Walter Cass Newberry (1835-1912)
Midwest MS Newberry WC
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Walter Cass Newberry (1835-1912) |
Augur, Christopher Columbus, 1821-1898. Papers, 1780-1911, bulk 1846-1885.
279 items (6 boxes).
United States army officer, 1843-1885. Correspondence, telegrams, printed and ms. reports and orders, maps, letterbooks, and notebook, mainly documenting Augur's post Civil War military commands, but also highlighting his service in the Pacific Northwest and Civil War.
Subjects: Civil War; Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 3008 (formally Ayer MS 42a)
Collection Stack Location: Vault 26 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Augur, Christopher Columbus, 1821-1898. Christopher C. Augur collection of photographs of the western United States, 1847-1881, bulk ca. 1865-1881.
12 boxes (272 photoprints and 3 prints) + 1 stereoscope box.
Following the Civil War U.S. army officer Christopher C. Augur commanded several military departments in the West. Collection includes mounted albumen prints and stereographs of western Indians and scenes, ca. 1865-1881, taken mainly by Alexander Gardner, William H. Jackson, and William S. Soule. Also three large prints of Mexican War military scenes.
Subjects: Civil War; Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: VAULT oversize Ayer Art Augur
Collection Stack Location: Vault 50 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Averell, William Woods. Reminiscences.
Averell graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1855, then served at Jackson Barracks, Missouri for his first Army assignment. After training at the Calvary School for Practice in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, he went to New Mexico from 1857-1859 for field duty. Averell took a leave of absence due to wounds received and remained inactive until the Civil War, during which he was a Union calvary officer achieving the rank of Brevet Brigadier General. He resigned from the Army in May, 1865 and had a successful career as a manufacturer and engineer. Reminiscences deal primarily with Army life in the Southwest.
Subjects: Civil War; Indians and the West
Call Number: Graff 121
Collection Stack Location: Vault 40 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog
Printed guides: A Catalogue of the Graff Collection of Western Americana.
Ayer, Edward Everett, 1841-1927. Papers, 1842-1934, bulk 1880-1934.
4 cubic ft.
Railroad tie manufacturer who donated his collection of materials on America and American Indians to the Newberry Library and served as a Newberry trustee from 1892 to 1911. Ayer's papers include correspondence (some pertaining to Newberry collections), writings, documents, tributes, and photographs and reminiscences of his westward and overseas travels. Ayer was a Sergeant in Company E, 1st Regiment of Cavalry, California Volunteers, and a 2nd Lieutenant in Company I, Regiment of New Mexico volunteers. His papers include military enlistment and discharge papers, and reminiscences regarding his march with the California column and service in New Mexico.
Subjects: Civil War; Indians and the West; Newberry Library
Call Number: Archives 02/15/02
Collection Stack Location: 4a 6 10
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog. Photocopies of catalog cards: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives.
Babcock, Orville Elias, 1835-1884. Papers, 1792-1947, bulk 1865-1884.
8 cubic ft.
Orville E. Babcock, soldier and engineer, served as Ulysses S. Grant's aide-de-camp during the Civil War and as Grant's private secretary during his presidency. Collection includes correspondence, documents, photos, memorabilia, clippings, and maps dealing with Babcock's military service, service to Grant, the Santo Domingo annexation movement, the Whiskey Ring scandal of 1875-6, and the Babcock family.
Subjects: Civil War; Family; Politics and Government
Call Number: Midwest MS Babcock (formerly Ba)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Catalog Cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Photocopies of catalog cards: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Selected authors of letters: Database of Names in Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Badger, Elvira Sheridan. Papers, 1859-ca. 1930, bulk 1859-1878.
1 cubic ft.
Three personal diaries and one diary fragment kept by Elvira Cecelia Sheridan Badger of Kentucky and Illinois, spanning the years 1859 through 1878. Also popular antebellum piano music compiled and bound for Badger before her marriage. Diary entries concern the daily lives of a well-to-do family, including their 1861 move to Chicago, Illinois. Sentiment in Kentucky regarding the approach of the Civil War, relations with and freeing of the family's slaves, and news of the war are also noted.
Subjects: Civil War; Family; Politics and Government; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Badger
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Barrett, Oliver R. (Oliver Roger), 1873-1950. Oliver Barrett-Carl Sandburg papers, ca. 1860-1966.
6 cubic ft.
Correspondence and notes of Oliver R. Barrett, lawyer and collector of Abraham Lincoln material, and poet Carl Sandburg, primarily pertaining to the interest of both men in Abraham Lincoln. Also poems by Sandburg, photographs of Sandburg and Barrett, and a large collection of stereographs (scenes of the American Civil War, world views and many slides of Chicago before and after the fire of 1871), and cabinet and carte de visite portraits.
Subjects: Civil War; Literature; Photographs
Call Number: Midwest MS Barrett-Sandburg (formerlyBar)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Midwest MS information file available.
Beach, John D., b. 1840. Letters, 1862-1865.
11 items
Letters home to his mother from Pvt. Beach of the 55th Illinois Infantry, Company G, describing everyday camp life in Memphis, Tenn., Washington, D.C., and Big Shanty [Kennesaw], Ga.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: VAULT folio Case MS 10036
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Blackburn family. Papers, 1803-1907.
0.1 cubic ft. (2 folders)
Papers of A. B. Blackburn, A. W. Blackburn, W. H. Blackburn of North Carolina, and other family members. Consists of correspondence, journal account book, financial documents, deeds, wills, Civil War documents, and other miscellaneous items.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: Midwest MS 71
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Blatchford family. Papers, 1830-1990.
96 cubic ft.
Extensive collection of letters, photographs, scrapbooks, diaries, writings, and genealogical research materials centering around Chicago lead manufacturer, Newberry Library founding trustee, and Christian social activist Eliphalet Wickes Blatchford, his wife Mary Williams Blatchford, their parents and grandparents, and the families of their children, especially son Paul Blatchford, but also daughter Amy Blatchford Bliss. Families represented most heavily include Blatchford, Williams, Bliss, Lord, Fowler, and Alberts. Among the many gems in this massive and wonderful collection are letters to Mary Williams Blatchford while she attended Yale as a special student (1854-1855), Civil War letters of E. W. Blatchford (Chicago Sanitary Commission) and his uncle Edward Williams (U.S. Christian Commission work at military hospitals), courtship, post-marriage, parent-child, and travel correspondence of succeeding generations, scrapbooks and correspondence re World War I military hospitals in Europe, and correspondence, photographs, reports, and pamphlets regarding the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, and the Middle East.
