Box 1
Container
Contains 114 Results:
Letter, Colby, Carlos to sister, Memphis, TN (mail, a pass out of camp, weather, camp life), Dec. 8, 1862
File — Box: 1, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Consists of 129 Civil War letters of Carlos W. Colby of the Illinois 97th Volunteer Infantry Regiment written between 1862 and 1865 to his sisters, brother, brother-in-law, and niece. These letters describe in detail all aspects of Colby’s daily camp life as a common soldier including such topics as accommodations, food, clothing, health, weather, scenery, transportation and weaponry, as well as reflecting social and racial attitudes, moral and mental states, observations of the military...
Dates:
Dec. 8, 1862
Letter, Colby, Carlos to sister, Memphis, TN (photograph, camp life, food and cooking, dissent in camp, illness), Dec. 12, 1862
File — Box: 1, Folder: 27
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Consists of 129 Civil War letters of Carlos W. Colby of the Illinois 97th Volunteer Infantry Regiment written between 1862 and 1865 to his sisters, brother, brother-in-law, and niece. These letters describe in detail all aspects of Colby’s daily camp life as a common soldier including such topics as accommodations, food, clothing, health, weather, scenery, transportation and weaponry, as well as reflecting social and racial attitudes, moral and mental states, observations of the military...
Dates:
Dec. 12, 1862
Letter, Colby, Carlos to sister, Memphis, TN (march led by General Sherman, training, Christmas, mail, leave for LA on the Robert Campbell Jr.), Dec. 19, 1862
File — Box: 1, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Consists of 129 Civil War letters of Carlos W. Colby of the Illinois 97th Volunteer Infantry Regiment written between 1862 and 1865 to his sisters, brother, brother-in-law, and niece. These letters describe in detail all aspects of Colby’s daily camp life as a common soldier including such topics as accommodations, food, clothing, health, weather, scenery, transportation and weaponry, as well as reflecting social and racial attitudes, moral and mental states, observations of the military...
Dates:
Dec. 19, 1862
Letter, Colby, Carlos to sister, on transport steamboat Robert Campbell Jr. (boats, war, countryside, food, Christmas), Dec. 1862
File — Box: 1, Folder: 29
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Consists of 129 Civil War letters of Carlos W. Colby of the Illinois 97th Volunteer Infantry Regiment written between 1862 and 1865 to his sisters, brother, brother-in-law, and niece. These letters describe in detail all aspects of Colby’s daily camp life as a common soldier including such topics as accommodations, food, clothing, health, weather, scenery, transportation and weaponry, as well as reflecting social and racial attitudes, moral and mental states, observations of the military...
Dates:
Dec. 1862
Letter, Colby, Carlos to sister, Yazoo River on transport steamboat Robert Campbell, Jr. (skirmish, weather, battle, mail, Christmas, General Sherman, hand drawn map, injuries), Jan. 2, 1863
File — Box: 1, Folder: 30
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Consists of 129 Civil War letters of Carlos W. Colby of the Illinois 97th Volunteer Infantry Regiment written between 1862 and 1865 to his sisters, brother, brother-in-law, and niece. These letters describe in detail all aspects of Colby’s daily camp life as a common soldier including such topics as accommodations, food, clothing, health, weather, scenery, transportation and weaponry, as well as reflecting social and racial attitudes, moral and mental states, observations of the military...
Dates:
Jan. 2, 1863
Letter, Colby, Carlos to sister, “60 miles below Napoleon” on the Mississippi River (mail, newspapers, crops, move up the river), Jan. 6, 1863
File — Box: 1, Folder: 31
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Consists of 129 Civil War letters of Carlos W. Colby of the Illinois 97th Volunteer Infantry Regiment written between 1862 and 1865 to his sisters, brother, brother-in-law, and niece. These letters describe in detail all aspects of Colby’s daily camp life as a common soldier including such topics as accommodations, food, clothing, health, weather, scenery, transportation and weaponry, as well as reflecting social and racial attitudes, moral and mental states, observations of the military...
