Manuscripts
John DuBois Barnes papers
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John A. Abbott papers
Manuscripts
Includes undated typescript "My Army Experience During the Civil War," biographical information, and a diary kept in 1864.
mssHM 30410
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John H. Barnes letters
Manuscripts
One letter is addressed to Miss Townsend, and the other is addressed to Laurence Hutton.
mssHM 11325-11326
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Oscar Fitzalan Long papers
Manuscripts
A collection of approximately 800 items from 1874 to 1941; the collection consists of letters (including 6 letter books), manuscripts, a journal, a diary, scrapbooks, and clippings, related to the life and military career of General Oscar Fitzalan Long. Along with the correspondence, which is mainly from 1898 to 1902, the collection also includes a journal of an expedition from Ft. Keogh under Colonel Miles in 1879, an unpublished manuscript of Long's "History of the Quartermaster Department, U.S. Army," and scrapbooks of life at West Point and the Spanish-American War. Also included are letters and diaries of Long's wife, Amy Requa Long, and letters from Collis Potter Huntington.
mssLong
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Richard E. Barnes letters to George Barnes
Manuscripts
Six letters written by Richard E. Barnes from Diamond Springs, California (about 5 miles south of Placerville), to his brother George Barnes. The letters give an interesting flavor of life in a gold rush community in the late 1850s. Barnes talks about wages, prices, problems with mail and communications, hunting adventures including a friend getting shot accidentally, a friend's bear fight with a grizzly, the vigilance committee, and his longing for people to write him and to go back home. Barnes goes into some detail about the mines and mining in the area and money being earned and lost.
mssHM 82353-82358
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John C. Lockwood papers, (bulk 1920-1925)
Manuscripts
The three volumes of manuscript memoirs cover John Lockwood's life as a gold miner, member of the U.S. 7th cavalry regiment, employee of the Hudson's Bay Company, and stagecoach driver in Utah and California. There are eleven pieces of correspondence, which are between Lockwood and various people regarding military pensions and the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Little Bighorn; the other authors are Elizabeth Custer, Senator Peter Norbeck, and Representative Harold Knutson. The group also includes 23 pieces of ephemera including 58 newspaper clippings about the Battle of Little Bighorn and its anniversary celebration. Subjects covered are: National Indian War Veterans, coaching in the southwest, Comanche the horse, the Crow, Sioux, Cheyenne, and Nez Percé Indians, gold mining in the Black Hills, military veterans, Montana and South Dakota. Persons covered are: George Crook, George Custer, Chief Gall, Chief Joseph, Nelson Miles, Rain in the Face, Marcus Reno, army scout Charley Reynolds, Sitting Bull, Samuel Sturgis, and Alfred Terry
mssHM 65754-65767
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Brock Collection: Papers of John Durbarrow Blair
Manuscripts
Sermons, articles, correspondence, and documents. The correspondence concerns religious and social life in Richmond in the late 1780's - early 1800's and the Blair family affairs. Included are Rev. Blair's letters to Samuel Pleasants, the editor of The Virginia Argus, his Fourth of July Oration (1798), and articles on various subjects, some intended for publication in the Virginia evangelical and literary magazine (1821).
mssBR Boxes 45 & 46