Papers, 1852-1871.

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Papers, 1852-1871.

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Letters from Howland, serving in the quartermaster branch of the Union Army, and of George S. Tilton, 1st Massachusetts Cavalry, describing camp life, sickness, hospitals and nurses, picket duty, furloughs, religion, a prison camp near Chicago, newspaper criticism of military maneuvers, and military engagements, including a guerilla raid on a train, cavalry attack on Confederate artillery near Culpeper, Va., the devastation of Sulphur Springs, Va., and a Confederate attack causing the evacuation of a Union camp from Johnsonville to Nashville, Tenn. Scattered letters refer to the presidential campaign of 1852, spring races at Louisville, Kty., 1865, and the Chicago Fire, 1871.

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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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