Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Civil War Commandery of the State of Massachusetts collection: 1724-1933 (inclusive), 1861-1912 (bulk).

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Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Civil War Commandery of the State of Massachusetts collection: 1724-1933 (inclusive), 1861-1912 (bulk).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612702538

Many of the images are copy prints of well-known prints and photographs of soldiers, battlefields, and other Civil War subjects. The collection also includes some unique images, such as original drawings of Civil War vessels by artist Worden Wood; drawings of battlefields made shortly after the war, apparently by a veteran of the 20th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment; post-war photographs of battlefields showing veterans of the 13th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment; and reproductions of drawings of war-era North Carolina, apparently by a member of the 44th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. Images include the following genres: cartes-de-visite, cabinet photographs, clippings, engravings, tintypes, copy prints, drawings, lithographs, photomechanical prints, negative prints, sketches, and watercolors. Manuscripts include original letters, diaries, regimental documents, and other papers relating to the Civil War. Highlights include a substantial archive of the papers of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, commander of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, the first predominantly African-American regiment in the Civil War; research files of Daniel Eldredge on the history of the 3rd New Hampshire Infantry Regiment; Augustus C. Hamlin's extensive correspondence files on Andersonville Prison and the Battle of Chancellorsville; extensive documentation of the antebellum South and of the Confederate States of America; wartime correspondence of Union generals Gustave Paul Cluseret, George Nelson Macy, James Birdseye McPherson, George Duncan Wells, and Edward Augustus Wild; a diary and wartime correspondence of Private John M. Haines of the 3rd New Hampshire Infantry Regiment; original manuscript wartime diaries of Robert H. Gray of the 4th Maine Infantry Regiment, William Ware Hall of the 5th Rhode Island Heavy Artillery Regiment, Wesley T. Harris and Ezra Brown Peabody of the 3rd New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, Henry A. Tracy of the 1st Massachusetts Light Artillery Battery and John G. Wiggin of the 11th Massachusetts Light Artillery Battery; and extensive documentation relating to the 12th, 20th, 31st, 35th, and 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiments, 1st New York Engineer Regiment, 1st South Carolina Volunteers, and United States Sanitary Commission. The collection also features an eclectic collection of pre-war and post-war manuscripts, including two significant manuscripts signed by Filipino independence leader Emilio Aguinaldo, post-war correspondence of General Winfield Scott Hancock, and memoirs by numerous former Civil War officers. Printed material includes ephemera relating to the Civil War such as blank forms, broadsides, clippings, leaflets, printed orders, and sheet music; and a subseries of complete copies of newspapers, mostly from the Civil War period.

139 boxes (including 13 pf), 1 volume, and 2 MS boxes (47 linear ft.)

Houghton Library

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Houghton Library

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United States Sanitary Commission

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Hancock, Winfield Scott, 1824-1886

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Winfield Scott Hancock (February 14, 1824 – February 9, 1886) was a United States Army officer and the Democratic nominee for President of the United States in 1880. He served with distinction in the Army for four decades, including service in the Mexican–American War and as a Union general in the American Civil War. Known to his Army colleagues as "Hancock the Superb", he was noted in particular for his personal leadership at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. His military service continued afte...

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911

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Macy, George Nelson

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McPherson, James Birdseye, 1828-1864

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Harris, Wesley T., 1836-1911.

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Hall, William Ware.

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Gray, Robert H.

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Tracy, Henry Chester

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Aguinaldo, Emilio, 1869-1964

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Wiggin, John G.

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Wells, George Duncan, 1826-1864,

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Peabody, Ezra Brown, 1820-1894.

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Eldredge, D. b. 1840 or 41.

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Cluseret, Gustave-Paul, 1823-1900

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Wild, Edward Augustus, 1825-1891

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Hamlin, Augustus C. (Augustus Choate), 1829-1905

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Surgeon and historian. From the description of Augustus C. Hamlin autograph letter signed, 1861. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70978466 ...

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