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Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh, 1837-1891

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William "Rooney" Henry Fizhugh Lee (1837-1891) was a farmer, politician, soldier, and General in the Army of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Lee was the second son of the famous Civil War General Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Randolph Custis. ...

Lee, George Washington Custis, 1832-1913

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Born in 1832, George Washington Custis Lee was the oldest of the Lees' children and had the reputation of a trouble maker as a small child. But he grew up to be a serious, and most capable young man and graduated at the top of his class from the United States Military Academy in 1854. After graduation, Custis pursued a military career. In May 1861, Custis resigned his commission in the U.S. Army shortly after Virginia voted to secede from the Union. During the Civil War he attained the rank of B...

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...

Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834

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Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette was born at Chavaniac, Auvergne, in 1757, to an old, illustrious family of the provincial and military nobility. He lost both his parents early: his father was killed by the British at the Battle of Minden when Lafayette was two years old (1759), and when he was thirteen and attending the prestigious Collège de Plessis in Paris both his mother and grandfather died (1770). The latter's death left Lafayette with a si...

Dix, John Adams, 1798-1879

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Dix was born in Boscawen, New Hampshire on July 24 1798, the son of Timothy Dix and Abigail Wilkins, and brother of composer Marion Dix Sullivan. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, and joined the US Army as an ensign in May 1813, serving under his father until the latter's death a few months later. He attained the rank of captain in August 1825 and resigned from the Army in December 1828. In 1826, Dix married Catherine Morgan, the adopted daughter of Congressman John J. Morgan, who g...

De Russy, Gustavus Adolphus, 1818-1891

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De Russy was born in Brooklyn to American army officer René Edward De Russy (1789–1865) and Harriet Elizabeth Taylor (1805–1834). His father was born in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) in 1789 and his French colonial family moved as refugees to Virginia two years later, fleeing the revolution on the island. Gustavus's sister, Clara Louise De Russey (1829–1900), married William Augustus Nichols (1818–1869), who became a Brevet Maj. Gen. His sister, Emily Caroline De Russy (1831–1857), married Henry Ja...

Delafield, Richard, 1798-1873

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Richard Delafield was born in New York City on September 1, 1798. He was one of the 14 children of John and Anne (née Hallett) Delafield. His father had emigrated to New York from England in 1788 and made a fortune as a merchant. Edward Delafield, a prominent American physician, Joseph Delafield, a lawyer and diplomant, and Rufus King Delafield, a banker and manufacturer, were among his brothers. He was the first graduate of the United States Military Academy to receive a merit class standing...

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...

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...

Cowdin, Robert, 1805-1874

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Cowdin (occasionally misspelled as Cowden or Coudin) was born in Jamaica, Vermont, the son of Angier and Abiah (Carter) Cowdin. He moved to Boston at age 20 to engage in the lumber business. He served in various organizations in the state militia from 1838 until the start of the Civil War. He also served on the Common Council of Boston for eight years, and various elected positions in the city's correctional system. Cowdin was colonel of the 2nd Massachusetts Militia Regiment at the start of ...

Copeland, Joseph Tarr, 1813-1893

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Joseph Tarr Copeland was born to Royal and Alice (Davis) Copeland. Located in Lincoln County, Newcastle sits about forty miles north of Portland, Maine, yet is on a long finger of water extending to the Atlantic coast. Joseph's father, Royal, the 2nd child of Captain Samuel and Emma (Parker) Copeland, was born August 11, 1790, in either Maine or New Hampshire. Samuel had fought in the Revolutionary War. Joseph's mother, Alice, was born in Wiscasset, Maine, on February 9, 1791. She had been or...

Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965

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Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (February 5, 1900 – July 14, 1965) was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat. Raised in Bloomington, Illinois, Stevenson was a member of the Democratic Party. He served in numerous positions in the federal government during the 1930s and 1940s, including the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Federal Alcohol Administration, Department of the Navy, and the State Department. In 1945, he served on the committee that created the United Nations, and he was a me...

Connor, Patrick Edward, 1820-1891

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Patrick Edward Connor was born in rural County Kerry, Ireland on St. Patrick's Day, 1820. He emigrated to the United States and enlisted, as "Patrick Edward O'Connor", in the United States Army on November 28, 1839. In addition to service in the Seminole Wars, he served as a dragoon at Fort Leavenworth, Fort Atkinson, Fort Sandford, and at the second Fort Des Moines. He was honorably discharged as a private on November 28, 1844, and after two years in New York, he moved to Texas. On April 5, 184...

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...

Rogers, Will, 1879-1935

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The youngest of eight children, William Penn Adair Rogers was born on November 4, 1879 at Rogers Ranch in Oologah, Indian Territory (what is now Oklahoma). His parents, Clement Vann Rogers and Mary Schrimsher, were partly of Cherokee descent. While growing up on the family ranch, Will worked with cattle and learned to ride and lasso from a young age. He grew so talented with a rope, in fact, that he was placed in the Guiness Book of World Records for throwing three lassos at once. One went ar...

Corcoran, William Wilson, 1798-1888

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Washington, D.C. banker and philanthropist. From the description of Note : to "Dear Madam", [18]81 Jan. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 22205349 From the description of Letter : Washington City, to Dr. James Laurie, Washington City, 1843 Jan. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 22205336 Banker and philanthropist, of Washington, D.C. From the description of Papers, 1838-1887. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19405728 American banke...

Beecher, Eunice White Bullard, 1813-1897

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Eunice White Bullard born in West Sutton, Massachusetts, 26 August 1812. She was the daughter of Dr. Artemas Bullard, and was educated in Hadley, Massachusetts. When Henry Ward Beecher, a clergyman, settled in his pastorate in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, in 1837, he returned east to marry Eunice, having been engaged to her for over seven years. Beecher was a contributor, chiefly on domestic subjects, to various periodicals, and some of her articles were published in book form. During a long and te...

Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906

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Army officer, statesman, journalist, legislator, and U.S. Secy. of the Interior, of Missouri. From the description of Papers, 1870-1901 (bulk 1870-1890). (Rutherford B Hayes Presidential Center). WorldCat record id: 70953302 German-American army officer, author and politician. From the description of Papers of Carl Schurz, 1862-1893. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32136358 U.S. cabinet officer, diplomat, and senator from Missouri, Union Ar...

Willard, Frances E. (Frances Elizabeth), 1839-1898

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Best known for her leadership (1879-1898) of the influential Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Willard also supported and often spearheaded a wide variety of social reforms, including woman suffrage, economic equality, and fair labor laws. Willard gained an international reputation through her speeches and publications. She was the first woman to be honored with a statue in the U.S Capitol building, and her Evanston home was one of the first house museums to in the country. ...

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

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John Quincy Adams (b. July 11, 1767, Braintree, Massachusetts-d. February 23, 1848, Washington, D.C.) was an American statesman who served as a diplomat, United States Senator, member of the House of Representatives, and the sixth President of the United States. He was a member of the Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later the Anti-Masonic and Whig parties. He was the son of President John Adams and Abigail Adams. As a diplomat, Adams played an important role in neg...

Gillmore, Quincy Adams, 1825-1888

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Army officer and engineer. From the description of Signature of Quincy Adams Gillmore, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450480 American army officer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to William W. Belknap, 1874 July 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269577129 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Hilton Head, S.C., to Gen. J.H. Wilson, 1865 May 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269570477 From the ...

Adams, Charles Francis, 1807-1886

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American diplomat, lawyer, and biographer; son of John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts 1859-61, U.S. Minister to England, 1861-68; U.S. Arbitrator at the Geneva Tribunal ("Alabama" claims), 1871-72. From the guide to the Charles Francis Adams letters, 1844-1878, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

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) ...

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...

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...

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...

Andrews, Christopher Columbus, 1829-1922

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Andrews was born in Hillsborough, New Hampshire, the son of a rural farmer. He attended school during the winter months until 1843 when he travelled to Boston. He attended the Francestown Academy, completed his education, and studied law in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1848. He passed his bar examination two years later and established a law practice in Newton, Massachusetts, where he served as a member of the city school board in 1851–1852. He briefly relocated to Boston in 1853, but left th...

Weaver, James B. (James Baird), 1833-1912

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James Baird Weaver (June 12, 1833 – February 6, 1912) was a member of the United States House of Representatives and two-time candidate for President of the United States. Born in Ohio, he moved to Iowa as a boy when his family claimed a homestead on the frontier. He became politically active as a young man and was an advocate for farmers and laborers. He joined and quit several political parties in the furtherance of the progressive causes in which he believed. After serving in the Union Army i...

Hancock, Winfield Scott, 1824-1886

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Winfield Scott Hancock (February 14, 1824 – February 9, 1886) was a United States Army officer and the Democratic nominee for President of the United States in 1880. He served with distinction in the Army for four decades, including service in the Mexican–American War and as a Union general in the American Civil War. Known to his Army colleagues as "Hancock the Superb", he was noted in particular for his personal leadership at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. His military service continued afte...

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 ...

McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885

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George Brinton McClellan (December 3, 1826 – October 29, 1885) was an American soldier, civil engineer, railroad executive, and politician who served as the 24th Governor of New Jersey. A graduate of West Point, McClellan served with distinction during the Mexican–American War (1846–1848), and later left the Army to work on railroads until the outbreak of the American Civil War (1861–1865). Early in the conflict, McClellan was appointed to the rank of major general and played an important role i...

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...

King, Rufus, 1755-1827

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Rufus King (March 24, 1755 – April 29, 1827) was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat. He was a delegate for Massachusetts to the Continental Congress and the Philadelphia Convention and was one of the signers of the United States Constitution in 1787. After formation of the new Congress he represented New York in the United States Senate. He emerged as a leading member of the Federalist Party, serving as the party's last presidential nominee in the 1816 presidential election. The son...

Morton, Levi P. (Levi Parsons), 1824-1920

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Levi Parsons Morton (May 16, 1824 – May 16, 1920) was the 22nd vice president of the United States from 1889 to 1893. He also served as United States ambassador to France, as a US representative from New York, and as the 31st governor of New York. The son of a Congregational minister, Morton was born in Vermont and educated in Vermont and Massachusetts. He trained for a business career by clerking in stores and working in mercantile establishments in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. After rel...

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852

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Henry Clay Sr. (April 12, 1777 – June 29, 1852) was an American attorney and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the Senate and House. He was the seventh House speaker and the ninth secretary of state. He received electoral votes for president in the 1824, 1832, and 1844 presidential elections. He also helped found both the National Republican Party and the Whig Party. For his role in defusing sectional crises, he earned the appellation of the "Great Compromiser" and was part of the "Grea...

Hunter, R. M. T. (Robert Mercer Taliaferro), 1809-1887

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Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (April 21, 1809 – July 18, 1887) was a Virginia lawyer, politician and plantation owner. He was a U.S. Representative (1837–1843, 1845–1847), Speaker of the House (1839–1841), and U.S. Senator (1847–1861). During the American Civil War, Hunter became the Confederate States Secretary of State (1861–1862) and then a Confederate Senator (1862–1865) and critic of President Jefferson Davis. After the war, Hunter failed to win re-election to the U.S. Senate, but did ser...

Banks, Nathaniel Prentice, 1816-1894

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Nathaniel Prentice (or Prentiss) Banks (January 30, 1816 – September 1, 1894) was an American politician from Massachusetts and a Union general during the Civil War. A millworker by background, Banks was prominent in local debating societies, and his oratorical skills were noted by the Democratic Party. However, his abolitionist views fitted him better for the nascent Republican Party, through which he became Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and Governor of Massachusetts ...

Grant, Ulysses Simpson, 1881-1968

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Ulysses Simpson Grant III (July 4, 1881 – August 29, 1968) was an American army officer, civil engineer and architect. The grandson of Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States, he was born on the Fourth of July and attended Cutler School (1895-1897) and Columbia University (1898), both in New York City. He left in 1898 to fight in the Spanish-American War, and in 1899 entered West Point where he was a classmate of Douglas MacArthur. In 1907 he married Edith Root, daughter of Elihu R...

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...

Callis, John Benton, 1828-1898

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Born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Callis moved to Tennessee in 1834 with his parents, who settled in Carroll County, and thence, in 1840, to Lancaster, Wisconsin. He attended the common schools. He studied medicine for three years, but then abandoned its further study. He went to Minnesota in 1849; moved to California in 1851 and engaged in mining and the mercantile business. He went to Central America in 1853. He returned to Lancaster in the fall of that year and again engaged in mercantile...

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...

Saxton, Rufus, 1824-1908

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Saxton was born in Greenfield, Massachusetts. His father, Jonathan Ashley Saxton, was a Unitarian and a Transcendentalist whose feminist and abolitionist writings were heard on the lyceum circuit. He descended from a family of Unitarian ministers (Ashley, Williams, Edwards). His father attempted to secure a place for Rufus Saxton at Brook Farm in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, a transcendentalist community started by George Ripley and attended by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Rufus Saxton's brother Samuel ...

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...

Abercrombie, John Joseph, 1798-1877

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Abercrombie was born and baptized in Baltimore, Maryland, although some accounts suggest he was a native of Tennessee. The son of John Joseph Abercrombie, Sr. and Sarah DeNormandie, their family was living in Nashville, Tennessee when the younger John entered the United States Military Academy in 1818. Graduating 37th of 40 from the United States Military Academy in 1822, Abercrombie's class included future Union Army generals Joseph K. Mansfield, David Hunter, and George A. McCall, as well as f...

Clem, John Lincoln, 1851-1937

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Born with the surname "Klem" in Newark, Ohio on August 13, 1851, he is said to have run away from home at age 9 in May 1861, after the death of his mother in a train accident, to become a Union Army drummer boy. First he attempted to enlist in the 3rd Ohio Infantry but was rejected because of his age and small size. He then tried to join the 22nd Michigan, which also refused him. He tagged along anyway and the 22nd eventually adopted him as mascot and drummer boy. Officers chipped in to pay him ...

Hamilton, Schuyler, 1822-1903

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Hamilton was born on July 22, 1822 in New York City. He was the fifth of 14 children born to John Church Hamilton (1792–1882) and Maria Eliza van den Heuvel. His paternal grandparents were Alexander Hamilton (1755/7–1804), a Founding Father of the United States, and Elizabeth Schuyler (1757–1854). His maternal grandfather was Baron John Cornelius van den Heuvel, the one-time governor of Dutch Guiana. Through his sister, Elizabeth Hamilton (1831–1884), he was the brother-in-law of Gen. Henry Hall...

Hooker, Joseph, 1814-1879

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Hooker was born in Hadley, Massachusetts, the grandson of a captain in the American Revolutionary War. He was of entirely English ancestry, all of which had been in New England since the early 1600s. His initial schooling was at the local Hopkins Academy. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1837, ranked 29th out of a class of 50, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 1st U.S. Artillery. His initial assignment was in Florida fighting in the second of the Seminole War...

Stoneman, George, 1822-1894

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Stoneman was born on a family farm in Busti, New York, the first child of ten. His parents were George Stoneman Sr., a lumberman and justice of the peace, and Catherine Rebecca Cheney Aldrich. He studied at the Jamestown Academy and entered the United States Military Academy in 1842; his roommate at West Point was future Confederate General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson. He graduated 33rd in his class of 60 cadets in 1846. His first assignment was with the 1st U.S. Dragoons, with which he served...

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

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Sherman was born in 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio, near the banks of the Hocking River. His father, Charles Robert Sherman, a successful lawyer who sat on the Ohio Supreme Court, died unexpectedly in 1829. He left his widow, Mary Hoyt Sherman, with eleven children and no inheritance. After his father's death, the nine-year-old Sherman was raised by a Lancaster neighbor and family friend, attorney Thomas Ewing, Sr., a prominent member of the Whig Party who served as senator from Ohio and as the first S...

Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968

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Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1878. Sinclair was an American author, novelist, journalist, and political activist who wrote many books in several genres. He is most well-known for his exposé, The Jungle regarding conditions in Chicago's meat packing plants, which influenced the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906. Much of Sinclair's writing was related to the economic and social conditions of the early twentieth century. He was heavily in...

Shields, John

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Beatty, John

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Monteith, Duncan

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Alexander, E.P.

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Mallory, Adam Gale

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Dranman, Capt. W. F.

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Cheatham, Benjamin Franklin, 1820-1886

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Benjamin Franklin Cheatham (1820-1886) was born in Nashville, Tenn. He served in the U.S. Army as captain and colonel in the Mexican War, later going to California, 1849-1853, and returning to Tennessee to serve as major general in the state militia during the 1850s. Cheatham became a major-general in the Confederate Army in 1862 and served under Polk, Hardee, and Hood. From the description of Benjamin Franklin Cheatham papers, 1834-1893 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 27190212 ...

