Military officer correspondence, 1841-1910.

United States. Army. Rhode Island Cavalry Regiment, 1st (1861-1865)

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Patrick, Marsena Rudolph, 1811-1888

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Patrick was born in Hounsfield, Jefferson County, New York (near Watertown). He worked on the Erie Canal and briefly taught school. He was appointed to the United States Military Academy in nearby West Point, and graduated in 1835. Initially appointed a brevet second lieutenant in the infantry, he was promoted to first lieutenant in 1839, serving in the Seminole Wars. Patrick served in the Mexican–American War and was again promoted, this time to captain, in 1847. He was appointed brevet major i...

Drum, Richard C. (Richard Coulter), 1825-1909

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American army officer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Chicago, 1874 Jun. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270745091 Drum was Assistant Adjutant General, United States Army, Military Division of the Atlantic. Trumball was chairman of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee. From the description of Letter to Lyman Trumball : Philadelphia : LS, 1870 Feb. 9. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 2...

Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893

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Rutherford B. Hayes was born in Delaware, Ohio, in 1822 and earned degrees from Kenyon College and Harvard Law School before starting a career as a lawyer in Cincinnati. Hayes served as a major general in the Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War and was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1864. Hayes then was elected Governor of Ohio and later served one term as President of the United States (1877-1881) before retiring to his home in Fremont, Ohio, where he died in 1893.President of the Uni...

Dana, James J. (James Jackson), 1821-1898.

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Dunn, W. McKee (William McKee), 1814-1887

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American congressman and army official. From the description of Autograph letter signed : "War Department," to Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, 1869 Nov. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270744084 U.S. Army officer and U.S. representative from Indiana. From the description of Petition recommending W. McKee Dunn, 1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983358 ...

Beale, James, ca. 1844-fl. 1897.

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Davis, Nelson Henry, 1821-1890

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American Army Officer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to General Alvord, 1878 Dec. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270526044 ...

King, Esther H., 1845-fl. 1920.

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Patrick, George B., d. 1917.

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Daniel, John W. (John Warwick), 1842-1910

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Daniel was born and educated at Lynchburg, Virginia, served in the Confederate Army and practised law afterwards. He was a member of Congress from 1885-1887 and a United States Senator from 1887-1910. From the description of Papers, 1849-1910 (inclusive), 1865-1910 (bulk). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 122471372 John Warwick Daniel (1842-1910) was prominent in Virginia and national political circles. He served as a representative and senator both on a state ...

Day, Hannibal, 1804-1891.

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Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad.

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Duffié, Alfred Napoleon, 1835-1880

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Duffié was born in Paris. Several claims about his early life seem to be untrue: that he graduated from the École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr, that he fought in the Austro-Italian War of 1859, that he was awarded the Legion d'Honneur though he wore it in several photographs, or that his father was a count. It is known that Duffié joined France's Imperial Cavalry in 1852, being assigned to the 6th Dragoon Regiment. As a member of this unit, he served during the Crimean War, seeing action at t...

Sprague, William, 1830-1915

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American army officer, and United States senator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Providence, to an unidentified recipient, 1862 Feb. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270575332 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Providence?, to Judge G.W. Paschal, 1875 Jun. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270575325 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Providence, to Judge G.W. Paschal, 1873 Jan. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270...

Dudley, Edgar S., fl. 1910.

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King, Horatio C.

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Union army officer, 1862-1865, and New York City attorney. From the description of Letterbooks, 1862 Sept.-1868 Nov. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58759159 Military man and politician. King moved to Brooklyn in 1865 and served on the Brooklyn Board of Education. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1840]-1925. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155451560 Biographical Note ...

Stanton, D. N., fl. 1869.

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Dudley, William W. (William Wade), 1842-1909

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William Wade Dudley was born in Weathersfield Bow, Vermont, the son of Reverend John Dudley, a well-known Congregational minister whose sermons were widely reprinted. Reverend Wade was a graduate of Yale Seminary, a sometime missionary to the Choctaw Indians, and a descendant of William Dudley, one of the earliest settlers of Guilford, Connecticut, in 1639. Dudley's mother was Abigail Wade, a granddaughter of Col. Nathaniel Wade, a staff officer to General George Washington during the Revolution...