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Includes a few routine letters from Simon Cameron to
Read, May 14-20, 1861, on the mustering of volunteers, and
drafts of legislation on enlistments, conscription, and military
regulations.
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Read, Thomas Buchanan
(1822-1872) Artist-Poet, Ohio
Collection, 1864. 3 items.
Includes a poem on the war entitled "The Oath."
758
Reed, Charles Wellington Pvt., 9th Massachusetts
(1841-1926) Light Artillery; Topographic
Engineer, Army of the Potomac
Papers, 1849-1920. ca. 1,200 items.
Chiefly correspondence, drawings, maps, photographs, a
diary, and printed matter relating to the war. Includes about
700 sketches of battles and skirmishes, military camps and
camp scenes, black refugees, Confederate prisoners of war, fords,
settlements and points of interest (Bealeton Station, Gainesville,
Bethesda Church, Laurel Hill, Burke's Station, Nottoway
Station, Belle Isle, and the Petersburg mine explosion), ordnance,
and various military and political leaders: Gens. Henry
Baxter, Ambrose E. Burnside, Ulysses S. Grant, and Paul J.
Semmes (CSA), and President Lincoln. Also includes about 200
letters (many with sketches on the letterhead) from Reed to his
family and friends in Massachusetts, 1862-65, describing camp
life, training, discipline, diet, military organization, marches,
entertainment, ordnance, ethics, furloughs, disease, casualties,
competition between regiments, and the attitude of recruits
toward officers. Provides information on the Gettysburg, Mine
Run, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and
Appomattox campaigns. Miscellaneous items include manuscript
essays on the role of the 8th Vermont Volunteers in the
Battle of Cedar Creek, and the role of the 9th Massachusetts
Light Artillery at Gettysburg. Diary entries cover the period
Jan. 1-Oct. 25, 1864.
Finding aid available.
759
Reed Family of Indiana and Kentucky
Papers, 1795-1891.
Microfilm, 1 reel.
Contains about 65 letters from Chaplain George J. Reed to
his wife, 1861 — 62, concerning his ministry to soldiers in the
1st (renamed the 2d) Kentucky Cavalry, camp life, morale,
marches, depredations by Confederate soldiers, discipline, the
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