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Civil War letters of Ransom Allen Perkins
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Civil War diaries of Harvey Henderson
Manuscripts
Six diaries that Harvey Henderson kept during his Civil War service covering the following periods: 1) 1861, Oct. 5 - 1862, Apr. 30; 2) 1862, May 1 - 1862, Dec. 31; 3) 1863, Jan. 1 - Nov. 30: 4) 1863, Dec. 1 - 1864, May 18; 5) 1864, May 19 - June 30; and 6) 1864, July 1 - 1865, Apr. 2.
mssHM 30481 (1-6)
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Civil War sketches of James L. Colby
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53 drawings made between February 1862 and August 1864 in a small sketch pad that Colby was carrying with him. The sketches depict Burnside's expedition to North Carolina (January - July 1862); St. Helena Island and Seabrook Island; the assault and siege of Fort Wagner (July 1863), St. Augustine, Fla. (September 1863 - February 1864), and two failed 1864 attempts to capture Richmond -- Benjamin F. Butler's Bermuda Hundred Campaign and Winfield Scott Hancock's Deep Bottom campaign.
mssHM 71063
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Isaac Mann letters
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Primarily letters that Isaac Mann wrote to his wife Susan Deaver Mann from Jan. 1 1862 to Aug. 7, 1864. The bulk of the letters were written during the march to Huttonsville, W.Va. (Feb. 1862), expedition ot Lost River, W. Va., (Apr. 1862), pursuit of Stonewall Jackson to Shenandoah Valley (June 1862), defenses of Washington, D.C. (September - December 1862), march to Fredericksburg, Va. (Dec. 10-15 1862), the "Mud March" (Jan. 20-24 1863), Gettysburg Campaign (June 11 - July 24 1863), and the operations against Fort Wagner, Morris Island and Charleston, S.C. The last three letters were written from army hospitals in Covington, Ky. and New Albany, Ind. The intensely personal and somewhat introvert letters are mostly devoted to Mann's love for his wife and family, longing for home, and religious reflections as well as trials and tribulations of camp life. Although he tended to avoid detailed descriptions of war operations and battle scenes, he did mention the "trying scenes" of the 2nd battle of Bull Run and the battle of Gettysburg. Also one letter written to John Deaver, 1862.
mssHM 21882-21909
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Charles Lee Civil War diary
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Diary that Charles Lee kept from January 1 to November 10, 1864. In addition to camp life and multiple vows to lay off whiskey, the diary covers visits to the regiment by Ulysses S. Grant and Joshua Thomas Owen, and gives brief accounts of the battles at Morton's Ford (1864, Feb. 6 - 7), Po River, (May 10, 1864), and the Petersburg campaign, including Jerusalem Plank Road (June 22 - 23), Strawberry Plains (Aug. 14), Ream''s Station (Aug. 25), Weldon Railroad (Aug. 25), and Fort Sedgwick (Oct. 27) and describes Finley hospital which Lee described as "a singular place" with the "Band playing at one End of the Ward outside and the Doctors performing an operation at the other."
mssHM 30476
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Civil War memoirs of John G. Lemmon
Manuscripts
Memoirs of the Civil War service that John G. Lemmon wrote in 1866. The memoirs incorporate Lemmon's field diary that covered the period from his enlistment in August 1862 and his improsonment in August 1864, his letters home, and some of his official documents. The manuscript includes a survey of "Hospitals at Nashville (ff. 17 v-- 18) and two hand-drawn maps: "Sketch of Nashville and its Defences as it appeared in the winter of 1863 & 4. Draws at Store-Room Hospital No. 1 January 1864," (ff. 20-21 v.) and an untitled map of the vicinity of Rome and Kingston, Ga.,
mssHM 553
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George H. Mellish papers
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Letters from George H. Mellish to his parents posted from various places in Virginia and Maryland from 1862 to 1865. Also included are letters from his mother Mary Mellish, from 1864 to 1865. Mellish's letters home contain accounts and discussions of the military operation in the Eastern front from 1862 to 1865, the Battle of Fredericksburg, Burnside's second campaign (Mud March), duty in New York, military operations at Salem Heights, Bristoe, Rappahannock Station, Spotsylvania Court House, North Anna River, Cold Harbor, Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Appomattox campaign, and march to and duty at Danville. He writes about camp life in Virginia, Maryland, and New York, the commanding officers, war news and politics, including McClellan's presidential bid and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. His letters also contain brief discussions about escaped enslaved people and news of a female soldier in the 20th New York Infantry Regiment. Letters of Mary Mellish to her son discuss family matters and news from Woodstock, Vermont.
mssHM 49070-49123