Manuscripts

John R.P. Martin papers

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Description: Correspondence and papers primarily relating to Martin's service during the U.S. Civil War, including records of the 27th Regiment, Illinois Volunteers.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1862-1867.
Call number: mssHM 32129-32148
Creator: Martin, John R.P(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Charles H. Schimpff, September 1969.
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Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.

Charles Dieterichs letters

Manuscripts

Letters sent from Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina while serving during the U.S. Civil War; some are written on letterhead of the 26th Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers.

mssHM 46337-46346

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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).

mssBowenea

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Deloraine Chapman letters

Manuscripts

Letters written while serving in Company F, 93rd Illinois Regiment during the U.S. Civil War.

mssHM 20539-20558

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Charles F. Manahan papers

Manuscripts

A collection of approximately 320 items from 1898 to 1946, it consists of military records, correspondence, papers, and ephemera of the 34th Infantry Regiment, U.S. Volunteers, active during the Philippine-American War, 1899 to 1902. The correspondence includes that of General Julius Augustus Penn, commander of the regiment. The collection also contains a small group of letters related to World War II.

mssManahan

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Alexander William Conlee papers

Manuscripts

Includes letters from Conlee to his parents while serving in Company K, 96th Regiment Illinois Volunteers in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia, 1862-1864; also letters to Conlee, 1863-1904 and a biographical sketch of Conlee by his granddaughter, Lucille Bell Walker, written in 1941.

mssHM 20892-20907

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Joseph Hanshew papers

Manuscripts

Letters from a soldier written while serving in the 40th Regiment, Army of the Potomac, during the U.S. Civil War. Also present is a biographical sketch of Hanshew written by his granddaughter Margaret Leffel, 1974.

mssHM 40044-40060

John R.P. Martin papers

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