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ents from camps in South Carolina, North Carolina, and
Virginia. Describes the defense of Fort Sumter in 1863, the
Battle of Drewry's Bluff, Va., the Siege of Petersburg, and the
defense of Wilmington, N.C.
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Gregg, David McMurtrie (1833-1916) Gen., USA
Papers, 1716-1936. ca. 500 items.
Official and personal correspondence, orders, reports, maps,
and photographs, chiefly relating to Gregg's service with the
Cavalry Division, Army of the Potomac, during the Peninsular,
Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg campaigns, the Siege of
Petersburg, and operations along the Rapidan River in the fall
of 1863. Includes reports on Gen. George Stoneman's raids in
Virginia during the Chancellorsville Campaign, accounts of
skirmishes at Aldie and Upperville, Va., June-Sept. 1863,
copies of letters by William T. Sherman and Ulysses S. Grant
concerning Sherman's cavalry during the Atlanta Campaign,
and a copy of an unpublished narrative, "Brevet Major General
David McMurtrie Gregg," written by a descendant in 1934.
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Gresham, Walter Quintin (1832-1895) Gen., USA
Papers, 1857-1930. ca. 12,000 items.
Contains letters from Gresham to his wife, 1861-65, relating
to the Shiloh, Corinth, Vicksburg, and Atlanta campaigns.
Includes remarks on generalship, Confederate deserters, disease,
hospital care, slavery, and economic conditions in the South.
Also includes a detailed report by Lt. Col. Andrew J. Alexander
on the operations of Gresham's 4th Division, 17th Army
Corps, in the Atlanta Campaign, May 27-July 20, 1864.
Finding aid and name index available.
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Griffith, George Washington Ewing
(b. 1833) Businessman, Kansas
Article, 1924. 1 item.
Transcript.
Copy of an article, "My Experience in the Quantrill Raid,"
published in the Lawrence, Kans., Daily Journal-World, Aug.
21, 1924.
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Groening, D. Von Merchant, Richmond, Va.
Letterbook, 1861-63. 1 v.
Contains correspondence, May 24,1861-July 18, 1863, on
economic conditions in the South, the Federal blockade, and various
commercial transactions.
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