Manuscripts
Charles G. Halpine papers
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Augustus G. Holloway papers
Manuscripts
The collection contains the Civil War letters from Augustus G. Holloway to his wife, with a few requisitions, reports, and other military documents. It also contains a small number of family letters, including a letter from Holloway's sister describing the reaction to secession in Paris, Texas, a notebook with recipes and home remedies, miscellaneous tax receipts, bills, invoices, and land deeds. Also included is a letter written on September 21, 1862, by an Ohio soldier, a relative of Dr. Holloway's, describing the 2nd Bull Run campaign and discussing war politics.
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Augustus G. Holloway papers
Manuscripts
The collection contains the Civil War letters from Augustus G. Holloway to his wife, with a few requisitions, reports, and other military documents. It also contains a small number of family letters, including a letter from Holloway's sister describing the reaction to secession in Paris, Texas, a notebook with recipes and home remedies, miscellaneous tax receipts, bills, invoices, and land deeds. Also included is a letter written on September 21, 1862, by an Ohio soldier, a relative of Dr. Holloway's, describing the 2nd Bull Run campaign and discussing war politics.
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Halpine, Charles Graham to Hiram Barney
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Hiram Barney's political, business, legal, and family papers concern a wide variety of subjects including real estate, primarily in Iowa, and New York; court cases (often pertaining to debt collection) and other legal services; politics generally, but especially patronage distribution; family affairs, business transactions concerning the Erie and other canals; small railroads (largely in the Lake Plains region); Mexico and Mexican-American relations; the Civil War; U.S. Customs Service. Barney's correspondence contains numerous references to the anti-enslavement movement in the North, the Civil War, Republican Party politics, and Barney's friendship with Abraham Lincoln. Also found throughout this portion of the collection are transportation papers dealing with Barney's interest in connection with the opening up of waterways, the railroad, and the telegraph from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River. Among the correspondents are William C. Bryant, William A. Butler, Salmon P. Chase, Charles P. Clinch, Erastus Corning, Edward C. Delavan, William P. Fessenden, John Jay, David W. Kilbourne, Eugene Kozlay, Abraham Lincoln, Edward L. Pierce, Matias Romero, Horatio Seymour, William T. Sherman, Edward D. Smith, Breese J. Stevens, Lewis Tappan, William D. Waterman. Real estate papers concern mostly the Half-Breed Tract between the Mississippi and Des Moines rivers. Which includes signed documents of land indentures by specific Indigenous tribal members of the Sak and Fox (Meskwaki) Nation with papers pertaining to the first Anglo proprietors and settlers. Related to Barney's real estate documents are Francis Scott Key's papers. Legal papers extend from 1825 to 1888 and includes articles of partnership, court cases, powers of attorney, and notes for collection. New York Custom House papers cover the general operations, patronage, and personnel of the Custom House, as well as records of the fraud investigations conducted by the U.S. Treasury Department.
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Nelson G. Huson papers
Manuscripts
Letters from Nelson G. Huson to his parents George T. and Maria Gabriel Huson reflect the experience of a Union soldier, including military operations, rations, religious meetings, civilians, Negroes, attempts to get a discharge, hospital work and medical care, and Huson's opinions of the war.
mssHM 29105-29164
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Augustus G. Richardson papers
Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters and one document related to the business affairs of the California Stage Company, with references to James E. Birch, James Haworth, Isaiah C. Woods, and others; the Butterfield Overland Mail, the Pony Express; California state and national politics, including secession, and local news. The letters are written by Augustus G. Richardson, and although most of them are addressed to Frank Shaw Stevens, there are also letters to Alfred A. Cohen, Frederick A. Cohen, James Haworth, and Julia A. Birch Stevens.
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