Tuttle, James Madison

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La Grange, Oscar Hugh

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Sharpe, George Henry, 1828-1900

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Born February 26, 1828, in Kingston, New York, Sharpe attended Yale University and graduated from Rutgers University in 1847. He entered private practice in New York City, New York from 1848 to 1851, with the firm of Bidwell & Strong (now known as Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft). He was Secretary of the United States Legation in Vienna, Austrian Empire for the United States Department of State from 1851 to 1852. He resumed private practice in Kingston from 1854 to 1861. He served in the United St...

Barnes, Joseph K., 1817-1883

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Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to a prosperous Federal judge, Barnes studied medicine at Harvard University, but left before finishing his studies due to ill health. He later studied medicine with Surgeon General Thomas Harris of the United States Navy, and received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1838. After graduation, he served a year as resident physician at Blockley Hospital and for another year as visiting physician for the northwestern district of Philadelph...

Humphreys, Andrew Atkinson

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Van Wyck, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1824-1895

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Lawyer from New York, serving in Congress at the time of this letter, then served in the Civil War and returned to Congress. Later moved to Nebraska. From the description of Letter, March 9, 1861. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 56089354 ...

Walken, Rum

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Sharp, Mrs. J.

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Ewing, Thomas

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Harland, Edward

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Holt, Joseph.

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Epithet: wool merchant, of Leeds British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000703.0x0002cb ...

Phelps, John Elisha

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Dawes, Rufus

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King, John H. (John Haskell), 1820-1888

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Day, Nicholas Wykott

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Alvord, Benjamin

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Grimes, James W. (James Wilson), 1816-1872

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American lawyer, legislator, governor of Iowa. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Burlington, Iowa, to William W. Belknap, 1871 Dec. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270498820 Grimes was member of the Iowa Territorial Legislature (1838-1839, 1843-1844); governor of Iowa (1854-1858) and U.S. senator from Iowa (1859-1869). He was born and educated in New Hampshire. After school, he began his law practice in Burlington, Iowa, part of the Black Hawk Purchase ter...

Sanders, Addison Hiatt

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Hunt, Lewis Cass, 1824-1886

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U.S. Army officer; graduated from West Point in 1843; stationed at Fort Steilacoom, Wash., 1859; assigned command of the American garrison on San Juan Island, a position he held until Apr. 1860; because of antagonistic relationship with his commander, Gen. William S. Harney was deployed back to Fort Steilacoom; later served in the Civil War. From the description of Letters, 1859-1861. (Washington State Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 70976440 ...

McConnell, William Kennedy

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Griffin, Simon Goodall

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Sanders, William Price, 1833-1863

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Atkins, Smith D. (Smith Dykins), 1836-1913

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Lawyer; editor; postmaster, Freeport, Illinois; major, 11th Illinois Infantry, Co. A.; colonel, 92nd Illinois Infantry; brevet brigadier general, U.S. Army, 2nd Brigade, 3rd Cavalry Division, Illinois Division Mounted. From the description of Letter: Springfield, Ohio, to John L. Bittinger, St. Louis, Mo., 1856 March 7. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 26677338 From the description of Papers, 1852-1887. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). World...

Payne, Eugene B. (Eugene Beauharnais), 1835-1910

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Lake County, Illinois attorney (1860-1886); served in the 37th Illinois Infantry (1861-1865) rising from captain to brevet brigadier general. Represented Lake County in the Illinois House of Representatives (1865-1869), and served as a special pension examiner in Cleveland, Ohio (1887-1889). From the description of Speech, 1866. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 226967101 Eugene Payne served as an Union officer in the 37th Illinois Infantry Regiment...

Clews, Henry

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Ward, John Henry Hobart

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O'Beirne, James R.

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Author and journalist. From the description of Letter of James R. O'Beirne, 1877. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454767 ...

Ripley, James W. (James Wolfe), 1794-1870

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McMillan, William Linn

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Forrest, Earle R. (Earle Robert), 1883-1969

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Description and history of the large fireplace that was refurbished in the Century Inn kitchen. This well-known tavern located on the National Pike at Scenery Hill was opened in 1794 and was originally called Hill's Stone Tavern. From the description of Old fireplace at the Century Inn kitchen / Earle R. Forrest. (Historical Society of W Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 51182445 Forrest discuesses the 1755 battle between Braddock's British army and the French and Indians. ...

Clarke, Harry Francis

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Hayes, Mrs. Rutherford B., n. d (3)

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Hambright, Henry Augustus

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

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Caboll, Gov. H.

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Coulter, Richard, 1827?-1908

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At the age of nineteen, Richard Coulter enlisted in the Westmoreland Guards in his hometown of Greensburg, Pa. The ranks of the Guards were filled with the sons of the elite families of Westmoreland County, and Coulter was certainly among the elite. His uncle, for instance, had a long record in public service, including stints as mayor of Greensburg, representative in both the state and national congresses, and appointment as Justice of the state Supreme Court. Though his father had...

Kirkwood, Samuel Jordan, 1813-1894

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Iowa governor, Iowa and U.S. Senator, abolitionist, lawyer. Samuel Kirkwood served as a Republican state senator (1856-1859), Iowa governor (1860-1864, 1876-1877), U.S. senator (1866-1867, 1877-1881), and U.S. Secretary of the Interior (1881-1882, under President Garfield). He also served as president of the Iowa and Southwestern Railroad Company and the Iowa City National Bank. From the description of Papers, 1841-1894. (State Historical Society of Iowa, Library). WorldCat record id...

Harris, Johan Green

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Cilley, Jonathan Prince, 1835-1920

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Lawyer, U.S. Army officer, U.S. senator, historian, and genealogist, of Thomaston, Me. From the description of Captain George Prince scrapbook, 1847-1913. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 192021675 ...

Chandler, William Eaton

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Lewis, John Randolph

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Pennypecker, Galusha

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Partridge, Benjamin Franklin

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Lee, Stephen Smith

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Crossman, George Hampton

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Dana, Charles

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Reverend Charles B. Dana, son of Reverend Sylvester Dana of New England, was a Protestant Episcopal minister of Alexandria, Va., Port Gibson, Miss, and in 1866 he became rector of Trinity Church in Natchez, Miss., where he remained until his death. From the description of Charles B. Dana and family papers, 1799-1949 (bulk 1823-1880). (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 250671000 ...

Connor, Seldon

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Coburn, John

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Page, Richard Lucion

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Revere, Joseph Warren, 1777-1868

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Bell, George, 1910-1984

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George Bell was Dean of Canterbury Cathedral from 1924-1929. He was an undergraduate at Christ Church College, Oxford. He returned there as a lecturer in 1910. From the guide to the Dean George Bell, 1910-1958, (Canterbury Cathedral Archives) Epithet: MD; of Sloane MS 4051 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001164.0x00032a ...

Anderson, Samuel Reed

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Wells, James Madison, 1808-1899

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Born near Alexandria, La., in 1808, James Madison Wells was the son of Samuel Levi Wells II, a member of the Louisiana constitutional convention in 1811. After completing his education at St. Joseph's College in Bardstown, Ky., and at Cincinnati Law School, Wells returned to Louisiana to manage his family's plantations. He married Mary Ann Scott in 1833. Wells was an active Whig but transferred his allegiance to the Democratic Party after the Whig Party's collapse in the 1850s, supporting Stephe...

Jones, Rev. O. W.

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Howells, William Dean

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Epithet: American author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000613.0x0000a8 ...

Adams, William Wirt, 1819-1888

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Brigadier general for the Confederate States of America. From the description of Letter, 1863 Feb. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70970136 Enlisted as colonel in the First Mississippi Cavalry; promoted (Sept. 1863) to brigadier general for the Confederate States of America. From the description of Civil War letter of William Wirt Adams, 1863 Feb. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 166427613 ...

Cox, William R. (William Ruffin), 1831-1919

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William Ruffin Cox was a planter of Edgecombe County, N.C.; Confederate brigadier general; superior court judge; United States congressman from North Carolina, 1881-1887; and secretary of the United States Senate, 1893-1900. From the guide to the William R. Cox Papers, ., 1860-1921, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) William Ruffin Cox was a planter of Edgecombe County, N.C.; Confederate brigadier general; superior court j...

Rodenbough, Theophilus F. (Theophilus Francis), 1838-1912

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Brevet Brigadier General, U.S. Army. Author of From Everglade to Canon and The Army of the United States, 1789-1896. From the description of Letters 1866-1875. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 38915455 Theophilus Francis Rodenbough (1828-1912) was a soldier and author from Pennsylvania, having served in the Civil War as second lieutenant, captain, and brigadier-general. He was given the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1864 and retired from the Army in 1870, there...

Martin, John A., 1839-1889

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Martin came to Kansas in 1857. In 1858 he began his journalistic career by purchasing the Squatter Soverign, a proslavery paper published in Atchison. He changed the name of the paper to Freedom's Champion and later to the Atchison Daily Champion, which he published until his death. Martin was governor of Kansas, 1885-1889. From the guide to the Correspondence and photograph., 1875-1889, (University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Kansas Collection) Newspaper edit...

Del Valle, Reginaldo F. (Reginaldo Francisco), 1854-1938

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Reginaldo Francisco del Valle (1854-1938) was the son of Ygnacio del Valle (1808-1880), who served as Alcalde of Los Angeles in 1850 and as a state assemblyman in 1852. Reginaldo grew up in Los Angeles and at the family home, Camulous Ranch, in Ventura County. He studied law, was elected to the state assembly (1879) and the state senate (1882), and was a director of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (1927-29). From the description of Papers of Reginaldo F. del Va...

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...

Caboll, Col. Nicholas Jr.

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Pemberton, John C. (John Clifford), b. 1893.

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Author of New York; grandson of Confederate Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton (1814-1891). From the description of John C. Pemberton papers, 1814-1942 (bulk 1922-1941). WorldCat record id: 23269419 John Clifford Pemberton (born 1893) of New York was an author and grandson of Confederate Lieutenant General John Clifford Pemberton (1814-1891), who commanded at Vicksburg, Miss., 1863. From the guide to the John C. Pemberton Papers, ., 1814-1942, (bulk 1922-1941),...

Maltby, Jesper Adolmorn

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Veatch, James Clifford, 1819-1895

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A native and resident of Spencer County, Ind., James Clifford Veatch was a farmer, lawyer, local politician, and member of the Indiana State Legislature before serving as an officer with the 25th Indiana Regiment in the Civil War. He served with the Army of the Tennessee, with William T. Sherman, and the Department of the Gulf. By 1868 he resumed his legal practice, served as collector of internal revenue, and was a presidential elector in 1884. Afterwards he retired, but maintained his politica...

Jones, John Marshall, 1962-

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Payne, William Henry Fitzhugh

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Eaton, John

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Epithet: solicitor, of Canterbury British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000752.0x000382 Biographical Note John Eaton worked as a copy-writer/publicist for theatre companies in Houston and Los Angeles. His papers also mention co-authoring copy for an advertisement placed in the Advocate, as well as being the author of an article published in Christopher Street West...

Pryor, Roger A. (Roger Atkinson), 1828-1919

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Roger Atkinson Pryor (1828-1919) was a newspaper editor, lawyer, judge, Confederate general, and member of the U.S. and the Confederate Houses of Representatives. From the description of Letter : Richmond, to H. A. Wise, 1854 January 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122647320 U.S. Congressman, Confederate soldier, and jurist. From the description of Letters, 1838-1912. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 154270855 From the description of Lett...

Leake, Joseph B. (Joseph Bloomfield), 1828-1913

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Cox, Jacob Potson

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Ruttgers, Mrs. John

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Stumbaugh, Frederick Shearer

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Magoffin, Beriah, 1815-1885

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Governor of Kentucky, public official of Kentucky and Mississippi, and lawyer. From the description of Letters of Beriah Magoffin, 1861. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454225 ...

Geary, George I.

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Goff, Nathan

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Hayst, Herman

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Curry, J. L. M.

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Howy, Charles Edward

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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)...

Price, Samuel Woodson, 1828-1918

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Soldier, painter. Price was born in Nicholasville, Ky. He studied painting and portraiture under Oliver Frazer. During much of the Civil War, Price served as a colonel in the Union Army, commanding the 21st Regiment, Kentucky Volunteers. He was wounded in the battle of Kennesaw Mountain in 1864, and in 1865 was promoted to brevet brigadier general. After the war he achieved prominence as a portrait painter. From the description of Samuel Woodson Price papers,...

Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888

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Matthew Arnold's reflective, urbane poetry and novels thoughtfully express the social issues and religious confusion of Victorian England. He worked as a school inspector, and his belief in liberal education is a theme in his poetry and essays. From the description of Matthew Arnold letters, 1875-1886. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 50209290 British poet. From the description of Letter to Mr. Williams [manuscript], n.y. March 21. (...

Surratt, Mary E. (Mary Eugenia), 1820-1865

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Alleged conspirator in the assassination of President Lincoln. From the description of Papers of Mary E. Surratt, 1865-1986. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71064695 ...

Varney, George, 1834-1911

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Beckwith, E. G. (Edward Griffin), 1818-1881

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Edward Griffin Beckwith, (1818-1881), U.S. Army officer. In 1849-1855, he served in the New Mexico Territory. In 1853, following the death of John Williams Gunnison, he was assigned to complete the Central Pacific Railroad survey. During the Civil War, he served as chief of Commissariat for the Dept. of Pennsylvania (1861), of the Shenandoah, of the 5th Army Corps (1862), of the Army of Virginia (1862), Banks' Red River Expedition, and of the of the Gulf (1862-1865). He was promoted...

Gibbon, John

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Epithet: Blue-mantle Pursuivant British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x000102 ...

Cooper, Douglas Hancock

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Simpson, Jasper H

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Porter, John L. (John Luke), 1813-1893

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Vance, Robert Brank, 1793-1827

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Cram, Thomas Jefferson, 1807?-1883

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Topographical engineer. From the description of Thomas Jefferson Cram papers, 1840-1870. (Detroit Public Library). WorldCat record id: 427868469 American Army Officer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Washington], to Gen. Mansfield, [1862] May 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270530752 ...

Fairchild, Lucius M.

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Gatlin, Richard Caswell

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Monsen, Frederick

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Curry, Loboz Lomor

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Hastings, Russell

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Raum, Green B. (Green Berry), 1829-1909

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Smith, John Eugene

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Sprague, William

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Kinsman, J. Burnham (Josiah Burnham), -1912

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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,...

Rogers, Horatio

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Duryee, Jacob Eugene

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Kane, Thomas Leiper

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BIOGRAPHY Thomas Leiper Kane was a law clerk and Army officer. Note: for a biographical sketch, see the first folder in the collection. From the guide to the Thomas Leiper Kane Papers, 1846-1883, (Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.) ...

Dorey, James

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West George Warren

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Martindale, J. H. (John Henry), 1815-1881

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Cist, Henry Martyn, 1839-1902

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Cincinnati, Ohio, lawyer; Civil War general, 74th Ohio Regiment; military historian and author; secretary, Society of the Army of the Cumberland. From the description of Letters, 1889-1890. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 28287303 ...

McClurg, Alexander C. (Alexander Caldwell), 1832-1901

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Bookseller, publisher and Union general during the Civil War. From the description of Letter, November 14, 1871. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 52576660 ...

Smith, Edward Kirby

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Forney, William Henry, 1823-1894

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William Henry Forney of Alabama was a brigadier general in the Army of the Confederate States of America. From the guide to the William Henry Forney Papers, ., 1865-1894, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

Thruston, Charles M. (Charles Mynn), 1789-1873

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Woodruff, Isaac Cook

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Williams, John

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Epithet: of Add MS 38309 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000212.0x00039e Epithet: Dean of Westminster, Bishop of Lincoln, Lord Keeper, afterwards Archbishop of York British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000212.0x00038d Epithet: Bishop of Lincoln; Lord Keeper; of Add MS 32056 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catal...

Carter, Mrs. Leslie

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Cockrett, Francis Marion

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Northrup, Lucius, Bellinger

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Chapman, Geroge Henry

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Mahone, William, 1826-1895

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Confederate Army officer, railroad administrator, politician. From the description of Papers, 1853-1895; (bulk 1876-1892). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 23371607 Politician and senator, leader in "Readjuster" movement to readjust state debt. From the description of Letter : Petersburg, to Merideth Watson, Nottoway County, 1880 April 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122539121 James Barron Hope was born 23 March 1829 in Norfolk, Virginia...

HICKS, ELIAS

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Trumbull, Matthew Mark

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Wade, Melancthon Smith

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Ramsay, John, 1496?-1551

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Epithet: of the Post Office British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000799.0x0003b5 ...

