Samuel D. Webster collection

This collection contains the personal papers belonging to Samuel Derrick Webster, Civil War soldier and Indian Agent, and Joseph Witherspoon Cook, missionary to the Yankton Sioux.

Webster's papers include a Civil War diary detailing his experiences with the 13th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment (1862-1864) and the 39th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment (1864-1865). Also scrapbook, letters, photographs.

Cook's papers include a scrapbook with photographs, letters, documents, clippings, etc., documenting his thirty-two year Episcopal mission to the Yankton Sioux at the Yankton Agency, South Dakota. Also letters, manuscripts and photographs.

There is also a box of genealogical material pertaining to both families.