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George White biography of Samuel Dennis White
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Brief genealogy and biography of Samuel Dennis White. Gives an overview of his heritage, his journey west, and his activities with the Mormon Church while in Utah.
mssHM 72904
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Research materials on California senator Samuel Bell
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Collection of letters, receipts, and notes relating to Oscar Shuck's research on California state senator Samuel Bell, compiled at the request of Bell's son Harmon. Includes a bound volume of notes on Samuel Bell's time in the California state senate as a representative of Alameda and Santa Clara counties (1857-1858) and the California state assembly (1862), as well as his involvement in the founding of the College of California (U.C. Berkeley). Also includes two letters relating to the Presbytery of San Francisco and the Congregational Association of America.
mssHM 74100-74106
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Stephen Mallory White letter to Lawrence F. Bower
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White informs Bower that he currently has no photograph, but one could be had from "Bell, the photographer of this city." On letterhead of the United States Senate. Typed letter, signed by hand. Includes clipping with photograph of White.
mssHM 21327
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Samuel Hipple quartermaster account ledgers
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Five account ledgers kept by Samuel Hipple, recording the civilians employed at the Union military installations at Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The ledgers contain accounts of formerly enslaved persons known as contrabands, Irish and German immigrants, refugees, destitute soldiers' families, civilian scouts, and Secret Service agents. The ledgers also contain accounting-related information including matters of logistics, supply chains, and transportation. Volumes 2 and 5 contain lists of civilians employed at Fort Girardeau's headquarters, stables, hospital, bakery, store, and trading posts in various positions, including clerks, agents, bakers, cooks, nurses, carpenters, wheelwrights, blacksmiths, wagon masters, teamsters, laborers, and contractors. Volume 3 was used to record incoming communications received by Hipple, and includes requests for transportation for troops, provisions for troops, prisoners of war and their guards, and others. Also listed are women and children and other families, refugees, and destitute soldiers' widows. The ledger also included records of purchases of supplies for wagon trains and lists of horses received by Hipple from July 25 to September 22, 1864.
mssHipple
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Diary and miscellaneous accounts of Samuel Cooper
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Fragment of Samuel Cooper's 1775 diary. Brief entries for Apr. 10 - 18 describe Cooper's travels to Milton, Roxbury, Weston, Waltham, and Lexington. A long entry recorded on May 6, 1775, recaps the events that took place since April 10, including the "Troubles in Boston," Cooper's decision to leave the city because of "Menaces & Insults" that he had received, his travel to Weston, the battle of Lexington, and the town meeting in Boston with Thomas Gage on Apr. 30, 1775, and the inhabitants of Boston who "sufferr'd greatly for Want of Supplies... & much more from the Trror & Anxiety."
mssCO 271
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Samuel Marshall diary
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Diary that Samuel Marshall kept from January 1 to August 9 when he decided to "to close this book and forward it on by mail." The detailed entries contain descriptions of battles and other military operations in South Carolina and Virginia, accounts of camp life, the "boys," living conditions, encounters with local famers and freedmen, etc. Included are accounts of the executions of two deserters from the 6th Connecticut Regiment, three soldiers who died trying to pull a plug from an unexploded Confederate shell "to make finger rings," and an incident when of the regiment's officers was detained by local freedmen who had mistaken him for a Confederate spy. The last portion of the diary contains an essay entitled "The Private Soldier;" an account of the operations in Virginia in May of 1864, including the Battle of Drewry's Bluff (May 14-16) and the operations on Bermuda Hundred Line (May 17-30), with lists of casualties and notes on two privates of Co. E who "shamefully left their Co. in the face of the enemy;" some clothing and supplies requitions and other company records. Also included is a detailed list of battles and campaigns in which the regiment fought from the beginning of the war to 1864.
mssHM 68421