Subjects: Civil War; Family; Newberry Library; Religion; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Blatchford
Collection Stack Location: 3a 51 8-10; 3a 56 1-5
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Bond, Daniel, 1842-1924. Diary and memoir, 1864-1916.
2 items
1st Minnesota Infantry. Diary, 1864-1865, covering the siege of Petersburg and Bond’s confinement and escape from Andersonville Prison. Also memoir covering period from Apr., 1861, when the 1st Minnesota was formed, describing the routine of camp life and battles including Fredericksburg and Gettysburg.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10001
Collection Stack Location: Vault 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Capron, Edwin R. Letters, 1863-1866.
28 items.
Letters, Jan. 30-Oct. 13, 1865, from Capron, a sergeant major in the 1st Regiment of Nebraska Cavalry, to family in Morrisville, Vermont, from Fort Kearny, Cottonwood Springs, and Nebraska City, Neb., containing descriptions of military life at western posts during 1865, and comments on southern chivalry, draft dodgers, the surrender of Lee and assassination of Lincoln, and the mustering out process. Also a daguerreotype portrait of Capron.
Subjects: Civil War; Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT Graff 579
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 40 2; VAULT 40 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Carruth, E. H. (Edwin H.).
1 item
Wichita Indian agent. Letter, 1862, July 19, to the Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Southern Superintendency, regarding the arrest of Cherokee chief John Ross, who had allied with the Confederacy, during the U.S. Indian Expedition into Confederate-held Indian Territory.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: Ayer MS 138
Collection Stack Location: Vault 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Carter, Robert Goldthwaite, 1845-1936. Henry W. Lawton scrapbook, 1899.
1 v.
Scrapbook made up of autograph letters, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, maps, portraits, etc., all pertaining to Henry W. Lawton, a U.S. Army officer who served in the Civil War, Apache War, Spanish-American War, and the Philippine-American War.
Available on microfilm at the Newberry Library.
Subjects: Civil War; Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT folio Graff 2420
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 40 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Civil War photographs, ca. 1861-ca. 1865.
1 folder (10 items)
Ten carte de visite photographs of Union soldiers, camps, and buildings in Southern locations.
Subjects: Civil War; Photographs
Collection Call Number: Midwest MS 67
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Colby, Carlos W. Papers, 1821-1937, bulk 1861-1865.
1 cubic foot.
Second Corporal, 97th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company G.
Consists of 129 letters home, 1862-1865, from Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida, describing all aspects of daily camp life, covering such topics as accommodations, food, clothing, health, weather, scenery, transportation, and weaponry. The letters also reveal social and racial attitudes, moral and mental states, and patriotic sentiments and contain observations on military leaders (Ulysses S. Grant). Colby includes graphic descriptions of particular battles and skirmishes (Vicksburg, Fort Blakely, and Jackson). There are also 12 Civil War letters of future brother-in-law James Rowe, 1862-1865, who served as an infantryman and hospital steward, reminiscences by Colby, and tintypes of Colby as a soldier.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10014
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Cox-Allen family. Papers, 1862-1865.
1 cubic ft.
Courtship letters between Gideon Winan Allen, a student at Madison, Wisc., and Ann Arbor, Mich., and Annie Cox of Madison. Allen was a Copperhead Democrat; his letters contain a student's views on the war and politics.
Subjects: Civil War; Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Cox-Allen (formerly Cox)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 10
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Midwest MS information file available.
Curtis, Edward W. Letters, 1855-1865, bulk 1863.
0.2 cubic ft.
Letters to Curtis' cousin and aunt written while serving as a private with the 88th Infantry in Nashville, Murfreesboro, and Salem in Tennessee, and Bridgeport in Alabama. The letters discuss the Battle of Murfreesboro and describe a plantation, life as a soldier and camp conditions, and the occupied South. Also a few newspaper clippings discussing the battles near Nashville, hospitals in the area, and the meaning of letters to soldiers.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10016
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Dahlgren, John Adolphus Bernard, 1809-1870. Papers, 1858-1870.
0.1 cubic feet.
Collection contains 46 letters from U.S. naval officer and inventor of ordnance John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren to his sister, Martha Matilda ("Patty") Dahlgren, one letter to his son Ulrich (1842-1864), and a letter to "Mary." The collection also includes one letter from Ulrich to his Aunt Patty, and a letter from F. A. W. Davis to Dahlgren, regarding Dahlgren's nephew Bernard. Printed poem and newspaper clippings relating to Ulrich's death in an attempted raid on Richmond, Virginia are included as well.
Subjects: Civil War; Family; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT Case MS E5.D136
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Dawes, E. C. (Ephraim Cutler), b. 1840. Papers, 1836-1905, bulk 1855-1895.
4 cubic ft.
Letters, diaries, mementos and scrapbooks of Union Army officer (1st lieutenant and adjutant, major, 53rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry) and industrialist Ephraim Cutler Dawes, covering his military service (in Tennessee, Mississippi, and in Sherman's advance against Atlanta, until he was wounded on May 28, 1864. Also documents Dawes' activities in the rail and coal industries. Includes a letter from P. H. Sheridan.
Subjects: Business; Civil War; Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Dawes (formerly Daw)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 10
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Catalog record for copies of diaries and letters, 1861-1863
Catalog record for Diary, 1862-1865
Inventory: Online.
Deal, George, ca. 1825-1964. Papers, 1862-1975, bulk 1862-1864.
0.5 cubic ft.
Fifty-five letters and fragments of letters from George Deal, Ohio Union soldier in the Civil War, to his wife Sarah Cole Deal. Also, photographs of Sarah and George Deal, photocopies of army service records, three Confederate bills, and a few genealogical notes made by Deal's grandson.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10030
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Dickinson, Daniel S. (Daniel Stevens), 1800-1866. Correspondence, 1799-1892.
164 items
Daniel S. Dickinson, lawyer, politician, and orator, served in the New York Senate (1837-1840), as Lieutenant Governor of New York (1842), and in the U. S. Senate (1844-1851). This collection contains 164 letters and documents related mostly to Dickinson's political activities. Correspondents include Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, Dorothea Dix, James Buchanan, James K. Polk, Martin Van Buren, Horace Greeley, and Fernando Wood. Collection also features some letters written to Lydia Knapp Dickinson, Dickinson's wife, after his death. A few documents relating to John Tracy and James Clapp (1785-1854), father of Julia Clapp Newberry, are also included.
Subjects: Civil War; Politics and Government
Call Number: Midwest MS Dickinson
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 11
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Catalog cards for selected items: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Summary and Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Selected authors of letters: Database of Names in Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Midwest MS information file available.
Doegan, C. L. Diary, 1863-1864.
1 item.