Walker, William Henry Talbot, 1816-1864

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Confederate and U.S. Army officer, from Augusta (Richmond Co.), Ga. From the description of Correspondence, 1846-1883. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20273459 ...

Macumb, General Alexander

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Mitchell, John Grant, 1838-1894

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Whitlesey, Eliphalet

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Deiteler, George Washington

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Jennison, Samuel Pearce

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Allen, William Wirt, 1835-1894

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McNeil, John, 1813-1891

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Robinson, William Andrew

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Cogswell, William, 1838-1895

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American soldier and politician. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Charles Sumner and Henry Wilson, 1870 Apr. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270899954 U.S. representative, Union army officer, and lawyer from Massachusetts. From the description of William Cogswell papers, 1893. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70984123 William Cogswell was a Brigadier General in the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 2nd Regiment, during the Civ...

Dewey, James

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Resident of White Lake, MI. From the description of Papers, 1880-1887. (Clarke Historical Library). WorldCat record id: 31683743 Epithet: of the Middle Temple British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000355.0x000297 ...

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. ...

Wheaton, Frank, 1833-1903

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U.S. Army General and topographical engineer. Commander of Dept. of the Colorado, 1895-1896. B. May 8, 1833 Providence, R.I.; d. June 18, 1903 Washington, D.C. From the description of Papers, 1866-[1895?]. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 13807129 Union Army general in the U.S. Civil War. From the description of Letter, 1863 September 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122578455 ...

Abbott, Ira C.

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Cameron, Hugh

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Hugh Cameron was working with a surveying team in Central Queensland at the outbreak of World War I. He enlisted in 1915 and served as a gunner in France. He was repatriated home, and by 1919 was farming at Woombye. From the description of OM71-50A Hugh N Cameron Letters, 1912-1929. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 755734400 ...

Morris, William H. (William Hopkins), 1827-1900

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Robie, Edward D.

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McDowell, Irvin, 1818-1885

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American army officer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, D.C., to William W. Belknap, 1874 Apr. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270607862 From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, "My dear General" [William W. Belknap?], 1871 Jan. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270606751 From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to W.W. Belknap, 1872 Apr. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270606754 Irvin ...

Carvi, Eugene Asa

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Cushing, William Barker, 1842-1874

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William Cushing, of Newburyport, Massachusetts, sailed on the brig Chenamus as a passenger in September 1843. The brig, captained by John H. Couch, sailed to Honolulu. After a visit of two months, cargo and passengers were loaded, and the ship sailed on to the Columbia River in the Oregon Country. There Cushing stayed for 16 months, trading and touring the Oregon countryside. From the description of William Cushing journal of a voyage to the Columbia River and related papers, 1843-[1...

Slocum, Henry Warner, 1826-1894

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Slocum was born in Delphi, a hamlet in Onondaga County, New York. His father was Matthew B. Slocum, and his mother was Mary Ostrander. He was the sixth of eleven children. He attended the State Normal School in Albany and the Cazenovia Seminary in Madison County. At the age of 16, he received a Public School Teacher's Certificate from the County Superintendent of Schools, and worked occasionally as a teacher for the next five years. On the recommendation of Congressman Daniel F. Gott (Onondag...

Drake, George Banad

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Fonda, John G.

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Simpson, Samuel P.

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Krez, Konrad, 1828-1897

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Lawyer, poet, and U.S. Army officer, of Sheboygan, Wis. From the description of Columbus, Ky., morning reports, 1863. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70948293 From the description of Military records, 1863-1865. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70951033 From the description of Wisconsin Volunteers, 27th Regiment records, 1862. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70944379 From the description of Ordnance stores reports, 1863-1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 7094...

McKeever, Chauncey

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Platt, Thomas Collier, 1833-1910

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Thomas Collier Platt was a Republican Senator from New York. It was through his influence in the Republican party that Theodore Roosevelt became William McKinley's running mate in the 1900 presidential election. From the description of Thomas Collier Platt photograph album of Theodore Roosevelt, not before 1905. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612813357 Thomas Collier Platt: clerk of Tioga County (N.Y.), 1859-1961; member of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1873-...

Hamlin, Hannibal

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Robertson, E

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Hazard, John Gardner

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Emery, WIlliam Helmsley

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Phelps, John Wolcott

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Augustine, Ms. Constance

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MacDougall, Clinton Dugald, 1839-1914

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Negley, James Scott

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Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894

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Confederate general. From the description of Autograph manuscript : [n.p., n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270742671 James Barron Hope was born 23 March 1829 in Norfolk, Virginia. He was the grandson of James Barron and son of Wilton and Jane A. (Barron) Hope. James Barron Hope graduated from the College of William and Mary. He practiced law and was commonwealth's attorney for Norfolk. He married Anne Beverley Whiting. The couple had two daughters, Jane A. Barron (Jane...

Molineaux, Edward Leslie

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Gile, George W., 1830-1896

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Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. Commissioned in the Civil War as a 1st Lieutenant in the 22nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He was then commissioned in the 88th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, eventually becoming its Colonel and commander. He was severely wounded in the leg during the Battle of Antietam. Upon partial recovery of his injury he was commissioned into the Veterans Reserve Corps as Colonel and commander of the 9th VRC. He was stationed in the defenses of Washington, DC,...

Bates, Deleven

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Smith, Edward Worthington, 1832-1883

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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...

Pierce, Francis Edwin

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Lothrop, Martha

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King, Tom

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Woodhull, Maxwell Van Zandt

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Jameson, Charles Davis, 1827-1862

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Poe, Orlando Metcalfe

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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 ...

Ramsey, George D.

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Gordon, George Washington

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Porter, Fitzjohn

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Taylor, Richard

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Epithet: LLB, Special Commissary in Lynn for the Bishop of Norwich British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001151.0x000337 Epithet: MA, Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001151.0x000338 Epithet: wood engraver British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/...

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

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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...

Cooper, Joseph Alexander

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Gordon, James B. (James Byron), 1822-1864

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Hayman, Samuel Brinkle

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Glenny, William

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Lomax, Lunsford Lindsay, 1835-1913

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Lunsford Lindsay Lomax (1835-1913) served as a major general in the military of the Confederate States of America. From the guide to the Lunsford Lindsay Lomax Papers, ., 1843-1909, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

Mulligan, James Adelbert, 1830-1864

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Lawyer; clerk at the Department of the Interior beginning in 1857; Colonel of the Irish Brigade (23rd Illinois regiment) during the Civil War. At the Battle of Lexington, Missouri, in 1861 he was taken prisoner, only to be freed through an exchange later that year. He was fatally wounded at the Battle of Winchester, Virginia, in July, 1864. From the description of Papers, 1857-1885. (University of Notre Dame). WorldCat record id: 25210578 Colonel in the 23rd Illinois Infantr...

Clark, Abby

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Powell, Eugene

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Dale, John Hurst, n. d

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Totter, Joseph Gilbert

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Sanderson, Thomas Wakefield

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Lowell, Charles Russell, 1835-1864

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Albright, Charles

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Ruggles, George D. (George David), -1904

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Starbird, Isaac Newton

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Hoffman, John William

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Alden, Alonzo

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Witcher, John Seashoal

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Guiney, Patrick Robert, 1835-1877

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Patrick Robert Guiney was the second and eldest surviving son of James Roger Guiney, who was descended from Jacobites, and Judith Macrae. James Guiney, impoverished after a failed runaway marriage, brought with him on his second voyage to New Brunswick his favourite child Patrick, then not six years old. After some years, Mrs. Guiney and their younger son, William, rejoined her husband, recently crippled by a fall from his horse; they settled in Portland, Maine. The young Guiney worked as a whee...

Thomas, Samuel

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Rusk, Jemain McClain

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Davis, William Watts Hart

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Salomon, Frederick Sigel

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Strong, William Emerson, 1840-1891

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Civil war soldier who helped raise the 2nd Wisconsin Infantry in April 1861, was later assigned to duty with General William B. McPherson, and served at the Siege of Vicksburg, the Atlanta Campaign and Sherman's march to the sea, breveted Brigadier General in 1865. Friends with Captain Andrew Hickenlooper, chief of artillery, of the Army of the Tennessee, whom he calls "my hero". After McPherson's death, General Howard took over as commander of the Army of the Tennessee and Strong served as his ...

Lightburn, Joseph Andrew Jackson

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Smith, Arthur Arnold

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Nagler, Henry Morris

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Whary, William Mackey

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Howe, Albion Parris

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Glinnie, Mimmie

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Begbie, Harold, 1871-1929

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Parke, John Grubb

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Beckwith, Amos

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Elliott, Stephen D.

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Epithet: Captain; RN British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000980.0x00017d ...

Hendricks, G. A., n. d

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Huber, William

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Williams, Seth

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Ramsey, Alexander, 1815-1903

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U.S. secretary of war, U.S. senator and governor of Minnesota, governor of Minnesota, U.S. representative from Pennsylvania, mayor of St. Paul, Minn., banker, and lawyer. From the description of Letter and portraits of Alexander Ramsey, 1838. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449469 ...

Miller, William, 1755-1846

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Epithet: MP British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000474.0x000136 Epithet: Captain; Deputy Inspector-General of Constabulary, Ireland British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000474.0x000130 Epithet: merchant British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000474.0x000134 ...

Harding, Abner C.

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Winder, John H. (John Henry), 1800-1865

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Confederate general. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Richmond, to Gen. H. A. Wise, 1864 Feb. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270588263 U.S. Receiver of public lands at Detroit, Michigan, 1826-1828; bookkeeper, American Fur Company, Mackinac Island, Michigan, 1828-1829; and clerk of the Michigan Territorial Supreme Court, 1829. From the description of John Winder papers, 1825-1834. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34423131 ...

Alexander, Barton Stone

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McDonald, Archibald, n, d

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Cushman, Mrs. Charlotte

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Callahan, Ignacio

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Hickenlooper, Andrew, 1837-1904

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American Army officer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cincinnati, to Pres. Hayes, 1891 Dec. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270466789 ...

Martin, James Stewart

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Tower, Z. B. (Zealous Bates), 1819-1900

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Stevens, Aaron F. (Aaron Fletcher), 1819-1887

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Marshall, E.G. 1914-1998

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Tidball, John C. (John Caldwell), 1825-1906

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Career military officer, noted for his service in the horse artillery in the Union Army cavalry during the Civil War. From the description of Poor white trash, circa 1870-1889. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 671767276 Army officer. From the description of Reminiscence of John C. Tidball, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981000 John Caldwell Tidball was a career military officer noted for his service in the horse artillery in the ...

Taylor, Joseph Pannel

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Trotter, Frederick Eugene

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Turchie, John Basil

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Keith, Mildred

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Cheney, Mrs. Ames Parker

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Gordon, George H. (George Henry), 1825?-1886

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American army officer. From the description of Letter signed : Folly Island, SC, to Major General H.W. Halleck, 1863 Oct. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269597316 ...

Sheldon, Charles S

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Granger, Gordon, 1822-1876

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Major General Gordon Granger issued General Orders No. 11 on July 22, 1865 from his Galveston Headquarters, just over a month into his command of the Department of Texas. The Orders required Texas citizens to declare and turn over to the occupying Federal Army all state-owned books, archives, and records held in their possession during the Civil War. From the guide to the General Orders, No. 11 80-31., 1865, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austi...

Edwards, John, active 1781-1803

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Epithet: Governor of the Levant Company British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000817.0x000096 Epithet: Financier British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000817.0x000095 Epithet: Lieutenant-Colonel; poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000817.0x0000a7 Epith...

Baker, Benjamin Franklin

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McClernand, John A. (John Alexander), 1812-1900

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Illinois politician and soldier. From the description of Report, 1861 Nov. 12. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49252333 Prior to his appointment as Brigadier General of the volunteers by Abraham Lincoln, McClernand had served in the Black Hawk War, studied law and passed the bar, been elected to the Illinois legislature and to the U.S. House of Representatives. He served under Grant at Belmont, Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Shiloh and Arkansas Post, until ...

Abbott, Joseph C. (Joseph Carter), 1825-1881

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American soldier and politician. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to an unidentified general, [no year] Feb. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270129756 ...

Hotchkiss, Charles Truman

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Walthall, Edward C. (Edward Cary), 1831-1898

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Confederate army officer and U.S. senator from Mississippi. From the description of Edward C. Walthall papers, 1816-1894. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983628 Confederate army officer and U.S. senator, of Mississippi. From the description of Papers, 1816-1894. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 34149559 ...

Hurlburt, Stephen Augustus, 1815-1882

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Sherwood, Isaac R. (Isaac Ruth), 1835-1925

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Long, A. L. (Armistead Lindsay), 1827-1891

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U.S. Army officer, Confederate brigadier general of artillery, and secretary and biographer of Gen. Robert E. Lee. From the description of A. L. Long papers, 1754-1886 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 24201823 A. L. Long was a United States Army officer, Confederate brigadier general of artillery, and secretary and biographer of General Robert E. Lee. From the guide to the A. L. Long Papers, ., 1754-1886, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. So...

Ammen, Daniel, 1820-1898

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United States naval officer and author. From the description of Letters to S.S. McClure, 1891-1892. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 53478237 Ammen was born on May 16, 1819; was boyhood friend of Ulysses S. Grant; became a midshipman in 1836; undertook long voyages to China and Japan (1845-47), went on expedition up the Paraguay River (1853-54), sailed on Pacific cruise (1857-60); in Civil War, took part in the attack upon Port Royal in the gunboat Seneca and pa...

Starkweather, George Converse

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Schufeldt, Robert Wilson 1850-

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Larned, Benjamin Franklin

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Gist, States Rights, 1831-1864

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Thomas, Stephen

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Lee, Stephen D. (Stephen Dill), 1833-1908

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Planter, U.S. and Confederate army officer. From the description of ALS : Columbus, Miss., to Charles Colcock Jones, 1883 Dec. 23. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122442865 From the description of ALS : Columbus, Miss., to Charles Colcock Jones, 1883 Nov. 15. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 86156169 Lieutenant General, C.S.A.; President, Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College; and Mississippi state legislator; nat...

Dinon, Charles Augustine Ropes

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Arnold, Edwin, sir, 1832-1904

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British poet and journalist. From the description of Letter : London, 1879 May 17. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 316061222 From the description of Edwin Arnold letters and photographs, 1870-1903. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19105778 From the description of Letters, 1869-1900. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 31997523 From the description of In the palace of pain : an address delivered at St. Thomas's Hospital : [Lo...

Lane, Henry James

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Arnold, Richard

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Epithet: of New Inn Middlesex British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001124.0x00027a Epithet: antiquary British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000750.0x000145 Epithet: of Add MS 32689 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001108.0x0...

Baker, Lafayette Curry

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Kelton, J. C. (John Cunningham), 1828-1893

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Kelton, a Pennsylvania native, was an 1851 West Point graduate. He was Assistant Adjutant General for a number of years and became Adjutant General in 1889. From the description of Request form, April 6, 1867. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 436774260 ...

Fairchild, Harrison Styles, n. d

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Abbott, Henry L.

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Peck, Dr. George

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Spencer, George Eliphaz, 1836-1893

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Humphrey, William.

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William Phillip Humphrey is a veteran of World War II, having served in the U.S. Navy. From the description of Veterans History Project interview with William Phillip Humphrey, 2003 June 30. (Utah State University). WorldCat record id: 57239549 William Humphrey was born on June 18, 1924, in Clarksville, Texas, to Clarence and Nell (Varley) Humphrey. Located in Red River County in Northeast Texas, Clarksville was more a part of the old South than the Texas West. ...

Porter, Andrew, 1959-

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Lee, Edward M.

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Lockwood, Rufus Allen

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Marshall, William Rainey, 1825-1896

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Marshall was governor of Minnesota from 1866-1870. From the description of William R. Marshall papers, 1853-1894. (Minnesota Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122508843 ...

Wallen, Henry Davies, 1819-1886

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Smith, Thomas B. (Thomas Benjamin), 1914-

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Deems, James M. (James Monroe), 1818-1901

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Olmsted, William Adams

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Herrin, William F. (William Franklin), 1854-1927

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Phelps, John S. (John Smith), 1814-1886

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Stevens, Hazard H.

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Parke, Don Albert

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Wimbler, Frederick Charles

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Newton, John

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Epithet: Abbot of Battle British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001390.0x0002eb Epithet: divine British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000543.0x000047 Epithet: of East Harptree British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001390.0x00033c Epithet: Canon of Hereford ...

Perry, Alexander J. (Alexander James), 1828-1913

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Drum, Richard C. (Richard Coulter), 1825-1909

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American army officer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Chicago, 1874 Jun. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270745091 Drum was Assistant Adjutant General, United States Army, Military Division of the Atlantic. Trumball was chairman of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee. From the description of Letter to Lyman Trumball : Philadelphia : LS, 1870 Feb. 9. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 2...

