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to Eliakim P. Scammon

"Just learned that we have driven Rebels away…"

GLC02414.283

[List of forms received from Ethan A. Jenks, Rhode Island deputy tax collector]

written on IRS stationery

GLC02750.307

to Ethan A. Jenks

Hutchinson, district tax collector, assures Jenks that the change in the force (possibly referring to change within the division office) in Providence, Rhode Island, was made at Hutchinson's suggestion. Written on IRS stationery.

GLC02750.308

[Paine & Colwell release all debts owed to them]

Signed and sealed by individuals acknowledging that their debt is released by Paine & Colwell.

GLC02750.315

to Mr. Parson and Bugbee

Marked as a copy. Jenks, assignee for the co-partnership of Paine & Colwell, informs Parson, Bugbee, [& Co.?] that their note of 22 May (not included) was the first information he received regarding their claim against Paine & Colwell.

GLC02750.316

to Ethan A. Jenks

Inquire whether Jenks, assignee of Paine & Colwell, is ready to pay a dividend on the notes Parson Bugbee [& Co.?] hold against the Paine & Colwell.

GLC02750.317

[Acknowledgement of receipt of funds paid by Ethan A. Jenks, assignee of Paine & Colwell]

Signed and sealed by Waldron, Wightman & Co.

GLC02750.318

[Writ of Attachment]

Tourtellot, tax collector, accuses Jordan of failing to fulfill a promise. Atwood signs as sheriff. [Maury?] signs as notary public. Docketed by Jordan and his attorneys.

GLC02750.319

[Writ of Attachment]

Walker accuses Horace Phillips of failing to fulfill a promise. Atwood signs as sheriff. Phillips signs as notary public. Docketed by Phillips and his attorneys.

GLC02750.320

[death announcement of General Robert B. Potter]

The President of the Society of the Burnside Expedition and of the Ninth Army Corps (Hartranft) is called upon to announce the loss of one of its most distinguished members, General Robert B. Potter

GLC02750.321

[indenture of lease]

Incomplete. Asa Tourtellot sells a tract of land to Charles, Mary, and Abby Francis Tourtellot.

GLC02750.322

[indenture of lease]

The Tourtellots, Jenks, Wilder, and Paine lease a tract of land to Mark Tordoff.

GLC02750.324

[Receipt of payment for items auctioned from the Tobey farm]

GLC02750.325

[visiting card of Rev. K. Mrs. Walter Roy Tourtellot]

GLC02750.326

[address card of Captain Benjamin W. Richards]

GLC02750.327

[address card of Major Thomas M. Vincent]

GLC02750.328

[photograph of William Rhodes Wilder]

Inscription on enclosure: "William Rhodes Wilder, April 1861. Age 17 years."

GLC02750.329

[photograph of Frank John Wilder]

GLC02750.330

[photograph of Major Jacob Babbitt]

GLC02750.331

[photograph of Sanondess A. Jenks under a tree on the Tobey farm]

GLC02750.333

[ambrotype of a young woman on glass]

GLC02750.334

[photograph of a woman]

GLC02750.335

[photograph of a horse]

Labeled "my skip."

GLC02750.336

[photograph of a road]

GLC02750.337

[photograph of Sanondess A. Jenks]

GLC02750.338

[photograph of a house]

Labeled "The house of the far famed General Maneul [Paley]"

GLC02750.339

[photograph of sand dunes]

Labeled "Sand dunes some thirty or fifty meters in height and reaching as far as the eye can reach..."

GLC02750.340

[Return of Captain Carr, Company "I," Seventh Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers]

GLC02750.396

[Return of Captain Carr, Company "I," Seventh Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers]

GLC02750.397

[Return of Captain Carr, Company "I," Seventh Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers]

GLC02750.398

[Return of Captain Carr, Company "I," Seventh Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers]

GLC02750.399

[Return of Captain Carr, Company "I," Seventh Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers]

GLC02750.400

[Return of Captain James Remington, Company "H," Seventh Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers]

Jenks signs as Lieutenant

GLC02750.401

[Return of Captain Hunt, Company "I," Seventh Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers]

GLC02750.402

[Return of Captain Hunt, Company "I," Seventh Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers]

GLC02750.403

[Return of Captain James Remington, Company "H," Seventh Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers]

Jenks signs as Lieutenant

GLC02750.404

[Return of Captain James Remington, Company "H," Seventh Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers]]

Jenks signs as Lieutenant

GLC02750.405

[to unknown]

re: letter fragment in which Hartsuff claims that nothing has changed, although a "burial party" has been sent out to bury dead Indians and his own hospital is full of wounded. Claims that General Miles has sent a Peace Party out to the Indians to...

