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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

Hiram Scofield Papers

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ruggles-426
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1857-1906

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

Oliver Perry Newberry Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Newberry
Abstract

Mainly correspondence of Cameron, Missouri resident Oliver Perry Newberry, 1860-1867, primarily relating to his Civil War service in the Union army; and cabinet, carte-de-visite and a few tintype photographs of Newberry family and friends dating primarily from the 1880's.

Dates: 1860-1895

Woods family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Woods
Abstract 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. Included is a large group of Fanny Woods's...
Dates: approximately 1775-1998; Majority of material found within 1820-1975

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Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862 -- Personal narratives 3
Mississippi -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 2
Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862 2
Soldiers' writings, American 2
Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 2
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military life 2
African American soldiers 1
Amateur journalism -- Ohio -- Warren -- Specimens 1
Atlanta Campaign, 1864 -- Personal narratives 1
Boone County (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Brimfield (Ill.) -- Genealogy 1
Brimfield (Ill.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources 1
Brothers and sisters -- Correspondence 1
Brothers and sisters -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Businessmen -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Businessmen -- Middle West -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Cabinet photographs 1
Camp Benton (Mo.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Cartes de visite 1
Coal mines and mining -- Middle West 1
College students -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Corinth, Battle of, Corinth, Miss., 1862 1
Corinth, Battle of, Corinth, Miss., 1862 -- Personal narratives 1
Correspondence -- 1851-1900 1
Correspondence -- California, Northern -- 1851-1900 1
Correspondence -- Middle West -- 1851-1900 1
Correspondence -- Middle West -- 1901-1950 1
Correspondence -- Middle West -- 1951-2000 1
Correspondence -- Mississippi -- 1851-1900 1
Correspondence -- Missouri -- 1851-1900 1
Correspondence -- Southern States -- 1851-1900 1
Correspondence -- Tennessee -- 1851-1900 1
Courtship -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Diaries -- 1851-1900 1
Diaries -- Illinois -- 1851-1900 1
Diaries -- Iowa -- Washington -- 1851-1900 1
Diaries -- Southern States -- 1851-1900 1
Families -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Fort Donelson, Battle of, Tenn., 1862 1
Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
Gold miners -- California, Northern -- Correspondence 1
Grandparent and child -- Middle West -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Household employees -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Husband and wife -- Missouri -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 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
Lawyers -- Iowa -- Washington -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Lincoln (Neb.) -- History -- Sources 1
Louisiana -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
Memphis, Battle of, Memphis, Tenn., 1862 1
Miners -- Illinois -- Galena -- Correspondence 1
Missouri -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
Nashville, Battle of, Nashville, Tenn., 1864 1
Overland journeys to the Pacific -- History -- Sources 1
Parent and adult child -- Correspondence 1
Parent and child -- Correspondence 1
Patriotic envelopes 1
Peoria County (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Photographs -- 1851-1900 1
Physicians -- Ohio 1
Pictorial lettersheets 1
Pictorial lettersheets -- California -- San Francisco 1
Plantations -- Louisiana -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Poems -- Illinois -- Boone County -- 1851-1900 1
Railroads -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Resaca, Battle of, Resaca Ga, 1864 -- Personal narratives 1
Scrapbooks -- 1851-1900 1
Soldiers -- Correspondence 1
Soldiers -- Iowa -- Washington -- Diaries 1
Soldiers -- Mississippi -- Correspondence 1
Soldiers -- Missouri -- Correspondence 1
Soldiers -- Ohio -- Correspondence 1
Soldiers -- Southern States 1
Soldiers -- Tennessee -- Correspondence 1
Southern States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
Southern States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources 1
Tintypes (prints) 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Correspondence 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
Washington (Iowa) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Women poets, American -- Illinois -- Boone County 1
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Names
United States. Army 3
Barnett family 1
Blackman, George Curtis, 1819-1871 1
Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925 1
Clark, Daniel Newton, -1863 1
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Cochran family 1
Cutler, William Parker, 1812-1889 1
Dawes family 1
Dawes, E. C. (Ephraim Cutler), 1840-1895 1
Dawes, Rufus R., 1838-1899 1
Eddy family 1
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 1
Haecker family 1
Hathaway, Maria Sabin, 1807-1896 1
Marietta College 1
McPherson, James Birdseye, 1828-1864 1
Newberry, Cornelia Perry 1
Newberry, Lydia Elizabeth 1
Newberry, O. P. (Oliver Perry), 1831-1874 1
Newberry, Walter Cass, 1835-1912 1
Newberry, Walter Franklin 1
Newbury family 1
Ruiter, Henry, 1742-1819 1
Schofield family 1
Scofield, Hiram, 1830-1906 1
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 1
United States. Army. Colored Infantry Regiment, 47th (1864-1866) 1
United States. Army. Department of the Tennessee 1
United States. Army. Illinois Cavalry Regiment, 11th (1861-1865?) 1
United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment, 15th (1861-1865) 1
United States. Army. Illinois Light Artillery. Renwick's Elgin Independent Battery (1862-1865) 1
United States. Army. Iowa Regiment, 2nd (1861-1864) 1
United States. Army. Louisiana Volunteers of African Descent Infantry Regiment, 8th (1863-1864) 1
United States. Army. Missouri Infantry Regiment, 13th (1861) 1
United States. Army. Missouri Infantry Regiment, 25th (1861-1865) 1
United States. Army. Missouri State Militia Regiment, 5th (1861-1865) 1
United States. Army. Ohio 53rd Volunteer Infantry (1861-1865) 1
University of Wisconsin 1
White, Fanny Woods, 1822-1893 1
Willard family 1
Willard, L. S. (Lot Sabine) 1
Woods, Charles Ryland, -1864 1
Woods, Frank H. (Frank Henry), 1868-1952 1
Woods, Frank H. (Frank Henry), 1905-1980 1
Woods, Frederick Moffatt, 1844-1928 1
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