Papers of Edwin A. Van Cise, 1857-1904.

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Papers of Edwin A. Van Cise, 1857-1904.

Diaries kept in Iowa and Colorado, 1857-65; journals of travels through Prussia, Austria, Switzerland, and France, 1871; materials relating to S. H. Byers' authorship of "When Sherman Marched Down to the Sea," (1865?); and scrapbooks of clippings on the Black Hills and the St. Louis World's Fair, 1901-04.

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Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : St. Louis, Mo.)

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Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company Records have remained in the custody of the St. Louis Art Museum (formerly St. Louis Museum of Fine Arts) since their creation during the period 1901-1909. Although the World's Fair itself was in operation from April to Dec. 1904, years of preparation by the Art Department preceded the exhibition of American and foreign art works, and many months were required to conclude departmental affairs following the closing. The Art Dept. Chief, Halsey C. Ives, was al...

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...

Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall), 1838-1933

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Samuel Hawkins Marshall Byers was born in Pennsylvania in 1838 and moved to Burlington, Iowa in 1851. Byers had studied law before enlisting as a First Corporal in Company B of the Fifth Iowa Infantry in 1861. By July 1862 he was promoted to Quartermaster Sergeant, he became the regimental adjutant in April 1863, and later that year he was taken prisoner at the Battle of Chattanooga with eighty other members of his regiment. Byers spent the next sixteen months in five different Confederate priso...

Van Cise, Edwin A., 1824-1914

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Editor and lawyer. From the description of Papers of Edwin A. Van Cise, 1857-1904. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 74983962 ...