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distributed to convalescing soldiers, remarks on blacks, hospital
ships, and wounds, and the names of several hospitals in
Virginia. Also contains sketches of the Christian Commission
offices at Goldsboro, N.C., and a list of commission delegates
at New Bern, Goldsboro, Raleigh, Wilmington, and Smithville,
N.C.
966
U.S. Finance Miscellany
Collection, 1761-1897. ca. 2,500 items.
Reports, accounts, and miscellaneous items. Includes a
descriptive list of North Carolina Confederate currency, and a
letter from Gen. George B. McClellan to Edwin M. Stanton,
May 6, 1862, concerning the Battle of Williamsburg, Va.
967
U.S. Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission
Records, 1957-60. ca. 33,000 items.
In part, transcripts.
Chiefly drafts and copies of Lincoln Day-by-Day: A Chronology,
1808-1865, compiled by Earl Schenck Miers, William
E. Baringer, and C. Percy Powell (1960), 3 v. Also includes
research notes and an incomplete Lincoln bibliography.
Finding aid available.
968
U.S. Navy
Collection, 1899-1933. 6 items.
In part, transcripts.
Includes a copy of an unsigned letter by a former Confederate
soldier to the U.S. Navy Department, July 23, 1920, concerning
the capture and treatment of several Confederate soldiers
by a Federal landing party on Edisto Island, S.C., and the
capture of the U.S.S. Isaac Smith on Jan. 30, 1863.
Naval Historical Foundation collection.
969
U.S. Sanitary Commission
Papers, 1863-64. ca. 900 items.
Miscellaneous material relating to the services provided
by the Commission for soldiers in the field and at home:
clippings, posters, photographs, and sketches of military hospitals,
soldiers' homes, and refreshment saloons; the rules and
regulations of the "Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon"; welcome
cards and tickets to the Central Sanitary Fair; clippings
on various fairs sponsored by the Commission, and a sketch of
the Commission chapel in the field near Petersburg, Va.
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