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Goff-Williams papers, 1859-1889 (bulk 1861-1865).

Title: Goff-Williams papers, 1859-1889 (bulk 1861-1865).

Letters of Robert H. Williams to his parents and fianceé Elizabeth Goff contain detailed accounts of duty at Muddy Branch, Md., military operations at Berryville Pike, Winchester, Cedar Creek, and expeditions to Danville and Petersburg, etc.; camp life, promotions, discussion of war politics, commanding officers, especially Philip Henry Sheridan and William Tecumseh Sherman, and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

ArchivalResource: 64 pieces; also ephemera and photographs.1 case.

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United States. Army. California Cavalry Battalion (1862-1865). California Civil War Letters, 1863-1865.

Title: California Civil War Letters, 1863-1865.

The group of items consists of transcripts of twelve letters written by soldiers of the California Battalion during their service in the Civil War (these letters were originally printed in the Steamer edition of the Alta California). Sergeant Thomas H. Merry, of Company L, wrote five of the letters; the other seven are anonymous or signed only with initials or a first name. In the letters, the soldiers talk about their trip to Massachusetts, life in camp and their training, their skirmishes with Mosby and his 43rd Virginia Cavalry Battalion, Colonel Charles Lowell, freedmen in Virginia, their defense of Washington, D.C., the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, their dislike of Massachusetts and the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, and the Battle of Cedar Creek. Included with this group of transcripts are a typewritten chronology of the unit's service and lists of soldiers taken prisoner or killed.

ArchivalResource: 15 items, typescripts.

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Constance Wynn Altshuler Collection

Title: Constance Wynn Altshuler Collection

Contains research material used by Constance Wynn Altschuler in preparing her writings on Arizona history. Arranged in five series: Series I. Correspondence; Series II. Research files; Series III. Index card research files; Series IV. Microfilm; Series V. Oversized.

ArchivalResource: 15 linear feet

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