Manuscripts

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Description: The letters from Robert H. Williams to his parents and fiancée Elizabeth Goff contain detailed accounts of duty at Muddy Branch, Maryland; military operations at Berryville Pike, Winchester, Cedar Creek, and expeditions to Danville and Petersburg, Virginia; camp life, promotions; discussion of war politics and commanding officers, especially Philip Henry Sheridan and William Tecumseh Sherman; and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The collection also contains a letter to Robert H. Williams from his father regarding the Pike's Peak gold rush, a letter to him from Elizabeth Goff, and a letter from his brother Richard describing Tennessee at the end of the war. James M. Goff's letters to his father and younger brother Oscar in Delavan, Wisconsin describe camp life, the march from Kentucky to Tennessee, and life in Libby prison. There is also one photograph album, loose photographs, ephemera, and newspaper clippings.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1859-1889
Call number: mssHM 28864-28884
Provenance: Purchased from Mrs. Wayne Pogue, March 1961.

Photograph album

Manuscripts

The letters from Robert H. Williams to his parents and fiancée Elizabeth Goff contain detailed accounts of duty at Muddy Branch, Maryland; military operations at Berryville Pike, Winchester, Cedar Creek, and expeditions to Danville and Petersburg, Virginia; camp life, promotions; discussion of war politics and commanding officers, especially Philip Henry Sheridan and William Tecumseh Sherman; and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The collection also contains a letter to Robert H. Williams from his father regarding the Pike's Peak gold rush, a letter to him from Elizabeth Goff, and a letter from his brother Richard describing Tennessee at the end of the war. James M. Goff's letters to his father and younger brother Oscar in Delavan, Wisconsin describe camp life, the march from Kentucky to Tennessee, and life in Libby prison. There is also one photograph album, loose photographs, ephemera, and newspaper clippings.

mssHM 28864-28884

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Newspaper clippings, ephemera, loose photographs

Manuscripts

mssHM 28864-28884

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Goff-Williams papers

Manuscripts

The letters from Robert H. Williams to his parents and fianc√©e Elizabeth Goff contain detailed accounts of duty at Muddy Branch, Maryland; military operations at Berryville Pike, Winchester, Cedar Creek, and expeditions to Danville and Petersburg, Virginia; camp life, promotions; discussion of war politics and commanding officers, especially Philip Henry Sheridan and William Tecumseh Sherman; and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The collection also contains a letter to Robert H. Williams from his father regarding the Pike's Peak gold rush, a letter to him from Elizabeth Goff, and a letter from his brother Richard describing Tennessee at the end of the war. James M. Goff's letters to his father and younger brother Oscar in Delavan, Wisconsin describe camp life, the march from Kentucky to Tennessee, and life in Libby prison. There is also one photograph album, loose photographs, ephemera, and newspaper clippings.

mssHM 28864-28884

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Richard J. (Richard Jacob) Mohr correspondence to Martha Collier Mohr

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There are 16, some incomplete, letters from Richard J. (Richard Jacob) Mohr to his fiancée Martha (Mattie) Collier, a school teacher. In these letters, Mohr describes his life in the United States Army, pines for home, and dreams about the future with Collier. He writes about camp life in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama, including trips to neighboring towns and encounters with the locals. He also touches on the business of running a field hospital, conversations with his patients, Confederate deserters, and discusses his commanding officers, including Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, Frances Preston Blair, Jr., Peter Joseph Osterhaus, and James B. McPherson. Other topics include military news and political headlines.

mssHM 83600 (1-16)

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Miller family correspondence

Manuscripts

The letters between Francis C. Miller and Agnes F. Voris, from 1861 October to 1865 October, document a budding romance between the two. His letters provide weekly updates on the war news and rumors, give very detailed accounts of the camp life and war experiences, personal feelings, religious reflections, and news about the fate of James C. Voris. The letters contain accounts of the Battle of Fredericksburg and the Gettysburg Campaign. In her letters to "Frank," Agnes describes her Presbyterian congregation, rather intense politicking in the community, and discusses war news, including General Robert E. Lee's invasion. There are two four-month gaps in the correspondence, from January to April of 1863 and 1864. The letters of James C. Voris, to his family, from 1854 to 1862, describe his time at school before the war, the minutia of camp life, his stay at the Mansion House Hospital in Alexandria, Virginia, and accounts of the military operations, especially the Battles of the South Mountain and Antietam. There is also some post-war family correspondence, including letters by the Millers to their daughter Kittie, from 1888 to 1900.

mssHM 68602-68684

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Cornelius Gooding Harrison letter to Lucinda Harrison

Manuscripts

In his letter home, Harrison describes his journey from St. Louis to Independence, Missouri. The letter focuses on descriptions of the area and of the conditions of camp life and their effect on Harrison.

mssHM 69818

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