Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Civil War collection, 1724-1933 (inclusive); 1861-1912 (bulk).

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

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Charles Sumner was born on January 6, 1811 in Boston, Massachusetts, to Relief Jacob and Charles Pinckney Sumner. He graduated from Boston Latin School (1826), Harvard University (1830), and Harvard Law School (1833), and joined the abolitionist movement in Boston, centered in his home neighborhood of Beacon Hill. He acted as co-counsel in a case, Roberts v. City of Boston, that challenged the segregation of Boston’s public school system. In 1852, Sumner was elected to the United States Senate. ...

United States. Army. Cavalry Regiment, 1st

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United States. Army. New York Cavalry Regiment, 6th (1861-1865)

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Nadar, Félix, 1820-1910

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Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (5 April 1820 – 20 March 1910), known by the pseudonym Nadar, was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, balloonist, and proponent of heavier-than-air flight. In 1858, he became the first person to take aerial photographs. Epithet: alias 'Nadar'; French caricaturist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000266.0x0001c6 ...

Greenhow, Rose O'Neal, 1814-1864

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Rose O'Neal Greenhow (1817-1864) was a famous spy for the South during the Civil War. Her nicknames were Wild Rose and Rebel Rose. She was born in Port Tobacco, Maryland, in 1817. Her father, John O'Neal, was a planter and was murdered when Rose was an infant. Around 1830 she moved into her Aunt Mrs. A. V. Hill's boarding house at the Old Capitol building in Washington, DC, where she met many politicians who also boarded there. Rose was a popular belle known for her beauty, charm, and wit. In 18...

Cushman, Pauline, 1833-1893

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Pauline Cushman, born Harriet Wood, entered the U. S. secret service following a Midwestern acting career. After the death of her husband, Charles C. Dickinson, Pauline left her two children with her in-laws to go on the Louisville stage. In April 1863, Cushman was recruited as an army detective by Col. Orlando H. Moore, the provost marshal there. In June 1863, Cushman was sent behind Confederate lines by Army Chief of Police William Truesdail in Nashville to gain information on Confederate Gene...

Boyd, Belle, 1844-1900

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Belle Boyd was a Confederate spy. She was born Martinsburg, Virginia and imprisoned for spying in 1862 and 1863. She went to England in 1864 and there married Sam Wilde Hardinge, one of the Union officers who had guarded her. After his death several years later she returned to the U.S. In 1865 she published a sensational memoir, "Belle Boyd in camp and prison". It appears that she did make several appearances in dramatic productions and gave some public lectures, but the woman who acted and lect...

Howard, Oliver Otis, 1830-1909

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Oliver Howard was born in Leeds, Maine, the son of Rowland Bailey Howard and Eliza Otis Howard. Rowland, a farmer, died when Oliver was 9 years old. Oliver attended Monmouth Academy in Monmouth, North Yarmouth Academy in Yarmouth, Kents Hill School in Readfield, and graduated from Bowdoin College in 1850 at the age of 19. He then attended the United States Military Academy, graduating in 1854, fourth in his class of 46 cadets, as a brevet second lieutenant of ordnance. He served at the Watervlie...

Coppée, Henry, 1821-1895

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Henry Coppée was born in Savannah, Georgia, to a family of French extraction that had formerly settled in Haiti. He studied at Yale University for two years, worked as a civil engineer, and finally graduated from West Point in 1845. He served in the Mexican–American War as a lieutenant and was brevetted captain for gallantry at the battles of Contreras and Churubusco.[1] During the American Civil War, he edited the United States Service Magazine. Coppée was assistant professor of French at We...

Sturgis, Samuel Davis, 1822-1889

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Samuel Davis Sturgis (born June 11, 1822, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania – died September 28, 1889, St. Paul, Minnesota) was a senior officer of the United States Army. A veteran of the Mexican War, Civil War, and Indian Wars, he attained the rank of brevet major general. The city of Sturgis, South Dakota, is named for Samuel D. Sturgis. A sculpture of him mounted on horseback is located at the eastern entrance of the town on South Dakota Highway 34 and 79. The USS General S. D. Sturgis (AP-137),...

Root, George F. (George Frederick), 1820-1895

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Composer, music educator and president of Root & Sons Music Co., Chicago, Ill. Acquaintance of Abby Hutchinson Patton a famous singer (Hutchinson Family Singers) and song writer of the nineteenth century. Also a campaigner for Abraham Lincoln and member of the Executive Committee of the American Equal Rights Association after the Civil War. From the description of Letter, June 26, 1891. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 54354828 Geo...

Oliver Ditson & Company

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Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896

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Harriet Beecher Stowe (b. June 14, 1811, Litchfield, Connecticut – d. July 1, 1896, Hartford, Connecticut) was an American abolitionist and author. She is the daughter of Rev. Lyman Beecher who preached against slavery. She is best known for writing Uncle Tom's Cabin. It became an instant and controversial best-seller, both in the United States and abroad. The novel had a major impact on Northerners' attitudes toward slavery and by the beginning of the Civil War had sold more than a million copi...

United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 36th (1862-1865)

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United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 25th (1861-1865)

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The 25th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was a Worcester County unit, organized at Camp Lincoln, Worcester, Mass., in the autumn of 1861. It served as part of the Burnside expedition to the coast of North Carolina, was assigned to the Star Brigade in 1864, and spent much of the war in the vicinity of New Bern, North Carolina. On July 21, 1865, it was mustered out of the service. From the description of Band books, 1861-1865. (American Antiquarian Society). WorldCat record i...

United States. Army. Maine Infantry Regiment, 13th (1861-1865)

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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company

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The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) was founded in 1827, and operated from the Great Lakes, Ohio, through the mid-Atlantic. The B&O's successor, CSX Corporation, was created in 1987 from interim holding companies. From the description of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company personnel records, circa 1940-1979. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 760082029 ...

Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : St. Louis, Mo.)

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Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company Records have remained in the custody of the St. Louis Art Museum (formerly St. Louis Museum of Fine Arts) since their creation during the period 1901-1909. Although the World's Fair itself was in operation from April to Dec. 1904, years of preparation by the Art Department preceded the exhibition of American and foreign art works, and many months were required to conclude departmental affairs following the closing. The Art Dept. Chief, Halsey C. Ives, was al...

World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)

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The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World’s Fair, was organized in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s landing in America. The fairgrounds, open from May 1, 1893 until October 30, 1893, were designed by Frederick Law Olmstead and covered more than 630 acres in Jackson Park and the Midway Plaisance. Daniel Burnham oversaw the construction of nearly 200 new buildings for the fair, most of which were designed in the Beaux-Arts style. 27 million peo...

Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943

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Albert Bushnell Hart (1854-1943), American historian, writer, and editor, taught history and government at Harvard University and Radcliffe College from 1883 to 1926. Hart was born on July 1, 1854 in Clarksville, Pennsylvania to physician Albert Gaillard Hart and Mary Crosby Hornell Hart. He had a brother, Hastings Hornell Hart, and two sisters, Helen Marcia Hart and Jeannette M. Hart. The family moved to Ohio in 1860, eventually settling in Cleveland, where Hart graduated from West High Sc...

Agnew, Cornelius Rea, 1830-1888

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Professor of eye and ear diseases at College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. From the description of Letters, 1875-1888. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 31421768 Cornelius Rea Agnew was born on 8 August 1830 in New York City. He graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York in 1852, having as his preceptor John Kearny Rodgers. Agnew was a founder of the Ophthalmic Clinic in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, the Brook...

Dodge, Grenville Mellen, 1831-1916

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Grenville M. Dodge of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was a Civil War general; prominent national railroad surveyor and engineer; and U.S. Representative. Dodge conducted surveys for the Illinois Central, Rock Island (Mississippi to Missouri line), and the Union Pacific railroads before the Civil War. He was commissioned as Colonel with the 4th Iowa Volunteer Infantry in 1861 and promoted to Brigadier General of the United States Volunteers in 1862 and then Major General in 1864. In addition to combat, he...

United States. Army. Medical Department

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War Department General Order no. 1 for 1904 required "every staff corps and department, regiment, battalion not forming part of a regiment, and independent troop, battery, or company" to keep "a detailed history of the services of the organization. This history will, at all times, be kept as nearly up to date as possible." From the guide to the Papers pertaining to the current history of the U.S. Medical Dept., 1905-1913, (History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine) ...

Ropes, Hannah Anderson, 1809-1863

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Ropes was born Hannah Anderson Chandler on June 13, 1809 in New Gloucester, Maine. She was the seventh of ten children of Peleg Chandler, a Maine lawyer, and Esther Parsons Chandler. Her brothers Theophilus and Peleg became lawyers and politicians in Boston. Nothing is known of her schooling, but given her family's income and social position it is likely she was well educated. In February 1834, she married William Henry Ropes, an educator who was forced to supplement his income through farmin...

Confederate States of America

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During the Civil War, the Confederate States of America issued their own currency notes. These circulated like cash, but were technically bills of credit. At the beginning of the war, they circulated widely, but by the end of the war they had lost nearly all their value. Many of the bills remained in private hands after the war and became collectible as memorabilia. Other bills, which the Union Army had confiscated, were in the hands of the United States War Department; it transferred them to th...

United States. Army. Department of Virgnia

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United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 15th (1861-1865)

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United States. Army of the Potomac. Corps, 3rd

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United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 38th (1861-1863)

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United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 55th (1861-1865)

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United States. Army. Artillery Regiment, 3rd

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United States. Army. Colored Infantry Regiment, 21st (1863-1866)

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United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 59th (1864-1865)

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United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 16th (1861-1863)

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Dana, Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh, 1822-1905

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Dana was born at Fort Sullivan, in Eastport, Maine. He was a first cousin of James J. Dana and later would be the father-in-law of John C. Tidball. His father Nathaniel G. Dana, also a West Point graduate and officer serving in the 1st U.S. Artillery, was stationed at Fort Sullivan at the time, but his father died when Dana was eleven years old. Dana's paternal grandfather, Luther Dana, was a naval officer in the American Revolution, and his maternal grandfather, Woodbury Langdon, served as a me...

United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 14th (1861-1862)

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Cutler, Lysander, 1807-1866

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Cutler was born in Royalston, Massachusetts, the son of a farmer. Despite objections from his father, he desired a better education than the rudimentary courses he received in the local school, so he studied surveying and then began a career as a schoolmaster. Moving to Dexter, Maine, at the age of 21, he was forced to confront unruly pupils who had "flogged and ejected" the last several teachers who had attempted to discipline them. Cutler established his reputation by spending his first day in...

United States. Army. Colored Infantry Regiment, 37th (1864-1867)

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United States Sanitary Commission

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The United States Sanitary Commission (USSC) was a private relief agency created by federal legislation on June 18, 1861, to support sick and wounded soldiers of the United States Army (Federal / Northern / Union Army) during the American Civil War. It operated across the North, raised an estimated $25 million in Civil War era revenue (assuming 1865 dollars, $422.66 million in 2021) and in-kind contributions to support the cause, and enlisted thousands of volunteers. The president was Henry Whit...

United States. Army of the Potomac. Corps, 5th

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United States. Army. Massachusetts Colored Infantry Regiment, 55th (1863-1865)

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Grant, Ulysses Simpson, 1822-1885

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Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant, April 27, 1822, Point Pleasant, Ohio-died July 23, 1885, Wilton, New York) was the 18th president of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877. As president, Grant was an effective civil rights executive who worked with the Radical Republicans during Reconstruction to protect African Americans, created the Justice Department, and reestablish the public credit. Promoted lieutenant-general, in 1864, Grant led the Union Army in winning the American Civ...

United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 1st (1861-1864)

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Corse, John Murray, 1835-1893

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Corse was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but moved at the age of seven with his family to Burlington in the Iowa Territory. His father, John Lockwood Corse, served six terms as the mayor of that town and established a prosperous book and stationery business. Young Corse became a partner in the family business. He was appointed to the United States Military Academy and studied there for two years. Leaving West Point in 1855, Corse chose not to stay in the military, but instead attended a la...

Confederate States of America. Dept. of the Treasury.

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The Confederate States of America (also called the Confederacy, the Confederate States, and the CSA) formed as the government set up from 1861 to 1865 by eleven southern states of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the U.S. From the guide to the Death benefit certificates and power of attorney, 1863-1865, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) The Confederate dollar, often called a "Greyback", was first issued into circulation in April 1861, when...

United States. Army. Cavalry, 3rd.

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Historical note: Photocopied materials collected by unknown researchers. From the description of Military muster rolls [copies], ca. 1861-1862, 1868-1871. (Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division). WorldCat record id: 642200387 ...

United States. Army. Ordnance Dept.

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Ordnance department established by Congress in 1812. Office responsible for design, procurement, storage, supply, and maintenance of munitions and combat vehicles. From the description of Records of the Office of the Chief of Ordnance [microform], 1812-1912. (Ohio Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 40828498 The accounting statements of the U.S. Arsenal at Greenleaf's Point and Fort Belle Fontaine exemplify the Army's ordnance needs in the early years of th...

United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 69th (1861-1865)

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William James

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United States. Army. Cavalry, 2nd.

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Frank J. North was organizer and commander of the Pawnee Scouts, a United States Army Unit of volunteer Pawnee Indians from Nebraska. From 1865 to 1877, the Pawnee Scouts served under North in Nebraska, Kansas, and Wyoming. From the description of Orders : Fort McPherson, Nebraska, 1869 May 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84103762 Frank J. North was organizer and commander of the Pawnee Scouts, a United States Army Unit of volunteer Pawnee Indians from Nebraska. From 1865 ...

United States. Michigan. Cavalry Regiment (1861-1866)

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United States. Army. Colored Infantry Regiment, 35th (1864-1866)

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Organized at Newbern, NC, June 30, 1863 as the lst Regiment North Carolina Volunteers. Changed to the 35th Regiment United States Colored Troops on February 8, 1864. From the description of Muster rolls, 1865, Oct. 31-Dec. 31. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 22767981 ...

United States. Army. North Carolina Colored Infantry, 1st (1863-1864)

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United States. Army. Department of North Carolina (1862, 1865-1866)

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1862 The Department of North Carolina was created on January 7, 1862, to include the areas of North Carolina occupied by Union forces. These areas were formerly part of the Department of Virginia. Brigadier General Ambrose E. Burnside was the department's first commander. Early territories captured by Burnside's Expeditionary Force included Roanoke Island, New Bern, Morehead City, Beaufort and Fort Macon. On December 24, 1862, XVIII Corps was created, composed of the five divisions stationed ...

Camp Chase (Ohio)

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United States Army. New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, 2nd (1861-1865)

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United States. Army. New Hampshire Regiment, 3rd (1861-1865)

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Hahn, Michael, 1830-1886

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Georg Michael Decker Hahn (November 24, 1830 – March 15, 1886), was an attorney, politician, publisher and planter in New Orleans, Louisiana. He served twice in Congress during two widely separated periods, elected first as a Unionist Democratic Congressman in 1862, as a Republican to the U.S. Senate in 1865, and later as a Republican to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1884. He was elected as the 19th Governor of Louisiana, serving from 1864 to 1865 during the American Civil War, when the s...

Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893

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P.G.T. Beauregard was a Confederate States Army general from New Orleans, Louisiana. The Aztec Club was organized in 1847 as a fraternal society for officers serving under General Winfield Scott's command in Mexico City. Several officers later became major Civil War leaders. From the description of Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard letter, 1892 Dec. 29. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 70294149 Former Confederate general and resident of New Orleans. At the t...

Patti, Adelina, 1843-1919

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Adelina Patti was one of the most highly regarded opera singers of the 19th century. From the description of Adelina Patti letters, 1889-1891. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 269476576 Spanish-born soprano trained in New York City; by 1861 Adelina Patti was the leading operatic prima donna. In 1886 she married tenor Ernest Nicolini, who had sung opposite her in La traviata at her castle in Wales. He died in 1898. From the description of ALS, Yst...

United States. Army of the Potomac. Corps, 6th (1862-1865)

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United States. Army of the Potomac. Corps, 12th.

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Benjamin, J. P. (Judah Philip), 1811-1884

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Judah Philip Benjamin, QC (August 6, 1811 – May 6, 1884) was a lawyer and politician who was a United States Senator from Louisiana, a Cabinet officer of the Confederate States and, after his escape to the United Kingdom at the end of the American Civil War, an English barrister. Benjamin was the first Jew to hold a Cabinet position in North America and the first to be elected to the United States Senate who had not renounced his faith. Benjamin was born to Sephardic Jewish parents from Londo...

Farragut, David Glasgow, 1801-1870

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David Glasgow Farragut (also spelled Glascoe; July 5, 1801 – August 14, 1870) was a flag officer of the United States Navy during the American Civil War. He was the first rear admiral, vice admiral, and admiral in the United States Navy. He is remembered for his order at the Battle of Mobile Bay usually paraphrased as "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead" in U.S. Navy tradition. Born near Knoxville, Tennessee, Farragut was fostered by naval officer David Porter after the death of his mother...

Dana, Charles A. (Charles Anderson), 1819-1897

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Charles Anderson Dana (August 8, 1819 – October 17, 1897) was an American journalist, author, and senior government official. He was a top aide to Horace Greeley as the managing editor of the powerful Republican newspaper New-York Tribune until 1862. During the American Civil War, he served as Assistant Secretary of War, playing especially the role of the liaison between the War Department and General Ulysses S. Grant. In 1868 he became the editor and part-owner of the New York Sun. He at first ...

Hobson, Richmond Pearson, 1870-1937

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Richmond Pearson Hobson (August 17, 1870 – March 16, 1937) was a United States Navy rear admiral who served from 1907–1915 as a U.S. Representative from Alabama. A veteran of the Spanish–American War, he received the Medal of Honor years later for his part in that conflict. Hobson was born in Greensboro, Alabama on August 17, 1870. He attended private schools and Southern University, graduating from the United States Naval Academy in 1889 and from the French National School of Naval Design ...

Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879

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Anti-slavery advocate. From the description of Circular and letter, 1848 Jan. 21, Boston, to Rev. Mr. Russell, South Hingham. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 231311718 Abolitionist and reformer William Lloyd Garrison was founder of the Boston abolitionist paper, The Liberator, and the New England Anti-Slavery Society. From the description of Papers, 1835-1873 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007257 Abolitionist and lectur...

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

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Mark Twain (b. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, November 30, 1835, Florida, MO – d. April 21, 1910, Redding, CT) was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). Twain served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pil...

Meigs, Montgomery C. (Montgomery Cunningham), 1816-1892

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Montgomery C. Meigs was an army officer and engineer. He was born in Augusta, Ga. on May 3, 1816. Meigs graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1836, where he studied civil and military engineering. Meigs was engaged in several federal engineering and surveying projects from 1836 to 1851. Between 1852 and 1860, he was supervising engineer for the Washington Aqueduct and for the U.S. Capitol dome and wings. Meigs served as a brigadier general during the Civil War and parti...

