Papers, 1860-1885.

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Papers, 1860-1885.

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Civil War related papers of Dr. Henry Clay Robbins, Assistant Surgeon, 101st Regiment, Illinois Infantry; including an autobiography primarily concerning experiences while on Sherman's march; service documents; a poem by Robbins; two letters to H.V. Johnson which Robbins found on the battlefield, one from August Belmont in New York, Nov. 22, 1860, and one from Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy, April 18, 1864; and four 1884-1885 letters from General W.T. Sherman discussing the Stephens letter and the value of its description of the Confederacy in 1864.

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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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...

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...

United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment, 101st.

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Belmont, August, 1813-1890

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American banker and financier, U.S. minister to the Netherlands, and a leading Democratic political leader. At the outbreak of the American Civil War, he vigorously supported the Union and helped raise the first German regiment sent from New York City. Daniel Edgar Sickles was a U.S. Representative from the State of New York (1857-1861 and 1893-1895). From the description of August Belmont letter, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 711208279 Banker and diplomat. ...

Johnson, Herschel V. (Herschel Vespasian), 1812-1880

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Herschel Vespasian Johnson was born on September 18, 1812, in Burke County. Like most of Georgia's antebellum political lights, Johnson passed through the University of Georgia, graduating in 1834. He took up the law and established prosperous practices in Augusta, Louisville, and finally Milledgeville, the state capital. Ambrose Wright, the future Confederate officer and newspaper journalist, began his study of law in Johnson's Louisville office. In 1844, the same year he moved to Milledgeville...

Robbins, Henry Alfred, 1839-1911

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