U.S. Civil War collection, 1860-1889.

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U.S. Civil War collection, 1860-1889.

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Fitz-John Porter court martial papers (1862-1889). Army officer John Eugene Smith papers (1860-1881). Twenty-three letters from Union soldier Edward O. Paull with accounts of battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg (Sept. 1862-Dec. 1865); autograph book (1865-1867) of Lt. Berthold Fernow who was in command of Black troops; telegram book (1863-1864) and 20 letters (1865) of Brig. Gen. Henry Shaw Briggs; journal of war correspondent, J.W. Newcomb, Jr. (Sept.-Dec. 1862); diary of Connecticut soldier, David A. Starr (July 1862-April 1875), and document signed by Abraham Lincoln (July 1863).

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Trinity College Library

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Trinity College Library

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Starr, David A.

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Paull, Edward O.

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Briggs, Henry Shaw, 1824-1887

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Briggs was born to George Nixon Briggs, (governor of Massachusetts from 1844–1851) on August 1, 1824 in Lanesborough, Massachusetts. Henry Briggs graduated from Williams College in 1844 and was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 1848. On August 6, 1849, Briggs married Mary Elizabeth Talcott, daughter of Nathianiel P. Talcott of Lanesborough, Massachusetts. Shortly before the war, Briggs established a law practice in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He took an interest in military affairs as we...

Smith, John Eugene, 1816-1897.

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Galena, Illinois, jeweler; colonel, 45th Illinois Infantry, promoted brigadier general, 1862; major general, U.S. Army, in Washington, D.C. and the western U.S. until retiring in 1881. From the description of Military papers, 1861-1865. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 34798878 Born in Switzerland, came to St. Louis and worked as a jeweler until the Civil War broke out and he helped organize the 45th Illinois, remained in the military until 1881 wh...

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Fernow, Berthold, 1837-1908

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Archivist, historian, and author and editor on works on documentary history of New York State. From the description of Bertholdt Fernow correspondence, 1877-1888. (New York University). WorldCat record id: 58781933 ...

Porter, Fitz-John, 1822-1901

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U.S. Army officer during the Civil War and public official, New York and New Jersey. From the description of Letters, 1894-1895. (Portsmouth Athenaeum Library & Museum). WorldCat record id: 70975832 American army officer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Morristown, to an unidentified Senator, [1876?] Feb. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270618668 From the description of Autograph telegram signed : [n.p.], to General Morell, Miner...

Newcomb, J. W.

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