Wood, Matthew, fl. 1862-1865 [Collection of Matthew Wood, C company, 9th regiment, Ohio, Infantry] [Decimalized .01-.52]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02176 Author/Creator: Wood, Matthew, fl. 1862-1865 Place Written: Various Places Type: Header Record Date: 1862-1930 Pagination: 52 items Order a Copy
This collection consists primarily of Civil War correspondence from Matthew Wood, 9th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, to his wife Sarah Wood. Matthew Wood served in the Ohio Ninth Cavalry with Burnside's army in Tennessee, and William T. Sherman's army during the burning of Atlanta and capture of Savannah. His correspondence originates chiefly from areas in Tennessee during the period of November 1863-May 1864 (#9-17), and additional letters indicate a brief return to Tennessee from September-October 1864 (#20-23). Wood's remaining correspondence is dated from Camp Dennison, Ohio (#3-6), London, Kentucky (#7), Stanford, Kentucky (#8), Morrisville, Alabama (#18), Atlanta, Georgia (#19), Savannah, Georgia (#24-25), Mt. Olive, North Carolina (#26), and Concord, North Carolina (#27). The collection also includes six photographs of Wood and several other members of his family (#46-51); one letter from Sarah Wood to her husband (#2); a small amount of postwar correspondence and papers, much of which concern genealogical research and family matters; and an empty leather pocketbook belonging to Matthew Wood's father, Isaac Wood (b. 1787). Arranged chronologically.
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