Civil War Miscellany, 1861-1927, n.d.
Correspondence and Documents, 1861-1889
Catalog Number: M131.1
| Box | 1 | ||
| Folder | 1 | 1861-1865, Roster of Civil War soldiers handwritten in pencil by an unknown author. Records include name, rank, where they served, and other military history. | |
| 2 | 1862 Aug-Dec, Jesse J. Peacock [Lee, Maine] Civil War correspondence, chiefly from Jesse to his wife, Addie. (15 items; transcriptions and photocopies only). Source of originals unknown. | ||
| 3 | 1862 Sep 24, Horatio B. Soule: ALS to "Brother Frank," Sharpsburg, Maryland [with transcription]. | ||
| 4 | 1862 Nov 29, D.P. Morse: ALS to "My Dear Emiline," E. N[ew] York. | ||
| 5 | 1863 Jul 4, Samuel Beal Shea to his family from Gettysburg [with transcription] and Jesse Mitchell to Mr. Shea, 1863 Jul 10 [transcription]. | ||
| Oversize | Box | A-1 | 1863 Sep 1, Certificate of the 80th Regiment, U.S. Colored Infantry, mustered into United States service |
| Box | 1 | ||
| Folder | 6 | 1864 Apr 14, Visitor's pass, Army of the Potomac. | |
| 7 | 1864 Apr 15-Jul 10, Horatio Fox Smith letters (11 items). (Smith's 1863 journal is located in Diaries and Albums series, M131.2). | ||
| Oversize | Box | A-1 | 1868 Jul 4, State of Maine testimonial certificate to Alonzo Armstrong for service to the Union during the Civil War, signed by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain |
| Box | 1 | ||
| Folder | 8 | 1889 Jul 3 Jefferson Davis: ALS to Joseph Williamson [2 p.] |
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Diaries and Albums, 1861-1865, n.d.
Catalog Number: M131.2
| Volume | 1 | Autograph album, owner unknown. Includes signatures of the officers of the 108th U.S. Colored Infantry | |
| Box | 1 | ||
| Folder | 9 | Diary of John Handly, Company A, 8th Maine Volunteers, 1865 with transcription, and John Handly's pocket-size bible. (Tintype of Handly located with photographs) | |
| 10 | Diary owned by a succession of soldiers, 1863: S.W Croft, Excelsior Brigade USV; A.M Riddle, Louisiana Guard Artillery; C.H. Small, 5th Maine Volunteers and "picked up on the battlefield at raperhanock [sic] Station Nov. 7th 1864 by Sewall C. Smith Co D 5th Maine Vols." Laid into the diary is a pledge of loyalty to the C.S.A. signed by Riddle and a C.S.A. military pass | ||
| 11 | Diaries: Washington, D.C. 1861 and 1864, civilian owner unknown. Brief entries, some on events in the city | ||
| 12 | Journal of Horatio Fox Smith, July 4, 1863-November 11, 1863.(Smith correspondence from 1864 located in Correspondence series, M131.1). |
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Catalog Number: M131.3
| Box | 1 | ||
| Folder | 13 | 1863 May 3, Unframed 2.5 x 4 inch albumen carte de visite entitled "A yankee before leaving for the war," Chancellorsville. The young man is in civilian clothes | |
| 14 | 1927, Unframed black-and-white photograph 3.5 x 5.5 inches entitled "15th Maine Regiment Reunion" | ||
| 15 | n.d., Cabinet card portrait of Alonzo Armstrong in Union uniform | ||
| 16 | n.d., Two tintypes in frames of John P. Handly, Company A, 8th Maine Volunteers in uniform. (Diary of Handly located with Diaries and Albums) |
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Catalog Number: M131.4
| Box | 1 | ||
| Folder | 17 | "The Drafts in New York and New England during the Civil War," a ninety-one page typescript, author and date unknown, with bibliographical references | |
| 18 | "The Operation of the Selective Draft Law during the Civil War in the New England States and New York," a sixty-seven page transcript, author and date unknown, with bibliographical references |
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Catalog Number: M131.5
| Newspaper folio Mich.-N.J. | Box | B | 1862 Oct 25, La Sentinelle de Thibodaux (Louisiana) printed on wallpaper |
| Newspape | Box | K | 1863 Jul 2, Daily Citizen (Vicksburg, Mississippi) printed on wallpaper |
| Newspaper folio Louis. & Md | Box | B | 1864 Apr 2 and 1864 Apr 4, Natchitoches Union Daily (Louisiana) printed on ledger sheets |
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Catalog Number: M131.6
| MRealia | Bayonet, John Marshall Brown (Bowdoin class of 1860) | ||
| MRealia | Box | 1 | Grand Army of the Republic memorial plaque for Alonzo Armstrong (d. 1894), with a printed funeral keepsake |
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