Military officer correspondence, 1846-1901.

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Military officer correspondence, 1846-1901.

Correspondence before, during, and after the Civil War from: Orland Smith to Horatio C. King and Henry Van Ness Boynton; Francis B. Spinola to Horatio Seymour; William Sprague to J. W. Weidenmeyer; Thaddeus H. Stanton to Horatio C. King; John C. Starkweather to Captain Mathias; George M. Sternberg to Horatio C. King; Aaron F. Stevens; Jonathan D. Stevenson to Robert E. Temple; James D. Strawbridge to Henry Storm; William S. Stryker to Horatio C. King; George Suckley to Charles H. Hood; and David G. Swaim.

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Seymour, Horatio, 1810-1886

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Horatio Seymour (May 31, 1810 – February 12, 1886) was an American politician. He served as Governor of New York from 1853 to 1854 and from 1863 to 1864. He was the Democratic Party nominee for president in the 1868 presidential election. Born in Pompey, New York, Seymour was admitted to the New York bar in 1832 but primarily focused on managing his family's business interests. After serving as a military secretary to Governor William L. Marcy, Seymour won election to the New York State Assem...

Sternberg, George Miller, 1838-1915

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Born at Hartwick Seminary, Otsego County, New York, on June 8, 1838, George Miller Sternberg received a medical degree from the Maryland College of Physicians in 1860. He was appointed Assistant Surgeon, United States Army, on May 28, 1861; Captain, May 28, 1866; Major (Surgeon), December 1, 1873; Lieutenant Colonel (Surgeon), January 12, 1891, Brigadier General, Surgeon General, May 30, 1893; and retired from the Army on June 8, 1902. During the Civil War, he began his service with the Army of ...

Stevenson, Jonathan D. (Jonathan Drake), 1800-1894.

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Hood, Charles H., ca. 1820-1866.

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Claassen, Peter J., fl. 1896.

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Starkweather, John C. (John Converse), 1830-1890.

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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 ...

Strawbridge, James Dale, 1824-1890

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Smith, Orland, 1825-1903.

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Suckley, George, 1830-1869

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George Suckley, United States Army surgeon and naturalist, participated in the Northern Pacific Railroad Route Survey led by Isaac I. Stevens. The party made explorations and scientific investigations from St. Paul, Minnesota, to Puget Sound in Washington during the years 1853-57. Suckley collaborated with James G. Cooper on The natural history of Washington territory, which was published in 1859. From the description of Papers of George Suckley, 1846-1886. (Huntington Library, Art C...

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...

Temple, Robert E. (Robert Emmet), 1808-1854.

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Stryker, William S. (William Scudder), 1838-1900

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Lawyer, U.S. soldier, and adjutant general of N.J. From the description of Papers, 1861-1865. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 38065811 ...

Spinola, Francis Barretto, 1821-1891.

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Storm, Henry, fl. 1881.

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Boynton, Henry Van Ness, 1835-1905.

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American army officer, commander of an Ohio regiment in the Civil War; became a journalist in Washington in 1865. Chairman of Chickamauga and Chattanooga national military park. From the description of Henry Van Ness Boynton items, [ca. 1890-1905]. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63936748 ...

Stevens, Aaron F. (Aaron Fletcher), 1819-1887

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Stanton, Thaddeus Harlan, 1835-1900.

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Thaddeus Stanton (1835-1900) was a native of Indiana. In 1851 he moved to Iowa and briefly wrote for an abolitionist newspaper. He fought with John Brown in the Kansas Border War, joined a three-month regiment at the outbreak of the Civil War, and, after a short time in Iowa public office, organized and led the 19th Iowa Infantry. By 1862 Stanton had become paymaster general of the Union Army. After the war he traveled west and served as chief of scouts for General Crook, leading an attack on Cr...

Swaim, David Gaskill, 1834-1897

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David G. Swaim was a captain in the Union Army during the Civil War, serving as assistant adjutant general and chief of the secret service during the Chickamauga Campaign under Brigadier General James A. Garfield. He reentered the army in 1867 as a second lieutenant, serving as acting judge advocate for the fourth military district in Vicksburg, Miss. From 1868-1869, he supervised the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands. As a Major, he presided as judge advocate at Fort Leavenworth,...

United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 132nd (1863).

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Weidenmeyer, J. W., fl. 1888.

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