Manuscripts
Leonard T. Caplinger papers, (bulk 1862-1863)
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Lewis N.T. Allen papers
Manuscripts
Includes Allen's pocket diary that he kept from Sept. 4, 1863 to Apr. 9, 1864, a fair copy of his Civil War diary probably created in the 1870s, and his correspondence that covers the period of his military service.
mssHM 72226-72266
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1862-1863
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Correspondence between Jonathan Labrant and his wife Mary Melissa and his parents and siblings (chiefly 1862-1864), miscellaneous letters addressed to the Labrants, photographs and documents.
mssHM 73100-73223
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Cook family papers, (bulk 1862-1863)
Manuscripts
The collection contains correspondence between James Clinton Cook and his family exchanged during his Civil War service from 1862 to 1863. Also includes Mary Cook's letter to Benjamin Trumbull Kneeland (1825-1903), her husband's regimental surgeon, and a letter from her relative, Luther Perkins, a ship carpenter in St. Louis, Missouri. Also included are family photographs, from the 1860s to the early 1900s, a portrait of Lemuel Cook made after a famous photograph taken of him in approximately 1864, and genealogical correspondence, genealogical charts, and other materials assembled by Flora Cordelia Cook in the 1950s.
mssCook
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Leonard Herbert Swett papers addenda
Manuscripts
Small addenda consisting of biographical material, genealogy, and a few printed items compiled by Leonard Herbert Swett and related to Leonard Swett (1825-1889) and Abraham Lincoln. Includes two manuscript portions of the "Life of Leonard Swett" by Leonard Herbert Swett, which gives a biographical account of his father's life including his experiences in the Mexican-American War, his travels to California, and his involvement with the 1860 and 1864 Lincoln campaigns; a portion of "Mr. Lincoln's Own Story of His Life as Told to Leonard Swett;" an essay praising Lincoln's character by Leonard Herbert Swett; a notebook of Swett family genealogy; a copy of The Marriage Service (1925) containing a marriage certificate for Harold Ashley Burnham and Laura Rose Swett; a program from the ceremonies surrounding the unveiling of the Lincoln statue at Lincoln Park in Chicago (1887); and a printed pamphlet by Harry E. Pratt entitled "The Repudiation of Lincoln's War Policy in 1862: Stuart-Swett Congressional Campaign" (1931).
mssHM 80143-80150
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Leonard F. Ross papers
Manuscripts
This collection consists of four items relating to Leonard F. Ross' Civil War career, including two communications from Ulysses S. Grant. Grant's autograph letter signed dated 1861 December 4 (HM 69444) discusses confiscations from Missouri citizens and instructions for dealing with marauding Confederates; the contemporary copy of his 1862 October 5 letter (HM 69445) recaps a dispatch from General William S. Rosecrans detailing the movement of federal troops during the pursuit of Confederate General Earl Van Dorn's forces at Corinth, Chewalla and Ripley, Mississippi on 1862 October 3-4. Also present is a receipt from Henry P. Noble to Ross for a payment for a horse, 1863 April 28 (HM 69446), and an undated copy of "Foraging Parties Instructions," with Ross' note "Please read to the guards" (HM 69447).
mssHM 69444-69447
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Leonard Herbert Swett papers
Manuscripts
The first section of the collection consists mainly of letters written by Leonard Herbert Swett to his parents, Leonard and Laura R. Swett, while spending part of the summer of 1875 with George Armstrong Custer. The letters include descriptions of encounters with Custer and the members of Custer's entourage, of treaty negotiations with the Arikara and Dakota chiefs, of a hunting excursion, and of life with the 7th Cavalry in general, as well as references to the political situation that decided Custer's orders regarding the Native Americans, including to General Sheridan and the War Department. Also included is a telegram sent to Leonard Swett by Custer, reporting on Leonard Herbert Swett's health; an anonymous description of experiences at Fort Lincoln; a description of Charles Eastman's comments on the Battle of Little Bighorn; and a 1932 letter from a university fraternity in Ithaca, New York. The second section of the collection is made up of letters written by Leonard Herbert Swett to his parents, who lived in Chicago, while on a year-long trip around Europe. In the letters he talks in detail about each city he visits and his daily activities, the costs of things, his frustration at trying to learn French, and his homesickness and desire to return to Chicago. Swett visits the following places: London; Brussels; Paris, Marles, Lyon, and Nice, France; Wiesbaden, and Leipzig, Germany; Lausanne, Switzerland; Milan, and Venice, Italy. Leonard Swett is the author of two letters, written to his wife while he was in Paris with his son.
mssSwett