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Watterson, Henry (1840-1921) Journalist; Author
Papers, 1863-1920. ca. 9,000 items.
Includes six routine letters to Watterson from Gen. William
B. Bate, Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, Gen. Leonidas Polk,
Alexander Stephens, Andrew Ewing, and George D. Prentice.
Finding aid available.
998
Waud, Alfred R. USA
Papers, 1862-80. 7 items.
Includes a letter by Waud, July 5, 1862, Camp Lincoln,
James River, concerning hardships and disease during the Peninsular
Campaign; a letter to Waud, Oct. 3, 1864, apparently
written by a brother (Paul Waud?) who was working in the
field as an artist or photographer with the Army of the James;
and a letter from Gen. G. K. Warren to Waud, Sept. 29, 1863.
999
Wayman, Dorothy Godfrey (1893-1975) Journalist; Author
Papers, 1862-1971. ca. 6,000 items.
Includes a postwar manuscript, "Civil War Frogman," based
on the diary of Washington Hobbs Godfrey.
Finding aid available.
1000
Weaver, Henry Clay (1840-1904) Capt.,
16th Kentucky Volunteers
Papers, 1861-1945.
Microfilm, 1 reel.
Chiefly letters from Weaver to Cornelia S. Wiley, 1861-65,
concerning marches and skirmishes in Kentucky and Tennessee,
the Siege of Knoxville, and the Atlanta, Franklin and
Nashville, and Carolinas campaigns. Includes remarks on camp
life, training, discipline, disease, morale, depredations by Confederate
soldiers, the treatment of loyalists by Confederate guerrillas
and soldiers, resignations and promotions, and generalship.
Also discusses the attitude of noncombatants in Knoxville,
Tenn., conflict between veteran soldiers and new recruits in
the Carolinas Campaign, the attitude of Federal soldiers toward
slavery, and the effect of the assassination of President Lincoln
on Gen. William T. Sherman's army.
1001
Weaver, Willis (1846-1929)
Collection, 1892. 2 items.
Transcripts.
Letter from Weaver to the editor of the National Tribune
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