Civil War Collection, 1861-[on going].

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Civil War Collection, 1861-[on going].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27255018

Consists of two volumes of Civil War and post-Civil War newspaper clippings, and research notes of an unknown researcher, dealing with the military training camps established in Milwaukee during the war, including Camp Sigel, Scott, and Washburn. Also includes short biographies of Generals Rufus King, John C. Starkweather, Lysander Cutler, and Halbert Paine.

.30 cubic ft.

Library Council of Metropolitan Milwaukee

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SNAC Resource ID: 7241809

Library Council of Metropolitan Milwaukee

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Cutler, Lysander, 1807-1866

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Cutler was born in Royalston, Massachusetts, the son of a farmer. Despite objections from his father, he desired a better education than the rudimentary courses he received in the local school, so he studied surveying and then began a career as a schoolmaster. Moving to Dexter, Maine, at the age of 21, he was forced to confront unruly pupils who had "flogged and ejected" the last several teachers who had attempted to discipline them. Cutler established his reputation by spending his first day in...

Camp Sigel (Wis.)

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Paine, Halbert E.

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Born in Chardon, Oh., in 1826, Halbert E. Paine graduated from Western Reserve College and practiced law in Cleveland, Oh., and Milwaukee, Wis. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Paine entered the Union army as the colonel of the Fourth Wisconsin Volunteer Regiment. He was promoted to brigadier general in March 1863 and led the Third Division of the Army of the Gulf in an assault on Priest Gap during the Battle of Port Hudson, where he suffered a wound that necessitated the amputation of his leg....

Starkweather, John A.

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BIOGRAPHICAL DATA John Amsden Starkweather was born on August 30, 1925, in Detroit, Michigan. During World War II, he served in the U. S. Coast Guard and attended the U. S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut. He obtained his A.B. degree in Art from Yale in 1950, and graduate degrees from Northwestern University (M.A., Experimental Psychology, 1953; Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, 1955). During his Ph.D. candidacy, he was an assistant ...

Camp Scott (Wis.)

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King, Rufus, 1814-1876

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King commanded Wisconsin's "Iron Brigade" during the Civil War. In 1863 he accepted appointment as the U.S. Minister to Rome. While there, he helped apprehend John Harrison Surratt, one of the alleged conspirators in the Lincoln assassination. From the description of Papers, 1861-1867. (Auburn University). WorldCat record id: 43641813 Soldier, editor and U.S. minister to the Vatican. From the description of Letter, 15 August 1862, near Culpepper C.H., Virginia [t...

Camp Washburn (Wis.)

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