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Willcox, Orlando B. Letter, [18]86 Oct. 25, Fort Leavenworth, Kan. [to William C.] Manning / O.B. Willcox.

Title: Letter, [18]86 Oct. 25, Fort Leavenworth, Kan. [to William C.] Manning / O.B. Willcox.

Note thanking Manning for his congratulations of Willcox becoming commander of the Army Dept. of the Missouri, headquartered at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p. on 1 leaf) ; 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18096931 View

Hay, John, 1838-1905. Correspondence, 1854-1914, "Willard" to "Yorke".

Title: Correspondence, 1854-1914, "Willard" to "Yorke".

Includes letters to Hay and to members of his family.

ArchivalResource: Approximately 6,000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122599292 View

McCreery-Fenton family papers, 1842-1935, 1860-1865

Title: McCreery-Fenton family papers 1842-1935 1860-1865

Microfilm of a selection of the papers of the McCreery-Fenton families of Genesee County, Michigan. Civil War correspondence and other papers of William M. Fenton of Fenton and Flint, Michigan, Democratic state senator, and lieutenant governor, later colonel with the 8th Michigan Infantry; correspondence, diaries, and other materials of William B. McCreery of Flint, Michigan, Colonel in the 21st Michigan Infantry during the Civil War; and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 2 microfilm reels

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-2011006?rgn=main;view=text View

Letter, 1886

Title: Letter 1886

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p. on 1 leaf)

http://hdl.handle.net/10407/5665529048 View

Letters to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1761-1904 (inclusive), 1820-1888 (bulk)

Title: Letters to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1761-1904 (inclusive), 1820-1888 (bulk)

Letters to American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

ArchivalResource: 36 linear feet (73 boxes)

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00355/catalog View

Letter to Georgia Strother [manuscript], 1865 March, and account of the Battle of the Crater (Petersburg, 1864).

Title: Letter to Georgia Strother [manuscript], 1865 March, and account of the Battle of the Crater (Petersburg, 1864).

A letter, 1865 March, to Georgia Strother, Fruit Hill, S.C., from her sister in Petersburg, Va., describes the trip to Petersburg, Petersburg social life during the winter of 1865, visiting friends from South Carolina who were stationed there, seeing generals Lee, Longstreet, Hill, and Willcox at church, and bartering supplies and rations. There is also a typescript of an account of the Battle of the Crater, Petersburg, Va., 1864, as told by Capt. Featherstone of Company C., 9th Alabama infantry regiment, describing the actions of General Sanders. Also includes typescript of A chlid's recollections of the War.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647873877 View

Poe, O. M. (Orlando Metcalfe), 1832-1895. Blue Springs : [Tennessee].

Title: Blue Springs : [Tennessee]. [1863]

ArchivalResource: 1 map : ms., col. ; 48 x 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13394336 View

Wilder, John Thomas, 1830-1917. Military officer correspondence, 1879-1903.

Title: Military officer correspondence, 1879-1903.

Correspondence after the Civil War from: John T. Wilder to Henry V. Boynton; Orlando B. Willcox to George B. Patrick and Horatio C. King; John S. Williams to Henry Storm; Robert Williams to Horatio C. King; John M. Wilson to Horatio C. King; and Thomas Wilson to Horatio C. King.

ArchivalResource: 10 items

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/318339205 View

Willcox, Orlando B. Letter : Washington, D.C., to Col. Washington, 1898 Apr. 8.

Title: Letter : Washington, D.C., to Col. Washington, 1898 Apr. 8.

Autograph letter signed. Relates to voluntary enlistment.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52248845 View

Philip Case Lockwood memorial collection of Civil War portraits and autographs, 1862-ca. 1886.

Title: Philip Case Lockwood memorial collection of Civil War portraits and autographs, 1862-ca. 1886.

Scrapbook collection of Civil War photographs and autographs, assembled by Philip Case Lockwood.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (.38 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00542/catalog View

Dana, George Hazen, 1837-1919. George Hazen Dana papers [manuscript] 1858-1914.

Title: George Hazen Dana papers [manuscript] 1858-1914.