Diary of the son of an officer in the 108th Ohio Infantry kept while accompanying his father on campaign. Doegan writes from and describes Camp Dennison, Ohio, Lexington, Ky., a camp near Frankfort, Ky., Frankfort, Ky., Fort Negley near Nashville, Tenn., Nashville, Tenn., and sites in Alabama. He notes the execution of a deserter near Nashville, Confederate bombardments from Lookout Mountain, and the battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. There is also an 1864 record of Doegan’s enlistment in Company H, 173rd Ohio Volunteers, where he served briefly before being discharged at the request of his father.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: Case MS 5069
Collection Stack Location: Vault 35 5
Finding Aids:
Collection level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Dox, Hamilton Bogart, b. 1829. Papers, 1864-1905.
0.1 cubic ft.
Officer, 12th Illinois Cavalry Regiment.
Records of the regiment and of Dox's Civil War service, including muster rolls, vouchers, special orders, discharge papers, and letters, 1864-1865.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10004
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Epstein, Dena. Root & Cady research collection, 1858-19--.
2 cubic ft.
Correspondence, clippings, documents, and card files. From 1858 to 1871 Root & Cady was Chicago's leading music publisher, remembered nationally for publishing the patriotic songs of George Frederick Root, Henry Clay Work, and others during the Civil War. Compiled by music scholar Dena J. Epstein, the material provides information on songs, composers, and competing firms. Also included are publication lists for Boston publishers absorbed by Root & Cady, such as Henry Tolman, Russell & Richardson, and G. P. Reed.
Subjects: Business; Civil War; Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Epstein
Collection Stack Location: 3a 42 2
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Everett family. Papers, 1820-1930, bulk 1850-1890.
9 cubic ft.
The majority of this collection is family correspondence dated between 1850 and 1890. The collection covers several important movements in nineteenth century America, including the revivals of the second Great Awakening, abolition, temperance, women's rights, rights of African-Americans, and moral reform. Printing, education, immigration, and religion are all discussed within the papers. Papers include materials of Robert Everett, the pastor of a Utica, N.Y., Welch Congregationalist church and publisher of a Welsh religious reform magazine that was pro-abolition. Also included are letters and materials of Mary Howell, a graduate of New York Medical College and Hospital for Women, who was involved in the suffrage movement, and Cynthia Everett, a member of the American Missionary Association who taught freedmen in Norfolk, Virginia and Charleston, South Carolina following the Civil War. Includes a letter describing the Chicago Fire of 1871.
Subjects: Civil War; Family; Religion; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Everett
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 13
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Midwest MS information file available.
Feenan, Martin J. Papers, 1864-1920.
25 items.
Papers of a quartermaster sergeant, Company M, 6th Iowa Cavalry, including an account of the Sully campaign against the Indians of the West, 1863-1865.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: VAULT Graff 1302
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 40 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Fleming, John C., b. 1844. Papers, 1862-1906.
0.5 cubic ft.
Private, Chicago Board of Trade Battery, Horse Artillery, Illinois Volunteers.
Papers include letters, 1862-1865, written home to family from Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia, mainly regarding camp life and daily activities.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Fleming (formerly Fl)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 11
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Foss, J.C. Letter.
1 item.
22nd Maine Infantry; Company C, Maine Infantry Coast Guards.
Letter (undated typescript) describing Civil War service.
With McCleary, Robert. Letter.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: Ayer MS 540
Collection Stack Location: Vault 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Foster, William T., fl. 1862-1863. Letters, 1862-1863.
0.1 cubic ft.
Company F, Illinois 84th Volunteer Infantry. Seven letters, dated between Oct. 7, 1862 and Dec. 26, 1863, from Foster to his uncle and possibly his father ("Dear Sir"), describing military life as he moves from Louisville, Kentucky to Camp Silver Springs, Tenn., to the hospital in Quincy, Ill., and back to Whiteside Station, Tenn., 20 miles outside of Chattanooga.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10007
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Gallentine, Charles W. Letters, 1861-1863.
0.1 cubic ft.
Letters home, 1862-1863, by Charles W. Gallentine of the 7th Illinois Cavalry, from Camp Butler, Springfield, Ill., Jacinto and Corinth, Miss., Memphis and LaGrange, Tenn., and Lawrence Co., Ala., regarding camp life, skirmishes, men killed and wounded, Southern guerillas, northern Copperheads and the draft, Southern plantations and slave attitudes, Union and Confederate prisoners, etc.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10008 (formerly Case MS 5070)
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Garretson, William Harrison, 1823-1864. Letter.
1 item.
Private, Company G, 12th West Virginia Infantry.
Letter, ca. 1862-1864, Feb. 10-12, to wife, Elizabeth.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: Case MS 10002
Collection Stack Location: Vault 35 4
Finding Aids:
Collection level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Gaston, Theron R., Reminiscences [manuscript], 1903.
4 items.
Company H, 2nd California Cavalry.
Reminiscences of an army wagoner stationed primarily in Nevada and Utah.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: Ayer MS 3076
Collection Stack Location: Vault 26 1
Finding Aids:
Collection level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Graves, James Taylor. Papers, 1850-1891, bulk 1862-1867.
0.25 cubic ft.
Mainly Civil War (1862-1863) and European trip (1867) letters of James Taylor Graves addressed to his family. Graves' Civil War letters, written from Camp Miller at Greenfield, Mass., en route to Louisiana via New York City, and from various places in Louisiana, discuss camp life, ship transport, the treatment of Negroes, Southern guerrillas, skirmishes with Confederate forces, the siege of Port Hudson, and other topics. Written during a summer tour of London, Paris, Switzerland, Italy, and Germany, Graves' 1867 letters provide a detailed description of his travels to his family at home.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10010 (previously Miscellaneous Small Collections)
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Hamill, Julia R., Scrapbook, 1860-1864.
Scrapbook of material (newspaper clippings and poetry) on the Civil War. Chicago, 1860-1864.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: Case MS F834.376
Collection Stack Location: Vault 35 1
Finding Aids:
Collection level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Harris, James Duncan, 1836-1862. James D. and Joseph W. Harris papers, 1824-1862.
0.2 cubic ft.
Mainly letters written by the brothers to their relatives while serving with the 30th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. Letters of James D. Harris from occupied New Orleans (Apr.-Aug. 1862) document daily military life, battlefield horrors, and northern attitudes toward the South and its citizens. Letters from Joseph Whipple Harris describe life aboard ship in Panama and a visit to Hawaii in 1861. Also James D. Harris' pre-war letters containing descriptions of Chicago, materials documenting Joseph Whipple Harris' death, and miscellaneous family correspondence.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Harris J
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Haynes, John, 1838-1863. Copybooks and notes, 1849-1855.
