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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

Spaulding, Jesse Calvin. Papers of Jesse Calvin Spaulding [manuscript], 1859-1864.

Title: Papers of Jesse Calvin Spaulding [manuscript], 1859-1864.

Spaulding's papers consist of his diary and drafts of 5 letters. The Civil War portion of Spaulding's diary gives a detailed account of his daily routine as a soldier detailed to the Commissary Dept. He describes life at Camp Lincoln, Mass.; on board ship to North Carolina; battles at Roanoke Island, New Bern, Whitehall, Goldsboro, Deep Gulley, Gum Swamp; guard, picket and outpost duty; voyage to Newport News; duty around Portsmouth and Yorktown, Va.; occupation of Bermuda Hundred; battles at Walthall and Chester Station; Cold Harbor where he was wounded; recuperation at Harewood Hospital at Corcoran's Farm, Satterlee Hospital, Philadelphia, Post Hospital at Camp Curtin, Harrisburg, Pa., and General Hospital, York, Pa; and mustering out and resumption of civilian life. In addition to military engagements the diary contains considerable religious sentiment and descriptions of the weather, food, health and medicine, quarters, drills, marches, skirmishes, books read, religious services attended, leisure activities, officers, looting, furloughs home, hospital life, second hand war news, and news of his girlfriend Mary Burnap. There are very brief mentions of Generals John G. Foster, Charles A. Heckman, Innis N. Palmer, and Ambrose Burnside, (generally regarding reviews of the troops), John A. Andrew, contrabands, the Merrimack, Confederate prisoners, a baseball game to determine guard duty (2/14/63), work of the Christian Commission, and Jubal Early's Washington Raid.

ArchivalResource: 3 v + 5 letters.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647888722 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

Davis, W. W. H. (William Watts Hart), 1820-1910. W.W.H. Davis papers, 1863-1864.

Title: W.W.H. Davis papers, 1863-1864.

Chiefly correspondence and orders, relating to Davis's regiment, 104th Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, re troop reviews and details, including General and Special orders and circulars from Gen. Rufus Saxton, Gen. Charles A. Heckman, and Gen. Henry M. Naglee; and letter, 16 Mar. 1863, to Capt. Ives, reporting a drunken brawl between officers and recommending their dismissal from the service. Places represented include Beaufort, Folly Beach, James Island, and St. Helena Island, S.C., and New Bern, N.C.

ArchivalResource: 55 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28408782 View

Valentine, Herbert E. (Herbert Eugene), b. 1841. Herbert E. Valentine papers, 1861-1864.

Title: Herbert E. Valentine papers, 1861-1864.

The collection includes a diary, pencil and watercolor sketches, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and maps, all contained in two manuscript volumes of Herbert E. Valentine. Valentine's diary discusses the subjects of many of his sketches. It also comments on church services, blacks he encountered, daily life among officers and enlisted men, Confederate deserters, life in Norfolk, Va., the career of General Charles Adam Heckman, and other matters. There are 184 sketches picturing towns, buildings, ships, bridges, fortifications, and everyday life at military bases. Locations with numerous sketches include Beaufort, Morehead City, and New Bern, N.C., and Hilton Head and Saint Helena Island, S.C. Seven color maps pertain to the operations of the 23rd Massachusetts Regiment in eastern North Carolina and Virginia. Correspondence consists of four letters relating to Valentine's military activities in 1861.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (1.0 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26041008 View