Clendenen family papers, 1855-1972.

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Clendenen family papers, 1855-1972.

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Clendenen family correspondence and a 1859 pocket diary kept by Clemens L. Clendenen cover family affairs, farming, and property, including and a rift between Hyman Clendenen and his father over land in Iowa and a homestead grant. The Civil War letters from Clemens L. Clendenen to his wife Louisa Shinn Clendenen posted from Parkersburg, Clarksburg and New Creek, W. Virginia in August and September of 1864 and one letter from Andersonville prison deal with camp life and contain some discussion of Vallandigham and Copperheads. This portion of the collection also includes letters to Louisa from John V. Clendenen, and members of the 4th W. Virginia Cavalry regarding her husband's fate. Letters from William Lambden Clendenen to his fiance'e Mary Cowan (1887-1888, 32 pieces) describe his life in Ashland, Kansas as a farmer and laborer. Correspondence between Colonel Clarence Clemens Clendenen and Confederate Historical Society (London) (1969-1972, 18 pieces) addresses various aspects of the Civil War, especially in the West and border states, and discusses affairs of the Confederate Historical Society.

113 pieces.2 boxes.

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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....

Clendenen, Clarence C. (Clarence Clemens)

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Clarence C. Clendenen was the author of several books and articles on military and Mexican-American affairs. A 1920 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, he earned his M.A. from Michigan State University and PhD in history from Stanford University. He served as a colonel in the Army Cavalry with the 1st, 5th, 7th, and 10th regiments. Through the 1950s, Clendenen taught at West Point and served in the Philippines, Japan, and Venezuela, as well as on the Mexican border. He ...

Clendenen, Clemens L. . 1864.

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Clendenen, Louisa Shinn, fl. 1863-1864,

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Clendenen family.

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The Clendenens were a farming family in Beverly, Ohio. In the mid 1850's, Hyram Clendenen, son of James Clendenden, moved to a Gold Rush town of Iowa Hill, Calif. In Aug. 1863, his brother Clemens L. Clendenen, an Ohio farmer, enlisted in the 4th West Virginia Cavalry, where he served as a cook and barber. Captured during the action at Williamsport, January 30, 1864, he died at the Andersonville prison in summer of 1864. William Lambden Clendenen was a farmer and laborer in Kansas in 1880's. Col...

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United States. Army. West Virginia Cavalry Regiment, 4th (1863-1864).

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Clendenen, Clemens L., d. 1864

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Clendenen, Willard Lambden, fl. 1887-1888.

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