Abbot, Henry Larcom, 1831-1927

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Henry Larcom Abbot (born August 13, 1831, Beverly, Massachusetts - died October 1, 1927, Cambridge, Massachusetts), army officer and engineer, was born in Beverly, Massachusetts. He was the older brother of Francis Ellingwood Abbot, an influential religious radical. Upon his graduation from West Point in 1854, Abbot was commissioned in the engineers and assigned to duty with the Pacific Coast Railway. For several years from 1857, he was associated with Captain Andrew A. Humphreys in a study of f...

Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873

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Napoleon III (born Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, 20 April 1808, Paris, France – died 9 January 1873, Chislehurst, Kent, England), the nephew of Napoleon I and cousin of Napoleon II, was the first president of France, from 1848 to 1852, and the last French monarch, from 1852 to 1870. First elected president of the French Second Republic in 1848, he seized power in 1851, when he could not constitutionally be re-elected, and became the emperor of the French. He founded the Second French Empire ...

Storrow, Charles, 1841-1928

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Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909

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Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) was an American author and Unitarian minister. Hale was involved in many social reform movements, including abolition and popular education. He is best known for his 1863 short story, "The Man Without a Country," which promoted patriotic support of the Union. From the guide to the Edward Everett Hale Letters, 1884-1897, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) ...

Everett, Edward, 1794-1865

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Edward Everett was an American statesman, clergyman, and orator, as well as professor of Greek at Harvard University and president of Harvard University, 1846-1849. Everett was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard with highest honors in 1811, completing an M.A. in Divinity in 1814. After a brief stint as a minister, Harvard offered him the newly created position of Professor of Greek; brilliant but untrained, Everett went to Göttingen to prepare for...

Alexander, Walter S. (Walter Scott), 1835-1900

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Adams, John Quincy, 1833-1894

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American politician. Grandson of the 6th President John Quincy Adams. Unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in 1867 and 1871. From the guide to the John Quincy Adams letters, 1876-1877, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915

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Soldier, businessman, civic leader and historian. Descendant of two presidents and the son of a noted diplomat, Adams served with distinction as a Union officer during the Civil War. After the war, he became a nationally recognized authority on the railroad industry, chairing the Massachusetts Railroad Commission from 1869 to 1879, and ultimately taking on the presidency of the Union Pacifc Railroad for six stormy years, 1884-1890. From 1890 to 1915, Adams was content to be a man of a...

Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859

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William Hickling Prescott, born in Salem, Massachusetts to a prominent family, wrote romantic and highly-regarded works of Spanish and Latin American history. From the guide to the Letters to Richard Bentley, 1837-1858., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...

Folsom, Susanna Sarah McKean, 1805-1887

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Palfrey, John Gorham, 1796-1881

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John Gorham Palfrey was a Unitarian minister, professor at Harvard Divinity School, editor of the North American Review, congressman from Massachusetts (1847-1849), postmaster of Boston (1861-1867), and historian, best known for his multi-volume History of New England. From the description of Letters to William Taylor Palfrey, 1818-1866. (Harvard University, Wadsworth House). WorldCat record id: 77703801 ...

Loring, Charles G. (Charles Greely), 1794-1867

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Loring was a prominent Boston lawyer and a Massachusetts State Senator in 1862. He married Anna Pierce Brace (d.1836) in 1818 and was a Harvard College fellow from 1838-1857. From the guide to the Papers, 1768-1866., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...

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Appleton, Francis Henry, 1847-1939

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Francis Henry Appleton, Jr., was a member of a prominent and patriotic New England family. From the description of Francis Henry Appleton, Jr., letter to the Salem Evening News, after 1880. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 50217901 ...

Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888

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Sheridan claimed he was born in Albany in the State of New York, the third child of six of John and Mary Meenagh Sheridan, Irish Catholic immigrants from the parish of Killinkere in County Cavan, Ireland. He grew up in Somerset, Ohio. Fully grown, he reached only 165 cm (5 feet 5 inches) tall, a stature that led to the nickname, "Little Phil." Abraham Lincoln described his appearance in a famous anecdote: "A brown, chunky little chap, with a long body, short legs, not enough neck to hang him, an...

Brannan, John Milton, 1819-1892

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Brannan was born in Washington, D.C., and was a messenger in the United States House of Representatives when he received his appointment to the United States Military Academy from Ratliff Boon, the U.S. Representative from Indiana in 1837. His appointment was supported by 114 other Congressmen. He finished West Point in 1841, ranking 23rd of 52 cadets, and was assigned to the 1st U.S. Artillery Regiment. After graduation, Brannan served at Plattsburgh, New York, during the border dispute with Ca...

Stratford Hall (Westmoreland County, Va.)

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Stratford Hall was the home of four generations of the Lee family, which included two signers of the Declaration of Independence, and was the birthplace of General Robert E. Lee. The plantation currently encompasses nearly 2,000 acres and borders two miles of Potomac River shoreline. Thomas Lee built the historic Great House circa 1738 and began to build a family empire based on the export of tobacco, the production of which required a large labor force. ...

Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880

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Lydia Maria Child was born Lydia Maria Francis in Medford, Massachusetts on February 11, 1802. She was born into an abolitionist family and was greatly influenced by her brother, Convers, who would later become a Unitarian Clergyman. After the death of her mother in 1814, Child moved to Maine to live with her sister and began teaching in Gardiner in 1819. While living in Maine, Child became increasingly interested in Native Americans and visited many nearby settlements. Child began actively writ...

Blenker, Louis, 1812-1863

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He was born at Worms, Germany. After being trained as a goldsmith by an uncle in Kreuznach, he was sent to a polytechnical school in Munich. Against his family's wishes, he enlisted in an Uhlan regiment which accompanied Otto to Greece in 1832. Due to his gallantry, he soon became an officer. A revolt in Greece obligated him to leave, with an honorable discharge, in 1837. He studied medicine in Munich and then, at the wish of his parents, opened a wine trading business in Worms. In 1843, he marr...

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

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Holmes (Harvard, M.D. 1836) was Parkman Professor of Anatomy at Harvard Medical School from 1847 to 1882, dean of the Medical School from 1847 to 1853, and a noted essayist and poet. A paper on the contagiousness of puerperal fever, presented at an 1843 meeting of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, was his most famous contribution to medicine. His indictment of physicians for their role in causing and spreading the fever was one of the most controversial treatises of the time...

United States. Adjutant-General's Office

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The Continental Congress on June 17, 1775, appointed an Adjutant General of the Continental Army. After 1783 no further provision was made for such an officer until an act of March 5, 1792, provided for an adjutant, who was also to do the work of inspector. An act of March 3, 1813, established an Adjutant General's Department and an Inspector General's Department which were united the following July under one head, the Adjutant and Inspector General. Separate heads for the two Depar...

Barnes, James, 1801-1869

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Barnes was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He attended the Boston Latin School and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1829, in the same class as Robert E. Lee. However, at age 28 he was older than most West Point cadets upon completion, and placed fifth out of 46 cadets. He was then commissioned a brevet second lieutenant in the 4th U.S. Artillery, but spent most of his army service as an instructor of tactics and French at the Academy. Barnes married Charlotte Adams Sanford ...

Baker, Edward Dickinson, 1811-1861

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Born in London in 1811 to schoolteacher Edward Baker and Lucy Dickinson Baker, poor but educated Quakers, the boy Edward Baker and his family left England and emigrated to the United States in 1816, arriving in Philadelphia, where Baker's father established a school. Ed attended his father's school before quitting to apprentice as a loom operator in a weaving factory. In 1825, the family left Philadelphia and traveled to New Harmony, Indiana, a utopian community on the Ohio River led by Robert O...

Arnold, Lewis, G., 1817-1871

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Lewis G. Arnold was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey and graduated from West Point in 1837, placing tenth in his class. He fought in the Second Seminole War and the Mexican–American War, where he was severely wounded at Chuburusco. After the war, he once again commanded troops in Florida, and led a detachment against the Seminole Indians in the April 1856 Battle of Big Cypress. At the onset of the Civil War, he was promoted to Major of the 2nd United States Artillery and was assigned to Fort J...

Augur, Christopher Columbus, 1821-1898

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Augur was born in Kendall, New York. He moved with his family to Michigan and entered West Point in 1839. Augur graduated in 1843 in the same class as General of the Army Ulysses S. Grant. Following his graduation, Augur served as aide-de-camp to Generals Hopping and Cushing during the Mexican–American War, and during the 1850s took an active part in the campaigns of the western frontier against the Yakima and Rogue River tribes of Washington and, in 1856, against the Oregon Indians. In Oregon, ...

Alvord, Benjamin, 1813-1884

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Alvord was born in Rutland, Vermont, where he developed an interest in nature. He attended the United States Military Academy and displayed a talent in mathematics. He graduated in 1833. He was assigned to the 4th U.S. Infantry and participated in the Seminole Wars. He returned to West Point as an assistant professor of mathematics until 1839, when he was again assigned to the 4th Infantry. He spent 21 years of his military career with that regiment. He was on frontier, garrison, and engin...

Grimké, Charlotte Forten, 1837-1914

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Charlotte Forten Grimké, née Charlotte Louise Bridges Forten, (born August 17, 1837, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died July 23, 1914, Washington, D.C.), American abolitionist and educator best known for the five volumes of diaries she wrote in 1854–64 and 1885–92. They were published posthumously. Forten was born into a prominent free black family in Philadelphia. Her father ran a successful sail-making business. Many members of her family were active in the abolitionist movement. Early in l...

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

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Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune, among the great newspapers of its time. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York, and was the unsuccessful candidate of the new Liberal Republican party in the 1872 presidential election against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant, who won by a landslide. Greeley was born to a poor family in Amherst, New ...

Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861

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Stephen Arnold Douglas (April 23, 1813 – June 3, 1861) was an American politician and lawyer from Illinois. He was one of two Democratic Party nominees for president in the 1860 presidential election, which was won by Abraham Lincoln. Douglas had previously defeated Lincoln in the 1858 United States Senate election in Illinois, known for the Lincoln–Douglas debates. During the 1850s, Douglas was one of the foremost advocates of popular sovereignty, which held that each territory should be allowe...

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

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Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) was an American lawyer and statesman who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress and served as the U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore. As one of the most prominent American lawyers of the 19th century, he argued over 200 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court between 1814 and his death in 1852. During his life, he was a member of the Federalist Party, the Nati...

Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866

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Winfield Scott (June 13, 1786 – May 29, 1866) was an American military commander and political candidate. He served as a general in the United States Army from 1814 to 1861, taking part in the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War, the early stages of the American Civil War, and various conflicts with Native Americans. Scott was the Whig Party's presidential nominee in the 1852 presidential election, but was defeated by Democrat Franklin Pierce. He was known as Old Fuss and Feathers for his insi...

Wilson, Henry, 1812-1875

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Henry Wilson (born Jeremiah Jones Colbath; February 16, 1812 – November 22, 1875) was the 18th vice president of the United States (1873–75) and a senator from Massachusetts (1855–73). Before and during the American Civil War, he was a leading Republican, and a strong opponent of slavery. Wilson devoted his energies to the destruction of the "Slave Power" – the faction of slave owners and their political allies which anti-slavery Americans saw as dominating the country. Originally a Whig, Wil...

Breckinridge, John C. (John Cabell), 1821-1875

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John Cabell Breckinridge (January 16, 1821 – May 17, 1875) was an American lawyer, politician, and soldier. He represented Kentucky in both houses of Congress and became the 14th and youngest-ever vice president of the United States, serving from 1857 to 1861. He was a member of the Democratic Party, and served in the U.S. Senate during the outbreak of the American Civil War, but was expelled after joining the Confederate Army. He was appointed Confederate secretary of war in 1865. Breckinrid...

Kilpatrick, Judson, 1836-1881

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Hugh Judson Kilpatrick, more commonly referred to as Judson Kilpatrick, the fourth child of Colonel Simon Kilpatrick and Julia Wickham, was born on the family farm in Wantage Township, near Deckertown, New Jersey (now Sussex Borough). Kilpatrick graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1861, just after the start of the war, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 1st U.S. Artillery. Within three days he was a captain in the 5th New York Infantry ("Duryée's Zouaves"). Ki...

Cobb, Howell, 1815-1868

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Howell Cobb (September 7, 1815-October 9, 1868) was an American lawyer and diplomat. He served as congressman (1843-51; 1855-57), Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1849-51), governor of Georgia (1851-53), and secretary of the treasury (1857-60). Following Georgia's secession from the Union in 1861, he served as president of the Provisional Confederate Congress (1861-62) and a major general of the Confederate army. Cobb was born in Jefferson County on September 7, 1815, the eldest ...

Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885

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Schuyler Colfax Jr. (March 23, 1823 – January 13, 1885) was an American journalist, businessman, and politician who served as the 17th Vice President of the United States from 1869 to 1873, and prior to that as the 25th Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1863 to 1869. Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for Indiana's 9th congressional district as a member of the anti-slavery Indiana People's Party in 1854, Colfax joined the Republican Party during his first term. He served as ...

Cameron, Simon, 1799-1889

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Simon Cameron was born in Maytown, Pennsylvania in 1799, to Charles Cameron (d. January 16, 1814) and his wife Martha McLaughlin (d. abt. November 10, 1830). Cameron was the third of five sons; and had three younger sisters. One story claimed that Cameron was orphaned at nine, and later apprenticed to a printer, Andrew Kennedy, editor of the Northumberland Gazette before entering the field of journalism. If Cameron were apprenticed to Kennedy at age nine (~1808) for a then-standard period of ...

Halleck, Henry Wager, 1815-1872

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Halleck was born on a farm in Westernville, Oneida County, New York, third child of 14 of Joseph Halleck, a lieutenant who served in the War of 1812, and Catherine Wager Halleck. Young Henry detested the thought of an agricultural life and ran away from home at an early age to be raised by an uncle, David Wager of Utica. He attended Hudson Academy and Union College, then the United States Military Academy. He became a favorite of military theorist Dennis Hart Mahan and was allowed to teach class...

Logan, John Alexander, 1826-1886

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John A. Logan was born near what is now Murphysboro, Jackson County, Illinois, the son of Dr. John Logan and Dr. Logan's second wife, Elizabeth (Jenkins) Logan. He studied with his father and with a private tutor, then studied for three years at Shiloh College. He enlisted in the 1st Illinois Infantry for the Mexican–American War, and received a commission as a second lieutenant and assignment as the regimental quartermaster. After the war Logan studied law in the office of his uncle, Alexand...

Berdan, Hiram, 1823-1893

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Berdan was born in Phelps, a small town in Ontario County, New York. A mechanical engineer in New York City, he had been the top rifle shot in the country for fifteen years prior to the Civil War. He invented a repeating rifle and a patented musket ball before the war. He had also developed the first commercial gold amalgamation machine to separate gold from ore. He invented a reaper and a mechanical bakery. His inventions had brought him wealth and international fame. In the summer and fall ...

French, William Henry, 1815-1881

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William H. French was born in Baltimore. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1837 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 1st U.S. Artillery. He briefly served in the Second Seminole War and was then assigned to garrison duty along the Canada–US border from late 1837 through 1838, when he was reassigned to other military posts for the next decade. During the Mexican–American War, French was aide-de-camp to General Franklin Pierce, and also on the staff of General R...

Evarts, William Maxwell, 1818-1901

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William Maxwell Evarts (February 6, 1818 – February 28, 1901) was an American lawyer and statesman from New York who served as U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator from New York. He was renowned for his skills as a litigator and was involved in three of the most important causes of American political jurisprudence in his day: the impeachment of a president, the Geneva arbitration and the contests before the electoral commission to settle the presidential election of 18...

Wallace, Lew, 1827-1905

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Lewis "Lew" Wallace was born on April 10, 1827, in Brookville, Indiana. He was the second of four sons born to Esther French Wallace (née Test) and David Wallace. Lew's father, a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, left the military in 1822 and moved to Brookville, where he established a law practice and entered Indiana politics. David served in the Indiana General Assembly and later as the state's lieutenant governor, and governor, and as a member of Congress. Lew Wal...

Sherman, John, 1823-1900

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Sherman was born in Lancaster, Ohio to Charles Robert Sherman and his wife, Mary Hoyt Sherman, the eighth of their 11 children. John Sherman's grandfather, Taylor Sherman, a Connecticut lawyer and judge, first visited Ohio in the early nineteenth century, gaining title to several parcels of land before returning to Connecticut. After Taylor's death in 1815, his son Charles, newly married to Mary Hoyt, moved the family west to Ohio. Several other Sherman relatives soon followed, and Charles becam...

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911

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Higginson was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on December 22, 1823. He was a descendant of Francis Higginson, a Puritan minister and immigrant to the colony of Massachusetts Bay. His father, Stephen Higginson (born in Salem, Massachusetts, November 20, 1770; died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 20, 1834), was a merchant and philanthropist in Boston and steward of Harvard University from 1818 until 1834. His grandfather, also named Stephen Higginson, was a member of the Continental Congre...

Doubleday, Abner, 1819-1893

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Doubleday, the son of Ulysses F. Doubleday and Hester Donnelly, was born in Ballston Spa, New York, in a small house on the corner of Washington and Fenwick streets. As a child, Abner was very short. The family all slept in the attic loft of the one-room house. His paternal grandfather, also named Abner, had fought in the American Revolutionary War. His maternal grandfather Thomas Donnelly joined the army at 14 and was a mounted messenger for George Washington. His great grandfather Peter Donnel...

McIntosh, John B., 1829-1888

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John Baillie McIntosh (June 6, 1829 – June 29, 1888), although born in Florida, served as a Union Army brigadier general in the American Civil War. His brother, James M. McIntosh, served as a Confederate general until he was killed in the Battle of Pea Ridge. McIntosh was born at Fort Brooke (Tampa), Florida Territory, while his father was on active duty in the Army. He served as a midshipman in the United States Navy during the Mexican-American War, and resigned in 1850. Thereafter, McIntosh...

Sigel, Franz, 1824-1902

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Sigel was born in Sinsheim, Baden (Germany), and attended the gymnasium in Bruchsal. He graduated from Karlsruhe Military Academy in 1843, and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Baden Army. He met the revolutionaries Friedrich Hecker and Gustav von Struve and became associated with the revolutionary movement. He was wounded in a duel in 1847. The same year, he retired from the army to begin law school studies in Heidelberg. After organizing a revolutionary free corps in Mannheim and later i...

Townsend, E. D. (Edward Davis), 1817-1893

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Edward Davis Townsend (August 22, 1817 – May 10, 1893) was Adjutant General of the United States Army from 1869 to 1880. The son of David S. & Eliza (Gerry) Townsend and grandson of Vice President Elbridge Gerry, Townsend was educated at Boston's Latin School before graduating from the United States Military Academy in 1837. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Second U. S. Artillery and served as that regiment's adjutant and participating in the Second Seminole War and the relocati...

