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(lot of 62) Albert Brown Chandler, journals 1855-1920 including a photograph album, containing albumen and tin type photographs, the journals include his Civil War diaries with accounts as the official paymaster in the War Department Telegraph Office, with his conversations and interactions with President Lincoln and Edwin McMasters Stanton the Secretary of War, note: the 1863 journal is not with this collection; within the 1864 journal Chandler describes a conversation with President Lincoln, also Chandler makes a brief note (1861) of Manassas (1st Battle of Bull Run) and that it was an unexpected upset for the Union Forces, and the friction between Gen. McClellan and the President, the journals also include a narrative of facts regarding the Assassination of President Lincoln, in 1865 he attended the trial of ''Wirz'' and that he (Wirz) ''is indeed a wretched creature'', Henry Wirz was commandant of the notorious Confederate prison camp at Andersonville, where thousands of Union troops died of disease, abuse and starvation; in the 1866 journal Chandler describes a visit from Secretary Stanton on the occasion of the closure of the War Dept. Telegraph Office, after the closure of the War Dept., Chandler is asked by Gen. Eckert to come to New York with him to consolidate the new commercial telegraph lines, including the Transatlantic Cable lines, Chandler also describes that on January 1st, 1866 ''Gen. Grant and 13 Major Generals, twice as many Brigadiers and assorted Colonels and Adjutants'' came to the White House to pay their respects to President Johnson; Chandler also describes Andrew Jackson appeared intoxicated at his inaugural, and the House of Representatives vote to impeach; The journals span a 50 year period from the time of his fifteenth birthday, August 20, 1855, and spans to 1916, note: worth inspection and viewing
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