Dates:
Jan. 6, 1863
Letter, Colby, Carlos to sister, mouth of the White River in Arkansas (river travel, money), Jan. 8, 1863
File — Box: 1, Folder: 32
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Consists of 129 Civil War letters of Carlos W. Colby of the Illinois 97th Volunteer Infantry Regiment written between 1862 and 1865 to his sisters, brother, brother-in-law, and niece. These letters describe in detail all aspects of Colby’s daily camp life as a common soldier including such topics as accommodations, food, clothing, health, weather, scenery, transportation and weaponry, as well as reflecting social and racial attitudes, moral and mental states, observations of the military...
Dates:
Jan. 8, 1863
Letter, Colby, Carlos to sister, Arkansas Post (death in the company, recent battle, mail), Jan. 12, 1863
File — Box: 1, Folder: 33
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Consists of 129 Civil War letters of Carlos W. Colby of the Illinois 97th Volunteer Infantry Regiment written between 1862 and 1865 to his sisters, brother, brother-in-law, and niece. These letters describe in detail all aspects of Colby’s daily camp life as a common soldier including such topics as accommodations, food, clothing, health, weather, scenery, transportation and weaponry, as well as reflecting social and racial attitudes, moral and mental states, observations of the military...
Dates:
Jan. 12, 1863
Letter, Colby, Carlos to sister, Arkansas Post (battle near the water, wounded soldiers and casualties, description of guns and cannons, weather, mail), Jan. 15, 1863
File — Box: 1, Folder: 34
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Consists of 129 Civil War letters of Carlos W. Colby of the Illinois 97th Volunteer Infantry Regiment written between 1862 and 1865 to his sisters, brother, brother-in-law, and niece. These letters describe in detail all aspects of Colby’s daily camp life as a common soldier including such topics as accommodations, food, clothing, health, weather, scenery, transportation and weaponry, as well as reflecting social and racial attitudes, moral and mental states, observations of the military...
Dates:
Jan. 15, 1863
Letter, Colby, Carlos to sister, Milliken’s Bend, LA (health, deserters, weapons, slavery, mail), Jan. 21, 1863
File — Box: 1, Folder: 35
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Consists of 129 Civil War letters of Carlos W. Colby of the Illinois 97th Volunteer Infantry Regiment written between 1862 and 1865 to his sisters, brother, brother-in-law, and niece. These letters describe in detail all aspects of Colby’s daily camp life as a common soldier including such topics as accommodations, food, clothing, health, weather, scenery, transportation and weaponry, as well as reflecting social and racial attitudes, moral and mental states, observations of the military...
Dates:
Jan. 21, 1863
Letter, Colby, Carlos to sister, opposite mouth of the Yazoo River in Mississippi (health, mail, moving camp, camp life), Jan. 24, 1863
File — Box: 1, Folder: 36
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Consists of 129 Civil War letters of Carlos W. Colby of the Illinois 97th Volunteer Infantry Regiment written between 1862 and 1865 to his sisters, brother, brother-in-law, and niece. These letters describe in detail all aspects of Colby’s daily camp life as a common soldier including such topics as accommodations, food, clothing, health, weather, scenery, transportation and weaponry, as well as reflecting social and racial attitudes, moral and mental states, observations of the military...
Dates:
Jan. 24, 1863
Letter, Colby, Carlos to sister, Muddy Camp, LA (new camp on the river, mail, health, regiment deaths and promotions, healthcare in camp), Jan. 29, 1863
File — Box: 1, Folder: 37
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Consists of 129 Civil War letters of Carlos W. Colby of the Illinois 97th Volunteer Infantry Regiment written between 1862 and 1865 to his sisters, brother, brother-in-law, and niece. These letters describe in detail all aspects of Colby’s daily camp life as a common soldier including such topics as accommodations, food, clothing, health, weather, scenery, transportation and weaponry, as well as reflecting social and racial attitudes, moral and mental states, observations of the military...
Dates:
Jan. 29, 1863
Letter, Colby, Carlos to sister Sallie, Young’s Point, LA (health, new leadership, comrades dismissed from duty, mail, clothing), Feb. 2, 1863
File — Box: 1, Folder: 38
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Consists of 129 Civil War letters of Carlos W. Colby of the Illinois 97th Volunteer Infantry Regiment written between 1862 and 1865 to his sisters, brother, brother-in-law, and niece. These letters describe in detail all aspects of Colby’s daily camp life as a common soldier including such topics as accommodations, food, clothing, health, weather, scenery, transportation and weaponry, as well as reflecting social and racial attitudes, moral and mental states, observations of the military...