Ellsworth, E. E. (Elmer Ephraim), 1837-1861

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Born as Ephraim Elmer Ellsworth in Malta, New York, Ellsworth grew up in Mechanicville, New York, and later moved to New York City. In 1854, he moved to Rockford, Illinois, where he worked for a patent agency. In 1859, he became engaged to Carrie Spafford, the daughter of a local industrialist and city leader. When Carrie's father demanded that he find more suitable employment, he moved to Chicago to study law and work as a law clerk. In 1860, Ellsworth moved to Springfield, Illinois, to work...

Herron, Francis Jay, 1837-1902

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Francis J. Herron attended the Western University of Pennsylvania, but left at the age of sixteen without completing his degree to become a bank clerk. In 1855, he joined his three brothers in Dubuque, Iowa, where they established a bank. In 1859, he organized and was elected captain of a militia company known as the "Governor's Grays," which Herron offered to President-elect Abraham Lincoln in January 1861, two months prior to Lincoln's inauguration. In April 1861, Herron was appointed capta...

Miles, Nelson Appleton, 1839-1925

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Miles was born in Westminster, Massachusetts, on his family's farm. He worked in Boston, read military history, and mastered military principles and techniques, including battle drills. Miles was working as a crockery store clerk in Boston when the American Civil War began. He entered the Union Army as a volunteer on September 9, 1861, and fought in many crucial battles. He became a lieutenant in the 22nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and was commissioned a lieutenant colonel of t...

Mckinley, William, 1843-1901

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President William McKinley was the 25th President of the United States. He was beginning his second term as President after winning the election in 1900. On Sept. 5, 1901 he and his wife were attending the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York when he was shot by as assassin waiting in line to shake his hand. After being attended by physicians, he was resting at the exposition's director's home in Buffalo, NY. He seemed to be recovering when his condition rapidly worsened on Sept. 14th. P...

Houston, Sam, 1793-1863

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Texas politician, soldier, and frontier hero. He was the first president of the Republic of Texas and served as a United States Senator for that state. From the description of Letter, ca. 1855. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122699442 From the description of Letter, 1859. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145435304 Sam Houston's colorful public life began with his heroic action during the war of 1812. He served as congressman and governor of Tennessee, spent years amon...

Shaw, Robert Gould, 1837-1863

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Shaw was born in Boston to abolitionists Francis George and Sarah Blake (Sturgis) Shaw, who were well-known Unitarian philanthropists and intellectuals of Scottish descent. The Shaws had the benefit of a large inheritance left by Shaw's merchant grandfather and namesake Robert Gould Shaw (1775–1853). Shaw had four sisters—Anna, Josephine (Effie), Susanna, and Ellen (Nellie). When Shaw was five years old, the family moved to a large estate in West Roxbury, adjacent to Brook Farm. During his te...

A. Sonrel

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Stone, Margaret

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Stonewall Jackson

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Meade, George Gordon, 1815-1872

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Meade was a US Army officer, most noted for his route of Gen. Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg in July of 1863 during the U.S. Civil War. From the description of [Document and photograph] / Geo. M. Meade. [1863] (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 287187126 ...

Carlin, William Passmore, 1829-1903

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William P. Carlin was born at Rich Woods in Greene County, Illinois, and educated in the local schools. His parents were William B. Carlin (1804-1850) and Mary Carlin (née Goode, 1805-1888). His uncle Thomas Carlin, a Jacksonian Democrat and veteran of the War of 1812 served as Illinois' governor when William was a boy. He received an appointment to the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, and graduated in 1850, ranking 20th out of 44. Among his classmates were future six Civi...

J. R. Benton

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N. C. Sanborn

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Stone, Roy

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Earle's Gallery

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Michie, Peter Smith, 1839-1901

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Army Officer; Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy; Librarian, U. S. Military Academy, 1836-1871. From the description of Papers, 1865-1900. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79165590 ...

Quincy, Samuel M. (Samuel Miller), 1833-1887

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United States. Army. Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment, 6th.

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Tuay?, Ralph

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Phillibrown

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Lyons, Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, Earl, 1817-1887

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British diplomat. From the description of Letter of Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, Earl of Lyons, 1861. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79451330 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to E. M. Archibald, 1863 June 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270591619 ...

Godfrey Weitzel

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Toombs, Robert Augustus, 1810-1885

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Robert Toombs (1810-1885), lawyer, U.S. Senator (1844-1861), Confederate General, married Julia Ann DuBois, resided in Wilkes County, Georgia. From the description of Robert Toombs papers, 1837-1880 (bulk 1850-1866). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477000 Robert Toombs (1810-1885) lawyer, U.S. Senator (1844-1861), Confederate General, married Julia Ann DuBois, resided in Wilkes County, Georgia. From the description of Letters to Julia Ann DuBois Toombs, 1850-186...

United States Corps d'Afrique, Infantry Regiment, 3rd.

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Davis, Henry T.

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Davis, George B. (George Breckenridge), 1847-1914

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Ryder, H. T.

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Newton Hartshorn

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Jonathan Letterman

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Taylor, Walter Herron, 1838-1916

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Confederate army officer and banker of Norfolk, Va. From the description of Walter Herron Taylor correspondence, 1864 June 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980575 Col. Walter Heron Taylor (1838-1916) from Norfolk, Virginia, wrote several books about Robert E. Lee (1807-1870). From the description of Col. Walter H. Taylor papers, 1810-1916 [microform]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122539267 ...

Davis, William G.

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Robins, Richard

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Darrach

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Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Commandery-in-Chief

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Trull, Ezra Jackson

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Collard & Annible

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Trumbull, H. Clay (Henry Clay), 1830-1903

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Henry Clay Trumbull (1830-1903) was a noted author, editor, and Sunday-school missionary. From the description of Henry Clay Trumbull correspondence, 1844-1892 (bulk 1851-1865). (University of Delaware Library). WorldCat record id: 663905425 Henry Clay Trumbull (1830–1903) was a noted author, editor, and Sunday-school missionary. Henry Clay Trumbull was born in 1830 in Stonington, Connecticut to a prominent family. His br...

Charles Morse

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Chandler

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Rowland, Henry, R.

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Newell, John B.

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Confederate States of America. Congress

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On February 4, 1861, representatives from 6 of the seceded states assembled in Montgomery, Alabama, to organize the Confederate States of America. At this time, the representatives drafted a provisional constitution and declared a provisional legislature. They selected Jefferson Davis to serve as their president. The provisional congress continued to meet in Montgomery until May 20, 1861, when the provisional capital moved to Richmond, Virginia. A permanent government and constitution were ratif...

May, C.

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Epithet: Avoyer of Berne British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000135.0x0002f5 ...

United States Army, Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, 8th.

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Kelliher, John

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Campbell, John A. (John Allen), 1835-1880

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First governor of Wyoming Territory (1869-1875); Assistant Secretary of War under President Grant (1868-1869). From the description of Letter, 1871 May 6, Cheyenne to General O.E. Babcock, Washington, D.C. (Southern Methodist University). WorldCat record id: 19106813 Army officer, government official, and first governor of the Wyoming Territory. From the description of Campbell collection, 1854-1907 (bulk 1860-1880). (Wyoming State Archives). WorldCat record id: ...

Confederate States of America. Army. Signal Corps.

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Rosser, Thomas Lafayette, 1836-1910

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Confederate States of America general. From the description of Portrait of Thomas Lafayette Rosser [manuscript], ca. 1858. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647806656 From the description of Photograph of Thomas Lafayette Rosser, ca. 1898. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 64431642 Confederate general during Civil War; resident of Charlottesville, Va. From the description of Papers, 1861-1867. (Duke University Library). WorldCat r...

Confederate States of America. Army. Washington Artillery Battalion (New Orleans, La.)

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Davis, Robert

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Epithet: Lieutenant; RN British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000213.0x00028d ...

G. H. Gardiner

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Henry H. (Henry Hollingsworth) Humpheys

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United States Army, Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 47th, Company A

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J. B. Parker

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Pierce, Peter J.

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Watson, Henry L., 1842-1916

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Confederate soldier and cotton farmer, of Rusk County, Tex. From the description of Henry L. Watson letters, 1861-1909. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70956427 ...

Underwood, F. H

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Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813

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"Father of American ornithology." From the description of Letter to Daniel H. Miller [manuscript], 1808 December 24. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647841763 From the description of Letter to Daniel H. Miller [manuscirpt], 1809 February 15. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 48823462 Epithet: Secretary, Society for Emancipation of Industry British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc...

Morton, W. S.

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Chalmers, James R. (James Ronald), 1831-1898

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Epithet: Secretary to the Glasgow Liberal Council British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001196.0x000244 James Ronald Chalmers was a Confederate General and a United States congressman. From the description of James Ronald Chalmers letter, 1861 [i.e. 1862] Jan. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122403869 Entered the Confederate Army as a captain in 1861; elected colonel of the Ninth Mississippi Re...

S. Wing

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George Stillman Hilliard

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Whittle, William C. (William Conway), 1840-1920

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Fletcher, G. A.

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John Fry.

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Boston (Mass.)

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Merrill, Henry T.

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J. C. Davis

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Libby Prison

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Dennison, William, 1815-1882

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Lawyer, Ohio state senator, Ohio governor (1860-1862), and U.S. Postmaster General. From the description of Correspondence, 1861. (Ohio Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 40600940 Ohio governor, U.S. postmaster general, and commissioner of the District of Columbia. From the description of Letter, 1878 March 1. (Historical Society of Washington, Dc). WorldCat record id: 70941725 U.S. postmaster general and governor of Ohio. From the desc...

Pinson, ...

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E. J. Worthington

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United States Army, South Carolina Volunteers, 1st

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M. P. Rice

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Linn, James Birney, 1844-1922

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United States Army, Connecticut Infantry Regiment, 10th, Company A

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Patrick McNulty

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United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 5th.

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United States Army, Ohio Infantry Regiment, 82nd.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864

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Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author. From the description of Nathaniel Hawthorne manuscript material : 1 item, ca. 1853-1857 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 301761440 American author, writer of romances, stories, and juvenile works. Born July 4, 1804, in Salem, Mass.; died May, 1864, in Plymouth, N.H. Sometime resident of Concord, Mass. Graduated from Bowdoin College in 1825. Hawthorne's association with the Boston publishing firm of Ticknor and Fields began ...

J. P. (Judah Philip) Benjamin

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Chanzy, Antoine Eugène Alfred, 1823-1883.

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Scott, Henry B.

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Cochrane, John, 1813-1898

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Cochrane was the grandson of John Cochran, Surgeon General of the Continental Army. He studied first at Union College, but then graduated from Hamilton College in 1831. While attending Union College, he became a member of the Sigma Phi Society. Afterwards he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1834, practiced in Oswego and Schenectady, and then moved to New York City. In 1852, he campaigned for Franklin Pierce who appointed him Surveyor of the Port of New York in 1853. He was a Democratic...

F. Gutekunst

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Baya, William.

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United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 4th.

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Cobb, Thomas Read Rootes, 1823-1862

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Thomas Read Rootes Cobb (1823-1862) was a lawyer of Georgia and later a Confederate brigadier general. He was killed at the Battle of Fredericksburg, Va. From the guide to the Thomas Read Rootes Cobb Letters, ., 1855-1862, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb (1823-1862), lawyer and Brigadier General, born at Cherry Hill plantation in Jefferson County, Georgia. During the Civil War, he commanded Cobb...

Thomas Twine

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J. Notman, photographer

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United States. Army. New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, 14th.

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Point Lookout Prison Camp for Confederates

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Rufus Ingalls

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David Hunter, 1802-1886

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United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 41st.

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United States Army, Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 44th

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Fox, Gustavus Vasa, 1821-1883

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Gustavus Vasa Fox served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy during the Civil War. From the description of G. V. Fox letter to H. R. Anthony, 1865 November 10. (University of California, Santa Barbara). WorldCat record id: 746765569 Assistant secretary, U.S. Navy, 1861-1866. From the description of Letter : Ports[mout]h, N.H., [18]65 Aug. 10. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 30798411 Assistant Secretary of the Navy. ...

Sweeny, Thomas William, 1820-1892

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American army officer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Corinth, Miss., to J.B. Grinnell, 1863 Mar. 31. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270574315 Thomas William Sweeny (1820-1892) was a soldier in the U.S. Army and a Fenian leader. He was born in County Cork, Ireland, but came to the U.S. in 1832, joined the U.S. Army in 1843 and fought in the Mexican War and U.S. Civil War. In 1866 he became active in the Irish liberation movement as Secretary of War in the ...

Curtin, Andrew Gregg, 1817-1894.

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Governor of Pennsylvania. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Philadelphia, to Attorney General Hoar, 1869 May 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270527031 Andrew Gregg Curtin was the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and Governor of Pennsylvania during the Civil War. From the description of A.G. Curtin letter to James T. Hale, 1855 March 29. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 49839092 ...

Rollins, Edward Ashton, 1828-1885

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Greene, William Batchelder, 1819-1878

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Colonel and commanding officer of the 14th Massachusetts Artillery Regiment. From the description of Ordnance manual, [1861-1862?]. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58665230 ...

Read, John E. (John Erskine), 1888-1973

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Epithet: Collector of Customs at Cowes British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000877.0x000127 Epithet: of Add MS 36048 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000877.0x00012d Epithet: High Sheriff of Dublin British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000877.0x000128 Ep...

Nims, O. F. (Ormond Frank)

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Benét, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943

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Stephen Vincent Beńet was born July 22, 1898, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, into a military family. His father had a wide appreciation for literature, and Beńet's siblings, William Rose and Laura, also becmae writers. Beńet attended Yale University where he published two collections of poetry, Five Men and Pompey (1915), The Drug-Shop (1917). His studies were interrupted by a year of civilian military service; he worked as a cipher-clerk in the same department as James Thurber. He graduated fro...

Hill, A. P. (Ambrose Powell)

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W. S. Phillips

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Farrow, Silas

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R. A. (Russell Alexander) Alger

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Grierson, Benjamin Henry, 1826-1911

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U.S. Army general. From the description of Papers, 1870s-1890s (bulk 1882-1885). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70951249 American army officer. From the description of Document signed : Fort Sill, I.T., to the Acting Asst. Inspector General, San Antonio, 1872 March 20-1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270509590 From the description of Document signed : Fort Sill, I.T., to the Acting Asst. Inspector General, San Antonio, 1872 Mar. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat ...

Wistar, Isaac J. (Isaac Jones), 1827-1905

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Isaac Jones Wistar was born in Philadelphia and educated at the Friends' Select School and Haverford College. He ran a dry goods store in Philadelphia, but in 1849 he travelled West with Dr. William Gambel as assistant curator of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. From the description of Autobiography, 1892. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122597453 ...

Boston Press Club

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United States Army, Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 47th, Company B

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Hart, O. H., d. 1874

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Camp Douglas (Ill.)

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Vierick, George W.

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Kelton, Robert Hall Campbell, 1872-1922

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Army officer and electrician. From the description of Papers of Robert Hall Campbell Kelton, 1888-1923. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79424016 ...

Barnett, Ed. J.

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Chalmers, T. M.

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Randolph, Beverley, 1754-1797

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Governor of Va. From the description of Papers, 1789-1791. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36321599 Governor of Virginia. From the description of Letter of appointment, 1791. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367392280 Wingfield lived at "Bellair" in Albemarle County, Va. Married Mary Lewis. Appointed magistrate in 1794 and served as sheriff in 1819. Family tradition (unproven) that he was Episcopal minister. He died in 1819. From...

Wilcox, Edward K.

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Jeffers, William N. (William Nicholson), 1824-1883

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United States. Army. Colored Infantry Regiment, 38th

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Nelson, Samuel, 1792-1873

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Nelson served as associate justice of the New York State Supreme Court (1831-1837), chief justice (1837-1845), and as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1845-1872). From the description of Letters, 1852, 1869. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234339826 Epithet: American judge British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001390.0x000031 Jurist. From the description ...

A. (Adolph) von Steinwehr

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Cudworth, Warren H. (Warren Handel), 1825-1883

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Cammon Smith

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J. Oldershaw

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Henry Ropes

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United States Army, Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 12th, Company D

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United States. Army. New York Cavalry, Oneida Independent Company.

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Col. Bowen

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Thomas A. Charlton

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United States. Army. Pay Dept.

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Fletcher, F.

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United States. Army. Corps, 11th.

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Eliot, Charles William

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Epithet: President of Harvard University British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000980.0x00005d ...

Gardner, Alexander

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Photographer Alexander Gardner (1821-1882), a native of Paisely, Scotland, was one of the first of his profession to photograph Northern Arizona and the Mohave Indian tribe. From 1858-1863, before his westward excursion, he supervised Matthew Brady's Washington, D.C. gallery, but broke with Brady over a question of policy. Gardner believed that all photographers should receive credit and pay for their own work, not "give" that work to another without due recognition. Brady did not s...

University of Georgia. International Student Life Office

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The University of Georgia (UGA) is the largest institution of higher learning in the state of Georgia. Located in Athens, Georgia, approximately 70 miles northeast of Atlanta, it was the first state-chartered university in the United States. In 2005 U.S. News & World Report magazine ranked UGA 19th in its list of the top 50 public universities for a sixth year in a row. UGA also ranks 58th overall (public and private) in the nation. Today, it is the largest university of the University Syste...

Charles L. Webster and Company

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Ayers, Romeyn Beck, 1825-1888

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Bouvé, Edward T.

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McAdams, Daniel.

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Cox, Jacob Dolson, 1828-1900

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Jacob Dolson Cox was born in Montreal (then located in the British colonial Province of Lower Canada) on October 27, 1828. His father and mother respectively were Jacob Dolson Cox and Thedia Redelia (Kenyon) Cox, both Americans and residents of New York. His father Jacob was of Dutch origin, descended from Hanoverian emigrant Michael Cox (Koch) who arrived in New York in 1702. His mother Thedia was descended from Revolutionary War Connecticut soldier Payne Kenyon who was there when British Gener...

Richardson, Israel Bush, 1815-1862

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Warfield

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Leighton, Rufus

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A. V. Elliott

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Magnitzky, Gustav

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Daniel W. Lindsay

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Richard D. Hicks

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Schenck, Robert Cumming, 1809-1890

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American soldier, politician, and diplomat. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to W.W. Belknap, 1870 Aug. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270634505 Lawyer, U.S. Army officer, legislator, diplomat, and promoter of railroads and mining ventures, of Dayton, Ohio, and Washington, D.C. From the description of Papers, 1809-1882 (bulk 1850-1865). (Rutherford B Hayes Presidential Center). WorldCat record id: 70952260 From the descri...

Baumgarten, ...

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Mansfield, William H.

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Custer, George Armstrong, 1839-1876

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Custer's paternal ancestors, Paulus and Gertrude Küster, came to the North American English colonies around 1693 from the Rhineland in Germany, probably among thousands of Palatines whose passage was arranged by the English government to gain settlers in New York and Pennsylvania. According to family letters, Custer was named after George Armstrong, a minister, in his devout mother's hope that her son might join the clergy. Custer was born in New Rumley, Ohio, to Emanuel Henry Custer (1806...

Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869

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Franklin Pierce (1804-1869) was the 14th President of the United States (1853-1857). Prior to his presidency he served in both the House of Representatives (1833-1837) and the Senate (1837-1842) as a legislator from New Hampshire. Although a Northerner, he sympathized with the Southern cause during the American Civil War and was good friends with Jefferson Davis....

United States. Army of the Potomac. Irish Brigade

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The Irish Brigade in the Union Army of the Potomac, 2nd Corps, was at this time made up of the 63rd, 69th, and 88th New York Infantries, and the 88th Massachusetts Infantry. From the description of Program for Saint Patrick's Day, March 1865. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 86077024 ...

United Service Club (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Wheeler, W. D.

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Hays, Alexander, 1819-1864

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Ropes, Henry

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Fauth, Bernard, recipient.

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Discharged Soldiers' Home (Boston, Mass.)

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Henry H. Linville

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Memminger, C. G. (Christopher Gustavus), 1803-1888

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South Carolina legislator and Confederate Secretary of the Treasury; from Charleston, S.C. From the description of Papers, 1861-1878. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20030153 Lawyer and politician of Charleston, S.C.; member of: S.C. House, 1836-1852, 1855-1860, 1877; Secession convention, 1861; Board of Free School Commissioners of Charleston; drafter of Confederate constitution; Confederate Secretary of the Treasury, 1861-1864; President of the Etiwan Phospa...

Culp, Edward C., -1904

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Deliverance Page

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McCabe, W. Gordon (William Gordon), 1841-1920

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Classical scholar. From the description of Postal cards to Robert B. Tunstall [manuscript], 1918 February 24 and March 26. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647979308 From the description of Letter to Edmund Clarence Stedman [manuscript], 1892 January 17. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647813016 W. Gordon McCabe, former Captain of A.P. Hill's Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, was a member of the official Virginia State Committee in charge ...

Cluseret, Gustave-Paul, 1823-1900

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Cluseret was born on 13 June 1823 in Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine. In 1841 he entered the Saint-Cyr military academy, and was commissioned in the French Army in 1843. He was made captain of the 23rd Mobile Guard battalion following the February revolution of 1848, and participated in the suppression of the June Days Uprising which was to later earn him hostility in certain socialist quarters. His support for an anti-Bonapartist demonstration on 29 January 1849 saw him demoted from command of his bat...

Tyler, John, 1790-1862

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John Tyler (b. March 29, 1790, Charles City County, Virginia–d. January 18, 1862, Richmond, Virginia), was the tenth President of the United States (1841–1845) and the first to succeed to the office following the death of President William Henry Harrison....

Caldwell, John Curtis, 1833-1912

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Caldwell was born in Lowell, Vermont. He graduated from Amherst College in 1855 and moved to Maine, where he was the principal of the Washington Academy in East Machias. At the beginning of the Civil War, Caldwell was 28 years old and had no military experience. However, his bearing as an academic principal seems to have impressed others because he was elected colonel of the 11th Maine Infantry regiment on November 12, 1861. Early in the Peninsula Campaign (April 28, 1862), he was promoted to...

Palmer, William Jackson, 1836-1909

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Army officer and railroad builder; founder of Colorado Springs. From the description of Papers, 1862-1909. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 11375487 Army officer and railroad builder. From the description of Papers, 1878-1900. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 11408547 American railroad president, pioneer of the West, founder of a number of towns including Colorado Springs, Colorado, and developer of mining and industrial projects. From the descri...

Codman, Charles R. (Charles Russell), 1829-1918

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The privileged son of an immensely wealthy mercantile family from Boston, Charles Russell Codman was born in Paris on October 28th, 1829. From an early education with private tutors through his attendance at Harvard law school, from which he graduated in 1852, Codman traveled in elite social and economic circles. Like many of the sons of the upper crust, it was de rigeur that he take a grand tour of Europe following graduation. From October, 1852, through September, 1853, he spent n...

Jenkins, Micah, 1835-1864

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Co-founder and teacher of King's Mountain Military School in York, S.C., with Asbury Coward, 1855; served as Colonel of the 5th Regt., SC Volunteers, and Brigadier-General during the Civil War; killed by friendly fire at Battle of the Wilderness, 1864; graduate, S.C. College, 1855; son of John Jenkins and Elizabeth Clark Jenkins of Edisto Island, S.C.; husband of Caroline Hall Jamison, daughter of David Flavel Jamison. From the description of Micah Jenkins papers, 1854-1936. (Univers...

Buford, Jr., John, 1826-1863

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Buford was born in Woodford County, Kentucky, but was raised in Rock Island, Illinois, from the age of eight. His father was a prominent Democratic politician in Illinois and a political opponent of Abraham Lincoln. Buford was of English descent. His family had a long military tradition. John Jr.'s grandfather, Simeon Buford, served in the cavalry during the American Revolutionary War under Henry "Lighthorse" Lee, the father of Robert E. Lee. His great-uncle, Colonel Abraham Buford (of the Waxha...

Howard

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Claflin

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Coolidge, Baldwin

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United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 19th.

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Nott, Hugh

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Harris, William

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Epithet: Prebendary of Llandaff British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000132.0x0002de Epithet: of Sibford Ferris British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000132.0x0002dc Epithet: of Add Ch 6209 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000132.0x0002d9 Epithet: DD 176...

Bowen & Co.

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Bussey, B. H.

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Grier, Edward F., 1917-2004

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Grier received his A.B. from Pennsylvania in 1938, his M.A. from Columbia in 1939, and his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania in 1949. He joined the faculty of the University of Kansas in the Department of English in 1951, reaching full Professor status in 1962. He retired in 1984. From the guide to the Personal Papers of Edward F. Grier, 1951-1984, (University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library University Archives) ...

Towle, George Washington, 1836-1914

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F. H. Hatch

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United States Army, Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 121st.

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United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 32nd.

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F. A. George

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Moonlight, Thomas, 1833-1899

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Thomas Moonlight (1833-1899), born in Scotland, ran away to America, enlisted in the 4th United States Artillery in 1853, served in Florida, and in the campaign against the Mormons. In 1860 he bought a farm in Kansas, served in the 11th Kansas Cavalry, 1861-65, was secretary of state, 1868, and was nominated for governor in 1886, but lost. President Cleveland appointed him governor of Wyoming Territory, 1886-89, and minister to Bolivia, 1893-97. From the description of Thomas Moonlig...

Shepard, Edward O.

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Pinder, Albert

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Perley, John L., d. 1864

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Woodward, Edwin W.

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Ward, John Elliott, 1814-1902

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John Elliott Ward (1814-1902) was born 2 October 1814 in Sunbury, Georgia and was a lawyer and a diplomat. He practiced law in Savannah, Georgia and was also involved in the Georgia state legislature from 1839-1857 and was the Speaker of the House from 1853-1854. Ward also served as a U.S. minister to China from 1858-1860. In 1866, he moved to New York and practiced law there until his death on 29 November 1902. From the description of John Elliott Ward letter, 1900. (Georgia Histori...

S. A. Taylor

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Parker, Francis J. (Francis Jewett), 1825-1909

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Isaac Moore.

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Davies, John B

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Jefferson Hill

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United States Army, Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 51st

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United States Christian Commission

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United States Army, Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 47th, Company F

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Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917

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James R. Grist)

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Munford, Thomas Taylor, 1831-1916

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Richardson, S. (Sylvia)

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United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 79th.

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United States. Army. Connecticut Light Battery, 3rd.

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Schofield, John McAllister, 1831-1906

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U.S. Secretary of War. From the description of Letter signed : Washington, D.C., 1869 Jan. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270635150 U.S. secretary of war and army officer. From the description of Papers of John McAllister Schofield, 1837-1906 (bulk 1862-1895). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 74984707 American army officer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : West Point, New York, to David A. Wells, [no year] May 27. (Unknown)...

Morrill, Lot M. (Lot Myrick), 1812-1883

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American statesman. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to W.P. Fessenden, 1862 Nov. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270612916 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to William Pitt Fessenden, 1867 Dec. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270612918 U.S. secretary of the treasury, U.S. senator from and governor of Maine. From the description of Letters of Lot M. Morrill, 1867-1868. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: ...

Donnelly, James, b. 1845

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Belcher Noyes.

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B. C. Hazelton

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Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Commandery of the State of Massachusetts, collector.

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The Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (MOLLUS) was founded as a veterans' organization for Union officers of the American Civil War. It later opened its membership to descendants of Union officers, and is still active today. MOLLUS was established on 1865 April 15 after the death of President Abraham Lincoln. Three Union Army officers met in Philadelphia to discuss the rumors from Washington of a conspiracy to destroy the Federal government by assas...

Magnon, James F.

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United States. Army. Maine Infantry Regiment, 6th.

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Milton T. Carter

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Weed, Stephen Hinsdale

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Randall, James R.

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Wentworth, John, 1815-1888

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John Wentworth, Dartmouth Class of 1836; born Sandwich, NH, 1815; lawyer, mayor of Chicago, 1857 and 1860, member of Congress, 1843-51 and 1865-67. From the description of Letters, 1860-1861, to Richard Yates. (New Hampshire Newsp Project). WorldCat record id: 80527012 Early settler of Chicago who owned much property there, newspaper editor, Democratic and then Republican politician, Congressman, and mayor of Chicago. From the description of Letters, 1847-1884. (...

United States Army, Massachusetts Artillery Battery, 5th.

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United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 125th.

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Clara Harris Rathbone

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Samuel Francis Du Pont.

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Cook, W. W.

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Kunz, George Frederick, 1856-1932

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American mineralogist and gem expert, Vice-President of Tiffany & Co. (1879- ), U.S. Geological Survey special agent (1883-1909), President of the New York Mineralogical Club. From the description of Papers, 1879-1932. (American Museum of Natural History). WorldCat record id: 18538661 From the description of Papers, 1879-1932 [microform]. (American Museum of Natural History). WorldCat record id: 41124182 George Frederick Kunz, A.M., Ph.D., Sc.D, (1856-1932), was...

Jennie Wade

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Peuffier, Benjamin.

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Pressley, Benjamin Chaplin, 1815-1896

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Island Hospital (Harpers Ferry, Va.)

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Bateman, Leon H.

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E. Preble Motley

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Frank Aretas Haskell

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Petersburg Battle-Field and Improvement Company.

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Bragg, Edward Stuyvesant, 1827-1912

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Bragg was born in Unadilla, New York, the son of Margarette (Kohl) and Joel B. Bragg. Bragg attended district schools as a child. He then attended the local academy and Geneva College (today Hobart College) in Geneva, New York, where he was one of the charter members of the Kappa Alpha Society. He left college before graduating, in 1847, and studied law in the offices of Judge Charles C. Noble. He was admitted to the New York State Bar Association in 1848, and worked as a junior partner with Jud...

Society of the Army of the Potomac

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United States. Dept. of the Treasury

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Weston, Henry G. (Henry Griggs), 1820-1909

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Blaylock & McAbee.

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Ripley, Edward Hastings, 1839-1915

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Resident of Rutland, Vt. At outbreak of the Civil War, Ripley was a student at Union College, Schenectady, N.Y.; enlisted in the army in May 1862 and soon thereafter was commissioned captain of Company B, 9th Vermont Regiment. Captured with his regiment at Harpers Ferry and paroled shortly thereafter to spend the winter of 1862-1863 in Chicago, Ill. Promoted to major Mar. 20, 1863, Lt. Col., May 19, 1863, and Colonel June 1, 1863; brevetted to Brig. General and assigned command of a brigade. Wou...

Richard McKinney

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Niebuhr, C. E. (Caleb Easte)

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R. H. Evans

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William Cogswell

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Warren, Lucius H.

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Hamilton

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Augustine Harlow.

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Salm-Salm, Felix, Prinz zu, 1828-1870

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Thompson, Winfield M. (Winfield Martin), 1869-

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Kellogg Bros.

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Rand, Edward S. (Edward Sprague), 1782-1863

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Harker, Charles Garrison, 1835-1864

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A. J. Hutchins

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Mary B. Blom

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Chandler, Zachariah, 1813-1879

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George Armstrong Custer was a famous cavalry officer during the Civil War and the Indian wars of the 1860s and 1870s. Elizabeth Bacon Custer, his wife, was the author of several works about Army life on the plains. After the death of her husband, she dedicated her life to defending his honor. From the guide to the George A. and Elizabeth B. Custer papers, 1857-1929, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) American politician. From the description of Autograph letter s...

Mathews, Alfred Edward, 1831-1874

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Si?, Phil.? H.

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William Spang

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Gardiner, William Howard

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Albemarle (Va.)

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Robinson, O'Neil W. (O'Neil Watson), 1824-

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Resident of Bethel, Me.; commander of 4th Battery, 1st Maine Mounted Artillery, U.S. Army. From the description of O'Neil W. Robinson papers, 1862-1865. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 74984529 ...

Frank Boynton Gray

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Lee, Susan Pendleton, 1832?-1911

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Sherwin, H. C.

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Dorman, Brinkley

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Taylor, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1819-1887

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Benjamin F. Taylor was an American journalist, lecturer, and poet who lived his last six years in Cleveland, Ohio. His wife, Lucy E.L. Taylor, was a member of the Cleveland Board of Education during the early 1900s. From the description of Benjamin F. and Lucy E.L. Taylor papers, 1839-1927. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 22355326 ...

M. W. Rice

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Kennett, C. G.

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Smith, William Farrar, 1824-1903

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American army officers. From the description of Letter signed for him by James J. Brady : New York, to Joseph Holt, 1865 Aug. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270664862 Union army officer. From the description of William Farrar Smith correspondence, 1863-1899. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980495 William Farrar Smith, also known as Baldy Smith, was born in St. Albans, Vermont, February 17, 1824, the son of Ashbel and Sarah Butler Smith. ...

L. E. Stone

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Goodspeed, Charles E. (Charles Eliot), 1867-1950

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Charles E. Goodspeed was the founder of several bookstores in Boston and a dealer in rare books and manuscripts. Most of his writings were bibliographical, compiling A treasury of fishing stories and Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Museum of the Salem East India Marine Society, or, The gathering of a virtuoso's collection, both published in 1946. His autobiography, Yankee bookseller, published in 1937, gives a full picture of booksellers, collectors, and authors of his time. From the des...

Horsford, Eben Norton, 1818-1893

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Horsford (Harvard, A.B., 1847) taught chemistry at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Eben Norton Horsford, ca. 1857. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972793 Engineer, college professor and industrial chemist; president of Wellesley. From the description of E. N. Horsford letter to a Miss Reid [manuscript], 1884 February 14. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 713898870 David Zeisberger served as a Moravian minister. ...

G. G. Merck

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Gideon Welles.

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Isabella II, Queen of Spain, 1830-1904

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Queen of Spain, 1830-1868. From the description of Autograph signature to letter : Madrid, to Cardinal Luis Amat, 1861 Jan. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270129858 Isabella reigned 1833-1868. From the description of ALS, 1884 March 22, Real Alcasar de Seville to Count Walsh / Isabelle de Bourbon. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 363318635 Queen of Spain. From the description of Autograph signature to letter : Madrid, to C...

Dimon, Charles A. R.

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United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 130th.

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Hallowell, Norwood P., 1839-1914

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United States Army, Indiana Heavy Artillery Regiment, 1st

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Griffin, Eugene

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Willie M. Rexford

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Crozier, William

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Pleasanton, A. J. (Alfred J.)

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Hoyt, Stephen

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United States Army, Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 40th

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Fox, John A. (John Andrews), 1835-1922

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Commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant in the 2nd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Company I; later transferred to Company F; promoted to 1st lieutenant (1862) and then to adjutant (1863); received two brevet promotions (1865), one of captain and one of major; mustered out, 1865. From the description of John A. Fox papers, 1862-1865. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71128579 ...

Walker, J. S.

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Hotel Manhattan

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Woodhull?

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Notman & Campbell

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George S. Cook

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United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 1st. Company A.

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Sammis, John

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Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Commandery of the State of Pennsylvania.

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E. B. (Elihu Benjamin) Washburne.

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Pollard, James

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Robinson, James S.

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B. F. (Bernard F.) Blakeslee

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James B. Whitcomb

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Howard, O. H. P.

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Reynolds, John Fulton, 1820-1863

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Rives, Alfred Landon, 1830-1903

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Alfred Landon Rives was an Army engineer, Confederate officer, and architect, of Albemarle County, Virginia. From the guide to the Alfred Landon Rives Papers, 1829-1888 and undated, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University) Army engineer, Confederate officer, and architect, of Albemarle Co., Va. From the description of Papers, 1839-1888. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20121584 American engineer; born in Par...

Abner H. McCormick

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Blair, Louis Jackson

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64z99cs (person)

Hamlin, Augustus C. (Augustus Choate), 1829-1905

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tx3ttd (person)

Surgeon and historian. From the description of Augustus C. Hamlin autograph letter signed, 1861. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70978466 ...

Roberts, Benjamin S. (Benjamin Stone), 1810-1875

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jt29n2 (person)

Epithet: assistant to the secretary Edinburgh University British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001039.0x000253 ...

Foster, Thomas B.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bx197g (person)

United States Army, Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 96th

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Loring, Henry W.

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Nichols, Robert C.

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Dodge, Theodore Ayrault

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6d06ns0 (person)

Bennett, Ira Z.

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Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 12th

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John Summerfield Staples

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Willey, Waitman T. (Waitman Thomas), 1811-1900

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vm4shj (person)

United States Senator for West Virginia. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Morgantown, West Va., to President Garfield, 1881 Mar. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270587874 First United States Senator from West Virginia; delegate to the Virginia Convention, 1861, voting against secession; author of the Willey Amendment, a compromise on the question of freedom for West Virginia slaves that assured West Virginia's acceptance into the Union. From t...

Job W. Dupee

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R. S. DeLamater

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United States Army, Connecticut Infantry Regiment, 10th, Company I

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6875rrk (corporateBody)

Brown, John, 1800-1859

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John Brown (May 9, 1800, Torrington, Connecticut – December 2, 1859, Charles Town, Virginia) was born in Connecticut in 1800 before migrating with his family at an early age to the Connecticut Western Reserve. He failed at several business ventures and land speculations before devoting his life to the abolition of slavery. Brown was executed in 1859 following his failed attempt to incite a slave rebellion at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Edwin Coppoc, a native of Salem, Ohio, joined Brown in his rai...

