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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

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

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

Robinson, John Cleveland, 1817-1897. Autograph letter signed : Binghamton, New York, to William W. Belknap, 1869 Dec. 31.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Binghamton, New York, to William W. Belknap, 1869 Dec. 31.

Asking for a temporary appointment to tide him over the losses sustained by the breaking up of his regiment.

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

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270655527 View

Hillyer, William Silliman, 1831-1874. Papers of William Silliman Hillyer, 1822 (1861-1874) 1931, [manuscript].

Title: Papers of William Silliman Hillyer, 1822 (1861-1874) 1931, [manuscript].

Correspondence, military papers, speeches, photographs, printed material and memorabilia. Military papers of Hillyer include district provost marshall reports; special and general orders of Grant, Sherman, Hillyer and others, especially one of congratulations on Port Gibson; passes; accounts; oaths of allegiance; and a receipt for Ulric Dahlgren's ring. Correspondence of Hillyer, his parents, children, and Grant chiefly pertains to the Civil War. There are discussions of the secession riots in St. Louis, and Grant's "Jew Order" of Dec. 17, 1862; a denial of Grant's drunkeness at Ft. Donelson; references to various services by blacks; and descriptions of the battles of Iuka, Holly Springs, Campbell's Station and Chickamauga, and of the Chattanooga campaign. Of unusual interest are a signed copy of Grant's letter to Simon B. Buckner demanding unconditional surrender at Ft. Donelson; a draft of a letter from Grant to Henry Halleck asking either relief from Command or full restoration to it; a letter of Grant's discussing his plans for the Vicksburg campaign; and a photocopy of Robert E. Lee's April 9, 1865, letter asking for a suspension of hostilities with a forwarding note by E.O.C. Ord mentioning Sheridan. Other Civil War papers concern a Union Army scout; a claim from a spy near Richmond who supplied information for Hugh Kilpatrick's Rappahannock raid; the military service of John H.H. Ward; the Senate investigation of George K. Leet; Hillyer's connection with Mann's Accoutrement Manufacturing Company; and a reunion of the Army of the Tennessee. Hillyer family letters include considerable correspondence between Anna Rankin Hillyer and Julia Dent Grant; and correspondence of Hillyer's father from Henderson, Ky., 1825-1833. There are impressions of a Mississippi voyage to New Orleans, 1834; Lafayette College, 1842; a temperance speech by Richard Johnson, 1842; Washington, D.C., 1868-1869, including Grant's inauguration, and visits to Johnson, Grant, and Hancock; and Sewanee and the University of the South, 1873. Additional items of interest include an 1870 letter from Horace Greeley mentioning Hillyer's Congressional nomination; a lampoon of Lew Wallace; and an account of how New York Daily News reporter Benjamin Wood scooped the news of Andrew Johnson's acquittal.

ArchivalResource: ca. 640 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647821186 View

Photographic Portrait File

Title: Photographic Portrait File

ArchivalResource:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf7j49n8zt View

Hench, Atcheson Laughlin, 1891-1974. Papers, 1861-1865, pertaining to the Civil War [manuscript].

Title: Papers, 1861-1865, pertaining to the Civil War [manuscript].

The collection consists of letters to family and friends by Union and Confederate soldiers. They discuss camp life, marching and battles including Prarie Grove, 1st Bull Run, Munfordsville, the "Mud March" following Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. Other topics include requisition of supplies; runaway slaves; military hospitals; religious sentiments; opinions of officers and of the enemy; and the election of 1864. Of interest are a letter from B.F. Goodrich to a widow re her husband's death, a letter from chaplain Henry S. DeForest to a professor Nason re fossils discovered near Williamsburg, and a diary of a Captain Thompson, imprisoned Union officer, describing life in prison, fellow officers, and war rumors including C.S.A. triumphs and black union troops at Monroe, La.

ArchivalResource: 34 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647829415 View