0.2 cubic ft.
School writing books, handwriting exercises and notes by John Haynes, a student from Townsend, Mass. who served as Corporal in the Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 53rd, Company D, in the Dept. of the Gulf, 19th Army Corps.
Subjects: Civil War; Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: VAULT box Wing MS 81
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 38 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Heap, Gwinn Harris. Letter, 1861.
1 item.
Letter, 1861, June 8, to George F. Eammons regarding a projected naval attack on Pensacola.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: Graff 1836
Collection Stack Location: Vault
Finding Aids:
Printed guides: A Catalogue of the Graff Collection of Western Americana.
Hercher, Ferdinand. Diary, 1861-1862.
1 item.
36th Illinois Infantry, Company C. Diary kept Oct. 12, 1861-Apr. 3, 1862, by a Burlington, Iowa, native, containing descriptions of marches and encampments in Missouri and Arkansas. There are comments on the weather, camp food, clothing, illness and death, friends back home, etc., and a first-hand account of the Battle of Pea Ridge, Mar. 7-8, 1862.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: Case MS 10005
Collection Stack Location: Vault 35 4
Finding Aids:
Collection level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Hillhouse, William. Reminiscences.
Recollections include a section on steamboat service during the Civil War.
Subjects: Civil War; Indians and the West
Call Number: Graff 1889
Collection Stack Location: Vault 40 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Printed guides: A Catalogue of the Graff Collection of Western Americana.
Howe-Barnard family. Papers, 1812-1980, bulk 1848-1950.
27 cubic ft.
Letters, writings, diaries, etc., covering over 150 years of family life in New England, Illinois, and Indiana. The bulk of the material centers around Alice Lucretia Barnard (1829-1908), one of the first woman principals in Chicago schools, Edward Gardiner Howe (1849-1931), a pioneer in incorporating field trips into scientific education classes, and Annie Lyon Howe (1852-1943), a missionary and educator in Japan for over forty years and founder of Christian kindergartens there. Also the Civil War letters of six family members.
Subjects: Civil War; Family; Religion; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Howe-Barnard
Collection Stack Location: 3a 30 10-11
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Midwest MS information file available.
Humphries, Edward C. Papers, 1861-1862.
0.5 cubic ft.
Lieutenant, 2nd Florida Regiment (C.S.A.). Correspondence and telegrams regarding Humphries' July 2, 1862, death in the Seven Days battle near Richmond, Va. Also a letter of Humphries to his wife in Alabama, Dec. 2, 1861, and a family Bible with entries for Humphries and his immediate family.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: Modern MS Humphries
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 1
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Ide, Henry Clay, 1844-1921. Essay.
"Ought the Negroes in this country for the present be excluded from the ballot box?" Hanover, N.H., 1864.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: Case MS J324.43
Collection Stack Location: Vault 35 1
Finding Aids:
Collection level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Jenkins, George William, Diary, 1962-1863.
3rd Massachusetts Regiment. “Report of the 9 Months Campaign Served as a Private Soldier in the Service of the United States commencing Sept. 1, 1962.” Jenkins shipped out of Boston on the Merrimac, Oct. 26, 1862, and landed at New Bern, N.C. He served in North Carolina under Maj. Gen. Forbes and participated in the Battle of Kinston. Includes diagrams of the army camp.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: Case MS F8342.447
Collection Stack Location: Vault 35 1
Finding Aids:
Collection level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Johnson, Charles B. Papers, 1841-1888, bulk 1859-1865.
431 items
C.S.A. quartermasters agent; U.S. and C.S.A. contract provisioner. Papers concern the provisioning of leased district Indians of the Wichita Agency and also the Seminole and Osage tribes in northern Texas, Arkansas, and Indian Territory.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: Ayer MS 449
Collection Stack Location: Vault 25 1
Finding Aids:
Collection level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Kendall, Milo. Papers, 1845-1907.
12 cubic ft.
Vermont native who settled in Princeton, Bureau County, Illinois, in 1846 and practiced law there for over sixty years. Papers include extensive records of Kendall's legal practice, family correspondence, and real estate records. In addition to serving as a record of affairs of law in the town and county, the legal records document Kendall's forty-year relationship with the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad for whom he secured the right-of- way through the county. There is at least one Civil War speech, and there are broadsides, pamphlets and other materials regarding Princeton affairs and local politics.
Subjects: Business; Civil War; Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Kendall
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 8
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Kruse, Charles T. Letters, 1862-1865.
123 items.
Transcripts of letters, 1862-1865, from Kruse, a sergeant in Company G of the 50th Ohio Infantry, to his parents, brother, and sister, revealing the daily hardships of military life, Union troop movements in Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia, and Kruse's impressions of various battles, including the attack on Atlanta.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10003
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Lacey, Curtis P., Diary and ambrotype portrait, [ca. 1860]-1863.
2 items.
Sergeant and private, 23rd Illinois Infantry, Company B. Pocket diary, Dec. 19, 1862 - Dec. 31, 1863, recording Lacey's service with the 55th Illinois at or near Vicksburg and Jackson, Miss., and at the Yuka House hospital and Fort Pickering convalescent camp near Memphis. Also a ca. 1860 ambrotype portrait of Lacey in civilian clothes. Lacey's record of the Vicksburg campaign includes accounts of digging canals, traveling by steamboat, blockade running by the Queen of the West, the Confederate bombardment of a sham blockade runner, the capture of Fort Hindman, Ark., foraging expeditions, the unsuccessful attacks on May 19th and 21st, and digging entrenchments for the final assault. After Vicksburg, Lacey describes his participation in the capture of Jackson, Miss., his hospitalization for malaria at Yuka House, and his convalescence at Fort Pickering. Lacey also notes visits with his father, E.B. Lacey, (35th Iowa) and cousin, Samuel Snow (25th Iowa), the receipt of letters from home, and an encounter with African American troops (2nd Tennessee Colored Infantry).
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10015
Collection Stack Location: Vault 35 4
Finding Aids:
Collection level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Ladies’ Relief Association for Soldiers’ Families (Chicago, Ill.), Records, 1863-1865.
Record book, 1863-1865, includes meeting minutes, a constitution, and a list of officers.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: Case MS F8349.924
Collection Stack Location: Vault 35 1
Finding Aids:
Collection level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Latimer, W. D., Diary, 1865.
1 item.