Monitor (Ironclad)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65471q7 (corporateBody)

United States Army, Missouri Cavalry, Fremont's Body Guard

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Davis

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J. L. Robertson

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64s276b (person)

Nachtigall, Herrmann

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6333vmb (person)

Frederick Bullard

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6v25m69 (person)

Mejía, Tomás 1820-1867

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c253j7 (person)

Perley P. Pitkin.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64w0jck (person)

R. E. Beecher

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m75s6x (person)

Muzzey, Loring W.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jz21cj (person)

Lindsley, John Berrien, 1822-1897

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6d29qc8 (person)

W. P. Wilson

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qs96zq (person)

Gardner, Franklin

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vn88k3 (person)

Frank, Leslie

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wb98v8 (person)

Beaver, James A. (James Addams), 1837-1914

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Colonel, 148th Pennsylvania regiment, Civil War; brevet brigadier general of volunteers, 1864; governor of Pennsylvania, 1887-1891; judge of Pennsylvania Supreme Court, 1895-1914. From the description of Letter : Bellefonte, Penn[sylvani]a, to Mrs. John A. Logan, Washington, D.C., 1893 April 21. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 27045475 Lawyer, thrice wounded Colonel of the 148th Pennsylvania; Governor of Pennsylvania; Judge in the Superior Court o...

Rodgers, John, 1812-1882

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tb1p0c (person)

American naval officer. From the description of Autograph note signed : Alexandria, to General McDowell, 1862 Apr. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270656128 From the description of Letter signed : Mare Island, California, to Mr. Fletcher, Inspector of Machinery afloat, 1873 Dec. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270656131 John Rodgers, Jr., United States naval officer. Rodgers was born near Havre De Grace, Maryland, on August 8, 1812. The son of Comm...

Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, 1830-1916

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cj8knb (person)

Emperor of Austria. From the description of Letter, 1879. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122653040 ...

Charles King, 1844-1933

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ds79j1 (person)

Garland, Hugh A., 1805-1854

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cv5bpv (person)

Historian; author of a life of John Randolph of Roanoke. From the description of Papers of Hugh A. Garland [manuscript] 1824-ca.-1840. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647963823 ...

C. M. Bell

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j80nt5 (corporateBody)

Brown, Allison L.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jj889p (person)

Photographische Gesellschaft, Berlin

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Pettigru, James Louis, 1789-1863.

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Bissell, Josiah W.

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Kellogg Brothers

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Henderson, G. F. R. (George Francis Robert), 1854-1903

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j71cr0 (person)

Brownell, Francis E. (Francis Edwin), 1840-1894

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jw9h1t (person)

Civil War private, 11th New York, Company A; lieutenant, 11th U.S. Infantry; first soldier to receive congressional medal of honor. From the description of Letter: St. Louis, M[iss]o[uri]., to John C. Powers [i.e., Power], Springfield, Illinois, 1878 May 24. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 27819087 From the description of Letter and picture: to Col[onel] F[rank] C. Loveland, New York City, 1888 July 18. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). Worl...

J. Notman

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McCook, Anson G. (Anson George), 1835-1917

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cv4v2m (person)

Coburn, Abner, 1803-1885

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Governor of Maine (1863-1864). From the description of Abner Coburn autograph letter signed, 1863 Dec 22. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70978504 ...

Walter Clark, 1846-1924

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6k76r9x (person)

Haines, John M., b. ca. 1841.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64x5ngd (person)

Brown, Julius L., 1848-1910

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Julius L. Brown, businessman, son of Joseph Emerson and Elizabeth Grisham Brown. From the description of Julius L. Brown papers, 1871-1907. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476251 Julius Brown was the son of Joseph and Elizabeth Brown. He was educated at the University of Georgia and Harvard Law School. He served as a Confederate Soldier with the Georgia Cadets and was later an attorney with the Western and Atlantic Railroad as well as several Georgi...

Roman, ...

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Epithet: Friar, Hermit of the Order of San Geronimo British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001391.0x0001b8 ...

Davis, Charles E., 1842 or 1843-1915

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United States. Army. Corps, 2nd

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Sherman, Thomas W. (Thomas West), 1813-1879

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sj1hsc (person)

Graduate of the U.S. Military Academy in 1836 and appointed Brigadier General May 1861. From the description of Letters, May 24, 1861. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 54801940 Thomas West Sherman was a U.S. Army officer who served in the Mexican-American War and the U.S. Civil War. After graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1836, he was commissioned second lieutenant in the 3rd U.S. Artillery and played a significant...

Rowan, Stephen C. (Stephen Clegg), 1808-1890

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61k09b6 (person)

Naval officer. From the description of Papers of Stephen C. Rowan, 1826-1890 (bulk 1841-1870). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81338838 Rowan was chairman of the Lighthouse Board in 1877. From the description of Letter, May 16, 1877. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 706098573 Biographical Note 1808, Dec. 25 Born, near Dublin, Ireland ...

Hardee, William Joseph, 1815-1873

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j38w12 (person)

Confederate brigadier general, from Selma (Dallas Co.), Ala. From the description of Papers, 1863-1871. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19657442 Confederate general. From the description of Official report of the battle of Perryville, 1862 Dec. 1. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49253061 Confederate lieutenant general; served in Mexican War; commanded cadets, West Point, 1856-1861; author of book of military tactics. ...

Arthur L. Plimpton

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Thorburn.

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Sprague, William, 1830-1915

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American army officer, and United States senator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Providence, to an unidentified recipient, 1862 Feb. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270575332 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Providence?, to Judge G.W. Paschal, 1875 Jun. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270575325 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Providence, to Judge G.W. Paschal, 1873 Jan. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270...

William D. Washington

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The Metropolitan Photograph Co.

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Harris, Ira, 1802-1875

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American jurist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Albany, 1863 Jul. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270498182 Albemarle County, Va., Court officer. From the description of Papers of Ira Harris [manuscript], 1843-1871. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647816426 ...

Pickens, F. W. (Francis Wilkinson), 1805-1869

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Pickens was a congressman from South Carolina and later governor of that state. From the description of Francis Wilkinson Pickens letters from various correspondents, 1832-1834. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612796541 From the guide to the Francis Wilkinson Pickens letters from various correspondents, 1832-1834., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Congressman and governor of South Carolina. From the description of...

Pius IX, Pope, 1792-1878

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Pius IX, pope June 1846-1878. From the description of [Document] 1861 janv. 21, Palais du Vatican a' Roma / P. Pius IX. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 469119364 Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti. From the description of Autograph note signed as Pope : Pesaro, addressed to the Archbishop of Fermo, 1857 May 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270617581 From the description of Autograph letter signed as archbishop of Spoleto : to Cardinal Cesare Brancador...

Johnson, Reverdy, 1796-1876

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j38tkd (person)

American jurist and diplomat. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Annapolis, Maryland, to Jonathan Meredith, 1841 Feb. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270486276 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Annapolis, Maryland, to Jonathan Meredith, 1830 Dec. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270486259 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to "My dear Otho", 1845 Dec. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270491319 ...

Lee, Francis L., -1886

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Baxter, J. B.

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United States Army, Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 47th, Company E

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Taylor, Richard, 1826-1879

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Lawyer and Confederate general. From the description of Letter, 1850 Aug. 31. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49324064 Taylor, Richard (27 Jan. 1826-12 Apr. 1879), Louisiana Democratic party leader, and Confederate general, was born at the Taylor family home, "Springfield," near Louisville, Kentucky, the only son of Zachary Taylor, professional army officer and president, and Margaret Mackall Smith... As a delegate from Louisiana to the 186...

Dennett, John Richard, 1838-1874

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McIlvaine, Charles Pettit, 1799-1873

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Clergyman. From the description of Letter of Charles Pettit McIlvaine, 1866. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454517 Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Ohio. From the description of Charles Pettit McIlvaine papers, 1820-1873. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 659848697 Matthew Clarkson (1758-1825) was an American military officer during the American Revolution and lived in New York City. Matthew Clarkson, Jr. (1796-1883) was a resident of Flatbush. Charles ...

Williams, Stephen

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Epithet: of Sloane MS 1723 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000300.0x000034 Epithet: MD; FRS British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000300.0x000032 Stephen Williams stuided film at the University of Southern California (USC) and earned his Master of Fine Arts degree (MFA) at the University of Utah. He has taught at Salt Lake Community...

Samuel F. Woods.

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Blatchford, John Samuel, 1831-

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James M. Dillon

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Osborn, Hartwell

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Col. Donahoe

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United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 62nd.

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Page, Dill

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commission

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Muzzey, Elizabeth.

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McAllister, Robert

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61q0xdx (person)

Edward B. Robbins.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6b709kp (person)

Howard, J. Q. (James Quay), 1836-1912

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kv0hfr (person)

H. B. Nickerson

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Reynolds, Joseph Jones, 1822-1899

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62r5fmc (person)

Manchester Bro. & Angell

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United States Army, Maine Infantry Regiment, 2nd

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c66vkj (corporateBody)

C. H. (Caleb Henry) Barney

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Henry Edward Tremain

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Sumner, Edwin V. (Edwin Vose), 1797-1863

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American army officer. From the description of Autograph approval and signature on docketing slip of an undated application to the Governor of New York for recruits, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270574229 ...

William A. Couthouy.

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Comsett & ?

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Walker, Francis Amasa, 1840-1897

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American economist and educator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to the editors of The Critic [Jeannette L. and Joseph B. Gilder], 1884 Aug. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 645501803 Lawyer, educator, and economist. From the description of Francis Amasa Walker papers, 1878-1896. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981602 American publicist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New Haven, Conn., to Mr. We...

Johnson Island Prison

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Johnson Island, located in Sandusky, Ohio, operated as a federal prisoner of war depot, housing Confederate officers and other enlisted men captured in battle, from April 1862 to September 1865. From the guide to the Johnson Island Prison Autograph Albums, ., 1861-1865, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) Union army prison in Ohio. From the description of Diagram, 1862. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat...

Camp Meigs (Readville, Boston, Mass.)

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Bell & Brother

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x4859q (corporateBody)

Ryder, W. B.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ts03sr (person)

Carl Guther

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64306tb (corporateBody)

Meredith, Solomon, 1810-1875

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American army officer. From the description of Letter signed : Paducah, Kentucky, to General Rawlins, 1865 Jan. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270639342 ...

Ramsay, George Douglas, 1802-1882

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dn4z6w (person)

Homans, George Henry, d. 1893

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q678t4 (person)

McBlair, William M.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tc4pzd (person)

Edward S. Rowse

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Twitchell?, George H.?

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62k9vdf (person)

Carter, Solon A., 1837-1918

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Served in the Civil War. Was Captain, 14th New Hampshire; Assistant Adjutant General, 3rd Division, XVIII Corps; Assistant Adjutant General, 3rd Division, XXV Corps; Assistant Adjutant General, 3rd Division, X Corps. From the description of The Solon A. Carter papers, 1862-1876. (US Army, Mil Hist Institute). WorldCat record id: 20848131 ...

A. G. Teague

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tk2986 (person)

Grady, G. W.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64g651p (person)

Albert Clarke

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m46p5k (person)

United States Army, Iowa Infantry Regiment, 26th

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Oglesby, Richard J. (Richard James), 1824-1899

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61g0kg8 (person)

American soldier and legislator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to G.H. Williams, 1873 Mar. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270611451 Richard J. Ogelsby was an officer in the Civil War and seriously wounded, eventually promoted to major general, elected to governor of Illinois in 1864, 1872 and 1884, and ten days after his 1885 term began, resigned after being chosen by the Illinois Republican party for the senate. He had been an orphan and ...

Anderson, Edwin M.

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Peabody, O. W. (Oliver White)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zt752d (person)

United States. Army. Corps, 10th

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United States Army, Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 47th, Company D

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fc88wn (corporateBody)

Robert Hallowell Gardiner, 1782-1864

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bt32r1 (person)

Colbath, Miles

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Allen, Hiram W.

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Bristow Eddy

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United States Army, Connecticut Infantry Regiment, 10th, Company B

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xj2vwg (corporateBody)

Pierce, Joseph L.

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Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 1821-1877

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Army officer. From the description of Nathan Bedford Forrest letter, 1867. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450304 Planter, slave dealer, and Confederate Army officer; resident of Memphis (Shelby Co.), Tenn. From the description of Papers, 1862-1866. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19562174 Confederate general; led cavalry forces during the battle of Fort Pillow, Tenn.; Confederate troops accused of slaughtering Union soldiers following th...

W. B. Hunt

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Buffinton, Zadock.

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Streight, Abel D.

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Whitaker & Co.

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Frelinghuysen, Frederick T. (Frederick Theodore), 1817-1885

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Lawyer, U.S. secretary of state, and U.S. senator from New Jersey. From the description of Frederick T. Frelinghuysen papers, 1882-1883. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79194297 New Jersey statesman and U. S. Senator. From the description of Letter : Newark, New Jersey, to Marston Niles, 1874 Aug 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122290163 From the description of Letter : Newark, New Jersey, to Marston Niles, 1874 Aug 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 7...

Lincoln, Silas S.

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Jones, Thomas

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Epithet: Lieutenant British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000441.0x0000ec Epithet: of Southwark British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000441.0x00010c Epithet: of Chetham's Library British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000976.0x0003d3 Epithet: of Egerton MS 282...

Ford, John W., 1958-

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United States. Army of the Potomac. Corps, 11th

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Gardner & Gibson

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United States Army, Colored Infantry Regiment, 89th

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Evans, Edward S. (Edward Steptoe), 1879-1945

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Edward S. Evans was Assistant State Librarian when this letter was written. John W. Daniel, prominent in Virginia politics for many years, was a member of the United States Senate. From the description of Letter, 1907 April 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145408391 ...

Blair, Francis Preston, 1791-1876

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Francis P. Blair, 1791-1876, was an influential Kentucky politician, and later, a Washington, D.C. newspaper editor. In 1814, Blair held the position of Franklin County Circuit Court Clerk, and in the 1820's was appointed Clerk of the New Court of Appeals. When the New Court collapsed, Blair became a writer for Amos Kendall's Argus of the Western America. Many pieces were printed in this publication supporting the election of Andrew Jackson over Henry Clay. From the description of Fr...

Etheridge, Anna Blair, 1839-1913

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Etheridge joined as a laundress when her husband enlisted in the 2nd Michigan Infantry Regiment. She later served as the daughter of the Third Michigan Infantry Regiment. Though her husband soon deserted, Etheridge served throughout the rest of the war with the Fifth Michigan Infantry. When the regiment went on campaign, the other laundresses went home, but Etheridge stayed with the regiment. She was described as young, attractive, modest, quiet, and hard-working. Supposedly, if anyone treated h...

L. A. Atwood

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Williams, Edwin Samuel, 1948-

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Folsom, N.? , Dr.

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United States Army, Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 2nd, Company H

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W. Kurtz

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Williams & Everett

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A. B. Walter.

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Devin, Thomas Casimer, 1822-1878

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Born in New York City to Irish parents. Devin was a house painter and partner in a paint and varnish company with his brother John for much of his early life, while also serving as a lieutenant colonel in the New York State Militia. After the start of the Civil War, Devin formed his militia cavalry company into "Captain Devin's Independent Company" and served as its captain. Late that year, he became Colonel of the 6th New York Volunteer Cavalry, nicknamed the "2nd Ira Harris Guards", which h...

Smith, Samuel, Jr.

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D. P. Barr

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Porter, Charles H. (Charles Howell), 1833-1897

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Greene, Marie Barton

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Claflin, William, 1818-1905

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Businessman, state legislator, and governor of Massachusetts (1869-1872), of Hopkinton, Mass.; had a summer home in Newton, Mass. From the description of William Claflin family papers and photographs, 1889-1995 (bulk 1889-1905). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70960886 ...

Parham, Charles

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Oakman, N. S.

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Weber, Max, 1824-1901

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Charles Buck.

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McCarthy, William H.

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Burger, George

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Stevens, Thaddeus, 1791-1868

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Francis Perry Pierpont

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James K. Scofield

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William H. Danielson

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Russell, Alexander L

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Sargent, Edward P.

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L. V. Newell

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Sant, Van

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Wilson, William

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Epithet: of Add MS 35805 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000354.0x00000a William Wilson was the Labour Member of Parliament for Coventry South (later Coventry South East) from 1964-1983. He proposed the successful Divorce Law Reform Private Member's Bill in 1967. From the guide to the Qualidata: William Wilson Divorce Law Reform Papers, c.1967-1968, (Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick Libr...

Cincinnati Society of Ex-Army and Navy Officers

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William W. McKim

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United States Army, Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 1st, Company H

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Rand, William B.

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Harrison, Thomas S. (Thomas Skelton), 1837-1919

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Andrew Rosney.

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Anderson, Robert, 1930-

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Epithet: of Add MS 36164 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000923.0x000396 Robert Anderson was born circa 1818 at Fettercairn, Kincardineshire. He was educated at the Academy of Montrose and studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. Entering the Royal Navy as an assistant surgeon in 1838, he served off the coast of Syria and in the East India and China station, advancing to the rank of surgeon. He joined t...

Demsey, C. F.

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Kane, James H.

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Bell, Henry Haywood, 1808-1868

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Naval oficer. From the description of Papers of Henry Haywood Bell, 1866. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71060377 Naval officer. From the description of Henry Haywood Bell report, 1862. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79451254 ...

Williams, Edward T.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6458j9g (person)

Kell, John McIntosh, 1823-1900

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John McIntosh Kell (1823-1900), son of John and Margery Spalding Baillie Kell of Darien, Georgia, married Julia Blanche Munroe of Macon, Georgia. During the Civil War, Kell served as an officer in the Confederate Navy. After the war, he served as Georgia's Adjutant-General from 1886 until his death in 1900. From the description of Letter to Blanche Munroe Kell, 1859 Sept. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476234 From the description of John McIntosh Kell letters, 1861. (U...

Page, Jeremiah

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Jeremiah Page was a brickmaker in Danvers, Ma. From the description of Account book, 1761-1762. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 122555835 ...

F. H. Meserve

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Daniel Oakey

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Fields, Samuel H., recipient.

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New York (State). Militia. Albany Burgesses Corps.

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Bull, Medicine

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Blanchard P. Paige

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United States Army, Artillery Regiment, 4th, Battery A

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Paine, A. E. (Amasa Elliot)

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Thomas Chubbuck

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S. H. Waite

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Slemmer, Adam J., 1824-1868

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Story, Solomon, Jr.

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Porter, Elias H. (Elias Hull), 1914-1987

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William A. Haskell

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Wyman & Co.

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J. O. Kane

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C. H. Cushman

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United States. Army. Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, 18th.

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Schrok

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Jefferson Davis

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Randolph, William J., 1922-

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Acermand, C.

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Maury, Isabel

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Baker, Bolling

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Czapo, William W.

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Geo. W. Reed & Co.

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John J. Gatling

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Mitchel, O. M. (Ormsby MacKnight), 1809-1862

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Astronomer, teacher, and Union soldier, of Cincinnati, Ohio. From the description of Papers, 1823-1862. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84185831 Astronomer and army officer. From the description of Letter of O. M. Mitchel, 1859. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454567 ...

Sarah Gibbes Barnwell

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Clogston, Luman.

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Grant National Monument Association

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Hale, John P. (John Parker), 1806-1873

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American statesman. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to A. Middleton, 1856 Apr. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270505990 From the description of Autograph letter signed : "Senate Chamber," to Captain Palmer, 1861 Jan. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270503647 U.S. district attorney, U.S. representative and senator from New Hampshire, and U.S. minister to Spain; resident of Dover, N.H. From the description of John P. Ha...

