Papers. 1858-1864, 1907.

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Papers. 1858-1864, 1907.

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Photocopies of papers of Gierhart, 17th O.V.I., including 15 letters to family, re. camp life, actions, and opinions of leaders. Also mentions Morgan's raid, butternuts, and Vallandigham. Other items include history of Co. K, 17th O.V.I., and Gierhart's reminiscenes of three years service, written in 1907. Gierhart fought in Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee.

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Ohio History Connection, Ohio Historical Society

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Ohio History Connection, Ohio Historical Society

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Vallandigham, Clement Laird, 1820-1871

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Clement Laird Vallandigham was born July 29, 1820, in New Lisbon, Ohio (now Lisbon, Ohio), to Clement and Rebecca Laird Vallandigham. His father, a Presbyterian minister, educated his son at home. In 1841, Vallandigham had a dispute with the college president at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. He was honorably dismissed, but he never received a degree. Edwin M. Stanton, the future Secretary of War under President Lincoln, was Vallandigham's close friend before the Civil War....

Ohio Infantry. 17th Regt., 1861-1865.

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Gierhart, A. L.

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