Papers, 1852-1907.

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Papers, 1852-1907.

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Letters written by Balloch to his wife, Martha Jane (Palmer) Balloch, other family letters, and four Civil War diaries. Graphic descriptions refer to: General Oliver Otis Howard and other general officers; feeding the Army and civilians; foraging; the Southern countryside and people; Afro-Americans; campaign of the Peninsula; Battle of Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg; Sherman's March to the Sea; and the winter campaign through the Carolinas. Postwar correspondence with his family in New Hampshire reflects family relations and a marriage during further periods of separation.

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Oliver Howard was born in Leeds, Maine, the son of Rowland Bailey Howard and Eliza Otis Howard. Rowland, a farmer, died when Oliver was 9 years old. Oliver attended Monmouth Academy in Monmouth, North Yarmouth Academy in Yarmouth, Kents Hill School in Readfield, and graduated from Bowdoin College in 1850 at the age of 19. He then attended the United States Military Academy, graduating in 1854, fourth in his class of 46 cadets, as a brevet second lieutenant of ordnance. He served at the Watervlie...

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Balloch, Martha Jane (Palmer)

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Balloch, George Williamson, 1825-

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George Balloch (1825-1907) was born in Claremont, NH. During the Civil War, he served with the Fifth New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry Regiment, which was assigned to General Oliver Otis Howard's brigade, thus beginning a connection with General Howard that would last throughout and beyond the Civil War. Balloch served as commissary of subsistence under O. O. Howard for most of the war. Following the war, George W. Balloch served as chief disbursing officer of the newly-created Freedmen's Bureau ...

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