Draper, William Franklin, 1842-1910

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Draper was born in Lowell, Massachusetts on April 9, 1842, and was a descendant of early Massachusetts settler James Draper. Draper attended public, private, and high schools, he studied mechanical engineering and cotton manufacturing. During the American Civil War Draper enlisted as a private in the Twenty-fifth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, on September 9, 1861. He was soon elected Second Lieutenant of his company and was promoted rapidly to lieutenant colonel. After his disch...

Pedro V, King of Portugal, 1837-1861

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First Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Veteran Association

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Bowers, Theodore Shelton, 1832-1866

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Thomas, George Henry, 1816-1870

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Thomas was born at Newsom's Depot, Southampton County, Virginia, five miles (8 km) from the North Carolina border. His father, John Thomas, of Welsh descent, and his mother, Elizabeth Rochelle Thomas, a descendant of French Huguenot immigrants, had six children. George had three sisters and two brothers. The family led an upper-class plantation lifestyle. By 1829, they owned 685 acres (2.77 km2) and 24 slaves. John died in a farm accident when George was 13, leaving the family in financial diffi...

Cooke, Philip St. George, 1809-1895

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Cooke was born in Leesburg, Virginia, June 13, 1809. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1827 and was commissioned a brevet second lieutenant in the infantry. He served at a variety of installations in the American West and in the Black Hawk War. In 1833 he was promoted to first lieutenant in the newly formed 1st U.S. Dragoons. Cooke went on numerous trips of exploration into the Far West with the Dragoons. As Captain in command of 200 Dragoons, he disarmed and arrested Co...

Hinton, Richard J. (Richard Josiah), 1830-1901

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Richard J. Hinton was born on November 26, 1830, in London, England. Hinton crossed the Atlantic in 1851 and took up residence in New York City. While there he learned the printer's trade and soon became a newspaper reporter for several different newspapers in that city, as well as in Boston. As a reporter he opposed the Fugitive Slave Law, became an anti-slavery advocate, and assisted in the organization of the Republican Party. In June 1856 Hinton set out with other free-state emigrants, reach...

Barnard, John G., 1815-1882

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John G. Barnard was born into a large and gifted family in Sheffield, Massachusetts. His brother, Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard was a longtime educator and president of Columbia University and namesake of Barnard College in New York City. Both John and Frederick, as well as most members of their family, suffered from a hereditary form of deafness which intensified in later years. In early life, when stationed in New Orleans, Barnard married Jane Elizabeth Brand, of Maryland, with whom he had...

Bartlett, William Francis, 1840-1876

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Bartlett, the son of Charles Leonard Bartlett and his wife Harriett Dorothy Plummer, was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and entered Harvard College in 1858. The Civil War began during his junior year and, almost immediately after hearing of the surrender of Fort Sumter, Bartlett enlisted as a private with the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. Bartlett initially enlisted in the 4th Battalion Massachusetts Infantry, also known as the New Eng...

Cruso, F. H.

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United States. Congress

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Bills of the 96th Congress to provide for temporary increases in the public debt limit, and for other purposes. From the description of Public debt legislation, 96th Congress : legislative history of public debt legislation, 1979-1980. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 243776779 Bill of the 96th Congress to impose a windfall profit tax on domestic crude oil, and for other purposes. From the description of Crude oil windfall profit tax act of 1980 ...

Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884

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Wendell Phillips (born November 29, 1811, Boston, Massachusetts – died February 2, 1884, Boston, Massachusetts), orator and reformer, was one of the leaders of the abolitionist movement in Boston, Massachusetts, wrote frequently for William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator, and eventually became president of the American Anti-Slavery Society. He contributed much to the cause through inflammatory speeches favoring the division of the Union and opposing the acquisition of Texas and the war with Mexico. ...

William L. Gray

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Cibson & Co.

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Confederate States of America. Army. Kentucky Brigade, 1st

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The First Kentucky Brigade was part of the Confederate Army. it became known as the Orphan Brigade after Union troops captured Fort Donelson (1862), leaving the brigade cut off from it's home state for the duration of the war. Despite this, the Orphan Brigade distinguished itself on and off the battlefield by maintaining high morale, discipline, and effective military tactics. They lost to brigader generals in battle: Roger Weightman Hanson and Benjamin Hardin Helm. Regiments from the brigade fo...

A. J. (Alfred J.) Pleasanton

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Townsend, L. T.

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Sarah Roberts.

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Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1795-1858

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American lawyer and politician; Attorney General. From the description of Letter signed : New York, to A.J. Bleecker, 1840 July 31. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270132632 American lawyer and politician; Atty. General. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to C.H. Waddell, 1840 July 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270131665 From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to William L. Marcy, Secretary of War, 1845 Ma...

Lee, Robert Edward General

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United States Army, Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 48th.

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M. H. Kimball

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Harris, Louis

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Public opinion pollster Louis Harris was born in 1921 in New Haven, Conn. After graduating from the University of North Carolina in 1942, he served in the United States Navy Reserves, 1942-1946, then worked for pollster Elmo Roper. In 1956, Harris founded Louis Harris and Associates in New York, N.Y., where he developed what came to be known as the Harris Poll. Harris wrote several books, including Anguish of Change (1973) and Inside America (1987). Harris was John F. Ke...

Melville Emerson Webb

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Sumner, Edwin V. (Edwin Vose), 1797-1863

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American army officer. From the description of Autograph approval and signature on docketing slip of an undated application to the Governor of New York for recruits, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270574229 ...

Walcott, Charles F. (Charles Folsom)

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D. B. Spooner

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Bryant, John Emory, 1836-1900

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Abolitionist, Union officer with the 8th Maine Volunteers, agent of the Freedmen's Bureau, and Republican politician; from Union, Me. From the description of Papers, 1851-1955 and n.d. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 122509856 From the guide to the John Emory Bryant Papers, and undated, 1851-1955, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University) ...

Scott, M.

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J. R. Coxe

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Ingalls, Joseph A. (Joseph Augustus), 1841-approximately 1900

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Army officer, of Lynn and Swampscott, Mass.; served with Company I, 8th Massachusetts Volunteers during the Civil War and later with Massachusetts Militia. From the description of Military and business papers, 1862-1940 (bulk 1862-1900). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70950561 ...

Paine, Henry W. (Henry Warren), 1810-1893.

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Farnsworth, J. F. (John Franklin), 1820-1897

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Lawyer, Chicago, Illinois and Washington, D.C.; Illinois congressman, 1857-1861, 1863-1873; brigadier general, 8th Illinois Cavalry, 1861-1863. From the description of Letter: Washington, D.C, to [William C.?] Prouty, 1868 May 30. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 30366217 From the description of Letter: Washington, [D.C], 1861 March 1. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 30366221 ...

Heintzelman, Samuel Peter, 1805-1880

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Heintzelman was born in Manheim, Pennsylvania, to Peter and Ann Elizabeth Grubb Heintzelman. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1826 and was commissioned a brevet second lieutenant in the 3rd U.S. Infantry, July 1, 1826, then in the 2nd U.S. Infantry and served on the Northern frontier at Fort Gratiot, Fort Mackinac, and Fort Brady. On March 4, 1833, he was promoted to first lieutenant and served on quartermaster's duty in Florida during the Second Seminole War. On July 7, 1...

Lauman, Jacob Gartner, 1813-1867

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Lauman was born in Maryland and moved to Burlington, Iowa in 1844 where he worked as a businessman. In 1861 Governor Kirkwood appointed Lauman to the position of Colonel for the 7th Iowa Infantry. He served under General Grant and was wounded at Belmont in November, 1861. Grant promoted him to brigadier general and he commanded troops at Shiloh, Hatchie's Bridge, Vicksburg and Jackson. After the war he returned to Burlington and resumed operating his business. He died of lingering problems from ...

O'Brien, Hugh, 1827-1895

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Steedman, James B. (James Blair), 1817-1883

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F. B. Chardon

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gc6348 (person)

Robins, Edward B.

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Hall, Curtis, 1959-

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James E. Mulford

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William Taylor Smith

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Walker, Amasa, 1799-1875

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Economist and U.S. Representative; also Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth (1851-1853). From the description of Amasa Walker document signed, 1851-1852. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 232608557 ...

Gibson & Co. (Cincinnati, Ohio)

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Williams, John H.

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Charles Edward Hay

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Simmonds, Thomas

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George Warren West

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C. (Charles) Seaver.

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J. S. Bosworth

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United States Army, Illinois Infantry Regiment, 18th

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Confederate States of America. Army. Dept. No. 1.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vj2nz8 (corporateBody)

United States Army, New York Infantry Regiment, 40th

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D. D. Wheeler

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Long, William

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Epithet: of Add MS 40265 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000569.0x000381 Epithet: Captain; RN British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000569.0x00037e Epithet: of Stratton, county Somerset British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000569.0x000383 ...

Munroe, William

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Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sb4468 (person)

Lawyer. From the description of Letter, 1845 March 4, Cincinnati, [Ohio], to Robert F. Paine, Columbus, O[hio]. (University of Toledo). WorldCat record id: 13541605 Salmon P. Chase served as the Secretary of the Treasury from 1861 to 1864. He oversaw the creation of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (1862) and implemented the introduction of the income tax and the national currency. From the description of Letter press book of the Secretary of the Treasury. 1863, Ju...

F. L. Lay

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John W. Selvage

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Mallory, Stephen R. (Stephen Russell), 1813-1873

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bk214r (person)

Confederate secretary of the Navy. From the description of Autograph letter signed, 1862 Dec. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70976218 U.S. senator and Confederate secretary of the Navy, from Florida. From the description of Stephen R. Mallory papers, 1835-1873 [microfilm manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 24864421 United States senator and Confederate secretary of the Navy, from Florida. From the guide to the Stephen R. Mallory Papers, ., 1...

Goss, Warren Lee, 1835-1925

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C. G. (Christopher Gustavus) Memminger

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Goldsmith, Sanford King

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Vermont Veterans Association of Boston and Vicinity.

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Samuel Gammell

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Brooks, Noah

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Beale, James

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w681758z (person)

Historian. From the guide to the James Beale letter to Paul Leicester Ford, 1894, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Osterhaus, Peter, 1823-1917

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Holmes, E. H.

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Ransom, Thomas Edwin Greenfield, 1834-1864

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From Fayette County, Illinois, Civil War General of the 11th Illinois Infantry, who died Oct. 29, 1864, exactly one month before his thirtieth birthday. From the description of Report, June 11, 1864. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 53969467 ...

William King, 1818-1882

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6p98kgg (person)

King, Rufus, 1814-1876

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King commanded Wisconsin's "Iron Brigade" during the Civil War. In 1863 he accepted appointment as the U.S. Minister to Rome. While there, he helped apprehend John Harrison Surratt, one of the alleged conspirators in the Lincoln assassination. From the description of Papers, 1861-1867. (Auburn University). WorldCat record id: 43641813 Soldier, editor and U.S. minister to the Vatican. From the description of Letter, 15 August 1862, near Culpepper C.H., Virginia [t...

Confederate States of America. Navy

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Built in Philadelphia as the Habana, the CSS Sumter was originally used as a blockade runner in New Orleans. In 1861, she was purchased for use by the Confederate Government. Under the command of Raphael Semmes, she captured a number of Union flag merchant ships off the coasts of Cuba and South America, as well as other locations in the western hemisphere. When her boilers became unfit for use and repairs and supplies could not be obtained, she was sold at public auction at Gibraltar on December...

Loring's

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Chandler, Horace Parker

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Horace Parker Chandler, 1842-1919; real estate broker, publisher, editor, and journalist, of Boston, Mass. From the description of Horace Chandler papers, circa 1902. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 301998034 ...

Browne, G. Morgan (George Morgan)

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Samuel A. Stanfield.

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Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 51st

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Stephen L. Church

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Bangs, Isaac S. (Isaac Sparrow), 1831-

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Henderson, John B. (John Brooks), 1826-1913

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United States senator and U.S. Army general. From the description of John B. and Mary Foote Henderson collection, [ca. 1876]-1923. (Historical Society of Washington, Dc). WorldCat record id: 70966780 American political leader. From the description of Autograph letter signed : St. Louis, Mo., to Charles Devens, 1880 Jan. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270472649 From the description of Autograph letter signed : St. Louis, Mo., to President Hayes, 1877 ...

Viele, Egbert L. (Egbert Ludovicus), 1825-1902

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Civil engineer; commissioned brigadier general of volunteers in 1861, commanded Port Royal expedition and capture of Fort Pulaski; returned to civilian life 1863. From the description of Order : Savannah River, Ga., 1863 Apr. 12. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 86156136 ...

Cheong-Heng & Wing-Chong

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Drake, Morris L.

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Trimble, Isaac Ridgeway, 1802-1888

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American army officer, Confederate brig. general. From the description of Signature on report of the 7th Brigade, 3rd Division : "Near Gordonsville, Va.", 1862 Jul. 31. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270573193 ...

Henry B. Tinkham

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Tracy, Wayne B.

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Thomas Harrison Dunham

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D. L. Wilcox

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National Union of Survivors of Andersonville and other Southern Military Prisons.

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Hay, John

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Epithet: Rear-Admiral 1851 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000303.0x000236 Epithet: Rear-Admiral; CB 1837 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000303.0x000237 Epithet: Jesuit; Rector of Pont-à-Mousson College, in Lorraine British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_10000000...

Wiggin, John G.

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Frank Russell

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George Borchert

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John Hill Leyson.

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Huey, Pennock

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Jaquess, James Frazier, 1819-1898

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Pillow, Gideon Johnson, 1806-1878

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Gideon Johnson Pillow (1806-1878) was born in Williamson County, Tennessee. He practiced law with James Knox Polk (1795-1849), the 11th presdient of the United States. Pillow was appointed Brigadier General of the U.S. Volunteers in 1846 and later promoted to Major General because of his friendship with President Polk. He served during the Mexican War (1846-1848) and fought during the battles of Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo, Contreras, and Chapultepec. He was appointed Senior Major General of the Prov...

Importers and Traders National Bank (New York, N.Y.)

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Cooke, Jay, 1821-1905

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Banker, financier, and fiscal agent for the U.S. Treasury Dept. during the Civil War. From the description of Jay Cooke correspondence, 1884. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983928 During the Civil War, Jay Cooke & Co. of Philadelphia developed the idea of selling government bonds, which capitalized on feelings of patriotism at the time and which were a major source of financing the war. Jay Cooke later was heavily involved in finanacing (unsuccessfully) the Northern Pa...

Hartwell, Alfred S. (Alfred Stedman), 1836-1912

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Hartwell was born in Natick, Mass. and served in the U.S. Army during the Civil War, with a final rank of colonel. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1867, then attorney general and later Supreme Court chief justice for the Territory of Hawaii. From the description of Papers, 1862-1903 (bulk 1862-1865). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122506113 ...

Nichols, Benjamin W.

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Harney, William S. (William Selby), 1800-1889

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American army officer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Fort Bridger, Wyoming, to William W. Belknap, 1875 Sept. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270499364 From the description of Autograph letter signed : St. Louis, Missouri, to an unidentified general, 1873 Sept. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270503849 ...

Bond, Nelson Freeman, 1839-1899

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Rice, Alexander Hamilton, 1818-1895

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Featherston, Winfield Scott, 1819-1891

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Confederate general; Representative from Mississippi. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Jackson, Miss, unaddressed, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270521482 Born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee; fought in the war against the Creek Indians; studied law and began a legal career in 1840; United States Congressman from Mississippi 1847-1851; Mississippi legislator 1876-1878 and 1880-1882; brigadier general in Loring's Division during the Civil War; judge of th...

N. S. White

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United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 63rd.

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Little Prairie Chicken

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Tracy, Henry A.

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Hall, John M.

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Peirson, Charles Lawrence, 1834-1920.

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Peirson (Harvard, S.B. 1853, A.M.[Hon.] 1898) graduated from the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard. He entered the Civil War as first lieutenant, 20th Massachusetts Voluntary Infantry, was taken prisoner in Oct. 1861, returned to active service with the 39th Massachusetts Voluntary Infantry in Aug. 1862 as lieutenant colonel, and was promoted to colonel, then brigadier general by Mar. 1865 when he retired because of wounds and disability. He became a merchant in wholesale pig iron and coke (...

Confederate States of America Post Office Dept.

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Charles Hale Morgan

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Carter, William H. (William Harding), 1851-1925

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Army officer. From the description of William H. Carter papers, 1886-1919. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979860 Major General, U.S. Army. During Indian wars, served at Fort Robinson, Army post at Red Cloud Agency, northwestern Nebraska. Named Camp Robinson Mar. 29, 1874; renamed Fort Robinson Jan. 1878. Active military garrison during Indian wars of the late 19th century. After World War II, facility was declared surplus and turned over to U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. ...

Palfrey, Francis Winthrop, 1831-1889

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An officer in the Federal Army during the Civil War, and from 1872, a register of Bankruptcy in Boston. Author of "Antietam and Fredericksburg" and "Memoirs of William Francis Bartlett." From the description of F. W. Palfrey letter to unidentified recipients [manuscript], May 15. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 228070066 American historian. ...

Butler, M. C. (Matthew Calbraith), 1836-1909

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U.S. Senator from South Carolina. From the description of Signature to printed form : Washington, 1880 Dec. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270132690 From the description of Papers, 1851-1920. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36547519 Confederate solider and lawyer, of Edgefield, S.C.; member of S.C. House, 1860-1861 and 1866-1867; member of U.S. Congress, 1877-1895; son of William Butler (1790-1850). From the description of Matthew Calb...

Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901

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Queen Victoria was the only child of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. She was born on May 24, 1819 at Kensington Palace in London and she became heir to the throne when her father died. In 1837, she became Queen at the age of 18. During the early part of her reign, she was influenced by two men: her first Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne, and then her husband, Prince Albert, whom she married in 1840. Both men taught her much about how to be ...

Winfield Scott, 1837-1910

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Kellogg, S. C.

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Charles William Clapp Rhoades

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Price, John W., 1922-2006

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Rogers, Annette Perkins 1841-1920

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Porter, David D. (David Dixon), 1813-1891

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U.S. naval officer. From the description of Papers, 1847-1877. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20077865 Admiral David Dixon Porter was born in Chester, PA, on June 8, 1813. He was instrumental in Farragut's capturing of New Orleans in 1862 when he set off 20,000 bombs to destroy the Confederate forts, Jackson and Saint Philip. This allowed Farragut to sail past the forts and up the Mississippi to New Orleans. He also was instrumental in the Battle of Vicksburg...

Cummings, William, d. 1863

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Willard, Wells

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Jameson, Charles Davis, 1827-1862

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Hamlin, Augustus C. (Augustus Choate), 1829-1905

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Surgeon and historian. From the description of Augustus C. Hamlin autograph letter signed, 1861. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70978466 ...

