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Anderson's thesis and proposed organization of the work are
explained in a draft introduction.
Finding aid available.
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Anderson, John Emerson Sgt., 2d Massachusetts Infantry
Memoir, 1861 — 65. 1 item.
Photocopy.
Detailed account of Anderson's service with the 2d Massachusetts
Infantry in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862,
the Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Atlanta, Savannah, and Carolinas
campaigns, and in operations against guerrillas and renegades
in east Tennessee in the winter of 1863-64. Includes
information on recruitment, training, marches, discipline, camp
life, morale, depredations, foraging expeditions, the treatment
of prisoners of war, military paroles, disease, hospital care,
Federal spies, enlistment bounties, Union sentiment in the
South, the attitude of noncombatants, and crime in the U.S.
Army.
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Anderson, Robert (1805-1871) Gen., USA
Papers, 1819-1919. ca. 5,000 items.
Contains numerous personal and official letters received
by Anderson and copies of his outgoing letters during his commands
at Fort Moultrie and Fort Sumter, S.C., the Department
of Kentucky, and the Department of the Cumberland. Also
includes plans of forts and batteries, newspaper clippings concerning
Anderson and the Fort Sumter affair, and presentation
copies of the following books: R. Anderson, Within Fort Sumter
by One of the Company (1861), T. M. Anderson, The Political
Conspiracies Preceding the Rebellion or the True Stories of Sumter
and Pickens (1882), and E. A. Lawton, Major Robert Anderson
and Fort Sumter, 1861 (1911). Principal wartime correspondents
are P. G. T. Beauregard, Simon Cameron, Samuel Cooper,
Richard B. Duane, W. W. Harlee, L. M. Hatch, David F.
Jamison, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew G. Magrath, Francis W.
Pickens, Winfield Scott, William T. Sherman, Edwin M.
Stanton, Charles Sumner, Lorenzo Thomas, and George L.
Willard.
Finding aid and index available.
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Anderson—Moler Families
Papers, 1854-1931. ca. 140 items.
Includes about 30 letters written during the Civil War by
Nelia Moler of Columbus, Ohio, and relatives in Anderson
County, Kans., containing remarks on enlistments, training
camps, and acquaintances in the Union Army.