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Guide to Simeon Adams Evans' reminscences, 1889

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Title:
Simeon Adams Evans' reminscences
Creator:
Evans, Simeon Adams, 1837-1895
ID:
M194.E936
Date [inclusive]:
1889
Extent:
1 v. (431 p.); 27 cm
Repository:
George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011
Abstract:
Bound holograph memoir of Simeon Adams Evans (Bowdoin 1860) recounting student days at Bowdoin College, mention of classmate Thomas Brackett Reed, and the Bowdoin and Williams colleges' Greenland expedition under the direction of Prof. Paul Chadbourne (1860), Civil War medical service in the 13th and 14th Maine regiments, especially in the Port Hudson (La.) and Petersburg (Va.) campaigns, and, briefly, post-war civilian life in New Hampshire. Occasional correspondence, newspaper clippings, and Civil War documents laid in.
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Conditions Governing Use:

If not in the public domain, copyright is retained by the author of the items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation:

Cite as: Simeon Adams Evans' reminiscences, Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine

Bound holograph memoir of Simeon Adams Evans (Bowdoin 1860) recounting student days at Bowdoin College, mention of classmate Thomas Brackett Reed, and the Bowdoin and Williams colleges' Greenland expedition under the direction of Prof. Paul Chadbourne (1860), Civil War medical service in the 13th and 14th Maine regiments, especially in the Port Hudson (La.) and Petersburg (Va.) campaigns, and, briefly, post-war civilian life in New Hampshire. Occasional correspondence, newspaper clippings, and Civil War documents laid in.

Corporate Name(s):
  • United States. -- Army. -- Maine Infantry Regiment, 13th (1861-1864).
  • United States. -- Army. -- Maine Infantry Regiment, 14th (1861-1865).
  • Bowdoin College -- Students.
Genre(s):
  • Biographies. -- lcgft.
  • Personal narratives. -- lcgft.
Geographic Name(s):
  • United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.
  • United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care.
  • United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
  • Greenland -- Description and travel.
Personal Name(s):
  • Evans, Simeon Adams, 1837-1895
  • Chadbourne, Paul A. (Paul Ansel), 1823-1883.
  • Reed, Thomas B. (Thomas Brackett), 1839-1902.
Subject(s):
  • Scientific expeditions -- Greenland.
  • Physicians -- New Hampshire -- Biography.

Forms part of the Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection in the Bowdoin College Special Collections & Archives.

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