Wall family papers, 1857-1881.

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Wall family papers, 1857-1881.

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Collection includes a series of letters from Charles William Wall, a sergeant in the 151st Regiment, New York Volunteers, mainly concerning troop movements, camp experiences, and other aspects of his life as a Union Army soldier in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., but also dealing with his employment by a mining and milling company in Colorado (1869); other Civil War letters from William Emerson, Henry Harrington, and Charles McCarthy; letters from Jane Middleton, telling of her work in New York City among indigent women (1864); and an autobiographical sketch (1881) of Andrew Wall, who had emigrated from England in 1833.

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Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6400625

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Harrington, Henry, 1943-....

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Middleton, Jane

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Epithet: alias Myddelton British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000391.0x00031b ...

McCarthy, Charles

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Epithet: Reverend; Chairman of the National Benevolent Institution British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000220.0x0000a1 ...

Wall, Andrew

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Wall, CHarles William, 1844-1917.

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United States. Army. Regiment Infantry, New York Volunteers, 151st.

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Emerson, William, 1701-1782

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Wall family.

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