Diary of W.D. Latimer, of Fayette County, Iowa, containing a daily account of his activities as a Union soldier in Alabama, between May 6 and July 4, 1865. Latimer begins his diary on May 6th while camped in Montgomery, and continues his entries in Selma, after his brigade is transferred downriver on May 10th aboard the boat "Tarasen" [?]. That same day, Latimer records the news of Alabama's surrender to the Union, and the surrender of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, with that of Gen. E. Kirby Smith expected imminently. Latimer is faithful to note the time and weather in each entry, the daily drills, picket duty, roll-call, and reveille; what the soldiers eat for dinner, such as corncakes and molasses; and how they amuse themselves. He also includes the names of correspondents back home from whom he receives letters, such as Mary L. Spears, Mamie Johnston, Miss M.L. Patterson, and Miss E.O. Leech, and descriptions of burials of fellow soldiers, such as those from the 35th Iowa Infantry and the 25th Indiana Volunteer Infantry. In his last entry on July 4th, Latimer is happy that the anniversary of the United States can be celebrated in peace, and concludes with thoughts on the future of the country, and the Negro vote.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: Case MS 10019.
Collection Stack Location: Vault 35 4
Finding Aids:
Collection level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Leonard, Charles S., b. 1835. Papers, 1862-1897.
.25 cubic ft. (1 box)
Civil War military service documents of Charles S. Leonard, together with correspondence and forms relating to Leonard's efforts to correct his service record and obtain military pension and bounty payments. Also genealogical notes, possibly relating to Leonard's attempt to qualify for the Society of Mayflower Descendants, a deed for the sale of 160 acres in Norton County, Kan. and a few newspaper clippings.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10012
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Summary and Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Lutz, Adeline Louise. Lutz-Chamberlin family papers, 1844-1992.
2 cubic ft. (4 boxes and 1 oversize folder)
Correspondence, writings, business and legal documents, photographs, clippings, genealogical materials, and postcard collection of members of the Chamberlin and Lutz families,including George E. Chamberlin's letters written while he was a student at Dartmouth and officer in the Civil War.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Lutz-Chamberlin
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 8
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Marsh, Edgar T., Letter, 1864.
1 item.
Musician, Company F, 19th Michigan Volunteer Infantry. Letter, 1864, May 28, describing the Battle of Resaca, Ga.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: Ayer MS 3130
Collection Stack Location: Vault
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog card: Online Catalog.
Mason, Francema A., 1837-1911. Francema Mason - Otis Mason correspondence, 1863-1876, bulk 1863-1868.
0.2 cubic ft. (1 box)
Nineteen letters from Otis Mason, a sergeant in the Civil War to his Illinois wife, Francema Otis. Twelve letters from various friends and family, and a wedding invitation are also included.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10021
Collection Stack Location: Vault 35 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Materials for history of Vermont regiments in the Civil War.
1 item.
Materials for history of Vermont regiments in civil war, consisting of ms. notes and newspaper clippings.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: Case MS F8349.924
Collection Stack Location: Vault
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog card: Online Catalog.
McCreary, James B. (James Bennett), 1838-1918, Journal, 1862-1864.
1 item.
James Bennett McCreary was a native of Richmond, Kentucky, who was appointed a major in the C.S.A. In July 1863 he was taken prisoner, and the journal ends while he was still incarcerated at Ft. Pulaski on Cockspur Island. The last few pages of the journal are filled with extensive notes concerning a variety of heroic women in history and mythology.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: Vault Case MS 10013
Collection Stack Location: Vault
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog card: Online Catalog.
McDowell, Irvin, 1818-1885.
1 item.
Union general. Letter to U.S. Grant, 1865, Mar. 12, discussing William McKendree Gwin, the navy off California, and military affairs in California and the Southwest.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: Graff 2602
Collection Stack Location: Vault
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog card: Online Catalog.
McKay, Andrew, 1799-1864. Diary, 1862-1864.
1 item.
37th Iowa Infantry. Diary, Nov. 7, 1862-July 1, 1864, of a Washington, Iowa, member of this volunteer regiment of men over 45 years of age, known as the "Gray Beard Regiment". McKay, who was 65, began his entries at Camp Strong in Muscatine, Iowa, discusses the regiment's time guarding military prisons in St. Louis, and records its move in May 1863 out to the Pacific Railway line which they patrolled for two months, as well as assignments at Illinois prisons, in Alton (Aug. 1863- Jan. 1864) and Rock Island (Jan.-June 1864), guarding rebel prisoners. Throughout the diary, the author maintains a severe religious tone, often mentioning the United Presbyterian Church, and describing his fellow soldiers as "ungodly". He also frequently mentions his son George McKay, and his daughters and their husbands: Martha and William Crawford, and Mary and James Barnes, also of Washington, Iowa. Last diary entry is dated July 5, 1864; McKay died in St. Louis shortly thereafter, on July 30, 1864, of disease.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: Case MS 10029
Collection Stack Location: Vault
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog card: Online Catalog.
McLean, Edgar Teamster, d. 1920. Papers, 1859-1868.
0.5 cubic ft.
122nd Illinois Infantry; 2nd and 1st Lieutenant, 2nd Alabama Colored Infantry (later 110th US Colored Infantry). Correspondence, writings, and official military documents of Civil War 1st Lieutenant Edgar McLean, 1859-1868. Includes incoming family correspondence of McLean with his mother, Sarah F. McLean, and other relatives and friends who lived in Jersey and Macoupin counties in Illinois. Also correspondence from McLean's cousin, James S. Jennings, who served with the 137th Indiana Infantry in Tennessee.
Subjects: Civil War; Family; Women
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10024
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Special Collections information file available.
McNally family. Papers, 1788-2001.
27 cubic ft.
Letters, diaries, scrapbooks, photographs, cemetery records, wills, and obituaries of several generations of the family of Andrew McNally I of Chicago, founder of the Rand McNally Co., a publishing firm specializing in cartography. There is much material concerning Andrew McNally I, his Chicago home, and especially his Windermere Ranch in what became La Mirada, California, including the ranch's olive oil plant and McNally's efforts to promote settlement in the area. Also extensive materials relating to Civil War general Emmons Clark (grandfather of Margaret Clark McNally) and the Vilas family, who operated Chicago businesses and had a summer estate in Thousand Islands, New York.
Subjects: Business; Civil War; Family
Call Number: Midwest MS McNally family
Collection Stack Location: 3a 30 2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection Available by appointment only.
McNulty, James Madison, Letter, ca. 1863.
1 item.
Army surgeon, 1st California Infantry.
Letter forwarding to Brig. Gen. W.A. Hammond, U.S. Surgeon General, his lengthy history of the California Column and its 1,000 mile march from California, across Arizona and New Mexico, to the Rio Grande, Apr. 13-Aug. 8, 1862.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: Ayer MS 556
Collection Stack Location: Vault
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog card: Online Catalog.
