George Hazen Dana papers [manuscript] 1858-1914.

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George Hazen Dana papers [manuscript] 1858-1914.

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Collection contains correspondence with family; documents relating to his Civil War service with the 32nd Massachusetts as aide-de-camp to General Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Dana; a field notebook describing Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign; and a "War Journal" compiled from the letters and field notebook. Topics include camp life; a July 31, 1862, attack on the Union Camp at Harrision's Landing; illness in camp; deaths in the regiment from disease, sunstroke, and battle; marches; his regiment in the battle of Fredericksburg; Burnside's "mud march"; skirmishes; wading across the Rapidan; battle of Chancellorsville; visiting civilians at Kemper's Ford; swimming in the Rappahannock under a truce; severe wound at Gettysburg (no description of battle); aftermath of Vicksburg where a former "slave pen" was a recruiting office for black troops; rough voyage from New Oreleans to Texas on the steamer "McClellan"; reconnaissance on the Matagorda Peninsula; inspection tour of mid-West with General Dana; trip to front with Charles Dana; Grant's Overland Campaign including detailed, graphic descriptions of the battles of North Anna, Totopotomoy, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and Weldon Railroad. There are passing references to contraband including "Bill" and "Henry Wilson," shooting a sharpshooter at 400 yards; glimpsing Geneal Joseph Hooker before the battle of Chancellorsville; death of General Amos Whipple near him; Rebels "howl" over death of Jackson; an incompetent colonel of the 32nd; murder of the 4th Michigan's chaplain by guerillas; picket duty; Brandy Station; taming a horse formerly owned by General Bee; trouble with the Confederate governor of Tamanlipas; General Prince; lunch with General Grant; liberating slaves of John B. Floyd; Union Generals Griffin, Willcox and Switzer; death of regiment's colonel, George Lincoln Prescott; running the gauntlet of a Confederate battery on the Mississipppi; and anecdotes about "Private Chair" which he carried with him through the summer of 1864. The collection also contains the Harvard diploma of Joseph W. Dana, 1828; a family genealogy;a letter from Francis Dana, Jr., to his mother Sophia Dana, 1828 October 18, describing the Lafayette mania in New York city, and his life in Hamburg, German, where he attended the opera "Der Freischütz," witnessed the celebration of the battle of Leipzig, and describes the inhabitants and town, social events, and customs. There are several family photographs including George Hazen Dana, his wife Frances M. Dana, and their son Francis Dana. There is also a photograph of the family home taken in 1903.

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