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Items related Mack J. Leaming [Decimalized .01-.06]

Includes Leaming's typed manuscript signed describing the Battle of Fort Pillow, family photographs, and the House of Representatives report on Fort Pillow.

GLC05080

[Unpublished manuscript relating events of the Battle of Fort Pillow, Tennessee]

Colonel Leaming, former Adjutant of the 13th Tennessee Cavalry, reports the graphic details of the 12 April 1864 Battle of Fort Pillow. Describes Fort Pillow as "the stormy days, when, added to the ordinary intensity of civil strife, the masters for...

GLC05080.01

[Port Hudson, Provost Marshall's Quarters]

A print of a photograph taken in Port Hudson, Louisiana in 1863. It portrays a cabin with black women laborers gathered in front and black soldiers lined up on the side. Pencil description written on back notes that Provost Marshall Captain Schenk [...

GLC05111.01.0014

Sleigh-ride at Port Hudson, La. Friday Jan. 8, 1864

A print of a photograph taken on January 8th, 1864, in Port Hudson, LA. Colonel Cyrus Hamlin [later made Brig. Gen]--son of Vice President Hannibal Hamlin--sits in the small one-horse sleigh at left. Behind him are officers of the 80th U.S. Colored...

GLC05111.01.0015

A Camp Meeting With a Purpose

A print of a photograph taken near Corinth, Kentucky in October 1862. Image shows a large assemblage of troops stretching across the entire photograph. A few soldiers sit in the shade under trees next to horses in the foreground, apart from the...

GLC05111.01.0019

Headquarters of Capt E E Camp at city

A print of a photograph of a gathering of people outisde a large two-storey building. Sign on building reads: "E.E. Camp. Capt. & A.Q.M. USA." Elisha Ely Camp was the Assistant Quartermaster of the United States Army, having been promoted to that...

GLC05111.01.0078

Camp 20th Miss (Col) Regt [illegible] Vicksburg below the City 1863

A print of a photograph of a camp of Confederate soldiers near Vicksburg, MS. Title taken from inscription on recto. Stamp of "French & Co., photographers, Vicksburg, Miss." Soldiers visible throughout camp, some in small formations, others standing...

GLC05111.01.0096

Barracks 52nd USCI

An albumen print of a small encampment of union soldiers. Title from inscription below photorgraph. The 52nd United States Colored Infantry Regiment was garrisoned at Vicksburg after the battle. Row of four wooden barracks visible with tents in front...

GLC05111.01.0097

"What do I want, John Henry?"

A photographic print of three Union officers and two civilians in front of two large tents. Title from Gardner's Sketchbook No. 27 which reproduces this image with a text concerning "John Henry" [a former slave noted for his intelligence] and...

GLC05111.01.0101

[Culpeper, Va. Officers of the U.S. Horse Artillery Brigade commanded by Capt. James M. Robertson]

A print of a photograph of the twenty-one officers of the U.S. Horse Artillery Brigade commanded by Capt. James M. Robertson [seated at center, holding sword]. One officer holds a small guitar and another holds a banjo. A black servant is pouring...

GLC05111.01.0116