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Balloch, George Williamson, b. 1825. George Williamson Balloch papers, 1845-1902.

Title: George Williamson Balloch papers, 1845-1902.

The collection is rich in biographical detail about the life and military service of George W. Balloch. There is a notebook kept by Balloch as a student at Norwich University, 1845-1847, including essays and poetry, some of which is original and some of which was copied by Balloch from various published sources. This notebook is more compositional than autobiographical. Also included in the collection are three items of correspondence dated 1865 and 1868. Balloch's lecture, "How an Army is Fed," delivered to the Soldier's Union of the First Congregational Church, Washington, DC, on 21 October 1898, along with a draft of the same, is also included, as is his tribute to President Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901), "General Harrison as a Soldier," delivered to the same organization on 18 March 1901. There are three variant autobiographical sketches written by George Balloch in July of 1902 as well as his memoirs, which include another autobiographical account of his life from his birth in 1825 to the Battle of Seven Pines in 1862. The latter memoirs were written after 1900 and consist of a single manuscript volume and typed transcription.

ArchivalResource: 1 Box (.25 linear feet)

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Balloch, George Williamson. Papers, 1852-1907.

Title: Papers, 1852-1907.

Letters written by Balloch to his wife, Martha Jane (Palmer) Balloch, other family letters, and four Civil War diaries. Graphic descriptions refer to: General Oliver Otis Howard and other general officers; feeding the Army and civilians; foraging; the Southern countryside and people; Afro-Americans; campaign of the Peninsula; Battle of Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg; Sherman's March to the Sea; and the winter campaign through the Carolinas. Postwar correspondence with his family in New Hampshire reflects family relations and a marriage during further periods of separation.

ArchivalResource: 526 items.

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Howard, O. O. (Oliver Otis), 1830-1909. Papers, 1870.

Title: Papers, 1870.

The collection consists of two letters, both written while Howard was Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau. The first letter (April 6, 1870) is from Brigadier-General George Williamson Balloch, Chief Disbursing Officer of the Bureau to Adelbert Ames, U.S. Senator from Miss., informing Ames that he did not need any more paid bounty agents in Miss. The second letter (June 21, 1870) is from Martin Wilson Philips to Howard. (Philips is editor-in-chief of THE SOUTHERN FARMER.) He writes on behalf of four young men in his employment. The men had purchased land with unclear titles as a result of that land having been sold under a special war tax and bought by the federal government. Most of Philips's letter, however, is devoted to his views on Reconstruction.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

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Balloch, George Williamson, b. 1825. Papers, 1865-1902.

Title: Papers, 1865-1902.

Correspondence, photographs, printed material, and financial papers of Howard University.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70941042 View