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Hooker and staff at Raccoon Mountain [near Lookout Mountain], TN. [November 1863 ca.]

From the Chattanooga Campaign. Shows 12 officers in front of three cabins. Two of the cabins are made of logs, one of which has a canvas roof while the other has a roof made of wooded shingles. The other cabin is made of planks. Hooker stands in...

GLC05111.01.0359

General Meade, and others seated and standing outside of tent, Culpeper, VA. [September 1863]

Meade sits in a chair with a group of officers in front of an open tent. Standing on Meade's right is General French, followed by General G.K. Warren [seated]. To Meade's left are Generals Hunt, Humphreys, and Sedgewick. Pencil note on verso: "329...

GLC05111.01.0363

City Point

Title from inscription on recto. A group of men sit in front of a tent with the no sides. Ships are visible in the distance. Numeric notation in blue crayon or pencil: "152."

GLC05111.01.0390

Capitol Building in Richmond, Virginia.

A view of the Capitol Building in Richmond, from across a park. Soldiers relax on the grounds with stacked arms arranged in rows and errected small cooking fires. Inscription on verso: "View in Capitol Grounds, Richmond." Numeric notation on verso:...

GLC05111.01.0718

Rappahannock Station with railroad tracks, tents, and soldiers.

Inscription on verso: "Rapahannock Station." Numeric notation on back: "6."

GLC05111.01.0738

to John Sullivan

Informs Sullivan that Greene has prepared winter quarters for those of his men commanded by Clinton and Hand. Written in McHenry's hand. Written from "Head Quarters."

GLC01830

[Collection of Orville S. Dewey, 33rd regiment, New York, light artillery] [decimalized]

Nicknamed "Tom" by his family and coming from Buffalo, Dewey served in the army of the Potomac, primarily in Washington at an instructional camp. Many of the letters are addressed to his sister Mary "Mollie" McLean. Dewey stayed in the Army after the...

GLC02161

[Collection of letters written to Fannie Schoonmaker from Patrick Higgins, K company, 56th regiment, New York, infantry] [decimalized]

The collection consists of ten letters written to a young lady named Fannie Schoonmaker, and one letter to an unknown recipient. Nine of the eleven letters, some of which predate the Civil War, are from Patrick Higgins. One letter is from David Reese...

GLC02164

A short journal of the transactions of Capt. Augustus Stanton's company.

Grey-blue paper boards, 12 mo. A delicate and tiny 5 page long record, fully entitled: "A short jornal [sic] of the Transactions of Capt. Agustus Stanton's Company. and their Marchings and Camping in the Service of this Colony." Includes specifics...

GLC02150.02

[Collection of Francis G. Blackman and James A. Blackman, C company, 7th regiment, Rhode Island, infantry] [Decimalized .01-.20]

The collection includes letters of brothers James A. and Francis G. Blackman from Gloucester, Rhode Island. Letters regarding campaigning in Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia, and South Carolina. James A. Blackman served in the Rhode Island 7th Infantry...

GLC02159