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Charles W. Gallentine Letters

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Gallentine
Abstract

Letters home, 1862-1863, by Charles W. Gallentine of the 7th Illinois Cavalry, from Camp Butler, Springfield, Ill., Jacinto and Corinth, Miss., Memphis and LaGrange, Tenn., and Lawrence Co., Ala., regarding camp life, skirmishes, men killed and wounded, Southern guerillas, northern Copperheads and the draft, Southern plantations and slave attitudes, Union and Confederate prisoners, etc.

Dates: 1861-1863

Edward W. Curtis letters

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Curtis
Abstract

Correspondence of Edward W. Curtis of Massachusetts, a private in the 88th Illinois Infantry during the Civil War. Also includes clippings relating to battles, the life of Federal soldiers, and hospital listings near Nashville, Tennessee.

Dates: 1855-1865; Majority of material found in 1863

John D. Beach Letters

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Beach
Abstract

Correspondence from Pvt. Beach of the 55th Illinois Infantry, Company G, to his mother describing everyday camp life in La Grange and Memphis, Tenn., Washington, D.C., and Big Shanty [now Kennesaw], Ga.

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

 Collection
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

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Correspondence -- Tennessee -- 1851-1900 4
Manuscripts, American 4
Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 4
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military life 4
Alabama -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 2
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Correspondence -- Mississippi -- 1851-1900 2
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Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources 2
Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Atlanta Campaign, 1864 -- Personal narratives 1
Brothers and sisters -- Correspondence 1
Cabinet photographs 1
Camp Butler (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Cartes de visite 1
Copperhead movement 1
Corinth, Battle of, Corinth, Miss., 1862 -- Personal narratives 1
Correspondence -- Alabama -- 1851-1900 1
Correspondence -- Georgia -- 1851-1900 1
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Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources 1
Household employees -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
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Illinois -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
La Salle (Ill.) -- Genealogy 1
La Salle (Ill.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
Manuscripts, American -- Georgia -- Kennesaw 1
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Manuscripts, American -- Washington (D.C.) 1
Military hospitals, American -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Missouri -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
Operational rations (military supplies) -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Parent and adult child -- Correspondence 1
Patriotic envelopes 1
Photographs -- 1851-1900 1
Pictorial lettersheets 1
Pictorial lettersheets -- 1851-1900 1
Plantations -- Tennessee -- History -- 19th century 1
Poems -- 1864 1
Poets, American -- 19th century -- Correspondence 1
Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862 -- Personal narratives 1
Slavery -- United States -- Public opinion 1
Soldiers -- Diseases -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Soldiers -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Soldiers -- Missouri -- Correspondence 1
Soldiers -- Southern States -- Correspondence 1
Soldiers -- Washington (D.C.) -- Correspondence 1
Stones River, Battle of, Murfreesboro, Tenn., 1862-1863 1
Tintypes (prints) 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources 1
Washington (D.C.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources 1
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United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment, 88th (1862-1865) 2
Beach family 1
Beach, John D. (Soldier) 1
Curtis, Edward W. 1
Dawson, Mitchell, 1890-1956 1