Search Manuscripts/Mixed Material

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    Sidney Morris Davis memoirs,
    Sidney Morris Davis papers Catalog Record Only
    Holograph manuscript by Davis recounting his Civil War service as a Union cavalryman in Company F of the Sixth Cavalry from 1861 to 1864. Topics include camp life; military engagements in Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania; and Davis's incarceration in the Confederate prison on Belle Isle in the James River at Richmond, Va.
    • Contributor: Davis, Sidney Morris
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    Orrin E. Hine papers, Catalog Record Only Military correspondence, telegrams, special orders, and other papers of Capt. Hine who was stationed in Washington, D.C., during the Civil War, and served in the Quartermaster's Dept., relating chiefly to supplies in Maryland and Virginia and to partoons. Most of the communications are from Gen. D. P. Woodbury. Includes 5 letters from Harriet P. Baird, Henry Co., Ill., relating to the desertion of her...
    • Contributor: Hine, Orrin E.
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    Matthew Stanley Quay papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, election materials, financial papers, genealogical information, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other papers pertaining primarily to Quay's career in Pennsylvania and national politics as a member of the Republican party and the U.S. Senate. Includes correspondence relating to his Republican National Committee chairmanship (1888-1891), his candidacy for chairman of the Pennsylvania Republican state committee (1895), and his bid for the presidency (1896); numerous newspaper...
    • Contributor: Quay, Matthew Stanley
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    Joseph Bloomfield Osborn papers, Catalog Record Only Chiefly correspondence of Osborn who served in Company F, 26th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry and in the U.S. Navy, with Osborn family members and Louise Landau (married Osborn in 1866). Also includes a biographical sketch of Osborn. Subjects include enlistments, camp life, training, and marches in Maryland and Virginia. Osborn also discusses discipline and morale, the attitude and condition of Confederate prisoners of war,...
    • Contributor: Osborn, Joseph Bloomfield
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    Reports of skirmishes at the Battle of Aquia Creek, Virginia,
    Battle of Aquia Creek, Virginia, reports, Catalog Record Only
    Handwritten transcripts of reports of skirmishes at Aquia Creek, Va., May 31-June 11, 1861. Includes three U.S. Navy reports by James Harmon Ward, commander of the USS Thomas Freeborn (steamer), and by Stephen C. Rowan, commander of the USS Pawnee (screw sloop), to U.S. Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles. Also includes reports by Colonel William B. Bate and by M. McCluskey, of the...
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    Byron Parsons diary and lists of soldiers,
    Byron Parsons papers Catalog Record Only
    Two volume diary (1864 January 1-1865 October 14) kept by Parsons while serving with the 94th New York Infantry Regiment, Union army, concerning the movement of troops from New York to Virginia; the Siege of Petersburg; life as a prisoner of war at Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, and at Salisbury, North Carolina, and Danville, Virginia; and the exchange of prisoners. Also includes a...
    • Contributor: Parsons, Byron
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    John Singleton Mosby papers, Catalog Record Only Chiefly correspondence, orders, commissions, reports, and circulars concerning the organization and activities of Mosby's Rangers (43rd Virginia Cavalry Battalion, C.S.A.). Documents the guerrilla warfare carried out by the battalion in Virginia. Contains remarks on public enthusiasm for the war in 1861, the treatment of prisoners of war, casualties, the death of Maj. John Pelham, and the capture of Gen. Edwin H. Stoughton. Correspondents include...
    • Contributor: Mosby, John Singleton
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    George Montfort Gilchrist family papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, school records, literary and commencement programs, poetry, and Gilpin family genealogical material. Much of the correspondence is between Gilchrist, who served with the 3rd Indiana Cavalry Regiment in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., during the Civil War, and his wife, Mollie Gilpin Gilchrist; other letters are between Mollie and her brothers, Samuel J.V.B. Gilpin, of the 1st Indiana Cavalry Regiment, and E.N....
