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910 Strait, N. A. Collector Records, 1860-65. ca. 1,800 items. Provides information on the service of various Union regular and volunteer regiments. Pertains chiefly to regiments from Massachusetts and New York. 911 Strong, Hayward & Company Boston, Mass. Scrapbook, 1857-69. ca. 220 items. Contains five letters from Adj. R. M. Bearden (Turner Ashby's cavalry) while a prisoner of war at Johnson's Island, Ohio, appealing for aid from his prewar business acquaintance, Alexander Strong, Aug.-Nov. 1863. 912 Stuart, Alexander Hugh Holmes (1807-1891) Statesman, Virginia Collection, 1790-1868. 34 items. Includes five letters to Stuart, May 7,1861-Jan. 20,1865, concerning the secession crisis, the Peninsular Campaign, the political situation in Virginia in Dec. 1862, Whig prospects in Virginia after the war, and the desperate political and economic situation in Virginia in Jan. 1865. Correspondents are James D. Armstrong, John B. Baldwin, John Letcher, William Cabell Rives, and Williams C. Wickham. 913 Stuart, George Hay President, (1816-1890) U.S. Christian Commission Collection, 1792-1930. ca. 550 items. Miscellaneous letters and documents relating to the war. Includes a letter from Gen. Isaac P. Rodman to his sister, Aug. 15, 1861, on the Battle of 1st Manassas, a letter from Stuart to President Lincoln, Dec. 11, 1861, on the origins and service of the Christian Commission, a letter from Gen. D. H. Hill to General Beauregard, Dec. 16,1861, calling for the execution of Federal soldiers and Tories for the pillage and murder of noncombatants, and a note by Gen. Robert E. Lee, Aug. 1861, on an exchange of prisoners. Also contains letters concerning generalship, promotions, reinforcements, conscription, prisoners of war, cavalry tactics, supplies, religion among soldiers, and the 2d Manassas, Antietam, and Fredericksburg campaigns, and the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862. Miscellaneous items comprise a manuscript map of the battlefield at Gettysburg, a return of soldiers in the 56th Pennsylvania Volunteers, July 16, 1863, military passes, orders, receipts, and requisitions, and a photograph of Gen. Amiel W. Whipple. 256
Other correspondents include William W. Averell, Francis Barbour, John Buford, Simon Cameron, Silas Casey, John Cochrane, Darius N. Couch, John A. Dix, Samuel F. Du Pont, David G. Farragut, Edward Ferrero, Andrew H. Foote, William B. Franklin, Ulysses S. Grant, William A. Hammond, Joseph Hooker, Oliver O. Howard, Andrew A. Humphreys, Thomas J. Jackson, William E. Jones, Erasmus D. Keyes, Abraham Lincoln, George B. McClellan, Joseph K. F. Mansfield, George G. Meade, Thomas F. Meagher, Montgomery C. Meigs, Christopher Memminger, George W. Morell, Robert Ould, Marsena R. Patrick, Fitz-John Porter, John F. Reynolds, Joseph J. Reynolds, William S. Rosecrans, William Seward, Thomas W. Sherman, William T. Sherman, Daniel E. Sickles, Gustavus W. Smith, William F. Smith, Edwin M. Stanton, George Stoneman, Charles Sumner, Gouverneur K. Warren, Gideon Welles, and Julius White. 914 Stuart, James Ewell Brown (1833-1864) Gen., CSA Letters, 1861-62. 8 items. Photocopies. Seven letters from Stuart to Laura Ratcliffe written from camps in Virginia, 1861-62, and a letter from Gen. Robert E. Lee to Stuart, Aug. 18, 1862, on cavalry movements. 915 Stull, Lydia J. Nurse, Special Relief Service, U.S. Sanitary Commission Papers, 1865. 23 items. Chiefly letters to Stull from Union soldiers held in military prisons in and around Washington, D.C. (Old Capital Prison, Fort Whipple, Va., etc.) for crimes committed during the war. Provides the names and units of about 20 prisoners. 916 Sturgeon, Robert Capt., 25th New York Volunteers Document, 1861. 1 item. Special order accepting Sturgeon's resignation from the Army, Oct. 30, 1861. 917 Sturgis, Samuel Davis (1822-1889) Gen., USA Collection, 1861-81. 6 items. In part, transcripts. Contains an account of the Battle of Wilson's Creek copied from the Franklin Repository and Transcript, Oct. 9, 1861. 257
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established as a branch of the Army
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of Gen. William T. Sherman and Gen.