GLC05201.017

to "my darling Florence"

re: Hartsuff reports on the capture of the last of the "hostiles" and the prospect for their delivery to Pine Ridge the next day. Then he turns to the more important business of warning his daughter against the dangers of flattery and vanity - both...

GLC05201.018

to "my darling Florence"

re: Hartsuff apologizes that he was not able to spend more time with his family during their recent vacation and reflects on the prospect of his family "breaking up" as Florence goes off to boarding school. Writen at Camp Baker.

GLC05201.019

to "my darling wife and baby"

re: Hartsuff reports that the war commenced almost without warning. Four companies of Infantry had already struck their tents and gotten ready to leave and another four were under orders to strike their tents when the fight broke upon them....

GLC05201.020

to "my darling wife and baby"

re: Hartsuff tells his wife and daughter about the conditions in his field hospital built from nothing and now housing fifty men comfortably. Claims that most of what is in the newspapers is true, but he can add nothing to the accounts because he...

GLC05201.021

to "my darling little buttercup"

re: Hartsuff opens with the speculation that his address may be "Pine Ridge, &c. &c." forever and goes on to complain about the speed with which the Indians continue to deliberate and negotiate the settlement. He also asserts that peace is the only...

GLC05201.022

to "my darling Florence"

re: Hartsuff's advice to his daughter on the subject of her course of study in the next year. He implores her to take a mathematics course, and strongly advises her to take German, literature and physics so she can enter college in the sophomore...

GLC05201.023

to "my darling Florence"

re: Hartsuff asks Florence when her first and second term classes begin and tells her that he will forward her tuition as soon as possible. He claims that he still has no news about when he might be coming home Written at the Pine Ridge Indian...

GLC05201.024

to "my darling Florence"

re: wrote too fast, hope she understands, concentrate on lessons, advice on math classes, describes large gathering of Indians, wishes she could see. Written at the Pine Ridge Indian Agency

GLC05201.025

to "my darling Florence"

re: misses her. Written at Fort Omaha

GLC05201.026

to "my darling Florence"

re: can't go to church because of a blizzard, so is writing her, local news, importance of education, her holiday plans. Written at Fort Omaha

GLC05201.027

to "my darling"

re: delighted, have told everybody (unknown reason) Written at Fort Omaha

GLC05201.028

to "my darling wife and children"

re: hopes enjoying Italy and Geneva Written at Fort Omaha

GLC05201.029

[to unknown]

re: "The great Indian army under the Command of General George Crook leaves this post today."

GLC05201.030

to unknown

re: "A quiet, lonesome, pleasant Sunday afternoon, the grass is commencing to look green . . . ."

GLC05201.031

to unknown

re: "It just occurs to me that if you enclose this letter in one of your own nice letters to Sister, it will save me some work," [1893/4/8, and the next three undated letters may have been part of a packet of letters sent from Arthur Hartsuff to his...

GLC05201.032

to Florence Hartsuff

re: Florence Hartsuff, 147 Montagne St. Brooklyn, N. Y. , envelope with two cent postage stamp and cancellations for Fort Omaha (March 13), Omaha, NEB (March 13), and Brooklyn, N. Y. (March 15).] Written at Fort Omaha

GLC05201.033

to Estelle Spero

Letter written while Diamond is on guard duty. Discusses differences between the treatment of black and white soldiers. Diamond mentions that he is being trained as a communications and staff man, and what this role will entail. He also outlines...

GLC09120.040

to Estelle Spero

Diamond informs Estelle that the training camp that he is in is the only Chemical Warfare training center in the country Written at Edgewood Arsenal

GLC09120.041

to Estelle Spero

Responds to a series of comments that Estelle had raised in a previous letter. Speaks about a "friend" of Sidney's who has attempted to date Estelle. Also discusses another friend who did not enlist and managed to acquire $2000 somehow. Instructs...