Folsom, C. W. (Charles William), 1826-1904

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Civil engineer and landscape gardener of Cambridge. From the description of Papers, 1863-1876. (Boston Public Library). WorldCat record id: 37939110 A trained civil engineer born to Harvard's librarian in 1826, upon the outbreak of the Civil War, Charles W. Folsom, Jr. entered the military. He was mustered in July 1, 1861 as a 1st Lieutenant in Company S of the Massachusetts 20th Infantry Regiment of Volunteers. He was eventually promoted to full Captain an March 13, 1865. H...

F. R. (Frederic Russell) Sturgis

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Higinbotham, Harlow N. (Harlow Niles), 1838-1919

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A prominent Chicago (Ill.) merchant, philanthropist partner in the firm of Marshall Field & Co., a director of the World's Columbian Exposition (later the World's Fair) of 1893, the head of the Field Museum of Natural History, and had a number of personal benefactions such as the Chicago Home for Incurables. From the description of Journal, 1886. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 40067206 ...

United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 24th.

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United States. Army. Connecticut Infantry Regiment, 5th.

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William Bond & Sons

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Knight, John

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Epithet: Captain; Harbour-master at St. George's, Grenada British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000753.0x00001b Epithet: Prebendary of Heytesbury British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000753.0x00002d Epithet: of Staples Inn British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000753....

United States Army, Ohio Infantry Regiment, 62nd

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Bright, John D.

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Clarke, John B. (John Badger), 1820-1891

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United States Army, Maine Mounted Artillery Regiment, 5th

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Thompson, James Edward

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Griswold, Charles E.

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Loudon S. Langley

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Capt. Williams

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Parker, Ely Samuel, 1828-1895

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Seneca sachem born at Indian Falls, Genesee County, N.Y. in 1828; raised on the Tonawanda Reservation. Studied law and civil engineering; appointed superintendant of government works at Galena, Ill. in 1857, where he became a friend of Ulysses S. Grant. Served during the Civil War as Gen. Grant's secretary. Appointed U. S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs by President Grant. Died at Fairfield, Conn. in 1895. From the description of Ely S. Parker correspondence and paper on the Iroquois...

Smith, John L.

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Smart Tillman

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Lower Brule Sioux Tribe of the Lower Brule Reservation, South Dakota.

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Manhattan Engraving Company

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Milroy, Robert Huston, 1816-1890

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Milroy was born on a farm near the hamlet of Canton, five miles east of Salem, Indiana, but the family moved to Carroll County in 1826. He graduated from Norwich Academy in Vermont in 1843. He moved to Texas in 1845, returning to Indiana in 1847. He was a captain in the 1st Indiana Volunteers during the Mexican War, but did not see any combat action. He graduated from Indiana University Law School in 1850 and became a lawyer and judge in Rensselaer, Indiana. Just before Abraham Lincoln was in...

United States. Army. Volunteer Infantry Regiment, 1st.

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McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1865-1940

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George Brinton McClellan (b. Nov. 23, 1865, Dresden, Germany-d. Nov. 30, 1940, Washington, D.C.), Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army, Member, U.S. House of Representatives, and Mayor of New York City, had a varied career after graduating from Princeton University and earning a law degree. He worked as a newspaper reporter, was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1892, and was elected to the U.S. Congress for five terms from 1895 to 1903, resigning in 1903 having been elected Mayor of New York...

Rose, Thomas Elwood, b. 1830

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Carter, D. A.

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Kirk, Edward Norris, 1802-1874

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Edward Norris Kirk, clergyman, was born in New York City. He was educated at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), where he graduated in 1820. After studying law for eighteen months in New York City, he entered Princeton Theological Seminary and remained there four years, after which he was appointed agent of the Board of foreign missions, and traveled through the south in its behalf. In 1827 he was ordained assistant pastor of the second Presbyterian Church in Albany, and in 182...

Almon A. Spooner

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Tyler Robert C., d. 1865.

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Winslow, George F.

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Graham, Charles Kinnard, 1824-1889

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Hospital Pinkney (Memphis, Tenn.)

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Augustus N. Sampson

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Kenly, John Reese, 1822-1891

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Rampson?, George J.

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W. Hunt

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Wales, Sigourney

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Helen L. Gilson

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Murray, Eli H. (Eli Houston), 1843-1896

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King, Cornelius

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Page Saunders

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Rosecrans, William S. (William Starke), 1819-1898

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General during the Civil War; congressman from California (1881-1885); U.S. Register of the Treasury (1885-1893). From the description of Papers, 1864-1895. (University of Notre Dame). WorldCat record id: 24039377 William Starke Rosecrans was an inventor, coal-oil company executive, diplomat, politician, and United States Army officer during the Civil War. He was the victor at prominent Western Theater battles such as Second Corinth, Stones River, and the Tullahoma Campaign,...

Goldsborough, Louis Malesherbes, 1805-1877

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Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough (1805-1877), U.S. naval officer, was Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy. From the description of Louis M. Goldsborough papers, 1821-1873. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122517515 From the guide to the Louis M. Goldsborough papers, 1821-1873, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Naval officer and superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy. From the description of Correspondence, 1827...

United States Army, Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 39th

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Winslow, Edward Francis, 1837-1914

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Soldier and railroad builder. From the description of Papers of Edward Francis Winslow, 1862-1917. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233108168 From the description of Papers, 1862-1917. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 28411504 ...

Botts, John Minor, 1802-1869

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Botts was born in Dumfries, Virginia to prominent lawyer Benjamin Gaines Botts (1776 - 1811) and his wife Jane Tyler Botts (1782 - 1811). Both of his parents died in the Richmond Theatre fire on 26 December 1811, so John and his siblings were raised by relatives in Fredericksburg. Botts attended the common schools in Richmond, Virginia, then studied law. He married Mary Whiting Blair (1801-1841), and they had several children. Two sons (John and Alexander) died very young; their firstborn son...

United States. Army. Rhode Island Light Artillery Regiment, 1st

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E. McCormick

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Horatio S. Libby

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David E. Herrold

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United States Army, New York Infantry Regiment, 178th.

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United States Army, Connecticut Infantry Regiment, 10th, Company F

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Baldwin & Stevens

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Grand Army of the Republic, Theodore Winthrop Post No. 35

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John Tyler Smith

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Joinville, François-Ferdinand-Philippe-Louis-Marie d'Orléans, prince de, 1818-1900

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John W. Beaton

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Pezet, Juan Antonio, 1810-1879

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Frost, Sylvester C.

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Confederate States of America. Adjutant and Inspector-General's Office

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Alexander Hunter, b. 1843

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Crowninshield, Francis Welch, 1842-1866

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Wheeler, H. L.

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G. W. Venner

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Lane, Henry Smith, 1811-1881

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Governor of Indiana, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and U.S. senator. From the description of Papers, 1828-1909. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 700522747 Mexican War soldier. From the description of Letter, 1846 Nov. 5. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 46613665 ...

Hill, Herbert E.

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United States. Army. Vermont Heavy Artillery Regiment, 1st.

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United States Army, Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 10th

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Kneeland, Samuel, 1821-1888

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Physician and naturalist of Boston. From the description of Letter, 1887, Mar. 9 : Boston, to Prof. Le Metayer de Guichainville, New York. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35130210 Samuel Kneeland was a physician and zoologist. From the description of Correspondence, 1883-1888. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122616041 From the guide to the Samuel Kneeland correspondence, 1883-1888, 1883-1888, (American Philosophical S...

Hart, Peter, 1822 or 3-1892

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Cutting?

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Clarke, Albert, 1840-1911

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Foster, Charles A.

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Whittier, Edward Newton

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U. S. Grant

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W. A. Gray

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Smith, Frederick M.

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Ricketts, Robert Bruce, 1839-1918

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John Joseph Abercrombie.

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Haley, Matt

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United States Army, New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, 5th, Company K

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Thomas Russell, 1825-1887

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Hunt, Charles, 1924-

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Epithet: Lieutenant British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001031.0x000217 ...

Cragin, Aaron H. (Aaron Harrison), 1821-1898

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U.S. representative from New Hampshire and lawyer. From the description of Letters, 1885. (Portsmouth Athenaeum Library & Museum). WorldCat record id: 70926239 U.S. senator and representative from New Hampshire. From the description of Aaron Harrison Cragin correspondence, 1855-1873. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450002 ...

Alexander Wallace Given

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United States Army, Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, 5th.

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KELLY, JOHN

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Epithet: MD, Regius Professor of Physic, Oxford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000509.0x0002f3 Epithet: physician, of Moville British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000509.0x0002f6 Epithet: Ensign; 60th Regt British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000509.0x0002f1 ...

Wood, Thomas John

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Rawlins, John A. (John Aaron), 1831-1869

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American lawyer and soldier. From the description of Document signed : War Department, 1869 Aug. 31. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270616341 Colonel and close friend of Grant. From the description of John A. Rawlins letter, 1863 Jan. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 631793518 Lawyer from Galena, Ill. who was a military aide to General Grant during the Civil War and his close personal friend. From the description of Letter, April 5, 1866. (A...

W. R. (William R.) Bond

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C. W. (Charles William) Folsom

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Draper, F. W.

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Gorman & Jordan

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Galt, Francis L., 1831 or 32-1915

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Francis L. Galt of Virginia was a surgeon in the Confederate States Navy. He served on the C.S.S. Sumter, and the C.S.S. Alabama. He was born around 1831 and died in 1915. From the description of Francis L. Galt letter, 1906 (Georgia Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 44598817 Physician and naval surgeon. From the description of Francis L. Galt papers, 1870-1875. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70984360 ...

Arthur H.\Clark Company

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Arthur H. Clark Company is a family owned and operated publishing and bookselling business founded in 1902. Originally located in Glendale, California, the company headquarters now reside in Spokane, Washington. The company specializes in publishing non-fiction books on the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West. In the mid-1960s, the company realized that many of their original manuscripts were sitting in their vault. From the description of Arthur H. Clark Co. manu...

Belknap, William Worth, 1829-1890

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William Worth Belknap was born in Newburgh, New York on September 22, 1829, the son of career soldier William G. Belknap and Anne (Clark) Belknap. Belknap's father had fought with distinction in the War of 1812, Florida War, and Mexican–American War. Belknap attended the local schools in Newburgh, and graduated from Princeton University in 1848. In addition to attending Princeton with Hiester Clymer, the Democratic Congressman who later led the investigation into Belknap's War Department corrupt...

Robert Cowdin.

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Joseph Ward

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Kelso, J. R. M

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Sherburne, Frank M.

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Hooper, L. E. (Mrs. Samuel C.)

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Johnson, Bradley T. (Bradley Tyler), 1829-1903

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Confederate general and author. After the war he practiced law in Richmond, Va., and Baltimore, Md., and served in the Virginia State Senate. From the description of Papers of Bradley T. Johnson, 1676-1937 (bulk 1840-1896). (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32136031 Confederate soldier; lawyer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Richmond, Va., to W.W. Belknap, 1873 Dec. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270489534 From the desc...

Wood, Fernando, 1812-1881

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American politician. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to an unidentified recipient, 1867 Nov. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270583855 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to G.L. Ford, 1864 Jun. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270583848 Mayor of New York, N.Y., and U.S. representative of New York. From the description of Fernando Wood correspondence, 1859 December 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record i...

Henry H. Sturgis)

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Ellis, Augustus Van Horn

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United States. Army. Pennsylvania Artillery Regiment, 2nd.

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Parker, Francis M. (Francis Marion), 1827-1905

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Francis Marion Parker was born in Tarboro, N.C., in 1827. He was educated in schools in Greensboro and Raleigh, N.C., and then farmed in eastern North Carolina. In 1861, Parker was elected colonel of the 30th North Carolina Infantry Regiment. He served in this position until wounded in May 1864. Parker saw action in several battles, including the Battles of Sharpsburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Spotsylvania. After the war, Parker continued to manage his plantation until his death in 1905...

Kidder, Henry P. (Henry Purkitt), 1823-1886

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D. (Daniel) Eldredge, b. 1841

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Curtis, Newton Martin, 1835-1910

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Curtis was born in De Peyster, New York. Upon graduating from the Gouverneur Wesleyan Seminary, Curtis became a teacher, lawyer, and postmaster of De Peyster. In the year prior to the Civil War, he was working as a farmer. Curtis stood an impressive 6' 7" tall and weighed 225 pounds. His enormous size for the time period prompted even Abraham Lincoln to quip, "Mr. Curtis, how do you know when your feet are cold?" His stature became an issue of concern to his family when the Civil War began as...

Powers, C. R.

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Endicott, William Crowninshield, 1826-1900

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William Crowninshield Endicott was Secretary of War from 1885 to 1889. Josiah Royce was author of California, from the conquest in 1846 to the second vigilance committee in San Francisco, which was published in 1886. From the description of Letter to Josiah Royce, 1885, Apr. 9. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122288820 ...

Chew, Robert S.

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Pitcher, Thomas Gamble, 1824-1895

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Barnard & Gibson

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Dimick?

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Robert Hallowell Gardiner, 1809-1886

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James W. Coakley

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West, James B.

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Army officer. From the description of James B. West papers, 1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981470 ...

P. M. Clark

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Sykes, George, 1822-1880

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Sykes was born in Dover, Delaware. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1842 and graduated 39th out of 56 cadets. It was during his time as cadet that he acquired the nicknames "Tardy George" and "Slow Trot" Sykes. He was commissioned as a brevet second lieutenant in the 3rd U.S. Infantry. He served in the Second Seminole War, Mexican–American War, and numerous other conflicts. Sykes was brevetted as a captain for actions at the Battle of Cerro Gordo. By virtue of his servi...

Trilley, Joseph

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Mansfield, Joseph K. F. (Joseph King Fenno), 1803-1862

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American army officer. From the description of Autograph despatch signed, in pencil : [n.p.], to General Wool, 1862 Mar. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270605250 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Suffolk, Va., to Brig. Gen. Totten, 1862 June 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270607555 Army officer. From the description of Papers of Joseph K. F. Mansfield, 1853-1862. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79455446 Joseph King Fenno M...

Peter E. Hubon

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J.A. Rueff

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United States. Army. Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, 4th.

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Stringham, Silas Horton, 1798-1876

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American naval officer. From the description of Endorsement of an order : Norfolk, Va., 1851 Nov. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270580762 Stringham was an admiral in the Union navy during the Civil War, 1861-1865. From the description of Letter, July 11, 1864. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 741500251 Naval officer. From the description of Papers, 1861-1889. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155451542 ...

Hunt, Henry Jackson, 1819-1889

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Henry Jackson Hunt was a United States (U.S.) Army captain in Battery M, 2nd United States Artillery Regiment during the U.S. Civil War. From the description of Henry Jackson Hunt papers, undated. (US Army, Mil Hist Institute). WorldCat record id: 50047707 U.S. Army officer and public official. From the description of Papers of Henry Jackson Hunt, 1841-1978 (bulk 1862-1889). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83609211 Henry J. Hunt was a friend of General Br...

Cadart & Luquet

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Blake, Henry Nichols, 1838-1933

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A. G. Campbell

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Opdyke, Emerson, 1830-1884

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H. H. Helper

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Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 8th

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Robinson, Francis Pleasant, 1906-

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Virginia. Militia. Regiment, 117th.

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Daland, John

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Eugene Anderson Maffit

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Blakeslee, Erastus, 1838-1908

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Thatcher, Henry Knox, 1806-1880

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Career officer in Navy, 1823-1868. From the description of Papers, 1833-1866. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122622988 From the description of Henry Knox Thatcher papers, 1833-1866. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 247038344 American naval officer. From the description of Order signed : North Pacific Squadron, U.S. Flag Ship Vanderbilt off San Fancisco, 1867 Jan. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270571877 Henry Knox Thatcher (1806-1880) was an a...

United States Army, Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 29th

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Beall, John Y. (John Yates), 1835-1865

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John Yates Beall (1835-1865), Confederate soldier and acting master in the Confederate Navy. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Beall joined Company G of the 2nd Virginia Volunteers. After accepting a naval appointment in 1863, Beall led a failed attempt to free Confederate prisoners on Johnson's Island in Sandusky Bay, Ohio. He was captured soon after, tried before a Union military commission for espionage and violating the laws of war, and hanged at Governor's Island, N.Y., on 24 February 1865....

M. (Mansfield) French

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Louisiana. Constitutional Convention (1844-1845)

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Virginia. General Assembly

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Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: <a href="http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Democratic Party of Virginia">http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Democratic Party of Virginia</a>. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: <a href="http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Democratic Party (Va.)">http://scrc...

Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 47th

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Brainerd, Herbert

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Cortina, Juan N. (Juan Nepomuceno), 1824-1894

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Brown, B. Gratz (Benjamin Gratz), 1826-1885

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J. B. Howard

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George D. Walker

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Huger, Rebecca

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P. C. F. West

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Berkeley, William, active 17th century

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Epithet: appraiser and cabinet-maker, of Upton-on-Severn British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001243.0x0003c2 ...

Leggett, Mortimer Dormer, 1821-1896

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Union soldier; lawyer; commissioner of patents. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Zanesville, Ohio, to W.W. Belknap, [18]70 Nov. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270598241 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cleveland, to President Hayes, 1877 May 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270595681 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cleveland, to J.M. Dalzell, 1875 Aug. 31. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270595685 Col...

Eustis, Henry Lawrence, 1819-1885

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United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 2nd

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Oneida (Ship : 1866)

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The U.S.S. Steam sloop Oneida was a screw corvette of 1032 tons and nine guns. Under the command of United States naval officer S. Phillips Lee for the period of the Civil War covered in the diary, the Oneida participated in an expedition up the Mississippi River to Vicksburg, Miss.; engaged in the blockade of Mobile, Ala.; made monthly stops in Pensacola, Fla., for refueling; and visited the Lesser Antilles. From the guide to the Oneida Ship's Diary, 1862-1863, (University of North ...

Hurley, John F. (John Francis), 1844-1935

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Norton Folsom.

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G. M. (Giles M.) Pease

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Hiram Leonard Marvin

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Raphael Semmes

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Harris, Wesley T., 1836-1911.

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United States Army, Connecticut Infantry Regiment, 17th.

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Douglas, Archibald T.

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Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1861

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Royal consort of Queen Victoria. From the description of Albert, Prince Consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, correspondence, 1853-1935. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79423552 Places: England Title: Prince Consort of Queen Victoria British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000472.0x000032 ...

N. Hollis

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W. S. Hall)

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Peabody, Ezra Brown, 1820-1894.

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Haupt, Herman, 1817-1905

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Herman Haupt was born in Philadelphia in 1817 and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1835. He resigned his commission to become a civil engineer. He was employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad and in 1856 undertook work on the Hoosac Tunnel for the Troy and Greenfield Railroad in Massachusetts. From 1862 to 1863 he served as chief of construction and transportation on the United States military railroads and retired with the rank of brigadier-general of volunteers. In 1876 he und...

Dodge, Theodore Ayrault, 1842-1909

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Army officer, military historian, and author. From the description of Journal of Theodore Ayrault Dodge, 1862-1863. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068496 ...

