Visual Materials
Joel B. Clough Collection of United States Military Railroad Photographs / (bulk approximately 1863-approximately 1864)
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Joel B. Clough letters
Manuscripts
Letters from Joel B. Clough to his wife written between January 1863 and February 1864. The letters discuss operations of the Construction Corps in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania; Adna Anderson, Herman Haupt, and other staff of the Military Railroads and Construction Corps; Aquia Creek, Potomac Creek, Fredericksburg, and Alexandria camps, battles and skirmishes, including Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Bristoe Campaigns, Joseph Hooker, George G. Meade, and other commanding officers of the Army of the Potomac; political news, especially the Democratic Party. Clough also mentions the visit of Lincoln, Halleck, and Stanton to Aquia Creek on April 18, 1863. Also included is a copy of a photograph of J.B. Clough taken in the 1870s, and ephemera.
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The Members of the Construction Corps, U.S. Miltary R. Rds. of Va., desiring to express the High Appreciation in which they hold their Commanding Officer, not only as regards his efficiency in the Public Service, but also as the possessor of those private virtues, which by their modest worth are the crowing glory of true manhood, unite in presenting this Testimonial with its accompanying gift of Six hundred and Twenty Five Dollars as a Token of their regard and Esteem, to Joel B. Clough, with their kindest wishes for his present and future prosperity, his long continued usefulness in his profession, and the full enjoyment of all the blessings life has to bestow both temporal and eternal
Visual Materials
Testimonial to Joel B. Clough from the members of the Construction Corps, U.S. Military Rail Roads of Virginia. Pen-and-ink on board with hand colored lettering,illustrated with several Civil War scenes drawn by artist William M. Merrick.
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Letters
Manuscripts
Letters from J. B. Clough to his wife written between January 1863 and February 1864. The letters discuss operations of the Construction Corps in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania; Adna Anderson, Herman Haupt, and other staff of the Military Railroads and Construction Corps; Aquia Creek, Potomac Creek, Fredericksburg, and Alexandria camps, battles and skirmishes, including Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Bristoe Campaigns, Joseph Hooker, George G. Meade, and other commanding officers of the Army of the Potomac; political news, especially the Democratic Party, etc. Clough also mentions the visit of Lincoln, Halleck, and Stanton to Aquia Creek on April 18, 1863. Also included is a copy of the photograph of J.B. Clough taken in the 1870s, and ephemera.
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Military map showing the marches of the United States forces under command of Maj. Genl. W. T. Sherman ... during the years 1863, 1864, 1865
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Detailed map of Southeastern United States, showing fortifications, movement on Atlanta, pursuit of Hood, and lines of march of the 4th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th and 20th Army Corps, of the ...
194224 v. 3 no. 13
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Jeb Stuart military papers, (bulk 1862-1863)
Manuscripts
A collection of 267 items from 1855 to 1864, which contains communications, letters, reports, general and special orders, petitions, addresses to the troops, and other military records accumulated by Stuart during his Civil War service; the bulk of the papers covers 1862 and 1863. Correspondents include Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Joseph Eggleston Johnston, James Longstreet, and others. Also included in the collection are a few pre-war documents.
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Francis B. Harris papers, (bulk 1862-1864)
Manuscripts
The small collection contains diaries, letters, documents, and a cabinet photograph of Francis B. and Margaret Harris, taken in Long Beach before 1908. Harris's diaries and letters, mostly to his wife, Margaret, cover the entire period of his military service in Maryland and Virginia, including accounts of the battles of Chancellorsville, Bristoe Station, Mine Run Campaign, and the 1864 Overland Virginia campaign, as well as his extended stay at Lincoln Hospital in Washington, D.C., in the summer of 1863. The documents include Harris's military and pension records, a certificate of the Grand Army of the Republic, and a list of soldiers in Upper Pittsgrove, New Jersey, written by Harris in June 1866. Accompanying the collection are some transcripts of parts of the collection, and related material, done by a national park service employee that had access to the original material.
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