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Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and
Cold Harbor campaigns and the Siege of Petersburg, and operations
along the Rappahannock and Rapidan Rivers in the fall of
1863. Provides information on camp life, marches, troop movements,
generalship, and the attitude of noncombatants in Maryland
and Virginia.
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Gist Family
Collection, 1776-1865. 75 items.
In part, photocopies.
Letters of Richard J. Gist (d. 1864) and Branford P. Gist,
1862-65, relate to their service in the 6th Maryland Volunteers
during the Antietam Campaign, skirmishes along the
Rapidan and Rappahannock Rivers in the fall of 1863, the
Wilderness Campaign, and the Battle of Cold Harbor. Letters
of Col. George W. Gist, 17th Kentucky Volunteers, 1863-65,
concern campaigns in east Tennessee and Sherman's Atlanta
Campaign. Includes comments on camp life, marches, troop
movements, disease, and hospital care.
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Goldsborough, Louis Malesherbes Adm., USN
(1805-1877)
Papers, 1817-74. ca. 8,000 items.
Letters from Goldsborough to his wife and daughter, Sept.
1861-Sept. 1862, concern the blockade of Charleston Harbor,
S.C., General Burnside's Roanoke Island expedition, and operations
on the James River. Includes information on the scuttling
of the Merrimac and visits to the front lines by President Lincoln
and members of his Cabinet. Also contains miscellaneous
orders and newspaper clippings. Principal correspondents are
Samuel F. Du Pont and Gustavus V. Fox.
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Goodnow, James Harrison
(1826-1908) Lt. Col., 12th Indiana Volunteers
Papers, 1847-97. 108 items.
Chiefly letters from Goodnow to his wife and family,
1862-64, concerning the Vicksburg and Atlanta campaigns,
and campaigns in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama. Provides
information on camp life, marches, morale, depredations,
foraging expeditions, discipline, disease, new recruits, military
bounties, the selection of officers, blacks, and the attitude of
noncombatants in the South. Also contains muster rolls,
clippings, commissions, and Goodnow's discharge, Sept. 15,
1864.
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