Franklin, William Buel, 1823-1903

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Educated West Point, graduated 1843. Served in Mexican-American War, as Professor at West Point for three years and as an engineer until the outbreak of the Civil War. As a Union Army General, he saw action at Antietam and Fredericksburg. After the war he became manager of Colt Firearms. From the description of W. B. Franklin letter to Col. George E. Waring, Jr. [manuscript], 1870 Jul 1. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 225134864 Army officer. From t...

Tyler, Robert Ogden, 1831-1874

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Jas. W. Turner

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Davis, G. F.

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Patterson, Robert, 1792-1881

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Robert Patterson was editor of the Presbyterian Banner of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. From the guide to the Robert Patterson papers, 1879-1880, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Ordway, Albert, 1843-1897

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Hooker Association of Massachusetts.

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Vaught

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United States Army, Rhode Island Infantry Regiment, 11th.

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Folsom, Norton

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Carleton, Charles M.

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Blaisdell, Chas. P.

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H. M. Noble

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V. P. De Baldivvia

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D. H. Cole

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Minnesota (Ship)

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Whaling vessel; out of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by David E. Allen, on voyage from 11 July 1876-27 June 1879, to the Black Sea Rangers and Cornell whaling grounds; owner-agent: William Lewis; built at Philadelpia, Pa., 1849. From the description of Logbook of the ship Minnesota, 1876 June 11-1877 May 20. (Old Dartmouth Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 228438952 ...

Lee, Alfred E. (Alfred Emory), 1838-

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Endicott, William

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Corby, William, 1833-1897

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He was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Daniel Corby, an Irish immigrant, and his wife Elizabeth, a Canadian. He attended public school until age 16, then joined his father's real estate business. In 1853, he enrolled in the 10-year-old college of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, and began study for the priesthood three years later. Following ordination, he taught at Notre Dame, and served as a local parish priest. Corby left his position at Notre Dame and joined the predominately Catholic Iri...

Crook, George, 1829-1890

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Crook was born to Thomas and Elizabeth Matthews Crook on a farm near Taylorsville, Montgomery County, Ohio (near Dayton). Nominated to the United States Military Academy by Congressman Robert Schenck, he graduated in 1852, ranking near the bottom of his class. He was assigned to the 4th U.S. infantry as brevet second lieutenant, serving in California, 1852–61. He served in Oregon and northern California, alternately protecting or fighting against several Native American tribes. He commanded t...

Thomas, Joseph B. (Joseph Brown), 1879-1955

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Sunday Herald

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Huron (Ship)

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Whaling vessel, out of Sag Harbor, N.Y., mastered by a Captain Green; owner-agent: L.D. Cook. From the description of Log/journal, 1843 Feb. 28-Sept. 24. (Nantucket Hist Association). WorldCat record id: 71013340 ...

Dwight, Theodore F.

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Epithet: American historian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000976.0x000272 ...

J. C. Deutch

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Crocker, Marcellus Monroe, 1830-1865

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Crocker was born in Franklin, Indiana. He entered the United States Military Academy in 1847, but left at the end of his second year. He subsequently studied law and practiced in Des Moines, Iowa. With the outbreak of the Civil War, he entered the army as the captain of the 2nd Iowa Infantry in May 1861. He was promoted to colonel of the 13th Iowa Infantry on December 30, 1861. Crocker fought with distinction in the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862, where he assumed command of a brigade during ...

Koser, Reinhold

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Rockwell's

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Richardson, Israel Bush, 1815-1862

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United States. Army. Signal Corps

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Congress passed a resolution creating a national weather service on February 9, 1870, and it was signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. This new law directed the Secretary of War to take meterological observations and provide warnings of approaching storms. The Brevet Brigadier General Albert J. Myer and his Signal Service Corps were assigned this duty on February 25, 1870 by the Secretary of War. Weather observations began on November 1, 1870. In June 1872, Congress extended the weather...

United States. Army. Cavalry, 5th

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Cavalry unit in the United States Army that participated in the campaigns against the Indians of the American West. From the description of Correspondence and orders, 1864-1881. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122699624 From the guide to the United States Army 5th Calvary correspondence and orders, 1864-1881, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

John Rostron

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Gray, G. W.

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Epithet: Lieutenant-Colonel British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000982.0x000011 ...

Philp & Solomons

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Du Pont, Samuel Francis

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William V. Munroe

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Busnell, G. E.

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How, George P.

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Florida Land and Lumber Company.

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Stone, Cara Elizabeth (Hanscom) Whiton-, 1831-

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Peebles, William

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Charles W. Elwell

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Bancroft, Frederic

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xr0x56 (person)

Campbell, Charles A.

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Francis, James, Jr., 1976-

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Epithet: of Add MS 36052 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001094.0x0001ec Epithet: writer of plays British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000564.0x0002cd ...

Davis, David

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Epithet: schoolmaster, of Little Cornard British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000213.0x0001ff ...

Harris, Elisha, 1791-1861

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63g8p6k (person)

Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64b2zg4 (person)

Confederate Army officer, planter, and engineer. From the description of Braxton Bragg papers, 1833-1879 [microform]. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 44880220 Confederate General. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Mobile, to H. Storm, 1873 Oct. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133497 Army officer. From the description of Braxton Bragg papers, 1861-1863. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79455179 G...

R. J. Chute

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Henry A. Smythe

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Parke, John G.

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American army officer and engineer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington? to William W. Belknap, 187? Aug. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270611461 ...

Corwin, Thomas, 1794-1865

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6g44nwk (person)

U.S. congressman 1830-1840 and senator 1845-1850; Ohio governor 1840-1842; U.S. sec. of the Treasury, 1850-1853. From the description of Letter, 1847 Jan. 26. (Ohio Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 41240210 American politician. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington City, to John M. Clayton, Secretary of State, 1849 Mar. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270530944 Corwin's career included terms as Governor of Ohio (1840-184...

Whipple, William D. (William Denison), 1826-1902

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fj2q6h (person)

W. F. de Leo?

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kb6rg6 (person)

Hawley, William

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tc4wmd (person)

United States. Army. New York Cavalry Regiment, 13th.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ch2w0x (corporateBody)

Aldrich, P. Emory (Peleg Emory), 1813-1895

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61w39tq (person)

Author of legal books. From the description of Peleg Emory Aldrich letter, 1888 March 10, Worcester, to William H. Whitmore. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63935452 ...

Drew, J. D.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61h562k (person)

Rodes, Robert Emmett, 1829-1864

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69k682z (person)

Confederate general; of Lynchburg, Va.; killed in battle in the Shenandoah Valley. From the description of Civil War letter of Gen. Robert E. Rodes, ca. 1862. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71057253 ...

Seddon, James A. (James Alexander), 1815-1880

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64m99gp (person)

Representative from Virginia; Confederate Secretary of War. From the description of Autograph letter in pencil signed : [n.p.], to R.J. Walker, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270633277 Confederate Secretary of War. From the description of Letter to Dr. [Lewis] [manuscript], 1853 November 9. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647986794 From the description of Papers, 1862-1865. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20313944 ...

George E. Perine

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Buchtel & Cardwell

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pt159s (corporateBody)

Comsett

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cs91bg (corporateBody)

Case & Getchell

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6264s3w (corporateBody)

Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Cavalry Regiment, 2nd

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64512tr (corporateBody)

Volman?

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6f89jk8 (corporateBody)

Archer N. Martin

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Ellis, Daniel

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tf48z4 (person)

Carver General Hospital (Washington, D.C.)

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Hill, Sally J.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6819cn4 (person)

Mary Anna Morrison Jackson

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Moore, Joseph Augustus

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Kimball

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Hilliard, W.

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Kipp, Charles J. (Charles John), 1838-1911

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6n87xt2 (person)

Barlow, Francis C., 1834-1896

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Barlow was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a Unitarian minister, but was raised in his mother's home town of Brookline, Massachusetts. He studied law at Harvard University, graduated first in his class, and was practicing law on the staff of the New York Tribune newspaper when the Civil War broke out in 1861. In April 1861, Barlow enlisted as a private in the 12th Regiment, New York State Militia, leaving behind his new bride, Arabella Wharton Griffith Barlow, ten years his senior, aft...

J. H. Bufford

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67j5g7b (person)

Row, Amos

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cm2f68 (person)

Laighton Bros. & Co.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hn8gcs (corporateBody)

Lincoln Farm Association

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National association, headquartered in New York, formed in an effort to preserve the farm where Abraham Lincoln was born. From the description of Records, 1906, 1908. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 52459511 The Lincoln Farm Association was founded in 1906 to preserve the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln in Kentucky. From the description of Membership certificate, February 9, 1909. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record i...

Reed, John H. (John Hathaway), 1921-2012

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Governor of Maine. From the description of Oral history interview, 1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70957465 Governor of Maine and U.S. ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldive Islands. From the description of Christmas cards, 1962-1963. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70926051 ...

Paine, F. C. (Mrs. Charles Jackson)

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United States Army, Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 47th, Company G

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63331gm (corporateBody)

French, Jonas H. (Jonas Hanod)

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Dempsey, James

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Grace, William Russell, 1832-1904

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Bird, John E. (John Everett), 1862-1928

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pg5nb3 (person)

Thomas, Lorenzo, 1804-1875

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s46stw (person)

Thomas was born in New Castle, Delaware. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1823, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 4th U.S. Infantry. He fought in the Seminole War in Florida and, during the Mexican–American War, he was the chief of staff to General William O. Butler. He received a brevet promotion to lieutenant colonel for Monterrey, which was made permanent in 1852. From 1853 to 1861, he served as chief of staff to the commanding general of the U.S. Army, Wi...

Allen, Julian

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6n72dtm (person)

Colonel Julian Allen came from Russian Poland to New Orleans, La. in 1849, lived in New York from 1850, aided the United States government in connection with Sherman's occupation of Savannah, Ga., and settled after the war near Statesville in Iredell County, N.C., where he was prominent in farming. From the guide to the Julian Allen Scrapbook, ., 1860-1878, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

David Wood.

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Butler, Benjamin Franklin, 1818-1893

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Benjamin Franklin Butler was born in Deerfield, New Hampshire, the sixth and youngest child of John Butler and Charlotte Ellison Butler. His father served under General Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812 and later became a privateer, dying of yellow fever in the West Indies not long after Benjamin was born. He was named after Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. His elder brother, Andrew Jackson Butler (1815–1864), would serve as a colonel in the Union Army during t...

Barnes, Horace F.

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United States. Army. New Jersey Infantry Regiment, 13th.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cw30t3 (corporateBody)

Oil painting of man's head, cut roughly along edges.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61t0ps0 (person)

Rand, Arnold A. (Arnold Augustus), 1837-1917

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Nathaniel P. Banks was a congressman, governor of Massachusetts, and general in the Federal Army during the Civil War. Banks commanded the Department of the Gulf and participated in battles including Front Royal, Winchester, Cedar Mountain, Port Hudson, and Baton Rouge. He married Mary Theodosia Palmer, a former factory employee, on April 11, 1847, at Providence, R.I., after a lengthy courtship. From the description of Arnold A. Rand letter, 1894. (Louisiana State University). WorldC...

United States. Army. Massachusetts Light Artillery Battery, 11th.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67r289p (corporateBody)

J. W. Page

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ph56mn (person)

William Schouler.

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United States Army, New York Artillery, Independent Battery, 3rd

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bh5t72 (corporateBody)

Goodhart, Briscoe, 1845-1927

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qk4w5q (person)

Keyes, Erasmus D. (Erasmus Darwin), 1810-1895

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64f2634 (person)

Brigadier General commanding the 4th Corps of the Army of the Potomac located, on the date of the letter, at Harrison's Bar, Virginia. From the description of Letter, July 10, 1862. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 52112401 ...

Smith, Charles Henry, 1827-1902

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65f1ss2 (person)

Eaton, John, 1829-1906

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A New Hampshire native, Colonel Eaton was the General Superintendent of Freedmen for Mississippi, Arkansas, West Tennessee and Northern Louisiana from 1862 - 1865. Eaton served with the 9th Regiment Louisiana Infantry (African Descent) and recruited men for the 7th Regiment Louisiana Infantry (African Descent). From the description of John Eaton letter, 1864 Jan. 30. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 265753858 Union Army chaplain; Tennessee Superintendent of ...

United States Army New York Infantry Regiment, 44th

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xq3n5p (corporateBody)

Herbert C. Mason)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mb3r3f (person)

W. E. (William Emery) Merrill

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63g8872 (person)

Bradley & Rulofson

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65q8tq0 (corporateBody)

William Humphreys

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Brooks, James C.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6g58xqh (person)

United States Army, Colored Infantry Regiment, 33rd

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Pennsylvania Soldiers' and Sailors' Home

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Osborn, Thomas Ward, 1833-1898

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Colgate class of 1860. Officer in Civil War. Active in Reconstruction. Senator from the state of Florida. Two books of Osborn's Civil War correspondence and journals have been published to date. From the description of [Papers.]. (Colgate University). WorldCat record id: 23122909 Lawyer, Senator. Born in Scotch Plains, Union County, N.J., March 9, 1833, Osborn moved to New York in 1842 with his parents, who settled in North Wilna. He attended the com...

James Monroe

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fp566t (person)

D?, Marcus M.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wn4xp3 (person)

Hurst, Samuel H.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mb4w6t (person)

W. Grinstead

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Hawley, Joseph R. (Joseph Roswell), 1826-1905

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rx9bcf (person)

Former Union general; U.S. senator from Connecticut (1881-1905). From the description of Autograph memorandum, [between 1881-1905]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70973305 American Amry officer; United States senator from Connecticut. From the description of Autograph telegram signed : Wilmington, N.C., to Major Prince, 1865 May 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270479165 The April 29, 1868 issue of the Hartford (Conn.) Post, page 2, column 2, quotes fr...

Greenleaf, Joseph W.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65r8qvw (person)

Rice, John Hovey, 1816-1911

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w632080r (person)

Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company

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The Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company (chartered 1848) merged with the Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad Company in 1940 to form the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company. From the description of Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company receipt book, 1855-1856, 1859-1864. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 318651456 ...

Peirce, Henry Bailey

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Russell

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McClure, Charles

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rp5ss8 (person)

United States Army, Maine Artillery Regiment, 1st

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67v0wsp (corporateBody)

Borden, Edward K.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t865f6 (person)

Bird, William G.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gp2bwm (person)

J. W. Davies & Sons

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6n71wdn (corporateBody)

Society of the Army of the Cumberland

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dv59q6 (corporateBody)

Civil war veterans organization; formed ca. 1868. From the description of Society of the Army of the Cumberland records, 1862-1912. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 228824873 ...

Buffington, Herbert

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67v1jd0 (person)

R. O. (Robert Ogden) Tyler

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kj412f (person)

Cole, F. W.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xj39h9 (person)

Parker, Torrance

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hz4sr1 (person)

Thornton, John Wingate, 1818-1878

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60k2ghz (person)

John Wingate Thornton (1818-1878), a Boston lawyer, historian and antiquary, was a founder of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and was elected to membership in the American Antiquarian Society in 1855. He authored several books, including _The Landing at Cape Ann_ (Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1854) and _The Pulpit of the American Revolution_ (Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1860), as well as several articles and pamphlets, including _The First Records of Anglo-American Colonization: Their...

Stevenson, R. H. (Robert Horne), 1920-1998

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Miles Colbath

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65p04pw (person)

Hyde, John McE.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xv0393 (person)

Soldiers' Home Bazaar (Boston, Mass.)

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Peeples, William

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6028wp8 (person)

U.S. Sailor incarcerated at Camp Peary, Va. From the description of William A. Peeples letters, 1944-1945. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 648018928 ...

Cook, Bell

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6556n6x (person)

Porter, Burr

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63c9j5t (person)

Robert Lincoln O'Brien

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61h4c3q (person)

Toombs, Robert Augustus, 1810-1885

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Robert Toombs (1810-1885), lawyer, U.S. Senator (1844-1861), Confederate General, married Julia Ann DuBois, resided in Wilkes County, Georgia. From the description of Robert Toombs papers, 1837-1880 (bulk 1850-1866). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477000 Robert Toombs (1810-1885) lawyer, U.S. Senator (1844-1861), Confederate General, married Julia Ann DuBois, resided in Wilkes County, Georgia. From the description of Letters to Julia Ann DuBois Toombs, 1850-186...

Wade, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1800-1878

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6223042 (person)

American senator from Ohio (1851-1869). From the description of Autograph letter signed : Jefferson, Ohio, 1861 Apr. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 639962470 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, D.C., to an unidentified recipient 1865 Jan. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 639931419 Lawyer, U.S. senator from Ohio, and Republican Party leader. From the description of B.F. Wade papers, 1832-1886 (bulk 1852-1869). (Unknown). Wor...

Andrews, George Lippitt, 1828-1920

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64b3t4c (person)

George Lippitt Andrews was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1828. He entered the Rhode Island Militia in 1844, was promoted to Major in 1848, and to Colonel in 1853. He resigned from the military in 1856. In 1859 he rejoined the military as a Second Lieutenant in the Missouri National Guard. Andrews served in the Civil War and was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in 1862 and then to Colonel in 1863. After the Civil War Andrews organized and recruited the 17th and 13th United States Infantry, 1...

United States Army, Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 6th, Company H

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jj6tk4 (corporateBody)

Jno. Rodd?

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66n70wj (person)

Henry H. King

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69x4vhh (person)

Smith, Sidney H.?

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jz1vp4 (person)

B. Barker

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63s45jf (person)

Durwage?

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68t8f6p (person)

Crane, George A.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66r5ghp (person)

Frank M. Cutler

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rd1chf (person)

Bear, Standing

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gs1f70 (person)

United States Army, Connecticut Cavalry Regiment, 1st

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62k9j7g (corporateBody)

Webster & Bro.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64304d4 (corporateBody)

Charles Lawrence Peirson

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fk5w5m (person)

Fox, William F. (William Freeman), 1840-1909

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6g53hm9 (person)

Kell, John McIntosh, 1823-1900

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69g5p12 (person)

John McIntosh Kell (1823-1900), son of John and Margery Spalding Baillie Kell of Darien, Georgia, married Julia Blanche Munroe of Macon, Georgia. During the Civil War, Kell served as an officer in the Confederate Navy. After the war, he served as Georgia's Adjutant-General from 1886 until his death in 1900. From the description of Letter to Blanche Munroe Kell, 1859 Sept. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476234 From the description of John McIntosh Kell letters, 1861. (U...

Brownlow, William Gannaway, 1805-1877

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6z60mhr (person)

William G. Brownlow was a minister, newspaper publisher, and governor, who attacked the Confederacy after Tennessee seceded from the Union. He was forced to cease publishing and was imprisoned, but he was enventually freed and was escorted to Union lines in March 1862. He toured the North, stirring up support for East Tennessee Unionists and publishing books and articles, including his gubernatorial policies, which helped Tennessee become the first former Confederate state to be readmitted to th...

Dolly, George

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q66snq (person)