Manuscripts

The column from California

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Description: Book length manuscript detailing the military campaigns of the California Column regiment in New Mexico during the Civil War. Also includes 21 illustrations in separate folder, a publication submission letter from Clarence C. Clendenen to the Editor of the University of Southern California Press, and a letter from Robert A. Clark to Doyce Nunis discussing manuscript.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1972.
Call number: mssHM 72370-72373
Creator: Clendenen, Clarence C(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Doyce B. Nunis, October 2005.

Clendenen Family Papers

Manuscripts

Clenenden family correspondence and the 1859 pocket diary kept by Clemens L. Clendenen cover Clendenen family affairs, farming, and property, including and a rift between Hyman Clendenen and his father over the land in Iowa and a homestead grant. The Civil War letters from Clemens L. Clenden to his wife Louisa Shinn Clendenen posted from Parkersburg, Clarksburg and New Creek, West Virginia. (Aug. Sept. - 1864) and a letter from Andersonville prison deal with camp life and comprise some discussion of war politics, Vallandigham and Copperheads. This portion of the collection also includes letters to Louisa from John V. Clendenen, and members of the 4th W. Virginia Cavalry about her husband's fate. Letters from William Lambden Clendenen to his fiance Mary Cowan (1887-1888) (32 pieces) describe his life in Ashland, Kansas, as a farmer and laborer. Correspondence between Colonel Clarence Clemens Clendenen and Confederate Historical Society (London) (1969-1972, 18 pieces) deal with history of the Civil War, especially in the West and border states, and discuss affairs of the Confederate Historical Society. Correspondents include Michael A. Rich, Robert Fowler, and Kenneth M. Broughton.

mssClendenen family

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William H. Taft, Washington, D.C., telegram to Jacob Chandler Harper, Cincinnati, Ohio :

Manuscripts

Taft instructs Harper to not publish his letter regarding the referendum. Folder also includes addressed envelope to Harper and a printed copy of a joint resolution proposing the submission of amendments to the Constitution of Ohio for direct legislation.

mssHM 41538

Ichnographical plan of Albany [cartographic material] : design to stay within the old boundaries an [sic] to trace a line about it with several dispersed redouts

Manuscripts

Manuscript plan of the fort and defenses at Albany, New York. An inset shows a profile of the trenches. Ground elevations are depicted pictorially with contours and shading. Design done by G.C. Wetterstrom, of the Royal American Regiment.

mssHM 15439

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Letters signed by and related to John W. Schriber

Manuscripts

Three of the letters (Aug. 11, 1849, Nov. 30, 1849, and Sept. 13, 1850) are from John W. Schriber to his wife, Eliza L. Rogers Schriber. They discuss his ocean voyage to California, his efforts in the gold mines, and the economic conditions of Northern California. Another letter by Schriber, written from Panama (Aug. 11, 1849) is addressed to John Clendenen in New York. The fifth letter (Feb. 26, 1851), from James Perry to Eliza L. Rogers Schriber, discusses the circumstances regarding John W. Schriber's death and the state of Schriber's affairs

mssHM 60700-60704

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United States Senators from California

Manuscripts

This manuscript is a list of twenty-two senators from California. Each entry includes political party affiliation and previously held position.

mssHM 299

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David Wood letter to William J. Hiles

Manuscripts

An autograph, signed letter from David Wood, a member of the West Virginia 1st Cavalry Regiment; he is writing to a former member of the regiment, William J. Hiles. The letter is written from Camp Russell, Virginia, and contains news of many fellow soldiers in the regiment, some of whom have had horses shot out from under them or had been wounded in various battles; Wood also mentions some who have been ill and left the Army or have deserted. The letter is beginning to tear along the folds and there is an old repair along the top of the letter. Enclosed with the letter is the back only of a pictorial envelope.

mssHM 84102

The column from California

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