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Descriptive Summary of the Collection
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Inventory of the John C. Fleming Papers, 1862-1906
Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Lisa Janssen, 2004. ©2004. |
Descriptive Summary of the Collection |
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| Creator | Fleming, John C., b. 1844 |
| Title | John C. Fleming Papers |
| Dates | 1862-1906 |
| Extent | 0.4 linear feet (1 box) |
| Abstract | Civil War letters of John C. Fleming, 1862-1865, Chicago enlistee in the Chicago Board of Trade Battery, Horse Artillery, Illinois Volunteers; small collection of Fleming family mementos and letters, 1863-1906, bulk 1900-1906. |
| Language | Materials are in English. |
| Repository | Newberry Library, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections |
| Collection Call Number | Midwest MS Fleming |
| Collection Stack Location | 3a 39 11 |
Administrative Information
Cite As
John C. Fleming Papers, The Newberry Library, Chicago.
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Clayton Gaylord, 1964.
Processed by
Amy Nyholm, 1966; Virginia H. Smith, 2000.
Access
The John C. Fleming Papers are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
Ownership and Literary Rights
The John C. Fleming Papers are the physical property of the Newberry Library. Copyright may belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. For permission to publish or reproduce any materials from this collection, contact the Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections.
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Biography of John C. Fleming
Chicago Civil War soldier.
Born in 1844, John C. Fleming, an 18 year old clerk, enlisted as a private in the Chicago Board of Trade Battery, Horse Artillery, Illinois Volunteers in 1862. Fleming was enthusiastic about being a soldier, and many nearby regiments contained friends and acquaintances who he kept track of throughout the war. Little is known about his life after he was mustered out June 30,1865, apparently unhurt by the War, and met his relieved and happy relations in Chicago. His last known address was a Chicago business address, the Marquette Building, in 1902.
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Scope and Content of the Collection
Collection of letters Fleming wrote to his mother, stepfather, sister, brother, and uncle during the Civil War. Also, a small collection of letters and mementos of the Fleming Family, mostly dating after 1900.
The movements of the Chicago Board of Trade Battery, Horse Artillery, Illinois Volunteers can be found in Historical Sketch of the Chicago Board of Trade Battery, Horse Artillery, Illinois Volunteers. Chicago: 1902. The main sites from which Fleming wrote are: Louisville and Bowling Green, KY; Murfreesboro, TN; Winchester, AL; and near Atlanta, GA. The letters are mostly concerned with descriptions of camp life and daily activities, though he also includes thorough descriptions of marches, as well as raids and foraging expeditions. Fleming's battery was at camp in Murfreesboro for the majority of the war, but when it did join Sherman's army near Atlanta, Fleming includes details of each fight as well as a graphic list of injuries and deaths. Letters include a map drawn by Fleming representing an earlier fight, the Battle of Stones River.
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Arrangement
The papers are arranged chronologically in one box as follows: The letters of John C. Fleming, 1862-1865 (20 folders); Fleming Family Mementos (5 folders).
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Selected Search Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Newberry Library's public catalog. Researchers desiring additional materials on a particular topic should search the catalog using these headings.
