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Hotchkiss, Jedediah—McCullough, Samuel CSA
Collection, 1846-1912.
Microfilm, 6 reels.
Contains four letters from Maj. Jedediah Hotchkiss
(1828-1899) to his daughter, Dec. 1862-Oct. 1863; a note by
Gen. Thomas J. Jackson; an account of "The Seven Days Fighting
About Richmond," by Hunter McGuire, medical director of
General Jackson's command; and several postwar maps of battlefields
in Virginia. Also contains the diary of Hotchkiss'
son-in-law, Lt. Samuel Thomas McCullough, Aug. 11,
1862-June 22,1865, kept during the Gettysburg, Spotsylvania,
Cold Harbor, and Petersburg campaigns and while a prisoner
of war at Old Capital Prison and Johnson's Island, and the
diary of Alfred Welton, 9th Indiana Volunteers, Aug. 14,
1861-Oct. 17, 1862. McCullough's diary contains remarks on
camp life, discipline, morale, hospital care, desertions, battles
and skirmishes, and the suffering of noncombatants in Virginia.
Originals at the University of Virginia.
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Hotze, Henry (1834-1887) Diplomat; Journalist; Author
Papers, 1861-65. 187 items.
Letterbook, 1862—64, containing correspondence relating
to the Index, a Confederate newspaper published in London,
England, and to the London-based Confederate States of America
Commercial Agency. Also contains accounts of the C.S.
State Department secret service fund. Principal recipients are
Robert M. T. Hunter and Judah P. Benjamin. Also letterbook,
May 28, 1864-June 16, 1865, containing chiefly personal
correspondence. Includes a few remarks on efforts to recruit
British soldiers whose terms of service were about to expire for
the Confederate Army. Additional items include letters to Hotze,
1863—65, from James D. Bulloch, Edwin De Leon, George
Eustis, George McHenry, Colin John McRae, Ambrose Dudley
Mann, Matthew Fontaine Maury, William Preston, and
John Slidell; a letter from Judah P. Benjamin to Edwin De
Leon, Dec. 9,1864; and three letters from Thomas H. Dudley to
Gideon Welles, July-Oct. 1863.
Partially indexed.
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Howe, Hiram P. 10th Missouri Volunteers
Papers, 1861-64. 76 items.
Letters from Howe to his family and friends, 1861-64,
concerning camp life and training in Missouri, General
Halleck's advance on Corinth, Miss., the Battle of Iuka, General
Grant's first advance on Vicksburg, and the Vicksburg
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