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Edwin Francis Gay papers, (bulk 1920-1946)
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Samuel F. Gay correspondence, (bulk 1861-1864)
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Correspondence between Samuel F. Gay and his father Jabez J. R. Gay (born 1809). Samuel F. Gay’s letters were chiefly written while in camps in Washington, D.C., Downsville, Maryland, Warrenton, and Brandy Station, Virginia, with several letters describing the battles of Williamsburg, Antietam, and Fredericksburg, and the Peninsular and Rapidan campaigns. The letters depict various aspects of life as a Union soldier including officers, Confederate prisoners, payments, rations, reviews and drills, diseases, and medical care. Also present is information on movements of the troops and discussion of war and political news. Jabez R. Gay’s letters contain news from home, discussion of political issues of the day, such as slavery, the Emancipation Proclamation and the nature and course of the war. Also included are letters from Edwin C. Bragg to Jabez J. R. and Samuel F. Gay, including an account of the Battle of Roanoke Island in February 1862. There are also individual letters that concern other family members and Gay's post-war life. Ephemera includes a clipping from the New York Herald, 1862, containing an article on the battle of Fredericksburg, and a printed sheet containing: A poem composed by a pious woman, soon after the taking of Cape-Breton, the first time : upon Christian love and peace. joined with united fervent prayer, / Composed by Mrs. Deborah Field, 1745, printed by N. Coverly, Boston, between 1805 and 1824.
mssHM 47984-48000
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Edwin F. Gay pocket diary with daily expenses
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A pocket-size diary listing appointments and daily expenses for 1933; with a London address written on the inside of the front cover.
mssHM 82862
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Selim Edwin Woodworth papers
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A collection of approximately 1,600 items from 1834 to 1947, which consists of letters, manuscripts, documents, 28 photographs and three scrapbooks related to the life, family and career of Selim Edwin Woodworth (1815-1871). Subject matter includes Woodworth's service at sea: a journal kept aboard the ship "Margaret Oakley" from New York to the South Pacific from 1834 to 1835, the log of the ship "Ohio" in the Mediterranean from 1838 to 1839, and naval orders from the Civil War period. There are also San Francisco business papers of Selim and his brother, Frederick A. Woodworth and mining papers for the Blue Wing Quartz Mine in Calaveras County, California from 1860 to 1864. The collection also contains material related to his son Selim Edwin Woodworth (1857-1900) who rose to lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. There are commissions, orders from 1871 to 1899, and a journal of a voyage to Mexico and Peru from 1878 to 1879. There are a few letters from Selim Edwin Woodworth's father, the poet Samuel Woodworth.
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Samuel F. Gay letters to Jabez Gay
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Two letters written by Samuel F. Gay, a member of the 7th Regiment of Massachusetts Infantry, to his father Jabez Gay during the American Civil War. The letters are dated 1863 March 1, and 1864 April 28, and written from camps near Falmouth and Brandy Station, Virginia, respectively.
mssHM 84500-84501
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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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