Letters, 1857-1882.

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Letters, 1857-1882.

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Personal letters to Williams chiefly during the Civil War. Topics include Constitutional Union Party candidates John Bell and Edward Everett in the election of 1860; politics in Maryland and Pennsylvania; coal mining and iron manufacture in Pennsylvania; Francis Harrison Pierpont, first governor of West Virginia; Pennsylvania governor Andrew Gregg Curtin; the Peninsular Campaign; the capture of Fort Donelson, Tenn.; the battle of Gettysburg; Union Army recruiting and casualties; the 15th and 123rd Regiments, Pennsylvania militia, and the 100th Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry, U.S.A.; wartime conditions in Philadelphia and Baltimore; and alleged vandalism in Pittsburgh by Afro-American troops in the U.S. Army.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Constitutional Union Party (U.S.)

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Williams, Joseph S., 1803-

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Resident of Pittsburgh, Pa. From the description of Letters, 1857-1882. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 154271044 From the description of Letters, 1857-1882. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20504698 ...

Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899

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Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-99), Union leader in Virginia during the Civil War, head of the government set up by the Wheeling Convention of June, 1861, and governor of "restored" Virginia (i.e., that part of the state under federal control but not incorporated in West Virginia). After the war he remained as governor until 1868. In 1881, he changed his last name from Peirpoint to Pierpont. From the description of Papers of Francis Harrison Pierpont, 1861-1883 (bulk 1861-1868). (Hu...

United States. Army

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...

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 ...

United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 100th (1861-1865)

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