Joseph Crandon, Jr. letter, 1865.

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Joseph Crandon, Jr. letter, 1865.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/276936075

This collection consists of a letter from Joseph Crandon, Jr. to his brother, Henry A. Crandon in Columbia, Maine on 1 February 1865. Crandon wrote from the steamship Mariposa in New York, New York and related to his brother his recent voyage from New York to Savannah, Georgia and return trip through Beaufort and Hilton Head, South Carolina. In this letter, Crandon included his observations of life in Savannah as a result of the Civil War, the leadership of Union General William T. Sherman, and the plight of the newly freed African Americans.

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Georgia Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7246377

Georgia Historical Society

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Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

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Sherman was born in 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio, near the banks of the Hocking River. His father, Charles Robert Sherman, a successful lawyer who sat on the Ohio Supreme Court, died unexpectedly in 1829. He left his widow, Mary Hoyt Sherman, with eleven children and no inheritance. After his father's death, the nine-year-old Sherman was raised by a Lancaster neighbor and family friend, attorney Thomas Ewing, Sr., a prominent member of the Whig Party who served as senator from Ohio and as the first S...

Crandon, Jr., Joseph, b. ca. 1844.

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Joseph Crandon, Jr. was born circa 1844 in Columbia Falls, Maine and served in the Union forces during the Civil War (1861-1865). From the description of Joseph Crandon, Jr. letter, 1865. (Georgia Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 276936075 ...