Averell, William Woods, 1832-1900

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Averell was born in Cameron, New York. As a boy, he worked as a drugstore clerk in the nearby town of Bath, New York. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1855 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Mounted Rifles. George Custer was among his classmates. His early assignments included garrison duty at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, and the U.S. Army Cavalry School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. During two years of service in New Mexico, he was wo...

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...

Berth, Jen

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Dodgo, Grenville Melleu

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

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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 ...

Walker, Leroy Pope, 1817-1884

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Lawyer, politician, and Confederate secretary of war (1861). From the description of Papers, 1861-1868. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 41150151 Leroy Pope Walker was the first Confederate Secretary of War and later Brigadier General. John Beauchamp Jones was the author of "A Rebel War Clerk's Diary" (Philadelphia, 1866), which presented a vivid picture of wartime Richmond. Therein he described seeing Walker in Montgomery on 19 May 1861, and, telling him of hi...

Craig, Henry Knox, 1791-1869

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Born at Fort Pitt in Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1791, Henry Knox Craig entered the U.S. Army in 1812 and fought at Fort George and Stony Creek, Canada, receiving promotion to the rank of captain in 1813. During the Mexican War he served as chief of ordnance at the headquarters of the army of occupation and distinguished himself in several battles. In 1851 he was appointed colonel of ordnance and remained chief of that department until 1861. Upon his retirement in 1863 he was brevetted a brigadier-gener...

Reid, Thurston

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Kirk, Edward Needles, 1828-1863

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Kirk, a lawyer from Sterling, Illinois, was colonel of the 34th Illinois Infantry and became a brigadier general November 29, 1862. He was severely wounded at the Battle of Murfreesboro (Stones River) on December 31, 1862 and died of his wounds July 21, 1863. He had married Eliza Marcella Cameron on October 17, 1855. She later married Charles A. Thomas. From the description of Letter, January 6, 1861. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 213098079 ...

Scott, Walter Perry

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Battle, Cullen A. (Cullen Andrews), 1829-1905

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Cullen Andrews Battle was a lawyer who served as a major general for the Confederates in the Civil War. In 1861 he organized the Tuskegee Light Infantry which was attached to the 3rd Alabama. Battle and his regiment fought at Seven Pines, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Winchester, and Cedar Creek. After the war he returned to his law practice. From the description of Regimental history, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122381545 ...

Slocum, Willard

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Hatch, John Porter, 1822-1901

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American army officer. From the description of Letter signed : Fort Concho, Texas, to the Acting Asst. Inspectory General, 1872 Oct. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270482480 From the description of Printed form, filled out and signed : Fort Concho, Texas, to the Acting Asst. Inspector General, 1872 Dec. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270483315 Army officer. From the description of Papers of John Porter Hatch, 1866. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: ...

Walsh, George.

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Vincent, Thomas MacCurdy, 1832-1909

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Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. On July 1, 1853, he graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in 2nd United States Artillery. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he was assigned to the Regimental Quartermaster, Army of Northwestern Virginia and engaged in the First Battle of Bull Run. On July 17, 1862, he was promoted Major, Assistant Adjutant General for the Office of the War Department, Washington D.C. As Assistant ...

Manson, Mahlon D. (Mahlon Dickerson), 1820-1895

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Mahlon D. Manson served as a captain of the 5th Indiana Volunteers during the Mexican War. After the War he served in the Indiana House of Representatives from 1851-1852. In 1861 he was instrumental in raising the 10th Indiana Regiment and a short time later was promoted to colonel. In 1870 he was elected to Congress and served from 1871-1873. He served as State Auditor, 1879-1881 and was Lieutenant Governor, 1885-1886. He also was a collector for the U.S. Internal Revenue Service for Indiana, 1...

Schwenk, Samuel Klinger

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McGinnis, George Francis

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Kidd, James Harvey, 1840-1913

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Officer in the 6th Michigan Cavalry and later in the 2nd Brigade, 3rd Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War and participant in the Powder River Indian campaign of 1865, later Ionia, Michigan newspaper editor and officer in the Michigan State Troops (later the National Guard). From the description of James H. Kidd papers, 1861-1910. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34421514 ...

Beaver, James Andrews

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Mehta, G. L. Merrill, Lewis

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Lewis, Charles Beathard

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NICHOLS, WILLIAM A.

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Woods, Charles Robert

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Hall, James Abram

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Locke, Frederick Thomas

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Fry, James B. (James Barnet), 1827-1894

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James B. Fry, a native of Carrollton, IL, was a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy in 1847. After serving as instructor and adjutant at West Point, he was appointed chief of staff to Gen. Irwin McDowell and subsequently to Gen. Don Carlos Buell in 1861. He later served as Provost Marshall General of the U.S., 1863-1866, and promoted to Brigadier Gen. in 1864. From the description of Fry, James B. (James Barnet), 1827-1894. Letter. 16 November 1861. (Filson Historical Society, The)...

Cross, Nelson

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Pitcher, Thomas Gamble, 1824-1895

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Coit, James Bolles

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Maynadier, William

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Russell, Henry Sturgis

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Neill, Thomas Hewson

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Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford, 1831-1892

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Artist and travel writer. From the description of Letter : Gloucestershire, 1886 Dec. 26. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81972206 Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards was an English author, notable for popular novels and travel works. She published her first poem at the age of seven, her first story at twelve. After success as a writer, she made a series of journeys, and her published accounts of these trips proved enormously popular. After her experiences in Egypt, ...

Madill, Henry John

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Osgoodly, Gearse

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McCausland, John, 1836-1927

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Stevenson, John Dunlop

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Stuart, Gilbert

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Epithet: historian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000571.0x0001e0 ...

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

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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...

Whitely, Robert Henry

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Mitchel, Ormsby Mcknight

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Mussey, Reben Delavan, n. d

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Smith, James Argyle

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Withington, William Herbert, 1835-1903

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Captain in the 17th Regiment, Michigan Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War. He later co-founded the Withington and Cooley Co. (later American Fork and Hoe, Inc.). From the description of Papers, 1786-1924. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 18376245 Withington was born in 1835, the son of William and Elizabeth W. (Ford) Withington. He was educated in Boston public schools and at Andover Academy. Withington worked as a salesman in various shops. By 1858 ...

Avery, Robert, 1918-

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Stoughton, William Lewis, 1827-1888

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Wilcox, Orlando Bolivar

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Peirson, Charles Lawrence

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Carlyle, Wanda

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Hitchcock, Ethan Allen, 1798-1870

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Army officer and author. From the description of Papers of Ethan Allen Hitchcock, 1810-1873. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78216510 Soldier and author. During the Mexican War, Hitchcock served in Zachary Taylor's army of occupation and as Inspector-General on Winfield Scott's staff. From the description of Commentary on Winfield Scott's campaign in the Mexican War, [18--]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84926698 From the description of Commentary on Win...

Henry, Guy Vernon

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Jones, John and Family

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Evans, George S. (George Spafford), 1826-1883

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Biographical Information General George S. Evans General George S. Evans came to California in 1849 by way of Michigan and Texas, where he served in the Texas Rangers. Over the next ten years he was involved in mining, business, and eventually government work for both Tuolumne County and the State of California. He married Fannie Markham of Sonora in 1857. On October 16, 1861, he joined the California ...

Card, Benjamin Cozzens

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Garfield, Mrs. Mollie

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Gibson, William Harvey

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Corbin, Henry Clark, 1842-1909

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Army officer. From the description of Henry Clark Corbin papers, 1864-1980 (bulk 1898-1909). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981128 Biographical Note 1842, Sept. 15 Born, Clermont County, Ohio 1860 1861 Studied law ...

Curtiss, James Edward

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Ward, James Herman

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Le Duc, William Gates, 1823-1917

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William Gates LeDuc (1823-1917) was born in Wilksevill, Gallia County, Ohio. In 1848, he graduated from Kenyon College and was admitted to the bar in 1849. In the early 1850s, he was engaged in the book trade, an occupation that took him to Kentucky, Tennessee, and Minnesota where he decided to settle. He lived first in St. Paul and in 1856 moved to Hastings, Minn. LeDuc promoted immigration to Minnesota, prepared and obtained the first charter for a railroad in the territory, organized the Waba...

Devens, Charles, 1820-1891

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Born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, Devens graduated from Boston Latin School and eventually Harvard College in 1838, and from the Harvard Law School in 1840. He was admitted to the bar in Franklin County, Massachusetts, where he practiced law from 1841 to 1849. In 1848, he was a Whig member of the Massachusetts Senate. From 1849 to 1853, Devens was United States Marshal for Massachusetts, in which capacity he was called upon in 1851 to remand the fugitive slave, Thomas Sims, to slavery. This...

Judson, Roscius Winslow

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Cohen, Octavus Ray

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Stoughton, Charles Bradley

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Davis, Edwin Page

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Hawkins, Rush C.

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Frost, Daniel Marsh

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Kellogg, Senor

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Selfridge, James Lucon

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Sickles, Daniel Elger

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Meyer, Walter

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Dudley, Nathan Augustus Monroe

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Dunham, Thomas Harrison

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Thomas, Minor T.

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Churchill, Thomas James

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Ross, Lawrence Sullivan

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Soldier, governor, and university president Lawrence Sullivan (Sul) Ross (1838-1898) was born in the Iowa Territory and immigrated to Texas in 1839. After earning his A.B. from Wesleyan University in Florence, Alabama in 1859, Ross joined the Texas Rangers, initially as a lieutenant and later as a captain. Ross' fame in Texas greatly increased when, during the battle of the Pease River, his company rescued Cynthia Ann Parker. In 1861, he married Elizabeth Dorothy Tinsley, and prompt...

Eustis, Henry Lawrence, 1819-1885

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Heath, Francis E. (Francis Edward), 1838-1897

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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...

Van Vliet, Stewart

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Peck, John J. (John James), 1821-1878

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Major General of Volunteers for the Union Army, 1862-1864. From the description of [Civil War telegrams], 1863. (Hamilton College). WorldCat record id: 75631222 John James Peck was born in New York State from whence he received an appointment to West Point Military Academy and subsequently graduated eighth in a class of thirty-nine on 1 July 1839. His military career was as follows: Breveted 2nd Lieutenant, 2nd Artillery on 1 July 1843; 2nd Lieutenant, 16 April 1846; 1st Lie...

Collier, Frederick H.

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Bartlett, Paul, 1881-1965

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Painter (New York, N.Y.). From the description of Paul Bartlett papers, 1930-1973. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122384480 Biography Bartlett was born July 13, 1909 in Moberly, Missouri; attended Oberlin College, University of Arizona, and National University of Mexico; edited a literary annual, Workshop, the only issue of which was published in Ciudad Guzman, Mexico in 1942; wrote short stories and a novel, When the Owl...

Hayes, Joseph

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Callender, Franklin Dyer

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Turner, John Wesley, 1833-1899

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John W. Turner of Columbus, Indiana enlisted March 7th, 1862 into Company C of the 6th Indiana Infantry Regiment where he served a three year term until his death in Gallatin, Tennessee. From the description of John W. Turner letter, 26 July 1862. (Indiana Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 712577488 ...

Ketchum, W. Scott (William Scott), 1813-1871

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William Scott Ketchum (1813-1871) was born in Norfolk, Connecticut. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1834 and served in garrisons on the frontier in the war against the Seminoles in Florida, and became a captain in the 6th Infantry in February 1842. From 1842 till 1861 he was engaged in garrison duty on the western frontier and Pacific coast, and was promoted major in the 4th infantry in June, 1860. He became acting inspector-general of the Department of the Missouri in Ma...

Clingman, Thomas Larner

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Carr, Joseph Bradford, 1828-1895

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Carr was born in Albany, New York, the son of Irish immigrants, and worked as a tobacconist. While living in Troy, New York, he became interested in military affairs and by 1861 was a colonel in the New York militia. At the start of the war, Carr was instrumental in the recruitment of the 2nd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment and was appointed its colonel on May 14, 1861. Assigned to Fort Monroe, Virginia, the regiment took part in the engagement at Big Bethel. Carr served in the Army of t...

Stockton, Joseph

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Chetlain, Augustus Louis, 1824-1914

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Chetlain was born in St. Louis, Missouri. His parents were Swiss, and they came to the United States by the way of Canada. As an infant, he was taken to Galena, Illinois. He studied at local schools in Galena and later became a clerk. In 1852, he started a career in business, and by 1859, he had become wealthy. He sold his business in the U.S. and traveled in Europe. Upon returning, Chetlain participated in the 1860 presidential campaign. When the American Civil War began in 1861, Chetlain ch...

Baxter, Henry

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Christensen, Christian T. (Christian Thomsen), 1832-1905

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Christian Thomsen Christensen, a Danish born American businessman, soldier, and philanthropist. In 1861 he joined the 1st Regiment of New York Volunteers and in November 1861 was commissioned Captain of Co. I. In Sept. 1863 he was transferred to the service in the War Department under General Canby and in May 1864, became assistant Adjutant General of the Military Division of West Mississippi. Brevetted Brigadier General in March 1865, he tendered his resignation and was honorably discharged in ...

DeLand, Charles Victor

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Hobson, William

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Epithet: of Smalfeld in Hallamshire British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000265.0x000122 Epithet: haberdasher, of London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000626.0x000198 Epithet: of Stowe MS 670 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/v...

Delad, Margaret

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Chilton, Robert Hall

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Callis, William Overton, 1757-1814

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Smith, Charles Ferguson, 1807-1862

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Army officer. From the description of Charles Ferguson Smith papers, 1825-1862. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980724 American career soldier who served as commander of the Department of Utah from 1860 to 1861 and as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861-1865). From the description of Pay voucher, 1858. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145435654 ...

Manderson, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1837-1911

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Murphy, Virginia

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Greene, Oliver Duff

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Walker, James A. (James Alexander), 1832-1901

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James Alexander Walker (1832-1901) was a lawyer, Confederate brigadier general, Democratic state official, and Republican United States representative, 1895-1899, of Virginia. From the guide to the James A. Walker Papers, ., 1855-1928, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) Lawyer, Confederate brigadier general, Democratic state official, and Republican U.S. representative, 1895-1899, of Virginia. From the descript...

Stevens, Walter Husted

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Churchill, Sylvester, 1783-1862

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Churchill was born in Woodstock, Vermont, the son of Joseph and Sarah (Cobb) Churchill. Educated in the schools of his home town, he became a journalist, and published, in 1808, a weekly newspaper, "The Vermont Republican." Churchill married Lucy Hunter (1786–1862), daughter of William and Mary (Newell) Hunter, August 30, 1812, in Windsor, Vermont. At the outbreak of the War of 1812, he was appointed 1st lieutenant, 3rd U.S. Artillery on March 12, 1812, and was promoted to captain on August 1...

Packard, Jasper, 1832-1899

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Palmer, John McAuley, 1870-1955

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U.S. Army officer and author. From the description of John McAuley Palmer papers, 1863-1977 (bulk 1900-1949). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 76017626 Grandson of Illinois governor John Palmer, graduate of West Point and career army officer attaining rank of Brigadier General. His aunt, Jessie Palmer Weber was librarian at the Illinois State Historical Library for many years. From the description of Letter, Sept. 10, 1925. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). W...

Grubb, Edward Bord

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Harrow, William

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Hall, Williard Preble

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Lewis, William Delaware

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Harding, Benjamin

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Wade, James Franklin

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Anderson, Gov. C. Elmer

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Hyde, Thomas W. (Thomas Worcester), 1841-1899

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Crane, Charles Haley

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McCoy, Thomas Franklin, 1819-1899

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Littlejohn, De Witt Clinton, 1818-1892

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Strong, William Kerny

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Barksdale, William.

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Candy, Charles

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Taylor, John P.

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Pickett, Josiah

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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 ...

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...

Whitaker, Edward Washburn

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Chamberlain, Levi

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Warner, Adornian Jackson

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Gaston, Bill, 1953-

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Jackson, Nathaniel James (2)

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Poulin, J. B.

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Turley, John Alexander

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Clitz, Henry Boynton

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Innes, William Power

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Eaton, Joseph Horace

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Pearsall, Uri Balcom

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Renkin, Richard C.

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Davies, Edmund Jackson

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Newberry, Walter Cass

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Hamlin, Cyrus, 1839-1867

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DeRussy, Rene Edward

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Drayton, Percival, 1812-1865

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Garrard, Theophilus

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Anderson, James Patton, 1822-1873

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Born Franklin County, Tenn.; first territorial delegate to Congress from Washington; brigadier general, Confederate Army. From the description of ADS, [1871, no day]. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122585669 James Patton Anderson (1822-1873), native of Tennessee, was a politician in Mississippi and Florida, Mexican War officer, federal officer in the Washington Territory, and Confederate congressman and general. From the guide to the James ...

