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to his sister

Discusses Peninsular Campaign and Yorktown battle action. Also relates news of conscript law.

GLC02082.14

to his sister

Written in pencil from the "Chickahominy River" on small sheet of paper (appears to have been taken from a pocket diary). Discusses marching 8 days and nights, and military action.

GLC02082.15

to his sister

Written in pencil on blue-lined notepaper. Discusses military action.

GLC02082.16

to his sister

Written in pencil on blue-lined notepaper at Ropers Mills near Richmond, Virginia. Comments on the Battle of Seven Pines.

GLC02082.17

to his sister

Written in pencil from camp near Seven Pines in Virginia. Provides reports on the Seven Days battles.

GLC02082.18

to his sister

Written in pencil. Gives battle reports (he was away), and discusses Stonewall Jackson and stragglers at Antietam.

GLC02082.19

to his sister

Written in pencil. Discusses the Shenandoah Valley and provides more news of Antietam and Stonewall Jackson.

GLC02082.20

to his sister

Discusses a cavalry fight with Stewart's and Fitz Hugh Lee's Cavalry at the Battle of Brandy Station.

GLC02082.30

to Mary

Writes to his sister Mary about the Battle of Chancellorsville. Discusses those wounded and burned to death and mentions that Jackson has been shot.

GLC02082.33

to his sister

Discusses camp news and further battle news.

GLC02082.34

to Mary

Writes to his sister Mary about marching in Maryland. Also mentions the recapture of Winchester, Virginia by Longstreet.

GLC02082.35

to Mary

Describes the retreat through Maryland and Pennsylvania. Mentions the plentiful food. Describes the battle of Gettysburg & retreat. Written in pencil. May be missing conclusion. Author assumed based on letters of similar handwriting and content...

GLC02082.38

to Dorcus and to his sister

Letter on first page to cousin Dorcus, hoping that her sweetheart Robert has fared well in the late battle. Uses a numeric code. Letter of last three pages to his sister. Describes Gettysburg and their retreat: "Hear we have bin for several days...

GLC02082.39

to Sister

Reports good health for himself as well as the majority of the army. Writes briefly about the fight at Gettysburg because Mary had not received any letters from him.

GLC02082.41

to Mary

Describes his leisure time. Reports that they are being sent to Chattanooga. Complains about the complaining men of the South. Describes how Lee treated deserters: he shot them.

GLC02082.42

to Mary

Written on long sheet of blue letter paper and cross-written on page 1. Discusses camp news, battles & skirmishing. Location listed as Camp 5th Alabama Regiment near Brandy Station, Virginia.

GLC02082.44

What They Have to Do Who Stay at Home

Written by Olmsted as General Secretary of the U.S. Sanitary Commission. Touts the good work of the Sanitary Commission, but "What They Have To Do" is get involved. Calls for a better system of donation and distribution of supplies to alleviate the...

GLC08665

to Gideon Welles

Letter written for Dunphy, who lost both his arms during the Battle of Mobile Bay in August 1864, to Secretary of the Navy Welles. Also includes a carte de visite (10.1 x 6.2 cm.) pasted to the letter of Dunphy in his uniform with no arms. Wants to...

GLC08655

to dear Friends

Cobb was a captain in the Union Army and participated in the Battle of Atlanta. Describes the military activities occurring from 22-28 July 1864. Writes that there is more and more fighting everyday but that his division has not yet been closely...

GLC08683

On the battlefield at Gettysburg

A stereocard of the Patriot Publishing Company. Description of the photograph reads "A group of Union dead on the right of the federal lines on the first days' fight, July 1, 1863. These soldiers were killed by one discharge of "cannister" from a...

GLC08685

General advertiser and morning intelligencer. [No. 337 (December 3, 1777)]

Reprints the "whole of the London Gazette Extraordinary," of 2 December 1777 which includes a letter of British General William Howe to Lord George Germain dated 10 October 1777 at Germantown concerning events in the Revolutionary War. Includes a...

GLC08717

to General John Alexander McClernand

Written from Benton Barracks, then on the outskirts of St. Louis. Graham, Lieutenant-Colonel of the 22nd Iowa Infantry Regiment, recalls events that took place 22 May during Union operations against Vicksburg, Mississippi. Relates that he had been...

GLC08458.01

Siege of Vicksburg

Depicts the 13th, 15th, and 17th Corps, Army of the Tennessee, commanded by General Ulysses S. Grant, during the Battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi. The Mississippi River serves as background. Notes that Grant was assisted by Admiral David Dixon...

GLC08458.02

to his mother

Written on board the U.S.S. Mohican near Wilmington, North Carolina. Replies to his mother's letter from 11 December. Discusses the Mohican's participation with Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter's North Atlantic Blockading Squadron at the close of...

GLC08470.01

[Civil War memoirs of Captain Oscar Fox of the 76th New York Volunteers]

Incomplete manuscript of Fox's memoirs. Chronicles his time in the Union Army from when he joined "Balcom's 'six-foot company" in Binghamton, New York in September 1861until the Battle of Cedar Mountain in August 1862. He was wounded later that...

GLC08480