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Lovel Newton Parker papers

Description: A collection of 51 items from 1794 to 1917, it consists of six pocket diaries kept by Lovel Newton Parker during his military service in the American Civil War. The detailed daily entries give accounts of military campaigns, camp life, war and political news. These diaries were incorporated in Parker's memoirs written sometime after the war. The collection contains a fair copy and a typescript of the memoirs. Also included is a group of miscellaneous documents: receipts, bills, deeds, and promissory notes of Lovel Parker and his family, a few family letters and pieces of correspondence pertaining to the veterans' association of the 105th Regiment.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1794-1917
Call number: mssParkerL
Creator: Parker, Lovel Newton

Lovel Newton Parker papers

Manuscripts

A collection of 51 items from 1794 to 1917, it consists of six pocket diaries kept by Lovel Newton Parker during his military service in the American Civil War. The detailed daily entries give accounts of military campaigns, camp life, war and political news. These diaries were incorporated in Parker's memoirs written sometime after the war. The collection contains a fair copy and a typescript of the memoirs. Also included is a group of miscellaneous documents: receipts, bills, deeds, and promissory notes of Lovel Parker and his family, a few family letters and pieces of correspondence pertaining to the veterans' association of the 105th Regiment.

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Mansfield Lovell papers

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A collection of 422 items from 1835 to 1886, it consists of military, personal, and family papers of Mansfield Lovell. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence, dispatches, communications, reports, and other military records accumulated by Lovell during his military career, particularly his command of Department No. 1. Correspondents include Judah P. Benjamin, Johnson K. Duncan, Joseph E. Johnston, and others. Also included are Lovell's letter books, special and general order books, and items relating to Lovell's Court of Inquiry. The collection also includes a group of manuscripts dealing with Lovell's Mexican War experience, including his journals from 1848 to 1849, correspondence, memoranda, and other items. Personal and family papers include letters to Mansfield Lovell from his brother Joseph Lovell written from Yale, Williams College, Poughkeepsie Collegiate School, and elsewhere from 1836 to 1847, Lovell's valedictory address at West Point, notes on travel in Virginia, New York, and Canada from 1842 to 1843, correspondence between Mansfield Lovell and Emily Plympton Lovell from 1862 to 1863, and miscellaneous papers dealing with the family property.

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Isaac Newton Mathews papers

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This collection contains correspondence with Isaac Newton Mathews' parents, siblings, many cousins, aunts, uncles, and his future wife and her family, including friends and relatives who served in other Indiana regiments; correspondents include brother Ezekiel Mathews, sister Elizabeth Price and her husband James K. Price, John Harness Alkire, Elza W. Lister, Lucinda Chenoweth Boyles (1838-1918), and others. The letters discuss the life of an extended family of Indiana farmers; local news; schools; prayer meetings; festival; celebrations, and other diversions (which included visits to photographers); courtship; gossip, etc.; Civil War in Indiana, including local politics and the Copperhead movement; and war news (including an account of execution of Union prisoners of war, encounters with Unionists, Lincoln's assassination, etc.) This collection also includes Mathews' school compositions titled "Washington" and "Slavery," poems composed by him and a copy of the popular ballad "The Song of Creation" (William H. Bozarth, 1818), which was often attributed to Abraham Lincoln.

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Isaac Newton Mathews papers

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