Manuscripts

Delos Van Deusen correspondence

Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1851-1865
Call number: mssVD
Creator: Van Deusen, Delos (1823-1906)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Ann L. Finch, 1937.
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Delos Van Deusen correspondence

Manuscripts

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.

mssVD

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William Henry Harrison, headquarters Camp Meigs, letter to Brigadier General Green Clay :

Manuscripts

Harrison discusses provisions for Fort Meigs during the War of 1812, damage to storehouses and property from the siege, and repairs of tools needed. He also mentions troop discipline and drills, and warns Clay against soldiers' movements beyond the protection of the fort.

mssHM 23006

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Delos W. Lake papers

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Letters from Delos W. Lake to his mother and brother Calvin H. Lake, posted from Dowagiac, Michigan, various camps in Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Georgia, the Carolinas, and Washington, D.C. One letter of September 1863 is written in verse. The collection also contains a letter to Calvin H. Lake from John A. Dunham of Co. G of the 19th Michigan Regiment, muster roll of Co. E of the 19th Regiment, 1863, August, and farewell addresses to the 2nd Brigade by Col. John Coburn and Daniel Huston. Lake's letters discuss military operations, including Battle of Thompsons Station and subsequent imprisonment by Bragg's Cavalry forces, operations at Cassville and Golgotha Church, siege and occupation of Atlanta, occupation of Goldsboro, North Carolina, advance on and occupation of Raleigh, and grand review in Washington, D.C.; commanding officers, including John Coburn, William Starke Rosecrans, and William Tecumseh Sherman; morale of the troops, war news; camp life (drills, payments, firearms, diseases, and hospitals, etc.).

mssLK

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Ulysses S. Grant correspondence

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This collection contains correspondence sent by Ulysses S. Grant, primarily from City Point, Virginia, to Abraham Lincoln, Edwin M. Stanton, Henry W. Halleck, George Gordon Meade, Benjamin F. Butler, Philip Henry Sheridan, William T. Sherman, and others during Civil War operations from May 1864 to April 1865. The correspondence is in the form of signed letters, most in Grant's hand and on army letterhead; the letters were then resent as telegrams, many after being ciphered. Correspondence primarily pertains to Union Army campaigns in Virginia from August 1864 to February 1865. Items sent to Philip Henry Sheridan also discuss campaigns in the Shenandoah Valley and the Confederate battalion of John S. Mosby; items sent to William T. Sherman discuss the capture of Atlanta and Sherman's campaign through Georgia and into South Carolina; several other items mention campaigns in the deep south and western edges of the war. The letters detail Union troop movements, orders and plans; intelligence on Confederate Army and government officials' movements and plans, including reports from deserters and Confederate newspapers; Union supplies, stores, and artillery; the capture of prisoners-of-war and enemy artillery; POW exchanges; soldier enlistments; the state of roads and railroads, especially in Virginia; Union general and officer appointments and dismissals; the recruitment of Black soldiers; and Grant's movements and whereabouts. Correspondence are autograph letters signed and sent by Grant from City Point, Virginia, unless otherwise noted. Most messages are marked "cipher" (see individual Scope & Contents notes for exceptions). The times noted in the date were in Grant's hand in some cases; in others, they appeared to have been added later and may have indicated the time the telegram was sent. Many of the items addressed to Major General Philip Sheridan in Virginia were actually locations in the newly created state of West Virginia.

mssGrant

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Daniel Horn papers

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Letters from Daniel Horn to his wife Geles posted in various places in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Georgia. Also, letters of Horn's comrades and the regimental chaplain informing Geles Horn of the death of her husband. The letters discuss camp life, payments, Horn's concern over his family back in Ohio, war news, the Union commanders, including Ulysses S. Grant, and his fellow Confederate soldiers. He also writes about several military operations including Fort Donelson, the siege of Vicksburg, Morgan's Ohio raid, and operations near Atlanta and Marietta, Georgia.

mssHM 49539-49610

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Ulysses S. Grant, near Vicksburg, letter to Major General Henry W. Halleck :

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Grant reports on initial events and current status of the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi; offers predictions of length of siege. Includes added autograph note by Francis E. Lovejoy.

mssHM 21182

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