Title: Jerome A. Watrous Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1864-1922

Creator:

• Watrous, Jerome A., 1840-1922

Call Number: Wis Mss FC

Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of Jerome A. Watrous, a Wisconsin journalist, veteran of the Civil War and the Spanish-American War, and leader in the Grand Army of the Republic, consisting of correspondence and writings. About three-fourths of the collection consists of draft and printed speeches and writings concerning the Civil War, the Philippine Islands, the GAR, and general Wisconsin biography and history. Some items focus on the Iron Brigade, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and other Civil War battles, the Milwaukee Soldiers Home, and the history of several Wisconsin regiments. With these papers are comments on the proposal to place General Robert E. Lee's statue in Statuary Hall, Washington, D.C.; a collection of letters, 1864-1865, of General Joseph Bailey, then lieutenant colonel of the 4th Wisconsin Cavalry, relating to his actions during the Red River campaign of 1864; and a Waterhouse/Watrous family history. The correspondence is very incomplete, and although his duty as a paymaster in the Philippines has some coverage, there is no correspondence about Watrous' military service in the Civil War. Prominent correspondents include Edward W. Bragg and William A. Ketchum, commander-in-chief of the GAR.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-wis000fc

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The autobiography originally donated with the papers was returned to P. J. Watrous in 1923.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Mrs. J. A. Watrous, October 1922.

Processing Information

Reprocessed by Carolyn J. Mattern, 2008.

Box   1 Folder   1	Waterhouse/Watrous family history
	Correspondence
Box   1 Folder   2-3	Watrous, 1887-1921, undated
Box   1 Folder   4	Bailey, Joseph, 1864-1865
	Speeches and Writings
Box   1 Folder   5	Clipping scrapbook
Box   1 Folder   6	African-Americans
Box   1 Folder   7	Barstow-Bashford incident
Box   1 Folder   8	Bragg, Edward S.
Box   1 Folder   9	Battles and battlefields
Box   1 Folder   10	Civil War
Box   1 Folder   11	Confederates and the South
Box   1 Folder   12	Fraternal orders
Box   1 Folder   13	Fredericksburg
Box   1 Folder   14	Gettysburg
Box   1 Folder   15	Grand Army of the Republic
Box   1 Folder   16	Grant, Ulysses S.
Box   1 Folder   17	Individuals
Box   1 Folder   18	Iron Brigade
Box   1 Folder   19	King, Charles
Box   2 Folder   1	Lee statue
Box   2 Folder   2	Legislators and legislature
Box   2 Folder   3	Lincoln
Box   2 Folder   4	MacArthur, Arthur
Box   2 Folder   5	Memorial Day
Box   2 Folder   6	Miscellany
Box   2 Folder   7	Oklahoma
Box   2 Folder   8	Old Settlers Club
Box   2 Folder   9	Perry celebration
Box   2 Folder   10	Philippines
Box   2 Folder   11	Political leaders
Box   2 Folder   12	Regular Army
Box   2 Folder   13	Sampson, William
Box   2 Folder   14	Soldiers Home
Box   2 Folder   15	Vicksburg
Box   2 Folder   16	Wilson, Woodrow
Box   2 Folder   17	Wisconsin regiments
Box   2 Folder   18-20	Wisconsin cities and towns
Box   2 Folder   21	World War I