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Hammond General Hospital Point Lookout, Md.
Collection, 1863 and undated. 2 items.
Photocopies.
Sketch of the buildings and grounds of Hammond General
Hospital and copy of the Mar. 31, 1863, issue of the Hammond
Gazette.
394
Hampton, Sally S.
Letter, 1861. 1 item.
Letter from Hampton to Mr. Ruggles, Woodlands, S.C.,
June 5,1861, concerning secession, the Fort Sumter affair, and
the martial spirit in Charleston.
395
Hancock, Winfield Scott (1824-1886) Gen., USA
Collection, 1864-68. 6 items.
Includes a letter from Hancock to T. Bailey Myers, Aug. 6,
1864, concerning the Siege of Petersburg, and a copy of a photograph
of Gen. U. S. Grant.
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Hand, George O.
(1830-1887) Sgt., 1st California Volunteers
Diary, 1861-64. 1 v.
Photocopy.
Account of Hand's service with the California column in
New Mexico Territory, Aug. 15, 1861-May 19, 1864. Describes
marches, skirmishes with Apache Indians, camp life, morale,
leadership, courts-martial, Indian behavior, the attitude of
noncombatants, and living conditions in New Mexico Territory.
Also includes muster rolls for Hand's company (G) for Aug.
1861, Feb. 1863, and when the company was mustered out of
service at Fort Gray, N. Mex., in 1864.
397
Hanna—McCormick Families
Papers, 1792-1951. ca. 44,500 items.
In part, photocopies.
Contains seven letters from Mark Hanna (1837-1925) to
Gussie Rhodes written from Washington, D.C., and vicinity,
1864, concerning camp life, disease, the location of mutual
friends, and personal matters, and two letters from Capt. W. H.
Medill to his sister, Aug. 21,1862, Yorktown, Va., and Mar. 15,
1863, near Stafford Courthouse, Va., concerning the Peninsular
Campaign, morale in the Army of the Potomac, and the
generalship of David M. Gregg, Joseph Hooker, and George B.
McClellan.
Finding aid available.
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