864, at headquarters, military district of Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina; family correspondence with Lawton, Alexander, and Porter relatives in Georgia, including letters received by wife and daughter Louisa Porter Gilmer; and extensive group of Civil War maps, including both manuscript maps and printed maps with manuscript annotations and engineers' drawings of military construction. |
Creator | Gilmer, Jeremy Francis, 1818-1883. |
Curatorial Unit | Southern Historical Collection |
Language | English |
Processed by: Tim Pyatt, Lynn Pritcher, October 1996, June 1997
Encoded by: Roslyn Holdzkom, May 2005
Updated by Margaret Dickson because of addition, July 2007; Nancy Kaiser, October 2020; Dawne Howard Lucas, March 2021
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Jeremy Francis Gilmer was born in Guilford County, N.C., on 23 February 1818. He entered the United States Army as a Second Lieutenant of Engineers in July 1839 after graduating from the United States Military Academy. He continued as an United States Army Engineer, constructing fortifications and conducting surveys until 1861, when he resigned in support of the southern cause. In September 1861, Gilmer was appointed Major of Engineers in the Confederate States of America Army and served as Chief Engineer of the staff of General A. S. Johnston until the general's death at the battle of Shiloh on 6 April 1862, where Gilmer was also severely wounded.
After his recovery, Gilmer served for a short time with the Army of Northern Virginia. On 9 August 1862, he was assigned to the Office of Chief of Engineer Bureau in Richmond, Va., and promoted to the rank of Colonel of Engineers. Promoted to Major General on 20 August 1863, Gilmer was ordered to Charleston, S.C., to direct the defense of the city. He returned to Richmond in June 1864, where he directed the Engineer Bureau until the end of the War. In the fall of 1865, Gilmer was elected a director of the Georgia Central Railroad and later served as president pro tem. In 1866, he was elected president of the Savannah Gas-Light Company, an office he held along with director, Georgia Central Railroad, until his death on 1 December 1883.
Back to TopPersonal and military papers of military engineer Jeremy Francis Gilmer of Guilford County, N.C., include a series of official army papers, 1851-1859, relating to the construction of fortifications on the Georgia and Florida coast; a diary, 1841-1842, at Fort Schuyler, N.Y.; letters, 1861-1864, from Gilmer to his wife Louisa Fredericka Alexander Gilmer, and other Civil War papers; a Confederate order book, 1863-1864, at headquarters, military district of Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina; family correspondence with Lawton, Alexander, and Porter relatives in Georgia, including letters received by wife and daughter Louisa Porter Gilmer; and 158 Civil War maps, including both manuscript maps and printed maps with manuscript annotations and engineers' drawings of military construction.
Back to TopArrangement: roughly chronological.
Folder 1 |
Letters, 1839-1849 |
Folder 2a |
Diary, 8 August 1841-9 July 1842 |
Folder 2b |
Letters, 1850-1854 |
Folder 3a |
Letters, 1855-1860 |
Folder 3b |
Account book, 1858 |
Folder 3c |
Check book, 1858 |
Arrangement: chronological.
Primarily applications and rosters for the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
Folder 4 |
1851 |
Extra Oversize Paper Folder XOPF-276/1 |
Payroll, Fort Pulaski, July 1851 |
Folder 5 |
1852 |
Extra Oversize Paper Folder XOPF-276/1 |
Payroll, Fort Jackson, January 1852 |
Folder 6-7
Folder 6Folder 7 |
1853 |
Extra Oversize Paper Folder XOPF-276/1 |
Payroll, near the Savannah River, July 1853 |
Folder 8 |
1854 |
Folder 9-13
Folder 9Folder 10Folder 11Folder 12Folder 13 |
1855 |
Extra Oversize Paper Folder XOPF-276/1 |
Payroll, Fort Clinch, Fort Jackson, Fort Pulaski, Savannah River, July 1855-December 1855 |
Treasury Account, 1855 |
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Folder 14-21
Folder 14Folder 15Folder 16Folder 17Folder 18Folder 19Folder 20Folder 21 |
1856 |
Extra Oversize Paper Folder XOPF-276/2 |
Payroll, Fort Jackson, Fort Pulaski, Fort Clinch, Savannah River 1856 |
Account of J. F. Gilmer with assistant treasurer, New York, September 1855-July 1856 |
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Folder 22-30
Folder 22Folder 23Folder 24Folder 25Folder 26Folder 27Folder 28Folder 29Folder 30 |
1857 |
Extra Oversize Paper Folder XOPF-276/3 |
Account of J. F. Gilmer with assistant treasurer, New York, July 1856-September 1857 |
Abstract, Lighthouse Establishment, October 1857-January 1858 |
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Extra Oversize Paper Folder XOPF-276/3-4
XOPF-276/3XOPF-276/4 |
Payroll, Fort Jackson, Fort Pulaski, Fort Clinch, Savannah River, 1857 |
Folder 31-38
Folder 31Folder 32Folder 33Folder 34Folder 35Folder 36Folder 37Folder 38 |
1858 |
Extra Oversize Paper Folder XOPF-276/4 |
Abstract, Savannah River, March 1858 |
Extra Oversize Paper Folder XOPF-276/4-5
XOPF-276/4XOPF-276/5 |
Abstract, Lighthouse Establishment, January 1858-July 1858 |
XOPF-276/4XOPF-276/5 |
Payroll, Fort Jackson, Fort Pulaski, Fort Clinch, Savannah River, January 1858-July 1858 |
Folder 39 |
1859 |
Arrangement: chronological.
Primarily correspondence and notes with exceptions noted.
Folder 40 |
1861 |
Folder 41-42
Folder 41Folder 42 |
1862 |
Folder 43a |
Volume of maps and notes, 1862 |
Folder 43b |
1863 |
Folder 44a |
1864 |
Folder 44b |
Order book, 1864 |
Folder 45 |
1865 |
Extra Oversize Paper Folder XOPF-276/6a |
Clipping from Daily Constitutionalist, Augusta, Ga., 17 April 1864 |
Arrangement: chronological.
Primarily correspondence.
Folder 46 |
1866-1879 |
Folder 47 |
1880-1884 |
Extra Oversize Paper Folder XOPF-276/6a |
Cemetery deed |
Folder 48 |
1885-1889 |
Extra Oversize Paper Folder XOPF-276/6a |
Passport of L. P. Gilmer |
Folder 49 |
1890-1895 |
Extra Oversize Paper Folder XOPF-276/6a |
Land grant to J. F. Gilmer |
Folder 50 |
Undated |
Extra Oversize Paper Folder XOPF-276/6a |
Undated calculation of finances |
Digitized versions of 162 maps and drawings from Series 5 of the Jeremy Francis Gilmer
Papers
Descriptive information comes directly from the maps or has been created from information on the maps.
Folder 51-53
Folder 51Folder 52Folder 53 |
Biographical and other clippings |
Extra Oversize Paper Folder XOPF-276/6a |
Plan of shot furnace |
U.S. Corps of Engineers uniforms specifications |
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Plan of monument |
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Extra Oversize Paper Folder XOPF-276/6b |
Newspaper clippings |
Reel M-276/1-2
M-276/1M-276/2 |
Microfilm |