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long winter encampments, from plowe
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HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE Library of Co
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Many of the collections listed in t
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Defenses of Washington, 1865. Geogr
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Includes a copy of the draft of Wil
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Robert Anderson
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27 Asbill, J. J. Pvt., 19th South C
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36 Bailey, Orra B. 7th Connecticut
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Nathaniel Prentice Banks
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campaigns in Kentucky, Tennessee, M
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59 Battle of Aquia Creek, Va. Repor
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Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard
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formance of the U.S.S. New Ironside
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80 Bickerdyke, Mary Ann Ball (1817-
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Francis Preston Blair
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cerning the Siege of Vicksburg. Mon
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Dec. 10, 1862-Mar. 31, 1864, concer
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Ill Briggs, E. B. USA Document, 186
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120 Brown, Thomas J. (1845-ca. 1915
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130 Burbank-Van Voorhis Family Coll
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Benjamin Franklin Butler
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Daniel Butterfield
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Ambrose Burnside's campaign in east
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155 Carter, Samuel Powhatan (1819-1
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detailed accounts of the Gettysburg
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170 Chesley, James A. Master's Mate
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Includes a copy of a letter from Ge
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186 Colvin, Hervey A. (1841-1885) 1
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and Wesley Merrit for the United St
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Muster roll containing a list of of
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208 Covode, John (1808-1871) U.S. R
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cis Pickens to S. Pettigrew, May 18
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221 Curtis, Benjamin Robbins Jurist
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225 Custer, George Armstrong (1839-
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230 Papers, 1843-70. 75 items. Lett
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the battles of Fishing Creek and Mu
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John Adams Dix
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thereon: &c." Provides information
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Orleans, La., concerning the openin
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Clement A. Evans on skirmishes in t
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283 Eustis, George (1828-1872) Conf
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291 Family papers, 1815-72. Microfi
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Three letters from Fay to his mothe
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305 Firum, William, et al. West Vir
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ville and Marietta, Ga. Entries fro
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322 Fort Delaware Prison Times Coll
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327 Fraser, P. Historian Manuscript
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336 Gardner, Francis R. and George
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341 George, Harold C. Collector Col
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McClellan and Irvin McDowell, and v
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356 Gorgas, William Crawford (1854-
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Ulysses Simpson Grant
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campaigns, and maneuvers against Ge
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ents from camps in South Carolina,
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386 Hall, George Washington (1841-1
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Scrapbooks, 1861-67. 4 v. Contains
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398 Hanno, C. B. Letter, 1861. 1 it
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Includes personal and academic reco
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morale, and suffering during the Pe
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Rapidan Rivers in the fall of 1863.
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426 Hayden, Nathaniel Family papers
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disease, hospital care, the capture
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Gen. E. A. Hitchcock and the Navy D
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Includes a letter from Charles W. W
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to Gen. Joseph Reynolds written dur
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Campaign. Also includes a diary kep
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464 Hughes, John Sgt., 28th Iowa Vo
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to his daughter Carrie on Confedera
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478 Jewett, George O. Sgt., 17th Ma
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488 Johnston, Mercer Green (1868-19
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August Valentine Kautz
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eral Hospital, Fort McHenry, Point
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of Confederate sympathizers and his
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"Belle Alliance" plantation, compla
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July 1864—Jan. 1865, concerning c
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inridge to follow up on his victory
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Sept.-Dec. 1861, concerning the rec
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Abraham Lincoln
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554 Long, Breckinridge (1881-1958)
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561 Luce, Stephen Bleecker (1827-19
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Richmond, Va., in Oct. 1864, coasta
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George Brinton McClellan and Mrs. N
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affidavits, and miscellaneous items
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1862, concerning Gen. Ambrose Burns
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593 Magoffin, Beriah (1815-1885) Go
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passes, vouchers, certificates, and
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Roads, Va., and commander of the U.
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613 Maury, Dabney Herndon (1822-190
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Army, depredations, casualties amon
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624 Mejan, Eugene French Consul, Ne
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contains a wartime photograph of Mi
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Forts Jackson and St. Philip, the o
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Teaser, and at Fort Jackson, La., a
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and raids and skirmishes in norther
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orders for the return of runaway sl
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675 Niles, Peter H. Signal Corps, 2
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685 Olmsted, Frederick Law General
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692 Owen, William Miller (1832-1893
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lished by David S. Sparks, Inside L
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hall refuting charges of misconduct
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Washington and vicinity, and a gene
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Wheeling [W. Va.], concerning the a
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neer on the staff of Gen. George B.
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Carson, Christopher, 153 Carter, Ge
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Campaign Chattanooga, Tenn., 205, 2
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Columbus, Ga.: skirmish at, 636; ca
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Cook, T. M., 78 Cook, William, 1019
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Daugherty, W. R., 372 Davenport, He
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Tidball, John Caldwell, 939 Todd, O
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Farquhar, John F., 423 Farragut, Da
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Fort Whipple, Va.: Federal soldiers
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diplomats in Washington, D.C., and
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200, 859; mentioned, 487, 572, 689-
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with monitors, 784; improvement of,
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Kelley, Benjamin Franklin: capture
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memorabilia, 9, 533 Lee, Robert W.,
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703, 878 Loper, R. F.: biographical
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McMichael, J. C, 589 McNeil, John,
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1022; see also Antietam Campaign; G
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603; U.S. hospitals at, 52, 471, 72
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Arkansas, Department of: (U.S. Army
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in, 136, 500, 524, 568 New York Cit
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of, 193, 1040 Northumberland County
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680 Paine, Halbert E., 825 Palmer,
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Putnam, George H., 558 Quaker City
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Cumberland Township, Pa., 590 Relig
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Scott, Thomas A., 387, 896 Scott, W
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951; photograph of, 599; certificat
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South Atlantic Blockading Squadron:
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Philip. (United States) see Seward,
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1030, 1055 Suydam, Charles Crooke,
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488, 614, 637, 1021; training camps
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the Senate Finance Committee, 8 U.S
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Volunteers; see individual State tr
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West, Robert M., 854 West, Military
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