Newberry, O. P. (Oliver Perry), 1831-1874. Papers, 1860-1895.
0.5 cubic ft. (1 box)
Mainly correspondence of Cameron, Mo., resident Oliver Perry Newberry, 1860-1867, primarily relating to his Civil War service in the Union army (Lieutenant, 13th Missouri Infantry; captain, Company I, 25th Missouri Infantry, Company I; major, 5th Missouri State Militia); and cabinet, carte-de-visite and a few tintype photographs of Newberry family and friends dating primarily from the 1880's.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Newberry
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Newberry, Walter Cass, 1835-1912. Papers, 1840-1908.
2 cubic ft. (9 boxes)
1st lieutenant, captain, Company E, 81st New York Regiment Volunteers, 1861-1863; major, lieutenant colonel, colonel, 24th New York Cavalry, 1864-1865. Correspondence, legal documents, and other documentation relating to the finances of Walter Cass Newberry and Henry Warner Newberry; correspondence, manuscripts, paperwork, and photographs related to the Civil War activities of the 24th New York Cavalry and Walter Cass Newberry's military history. Appendix to papers includes statements of Newberry's military record, and regimental rosters (including lists of those who died in action and of disease), a descriptive book (listing soldiers' names, ages, birthplaces, dates of enlistment, and remarks), and photographs of members of the 24th New York Cavalry.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Newberry WC (formerly Ne)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Newcomb, John Bearss, 1824-1896. Papers, 1737-1896, bulk 1837-1896.
3.5 cubic feet (7 boxes)
Correspondence and personal material of John Bearss Newcomb, Elgin, Illinois schoolmaster and businessman. Also extensive genealogical records of the Newcomb Family, daybooks and miscellaneous legal and business items. Historical items relating to the town of Elgin, Illinois in the 19th century and some Civil War records.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Newcomb
Collection Stack Location: 3a 57 9
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Northwestern Sanitary Commission.
11 items.
Minutes of meetings of the executive committee, Northwestern Sanitary Fair, Chicago, 1865.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: Case MS F8345.156
Collection Stack Location: Vault
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog card: Online Catalog.
Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908, Letter, 1862.
1 item.
Boston editor. Letter, Feb. 28, 1862, written from Georgetown, D.C., by Norton to his mother, Catharine Eliot Norton, discussing the excitement in Washington at the movement of the Union army to the Upper Potomac, his view that the conflict would be long and that the South would be punished by horrible devastation, and his opposition to government control of the railroad, telegraph, and all war news.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: Case MS 10009
Collection Stack Location: Vault
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog card: Online Catalog.
Paisley, Johnson. Papers, 1862-1865.
0.2 cubic ft.
Corporal, 117th Illinois Infantry. Two diaries, two cased ambrotype portraits, regimental travel record, and a miniature book of poetry belonging to Johnson M. Paisley. Pocket diaries, the first dating Aug. 15, 1862-May 13, 1863 and Jan. 1-7, 1864, and the second dating Jan. 1, 1864-Feb. 8, 1865, contain brief daily entries and accounts, copies of good-bye letters from family, and a letter from Paisley, Feb. 8, 1865, regarding sending the completed diary home and his future. The regimental travel account, 1862-1865, records places traveled to and from, the means of travel, total miles, and remarks (engagements, deaths, etc.). Ambrotypes, ca. 1862, include full-length (with rifle) and sitting portraits of Paisley in uniform.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10017
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Special Collections information file available.
Patterson, Henry. Letters, 1862-1863.
22 items.
Letters home, 1862-1863, from brothers Henry and James of Company I, 19th Iowa Infantry, who served in Missouri (St. Louis, Springfield, Rolla) and Arkansas (Cross Hollow). The letters describe camp life, encounters with rebels, marches, foraging in the Arkansas countryside, Arkansas inhabitants, James' December death in the battle of Prairie Grove, and Henry's tenure in the hospital in Springfield. Also copies of muster forms, casualty sheets, and discharge papers, etc.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10025 (formerly Case MS 5071)
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Private Roster Union Soldiers, Ledger book, 1861-1865.
Compiled, ca. 1885-1911, this roster of Civil War soldiers, mostly members of the Grand Army of the Republic living in the Chicago area, lists soldiers’ companies, regiments, states, branches of service, and ranks. Many entries also include current address, GAR post number, occupation, and death date.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: Case MS folio F548.25.P75 (LC)
Collection Stack Location: Vault
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog card: Online Catalog.
Rankin, W.A., Letter, 1863.
Letter, 1863, Aug. 23, to Capt. Mitchell C. Lilley, Company H, 46th Ohio Infantry, describing the aftermath of Quantrell’s Raid on Lawrence, Kansas.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: SC 1349
Collection Stack Location: Vault
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Rapp, Wilhelm, 1828-1907. Papers, 1846-1929.
1 cubic ft.
Correspondence, poetry, photographs, a diary, and clippings of Wilhelm Rapp, German emigre and editor of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung. Rapp was imprisoned in Germany for his involvement in the Revolution of 1848, and also edited German-language newspapers in Cincinnati and Baltimore. The papers, mainly in German, document his anti-secessionist views, including one 1861 letter regarding President Lincoln.
Subjects: Civil War; Journalism
Call Number: Midwest MS Rapp (formerly Ra)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 42 1
Finding Aids:
Article: Newberry Library Bulletin, May 1952 (2nd series, no. 9)
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Raster, Hermann, 1827-1891. Papers, 1849-1940, bulk 1860-1891.
7 cubic ft.
Correspondence, clippings, and drafts of writings of Hermann Raster, editor of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung. A German immigrant "Forty-Eighter," Raster swayed German popular opinion through his anti-slavery, pro-Union, and anti-temperance articles, and held considerable influence over Chicago politics. Correspondence includes many letters in German, but also letters in English from Charles A. Dana, John A. Logan, Elihu Washburne, J.V. Farwell, Francis W. Parker, and Joseph Medill.
Subjects: Civil War; Journalism
Call Number: Midwest MS Raster (formerly Ras)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 42 1
Finding Aids:
Article: Newberry Library Bulletin, Dec. 1945 (no. 3).
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Rea, Robert Laughlin, (1827-1899). Papers, 1857-1860.
0.1 cubic ft.
Surgeon and teacher associated with Chicago Medical College, College of Physicians, and Rush Medical College (where he held the chair of anatomy for sixteen years). Collection contains correspondence, documents, and court proceedings relating to the emancipation of two female slaves, "Emaline" and "Syrena Oldham."
Subjects: Civil War; Women
Call Number: Vault Case MS H 5836.6438
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Read, Eugene B.