Farnsworth, John Franklin

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Underwood, Adam Bellow

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Steele, William

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Epithet: of Add MS 15858 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000362.0x00000c Epithet: Lord Chancellor of Ireland British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000362.0x00000b Epithet: of Stowe MS 185 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_1000...

Fry, Speed Smith

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Holt, Thomas

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Epithet: Chancellor of Wells British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000703.0x0002d9 Epithet: Butcher, of Southfleet, Co. Kent British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000703.0x0002d8 Epithet: of Wandsworth British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/...

Gough, John B.

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Frey, Elizabeth

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Granger, Robert Seaman, n. d

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Gresham, Walter Quintus

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Stevenson, Carter Littlepage

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Keim, William High, 1813-1862.

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United States representative from Pennsylvania. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Harrisburg, to President Lincoln, 1861 Feb. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270487435 ...

Eaton, Amos Beebe, 1806-1877

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Amos Beebe Eaton (1806-1877) graduated from the US Military Academy in 1826, took part in the Seminole War in Florida and was with General Taylor's army of occupation in the Mexican War. He was in Benicia and San Francisco, CA, between 1853-55. During the Civil War he was purchasing commissary in New York City (1861-64) and commisary-general of subsistence in Washington, D.C. (1864-65). He retired in 1874. Eaton married Elizabeth Selden in 1831, and their son, Daniel Cady Eaton (1834-1895), late...

Webb, Alexander Stuart

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Doesner, Jon

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Krzyzanowski, Vladimir

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Hunter, David, 1943-

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Epithet: KCMG British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001031.0x000316 ...

Carman, Ezra Ayers, 1834-1909

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Ezra Ayers Carman (1834-1909) was a Civil War veteran and a recognized authority on the Battle of Antietam. From the description of Ezra Ayers Carman genealogical research papers, 1816, 1860-1931. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 317396328 U.S. Army officer, civil servant, and author. From the description of Ezra Ayers Carman papers, 1861-1909. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981813 Ezra Ayers Carman (1834-1909) was a Civil War officer int...

Hollenback, O. E.

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Haskin, Joseph Abel

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Elliott, Isaac H. (Isaac Hughes), 1837-1922

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Tyler, Daniel, 1816-1906

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Latter-day Saint Church mission president, patriarch, pioneer, member of Mormon Battalion. From the description of Papers, 1816-1906. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122535571 From the guide to the Daniel Tyler papers, 1816-1906, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Jacob Hamblin (1819-1886) was a missionary in southern Utah and became a well-known Indian agent and peacemaker. He mediated between the settlers and the Indians and helped to work out treaties between them...

McNultze, John

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Hill, Charles W

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Perkins, Osgood, 1892-1937

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Stoughton, Edwin H. (Edwin Henry), 1838-1868

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Doniel, John

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Morris, William W.

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McIntosh, James McQueen

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Barry, William Ferguhar

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Walker, Duncan S. (Duncan Stephen), -1836

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Williams, Alpheus S. (Alpheus Starkey), 1810-1878

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Detroit, Mich. resident, brigadier general (brevet major general) and division and corps commander during the Civil War. From the description of Alpheus S. Williams map collection, 1864. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 238012406 Attorney, businessman, politician and soldier. Alpheus S. Williams, son of Ezra and Hepzibah (Starkey) Williams, was born at Saybrook, Conn., Sep. 20, 1810. Graduated from Yale University, 1831; studied three ye...

Halleck, Henry

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Fraser, Uncle James

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May, Dwight, 1822-1880

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Born in Sandisfield, Mass., Sept.8, 1322; moved with his parents to Richland, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., 1822; farming; grad. from University of Mich., 1849; stud.law & was admit. to practice at Battle Creek, 1850; settled in Kalamazoo, 1852; attorney of Kalamazoo Co., 1854-60; superintend. of schools, 1853-56; trustee of the village, 1866; lieutenant-governor of Mich., 1867-69; in war of 1861-66, private, then lieut. colonel, & brevet. brig. general; member of various societies; d. in Kalama...

Leiper, Charles Lewis

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Potter, Carroll Hagedorn

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Robinson, John Cleveland, 1817-1897

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American army officer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Binghamton, New York, to William W. Belknap, 1869 Dec. 31. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270655527 ...

Farnum, John Egbert

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Webster, Joseph Dana

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Hamilton, William Douglas, -1894

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Rhees, William

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Mitchell, William Galbraith

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Tweed, Boss

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Strickland, Siles A.

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French, Sameul Gibbs

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Matthews, Salmon S.

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Hubbard, Lucius F. (Lucius Frederick), 1836-1913

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Seaver, Joel J.

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Stuart, David

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Epithet: Minister of Union Chapel, Dublin British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000571.0x0001c2 Title: Earl of Strathern British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000571.0x0001c4 Epithet: of Leyden British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_1000...

Campbell, Charles Thomas

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Stachel, Julius

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Comstock, Cyrus Bellow

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Fessenden, Francis, 1839-1906

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Union officer during American Civil War; retired as brigadier general in 1866; mayor of Portland, Me., in 1876. From the description of Francis Fessenden autograph letter signed, 1898. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 71057515 ...

James, William Levis

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Mizner, Henry Rutgeras

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Hoffman, William

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Hall, Henry Seymour

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Polistis, Athenae

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Hartranft, John Frederick

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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...

Mason, Edwin Cooley

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Warner, Grover Salmon

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Matin, William Thompson

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Shelley, Charles Miller, 1833-1907

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Hill, Johnathan Augustus

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Stovall, Marcellus Augustus, 1818-1895

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Marcellus Augustus Stovall, 1818-1895, was born in Sparta, Georgia and attended school in Massachusetts. In 1835 he joined the Republican Blues of Augusta for service in the Seminole War. He received an appointment to the United States Military Academy but dropped out after one year because of poor health. After a tour of Europe, Stovall settled near Rome, Georgia and was the Captain of the Cherokee Artillery in 1861. At the start of the Civil War, he was appointed Colonel of Artillery in the Ge...

Cutcheon, Byron M., 1836-1908

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Resident of Ypsilanti, Michigan, and officer in the 20th Michigan Infantry and the 27th Michigan Infantry, during the Civil War; later Regent of University of Michigan and U.S. Congressman. From the description of Byron Mac Cutcheon autobiography, 1883-1888 [microform] (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 80095196 From the description of Byron Mac Cutcheon autobiography, 1883-1888. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34422798 Resident of Ypsilanti...

Florence, Katherine

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Moore, Jesse H. (Jesse Hale), 1817-1883

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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 ...

Stager, Anson, 1825-1885

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He was born in Ontario County, New York. At age sixteen, Stager began working as an apprentice on the Rochester Daily Advertiser for a printer and telegraph builder named Henry O'Reilly of Rochester, New York. After the latter had a telegraph line constructed from Philadelphia to Harrisburg he placed Stager in operator positions in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and then at age 21 he was put in charge of the first Lancaster, Pennsylvania, office in 1846. In the spring of 1848, he was made chief op...

McRain, William

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Ellet, Alfred Washington, 1820-1895

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Alfred Washington Ellet (b. October 11, 1820, Penn's Manor, Bucks County, Pennsylvania-d. January 9, 1895, El Dorado, Kansas), American army officer....

Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881

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James Garfield, twentieth President of the United States, was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, in 1831. After embarking on an academic career, he joined the Ohio volunteer infantry regiment, and in 1863 was appointed Major General in the same regiment. He served as a member of the U. S. House of Representatives from 1863 to 1880, when he was elected President. His inauguration took place on March 4, 1881, but his term of office was unfortunately brought to an abrupt end with his assassination by C...

Plummer, Joseph Barnett

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Hicks, Edward

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Phelps, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1833-1908

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Charles E. Phelps was a Union army colonel during the Civil War. He served in Congress as a Representative from Maryland, 1865-1869, and later became a Baltimore city judge and law professor. From the description of Charles E. Phelps letter, 1867 December 3. (University of California, Santa Barbara). WorldCat record id: 746072399 ...

Taylor, Nelson, 1821-1894

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Hartsuff, George Lucas, 1830-1874

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American soldier and Indian fighter. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to William W. Belknap, 1871 Sept. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270502870 ...

Cadwaller, George

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Knipe, Joseph Farmer, 1823-1901

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Baldwin, William H. (William Henry), 1891-

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Carleton, James Henry, 1814-1873

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Carleton was born in Lubec, Maine. He was commissioned as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army in 1839, during the Aroostook War, and took part in the Mexican–American War. He served in the 1st U.S. Dragoons in the American West, participating as a lieutenant in an 1844 expedition to the Pawnee and the Oto. One of Carleton's children, Henry Guy Carleton (1852–1910) was a journalist, playwright, and inventor. In May 1859, Maj. Carleton and K Company of the 1st Dragoons out of Fort Tejon, California, ...

Comstock, E. L.

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Kalakua, King

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Thompson, William

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Epithet: of Add MS 34580 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001344.0x000146 Epithet: MP British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001344.0x000141 Epithet: of Cork, political economist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000209.0x0002cb Epithet: MP; Lord Mayor...

Garfield, Justice A.

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Ward, William Thomas

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Caboll, D. J.

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Bartlett, Charles Gautiot

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Given, Josiah

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Quinby, I. F. (Isaac Ferdinand), 1821-1891

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French, Ezra Bartlett, 1810-1880

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Fuller, John Wallace

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Spaulding, Mr. (Oliver Lyman), 1833-1922

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Soldier from St. Johns, Michigan who served in Co. A., Twenty-third Michigan Infantry during the Civil War, later Regent of the University of Michigan, teacher, lawyer, Republican Congressman from Michigan, and U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. From the description of Oliver Lyman Spaulding photograph series [microform]. 1860s. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 55059993 Soldier from St. Johns, Michigan who served in Co. A, Twenty-third Michigan Infantry d...

Graher, Cyman C.

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Armstrong, Frank Crawford

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Cutler, Jeremiah Cutter

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Dornblasser, Benjamin

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Green, Martin Edwin

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Richmond, L. (Lewis), 1947-

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Ford, John Anson

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Biography John Anson Ford (1883-1983) was a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors between 1934 and 1958 and was Chairman in 1952-1954 and again in 1957. He attended Beloit College in Wisconsin, was first a history and economics teacher, then moved to Chicago to become a newspaper writer. He worked on the Chicago Tribune as assistant to the well-known columnist Henry M. Hyde; on the editorial board of Popular Mechanics Magazine...

Elkin, James Adams

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Parrott, James C.

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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. ...

Yarbie, Ferdinand

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Cobb, Amesa

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Davidson, John Wynn

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Townsend, Edward Daris

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Thorp, Thomas Jones

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Heath, Thomas Tinsley

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Peck, Lewis M. (Lewis Mead), 1832-1919

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Dandy, George Brown

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Thayer, John Milton

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Ingalls, Rufus, 1818-1893

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U.S. Army Captain and assistant quartermaster assigned to duty at Fort Vancouver; of Denmark, Me. From the description of Rufus Ingalls letter, 1853 Sept. 9. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70978486 General Rufus Ingalls (1820-1893), went to Oregon in 1849 as quartermaster with the rank of captain, under Major Hathaway, who established the post at Fort Vancouver. From the description of Letter : to Major General Thomas S. Jesup, Quartermas...

Baker, Ray Stennaro

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Balez, John P.

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Barry, Henry W., -1875

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Sigell, Tranz

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Baldwin, Charles Pierce

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DeGroat, Charles Henry

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Graham, Charles Kinnard

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Wilson, Erasmus

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Thom, George

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Mabry, Hinchie P.

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Craig, James, 1950-

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Epithet: Director Empire Co-operative Industries Morecambe British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000815.0x000018 Epithet: Writer to the Signet; of Elgin British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000680.0x000310 ...

Rodes, Robert Emmett, 1829-1864

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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 ...

Bell, J. L. (John Lane)

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Epithet: Lieutenant-General; Lieutenant -Governor of Guernsey British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001164.0x000344 Epithet: Provost of Glasgow British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001164.0x000372 Epithet: of Add MS 23804 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001164.0...

Taylor, George W. (George William), 1892-1917

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Epithet: of Wickham Bishops, county Essex British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001151.0x0001da ...

Adams, John

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Epithet: of Add MS 38307 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000741.0x0000e4 Epithet: of Isleworth British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000741.0x0000e7 Epithet: quarryman, of Kilmallow, county Waterford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000741.0x0000ea ...

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...

Prenote, Jamie

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Crane, James

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Yates, Blind Richard

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Epithet: DD, Chaplain to Chelsea Hospital British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000574.0x0001ce ...

Farnsworth, Elon John

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Wiley, Aquilas

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Toulmin, Harry, 1766-1823

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Toulmin and Vaughan had known each other in Philadelphia, and were friendly though not particularly close. From the description of Letter, 1796. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 213470974 Harry or Henry Toulmin was born in Somersetshire, England, the son of Reverend Joshua Toulmin. Harry also became a clergyman and affiliated with the Unitarians. Harry Toulmin immigrated to Virginia in 1791. He came to Kentucky in 1792 with letters of introduction fr...

Voris, Alvin C. (Alvin Coe)

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Baker, Arcadia Bde.

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Edwards, Oliver, 1962-

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Davidson, Henry Breward

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

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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 ...

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...

Van Allen, James Henry

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Shaler, Alexander, 1827-1911

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Army officer. From the description of Papers of Alexander Shaler, 1863-1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79455956 Brigadier General in the Union Army; formerly Lieutenant Colonel in the 65th New York regiment. From the description of Diary, 1864 May 6-1864 Aug. 9. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58776237 ...

Scott, Blance

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Bate, William B. (William Brimage), 1826-1905

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William B. Bate and Braxton Bragg were Confederate generals. From the description of Letter : Dalton, Ga., to Braxton Bragg, 1864 Apr. 11. (University of Texas at Arlington). WorldCat record id: 22408404 U.S. senator from and governor of Tennessee, and Confederate army officer. From the description of William B. Bate correspondence, 1900. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450206 ...

Kelly, Francis E.

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Morgan, Charles Hale

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McLaws, Lafayette, 1821-1897

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Lafayette McLaws was born in Augusta, Georgia on January 15, 1821. He attended the University of Virginia in 1837, but before he completed his first year he was appointed a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He graduated from West Point in 1842. McLaws served in the U.S. Army on the Texas frontier and distinguished himself during the Mexican War (1846). When Georgia seceded from the Union he resigned his commission and was commissioned into the Confederate Army. He served with dis...

Grieson, Benjamin Henry

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Phillips, Dorothy

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Hammond, John, 1947 July 28-

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Epithet: Rector of Priston British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001299.0x0002ee Epithet: Parson of Bewdley, county Worcestershire British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001299.0x0002ed Epithet: Presbyterian minister of Kirkhill British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000...

Sill, Jusheen Woodrow

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Hamblin, Joseph Eldridge

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Chisholm, Robert

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Wells, William, M.A.

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Epithet: Trustee of the National Gallery British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001028.0x0001f3 Epithet: Curate of Stockport British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001028.0x0001f1 Epithet: Cornet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001028.0x0001f0 ...

Price, William Redwood, 1836-1881

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Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. Entered the Civil War as a Captain in the 3rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry. He then served as a Assistant Commissary of Musters of the staff of Brigadier General William W. Averell. His administrative skills then brought him to a staff position in the War Department in Washington DC, where he served as an Assistant Adjutant General, then as an Assistant Inspector General in the Cavalry Bureau. He was brevetted Brigadier General, US Volunteer on March 1...

Fitzhugh, Charles Lane

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Ives, Brayton

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Ward, Durbin, 1819-1886

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Ducrom, Lamont, n. d

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McCallum, Daniel Craig

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Rutherford, Friend Smith

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Egan, Thomas Washington

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Wilkinson, Miss

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Hooker, Katherine

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Maffitt, John Newland

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Barnard, John Gross

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Bell, Edwin

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Smith, William Suoy

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Warner, Willard, 1826-1906

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A California "Forty-niner," staff officer for General Sherman, United States senator from Alabama, cotton planter, and resident of Chattanooga, Tennessee. From the description of Willard Warner papers [microform]. 1808-1903. (CHATTANOOGA PUBLIC LIBRARY). WorldCat record id: 12647413 ...

Dayton, Oscar Verish

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Lieber, Prof. Francis

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Streight, Abel D.

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Strong, James C. (James Clark), b. 1826

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Geares, A. F.

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Navarre, Peter C.

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Baker, James H. (James Heaton), 1829-1913

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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...

