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affidavits, and miscellaneous items relating to McDonald's service
with the 65th New York Volunteers and the 2d Kentucky
Cavalry. Includes three postwar narratives concerning the organization
and work of the Medical Department, conflicts between
the Medical Department and the Christian Sanitary Commission,
the development of field hospitals, services performed by
chaplains, disease, hospital care, confusion and mismanagement
in the Medical Department, and camp life, training,
marches, and weapons. Provides numerous details on the Siege
of Yorktown, and the battles of Malvern Hill, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg,
Chancellorsville, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain,
Missionary Ridge, and Resaca.
579
McEwen, John Pvt., 1st Minnesota Volunteers
Papers, 1861-69. 8 items.
Contains two letters from McEwen to his family and
friends, Oct. 18, 1861, and Jan. 23, 1862, Camp Stone, Md.,
concerning the Battle of 1st Manassas, the treatment of Federal
prisoners of war in Richmond, Va., lack of confidence in
Gen. Charles P. Stone, and McEwen's application for a lieutenancy
in the 3d Minnesota Volunteers. Also contains an unsigned
letter in a different hand portraying the excitement of new
recruits at Camp Utley, Wis., in May or June 1861.
580
McGarrah, Gates W. (1863-1940) Collector
Presidential letters, 1786-1899. 70 items.
Photocopies.
Includes a letter from President Lincoln to Edwin M.
Stanton, Jan. 31, 1862; a letter from Gen. Ulysses S. Grant to
Gov. David Tod of Ohio, June 7, 1862; and two letters by Chester
A. Arthur as Quartermaster General of New York, Aug. 8
and Aug. 18, 1862.
Finding aid available.
581
McHenry, James (1753-1816)
Papers, 1775-1862. ca. 3,600 items.
In part, photocopies.
Includes three letters from Christopher P. Wolcott to J.
Howard McHenry, 1862, concerning visits to prisoners of war
at Fort Warren, Mass., and a letter from Frank K. Howard to J.
Howard McHenry, Nov. 4, 1862, written from Fort Warren.
Finding aid available.
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