Box 1
Container
Contains 164 Results:
Wilson, John, Capt., 8th KY Infantry, USA
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4, item: 27
Identifier: 53
Scope and Contents
With companion on Lookout Mountain. From Dorris Museum Collection, accession # 1359.
Dates:
1861-1912
Wilson, John, Capt., 8th KY Infantry, USA
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4, item: 28
Identifier: 54
Scope and Contents
With companions and flag on Lookout Mountain. From Dorris Museum Collection, accession # 1358.
Dates:
1861-1912
Wilson, John, Capt., 8th KY Infantry, USA, with companions and flag on Lookout Mountain (Copy print)
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4, item: 29
Identifier: 55
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Civil War Collection (1861-1865) is an artificial collection of correspondence, documents and printed material relating to the American Civil War. The Collection is comprised of a variety of items donated or purchased primarily because of their relationship to the war; some of the material predates, or postdates, the Civil War. The reason for their collection had mainly to do with the war or to a person closely associated with the war. Rather than create a number of small collections,...
Dates:
1861-1912
Zollicoffer, Felix, Gen., CSA
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4, item: 30
Identifier: 56
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Civil War Collection (1861-1865) is an artificial collection of correspondence, documents and printed material relating to the American Civil War. The Collection is comprised of a variety of items donated or purchased primarily because of their relationship to the war; some of the material predates, or postdates, the Civil War. The reason for their collection had mainly to do with the war or to a person closely associated with the war. Rather than create a number of small collections,...
Dates:
1861-1912
Foster, Joseph Milton, to parents, 24 Sept 1863
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, item: 21
Identifier: 21
Scope and Contents
Foster, Joseph Milton, Private, Co. F, 37th Massachusetts Infantry, USA, to parents. Written in New York City. The Ware, MA, boys continue to do well except for William Lewis, whom Foster thinks has typhoid fever. On a positive note, Foster enjoys spending time in NYC. "We sleep four stories high... It is cool up hear and I can see most all over the city... All you can see is buildings of all kinds... There is more peddlers than you can shake a stick at in a month." He describes a visit to...
Dates:
24 Sept 1863
Poor, George M., 24th New Hampshire Infantry, USA, to George H. Flint, 20 Apr 1865
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, item: 13
Identifier: 13
Scope and Contents
Poor, George M., Co. G, U.S. Veterans' Reserve Corps, 24th New Hampshire Infantry, USA, to George H. Flint. Poor's unit guarded Lincoln's body and he sends news and details of the assassination, the pursuit of John Wilkes Booth, and the attack on Secretary William Seward. He also describes the look and mood of Washington, DC following Lincoln's death. [Envelope included]
Dates:
20 Apr 1865
Foster, Joseph Milton, to parents, 17 Nov 1863
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, item: 22
Identifier: 22
Scope and Contents
Foster, Joseph Milton, Private, Co. F, 37th Massachusetts Infantry, USA, to parents. Writing from near Culpepper Courthouse, VA, Foster's company is again under the designation "Army of the Potomac." His parents have been complaining that he doesn't write often enough to them, and he counters by pointing out that they haven't been writing to him. "Father, I wish I could please you in every respect," Foster writes, "...but we hant all alike nor we don't all think alike." He mentions the...
Dates:
17 Nov 1863
Prewitt, J.W., Co. C, 147th Pennsylvania Infantry, USA, to his mother and siblings, 20 Jan 1863
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, item: 14
Identifier: 14
Scope and Contents
Prewitt, J.W., Co. C, 147th Pennsylvania Infantry, USA, to his mother, sisters and brothers. Written from a camp near Falmouth, VA, the letter states that Union forces are about to strike at the rebels, who according to Burnside have been "considerable weakened" by Union successes in Kentucky and Tennessee. Prewitt hopes that they give the rebels "fits"; he is referring to action taken around Stafford Court House, VA.
Dates:
20 Jan 1863
Foster, Joseph Milton, to father, 04 Dec 1863
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, item: 23
Identifier: 23
Scope and Contents
Foster, Joseph Milton, Private, Co. F, 37th Massachusetts Infantry, USA, to father. Camping near Brandy Station, VA, Foster tells of his midnight Thanksgiving supper (pork, hardtack, and coffee) on the march. "I presume it tasted as good to me as your supper did to you... [it wasn't] a grait assortment but it was as good as Uncle Sam could get on such circumstances." His company has spent days at almost non-stop marching, especially difficult for Foster because a boil on his neck has made...
Dates:
04 Dec 1863
Quimby, H. Baxter, Co. E, 9th New Hampshire Infantry, USA, to Henry C. George, 06 Sep 1863
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, item: 15
Identifier: 15
Scope and Contents
Quimby, H. Baxter, Lt. Commander, Co. E, 9th New Hampshire Infantry, USA, to Henry C. George of Canaan, NH. Written from a camp near Nicholasville, KY, Quimby informs George of the illness of his son Carlos, suggesting that George visit him because "he has some symptoms which I think are rather bad" and that it is impossible to give him the care that he should have "in our present situation." [According to records, Carlos George died of disease at Camp Nelson, KY on 24 Sep 1863 - see...
Dates:
06 Sep 1863