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Beaufort, S.C., and Jones Landing, Va., Feb.-Nov. 1864, concerning
his enlistment in the 29th Connecticut Volunteers, the
death of his brother Joseph at Olustee, Fla., the Siege of
Beaufort, the Siege of Charleston, S.C., hospital care, and personal
needs. Also contains enlistment certificates for Sgt. Randolph
Johnston, 27th Regiment, U.S. Colored Troops, and eight
volunteers in the 81st Pennsylvania Volunteers from Cumberland
Township, Adams County, Pa.; bounty subscriptions,
discharges, and commissions; a list of officers in the 7th Pennsylvania
Volunteers; receipts issued to volunteers from Cumberland
Township by the Relief Assurance Committee; and
postwar clippings, maps, and pamphlets relating to the Battle
of Gettysburg.
Finding aid available.
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McPherson, James Birdseye (1828-1864) Gen., USV
Papers, 1848-68. 364 items.
Chiefly personal and official correspondence, telegrams,
orders, receipts, quartermaster reports, and ordnance reports.
Includes two letters from Lt. James H. Wilson to McPherson,
Feb. 20 and Apr. 30, 1862, Port Royal and Hilton Head, S.C.,
concerning the Siege of Fort Pulaski, military organization,
and the generalship of Henry W. Benham, Quincy A. Gillmore,
David Hunter, and Thomas W. Sherman; letters from special
agents in Louisiana concerning the location, confiscation, and
sale of cotton; a report on destitute families in Warren County,
Miss., and a summary of rations sold to the citizens of Warren
County; a list of quartermaster depots in Mississippi, Nov. 1863;
and the signatures of officers in the 7th New Jersey Volunteers
and the 30th Illinois Volunteers.
Finding aid available.
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McPherson, Theodore H. N. Lt., 107th
Pennsylvania Volunteers
Collection, 1860-65. 28 items.
Chiefly letters between McPherson and his brothers, George
E. (USN) and B. R. McPherson (USN), 1862-63, written from
camps in Virginia and aboard the U.S.S. Norwich, St. Johns
River, Fla. Describes camp life and fortifications along the Potomac
River, marches in Virginia, new recruits, morale, and routine
duties on the Norwich. Also includes a recruiting poster, a
duty roster for guards at Camp Curtin, Pa., and McPherson's
diary, Oct. 5, 1861-May 19, 1862.
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