Memoirs, 1903.

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Memoirs, 1903.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19793733

Typescript copy of Haskell's Civil War memoirs, describing Charleston before the fall of Fort Sumter; Confederate leaders; the battles of Ball's Bluff, Seven Pines, Brandy Station, Gettysburg, Bristoe Station, the Wilderness, and Cold Harbor; actions around New Bern and Washington, N.C.; the siege of Petersburg and the battle of the Crater; analysis of why the Southerners lost at Gettysburg; conditions in Richmond; General Custer's saddle and his spurs; the surrender at Appomattox; and his last interview with Lee.

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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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Custer, George Armstrong, 1839-1876

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Custer's paternal ancestors, Paulus and Gertrude Küster, came to the North American English colonies around 1693 from the Rhineland in Germany, probably among thousands of Palatines whose passage was arranged by the English government to gain settlers in New York and Pennsylvania. According to family letters, Custer was named after George Armstrong, a minister, in his devout mother's hope that her son might join the clergy. Custer was born in New Rumley, Ohio, to Emanuel Henry Custer (1806...

Haskell, John Cheves, 1841-1906.

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Confederate officer and political figure, from Abbeville (Abbeville Co.), S.C. From the description of Memoirs, 1903. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19793733 John Cheves Haskell was a Confederate officer and lawyer of South Carolina. From the guide to the John Cheves Haskell Papers, ., 1857-1941, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) Lawyer, planter, state legislator, native of Abbeville C...

Confederate states of America. Army

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The Savannah Ordnance Depot, Savannah, Georgia, was organized as a field depot during the Civil War. In April 1864, it became the Savannah Arsenal under the supervision of the Chief of Ordnance. From the description of Savannah Ordnance Depot employment roll, 1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477938 The Confederate States of America Army may have created the position of Purchasing Commissary of Subsistence to oversee the distribution of food and other supplies to the Co...

Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870

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Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870) served as General of the Confederate Army in the U.S. Civil War and was president of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia from 1865 to 1870. Lee spent the first twenty-three years of his military career in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. From 1837 to 1841 he was superintending engineer for the harbor of St. Louis and the upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Robert E. Lee was a United States Army officer, 1829-1861; commander of Virginia forces in the ...