Benjamin W. Topping papers

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  Behind stone wall, Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg, May 4, 1863

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  Stone wall rear of Fredericksburg with rebel dead and their abandoned military gear. Title on mount: "Stone wall" Fredericksburg May 3d 1863. Handwritten in upper left corner: No. 5.

  photCL 301 (59)

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  Montgomery Slaughter papers, (bulk 1862-1863)

  Manuscripts

  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.

  mssHM 37813-37862

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  Brock Collection: Papers of Benjamin H. Smith

  Manuscripts

  Correspondence of Benjamin H. Smith with his friends and family, chiefly letters from his father in Richmond, Va. Also included are Smith's letters describing his duty guarding John Brown, a brief diary covering Sept. - Dec., 1861, scattered regimental records of Co. 3 of the Richmond Howitzers, and the paperwork relating to Smith's wound and his court martial case

  mssBR Box 153 (1)

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  Benjamin Hodge papers

  Manuscripts

  The collection consists of letters, manuscripts (including six volumes of journals), documents, and ephemera related to the family, social, and business life of the Hodges and related families in New York, Minnesota, Ohio, and Michigan. A few early items relate to Benjamin Hodge's father, also named Benjamin, and to the experiences of Hodge as a prisoner of war in the War of 1812.

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  Brock Collection: Papers of Benjamin Harrison, (bulk 1779-1783)

  Manuscripts

  Chiefly letters, dispatches, communications, and petitions received by Benjamin Harrison during his service as speaker of the State House of Delegates and Governor of Virginia. Included are letters of acceptance and resignation from Virginia members of the Continental Congress, communications relating to taxation, raising of troops, procurement for the army, restitutions, bailing of prisoners, and other aspects of Revolutionary war in Virginia. Correspondents include Gabriel Jones, William Fitzhugh, Joseph Jones, Meriwether Smith, Thomas Jefferson, Edward Carrington, Rochambeau, and Patrick Henry.

  mssBR Box 2

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  Joseph W. Collingwood papers

  Manuscripts

  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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