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Mayo, Joseph (1795-1872) Mayor, Richmond, Va.
Letter, 1865. 1 item.
Transcript.
Letter from Mayo to Gen. Godfrey Weitzel, Apr. 3, 1865,
surrendering the city of Richmond to Union forces.
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Mazzini, Giuseppe
(1805-1872) Revolutionist-Journalist, Italy
Collection, undated. 4 items.
Autograph literary manuscript, "La Concordia," in Italian,
bound, donated by Mazzini during the Civil War to be sold for
the benefit of wounded soldiers. Includes an English translation
and two engravings and one photograph of Mazzini.
618
Mead, Rufus (1836-1922) Sgt., 5th
Connecticut Volunteers
Papers, 1861-1943. 233 items.
Chiefly letters from Mead to his brother David and various
members of the Mead family, May 25, 1861-May 9, 1865,
concerning the Commissary Department, sutlers, casualties,
morale, marches, plundering by Federal soldiers, enlistments,
training, camp life, diet, disease, prisoners of war, generalship
in the Union Army, the attitude of noncombatants in the South,
and the changing attitude of Federal soldiers toward southerners.
Also describes the Battle of Chancellorsville, the Atlanta
Campaign, the Savannah Campaign, and the Shenandoah Valley
Campaign of 1862, particularly the Battle of Winchester,
and the activities of Unionists in Atlanta. A diary (5 v.), Aug.
28, 1861-May 29, 1865, contains remarks on the arrest of two
female soldiers, Unionists in Virginia, the arrest of Confederate
spies, reconnaissance balloons, Union morale after the 2d
Manassas Campaign, foraging expeditions, depredations by
Federal soldiers, the Antietam, Gettysburg, and Carolinas
campaigns, and operations along the Rapidan and Rappahannock
Rivers in late 1863. Also includes a biographical sketch of
Mead written in 1943 by Mrs. Jennie C. Mead.
619
Meade, William (1789-1862) Episcopal Bishop, Virginia
Papers, 1822-62. 50 items.
Contains 11 letters from Meade to John Stewart of Richmond,
Va., written from Millwood, Meade's home in Clark
County, Va., July 1861-Jan. 1862, concerning Federal and
Confederate strategy in the Battle of 1st Manassas, troop movements
and skirmishes in the Shenandoah Valley, the activities
of J. E. B. Stuart, generalship and morale in the Confederate
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