Dates:
Feb. 2, 1863
Letter, Colby, Carlos to brother, Young’s Point, LA (mail, food, contents of a package from home, details of the new campsite, request for information from home), Feb. 8, 1863
File — Box: 1, Folder: 39
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Consists of 129 Civil War letters of Carlos W. Colby of the Illinois 97th Volunteer Infantry Regiment written between 1862 and 1865 to his sisters, brother, brother-in-law, and niece. These letters describe in detail all aspects of Colby’s daily camp life as a common soldier including such topics as accommodations, food, clothing, health, weather, scenery, transportation and weaponry, as well as reflecting social and racial attitudes, moral and mental states, observations of the military...
Dates:
Feb. 8, 1863
Letter, Colby, Carlos to sister, Young’s Point, LA (mail, fellow soldier’s release, levee duty, change of command in the brigade), Feb. 12, 1863
File — Box: 1, Folder: 40
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Consists of 129 Civil War letters of Carlos W. Colby of the Illinois 97th Volunteer Infantry Regiment written between 1862 and 1865 to his sisters, brother, brother-in-law, and niece. These letters describe in detail all aspects of Colby’s daily camp life as a common soldier including such topics as accommodations, food, clothing, health, weather, scenery, transportation and weaponry, as well as reflecting social and racial attitudes, moral and mental states, observations of the military...
Dates:
Feb. 12, 1863
Letter, Colby, Carlos to sister Sallie, Young’s Point, LA (weather, duty, skirmish on the water, list of soldiers accused of shirking duty, mail), Feb. 16, 1863
File — Box: 1, Folder: 41
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Consists of 129 Civil War letters of Carlos W. Colby of the Illinois 97th Volunteer Infantry Regiment written between 1862 and 1865 to his sisters, brother, brother-in-law, and niece. These letters describe in detail all aspects of Colby’s daily camp life as a common soldier including such topics as accommodations, food, clothing, health, weather, scenery, transportation and weaponry, as well as reflecting social and racial attitudes, moral and mental states, observations of the military...
Dates:
Feb. 16, 1863
Letter, Colby, Carlos to brother Charlie, Young’s Point, LA (weather, boring camp life, digging a canal, smallpox, illness in camp), Feb. 20, 1863
File — Box: 1, Folder: 42
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Consists of 129 Civil War letters of Carlos W. Colby of the Illinois 97th Volunteer Infantry Regiment written between 1862 and 1865 to his sisters, brother, brother-in-law, and niece. These letters describe in detail all aspects of Colby’s daily camp life as a common soldier including such topics as accommodations, food, clothing, health, weather, scenery, transportation and weaponry, as well as reflecting social and racial attitudes, moral and mental states, observations of the military...
Dates:
Feb. 20, 1863
Letter, Colby, Carlos to sister Carrie, Young’s Point, LA (mail, weather, canal digging, unsatisfactory promotion in the company, camp doctor, French furlow), Feb. 26, 1863
File — Box: 1, Folder: 43
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Consists of 129 Civil War letters of Carlos W. Colby of the Illinois 97th Volunteer Infantry Regiment written between 1862 and 1865 to his sisters, brother, brother-in-law, and niece. These letters describe in detail all aspects of Colby’s daily camp life as a common soldier including such topics as accommodations, food, clothing, health, weather, scenery, transportation and weaponry, as well as reflecting social and racial attitudes, moral and mental states, observations of the military...
Dates:
Feb. 26, 1863
Letter, Colby, Carlos to brother, Young’s Point, LA (mail, weather, goods for sale in camp, payday, request for a hat), Feb. 27, 1863
File — Box: 1, Folder: 44
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Consists of 129 Civil War letters of Carlos W. Colby of the Illinois 97th Volunteer Infantry Regiment written between 1862 and 1865 to his sisters, brother, brother-in-law, and niece. These letters describe in detail all aspects of Colby’s daily camp life as a common soldier including such topics as accommodations, food, clothing, health, weather, scenery, transportation and weaponry, as well as reflecting social and racial attitudes, moral and mental states, observations of the military...
