Showing Collections: 1 - 1 of 1
Francis Trowbridge Sherman Papers
Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Case-MS-5282
Abstract
Correspondence of Francis Trowbridge Sherman of Chicago, and his traveling companion, Henry A. Ballentine, documenting their travel overland to the California gold fields and experiences there, 1849-1850. Also photocopies of a few of Sherman's (colonel 88th Illinois Infantry) letters regarding the Civil War and his Chicago business, business and family correspondence of father F.C. Sherman, family records, and newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1849-1894