Correspondence, 1862-1865.

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Correspondence, 1862-1865.

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Letter from Alma C. Sickels, in Indianapolis, to her son Edward Sickels discussing various people (1862); 5 letters from Thomas N. Sickels to his brother Edward, written from Louisiana (1863-1865) concerning military speculations, raising a company of colored troops, commenting on William T. Sherman and Clement L. Vallandigham, and a visit to several islands off the Louisiana coast.

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Vallandigham, Clement Laird, 1820-1871

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Clement Laird Vallandigham was born July 29, 1820, in New Lisbon, Ohio (now Lisbon, Ohio), to Clement and Rebecca Laird Vallandigham. His father, a Presbyterian minister, educated his son at home. In 1841, Vallandigham had a dispute with the college president at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. He was honorably dismissed, but he never received a degree. Edwin M. Stanton, the future Secretary of War under President Lincoln, was Vallandigham's close friend before the Civil War....

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

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Sherman was born in 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio, near the banks of the Hocking River. His father, Charles Robert Sherman, a successful lawyer who sat on the Ohio Supreme Court, died unexpectedly in 1829. He left his widow, Mary Hoyt Sherman, with eleven children and no inheritance. After his father's death, the nine-year-old Sherman was raised by a Lancaster neighbor and family friend, attorney Thomas Ewing, Sr., a prominent member of the Whig Party who served as senator from Ohio and as the first S...

Sickels, Alma C., ca. 1808-fl. 1880.

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United States. Army. Colored Heavy Artillery Regiment, 10th (1864-1865).

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United States. Army. Illinois Light Artillery Regiment, 1st (1863-1864).

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Sickels, Edward C., 1835-ca. 1909.

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Sickels, Thomas Norwood, 1839-1923.

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Thomas N. Sickels was a Chicago editor when he joined the Chicago Mercantile Battery in August 1862. He was stationed primarily in Louisiana. In 1864 he resigned and joined the 10th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery as a 1st lieutenant. His brother Edward Sickels, then an Old School Presbyterian minister in Dixon, Illinois, married Caroline P. Dunham in early 1863. From the description of Correspondence, 1862-1865. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 686731956 ...