Henry Ward Camp papers 1851-1900 1861-1865

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Henry Ward Camp papers 1851-1900 1861-1865

Correspondence, photographs, memorabilia and biographical materials relating to the Civil War make up the major part of these papers. Most important are the fifty-five letters from Henry Clay Trumbull, chaplain of Henry Ward Camp's regiment, to the Camp family, describing Camp's career in the Union Army and his death on the field. Among the biographical memorabilia are photographs of Camp and Trumbull, an autograph album from Camp's Class of 1860 at Yale College, military papers and newspaper clippings about Camp's death. Two nineteenth-century family diaries are also in the papers: those of Lizzie B. Camp and of C. H. Camp.

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Camp, Henry Ward, 1839-1864.

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Henry Ward Camp was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on February 4, 1839. He was a member of the Yale College class of 1860. After graduation, he taught for a few years and then studied law in Hartford. In December 1861, he joined the Union Army and in 1863, saw action in South Carolina. He was held as a prisoner on multiple occasions, and was killed in action on October 13, 1864, near Richmond, Virginia. From the description of Henry Ward Camp papers, 1851-1900 (inclusive), 1861-1865 ...