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Lewis H. Chamberlin papers
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Correspondence
Manuscripts
A collection of 152 items which contains letters and documents (1862-1920) mostly related to Lewis H. Chamberlain's duties as Regimental Adjutant. Included are papers related to the Regiment's personnel and ordnance, courts martial, furloughs, passes, transfers, detailing, desertions, payments as well as regimental and company orders. Correspondents include Henry A. Morrow, Albert M. Edwards, George H. Thomas, and Lorenzo Thomas. The letter from Henry A. Morrow of May 19, 1865 describes the victory march of the Army of the Potomac.
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Lewis H. Chamberlin
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Documents related to Lewis H. Chamberlin; includes his service records, photographs, and biography of his son Walter H. Chamberlin.
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Brock Collection: Papers of Benjamin H. Smith
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Correspondence of Benjamin H. Smith with his friends and family, chiefly letters from his father in Richmond, Va. Also included are Smith's letters describing his duty guarding John Brown, a brief diary covering Sept. - Dec., 1861, scattered regimental records of Co. 3 of the Richmond Howitzers, and the paperwork relating to Smith's wound and his court martial case
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William Hayes Chamberlin journal
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The first volume is No. 5 of several copies Alexander Rea Chamberlin made of his great-grandfather's journal. It includes a facsimile copy of the original journal as well as facsimile copies of the journal as it was printed in the Lewisburg, Pennsylvania newspaper, Chronicle. in 1849 and 1850. Chamberlin's journal covers his overland journey to California in 1849. The volume also contains later entries from a diary Chamberlin kept in 1853 to 1857 while living in California. These entries also include a trip Chamberlin took back East by ship. While in New Orleans he makes several specific comments on the slaves he sees.
mssHM 82522 (a+b)
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John McNulty Clugston papers
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The collection consists primarily of four diaries kept by John McNulty Clugston while serving with the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company G, during the Civil War from 1861 May 27 to 1864 July 9. The regiment was based in Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia, and participated in the Battle of Antietam. The diaries contain mostly brief entries regarding regimental actions and skirmishes, camps, scouting expeditions, drills, marches, duties, changes in command, furloughs, deaths, and prisoners and arms captured. Clugston also mentions the weather, food, clothing shortages, war news, court martials, and the arrival of mail. There are several entries discussing activities in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. surrounding the Battle of Antietam in September 1862, including balloon ascensions by Thaddeus Lowe. Company G soldiers Rutherford B. Hayes and William McKinley are occasionally mentioned. In addition, the diaries contain lists of clothing issued or purchased, correspondents, regimental officers and company members, and pay received. The bulk of entries is in ink, with some in pencil.Also present is one carte-de-visite of a young man, presumably John McNulty Clugston, seated in a chair; the penciled date of 1869 February is on the reverse.In addition, the collection contains one autograph letter signed from Rutherford B. Hayes, Fremont, Ohio, to Alice V. Clugston, Topeka, Kansas, 1887 September 2, regarding a recent reunion of the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He mentions the regiment's receipt of "the valuable diary of your late husband John M. Clugston, our comrade of Co. G.," presumably referring to the 1886 copy of Clugston's diaries now in the Civil War collections at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museum. Includes addressed envelope. (2 pages)
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Lemuel H. Hazzard papers
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A collection of approximately 483 items from 1862 to 1919, which contains personal papers, Civil War diaries, notebooks, correspondence, documents, medals, and ephemera. The three pocket diaries cover the Atlanta Campaign (May to September 1864), Sherman's March to the Sea, and initial stages of the campaign in the Carolinas. Brief daily entries record military actions, camp life, and contain lists of casualties and procurement records. The notebooks contain brief records of expenses for 1864 to 1865. The letters addressed to Lemuel H. Hazzard from his friends and family in Iowa and other regiments discuss family matters and various aspects of the Civil War, including hospitals and the home front. Included is a letter from his brother William Hazzard who served with the 38th Regiment of Indiana Infantry. Lemuel H. Hazzard's letters to his wife Frances Hazzard depict social life in Salem, Missouri, 1872 to 1873. The collection also contains letters from William Hazzard, son of Lemuel and Frances, member of 2nd Regiment of Missouri Infantry of United States Veterans who, from 1899 to 1900, held a position at the Department of Posts in Havana, Cuba; also letters from son Lloyd Hazzard, Sergeant of Co. B of 115 Regiment of Engineers of American Expeditionary Corps stationed in France in 1919. The documents include Hazzard's parole issued by the Army of Kentucky on September 1, 1862, also documents relating to Hazzard's employment by the Railway Postal Service in Kansas City, Missouri, his business activities, and insurance. The Co. I of the 12th Regiment of Indiana Infantry documents consist of muster rolls, descriptive rolls, furloughs, quarterly returns of deceased soldiers; communications from various hospitals regarding patients from the company, ordnance and requisition records, and special orders.
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