Papers, 1862-1865.

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Papers, 1862-1865.

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Letters of three brothers, Edward, Charles, and Joel Griswold, serving in the Union Army. They describe camp life, activities in South Carolina, Virginia, and Florida, the siege of Charleston Harbor, 1863, the siege of Petersburg, 1864, the 1864 presidential election, food supplies, paid substitutes in the army, the desertion of Confederate soldiers to the Union lines, the capture of the Confederate ironclad Fingal, Lee's surrender, and the assassination of Lincoln.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6966517

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Griswold, Joel.

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Fingal (Ship)

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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...

Griswold, Edward.

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Griswold, Charles J.

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Griswold family.

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Residents of Guilford (New Haven Co.), Conn. From the description of Papers, 1862-1865. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19657582 ...

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...