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1862, concerning camp life during the Antietam Campaign,
and a memorial to Capt. John Teed, 116th Pennsylvania
Volunteers, on his exchange as a prisoner of war, Mar. 1864.
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Larned, Daniel Read (b. 1830) Capt.; Secretary
to General Burnside, USA
Papers, 1861-65. ca. 1,100 items.
In part, transcripts.
Chiefly letters from Larned to his sisters and brother-inlaw
concerning General Burnside's expedition to North Carolina.
Describes the battles of Roanoke Island, New Bern, Beaufort,
and Fort Macon. Also contains information on the Antietam,
Fredericksburg, Knoxville, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold
Harbor, and Petersburg campaigns; the pursuit of Gen. John
Hunt Morgan in Ohio; General Burnside's relationship with
Gens. Henry Halleck, George B. McClellan, and William S.
Rosecrans; and military organization, rank disputes, discipline,
morale, marches, depredations, black life, black troops, entertainment,
prisoners of war, foraging expeditions, disease,
inflation, furloughs, military appointments, and the effect of
the war on noncombatants in the South.
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Lathers, Richard (1820-1903) Businessman, New York
Papers, 1826-1901. ca. 210 items.
In part, transcripts.
Contains a few letters to Lathers concerning aid for Confederate
prisoners of war held at Fort Delaware, the New York
draft riots, the state of the war in July 1863, and the location
and condition of Lt. Thomas Ford, 21st South Carolina Volunteers.
Seven letters from Gen. John A. Dix to Gens. George
B. McClellan, Joseph Mansfield, and Egbert Viele, Secretaries
Edwin Stanton and Simon Cameron, and Col. R. Biddle Roberts,
1861-62, concern the release of political prisoners in southeast
Virginia and the resumption of commerce at Norfolk. Miscellaneous
items include a letter from Thomas Sampson to Col.
C. S. Olcott, Feb. 9, 1863, New Providence, Bahama Islands,
concerning Confederate shipping in the Bahamas, and a
pamphlet: A Statement of the Facts Concerning the Imprisonment
and Treatment of Jefferson Davis While a Military Prisoner
at Fort Monroe, Va., in 1865 and 1866 (1902).
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Latrobe, Osmun
Papers, 1793-1932. ca. 300 items.
Includes three letters from R. S. Steuart, Company C, 1st
Missouri Cavalry, to his family from various camps in Virginia,
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