Names
- Fleming family
- Fleming, John C., b.1844 -- Correspondence
- United States. Army. Illinois Artillery. Chicago Board of Trade Battery (1862-1865)
Subjects
- Artillerymen -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
- Atlanta campaign, 1864 -- Personal narratives
- Brothers and sisters -- Correspondence
- Confederate States of America -- History -- Sources
- Correspondence -- Southern States -- 1851-1900
- Manuscripts, American
- Operational rations (military supplies) -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
- Parent and adult child -- Correspondence
- Patriotic envelopes
- Pictorial lettersheets
- Soldiers -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
- Soldiers -- Illinois -- Correspondence
- Soldiers -- Southern States
- Soldiers' writings, American
- Stones River, Battle of, Murfreesboro, Tenn., 1862-1863 -- Maps
- Stones River, Battle of, Murfreesboro, Tenn., 1862-1863 -- Personal narratives
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Destruction and pillage
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military life
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives
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| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Mother, Murfreesboro, TN (visits, illness), Feb. 21, 1862 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Mother, Louisville, KY (marching, stealing food, plundering), Oct. 7, 1862 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Father and Mother (troop movement, setting up camp, spies), Envelope, Sep. 12, 1862 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Mother and Father, Louisville, KY (troop movement (train, boat), Mich City, Lafayette, camp, geography, guard duty, Louisville, officer intoxication, review, foraging, women at camp), Envelope, Sep. 14,1862 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Sister, Louisville, KY (troop movement, preparing to march, food), Envelope, Sep. 20, 1862 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Father and Mother, Louisville, KY (marching, Louisville, defense), Envelope, Sep. 21, 1862 | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Letter, Fleiming, John C., to Brother, Louisville, KY (sewing, acquaintances), Oct. 3, 1862 | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Father, Louisville, KY (marching, skirmish details, guns, food (foraging, receipts), illness, religion at camp), Oct. 17, 1862 | |||||||||
| 1 | 9 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Sister, Lebanon, KY (marching, supplies from home), Envelope with patriotic vignette, Oct. 24, 1864 | |||||||||
| 1 | 10 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Sister, Bowling Green, KY (religion at camp, illness, weather, music, food, slaves, clothing), Envelope, Nov. 2, 1862 | |||||||||
| 1 | 11 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Father and Mother, Bowling Green, KY (ill/unfit discharges, clothes), Envelope, Nov. 13, 1862 | |||||||||
| 1 | 12 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Sister, Bowling Green, KY (geography, power struggles (captain against Chicago Board of Trade), daily schedule, rations, books, marriage), Envelope, Nov. 23, 1862 | |||||||||
| 1 | 13 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Father, Bowling Green , KY (acquaintances, Thanksgiving, false alarm), Envelope, Dec. 2, 1862 | |||||||||
| 1 | 14 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Brother, Nashville, TN (troop movement, acquaintances, officers), Envelope, Dec. 10, 1862 | |||||||||
| 1 | 15 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Mother, Nashville, TN (troop movement, colors, acquaintances, pay), Envelope, Dec. 14, 1862 | |||||||||
| 1 | 16 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Mother, Nashville, TN (foraging, skirmish, captured and wounded), Dec. 15, 1862 | |||||||||
| 1 | 17 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Mother, Nashville, TN (skirmish, clothes, weather, wounded and discharged) Dec. 25, 1862 | |||||||||
| 1 | 18 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Parents, Murfreesboro, TN (Murfreesboro, battle, dead and wounded, rebel conspiracy), Envelope with patriotic vignette, Jan. 9, 1863 | |||||||||
| 1 | 19 | Letter, Fleming, John C. to Father, Murfreesboro, TN (Murfreesboro, illness, desertion, postilion), Map of battle, Envelope, Jan 18, 1863 | |||||||||
| 1 | 20 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Mother, Murfreesboro, TN (fortifications, prisoners, religion at camp, acquaintances dead and living, typhoid fever), Envelope, Feb. 10, | |||||||||
| 1 | 21 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Father, Murfreesboro, TN (guerillas, railroad, acquaintances, weather, refugees), Envelope, Feb. 18, 1863 | |||||||||
| 1 | 22 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Mother, Murfreesboro, TN (salute, pay, looting corpses), Feb. 27, 1863 | |||||||||
| 1 | 23 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Mother, Murfreesboro, TN (illness, sending pay), Envelope, Mar. 4, 1863 | |||||||||
| 1 | 24 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Father, Murfreesboro, TN (request for letters and food from home), Mar. 5, 1863 | |||||||||
| 1 | 25 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Father, Murfreesboro, TN (weather, fortification, packages, illness), Mar. 2, 1863 | |||||||||
