My Dear Companion : The Civil War letters and journal of Corporal Albion Otis Gross of the First Minnesota Battery of Light Artillery, January 1, 1864 to June 10, 1865, [ca. 1985].

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My Dear Companion : The Civil War letters and journal of Corporal Albion Otis Gross of the First Minnesota Battery of Light Artillery, January 1, 1864 to June 10, 1865, [ca. 1985].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313854246

Photocopy of a typescript manuscript based on the Civil War journal and letters of Albion Otis Gross, as transcribed, arranged, and edited by Meinhard who supplemented Gross' papers with an introduction and commentary identifying individuals and elaborating on events during the war. He also drew a map indicating the route traveled by the battery.

0.2 cu. ft. (5 folders).

Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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SNAC Resource ID: 7315798

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Meinhard, Robert W.,

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Gross enlisted on December 31, 1863. He served during the Vicksburg and Atlanta campaigns and General Sherman's "March to the Sea." The battery then proceeded to Richmond (Va.) and Washington, D.C. before being mustered out at St. Paul (Minn.) on July 1, 1865. Gross kept a journal and wrote to his wife Sarah, and children Nellie and Otis, who remained on their farm in Richmond Township, Winona County, Minnesota. From the description of My Dear Companion : The Civil War letters and jo...

Gross, Sarah Laros, 1853-

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Gross, Nellie.

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Gross, Otis.

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United States. Army. Minnesota Light Artillery Battery, 1st (1861-1865)

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Gross, Albion Otis.

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