Scope and Content. John Thomas Scharf (1843-98) was a Confederate soldier, lawyer, historian, and antiquarian. The nucleus of this collection is the documents he colledted and notes he compiled in writing numerous local histories of Maryland, Baltimore City and County, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Westchester County, New York, and Delaware. The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, Alexander Hamilton's Pay Book. Edited E. P. Panagopoulus. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, and Miscellaneous Papers; Detailing Events in the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and