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Max Schlund papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Schlund
Abstract Diary, 1862-1865, kept in German by Max Schlund during the period of his Civil War service, representing a very complete account of the 82nd Regiment's action from its inception until the end of the war. Schlund includes detailed descriptions of battles and marches including Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Knoxville campaign, the Atlanta campaign (Resaca, Cassville, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek), the occupation of Atlanta, the march through Georgia to Savannah, and the...
Dates: 1862-1865

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

Richard Realf Letters and Poems

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Realf
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1864-1865

Robert Leslie Wiles journal

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Wiles
Abstract Union soldier who served as corporal in Company D of the 11th Missouri Cavalry Regiment, 1863-1865. It is likely that Wiles was a Creek Indian who prior to the war attended the Tullahassee Manual Labor School in the Creek Nation (Indian Territory). Journal containing 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...
Dates: 1862-1865

Theodore Watson Letters

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Watson
Abstract

Letters from Theodore Watson to his brother John in Hillsboro, Illinois, during the early months of the Civil War. Correspondence describes his life as a three-month enlistee in the Illinois 3rd Company (later the Illinois 9th Regiment) stationed at Camp Defiance to defend Cairo, Illinois.

Dates: 1861 April 27-July 7

Walter Cass Newberry Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-NewberryWC
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1840-1908

William T. Foster Letters

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Foster
Abstract

Union soldier who served in 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 Foster 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.

Dates: 1862-1863

Woods family papers

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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

Woolson family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Woolson
Abstract

Letters, scrapbooks, photographs, diaries, clippings, and genealogical materials concerning the Woolson family of New Hampshire, Ohio, and Chicago.

Dates: 1856-1950; Majority of material found within 1889 - 1910

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Manuscripts, American 22
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military life 14
Soldiers' writings, American 13
Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 8
Correspondence -- 1851-1900 7
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Correspondence -- Tennessee -- 1851-1900 6
Atlanta Campaign, 1864 -- Personal narratives 5
Brothers and sisters -- Correspondence 5
Correspondence -- Southern States -- 1851-1900 5
Illinois -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 5
Photographs -- 1851-1900 5
Soldiers -- Tennessee -- Correspondence 5
Correspondence -- Illinois -- 1851-1900 4
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois 4
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 4
Mississippi -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 4
Parent and adult child -- Correspondence 4
Patriotic envelopes 4
Pictorial lettersheets 4
Soldiers -- Illinois -- Correspondence 4
Alabama -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 3
Brothers and sisters -- United States -- Correspondence 3
Correspondence -- 1801-1850 3
Correspondence -- Mississippi -- 1851-1900 3
Fulton County (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 3
Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 3
Military hospitals, American -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 3
Missouri -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 3
Operational rations (military supplies) -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 3
Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862 -- Personal narratives 3
Soldiers -- Alabama -- Correspondence 3
Soldiers -- Mississippi -- Correspondence 3
Soldiers -- Missouri -- Correspondence 3
Soldiers -- Ohio -- Correspondence 3
Soldiers -- Southern States 3
Soldiers -- Southern States -- Correspondence 3
Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources 3
Vicksburg (Miss.) -- History -- Siege, 1863 -- Personal narratives 3
Arkansas -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 2
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs 2
Correspondence -- 1901-1950 2
Correspondence -- Alabama -- 1851-1900 2
Correspondence -- Missouri -- 1851-1900 2
Diaries -- 1851-1900 2
Diaries -- Southern States -- 1851-1900 2
Diaries -- United States -- 1801-1850 2
Gold miners -- California, Northern -- Correspondence 2
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Husband and wife -- United States -- Correspondence 2
Kentucky -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 2
Photographs -- 1901-1950 2
Pictorial lettersheets -- 1851-1900 2
Scrapbooks -- 1851-1900 2
Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862 2
Soldiers -- Georgia -- Correspondence 2
Stones River, Battle of, Murfreesboro, Tenn., 1862-1863 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Correspondence 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources 2
Washington (D.C.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources 2
Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
African American soldiers 1
Alabama -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources 1
Amateur journalism -- Ohio -- Warren -- Specimens 1
Artillerymen -- Illinois -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
Artillerymen -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Atlanta Campaign, 1864 -- Sources 1
Automobile ownership -- Ohio 1
Automobile travel -- Florida 1
Automobile travel -- Ohio 1
Automobile travel -- United States 1
Bonaparte (Iowa) -- Genealogy 1
Boone County (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Brimfield (Ill.) -- Genealogy 1
Brimfield (Ill.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources 1
Business enterprises -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Business records -- United States -- 1851-1900 1
Businessmen -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Correspondence 1
Businessmen -- Illinois -- Lincoln -- Correspondence 1
Businessmen -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Businessmen -- Middle West -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Businessmen -- Ohio -- Toledo 1
Businessmen -- United States -- History -- 19th century 1
Cabinet photographs 1
Cairo (Ill.) -- History -- Sources 1
California, Northern -- Description and travel 1
Camp Benton (Mo.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Camp Butler (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Camp Dennison (Ohio) 1
Camp Peoria (Peoria, Ill.) -- History -- 19th century 1
Cartes de visite 1
Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va., 1863 -- Sources 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- Sources 1
Christian Science 1
Ciphers (codes) -- 1851-1900 1
Clairvoyants -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Clippings (information artifacts) 1
Coal -- Maryland -- Maps 1
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Language
English 33
German 2
 
