Letters of Warren E. Sawyer 1862-1885.

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Letters of Warren E. Sawyer 1862-1885.

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Letters from Warren E. Sawyer to his family depict the camp life, officers, fellow soldiers and commanding officers, including Don Carlos Buell, Confederate prisoners, and Buell's pursuits of Bragg, including the skirmish at Lawrenceberg.

5 pieces, also envelopes and ephemera.

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Kidder, M. A., Mrs

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United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 16th (1861 - )

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Buell, Don Carlos, 1818-1898

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Don Carlos Buell was born in Lowell, Ohio, the eldest of nine children born to Salmon and Elizabeth Buell. He was a first cousin of George P. Buell, also a Union general. Buell's father died when he was 8 years old, and his uncle took him in and raised him. As a child, Buell had a difficult time making friends due to his distant, introverted personality and was often made fun of by other children. After winning a fight with a neighborhood bully, he became awakened to the idea that discipline and...

Sawyer, Warren E. (Warren Erastus), 1844-1863.

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Warren E. Sawyer of Monona Iowa, enlisted in the Regular Army on Feb. 26, 1862 at Dubuque, Iowa, and soon was mustered in the 16th U.S. Infantry Regiment, Co. H. After three months of training at Camp Thomas, near Columbus, Ohio, he joined his regiment by June 1862 near Florence, Alabama. Sawyer took part in Buell's pursuit of Bragg and the advance on Murfreesboro, Tenn. He died on Jan. 31, 1863 of wounds sustained at the battle of Stone's River. From the description of Letters of Wa...