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Delos W. Lake papers
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Ann Lake papers
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A collection of 53 items which consists of letters and documents related to Ann Lake and her family. Many of the letters discuss family life in Pennsylvania and Ohio as well as various family members. There are also some letters about the Civil War (including one by John Shaw Billings) and one letter each from Benjamin Franklin Shumard and George G. Shumard regarding explorations in the West. Other correspondents in the collection include Dr. Jacob Newton Brown and Ann Lake's second husband, Andrew Leech.
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Stuart N. Lake Papers
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The collection contains correspondence, film and television scripts, articles, and photographs related to the writings and interests of Stuart Lake. The letters make up the largest part of the collection (13 boxes), and correspondents include Wyatt Earp, Josephine Earp, Eugene Manlove Rhodes, Eugene Cunningham, John Philip Clum and J. Frank Dobie. There is also a significant amount of correspondence between Lake and the Houghton Mifflin Company. The subject matter includes western personalities, motion pictures, and western places such as Tombstone, AZ, and Dodge City, KS. The collection contains a large amount of source material for the film, Wells Fargo (1937).
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Delos Van Deusen correspondence
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The collection consists of correspondence discussing Van Deusen's life as a soldier and his personal affairs. He mentions the siege of Vicksburg, the Atlanta Campaign, and troop movements.
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Delos Van Deusen correspondence
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The collection consists of correspondence discussing Van Deusen's life as a soldier and his personal affairs. He mentions the siege of Vicksburg, the Atlanta Campaign, and troop movements.
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Joseph W. Collingwood papers
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Letters, chiefly dating from 1861 to 1862, from Joseph W. Collingwood to his wife Rebecca. Most letters were written over two or three days. The detailed and candid letters cover various aspects of the campaigns and battles Peninsular Campaign (March-July, 1862): the siege of Yorktown, battle of Hanover Court House, Seven Days Battles (June 25-July 1), operations around White House Landing (June 26-July 2); 2nd Battle of Bull Run, Antietam, Sheperdstown Ford, and the Fredericksburg Campaign. His letters provide detailed accounts of camp life of a Civil War soldier payments, uniforms, rations, foraging and procurement, diseases, firearms, drills and inspections, picket duty; roads, recreations, hospitals, and medical care. Collingwood also at length discussed lady nurses and surgeons; Confederate prisoners; socializing with Confederate soldiers; encounters with Confederates and Unionists of Virginia and Maryland, and recounted news from other regiments, especially 29th and 32nd Massachusetts.Collingwood, an avid admirer of George B. McClellan, filled his letters with discussion of commanders McClellan, Martindale, Barnes, Porter, Pope, and others, together with quite emotional reaction to the dismissal of McClellan and Porter, as well as news of the officers of Massachusetts regiments, including the scandalous, reputation of Ebenezer W. Peirce of 29th Mass. Of special importance is his take on political news and home front: abolitionism, congressional elections of 1862, charity works and recruitment in Massachusetts.The collection also includes records (general, brigade, division, regiment and company orders, rolls, and correspondence) of Company B, 3rd Regiment of Light Infantry of Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. Most letters and orders are addressed to Sylvanus H. Churchill.The collection contains letters from Rebecca Collingwood to Ann C. Wheeler, her Boston friend, and a few items documenting Mrs. Collingwood's teaching in the Boston Female Asylum, correspondence of Eleanor Wyman Collingwood with her friends and family, including her letters written from Cordoba, Argentina, and Hampton Institute.Ephemera consist of photographs of the Civil War era by Matthew Brady and R.W. Addis, including snapshots of various members of the 18th Massachusetts, family pictures, miscellaneous printed orders relating to Company B of 3rd Regiment of Massachusetts Militia, an issue of New England Washingtonian. Organ of Sons of Temperance (Boston, Mass.), copies of the Old Colony Memorial (Plymouth, Mass.), newspaper clippings, Masonic documents of Charles B. Collingwood, and miscellaneous post cards and envelopes of the Civil War era.
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Montgomery Slaughter papers, (bulk 1862-1863)
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Letters and communications from Rufus King, Edwin Vose Sumner, and other Union military authorities received by Montgomery Slaughter during the Union occupation of Fredericksburg in Apr. - Dec. 1862 and letters about contributions made by various communities of the Confederate States to the citizens of Fredericksburg in Jan. - Mar. 1863.
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