Manuscripts

2nd Brigade communications

Description: One letter talks about free men Jim, Cornelius, and Scott, who worked as scouts; Sickles states that they should get compensated for their work.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1862 February 11-March 31
Call number: mssHooker
Creator: Hooker, Joseph (1814-1879)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Joseph H. Wood, April 1964.
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Communications, 2nd Brigade

Manuscripts

Correspondence, orders, reports, dispatches, reconnaissance reports, and other military documents accumulated by Hooker's headquarters from October 1861 through September 1864. Included are papers relating to the battles of Antietam and Chancellorsville. There are no items for the four months from October 1862 through January 1863.

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Communications

Manuscripts

Letters mention two free African American boys, James Henry Barnes, and Charlie, who worked for the Union Army. Barnes was taken to the hospital as he was burnt from an explosion of a cartridge. One letter is about escaped enslaved people.

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2nd Brigade

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Miscellaneous communications

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Includes statement by escaped enslaved man Dick Wilson; also mention of free boy Marshall Dean.

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Brigade communications

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2nd Brigade communications

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