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United States. Army 11
Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana (Newberry Library) 2
Midwest Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library) 2
Newberry, Walter Cass, 1835-1912 2
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 2
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United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment, 88th (1862-1865) 2
American Medical Association 1
Andersonville Prison 1
Ballentine, Henry A. 1
Barnett family 1
Barrett, Henry C. 1
Bates family 1
Beach family 1
Beach, John D. (Soldier) 1
Blackman, George Curtis, 1819-1871 1
Bowdoin College 1
Brown, Olympia, 1835-1926 1
Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925 1
Capron family 1
Capron, Edwin R. 1
Carpenter family 1
Carpenter, Helen Graham, 1868-1945 1
Chamberlain family 1
Chamberlin, George E. 1
Clark, Daniel Newton, -1863 1
Cochran family 1
Confederate States of America 1
Curtis, Edward W. 1
Cutler, William Parker, 1812-1889 1
Dartmouth College 1
Davis, N. S. (Nathan Smith), 1817-1904 1
Davis, N. S. (Nathan Smith), 1858-1920 1
Dawes family 1
Dawes, E. C. (Ephraim Cutler), 1840-1895 1
Dawes, Rufus R., 1838-1899 1
Dawson, Mitchell, 1890-1956 1
De Freitas, Helen 1
DeWitt family 1
Deal family 1
Deal, George, approximately 1825-1864 1
Dickinson, Chase Hall, 1838-1893 1
Dolton, Catherine J. 1
Dolton, G. E. (George Edwin), 1840-1906 1
Dolton, Theodore A. 1
Dolton, Wilhelmina Christliebe Nietzsch 1
Dunham, E. M. 1
Eddy family 1
Fairbank, Nathaniel Kellogg, 1829-1903 1
Fairbanks family 1
Fairley, Cyrus 1
Fairley, Nannie 1
Feenan family 1
Feenan, Martin J. 1
Flegler family 1
Fleming, John C., 1844- 1
Foster family 1
Foster, William T. 1
Furber family 1
Gallentine family 1
Gallentine, C. W. (Charles W.), -1864 1
Gallentine, William P. 1
Graham family 1
Graham, John Andrew, 1808-1883 1
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 1
Haecker family 1
Harris family 1
Harris, James Duncan, 1836-1862 1
Harris, Joseph Whipple, 1837-1861 1
Hartnell family 1
Harvard Law School 1
Hathaway, Maria Sabin, 1807-1896 1
Hawk, George B., approximately 1840- 1
Herron, Francis Jay, 1837-1902 1
International Medical Congress 1
Jennings, James S. 1
Kingsley family 1
Kruse family 1
Kruse, Charles T., -1865 1
Kruse, John 1
Kruse, Sarah 1
Lancaster (Sloop of war) 1
Lincoln Park Zoo 1
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 1
Lutz family 1
Lutz, Adeline Louise 1
Marietta College 1
Mason family 1
Mason, Francema A., 1837-1911 1
Mason, Otis S., 1833-1919 1
Mason, R. B. (Roswell B.), 1805-1892 1
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 1
McLean family 1
McLean, Edgar, -1920 1
McLean, Sarah F. 1
McPherson, James Birdseye, 1828-1864 1
Merritt family 1
Metcalf family 1
Metcalf, Antoinette Brigham Putnam, 1829-1875 1
Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898 1
Mount Savage Iron Company 1
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