Letters of James H. Howard, 1862 August - 1865 March 26, 1913.

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Letters of James H. Howard, 1862 August - 1865 March 26, 1913.

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Howard's letters describe his journey to Washington, D.C., life in camp at Arlington, reviews, camp fever, war news and rumors, the battle of Fredericksburg and subsequent mud march, his Colonel (and briefly General) Dexter R. Wright for whom he worked as waiter and clerk, camps at Newport News and Suffolk, a clerkship at General George H. Getty's headquarters, the killing of a Zouave colonel by General Michael Corcoran, General John Peck's destruction of a railroad bridge, skirmishes near Suffolk, Confederate relic collecting, looting and foraging, former slaves working for the Army and practical jokes played on them, Portsmouth, Va., and the "blackberry raid" up the Peninsula to Hanover and King William Counties. Almost all the letters contain enquiries after family and friends. Letters from the U.S.S. Marmora discuss gunboat operations on the Mississippi, Yazoo and Red rivers including the seizure of a possible spy and raids in surrounding country. There is also a preliminary draft of a report, 1863 May 12, on the seige of Suffolk, Va. There are two letters from his brother Charles, also on the U.S.S. Marmora. The collection also contains a sketch of General George Washington Getty's headquarters, 3rd Division, 9th Army Corp, Suffolk, Virginia. Several letters contain tiny sketches of camps and one of the ironclad "Nahant." The collection also contains his reminiscences which extract his letters and contain some official documents and orders; an 1883 letter from Sen. O.H. Platt; a family photograph; and a 1913 application to a soldiers' home.

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University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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Howard, Charles, 1802-1869

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Platt, Orville Hitchcock, 1827-1905

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Republican lawyer who served as secretary of state of Connecticut, 1857-58, as member of Connecticut state senate and house of representatives, and U.S. Senator from Connecticut, 1879-1905. Died in office 1905. From the description of Letter, June 28, 1882. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 53882387 U.S. senator, public official, and lawyer of Connecticut. From the description of Signature of Orville Hitchcock Platt, 1865. (Unknown). Wor...

Wright, Dexter R., fl. 1862.

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Corcoran, Michael, 1827-1863

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Corcoran was born in Carrowkeel, near Ballymote, County Sligo in Ireland, the only child of Thomas Corcoran, an officer in the British Army, and Mary (McDonagh) Corcoran. Through his mother, he claimed descent from Patrick Sarsfield, hero of the Williamite War in Ireland and a leader of the Wild Geese. In 1846, at the age of 18, he took an appointment to the Revenue Police, enforcing the laws and searching for illicit stills and distilling activities in Creeslough, County Donegal. At the same...

United States. Army. Connecticut Infantry Regiment, 15th (1862-1865)

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Howard, James H., 1844-

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Union soldier in the 15th Connecticut, 1862-1863 and and sailor on the gunboat Marmora, 1863-1865; afterwards a salesman in Massachusetts. From the description of Letters of James H. Howard, 1862 August - 1865 March 26, 1913. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 60820450 ...

Marmora (Gunboat)

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Getty, George W.

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Peck, John J. (John James), 1821-1878

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Major General of Volunteers for the Union Army, 1862-1864. From the description of [Civil War telegrams], 1863. (Hamilton College). WorldCat record id: 75631222 John James Peck was born in New York State from whence he received an appointment to West Point Military Academy and subsequently graduated eighth in a class of thirty-nine on 1 July 1839. His military career was as follows: Breveted 2nd Lieutenant, 2nd Artillery on 1 July 1843; 2nd Lieutenant, 16 April 1846; 1st Lie...

Nahant (Ship)

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