Elijah E. Edwards Civil Warjournals. 1864-1865, 1906, 1910.

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Elijah E. Edwards Civil Warjournals. 1864-1865, 1906, 1910.

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Three-volume set of journals (typescript compilation and twovolumes of photocopied originals) kept by Edwards, chaplain of the 7th MinnesotaInfantry during the Civil War. The journals contain observant and articulatedescriptions of scenery, towns and villages, people, and the war in Missouri,Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama. Edwards documents camplife and marches, as well as the Battles of Tupelo (July 14-15, 1864), Nashville(December 12-13, 1864), and Mobile Bay (April 1865). He also comments on theattitudes, behavior, and morality of the people involved in the conflict.

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United States. Army. Minnesota Infantry Regiment, 7th (1864-1965).

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Edwards, E. E. (Elijah Evan), 1831-1915

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Elijah Evan Edwards (1831-1915) was the first president of Colorado State University from 1879 through 1882. Journals from several years he spent as a student at Asbury University (now DePauw) comprise the bulk of the collection. His work at Colorado State University is represented by two journals and a few documents. From the description of Papers of Elijah E. Edwards, 1846-1881. (Poudre River Public Library District). WorldCat record id: 233703202 Elijah Evan ...

Carter, Theodore George, 1832-1914.

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Theodore George Carter was born on February 28, 1832 in Friendship (Allegany County), New York, the son of Miles and Margaretta Loughborough Carter. Following an education in Yorkshire, where the family settled in 1834, and the Richburg academy (1849-1851), Carter was employed in several small New York communities as a carpenter, paperhanger, and housepainter. In 1854 he settled in Olean, New York, apprenticing as a machinist under his brother Nathan. In the autumn of 18...