    • Contributor: Gilchrist, George Montfort
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    Clarence E. Bailey correspondence,
    Clarence E. Bailey papers Catalog Record Only
    Chiefly correspondence of Bailey addressed to his family during his service with the 129th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army. Bailey notes movements of the regiment; details of skirmishes and battles in Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia; camp life; clothing, rations, and other supplies; medical care; and family affairs. He describes the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam, Md., 1862, and makes mention of military...
    • Contributor: Bailey, Clarence E. - Foss, Stuart M.
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    William G. Hills diary,
    William Giles Hills papers Catalog Record Only
    Diary kept by Hills while serving with the 9th New York Cavalry Regiment, U.S. Army, recounting campaigns in Virginia, January 1-November 23, 1864. Describes the Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid to Richmond, Va.; the battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, Cold Harbor, and Trevilian Station; the siege of Petersburg, Va.; and the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864, particularly the Battle of Cedar Creek, Va. Also contains...
    • Contributor: Hills, William G. (William Giles)
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    Cyrus Mills Perrine correspondence,
    Cyrus Mills Perrine papers Catalog Record Only
    Chiefly letters written by Perrine during his service with the 123rd Indiana Infantry Regiment to his parents, George H. Perrine and Rosetta L. Perrine, in Decatur County, Indiana. Includes letters to the couple from other Union soldiers including Rosetta Perrine's brothers, Chester Y.C. Alden, James C. Alden, and York Alden. Topics include camp life, troop movements, and battle engagements including the Vicksburg Campaign and...
    • Contributor: Perrine, Cyrus Mills
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    Pope family papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, diary, notebook, bills, indentures, newspapers, and clippings of the Pope family. Consists chiefly of Civil War letters addressed to Lucy A. Pope from her son, Augustus Russell Pope, of the 1st and 11th Massachusetts Volunteers, from camps in New York and Virginia. His diary (1862) kept as a captain's aide concerns camp life in the 44th Massachusetts Infantry at Readville, Mass. Also includes...
    • Contributor: Pope, Augustus Russell - Pope, Lucy A. (Lucy Ann) - Pope, Lemuel
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    David Coon papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence outlining everyday routine while on maneuvers with the 36th Wisconsin Infantry in Petersburg, Va., and Northern Virginia, and as a prisoner in Libby Prison, Richmond, Va., and Salisbury, N.C.
    • Contributor: Coon, David
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    Joseph R. Hawley papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, diaries, speeches, notebooks, business records, memorabilia, and other papers relating chiefly to Hawley's service as U.S. senator from Connecticut, Union army officer, and chairman of the United States Centennial Commission; work as a newspaper editor in Hartford, Conn.; and personal and family life. Documents his Civil War service with the 1st and 7th Connecticut Infantry Regiments, U.S. Army, in North Carolina, South Carolina,...
    • Contributor: Hawley, Joseph R. (Joseph Roswell)
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    Daniel O. Drennan papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, diaries, military dispatches, reports, notes, documents, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, printed matter, architectural drawings, memorabilia, and other papers relating to General Philip Henry Sheridan's battlefield command in Virginia in the last months of the Civil War, administration of Reconstruction policy, and actions along the Mexican border. Subjects include other military officers; Indian affairs; Yellowstone National Park; the Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871; the Wounded...
    • Contributor: Drennan, Daniel O.
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    Charles H.T. Collis papers,
    Charles Henry Tucky Collis papers Catalog Record Only
    Volume containing morning reports (1861 August 25-1862 May 21) for Collis's company of Zouaves d'Afrique (later to become Company A of the 114th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army) in Maryland and Virginia.
    • Contributor: Collis, Charles H. T. (Charles Henry Tucky)
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    John Coffee family papers, Catalog Record Only Chiefly letters of Andrew Jackson to his friend General John Coffee, as well as to Coffee's sons Alexander Donelson Coffee and John D. Coffee and to Andrew J. Hutchings. Includes a notebook (1861 May 7-1864 October 18) of Edward A. O'Neal Jr., volunteer aide to Confederate General Robert Emmett Rodes, containing remarks on the Chancellorsville and Gettysburg campaigns; and a letter (1864 October 11)...
