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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
Manuscripts
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
Manuscripts
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
Manuscripts
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.
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Edwin A. Bowen papers
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A collection of material chiefly relating to Edwin A. Bowen's Civil War service and the 52nd Regiment's veterans' association. Included are a Civil War journal kept from November 1861 to February 29, 1864; regimental military records, including general and special orders, communications, dispatches, reports, muster rolls, and ordnance records; drafts and the fair copy of Bowen's "Historical Memoranda of the 52nd Regiment Illinois Infantry Volunteers," (1870s); and accounts of the Battle of Shiloh that Bowen submitted at the request of Shiloh Battlefield Commission (1895). Also included are Bowen's account of his service in New Mexico (1848), an article about slavery (approximately 1861), and the original manuscript, typescript and publication of his Pike's Peak journal (1859).
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Mort Reis Lewis Papers
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This collection contains 426 items and deals entirely with American historian Allan Nevins (1890-1971) and his work, and writer and historian Mort Reis Lewis' efforts after Nevins' death to keep his legacy alive. The 56 manuscripts include various drafts, most of which deal with Allan Nevins. These include copies of Ray Allen Billington's eulogy for Allan Nevins, his article "Allan Nevins – Historian: A Personal Reminiscences," and a copy of a speech by Billington regarding Nevins, which he gave at the Huntington Library. This series also includes drafts of manuscripts by Mort Reis Lewis such as "A Country Boy at the Huntington Library" and "A Different Profile in Courage: The Triumph of Will." There are also copies of the following scripts by Lewis: "A Pair of Boots" and "Stroke of Fate." Also included are transcripts of interviews, press releases and miscellaneous notes all dealing with Allan Nevins. The correspondence, which contains 320 items, consists chiefly of letters by and to Mort Reis Lewis about Allan Nevins. The letters discuss Nevins' career as an American historian and the senior research associate at the Huntington Library. This series also deals with Lewis and other historians publishing about Nevins and Lewis' effort to get Nevins' image on a stamp. The correspondence also covers American society and politics during the 1960s and 1970s. Allan Nevins is the author of 36 letters, most of which are written to Lewis. There is also much correspondence between Lewis and Allan Nevins' wife, Mary, and his daughters, Anne Nevins Loftis and Meredith Nevins Mayer. The ephemera contains 50 items, chiefly dealing with Allan Nevins, such as newspaper clippings, obituaries, brochures, programs and audiocassettes. The ephemera also touches upon Mort Reis Lewis and Ray Billington and their work. There are four audio cassettes which contain interviews with James Thorpe, Ray Billington and E. B. Long and audio from the Allan Nevins Seminar at Claremont College, May 30, 1969. Notable participants include: American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Scholar, Ray Billington, Cass Canfield, Bruce Catton, Henry Steele Commager, Carl Haverlin, Hubert Humphrey, Otto Kerner, Alfred A. Knopf, Anne Loftis, Everette Beach Long, Los Angeles Times, Delbert Mann, Herbert Mitgang, Richard B. Morris, Allan Nevins, New Yorker, Claiborne Pell, Abraham Ribicoff, Andrew F. Rolle, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Louis Morris Starr, Irving Stone, James Thorpe, Justin G. Turner, Bell Wiley and Daniel Woodward. Subjects covered in the collection include: American Heritage, Ray Bradbury, CBS, Winston Churchill, Paul Conrad, Anthony Eden, Henry E. Huntington Library, Historical Times, Inc., Illinois State Historical Society, Lyndon B. Johnson, KCET Television Station, Edward "Ted" Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Henry Kissinger, George S. McGovern, NBC, National Historical Society, New York Times Company, Richard M. Nixon and Watergate, Reader's Digest, Ronald Reagan, Donald Tingley, United States Civil Service Commission, and the Writer's Guild of America. The collection also includes items about the historians' research including Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller and the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, and Ulysses S. Grant.
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