Military officer correspondence, 1851-1892.

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Military officer correspondence, 1851-1892.

Correspondence before, during, and after the Civil War from: Joseph P. Wright to Horatio C. King; Samuel B. M. Young to Horatio C. King; John B. Rice to Henry Storm; William H. Hurlbert to Mrs. Harris; illegible; John illegible to Lida Thackeray; John F. W. Herschel to W. D. Haggard; John R. Brooke to Elliot Danforth; and Rene E. De Russy to William B. Wetmore. Also a list of the names of deceased soldiers and the effects left by them in early 1865.

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De Russy, René Edward, 1790-1865

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Edward De Russy was born into a family of ethnic French planters in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) on February 22, 1789. Two years later, soon after the birth of his younger brother Lewis, the De Russy family fled the violence of the slave revolution and settled in Old Point Comfort, Virginia. At the age of 18, De Russy enrolled in the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York on March 20, 1807; he graduated on June 10, 1812, at the bottom of his class. After...

Brooke, John Rutter, 1838-1926

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Brooke was born in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and was educated in nearby Collegeville and West Chester. Brooke's military career began when he joined the 4th Pennsylvania Infantry with the rank of captain in April 1861. In August, he became colonel of the newly raised 53rd Pennsylvania Infantry and served in the 1862 Peninsula Campaign. He temporarily commanded a brigade during the Battle of Antietam in September of that year. In May 1863, he was given permanent command of a brigade of the 1...

Young, S. B. M. (Samuel Baldwin Marks), 1840-1924

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Rice, John Blake, 1809-1874.

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Wright, Joseph P. (Joseph Payson), d. 1900.

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Wetmore, William Boerum, 1849-1919.

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Hurlbert, William Henry, 1827-1895

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William Henry Hurlbert, journalist, editor and author, was born in Charleston, South Carolina, educated in Harvard, and for a brief time, served as a Unitarian minister. In 1855 he became a writer on the staff of Putnam's, then drama critic for Albion, and later an editor at the New York tribune and the New York world. After 1883, he lived mostly abroad, writing for various English and American publications. He was the author of poems, plays, and a biography of George Brinton McClellan in 1864. ...

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 ...

Herschel, John F. W. (John Frederick William), 1792-1871

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Engineer and Astronomer. Fellow of the Royal Society. From the description of Letters to Sir W. R. Hamilton, 1833-1865. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78514949 Astronomer. Fellow of the Royal Society. From the description of Letters to J. D. Forbes, 1832-1859. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86123372 From the description of Papers, 1816-1868. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80362531 John F. W. Herschel was an English mathematician, astronomer, che...

Haggard, W. D., fl. 1851.

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Danforth, Elliot, 1850-1906,

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Storm, Henry, fl. 1881.

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Thackeray, Lida, fl. 1887.

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