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Military papers
Manuscripts
A collection of 1,100 items from 1838 to 1911, it consists of documents, letters, manuscripts, receipts, orders, muster rolls, and a diary. The collection includes documents detailing general and special field battles such as Buena Vista and Murfreesboro; returns; final statements of deceased soldiers; personnel records; circulars; duty rosters; requistions; and receipts for supplies. The collection includes a diary of Scribner's activities written during the Mexican War from 1846 to 1847 with some pages which were edited by another hand for publication. There are also a few documents relating to Scribner's Treasury work such as indentures and tobacco stamp reports. The collection also contains an 1838 childhood composition book of essays; letters written to Scribner's family; personal and business papers. Correspondents include: Absalom Baird, Don Carlos Buell, William Passmore Carlin, Speed S. Fry, James A. Garfield, Robert S. Granger, Ulysses S. Grant, Milo S. Hascall, Richard W. Johnson, John H. King, Alexander McDowell McCook, O.M. Mitchell, J.S. Negley, William S. Rosecrans, L.H. Rousseau, William T. Sherman, William S. Smith, J.C. Starkweather, and Thomas J. Wood.
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Military papers
Manuscripts
A collection of 1,100 items from 1838 to 1911, it consists of documents, letters, manuscripts, receipts, orders, muster rolls, and a diary. The collection includes documents detailing general and special field battles such as Buena Vista and Murfreesboro; returns; final statements of deceased soldiers; personnel records; circulars; duty rosters; requistions; and receipts for supplies. The collection includes a diary of Scribner's activities written during the Mexican War from 1846 to 1847 with some pages which were edited by another hand for publication. There are also a few documents relating to Scribner's Treasury work such as indentures and tobacco stamp reports. The collection also contains an 1838 childhood composition book of essays; letters written to Scribner's family; personal and business papers. Correspondents include: Absalom Baird, Don Carlos Buell, William Passmore Carlin, Speed S. Fry, James A. Garfield, Robert S. Granger, Ulysses S. Grant, Milo S. Hascall, Richard W. Johnson, John H. King, Alexander McDowell McCook, O.M. Mitchell, J.S. Negley, William S. Rosecrans, L.H. Rousseau, William T. Sherman, William S. Smith, J.C. Starkweather, and Thomas J. Wood.
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Military papers ; 38th Volunteer Regiment of Indiana Infantry records
Manuscripts
A collection of 1,100 items from 1838 to 1911, it consists of documents, letters, manuscripts, receipts, orders, muster rolls, and a diary. The collection includes documents detailing general and special field battles such as Buena Vista and Murfreesboro; returns; final statements of deceased soldiers; personnel records; circulars; duty rosters; requistions; and receipts for supplies. The collection includes a diary of Scribner's activities written during the Mexican War from 1846 to 1847 with some pages which were edited by another hand for publication. There are also a few documents relating to Scribner's Treasury work such as indentures and tobacco stamp reports. The collection also contains an 1838 childhood composition book of essays; letters written to Scribner's family; personal and business papers. Correspondents include: Absalom Baird, Don Carlos Buell, William Passmore Carlin, Speed S. Fry, James A. Garfield, Robert S. Granger, Ulysses S. Grant, Milo S. Hascall, Richard W. Johnson, John H. King, Alexander McDowell McCook, O.M. Mitchell, J.S. Negley, William S. Rosecrans, L.H. Rousseau, William T. Sherman, William S. Smith, J.C. Starkweather, and Thomas J. Wood.
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Benjamin Franklin Scribner papers
Manuscripts
A collection of 1,100 items from 1838 to 1911, it consists of documents, letters, manuscripts, receipts, orders, muster rolls, and a diary. The collection includes documents detailing general and special field battles such as Buena Vista and Murfreesboro; returns; final statements of deceased soldiers; personnel records; circulars; duty rosters; requisitions; and receipts for supplies. The collection includes a diary of Scribner's activities written during the Mexican War from 1846 to 1847 with some pages which were edited by another hand for publication. There are also a few documents relating to Scribner's Treasury work such as indentures and tobacco stamp reports. The collection also contains an 1838 childhood composition book of essays; letters written to Scribner's family; personal and business papers. Correspondents include: Absalom Baird, Don Carlos Buell, William Passmore Carlin, Speed S. Fry, James A. Garfield, Robert S. Granger, Ulysses S. Grant, Milo S. Hascall, Richard W. Johnson, John H. King, Alexander McDowell McCook, O.M. Mitchell, J.S. Negley, William S. Rosecrans, L.H. Rousseau, William T. Sherman, William S. Smith, J.C. Starkweather, and Thomas J. Wood.
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Personal and business papers, composition book, autograph book, diary
Manuscripts
A collection of 1,100 items from 1838 to 1911, it consists of documents, letters, manuscripts, receipts, orders, muster rolls, and a diary. The collection includes documents detailing general and special field battles such as Buena Vista and Murfreesboro; returns; final statements of deceased soldiers; personnel records; circulars; duty rosters; requistions; and receipts for supplies. The collection includes a diary of Scribner's activities written during the Mexican War from 1846 to 1847 with some pages which were edited by another hand for publication. There are also a few documents relating to Scribner's Treasury work such as indentures and tobacco stamp reports. The collection also contains an 1838 childhood composition book of essays; letters written to Scribner's family; personal and business papers. Correspondents include: Absalom Baird, Don Carlos Buell, William Passmore Carlin, Speed S. Fry, James A. Garfield, Robert S. Granger, Ulysses S. Grant, Milo S. Hascall, Richard W. Johnson, John H. King, Alexander McDowell McCook, O.M. Mitchell, J.S. Negley, William S. Rosecrans, L.H. Rousseau, William T. Sherman, William S. Smith, J.C. Starkweather, and Thomas J. Wood.
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Papers
Manuscripts
The papers include a diary kept by Parish B. Johnson when he was a captain in the U.S. Army during a trip from Drum Barracks, Wilmington, California to Tucson, Arizona, in 1864. There are also 38 pieces of correspondence primarily written within the Johnson family. The authors include Johnson himself, his wife Libbie, their son Smith S. Johnson, Parish's brother Grove L. Johnson, Grove's daughter Josephine and his son Albert M. Johnson as well as Libbie Johnson's aunt and uncle, Mary and Park Waterbury. The subjects covered are limited to family concerns and the newspaper business in Northern California and Washington Territory. The ephemera consists of four items.
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