GLC09120.042

to Estelle Spero

Apologizes for brevity of letter, explaining that he has spent the evening with Joe, Percy Hamburger and Julie Zimmerman reminiscing old times.

GLC09120.043

to Estelle Spero

Writes of the implications of having been charged to a chemical weapons company; instead of being shipped as a unit, they will all be assigned to different parts of the service - infantry, field artillery etc. Mentions some of the rules that he has...

GLC09120.044

to Estelle Spero

Writes that he is suffering from the "empty week-end blues". Sidney puts this down to a visit from his parents, which was accompanied by constant references to home and Estelle.

GLC09120.045

to Estelle Spero

Describes the experience of being subjected to a dose of chloracetophenone (tear gas) in order to demonstrate to the soldiers the value of the gas mask. Outlines the rest of the day's schedule - a class in military customs and the History of...

GLC09120.046

to Estelle Spero

Expresses concern that Estelle is losing weight, and reassures her that he has attempted to stay away from anything dangerous and that he has every intention of returning. Registers surprise at the fact that his Southern compatriots had never tasted...

GLC09120.047

to Estelle Spero

Runs through the day's rather hectic schedule, apologizing for the brevity of the letter.

GLC09120.048

to Estelle Spero

Describes a simulated "moving up" maneuver that the company had carried out early in the morning. Sid then goes on to detail the rest of the day's events which included a lecture on meteorology, a session on map-reading and map-making and a session...

GLC09120.049

to Estelle Spero

Brief letter written while waiting for the company to be inspected by the captain. Mentions that he is now a qualified rifleman and pistolman.

GLC09120.050

to Estelle Spero

Apologizes for irregularity with which he has been writing letters recently, explaining that he has had very little sleep lately. Sid then describes an overnight excursion that his company had been taken on

GLC09120.051

to Estelle Spero

Describes an argument that he has had with Carter, a soldier from Tennessee, on the "negro question".

photocopy

GLC09120.052

to Estelle Spero

Letter written while on guard duty. Discusses the possibility of obtaining a night pass. Attempts to convince Stella that she is "political" with regard to the "negro question".

GLC09120.053

to Estelle Spero

Diamond informs Estelle that his is the only group left at the barracks, other than a group of African-American troops left to clear up vacated barracks. Mentions that he has become known as "nigger lover Diamond" by the Southern soldiers, and...

GLC09120.054

to Estelle Spero

Letter written while on guard duty. Diamond describes a formal dance to mark the opening of the camp's new recreation hall that he had attended the night before. He also runs through the couple's financial situation, having been paid that morning....

GLC09120.055

to Estelle Spero

Brief letter mentioning that Sid has been through the obstacle course twice during that day, and that he is waiting to find out whether he is to receive a leave pass or not.

GLC09120.056

to Estelle Spero

Describes an air raid alert and black out that occurred shortly after he came off guard duty

GLC09120.057

to Estelle Spero

Diamond describes the surprising friendship that has blossomed with Carter (the Southern soldier whom had previously expressed extremely racist remarks). Discusses Estelle's forthcoming visit to Edgewood.

GLC09120.058

to Estelle Spero

Diamond describes a trip to the hospital to visit injured members of the company. Outlines what he has done during the day. He also discusses whether or not gas will be necessary in the war effort, stating that in his opinion it will be resorted to...

GLC09120.059

to Estelle Spero

Diamond explains to Estelle about the "housing problem" in the camp, making it difficult to arrange for Estelle to come for a weekend visit. He has been received the suggestion, however, to contact the U.S.O. at Edgewood which could potentially...

GLC09120.060

to Estelle Spero

Diamond explains to Estelle about the "housing problem" in the camp, making it difficult to arrange for Estelle to come for a weekend visit. He has been received the suggestion, however, to contact the U.S.O. at Edgewood which could potentially...

GLC09120.061

to Estelle Spero

Describes a visit to the U.S.O, during which he confirmed with the head of the U.S.O. that there would be a room for Estelle to stay in for the evening of July 18th. Sid warns Estelle, however, that soldiers are being shipped daily so he cannot be...

