urn:taro:utexas.cah.02055 A Guide to the Monroe F. Cockrell Collection, 1862, 1864, 1963-1964 Original EAD encoding by Laurel Rozema according to TARO 2 EAD 2002 Editing Instructions. November 2010 Finding aid written in English. Descriptive Summary Cockrell, Monroe F. (Monroe Fulkerson), b. 1884 Cockrell, Monroe F., collection 1862, 1864, 1963-1964 Materials are written in English. 65-182 4 items Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin The Monroe F. Cockrell Collection, 1862, 1864, 1963-1964, contains three letters concerning the Confederate Army’s battles, hospitals, and railroads during the Civil War. Biographical Note

Monroe Fulkerson Cockrell (1884-1972) lived in Evanston, Illinois, and served as Vice President of the Continental and Illinois National Bank and Trust Company in Chicago. He was also a Civil War historian and genealogist and wrote numerous books, including History of Early Dallas (1944), Gunner with Stonewall: Reminiscences of Thomas Poague (1957), and The Early Cockrells in Missouri (1966).

Missouri Valley Special Collections. Monroe F. Cockrell Papers. Kansas City Public Library. Accessed November 9, 2010. http://www.kchistory.org/u?/Local,37045.

 Scope and Contents

The Monroe F. Cockrell Collection, 1862, 1864, 1963-1964, contains three letters concerning the Confederate Army’s battles, hospitals, and railroads during the Civil War. The collection includes a photocopy and transcript of a January 6, 1862, letter by Confederate Colonel A. P. Hill, discussing the impending battle of Bull Run. The transcript contains notes dated 1963 by historian Lester N. Fitzhugh and Cockrell. A typescript of a March 28, 1864, letter by S. H. Stout describes his work as Confederate Medical Director of Hospitals in Atlanta, Georgia, and contains an end note by Cockrell in 1964. The final letter transcript, dated July 27, 1964, is an analysis by Cockrell regarding the Manassas Junction and Centreville Confederate Military Railroad, a part of the Orange, Alexandria, and Manassas Railroad.

 Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research use.

 Index Terms Subjects (Persons) Cockrell, Monroe F. (Monroe Fulkerson), b. 1884 -- Archives. Stout, Samuel Hollingsworth, 1822-1903 Hill, A. P. (A. Powell) Fitzhugh, Lester N. (Lester Newton), 1917- Subjects (Organizations) Confederate States of America. Army. Orange, Alexandria, and Manassas Railroad Subjects Hospitals -- Confederate States of America. Bull Run, 2nd Battle of, Va., 1862 Places Evanston (Ill.) Richmond (Va.) Manassas (Va.) Atlanta (Ga.) United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. Preferred Citation

Monroe F. Cockrell Collection, 1862, 1864, 1963-1964, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.

 Related Material

See also Monroe F. Cockrell Papers at the Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri.

See also Monroe F. Cockrell Papers at the Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

See also Monroe Fulkerson Cockrell Papers at Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

 Processing Information

This collection was processed by W. H. Richter, September 1964.

Basic processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with funds from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) for the Briscoe Center’s History Revealed: Bringing Collections to Light project, 2009-2011.

 Detailed Description of the Papers Correspondence: 2L142 A. P. Hill on impending Battle of Bull Run, January 6, 1862, 1963 [photocopy and typescript] 2L142 S. H. Stout on Confederate Medical Department, March 28, 1864, 1964 [typescript] 2L142 Cockrell on the Manassas Junction and Centreville Confederate Military Railroad, July 27, 1964 [typescript]