Dates:
Feb. 27, 1863
Letter fragment, Colby, Carlos to unknown, unknown location, LA (mail, getting paid, list of rations), Mar. 1863
File — Box: 1, Folder: 45
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Consists of 129 Civil War letters of Carlos W. Colby of the Illinois 97th Volunteer Infantry Regiment written between 1862 and 1865 to his sisters, brother, brother-in-law, and niece. These letters describe in detail all aspects of Colby’s daily camp life as a common soldier including such topics as accommodations, food, clothing, health, weather, scenery, transportation and weaponry, as well as reflecting social and racial attitudes, moral and mental states, observations of the military...
Dates:
Mar. 1863
Letter, Colby, Carlos to Sallie, Young’s Point, LA (mail, Abraham Lincoln, regiments’ work on canal, unrest and discipline in the regiment), Mar. 4, 1863
File — Box: 1, Folder: 46
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Consists of 129 Civil War letters of Carlos W. Colby of the Illinois 97th Volunteer Infantry Regiment written between 1862 and 1865 to his sisters, brother, brother-in-law, and niece. These letters describe in detail all aspects of Colby’s daily camp life as a common soldier including such topics as accommodations, food, clothing, health, weather, scenery, transportation and weaponry, as well as reflecting social and racial attitudes, moral and mental states, observations of the military...
Dates:
Mar. 4, 1863
Letter, Colby, Carlos to sister, Milliken’s Bend, LA (camp levee break, weather, camp lodging, rebellion against authority in camp, food), Mar. 13, 1863
File — Box: 1, Folder: 47
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Consists of 129 Civil War letters of Carlos W. Colby of the Illinois 97th Volunteer Infantry Regiment written between 1862 and 1865 to his sisters, brother, brother-in-law, and niece. These letters describe in detail all aspects of Colby’s daily camp life as a common soldier including such topics as accommodations, food, clothing, health, weather, scenery, transportation and weaponry, as well as reflecting social and racial attitudes, moral and mental states, observations of the military...
Dates:
Mar. 13, 1863
Letter, Colby, Carlos to “folks at home,” Milliken’s Bend, LA (death of brother’s child, mail, health, camp doctor’s resignation), Mar. 18, 1863
File — Box: 1, Folder: 48
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Consists of 129 Civil War letters of Carlos W. Colby of the Illinois 97th Volunteer Infantry Regiment written between 1862 and 1865 to his sisters, brother, brother-in-law, and niece. These letters describe in detail all aspects of Colby’s daily camp life as a common soldier including such topics as accommodations, food, clothing, health, weather, scenery, transportation and weaponry, as well as reflecting social and racial attitudes, moral and mental states, observations of the military...
Dates:
Mar. 18, 1863
Letter, Colby, Carlos to brother, Milliken’s Bend, LA (money sent home, an overcoat, Brigade inspection by General Smith, weather, camp food), Mar. 21, 1863
File — Box: 1, Folder: 49
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Consists of 129 Civil War letters of Carlos W. Colby of the Illinois 97th Volunteer Infantry Regiment written between 1862 and 1865 to his sisters, brother, brother-in-law, and niece. These letters describe in detail all aspects of Colby’s daily camp life as a common soldier including such topics as accommodations, food, clothing, health, weather, scenery, transportation and weaponry, as well as reflecting social and racial attitudes, moral and mental states, observations of the military...
Dates:
Mar. 21, 1863
Letter, Colby, Carlos to brother Charlie, Milliken’s Bend, LA (cost of paper, weather, detail of punishment for a deserter, brother’s child’s death, rumors about Vicksburg), Mar. 21, 1863
File — Box: 1, Folder: 50
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Consists of 129 Civil War letters of Carlos W. Colby of the Illinois 97th Volunteer Infantry Regiment written between 1862 and 1865 to his sisters, brother, brother-in-law, and niece. These letters describe in detail all aspects of Colby’s daily camp life as a common soldier including such topics as accommodations, food, clothing, health, weather, scenery, transportation and weaponry, as well as reflecting social and racial attitudes, moral and mental states, observations of the military...
Dates:
Mar. 21, 1863