Denver, James William, 1817-1892

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James W. Denver was born near Winchester, Virginia. He attended public schools and moved to Ohio with his parents in 1830, settling near Wilmington. In 1841 he taught school in Missouri, and in 1844 he graduated from the law school of the University of Cincinnati. He was admitted to the bar and practiced law near Xenia, Ohio. He moved to Platte City, Missouri, in 1845, where he continued his law practice and acting career. In 1847, during the Mexican–American War, he recruited a company for t...

Root, Adrian Rowe

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Jackson, Richard Henry (2)

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Courts Family,

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Babcock, Orville Elias, 1835-1884

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American brevet Brigadier General, Aide-de-Camp to Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War and Private Secretary to Grant during his presidency, 1869-1877. From the description of Orville E. Babcock papers, 1851-1947, bulk 1861-1884. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 317717282 O.E. Babcock was President Ulysses S. Grant's personal secretary. Adam Badeau served as military secretary to Grant during the Civil War, and as consul-general in London from 1870-1881. ...

Scott, Robert K. (Robert Kingston), 1826-1900

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Ayres, Mrs. Georgia Elliott

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Henry, William Wirt, 1831-1900

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Charles Campbell (1807-1876) was born on 1 May 1807, in Petersburg, Virginia, the firstborn child of parents John Wilson Campbell (d.1842), and Mildred Walker Moore Campbell. John, a bookstore owner, was also a historian. In 1831 he published the History of Virginia to 1781 . Later, he held the position of Federal Collector of Customs in Petersburg, Virginia. Mildred taught at the Petersburg Classical Academy in the 1840's. In addition to Charles, the couple also had two younger chi...

Schimmelfernig, Alexander

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McIvor, James Patrick

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Elliott, Washington Lafayette

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Hosner, Harriet

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Potter, Joseph Hayden

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Grindley, James Glass

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Prince, Henry

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2nd Lieutenant, U.S. Army. Henry Prince was born on January 19, 1811, to Benjamin and Sara Prince, at the village of Eastport on Moose Island, Massachusetts, which later became Eastport, Maine. His family could not afford to send him to college, and he applied to attend Westpoint, the United States Military Academy. He was accepted and attended Westpoint from 1831-1835, after which he entered the army as Brevet 2nd Lieutenant, 4th Infantry Regiment, and was sent to Flori...

Hale, Nathan, 1784-1863

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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...

Anderson, George Thomas

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Holt, Catherine

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Warner, Davis B.

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Platner, John S.

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Chaplin, Daniel, 1743-1831

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Harnden, Harry

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Capeheart, Henry

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Miller, Alice

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Chamberlain, Samuel Emry

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Allaire, Anthony

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Garrart, Jeptha

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Knefler, Frederick, -1901

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Farnham, Noah L.

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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...

Gregg, John Irwin

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Pratt, Calvin Edward

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Kennedy, Robert P. (Robert Patterson), 1840-1918

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Collier, John

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Vogdes, Israel

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Raynor, William Henry

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Smith, Thomas Church Haskell

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Osborn, Thomas O. (Thomas Ogden), 1832-1904

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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 ...

Hardic, James Allen

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Duane, James C. (James Chatham), 1824-1897

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Army officer. Full name: James Chatham Duane. From the description of Field book of James C. Duane, 1858. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71014544 Chief of the Army of the Potomac. From the description of Letterbooks of J.C. Duane, 1864-1865. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 48840525 ...

Swayne, Wager, 1834-1902

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Born in Columbus, Oh., Wager Swayne was the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Noah Haynes Swayne. After graduating from Yale University he returned to Ohio to practice law. During the U.S. Civil War Swayne served as a field officer in one of Ohio's three-year infantry regiments. Appointed major of the 43rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Swayne fought in the battles of Iuka and Corinth, and later participated in the Atlanta Campaign, after which he was made brigadier general. He suffered a severe wound...

Titus, Herbert Bradwell

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Davies, Henry Eugene, 1836-1894

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Henry Eugene Davies was born in New York City, the eldest son of Judge Henry E. Davies. He was educated at Harvard, Williams, and Columbia colleges, and was admitted to the bar in 1857. On August 10, 1858, he married Julia Rich, daughter of John T. Rich and Julia Van Voorhies, at Fishkill-on-Hudson, New York. They had one son, Henry Eugene. Henry Davies was the nephew of Union Army Brigadier General and Brevet Major General Thomas Alfred Davies. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Henry E. Davi...

Parsons, Lewis B. (Lewis Baldwin), 1818-1907

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Assistant quartermaster in Union Army who became Chief of Rail and River Transportation during the Civil War. Brought order and efficiency to the business of supplying the western armies with steamboats and barges by eliminating the charter system of hire. Reforms and regulations aroused considerable complaint, especially from steamboat interests. Also a lawyer, Ohio and Mississippi Railroad manager (1857-1878), and southern Illinois farmer. Active in state Democratic party politics (1876-1884) ...

Allen, Thomas Scott

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Tompkins, Charles H., 1830-

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Helly, Alex

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Le Gendre, Charles W.

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Member of the Regiment, 1812-1900

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Cornell, Alonzo B., 1832-1904

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Governor of New York. From the description of Alonzo B. Cornell papers, 1830-1904. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63935485 Alonzo Cornell was a governor of New York and the eldest son of Ezra Cornell, the founder of Cornell University. From the description of Letter, 1871 October 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122488115 Alonzo Cornell was the son of Ezra Cornell, who founded Cornell University. Alonzo proposed publishing these remi...

Taylor, Gen. Pringle

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Parkhurst, John G. (John Gibson), 1824-1906

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Lawyer at Coldwater, Michigan, Civil War officer, U.S. Marshal of Eastern District of Michigan and Minister to Belgium. From the description of John Gibson Parkhurst papers, 1860-1909 (bulk 1860-1865) [microform]. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 85778501 From the description of John Gibson Parkhurst papers, 1802-1914. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34419759 Parkhurst enlisted and was commissioned at age 37 in the 9th Michigan Infantry as...

Jackson, Wilt

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Johnson, Richard W.

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Dewey, Aulbury

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Ruggles, Daniel, 1810-1897

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Daniel Ruggles, a native of Massachusetts and former U. S. Army officer, was a general in the Confederate Army. Ruggles led the Second Division in the Battle of Baton Rouge, 1862. From the description of Daniel Ruggles letter, 1861 Dec. 2. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 122505551 From the description of Daniel Ruggles letter, 1836 Nov. 1. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 317132959 From the description of Daniel Ruggles Confederate...

Kelley, Benjamin F., 1807-1891

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Thompson, John Leverett

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Elwell, John J.

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Wild, Edward Augustus, 1825-1891

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Edward Augustus Wild of Brookline, Mass., was a federal officer with the 1st Massachusetts Infantry, 1861-1862; 35th Massachusetts Infantry, 1862-1863; and with the African Brigade (1863-1865), a brigade formed from the 55th Massachusetts Regiment (colored) and the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd North Carolina (colored) regiments. From the description of Edward Augustus Wild papers, 1861-1864 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 25723803 Army officer. From the description of Edw...

Chrysler, Morgan Henry

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Kirby, Isaac Minor

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Williams, Roberta

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Epithet: MP; of Add MS 40387 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000300.0x000015 Epithet: of Add MS 35536 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000300.0x00001a Epithet: MP; son of Robert Williams British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000300.0x000017 Epithet:...

Poor, Henry

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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...

Slidell, John, 1793-1871

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American lawyer and politician. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to T.H. Herbert, Esq., 1856 12 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270664032 Slidell was a Louisiana lawyer and politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, and as Confederate agent to France whose capture sparked the Trent affair. From the description of Legal answer, 1800s. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 122558030 ...

West, Robert Mayhew

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Welsh, Thomas

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Epithet: Captain British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001028.0x000224 Epithet: singer and composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000562.0x0002b3 ...

Besant, Anne

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Wilson, James Harrison, 1837-1925

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Soldier, railroad builder, and author. From the description of James Harrison Wilson papers, circa 1862-1923 (bulk 1890-1915). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452964 Military engineer, Civil War general and cavalry commander, post-war railroad man. From the description of Papers, 1864-1876. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 62725438 American soldier and engineer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Keo...

Benson, E. F.

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Dalzell, Jim

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Hoffman, Gov. J. T.

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Bee, Beard Elliot

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Doolittle, Charles Camp

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McKinstry, Justus

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Maury, Debney Herndon

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Barnett, James, 1944-

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click here to view the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History entry for James Barnett click here to view the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History entry for the Cleveland Light Artillery click here to view the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History entry for the Bethel Union Click here to view the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History entry for Associated Charities James Barnett (1821-1911) was an officer who served with great distinction in the Ame...

Shepard, Isaac F. (Isaac Fitzgerald), 1816-1889

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American soldier and poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : H.Q., U. S. Colored Troops, Str. Bullitt, Milliken's Bend, to Brig. Gen. Dennis, 1865 July 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270662622 Isaac Fitzgerald Shepard (1816-1889). From the description of Papers. (American Antiquarian Society). WorldCat record id: 191276220 Biography Born July 7, 1816. Harvard University graduate, cl...

Hobson, Lt. Richmond

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Ammen, Jacob, 1806-1894

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Ammen was born in Fincastle, Virginia, but at a young age, his parents moved to Georgetown, Ohio, where Ammen attended school. He was an 1831 honors graduate of the United States Military Academy, where he was an assistant professor for two terms, in addition to his duties as a second lieutenant in the 1st U.S. Artillery. He also served as a drill instructor and captain in the Georgetown militia. He was stationed in Charleston Harbor during the Nullification Crisis. Resigning from the Army in...

Greves, Jackson

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Haymie, Isham Nicholas

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Sprague, Augustus Brown Reid

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Scales, Alfred M. (Alfred Moore), 1827-1892

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Alfred M. Scales, a lawyer from Madison, N.C., was a Democratic Representative in Congress and was a presidential elector for Breckinridge and Lane. In 1861, he became a captain of the 13th Regiment of North Carolina Volunteers. In 1862, he was promoted to Brigadier General and given command of a brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia, where he remained until the surrender at Appomatox in 1865. After the war, he served in the House of Commons, was again elected to Congress, and was elected gov...

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...

Stout, Alexander Miller

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Talmage, Rev. T. DeWitt

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Kiernan, James Lawlor

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Judah, Henry Moses, 1821-1866

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Army officer. From the description of Henry Moses Judah papers, 1847. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71064195 ...

Otis, John L.

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Martin, Glenn

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Morell, George Webb

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Webster, Richard E.

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Warner, James Meech

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Stevenson, Robert Lewis

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Marvin, Frederick

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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...

Marston, Gilman, 1811-1890

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Reynolds, Alexander Welch, 1817-1876

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Army officer. From the description of To Mrs. Hardee: manuscript poem, 1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449511 ...

Shanks, John Peter Clever

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Gleason, Newell

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Polignoc, Camiller Armad

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Thomas, Charles

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Epithet: Captain; Casual Receiver at Barbados British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001241.0x0002f6 Epithet: brother of Sir H Thomas of the British Museum British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000207.0x000050 ...

Yale, F. M.

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Sargent, Horace Binney, 1821-1908

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Civil War cavalry officer, served with the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry; commanded the Grand Army of the Department of Massachusetts. From the description of Poem, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 55531548 ...

Doan, Azerich Wall

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Greer, Elkanan Brackin

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Dye, William McEntire

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Grosvenor, Charles Henry, 1833-1917

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Charles Henry Grosvenor (CHG) was an attorney, a general in the Union Army during the Civil War, and a United States Congress representative for 20 years. CHG grew up in Athens, Ohio. He was responsible for persuading Andrew Carnegie to provide funds for a library at Ohio University. Constance Leete (CL) is his granddaughter through his second wife Louise Currier. CL lived in the Grosvenor house until sold to the Episcopal Church in 1948. From the guide to th...

Smith, Charles Edward, 1905-1959

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Epithet: surgeon on the 'Diana' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001199.0x0002ab ...

Wilcox, John Schuler

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Maxey, S. B. (Samuel Bell), 1825-1895

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U.S. Senator from Texas. From the description of Letter, 1878. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 39522014 Samuel Bell Maxey spent his early years in Tompkinsville, Monroe County, Kentucky. His family lived in nearby Clinton County when Maxey was appointed to United States Military Academy at West Point. Upon graduation in 1846, he was breveted a Second Lieutenant in the regular army and served in the Mexican War until its close in 1848. In 1849 he r...

Geske, Fred

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Bairnsfather, Bruce, 1887-1959

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Badeau, Adam

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Halpine, Charles G. (Charles Graham), 1829-1868

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Journalist, poet, reformer, Union soldier in Civil War. From the description of Letter, 1864 March 13, New York City [to] "My dear General." (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 11999938 Charles Graham Halpine, a New York author, journalist, military officer, and politician, was born Charles Boyton Halpin in Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland, the son of a Church of Ireland clergyman and editor of the Dublin Evening Mail. Having studied medicine and law at Trinity College and writte...

Couldock, C. R.

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Gibbs, Alfred

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Macy, George Nelson

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George N. Macy left his home in Nantucket, Massachusetts, to serve as an officer in the Union Army of the Potomac's Twentieth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Co. I. He survived the war, despite being wounded several times, even losing his left hand in the Battle of Gettysburg, and he eventually attained the rank of Brevet Major General. Known as the "Harvard Regiment" due to the large number of Harvard graduates among its officers, the 20th Massachusetts played a major role in many...

McCarthy, Justin

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Epithet: MP British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000265.0x0002a9 Epithet: of Carrignavar British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000220.0x0000a8 ...

Edmunds, George F.

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Quincy, Illinois, lawyer; appointed associate judge, Utah Territory, 1853. From the description of Letter : Quincy, Ill., to C[aleb] Cushing, [18]54 July 26. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 29888332 ...

Bentley, Robert Henry

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Rochwell, Alfred

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Scott, Maggie

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Canby, Charles Edward Spriggs

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Hollins, George Nichols, n. d

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Young, Thomas Lowry

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Morgan, Michael Ryan

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Augur, Christopher Cohen

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Rice, James Clay, 1829-1864

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Rose, W. B.

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Kelly, J. Henry

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Shoup, Francis A. (Francis Asbury), 1834-1896

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Jourdan, James

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Foster, Robert Seaford

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Gibbs, George

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Epithet: of Croydon British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000565.0x0002d7 Parker Cleaveland worked as a mineralogist and geologist. From the guide to the Parker Cleaveland papers, [ca. 1806]-1844, Circa 1806-1844, (American Philosophical Society) Epithet: Clerk of the Crown in Ireland British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_1000000005...

Jones, Samuel

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The Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia is the oldest builders' organization in the United States and the oldest of all trade bodies in Philadelphia. It was organized along the lines of the companies of England in 1724. The Friendship Carpenters' Company was formed in 1769 and united with the Carpenters' Company in 1786. From the guide to the Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia Records, 1683-1983, 1683-1983, (American Philoso...

Lyon, William Penn, 1822-1913

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Crawford, Jr., Samuel Wylie, 1829-1892

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Crawford was born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1846 and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1850. He joined the U.S. Army as an assistant surgeon in 1851 and served in that capacity for ten years. Crawford was the surgeon on duty at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, during the Confederate bombardment in 1861, which represented the start of the Civil War. Despite his purely medical background, he was in command of several of ...

Harney, William A.

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Pope, John, 1770-1845

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Epithet: sherman, of London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000491.0x00016d Epithet: of Cauldon, county Staffordshire British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000491.0x00016c John Pope was born in Prince William County, Virginia, in 1770. After studying law, he moved to Springfield, Kentucky, and was admitted to the bar. Pope served in...

Portolá, Gaspar de

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Sumner, Edwin Vese

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Diven, Alexander Samuel, 1809-1896

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Born in Catharine, New York, Diven attended the common schools and the academies in Penn Yan and Ovid, New York, and then studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1831, and commenced practice in Elmira. He was member of the New York State Senate (27th District) in 1858 and 1859. Diven was elected as a Republican to the 37th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1861, to March 3, 1863. Strongly opposed to slavery, he was the first to draft and introduce measures for the recrui...

Williams, Thomas

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Epithet: of Marylebone Middlesex British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001124.0x000272 Epithet: musician British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000298.0x000029 Thomas Williams, gentleman, lived at Nantcyll Ganol in the parish of Bangor, Gwynedd. From the guide to the Thomas Williams's Will, 1852 August 22, (Bangor University) ...

Hamilton, Henry

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Epithet: afterwards Professor of Political Economy Aberdeen British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001219.0x000090 Epithet: of Ballymacoll British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001299.0x000061 Title: 3rd Earl of Drogheda British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Descrip...

