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Unidentified group of cavalrymen, one officer & thirteen others, holding sabres.

A print of a photograph of Union cavalrymen and their officer. None of the troopers wear any discernible insignia. Officer is at center-left sitting on the only chair present. His jacket displays The elbow of a fourteenth man is visible on the left...

GLC05111.01.0150

[Group of eight Union cavalry officers]

A print of a photograph of Union cavalry officers. Developed from a broken plate, giving it a distinct severed look. Three stand behind five officers sitting. Insignia on caps indicate cavalry branch but the unit number is indistinguishable. Verso...

GLC05111.01.0182

Cavalry Guarding the Viaduct on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road

E. & H. T. Anthony, publisher. Tax stamp cut from verso.

GLC05137.017

As Quartermaster sergeant, standing full-length portrait, legs crossed

Ink inscription on recto "John Lewis QM Sergt 5th Cav Iowa Vol." Graphite inscription on verso "3.00." Photographers imprint on verso: "Johnson & Brother. Fine Art Gallery Corner Fifth and Main Streets, Dubuque, Iowa."

GLC05111.02.1253

Camp scene of the Oneida Cavalry

Image shows 18 log cabins in a row. Graphite inscription on verso "23" "2.00-" "The Oneida Cavalry James River, VA." Photographers imprint on verso: "Published by E. & H. T. Anthony, 501 Broadway, New York. Manufacturers of the best Photographic...

GLC05111.02.1309

[Diaries of Charles T. Widdifield, K company, 12th regiment, Pennsylvania, cavalry]

Autograph manuscripts signed. The 1863 and 1865 diaries (approximately 150 and 122 pages, respectively) contain entries written under printed dates, while the 1864 diary (approximately 71 pages) is in a notebook with days and months written by...

GLC03131.02

[Collection of Hiram C. Wells]

The collection includes his 1863 diary, military papers and personal and legal papers (mostly pre and post-war). Gives good view of life in cavalry with skirmishes, scouts, etc. Regiment took part in siege of Knoxville. Wells was later captured...

GLC03131.15

[Letters of Mitchell Pugh, Byrum Hesh, Thomas Mitchell & Eli Pugh, D company, 50th regiment, Virginia, infantry] [decimalized]

Collection of twenty-nine letters, twenty-two of which are war date, from various individuals: Mitchell Pugh, Byrum B. Hesh (or Bryam D. Hash), Thomas F. Mitchell and Eli Pugh of Co. D, 50th Virginia Regiment; A. Pugh of Co. C, 16th North Carolina...

GLC03135.06

[Collection of A.D. Clifton, C company, 6th regiment, Mississippi, cavalry] [decimalized]

Collection contains 7 letters from Clifton to his wife, Sallie, and family. Also contains one poem which may have been written by Clifton.

GLC03135.09

to the authorities of Rome, Georgia

Forrest, commander of a cavalry brigade in the Army of Tennessee, writes from Headquarters (of an unspecified post), "twenty miles west of Garrison." Informs the authorities of Rome "There is a Federal Force of Fifteen Hundred cavalry marching on...

GLC04940