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Benjamin Franklin Butler Notebook
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1990-060
Abstract
Handwritten book-length draft manuscript providing a very critical view of the military leadership and personal character of General Ulysses S. Grant. Attributed to Benjamin Butler, though evidence suggests a different author, possibly former Union Army Brigadier General Gustave Paul Cluseret.
Dates:
[1865?]
Lilburn O. Byers Diary
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-114
Abstract
This collection contains the 1864 diary kept by Confederate soldier Lilburn O. Byers (1825-1889) during the American Civil War. Byers writes about battles, troop movements, and events happening in camp. Byers' diary also covers the death of Confederate General William E. Jones. A page at the end contains a letter from Byers to his wife in February 1865 to give the diary to her. The front of the diary contains an almanac for 1864, and there are lists of names and money from people at the...
Dates:
1864 - 1865
F. Calkins Letter
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1989-045
Abstract
Letter from F. Calkins, serving in Company B, 2nd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery during the American Civil War, written to "Dear Friend" from Newberne, North Carolina, on September 10, 1863.
Dates:
1863
John Patrick Callaghan Collection
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-065
Abstract
The collection contains two volumes of Harper's Weekly publications from 1863 and 1864, including several Winslow Homer woodcuts and Thomas Nast cartoons, collected by John Patrick Callaghan.
Dates:
1863 - 1864
Louisa Cameron Civil War Scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-035
Abstract
This collection contains a two volume scrapbook kept by future First Lady of Virginia, Louisa Egerton Cameron (1846-1908) from Petersburg, Virginia during the American Civil War.
Dates:
1861 - 1863
Camp of the 11th New York Battery Letter
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1991-068
Abstract
Letter from an unknown American Civil War soldier (possibly Chauncey S. Titus), writing from the camp of the 11th New York Battery on February 9, 1864, to "Dear Hattie," replying to her response to a "lonely hearts" advertisement recently placed by the soldier, and admitting that he had embellished his description to attract interest.
Dates:
1864
Camp Sedgwick, Virginia, Letter
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1989-073
Abstract
Letter from a Union soldier during the American Civil War, written from Camp Sedgwick, [Virginia], on December 26, 1863, regarding the bounty and furlough promised to those who reenlist and his efforts to pass the time while in winter camp.
Dates:
1863
John P. E. Campbell Letter,
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-056
Abstract
Letter from John P. E. Campbell (50th Regiment, Virginia Infantry) to his wife, April 13, 1863.
Dates:
1863
L. Campbell Letter
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1991-061
Abstract
Letter from L. Campbell, of Keene, New Hampshire, addressed to Mrs. Corbitt on March 31, 1867, regarding the exhumation, identification, and return of her brother's remains.
Dates:
1867
William Latham Candler Papers
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1997-007
Abstract
The collection consists of fourteen letters, dating from September 8, 1861, to February 15, 1863, from William Latham Candler to his uncle Charles [probably maternal uncle Charles Henry Wheelwright] and his brother, John W. Candler of Boston. Candler's letters were written from camps in Maryland and Virginia during the American Civil War.
Dates:
1861 - 1863
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