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...

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...

Kingsbury, Charles P.

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Geary, John White, 1819-1873

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John W. Geary was a lawyer, politician and Union general in the Civil War (1861-1865). He was born in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania on 30 December 1819. After serving as a colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War (1846-1848), Geary went to California for the 1849 gold rush. While in California, Geary became the first governor of San Francisco from 1850 to 1851 and was later governor of the Kansas Territory from 1856-1857. Following his term as governor, Geary returned to Pennsylvania and w...

West, Joseph Rodman

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Miener, John Kemp

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Muford, Thomas Taylor

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Duke, Almann

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Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924

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Joseph Conrad, a major British writer, was born in Poland and became a British subject in 1887. After a twenty year career at sea, he published his first novel, "Almayer's Folly" (1895), successfully launching his writing career. From the description of Letters-Manuscripts, 1908-1913. (Temple University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122588887 Novelist and short story writer who was born Jozef Konrad Teodor Korzeniowski in Berdichev, Ukraine, and became a British citizen in...

Sidell, William H.

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Thruston, Gales Phillips

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Kemper, James Lawson, 1823-1895

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C.S.A. general; Virginia governor, 1874-1878. From the description of Letter to Dr. A. G. Grinnan, 1856 June 4. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 52960481 James Lawson Kemper (1823-1895) was a Virginia legislator, Confederate soldier and governor of Virginia (1874-1878). From the description of Papers, 1800-1894 (bulk 1841-1888). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86172341 Kemper was an alumnus of Washington College (Class of 1842) and a Madison ...

Oakes, James

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Babbitt, Edwin Burr, 1803-1881

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Moore, Frank, 1828-1904

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Author, of New York, N.Y. From the description of Papers, 1865-1872. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20019210 Editor and compiler of works on the Civil War. From the description of Frank Moore Civil War collection, 1861-1865. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58781630 Editor, member of the New-York Historical Society, and author and compiler of works on American historical and literary subjects; born in Concord, N...

Pearson, Robert Newton

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Adams, James Capen

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Dox, Hamilton Bogart

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Wilson, Lester Sebastian

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Lyle, Peter

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Gilbert, Charles Campion

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Pennock, Alexander M

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Marple, William Warren

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Harris, T. M. (Thomas Mealey), 1817-1906

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Thayer, Silvenius

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Shepley, George Foster, 1819-1878

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Lawyer, of Bangor and Portland, Me.; U.S. district attorney for Maine; judge Maine 1st Circuit Court; served as Military Governor of Louisiana during the Civil War. From the description of Papers, 1862-1864. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70978835 Lawyer, U.S. district attorney, state legislator, and judge, of Portland, Me.; commissioned as colonel in 12th Regiment, Maine Volunteer Infantry during Civil War; made military commander of New Orleans, La...

Williamson, James Alexander, 1886-1964

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Epithet: D Litt, maritime historian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000688.0x0001bd ...

Eckert, Thomas Thompson

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Tappan, James Camp

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Rinaber, John Erving

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Lowrey, Mark Perrin, 1828-1885

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Born in McNairy County, Tennessee; resident of the Corinth, Mississippi, area at the time of the Civil War; Colonel of the 32nd Mississippi Infantry; Baptist minister; founder of the Blue Mountain Female Institute. From the description of Autobiographical essay, 1867 September 30. (University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus). WorldCat record id: 16844602 ...

Show, James

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White, James

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Epithet: of Add MS 38333 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001152.0x000003 Epithet: Reverend writer of Bonchurch I of Wight British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000623.0x00003e Epithet: of Bangor, county Down British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001152.0x000004 ...

Lindsay, Ben B.

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Nugent, Robert

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Mindil, George Washington, 1843-1907

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Union Army officer. From the description of Papers, 1861-1907. (New Jersey Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70954803 ...

Moore, Frederick William

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Epithet: Keeper of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000678.0x000360 ...

Palmer, Innis Newton, 1824-1900

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Smith, William J. (William John), 1929-

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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/William J. Smith">http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/William J. Smith</a>. From the guide to the William J. Smith Diary, 1937, (Special Collections Research Center) Little is known about William J. Smith. He was a member of a family that ran the Smith & Smith Mill in the early days of Detroit, ...

Harris, Benjamin Foster

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Pearson, Alfred L.

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Stephens, Alexander Hamilton, 1812-1883

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Former vice-president of the Confederate States of America. From the description of Letter, 1866 Dec. 26, Crawfordville, Georgia, to Henry Bradley Plant. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 260819402 Alexander Hamilton Stephens (1812-1883), lawyer, politician, Vice President of the Confederate States of America. From the description of Alexander H. Stephens papers, 1844-1882. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476996 Lawyer, journalist, governor of Geo...

Barringer, Rufus, 1821-1895

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Rufus Barringer (1821-1895). Legislator, member of the first Board of Trustees of North Carolina State University, and confederate army officer. Rufus Barringer graduated from the University of North Carolina (1842) and studied law. From the description of Rufus Barringer farm circular, no. 1, 1886 [manuscript]. (North Carolina State University). WorldCat record id: 466892536 North Carolina lawyer, politician, and Civil War brigadier general Rufus Barringer (1821-1895) was b...

Fisk, Col. Jon

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Chambers, D. Richard

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Hill, James

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Epithet: seaman, of Walmer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000568.0x000314 Epithet: of the E India Co.'s service British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000568.0x000313 Epithet: of Hereford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_1000...

Kilburn, Charles Lawrence

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Chambers, Robert W.

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Welie, Stephen Minot

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Patter, John

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Sedgwick, John

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Epithet: of Stratford Le Bow, county Middlesex British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000707.0x00029d ...

Jeffries, Noah Lemuel

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Tyler, Robert Ogden

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Miller, Joaquin

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Dudley, William W. (William Wade), 1842-1909

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William Wade Dudley was born in Weathersfield Bow, Vermont, the son of Reverend John Dudley, a well-known Congregational minister whose sermons were widely reprinted. Reverend Wade was a graduate of Yale Seminary, a sometime missionary to the Choctaw Indians, and a descendant of William Dudley, one of the earliest settlers of Guilford, Connecticut, in 1639. Dudley's mother was Abigail Wade, a granddaughter of Col. Nathaniel Wade, a staff officer to General George Washington during the Revolution...

Penrose, William Henry

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Beauford, Duke of

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Aldrich, Thomas Bailey

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Davies, Thomas Alfred, 1809-1899

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Davies was born in 1809 near Black Lake, located in St. Lawrence County, New York. He spent his childhood and early youth in his father's farm and received common education from the local schools. He entered the United States Military Academy on July 1, 1825, and graduated on July 1, 1829, ranked twenty-fifth. Future high-ranking Confederates in the class of 1829 were Robert E. Lee, Joseph E. Johnston, and Theophilus H. Holmes. Davies was commissioned in the 1st U.S. Infantry on the Wisconsin fr...

Rodman, Isaac Reece

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Woodbury, Daniel P. (Daniel Phineas), 1812-1864

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Hays, William

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Ullmann, Daniel, 1810-1892

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Union general. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to President Lincoln, 1861 Mar. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270573764 From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to President Lincoln, 1863 Feb. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270573760 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Grand View-on-Hudson, N.Y., to the Attorney General, 1875 May 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270573767 Da...

Schaffer, George Thomas

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Cooper, Samuel B., 1956-

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Beal, George Lafayette, 1825-1896

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Beal was born in Norway, Maine. His father was one of the founders of the town. Beal studied at the Westbrook Seminary and was very interested military affairs, eventually being elected Captain of the local militia unit known as the Norway Light Infantry, a position he held at the beginning of the war. He was employed as an agent of the Canadian Express Company. Beal was the first man in Oxford County to enlist, and his militia unit became Company "G" of the First Maine Infantry Regiment, a t...

O'Conor, Charles, 1710-1791

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Welles, Gideon, n.. d

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Mattocks, Charles Porter

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Farifax, Donald McNeill

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

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Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president, served 1901-1909. From the description of DS, 1904 March 1. : Washington, D.C. Homestead Certificate. (Copley Press, J S Copley Library). WorldCat record id: 15210791 26th president of the United States, 1901-1909. From the description of Theodore Roosevelt letters, 1917, 1918. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 213408920 Roosevelt was then Governor of New York. Chapman was one of the founders of the New York St...

Williams, John Stuart.

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Narmack, Mr. M. J.

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Wainwright, Charles S. (Charles Shiels)

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Lawton, Alexander Robert, 1818-1896

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Alexander Robert Lawton of Savannah, Ga., was a lawyer, Confederate brigadier and quartermaster general, president of the American Bar Association, Georgia state legislator, and U.S. minister to Austria-Hungary, 1887-1889. From the description of Alexander Robert Lawton papers, 1774-1952 (bulk 1839-1896). WorldCat record id: 24864372 Confederate soldier and lawyer. From the description of Letter signed : Richmond, to S. L. Fremont, 1864 Mar. 26. (Unknown). WorldC...

Dana, Edmund Lowell

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Jackson, Rev. H.

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Guss, Henry Ruhl

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Prescott-Allen, Robert, 1942-....

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Epithet: MA; of Bath British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000923.0x000051 Epithet: of Newcastle, county Limerick British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000923.0x000054 Epithet: of Add MS 32729 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000923.0x000053 ...

Shafter, William Rufus, 1835-1906

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Army officer. Born in 1835 in Kalamazoo County, Michigan. Served in the Michigan Infantry during the Civil War. Commissioned lieutenant colonel in the regular army 1866, brevetted brigadier general in 1897. Awarded medal of honor for gallantry at Fair Oaks. Received surrender of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Served in Texas 1863-1897. Died in 1906. From the description of Papers, 1863-1897, 1876-1877. (Texas Tech University). WorldCat record id: 24097707 ...

Nye, George Henry, 1828-1908

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George H. Nye was born in Hallowell, Maine in 1828 of an old New England family. His early career in cotton manufacturing was interrupted by the Civil War, for which Nye volunteered only one month after its beginning in 1861. Nye spent Thanksgiving of 1861 at Camp Kelsey at Annapolis Junction, not far from where he would later live. During his service Nye, who was first part of the 10th and later the 29th Maine, participated in the Battle of Antietam and in campaigns that took him as far south a...

Tucker, William Feister

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Lucas, Thomas John

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Ewing, Hugh, 1826-1905

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Born in Lancaster, Ohio; attended West Point; practiced law; served with 30th Ohio Volunteers and commanded IX and XV Corp, the latter at Vicksburg; minister to Holland 1866-1870. From the description of Letter, 1863 July 14. (University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus). WorldCat record id: 16469747 ...

Carrington, M. L.

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Shorter, John Gill, 1818-1872

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Civil War governor of Ala. From the description of Papers, 1860-1861. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 38247275 Governor of Alabama and jurist. From the description of John Gill Shorter correspondence, 1862. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980457 ...

Casey, Siles

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Ripley, Roswell Sabine

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Rains, James Edwards

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Hill, Gene Lovingston

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Miller, Mas

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Forney, Stephen Clark

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Stevens, Atherton H.

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Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

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Mary Ann Lamar Cobb (1818-1889), wife of Gen. Howell Cobb (1815-1868). From the description of Letter to Mary Ann Lamar Cobb, 1888 Oct. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476494 Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was born in Kentucky. He attended Transylvania University for a short time before enrolling at West Point in 1824, at the age of 16. He graduated in 1828 and immediately joined the First Infantry. His regiment was engaged in the Blackhawk War of 1831. In 1833, he became a...

Howard, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1838-1908

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Duryée, Abram, 1815-1890

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Ordway, Albert, 1843-1897

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Canfield, Dorothy

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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...

Madison, James, 1751-1836

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James Madison (1751-1836) was the fourth president of the United States, born in Port Conway, Virginia. He was a member of the Virginia legislature from 1776 to 1780 and from 1784 to 1786, and the Continental Congress from 1780 to 1783. His proposals at and management of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 earned him title "father of the U.S. Constitution." He cooperated with Alexander Hamilton and Jay in writing a series of papers (pub. 1787-88 under title of The Federalist) explaining the ne...

Morrison, David

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David Morrison (1867-1936), son of George Morrison, a soldier in Dundee. He studied on the continent at Paris, Jena and Frieburg before attending the United College at the University of St Andrews, in 1891/1982 and then from 1895 until gaining his MA with first class honours in mental philosophy in 1900. he again went abroad to study at Berlin and Strasburg. On his return to Scotland in 1908 he worked as an assistant to Professor Stout at St Andrews until 1914, then lecturered in philosophy at t...

Jordan, Thomas Jefferson, 1821-1895

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Whitfield, John W. (John Wilkins), approximately 1826-1879

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Goodyear, Ellsworth

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Sweitzer, Jacob Bowman

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Johnston, James D

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Batcheleder, Richard Napoleon

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Michler, Nathaniel

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Tremain, Henry Eaton

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Bartlett, E. L.

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Stephenson, Luther

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Warren, Gov. Kembler

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Powell, W. H. (William Henry), 1823-1879

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Artist. From the description of Letter of William Henry Powell, 1871. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449424 American artist, born in Ohio and later residing in New York City, painter of portraits and historical subjects. From the description of Full length portrait of Washington Irving in his library at Sunnyside : Subscription list, [186-]. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58758585 ...

Surgis, Samuel Davis

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Smith, Israel Canton

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Wise, George D. (George Douglas), 1831-1898

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Dow, Neal

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Marvin, Mia

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Carrington, Henry Beebe

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Asboth, Alexander Sandor, 1811-1868

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Asboth was born in Keszthely, Hungary. When Asboth was 8, his family moved to Zombor (now Sombor in Serbia). Asboth wanted to be a soldier, like his elder brother Lajos, but instead his parents decided he should be an engineer. He studied at the Mining Academy of Selmecbánya and the Institutum Geometricum in Pest. After graduation he worked on the construction of the Széchenyi Chain Bridge as a civilian engineer and later he had some part in the river regulation of the Lower-Danube. He joined...

Price, Sterling, 1809-1867

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Missouri governor. From the description of Papers, 1856. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36115930 Gov. of Missouri. From the description of Letter signed : City of Jefferson, to President Pierce, 1853 Nov. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270619013 ...

Fredwick, Calvin Harlowe

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Vinton, David Hammond, 1803-1873

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Quartermaster, U.S. Army. From the description of LS : St. Louis, to Henry Prince, St. Louis, 1855 Dec. 7. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122610768 David H. Vinton (1803-1873), a career military officer, was a West Point graduate (1822). After initial service in ordnance, he specialized in quartermaster duties from 1835 until his retirement at the end of the Civil War. He served on the Canadian frontier of New York (1838-1843), during a pe...

Russell, David Allen

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Pease, William Russell

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Meredith, Sullivan Amory

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Hamlin, Charles S.

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Charles Sumner Hamlin (1861–1938) was an American lawyer and politician. He held a number of important political offices, including Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (1893-1897, 1913-1914) and Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board (1914-1916). From the guide to the Charles S. Hamlin Letters, 1893-1925, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) Lawyer, U.S. assistant secretary of the treasury, and member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Re...

Rucker, Daniel Henry, 1812-1910

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Loomis, Gustavus

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Curtis, William Baker

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Marcy, Randolph Barnes 1812-1887

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American army officer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to William W. Belknap, 1871 Sept. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270606727 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Orange, to "Dear General" [William W. Belknap?], 1872 Aug. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270606801 ...

Zook, Samuel Kasciuzko

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Cary, Wilson Miles, 1734-1817

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Smith, Green Clay, 1826-1895

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Green Clay Smith was a United States Congressman from Kentucky, a Union General during the Civil War, and a Territorial Governor of Montana. Born in 1826, he was the son of John Speed Smith and Elizabeth (Clay) Smith, who was the daughter of Green Clay and the sister of Cassius and Brutus Clay. Green Clay Smith served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Mexican War and practiced law in Covington until 1861. After the beginning of the Civil War, Smith served in the Kentucky House of Representatives and al...

Van Schraeder, Alexander

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White, Julius, 1816-1890

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Little, Lewis Henry

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Horn, John Watts

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Mackenzie, Ronald Slidell

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Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862

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Martin Van Buren (b. Kinderhook, New York, December 5, 1782-d. July 24, 1862, Kinderhook, New York), studied law, was admitted to bar, New York, 1803; moved to Huson surrogate of Columbia Co.; member of State Senate, 1813-1820; attorney general of New York, 1815-1819; delegate to state constitutional convention, 1821; U.S. Senate Democrat, March 4, 1821-1828; Governor of New York, 1828-1829; U.s. Secretary of State, March 12, 1829 - August 1, 1831; Vice President, 1832; President, 1836-1840....

Ames, Adelbert

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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...