| 1 | 26 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Sister, Murfreesboro, TN (sending bodies home, food, deserters), Envelope, Mar. 16, 1863 | |||||||||
| 1 | 27 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Father, Murfreesboro, TN (new recruits, building camp), Envelope, Mar. 22, 1863 | |||||||||
| 1 | 28 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Uncle, Murfreesboro, TN (building camp, fortifications, skirmish, ex-slaves, cooking), Mar. 23, 1863 | |||||||||
| 1 | 29 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to "Master Isaac" (Brother), Murfreesboro, TN (photographs, sewing, camp life), Envelope, Mar. 25, 1863 | |||||||||
| 1 | 30 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Sister, Murfreesboro, TN (friendship among soldiers, roll of honor, soldiers leaving and returning to camp), Envelope, Apr. 5m 1863 | |||||||||
| 1 | 31 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Mother, Murfreesboro, TN (sending pay, building camp, guerillas, trains, illness), Business card: Larrabee & North Hardware, Apr. 12, 1863 | |||||||||
| 1 | 32 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Mother, Murfreesboro, TN (letters, weather, illness), Envelope, Apr. 18, 1863 | |||||||||
| 1 | 33 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Father, Murfreesboro, TN (expedition, copperheads), Envelope, Apr. 27, 1863 | |||||||||
| 1 | 34 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Father, Murfreesboro, TN (tents, acquaintances), Envelope, May 4, 1863 | |||||||||
| 1 | 35 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Sister, Murfreesboro, TN (letters, newpapers, acquaintances), Envelope, May 10, 1863 | |||||||||
| 1 | 36 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Mother, Murfreesboro, TN (orders to leaave camp, camp life, visiting amongst soldiers, illness), May 17, 1863 | |||||||||
| 1 | 37 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Father, Murfreesboro, TN (moving camp, daily schedule, religion, acquaintances, Vicksburg), Envelope, May 26, 1863 | |||||||||
| 1 | 38 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Sister, Murfreesboro, TN (camp life, rumours, travel, acquaintances, commitment to war), Envelope, May 31, 1862 | |||||||||
| 1 | 39 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Mother, Murfreesboro, TN (death of a soldier, baggage, arms, plans for battery), Jun. 7, 1863 | |||||||||
| 1 | 40 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Sister, Murfreesboro, TN (scouting, camp life, size of battery, maintaining conections with home), Envelope, Jun. 14, 1863 | |||||||||
| 1 | 41 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Mother and Cousin, Murfreesboro, TN (visiting between soldiers), Envelope, Jun. 17, 1863 | |||||||||
| 1 | 42 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Father, Winchester, AL (brigade, acquaintances, letter writing), Envelope, Jul. 8, 1863 | |||||||||
| 1 | 43 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Parents, Huntsville, AL (composition of force, weather, food), Envelope, Jul. 17, 1863 | |||||||||
| 1 | 44 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Mother, Salem, TN (accompanying animals and refugees, pay), Envelope, Jul. 27, 1863 | |||||||||
| 1 | 45 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Father, Winchester, TN (officers, election, attitude towards rebels, injury), Envelope, Aug. 3, 1863 | |||||||||
| 1 | 46 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Brother, Winchester, TN (troop movement, rations), Aug. 9, 1863 | |||||||||
| 1 | 47 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Mother, Winchester, TN (sending pay, supplies from home), Envelope Aug. 9, 1863 | |||||||||
| 1 | 48 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Mother, Winchester, TN (death of acquaintance, marching preparation), Envelope Aug. 15, 1863 | |||||||||
| 1 | 49 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Sister, Bridgeport, AL (marching, mountain, injury, visiting rebel soldiers), Envelope, Aug. 28, 1863 | |||||||||
| 1 | 50 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Father, Chattanooga, TN (marching, battle), Envelope, Sep. 23, 1863 | |||||||||
| 1 | 51 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Sister, Jerusalem, TN (fighting, marching, picket duty, talking with rebels, acquaintances), Oct. 7, 1863 | |||||||||
| 1 | 52 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Sister, Smiths Cross Road, TN (food, officers moved/arrested, lack of news), Envelope, Nov. 2, 1863 | |||||||||
| 1 | 53 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Mother, Maysville, AL (marching, acquaintances, reorganizing battery), Envelope, Nov. 19, 1863 | |||||||||
| 1 | 54 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Mother, Huntsville, AL (setting up winter quarters, illness, winter clothes), Envelope, Dec. 1, 1863 | |||||||||
| 1 | 55 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Mother, Huntsville, AL (picture, chirch, marching orders), Envelope, Dec. 20, 1863 | |||||||||
| 1 | 56 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Sister, Pulaski, TN (marching, reenlisting, Christmas and New Years, cold), Jan. 8, 1864 | |||||||||