Company M, 3rd Illinois Cavalry Volunteers
Diaries, 1864-1865, of an officer whose regiment was stationed near Mayfield and Paducah, Ky., Nashville, Tenn., and Mississippi, and which after the close of the war took part in an expedition in Minnesota and points west. Diaries discuss reports made, scouting expeditions, clothing issues and the cost of clothing, arms and tents, rumors of attacks by Nathan Bedford Forrest, news of battles, regimental travel by steamboat, etc.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: Case MS 10027
Collection Stack Location: Vault 35 3
Finding Aids: Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Realf, Richard, 1834-1878, Letters and Poems, 1864-1865.
0.5 cubic ft. (1 box)
Twenty-two letters of Richard Realf to Laura B. Merritt and her sister Marian Merritt Cramer of Chicago, written while in active service in the Illinois Eighty-eighth Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War, 1864-1865. Also, two poems of Realf's and a poem written by Marian Cramer.
Subjects: Civil War; Literature
Call Number: Case MS 10034
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Rice, Henry. Letters, 1862.
0.1 cubic ft.
Six letters, Sept. 14-Oct. 15, 1862, from Camp Peoria in Peoria, Ill., from Henry Rice of the 103rd Illinois Infantry to family in Lewistown, Ill., describing military life in the camp. Included with the letters is an envelope addressed to "Mrs. Amory Rice, Lewistown, Fulton County, Illinois," illustrated in red and blue with the seal and motto of the United States.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10006
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Russell, John J. Letters, 1861-1864.
0.2 cubic ft.
Twelve letters of John J. Russell of Sterling, Illinois, documenting his service as a sergeant and 2nd lieutenant in Company B of the 13th Illinois Infantry in Missouri, Mississippi, and Alabama. Russell writes to his brother, Charles, and sister, Julia, from Rolla, Franklin, and Heetsville, Mo., Vicksburg, Miss., Cairo, Ill., and Bridgeport and Madison Station, Ala. One letter (Dec. 6, 1861) is written on stationery containing a printed vignette portrait of McClellan.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10020
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Special Collections information file available.
Saeltzer, Charles, b. 1829. Papers, 1846-1865, bulk 1864-1865.
34 items.
Correspondence, certificates, vouchers, orders, muster rolls, and a diary belonging to Charles Saeltzer of Mansfield, Ohio, dated between 1846 and 1865, and documenting his training and certification as a teacher, both in Germany and Ohio, and his service as a member of the 10th Ohio Cavalry Regiment during the Civil War. The bulk of the collection is official appointments, regimental correspondence, general and special orders, muster rolls, and vouchers of the 10th Ohio Cavalry.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: VAULT folio Case MS 10026
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Schlund, Max. Papers, 1862-1865.
0.2 cubic ft.
Hecker Regiment of 82nd Illinois Volunteers.
Diary, in German, containing a very complete account of the 82nd Regiment's action from its inception until the end of the war, including Chancellorsville and other battles. English translation included. Also other materials relating to Schlund and his family.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10011
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Scofield, Hiram, 1830-1906. Papers, 1857-1906.
2 cubic ft. (5 boxes)
Forty-four diaries, 1857-1906, together with a few letters and miscellaneous items, documenting Hiram Scofield's Civil War service as an officer with the 2nd Iowa Infantry and commander of the 47th Colored Infantry Regiment, and his post war personal and professional life as a Washington, Iowa, attorney.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: Ruggles 426
Collection Stack Location: Vault 29 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Special Collections information file available.
Scott family. Papers, 1806-1866.
0.1 cubic ft.
Genealogy of the Scott family, as descended from Sergeant William Scott of Jessamine County, Kentucky. Civil War certificates and discharge papers for Corporal James Scott of Piqua, Ohio. Three letters and three wills regarding family members in Piqua ca. 1840-1860.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: Midwest MS 146
Collection Stack Location: 3a 58 14
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Semmes, Alexander A., d. 1885. Letterbooks, 1862-1869.
0.2 cubic ft. (2 volumes)
Letterbooks containing official correspondence of A. A. Semmes while in command of U.S.S. Wamsutta, Portsmouth and Lehigh, and U.S. gunboat Tahoma in the service of the United States.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: VAULT folio Case MS F 83405.8
Collection Stack Location: Vault 35 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Sherman, Francis Trowbridge, 1825-1905. Papers, 1849-1894.
0.2 cubic ft. (1 box).
Correspondence of Francis Trowbridge Sherman of Chicago, and his traveling companion, Henry A. Ballentine, documenting their travel overland to the California gold fields and experiences there, 1849-1850. Also photocopies of a few of Sherman's (colonel 88th Illinois Infantry) letters regarding the Civil War and his Chicago business, business and family correspondence of father F.C. Sherman, family records, and newspaper clippings.
Subjects: Business; Civil War; Family; Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 5282
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Special Collections information file available.
Sherwood, Jesse, 1843-1912. Papers, 1862-1931.
2 cubic ft. (1 box and 1 oversize box)
Logs and mementos of Jesse Sherwood of Missouri and Chicago, who served as a surgeon's steward during the Civil War on the gunboat USS Somerset. Includes 3 medals, his resignation letter, pension documents and information on the fate of the Somerset. Also, a folio album with photographs of Sherwood and his family, a carte de visite and a daguerreotype.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10037
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 1820-1891, Letter, 1862.
1 item.
Union general. Letter, 1862, Dec. 9, to Ulysses S. Grant commending Col. Grierson as “the best cavalry officer I have yet had.”
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: Graff 3755
Collection Stack Location: Vault
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog card: Online Catalog.
Spencer, Platt R. (Platt Rogers), 1800-1864. Papers, 1822-1915.
28 cubic ft.
Penman, poet, and educator who created the Spencerian system of penmanship, a highly successful endeavor in part because it was taught by his entire family. In his later years, Spencer became active in the abolitionist movement. Papers describe family life and conditions during the Civil War. Also included are the letters of son Lyman T. Spencer, a quartermaster's sergeant in the 2nd Ohio Artillery Regiment, stationed in Munfordville, Kentucky, and Cleveland, Tennessee. Collection includes: letters, reports, reprints, writing samples, clippings, drawings, copybooks, artifacts and photos.
Subjects: Civil War; Family; Printing and Book Arts; Women
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Sp
Collection Stack Location: 3a Link; 3a 53 4-5
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Tallmadge, Lewis C., 1842-1903, Diary, 1863-1864.
2 items.
