Records of the 55th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteersand its Colonel, Richard White, 1855-1909 (bulk 1861-1865).

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Records of the 55th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteersand its Colonel, Richard White, 1855-1909 (bulk 1861-1865).

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The collection consists chiefly of volunteer enlistment records. It also contains written and printed orders; camp and garrison equipment reports; ordnance and ordnance stores reports; pay vouchers; quartermaster's stores reports; correspondence; and news clippings concerning veterans' reunions. Correspondence of Col. White includes a letter to his family written on behalf of Col. William R. Miles of the 2nd Louisiana Artillery, seeking a prisoner of war exhchange between Miles and White. Items of interest include photographs of regiment reunions in 1914 and 1922; a form letter regarding the state of the Democratic Party in Pennsylvania in 1855 and a pledge signed by Democratic Party Convention Delegates from Cambria County, Pa., not to support the "Know Nothing" Party. The collection also contains autographs of Union officers collected by Col White while a prisoner of war "under the gun" during the Union siege of Charleston, S.C. Among the fellow prisoners who signed were Edmund L. Dana, Edwin L. Hayes, Truman Seymour, Alexander Shaler, and Henry W. Wessels.

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University of Virginia. Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7601195

University of Virginia. Library

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Hayes, Edwin L., fl. 1861-1865

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Miles, William R., fl. 1864.

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United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 55th (1861-1865)

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Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment organized at Harrisburg, by Colonel Richard White in the summer and autumn of 1861 with men from the counties of Bedford, Berks, Blair, Cambria, Dauphin, Indiana, and Schuykill. Saw service throughout the war. Mustered out of service on the 30th of August, 1865. From the description of Records of the 55th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteersand its Colonel, Richard White, 1855-1909 (bulk 1861-1865). (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 48995412 ...

White, Richard, 1826-1865.

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Dana, Edmund Lovell, 1817-1889

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American Party

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One of the most famous incidents of anti-Catholic sentiment expression occurred August 11, 1834; non-Catholic rioters looted and burned the Ursuline Convent of Mount Benedict in Charlestown, MA. Anti-Catholic violence also erupted in Philadelphia when 13 people were killed in riots in 1835. Activities by the American Nativist Party in Kensington, Pennsylvania, in 1844 also sparked anti-Catholic riots. In the 1850s, the American Party, also known as the Know-Nothing Party, was partly founded on a...

Wessells, Henry Walton, 1809-1889

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U.S. general. From the description of Henry W. Wessells military commission, 1828 Apr. 8. (Litchfield Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 781432893 ...

Merritt, David, fl. 1861-1865

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Shaler, Alexander, 1827-1911

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Army officer. From the description of Papers of Alexander Shaler, 1863-1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79455956 Brigadier General in the Union Army; formerly Lieutenant Colonel in the 65th New York regiment. From the description of Diary, 1864 May 6-1864 Aug. 9. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58776237 ...