| 1 | 57 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Mother, Huntsville, AL (winter quarters, postal service, letter writing), Envelope, Jan. 22, 1864 | |||||||||
| 1 | 58 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Father, Huntsville, AL (weather, New Years, Southern reactions to weather, suples, change of General, acquantiance), Envelope, Jan. 23, 1864 | |||||||||
| 1 | 59 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Sister, Hunstville, AL (birth of nephew, shaving, hats, church, photographs, supplies from home), Envelope, Jan. 26, 1864 | |||||||||
| 1 | 60 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Brother, Huntsville, AL (moving guns, troop movement, new recruits), Envelope, Feb. 9, 1864 | |||||||||
| 1 | 61 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Mother, Nashville, TN (weather, acquaintances, photographs, marching plans), Envelope, Mar. 2, 1864 | |||||||||
| 1 | 62 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Sister, Nashville, TN (troop movement, acquaintances), Envelope, Mar. 7, 1864 | |||||||||
| 1 | 63 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Mother, Huntsville, AL (acquaintances, setting up camp, church, photograph), Mar. 22, 1864 | |||||||||
| 1 | 64 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Father, Huntsville, AL (stolen revolvers, "negro whipping", seeing famous generals, church and sanctuary commissions), Envelope, Mar. 29, 1864 | |||||||||
| 1 | 65 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Father, Huntsville, AL (cavalry reorganization), Envelope, Apr. 3, 1864 | |||||||||
| 1 | 66 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Sister, Columbus, TN (Columbus, photographs, furlough applications), Envelope, Apr. 12, 1864 | |||||||||
| 1 | 67 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Father, Columbus, TN (cavalry reorganization, acquaintance, death of General Thorp), Envelope, Apr. 21, 1864 | |||||||||
| 1 | 68 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Mother, Stephenson, AL (marching, trains), Envelope, May 6, 1864 | |||||||||
| 1 | 69 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Sister, Cartersville, GA (the front, battle, horses, foraging), Envelope, June 4, 1864 | |||||||||
| 1 | 70 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Parents, Marietta, GA (the front, Marietta, railroad, Sherman, foraging, deaths), Jun. 15, 1864 | |||||||||
| 1 | 71 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Parents, Marietta, GA (the front, artillery duel, injuries, fighting a rebel cavalry, guns, aftermath, weather), Envelope, Jun. 25, 1864 | |||||||||
| 1 | 72 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Mother, Marietta, GA (battle, heat, shells, wounded, prisoners), Jun. 30, 1864 | |||||||||
| 1 | 73 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Father, Roswell, GA (hats, retreat and pursuit, battle, Roswell, Sherman, factories and labourers, fighting on the southern bank, dead and captured), Envelope, Jul. 12, 1864 | |||||||||
| 1 | 74 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Parents, Atlanta, GA (raiding, fighting, dead and wounded, Decauter, McPherson), Jul. 25, 1864 | |||||||||
| 1 | 75 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Parents, Atlanta, GA (raiding, fighting, Atlanta, acquaintances), Envelope, Aug. 3, 1864 | |||||||||
| 1 | 76 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Brother, Atlanta, GA (high school, Atlanta), Envelope, Aug. 5, 1864 | |||||||||
| 1 | 77 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Father, Atlanta, GA (recruiting, watch, Atlanta, death of soldier), Envelope, Aug. 17, 1864 | |||||||||
| 1 | 78 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Mother, Atlanta, GA (Atlanta, foraging, acquaintances), Envelope, Aug. 22, 1864 | |||||||||
| 1 | 79 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Parents, Cross Keys, GA (Atlanta, raiding, guns, dead and wounded, Sherman), Envelope, Sep. 13, 1864 | |||||||||
| 1 | 80 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Sister, Waterloo, AL (new recruits, acquaintances), Feb. 1, 1865 | |||||||||
| 1 | 81 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Sister, Waterloo, AL (peace rumors, furlough), Envelope, Feb. 10, 1865 | |||||||||
| 1 | 82 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Sister, Waterloo, AL (writing letters, birthday, news of victories), Envelope, Feb. 24, 1865 | |||||||||
| 1 | 83 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Sister, Chickasaw Landing, AL (troop movement, remainder of time in sevice, recruiting), Mar. 13, 1865 | |||||||||
| 1 | 84 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Parents, Nashville, TN (mustering out), Envelope, Jun. 12, 1865 | |||||||||
| 1 | 85 | Letter, Fleming, John C., to Mother, Camp Stokes, Location unknown (coming home), Envelope, Sep. 8, 1865 | |||||||||
| 1 | 86 | Muster roll of the Chicago Board of Trade Battery , n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 87 | Letter, Florsyth, Rovert to John C. Fleming, Vicksburg, MS (battle, prisoners, Vicksburg), Patriotic vignette, March 23, 1863 | |||||||||
| 1 | 88 | Correspondence regarding John C. Fleming, ca. 1865-1871 | |||||||||
| 1 | 89 | Miscellaneous family letters (includes letter about San Francisco earthquake written Aug. 21, 1906 1895-1906), n.d. | |||||||||