    • Contributor: Coffee, John
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    Gibson-Getty-McClure families papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, diaries, financial papers, military papers, and other material relating to various members of these allied families from Cumberland County, Pa. Gibson family papers pertain chiefly to the Revolutionary War service of George Gibson (1747-1791). Papers of George W. Getty document his Civil War service with the Army of the Potomac in Virginia, various Indian campaigns, and the Fitz-John Porter court-martial. Papers of Charles...
    • Contributor: McClure, Charles - Getty, George W.
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    Cartter family papers, Catalog Record Only Chiefly correspondence between members of the Cartter and Hanford families including David K. Cartter; his wife, Nancy Hanford Cartter; and their sons, David Kellogg Cartter Jr., and William H. Cartter. Includes letters concerning David K. Cartter's service as U.S. ambassador to Bolivia, 1861-1862; Civil War letters or David Kellogg Carter Jr., second lieutenant in the 2nd Ohio Cavalry, U.S. Army, relating to the impact...
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    Orange Smith papers, Catalog Record Only Letters written by Smith to his brother while serving with Company C, 13th Connecticut Infantry Regiment at New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Thibodaux, La., near Charleston, S.C., and Harrisonburg, Va. Includes a brief typewritten summary of each letter and photocopies of Company C muster rolls.
    • Contributor: Smith, Orange - United States. Army. Connecticut Infantry Regiment, 13th (). Company C.
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    John Whitten papers, Catalog Record Only Diary (110 pages; 1863 August 4-1865 May 17) kept by Whitten during his Civil War service with the 5th Iowa Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army. Subjects include the battles of Corinth and Jackson, Miss., the siege of Vicksburg, Miss., and Whitten's experience as prisoner of war in Belle Isle prison, Richmond, Va., in Columbia, S.C., and in Andersonville Prison, Andersonville, Ga. Also includes genealogical material...
    • Contributor: Whitten, John
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    Ulysses Doubleday order-book,
    Ulysses Doubleday papers Catalog Record Only
    Order-book (248 pages) concerning Doubleday's service as a major in the 4th N.Y. Artillery, as lieutenant colonel of the 3rd U.S. Colored Troops, and as colonel commanding a brigade of the 45th U.S. Colored Troops at the Battle of Five Forks. Consists of correspondence, inspection records, rosters of officers, military lessons, newspaper clippings, and material pertaining to armaments and arrangement of artillery of Forts...
    • Contributor: Doubleday, Ulysses
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    Abram L. Lockwood report and John Sedgwick photograph,
    Abram L. Lockwood papers Catalog Record Only
    Draft of a report by Lockwood while serving as lieutenant colonel in the 120th New York Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army, on the participation of the regiment in the Battle of Hatcher's Run, February 5-7, 1865, during the siege of Petersburg, Virginia. Also includes a photograph of General John Sedgwick.
    • Contributor: Sedgwick, John - Lockwood, Abram L.
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    Felix Brannigan papers, Catalog Record Only Chiefly letters from Brannigan during his service in the 74th New York Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army, addressed to his sister. Subjects include the Peninsular Campaign, 1862; the siege of Yorktown, Va., 1862; Battle of Williamsburg, Va., 1862; Gettysburg Campaign, 1863; and the Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., 1863. Includes information on recruitment, training, camp life, and troop movements.
    • Contributor: Brannigan, Felix
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    Cornelius Chase family papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, journal, speeches, writings, reports, genealogical material, financial records, printed matter, drawings, and other papers relating to Chase family members. Pertains chiefly to Cornelius Chase, and his son, Cornelius Thurston Chase, in their careers as clergymen, educators, and farmers. Documents the latter's career as superintendent of public instruction for the state of Florida. Also includes correspondence of Jonas King and a copy of his...
    • Contributor: Chase, Cornelius - Stokes, E. H. (Ellwood Haines) - Confederate States of America. Army - Chase, Cornelius Thurston