GLC09120.062

to Estelle Spero

Diamond discusses whether he thinks that there will be a need for chemical warfare in the war effort soon. States that he believes in the ideals of the country. Informs Estelle that he is now responsible for a squad of eight men, and describes what...

GLC09120.063

to Estelle Spero

Diamond describes to Estelle the day that he has spent on the firing range. He also expresses frustration about the rumors circulating concerning when they are to get married.

GLC09120.064

to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes to Estelle about a two-day training trip.

GLC09120.065

to Estelle Spero

Diamond describes the three-hour long guard duty that he was on the previous night. He tells Estelle about the inspection that his company underwent that morning. He also writes that he has struck up a pleasant friendship with Carter (the Southern...

GLC09120.066

to Estelle Spero

Diamond discusses the logistical difficulties attached to finding a room for Estelle should she come to visit. Also speaks of the "disturbing signs of nearing shipments."

GLC09120.067

to Estelle Spero

Informs Estelle that he has an "uncanny premonition" that he is to be shipped before they had arranged to next get together. Pleads with Estelle that, if he is unable to get a pass for the following week, she should come to the training camp...

GLC09120.068

to Estelle Spero

Diamond expresses concern about obtaining a pass. Sidney then describes his day, which has consisted of a review of chemical agents and first aid for casualties, being paid, a review of the 50 and 30 caliber machine gun, completing the obstacle...

GLC09120.069

to Estelle Spero

Diamond outlines the day's course of events, which included watching two films - one on "Booby traps" and one on signal communication, instructing a group on map-reading and map-making,

GLC09120.070

to Estelle Spero

Sidney tells Estelle that he is almost certain that he will be granted a pass for the weekend. He proceeds to outline his day's activities, which included a lecture on the handling, storing and shipping of chemical warfare equipment and ammunition...

GLC09120.071

to Estelle Spero

Sidney explains to Estelle that he will not have much time to write to her as in an attempt to separate the men eligible for officer candidate school, the entire company are being subjected to the same levels of discipline enforced in the training...

GLC09120.072

to Estelle Spero

Diamond describes to Estelle an overnight training trip which had been interrupted by an air raid alert back at Arsenal.

GLC09120.073

to Estelle Spero

Diamond describes a visit to the Toxic Gas Yard where all of the gas tanks are stored prior to shipment. He tells Estelle about "the most exacting inspection" his platoon has ever experienced, and also his firing of the 4.2 mortar.

GLC09120.074

to Estelle Spero

Letter written after a visit from Estelle.

GLC09120.075

to Estelle Spero

Diamond describes his day to Estelle, which has consisted of a lecture concerned with military discipline and courtesy, a session on first aid, a sessopn relating to the identification of American and German aircrafts and a session on drilling.

GLC09120.076

to Eliakim P. Scammon

Dated Mch 18 186

GLC02414.284

to Martin P. Avery

"Citizen Brigham Ward just from Lewisburg gives information . . . that 1800 Rebs cavalry are on the road from Newbern station for Coal River Kanawha that small detachment of Rebel troops are being sent from Lewisburg to huntersville . . . for the...

GLC02414.285

to Captain James L. Botsford

"Rebels killed Saml Richmond Thursday charged him with ferrying deserters over Ricer. My scouts in his neighborhood"

GLC02414.286

to Captain James L. Botsford

Dated April 7 186

GLC02414.287

to Eliakim P. Scammon

Dated Mar 17 186

GLC02414.288

to James L. Botsford

"The scout sent to Sewall last night came in with a negro boy that stayed at Meadow Bluff night before last & no Rebels had been there . . . " Dated Nov 13 186

GLC02414.289

to Eliakim P. Scammon

"All quiet here no news of any enemy . . . " Dated Mch 18 1860

GLC02414.290

to James L. Botsford

"My scouts have returned they were at Peytona no enemy that they could hear of I destroyed & broke up all the ferry boats for five miles each way . . . . " Dated Apl 5 186 Written in Camp Piatt

GLC02414.291

to James L. Botsford

"My scouts have returned they were at Peytona no enemy that they could hear of I destroyed & broke up all the ferry boats for five miles each way . . . . " Dated Mch 29 186 Written in Camp Piatt

GLC02414.292