Diary and ambrotype portrait, [ca. 1860]-1863.

Newberry Library

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

Midwest manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

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United States. Army

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...

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

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Lacey, Curtis P.

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Union soldier from Grand View, Iowa, who was a member of Company B of the 55th Illinois Infantry Regiment. Lacey enlisted July 25, 1861, and was mustered in Oct. 31, 1861, as a sergeant. He was mustered out October 31, 1864, as a private. Along with other Iowa members of Company B (which was mainly comprised of soldiers from DeKalb and Ogle counties in Illinois), Lacey had been recruited originally for the 23rd Illinois Infantry Regiment. Twenty years after the war ended...