Collection contains correspondence with family; documents relating to his Civil War service with the 32nd Massachusetts as aide-de-camp to General Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Dana; a field notebook describing Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign; and a "War Journal" compiled from the letters and field notebook. Topics include camp life; a July 31, 1862, attack on the Union Camp at Harrision's Landing; illness in camp; deaths in the regiment from disease, sunstroke, and battle; marches; his regiment in the battle of Fredericksburg; Burnside's "mud march"; skirmishes; wading across the Rapidan; battle of Chancellorsville; visiting civilians at Kemper's Ford; swimming in the Rappahannock under a truce; severe wound at Gettysburg (no description of battle); aftermath of Vicksburg where a former "slave pen" was a recruiting office for black troops; rough voyage from New Oreleans to Texas on the steamer "McClellan"; reconnaissance on the Matagorda Peninsula; inspection tour of mid-West with General Dana; trip to front with Charles Dana; Grant's Overland Campaign including detailed, graphic descriptions of the battles of North Anna, Totopotomoy, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and Weldon Railroad. There are passing references to contraband including "Bill" and "Henry Wilson," shooting a sharpshooter at 400 yards; glimpsing Geneal Joseph Hooker before the battle of Chancellorsville; death of General Amos Whipple near him; Rebels "howl" over death of Jackson; an incompetent colonel of the 32nd; murder of the 4th Michigan's chaplain by guerillas; picket duty; Brandy Station; taming a horse formerly owned by General Bee; trouble with the Confederate governor of Tamanlipas; General Prince; lunch with General Grant; liberating slaves of John B. Floyd; Union Generals Griffin, Willcox and Switzer; death of regiment's colonel, George Lincoln Prescott; running the gauntlet of a Confederate battery on the Mississipppi; and anecdotes about "Private Chair" which he carried with him through the summer of 1864. The collection also contains the Harvard diploma of Joseph W. Dana, 1828; a family genealogy;a letter from Francis Dana, Jr., to his mother Sophia Dana, 1828 October 18, describing the Lafayette mania in New York city, and his life in Hamburg, German, where he attended the opera "Der Freischütz," witnessed the celebration of the battle of Leipzig, and describes the inhabitants and town, social events, and customs. There are several family photographs including George Hazen Dana, his wife Frances M. Dana, and their son Francis Dana. There is also a photograph of the family home taken in 1903.

ArchivalResource: 130 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/713887757 View

Willcox, Orlando B. Letter : Washington, D.C., to Col. Washington, 1898 Apr. 8.

Title: Letter : Washington, D.C., to Col. Washington, 1898 Apr. 8.

Autograph letter signed. Relates to voluntary enlistment.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79154169 View

Willcox, Orlando Bolivar, 1823-1907. Autograph letter signed : Angel Island, California, to William W. Belknap, 1872 Apr. 8.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Angel Island, California, to William W. Belknap, 1872 Apr. 8.

Thanking him for seeing that his son's name was placed on a special list for consideration by th President.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270586735 View

Mosby, John Singleton, 1833-1916. Letters to Betty Cocke and Louise Cocke [manuscript], 1910-1914.

Title: Letters to Betty Cocke and Louise Cocke [manuscript], 1910-1914.

The nine letters to Betty Cocke mostly pertain to family and personal matters. Topics include his cordial reception by people from the North; voting for Taft, not Wilson; remembrances of a temperance celebration at Bremo; Wilson not appearing as University of Virginia commencement speaker; and Confederate reunions and other social events. A letter, 1910, to Col. E. Leroy Sweetser discusses Mosby's dismissal from the Department of Justice in punishment "for having three scoundrels indicted for robbing the Indians." A letter, 1911, to Louise Cocke concerns his shooting of George Turpin at the University of Virginia. Also included are miscellaneous items, including: an advertisement for a book of Civil War photographs with sample photographs of Colonel Mosby and Brigadier General Orlando Bolivar Willcox, U.S.A.; a clipping from a 1911 January 15 Baltimore Sun describing Mosby's shooting of Turpin; and autographed photographs including his grandsons Sptoswood and Mosby Campbell.

ArchivalResource: 13 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647843139 View

Porter, Lucia Chauncey. Correspondence, 1853-1917.

Title: Correspondence, 1853-1917.

Daughter of Gen. Fitz-John Porter. Correspondence and photographs collected by Miss Porter. The bulk of the collection is dated between 1885-1894 and is concerned with responses by former Civil War officers to Miss Porter's request for their photograph. The replies were sent in some instances directly to Gen. Porter and many of the replies concern the individual's relationship with him. Includes letters to Gen. Porter during the Civil War and others concerning his fight to vindicate his court martial for poor combat leadership at 2d Bull Run Battle, personal letters to Miss Porter, miscellaneous Civil War photographs, postcards and magazine photos.

ArchivalResource: 429 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3949062 View

Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Civil War collection, 1724-1933 (inclusive); 1861-1912 (bulk).

Title: Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Civil War collection, 1724-1933 (inclusive); 1861-1912 (bulk).

A collection of images, manuscripts, and printed material, mostly relating to the Massachusetts soldiers and regiments in the American Civil War. Some material relates to other Union regiments and the Confederate States of America.

ArchivalResource: 47 linear feet (143 boxes, 2 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00124/catalog View

Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part III: The Civil War: The Union, 1804-1915.

Title: Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part III: The Civil War: The Union, 1804-1915.

Autograph letters and documents of officers and statesmen associated with the Union in the Civil War collected by Frederick Myers Dearborn.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes (4 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01501/catalog View