Elias Smith Dennis Papers, . 1864

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Elias Smith Dennis Papers, . 1864

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/d/Dennis,Elias_Smith.html

Elias Smith Dennis (died 1894) of Illinois was a general in the United States Army during the Civil War. The collection includes manuscript copies of documents defending Dennis against charges by a newspaper that he had sold provisions to Confederates while his Union troops at Black River, near Vicksburg, Miss., were underfed.

6

eng,

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6626384

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

Related Entities

There are 1 Entities related to this resource.

Dennis, Elias Smith, 1812-1894

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6r896mc (person)

Dennis was born in Newburgh, New York, and grew up on Long Island. He moved to Carlyle, Illinois, in 1836. He married Mary Kain Slade, widow of Illinois Congressman Charles Slade. Charles Slades´ three sons would become Dennis' stepsons. William Slade fought as a lieutenant in the U.S. Mexican War; Charles Slade, who married one of Sidney Breese's daughters, died in war and Jack Slade was a famous gunfighter who was hung by Montana vigilanties in 1864. Elias S Dennis had one son with Mary, Elias...