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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Ephraim C. Dawes papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Dawes
Abstract

Letters, diaries, scrapbooks and writings of Dawes and others, miscellaneous personal and military items, relating to Dawes’s service in the United States Civil War as adjutant and major in the 53rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Also material relating to his historical interests and his subsequent activities in the rail and coal industries in the Midwest.

Dates: 1836-1905; Majority of material found within 1855-1895

L. S. Willard letters

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Willard
Abstract

First Lieutenant in the 11th Illinois Cavalry, Company G, who later served as major and aide-de-camp to General James Birdseye McPherson. Includes letters home to family from Brimfield, Peoria County, Illinois, from Camp Benton Barracks, St. Louis, Tennessee, and Louisiana, 1862-1864.

Dates: 1862-1864

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  • Subject: Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862 -- Personal narratives X

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Subject
Amateur journalism -- Ohio -- Warren -- Specimens 1
Atlanta Campaign, 1864 -- Personal narratives 1
Brimfield (Ill.) -- Genealogy 1
Brimfield (Ill.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources 1
Brothers and sisters -- Correspondence 1
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Brothers and sisters -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Businessmen -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Camp Benton (Mo.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Coal mines and mining -- Middle West 1
College students -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Correspondence -- 1851-1900 1
Correspondence -- Southern States -- 1851-1900 1
Diaries -- 1851-1900 1
Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
Illinois -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
Jackson (Miss.) -- History -- Siege, 1863 -- Personal narratives 1
Kennesaw Mountain, Battle of, Ga., 1864 -- Personal narratives 1
Louisiana -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
Mississippi -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
Parent and adult child -- Correspondence 1
Parent and child -- Correspondence 1
Peoria County (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Physicians -- Ohio 1
Pictorial lettersheets 1
Railroads -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Resaca, Battle of, Resaca Ga, 1864 -- Personal narratives 1
Scrapbooks -- 1851-1900 1
Soldiers -- Ohio -- Correspondence 1
Soldiers -- Southern States 1
Soldiers' writings, American 1
Southern States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Correspondence 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military life 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories 1
Vicksburg (Miss.) -- History -- Siege, 1863 -- Personal narratives 1
War wounds -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
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