Starring, Frederick Augustus

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Barber, Gersham Morse

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McCulloch, Henry E. (Henry Eustace), 1816-1895

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White, Henry

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Epithet: editor of 'The Savoy Hymnary' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000207.0x000087 Title: 1st Baron Annaly 1863 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001086.0x0003d4 Epithet: Editor of the 'Sunday Times.' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001086.0x0003c7 ...

Weber, Max

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Max Weber (1881-1961) was a painter and sculptor in New York City. Weber was born in Bialystok, Russia. When he was ten years old his family moved to Brooklyn, New York. From 1898 to 1900 he attended Pratt Institute and studied theory and practice of design under Arthur Wesley Dow. After graduating he briefly taught drawing in Lynchburg, Virginia, and Duluth, Minnesota. In 1905 he moved to Paris to attend the Académie Julian, studying under Jean-Paul Laurens, and later a...

Lee, Fitzhugh, 1835-1905

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Fitzhugh Lee, grandson of Henry "Light-Horse Harry" and nephew of Robert E. Lee was Major General of the Confederate Army. After the war, he wrote about and taught the history of the South during the Civil War and wrote a biography of Robert E. Lee. In 1885-1889, he served as governor of Virginia. From the description of Papers of Fitzhugh Lee, 1863-1889 (bulk 1885-1889). (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122446276 Fitzhugh Le...

Otis, Ewell

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Gorman, Willis Arnold, 1816-1876

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Willis A. Gorman was born January 12, 1816 in Fleming County, Kentucky, the son of David and Elizabeth Gorman. The family moved to Bloomington, Indiana in 1836 where Willis studied law at Indiana University. He was elected to the Indiana legislature when he was 23 and served five terms. He enlisted as a private in the Third Indiana Volunteers when the war with Mexico broke out and was elected a major in June 1846. After the regiment returned home he organized the Fourth Indiana Regi...

Rogers, George Clarke

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Mccormack, John

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Reynolds, Joseph Jones, 1822-1899

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Stone, George Augustus

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Gibson, Randall Lee, 1832-1892

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Randall Lee Gibson, Confederate States Army general and New Orleans lawyer, was a United States representative and senator from Louisiana. He graduated from Yale University in 1853 and from the law department of the University of Louisiana in 1855. His father, Tobias Gibson, was a planter of Oak Forest Plantation, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. From the description of Randall Lee Gibson papers, 1848-1891. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 298858456 United Stat...

Strong, Thomas J

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McCook, Edwin Stanton

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Benham, Henry Washington, 1813-1884

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Benham was born at Cheshire, Connecticut. He graduated at the top of his class from the United States Military Academy in 1837. He was connected with various government works as a member of the Engineer Corps, and served in the Mexican War in 1847–48. From 1849 to 1852, he was superintending engineer of the sea wall for the protection of Great Brewster Island, Boston Harbor, and from 1852 to 1853 of the Washington (D.C.) Navy Yard. In 1861 he was appointed engineer of the Department of the Oh...

Johnson, Lewis

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Reeve, Isaac Van Durer

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Jones, Patrick Henry

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Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893

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Rutherford B. Hayes was born in Delaware, Ohio, in 1822 and earned degrees from Kenyon College and Harvard Law School before starting a career as a lawyer in Cincinnati. Hayes served as a major general in the Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War and was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1864. Hayes then was elected Governor of Ohio and later served one term as President of the United States (1877-1881) before retiring to his home in Fremont, Ohio, where he died in 1893.President of the Uni...

Shepherd, Oliver Cathrop

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Hale, Edward

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Valladigham, Clement Laird

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Walker, William Henry

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Battersea, Lady

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Wilson, Thomas, active 1797

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Epithet: Keeper of the Stage Papers at Whitehall British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000354.0x00002f Epithet: subject of Wolley Ch i.84 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000978.0x000314 Epithet: of London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000300.0x0003d9 ...

Markham, Henry Harrison

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Woodward, Orphers Seger

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Fore, Thomas M., n. d

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Stibbs, John Howard, 1840-1916

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Bartlett, Joseph Jackson

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Serrell, Edward W. (Edward Wellman), 1826-

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Edward W. Serrell, Union Colonel with the 1st New York Engineer Regiment. From the description of Letter to Charles P.N. Weatherby, 1862 Apr. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476815 ...

Drake, Francis Marion, 1830-1903

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Drake was born in Rushville, Illinois, the son of John Adams Drake and Harriet Jane O'Neal. He later moved to Centerville, Iowa. He received a good business education, and became a merchant. He married Mary Jane Lord on December 24, 1855. They had seven children. During the California Gold Rush, he led two expeditions across the plains from Iowa to California. The first one left in 1852. During that trip with ox teams, he and just 7 other teamsters encountered a band of 300 Pawnee on the plai...

Force, Manning Ferguson

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Anderson, William Black, 1830-1901

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Daniel, John W. (John Warwick), 1842-1910

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Daniel was born and educated at Lynchburg, Virginia, served in the Confederate Army and practised law afterwards. He was a member of Congress from 1885-1887 and a United States Senator from 1887-1910. From the description of Papers, 1849-1910 (inclusive), 1865-1910 (bulk). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 122471372 John Warwick Daniel (1842-1910) was prominent in Virginia and national political circles. He served as a representative and senator both on a state ...

Rice, Elliott Warren

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Woodward, John B.

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Ross, Leonard F. (Leonard Fulton), 1823-1901

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Leonard Fulton Ross (1823-1901), Union general. He raised the 17th Regiment of Illinois Infantry, and was commissioned Colonel in May of 1861, leading it in Kentucky and Missouri. He commanded 3rd Brigade, 1st Division of the Army of Tennessee. On Apr. 25, 1862, he was promoted Brigadier General of U.S Volunteers. Ross commanded the 2nd Division of the District of Corinth, 8th Division, Left Wing and 13th Division of the XIII Corps. He resigned on July 22, 1863, and later was active in the Repub...

Beatty, Samuel

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Ducat, Arthur C. (Arthur Charles), 1830-1896

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American Army Officer. From the description of Autograph telegram signed : Murfreesboro, addressed to Captain J. Bates Dickson, 1863 May 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270742556 ...

Ord, Edward Otho Cresup

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Huntington, Helen

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Sanborn, William

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Patterson, Joab Nelson

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Hawkes, George Porting

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Roger, Thomas Howard

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Hall, Charles

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Epithet: Vice-Chancellor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001190.0x000293 Epithet: of Nantwich British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001190.0x0001c8 Epithet: Recorder of London 1892 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001190.0x000292 Epithet: clerk, Iri...

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 ...

Dodge, Charles Cleveland

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Rossetti, Victor

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Hardin, Martin D., 1780-1823

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Evans, Admiral

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Garrard, K. (Kenner), 1827-1879

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Duryea, Hiram

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Plaisted, Harris Merrill

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Somes, Daniel E. (Daniel Eton), 1815-1888

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Simmons, Jessie

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Tibbits, William Badger

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Barnur, Henry A.

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Roberts, Charles Wentworth

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Cumming, Alfred

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Alfred Cumming was born in 1802 in Augusta, Georgia. As Mayor of the city of Augusta, he achieved prominence by his active work in curbing a yellow fever epidemic. In May 1857, President James Buchanan appointed him the second Governor of Utah Territory, following Brigham Young. His trip West took several months and included a winter near Fort Bridger. He finally arrived in Utah with his wife, Elizabeth, in the spring of 1858. At the time, the territory was in conflict as the Mormon...

Pelovee, Louis H.

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

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

Barnes, James, 1866-1936

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American author and historian. From the description of Letter and an envelope, 1903. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367389657 James Barnes was a writer and military historian who lived in Princeton, New Jersey. Born in 1866, Barnes graduated from Princeton University in 1891 and served in the Spanish-American War and World War I. During World War I, he was head of the head of the Princeton Aviation School. He also worked for Scribner's Magazine, was assistant editor of Harpe...

Whipple, Amiel Weeks, 1817?-1863

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Union general. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Ft. Corcoran, to Major Hunt, 1862 Sept. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270587485 ...

Sulzberger, Arthur A.

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Anderson, Joseph R. (Joseph Reid), 1813-1892

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Joseph R. Anderson (1813-1892) was associated with the Tredegar Company, a major iron works and armorer in Richmond, Virginia. He was a Confederate brigadier general and friend of Robert E. Lee. From the description of Papers, 1861-1867. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122395576 Native of Botetourt County, Virginia; graduate of West Point; associated with and owner of Tredegar Iron Works from 1841; served in the Confederate Army from 1861-1862, then was reassigned to keep the...

McAllister, Mary

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Clayton, Powell, 1833-1914

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Powell Foulk Clayton was born in Bethel Township, Pennsylvania, to John and Ann (Clarke) Clayton. The Clayton family was descended from early Quaker settlers of Pennsylvania. Clayton's ancestor William Clayton emigrated from Chichester, England, was a personal friend and associate of William Penn as well as one of nine justices who sat at the Upland Court in 1681. Clayton attended the Forwood School in Wilmington, Delaware and the Pennsylvania Literary, Scientific, and Military Academy in Bri...

Sewall, Frederick Drummer

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King, Wilburn Hill, 1839-1910

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Todd, John Blair Smith

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Clay, Cassius Marcellus, 1810-1903

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Cassius Marcellus Clay was born to Sally Lewis and Green Clay, one of the wealthiest planters and slaveholders in Kentucky, who became a prominent politician. He was one of six children who survived to adulthood, of seven born. Clay was a member of a large and influential political family. His older brother Brutus J. Clay became a politician at the state and federal levels. They were cousins of both Kentucky politician Henry Clay and Alabama governor Clement Comer Clay. Cassius' sister Elizab...

Lincoln, William Sewer

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Roddey, Philip Dale

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Ketner, James

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Mix, Elisha

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Walcutt, Charles Carroll

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Easton, Langon Cheves

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Jones, Wells S.

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Barrett, Clifford L. (Clifford Leslie), 1894-1971

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Clifford Leslie Barrett (1894-1971) was a professor of philosophy at the University of California at Los Angeles and Princeton as well as an author and editor. From the description of Papers of Clifford L. Barrett, 1923-1967. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122564711 ...

Robertson, Beverly Holeonube

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Murphy, Isaac, 1799-1882

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Duval, Isaac Hardin

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Bell, Annie

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Gobin, John Peter Shindel

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Lytle, William Haines, 1826-1863

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Thompson, Sylvia, 1902-1968

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Coates, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1827-1899

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Physician, Civil War officer, state legislator, and civic leader, of Portsmouth, Ohio. From the description of Benjamin F. Coates collection, 1862-1881 (bulk 1862-1865). (Rutherford B Hayes Presidential Center). WorldCat record id: 70925250 ...

Ferrero, Edward, 1831-1899

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Dunn, W. McKee (William McKee), 1814-1887

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American congressman and army official. From the description of Autograph letter signed : "War Department," to Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, 1869 Nov. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270744084 U.S. Army officer and U.S. representative from Indiana. From the description of Petition recommending W. McKee Dunn, 1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983358 ...

Nye, Edgar W.

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Spinola, F. B. (Francis Barretto), 1821-1891

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Vinton, Francis L. (Francis Laurens), 1835-1879

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Wessells, Harry Walton

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Hawkins, John Parker, 1830-1914

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Whitebeak, Horatio Nelson

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Morgan, G. W. (George Washington), 1820-1893

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U.S. representative of Ohio, diplomat, and army officer. From the description of Papers of G. W. Morgan, 1849. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79453867 Epithet: formerly US Minister to Portugal British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000754.0x000144 Soldier, lawyer, and politician, from Mt. Vernon, Ohio. From the description of Papers, 1819-1926. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat...

Mitchell, Greenwille McNell

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Gibson, Horatio Gates

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Ritchie, John

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Epithet: of Aberdeen British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001195.0x0001c7 Epithet: Secretary, Vale of Leven Liberal Association British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001195.0x0001c8 ...

Wharton, John A. (John Austin), 1806-1838

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Pulford, John, -1896

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Morgan, T. J. (Thomas Jefferson), 1839-1902

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Morgan was professor of Church history in the Baptist Union Theological Seminary, Chicago, later University of Chicago Divinity School. From the description of [Letter] 1877 Feb. 11, Chicago to J.A. Broadus / T.J. Morgan. 1877. (SBTS Library). WorldCat record id: 48463057 ...

Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933

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Epithet: president of the United States British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000497.0x00001d Calvin Coolidge's son John married John Trumbull's daughter Florence. From the description of Letter, 1931 March 16, Northampton, Mass., to John H. Trumbull, Plainville, Conn. (Hartford Public Library). WorldCat record id: 25622017 For information on Pres. Coolidge, see an encyclopedia. No information is...

Reynolds, Daniel Harris, 1832-1902

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Ferry, Orris S. (Orris Sanford), 1823-1875

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Representative and Senator from Connecticut. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Norwalk, Conn., to George H. Williams, 1873 Mar. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270526226 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Norwalk, to George W. Williams, 1873 Apr. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270526235 ...

Carpenter, Edward C.

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Lockwood, Henry, 1814-1899

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Moor, Augustus

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Vaughan, Samuel K.

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Hobson, Edward Henry, 1825-1901

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Hobson was a General in the Union Army from Kentucky and serving in Kentucky during the Civil War. From the description of Hobson, Edward Henry, 1825-1901 1862 August 13 Proclamation. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49223941 A native of Greensburg (Ky.), was a merchant and later president of the branch of the Bank of Kentucky. He served as an officer in the 13th Kentucky Volunteers in the Union Army during the Civil War. From the description...

Elis, Thomas H., n. d

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Paine, Charles Jackson

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Morrow, Henry Andrew, 1829-1891

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Field, Charles William, 1828-1892

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Army officer; served in U.S. Army 1849-1861; resigned to enter Confederate Army and rose to major general; officer in Egyptian Army, 1875-1877. Doorkeeper, U.S. House of Representatives, 1878; civil engineer, 1881-1885; superintendent Hot Springs (Ark.) Indian Reservation, 1887-1889. From the description of ALS, 1874 Jan. 20, Atlanta, to Charles Colcock Jones, New York, N.Y. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 86138900 Army officer; served in U.S. Army, 184...

Cady, Albemarle, 1807-1888

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Albemarle Cady was born in Keene, New Hampshire, on February 15, 1807. He graduated from Norwich Military Academy in 1825. He was appointed as a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, on July 1, 1825. Upon graduation from the US Military Academy on July 1, 1829, he was appointed brevet second lieutenant in the 6th United States Infantry Regiment and second lieutenant on the same day. Cady was stationed at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, on frontier duty until 1833 and ...

Lawman, Jacob Gatner

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Seymour, Truman, 1824-1891

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Painter and watercolorist; Massachusetts. From the description of Truman Seymour papers, 1844-1974 (bulk 1844-1890). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122502778 Truman Seymour: instructor in drawing at West Point, brevent Major General in Civil War, amateur artist. From the description of Truman Seymour papers, 1859-1885 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702169274 From the guide to the Truman Seymour papers, 1859-1885, (Manuscripts and Archives) ...

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...

Earp, Wyatt, 1848-1929

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Lawman, U.S. marshal, and gunfighter of the American West; b. in Monmouth, Ill.; after serving as a peace officer in Kansas, was involved in the controversial gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Ariz., in 1881; b. Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp. From the description of Wyatt Earp collection, 1839-[ongoing]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70954219 ...

Gladden, Adley Hogan

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Noble, John W. (John Willock), 1831-1912

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U.S. secretary of the interior, army officer, and lawyer. From the description of Certificate of John W. Noble, 1891. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79451170 Major in the 3rd Iowa Cavalry, later promoted to General. Appointed Secretary of the Interior in 1889 by President Harrision. Helped draft The Forest Reserve Act. From the description of Papers, 1859-1894. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 52723763 ...

Jones, Edward Franc, 1828-1913

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Rusling, James Fowler, 1834-1918

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Lawyer, of Trenton, N.J. From the description of Papers, 1864-1929; (bulk 1880-1910). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20159051 ...

Walker, William Harvey Lamb

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Cole, George W.

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Abbott, Jo

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Corcoran, Michael

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Michael Corcoran (1848-1919) was born in County Cork, Ireland, and immigrated to the United States with his family as a young boy. A soldier in the 8th United States Cavalry in the Indian Wars, Corcoran served in 1869 in the Mojave Desert, then part of the Arizona territory. Corcoran's unit was assigned to protect settlers on the western frontier. Corcoran was awarded the Medal of Honor for gallentry in an action that took place on August 25, 1869. After leaving the Army, Corcoran l...

Cather Willa

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Harris, Andrew Cintorn

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Manigault, Arthur Middleton, 1824-1886

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Beveridge, John Lourie