Company E, 25th Connecticut Infantry, Jan.-Aug., 1863; clerk, quartermasters dept., Washington, D.C., Oct., 1863-Dec., 1864. Diaries containing brief entries from Baton Rouge and New Orleans, where Tallmadge was a clerk in the office of the post quartermaster, mention the siege and capitulation of Port Hudson and Confederate prisoners from there. Longer entries from Washington, D.C., include descriptions of lectures at the Smithsonian and elsewhere, debates in the Senate and House, a White House reception where Tallmadge shook Lincoln’s hand, etc. Also Tallmadge’s personal accounts.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: Case MS 10018
Collection Stack Location: Vault
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog card: Online Catalog.
Treaty between the Confederate States of America and Plains tribes residing near the Wichita Agency, 1861.
1 item.
Treaty of alliance, Aug. 12, 1861, between the Confederate States of America and plains tribes ("Pen-e-tegh-ta Band of the Ne-um or Comanches, and the tribes and bands of the Wichitas, Cado-Ha-da-chos, Hue-cos, Ta-hua-ca-ros, A-na-dagh-cos, Ton-ca-wes, Ai-o-nais, Ki-chais, Shawnees and Delawares") residing near the Wichita Agency on reservation lands leased from the Choctaws and Chickasaws.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: Ayer MS 438
Collection Stack Location: Vault
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog card: Online Catalog.
United States. Army.
0.1 cubic ft.
Letters between U.S. Grant and Robert E. Lee during April 7-9, 1865, negotiating Lee's surrender, transcribed in the hand of Ely Samuel Parker, Grant's secretary. Also Parker's notes.
Subjects: Civil War; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT Case MS F8340.905
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Vermont regiments.
Materials for history of Vermont regiments in the Civil War, consisting of ms. notes and newspaper clippings.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: VAULT Case MS F8349.924
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Walton, Seymour. Journals, 1862-1866.
0.5 cubic ft.
Journals commencing in 1862 and continuing through June, 1863, by a sixteen-year-old schoolboy in New Orleans, commenting on daily life under Union occupation. Also newspaper clippings containing special and general orders pasted on endpapers and within text, and accounts and lists of books read. Diaries continue to the end of 1863 in Utica, New York, and contain comments on the draft riots in New York City.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: VAULT Case MS fE5.W1766
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Wanzopeah, Letter, 1864.
1 item.
Chief of the western Miami Indians. Letter addressed to President Abraham Lincoln, Feb., 1864, requesting that a member of his tribe be discharged from the 12th Kansas Volunteers, with endorsement signed by Lincoln.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: Ayer MS 3188
Collection Stack Location: Vault
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog card: Online Catalog.
Watson, Theodore. Letters, 1861.
0.1 cubic ft.
Company H, 3rd Illinois Volunteers
Watson, a miller from Hillsboro, Montgomery County, Illinois, was mustered into Company H of the 3rd Illinois Volunteers on April 26, 1861. Throughout his three months of service, Watson wrote letters to his brother, John Watson. The letters describe food, shelter, leisure activities, fortifications, company and regimental officers, and church services at Camp Defiance in Cairo, Ill.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10023
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Wiles, Robert Leslie, Journal, 1862-1865.
1 item.
Corporal, Company D, 11th Missouri Cavalry Regiment. Creek Indian who prior to the war attended the Tullahassee Manual Labor School in the Creek Nation (Indian Territory). During 1862 Wiles was accused of "being a Southern sympathizer" and was held in "military confinement" at Alton, Illinois. Released on "parole of honor during the war in the limits of the Missouri lines," Wiles then apparently joined the 11th Missouri Cavalry. His journal contains diary entries, Oct. 7, 1863-Apr. 17, 1865, copies of letters received in 1862 from missionaries W.S. Robertson and his wife A.E.W. Robertson, lists of letters received and written, 1862-1864, and poems. Diary entries are both daily and summarized accounts of Wiles' service with Company D, briefly in Missouri, but mainly at various Arkansas locations including Batesville, Jacksonport, De Vals Bluff, Fort Smith, Fort Gibson, at the Neosho River, and Little Rock. Wiles notes his company's movements (including escorting Confederate Maj. Gen. Herron to Fort Smith), picket and scout duty, and other military routine. He describes shortages of provisions for soldiers and their mounts, particularly at Fort Smith and Fort Gibson. He mentions Negroes following the marching troops, harrassment by bushwhackers, encounters with Confederate forces (including those commanded by Gen. Shelby), and President Lincoln's death.
Subjects: Civil War
Call Number: Case MS 10022
Collection Stack Location: Vault
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog card: Online Catalog.
Willard, L. S. Letters, 1862-1865.
19 items.
Major and aide-de-camp to General McPherson of the 11th Illinois Cavalry. Includes Willard's letters to his parents and brother in Brimfield, Peoria Co., Illinois, Camp Benton Barracks, St. Louis, Tennessee, and Louisiana. Letters from March 1862, are addressed from the Camp Benton Barracks in St. Louis.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: VAULT folio Case MS 10031
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Williams, Loren L., 1828-1881. Journals, 1851-1880.
0.5 cubic ft. (5 volumes in 2 boxes)
Journals covering the author's activities as an officer with the Oregon Volunteers during the Civil War, active in the West, and subsequent role as a pioneer in the development of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana. Details of wars with the Western Indians are also included. Inserted and laid in are numerous ms. documents, autograph letters, illustrations, ms. maps (drawn by the author), newspaper clippings, photographs, etc.
Subjects: Civil War; Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT folio Graff 4683
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 40 5
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Printed guides: A Catalogue of the Graff Collection of Western Americana.
Woods, Frank H. (Frank Henry), 1905-. Woods family papers, ca. 1775-1975, bulk 1820-1975.
5 cubic ft. (7 boxes, 1 oversize box, and 1 record carton)
Correspondence, writings, documents, genealogical research notes and photographs relating to the Woods family, descendants of Henry Ruiter (originally Hendrick de Ruyter) of Canada. Collected and preserved by Frank H. Woods, Jr. of Illinois, to be used for a complete (unfinished) family history, most of the material concerns Frank H. Woods's great-grandmother, Fanny M. Woods, his grandfather Frederick Moffatt Woods, and his father, Frank H. Woods. Includes Civil War letters.
Subjects: Civil War; Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Woods
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Woolson family. Papers, 1780-1930.
1.5 cubic ft.
Letters, scrapbooks, photographs, diaries, clippings, and genealogical materials concerning the Woolson family of New Hampshire, Ohio, and Chicago. Also included are Civil War "Army Stories" written by Alvin M. Woolson, a history of Elijah Woolson, and a family "Narrative of Automobile Tour Through Florida," dated 1910.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Woolson
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 11
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Modern Manuscripts information file available.
Checklist for Modern Manuscript Collections, 1700-present - Publications about Newberry Collections