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to Gen. Joseph Reynolds written during the battles of Lookout
Mountain and Missionary Ridge.
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Horner, Gustavus Richard Brown
(1806-1892) Surg., USN
Papers, 1826-1911. ca. 4,900 items.
Letterbooks (7 v.) maintained by Horner as fleet surgeon,
Gulf Blockading Squadron and East Gulf Blockading Squadron,
1861-63, and while assigned to the Brooklyn and
Philadelphia Navy Yards, 1863-65. Includes information on
medical procedures and supplies, disease, deaths, and routine
naval affairs. Also includes a daybook containing records of
patients treated by Horner aboard the U.S.S. Colorado, June
1861-Feb. 1862; a list of patients aboard the U.S.S. Niagara,
Mar. 1862; notes on patients treated at the U.S. Marine Hospital
in Key West, Fla., Aug.-Sept. 1861; names of candidates
examined for entrance to the U.S. Naval Academy, July 1864;
names of candidates examined for appointments as engineers
and warrant officers, July-Dec. 1863; and miscellaneous medical
accounts and invoices. Printed pamphlets and articles concern
military hygiene, the diagnosis and treatment of various
diseases and injuries, and the management of medical stores.
Finding aid available.
Naval Historical Foundation collection.
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Hotchkiss, Jedediah (1828-1899) Cartographer; Maj., CSA
Papers, 1838-1908. ca. 20,000 items.
In part, transcripts.
General and family correspondence, diary and diary extracts,
orders, battle reports, quartermaster reports, invoices
and returns for engineering equipment, and miscellaneous notes
relating to the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862, the 2d
Manassas, Peninsular, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville,
Gettysburg, and Wilderness campaigns, the Battle
of Cold Harbor, and operations in the Shenandoah Valley in
the summer and fall of 1864. Includes information on strategy,
camp life, morale, marches, the disposition of troops, depredations,
the selection of officers, the draft, desertions, casualties,
prisoners of war, equipment and supplies, battles and skirmishes,
and the condition and attitude of noncombatants in
Virginia. Also includes an account of the death of Gen. Thomas
J. Jackson, remarks concerning Jackson's headquarters staff, a
digest of Jackson's letters and orders, and postwar correspondence,
newspaper clippings, and articles on the war.
Finding aid and microfilm copy (61 reels) available.
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