Box 1
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Contains 25 Results:
Label for collection: Letters of Richard Realf to Laura B. Merritt and Mrs. Cramer her sister, n.d.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
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Twenty-two letters from Richard Realf to Laura B. Merritt and her sister Marian Merritt Cramer of Chicago, written while in active service in the Civil War as a soldier in the Illinois Eighty-eighth Volunteer Infantry, organized at Chicago in 1862. Some letters contain vivid, often poetical descriptions of Realf’s experiences as a soldier in the midst of several skirmishes as his regiment moves south. The Illinois 88th was stationed in several locations around Atlanta, becoming involved in...
Dates:
n.d.
Letter, Realf, Richard to Laura B. Merritt, Loudon, TN (Leaves of Grass, religion, soldier's philosophy), Feb. 19, 1864
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
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Twenty-two letters from Richard Realf to Laura B. Merritt and her sister Marian Merritt Cramer of Chicago, written while in active service in the Civil War as a soldier in the Illinois Eighty-eighth Volunteer Infantry, organized at Chicago in 1862. Some letters contain vivid, often poetical descriptions of Realf’s experiences as a soldier in the midst of several skirmishes as his regiment moves south. The Illinois 88th was stationed in several locations around Atlanta, becoming involved in...
Dates:
Feb. 19, 1864
Letter, Realf, Richard to Laura B. Merritt, Loudon, TN (illness, kindness of soldiers, philosophy), March 8, 1864
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Twenty-two letters from Richard Realf to Laura B. Merritt and her sister Marian Merritt Cramer of Chicago, written while in active service in the Civil War as a soldier in the Illinois Eighty-eighth Volunteer Infantry, organized at Chicago in 1862. Some letters contain vivid, often poetical descriptions of Realf’s experiences as a soldier in the midst of several skirmishes as his regiment moves south. The Illinois 88th was stationed in several locations around Atlanta, becoming involved in...
Dates:
March 8, 1864
Letter, Realf, Richard to Laura B. Merritt, Loudon, TN (depression, religion), March 15, 1864
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Twenty-two letters from Richard Realf to Laura B. Merritt and her sister Marian Merritt Cramer of Chicago, written while in active service in the Civil War as a soldier in the Illinois Eighty-eighth Volunteer Infantry, organized at Chicago in 1862. Some letters contain vivid, often poetical descriptions of Realf’s experiences as a soldier in the midst of several skirmishes as his regiment moves south. The Illinois 88th was stationed in several locations around Atlanta, becoming involved in...
Dates:
March 15, 1864
Letter, Realf, Richard to Laura B. Merritt, Loudon, TN (religion, lack of direction), March 31, 1864
File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Twenty-two letters from Richard Realf to Laura B. Merritt and her sister Marian Merritt Cramer of Chicago, written while in active service in the Civil War as a soldier in the Illinois Eighty-eighth Volunteer Infantry, organized at Chicago in 1862. Some letters contain vivid, often poetical descriptions of Realf’s experiences as a soldier in the midst of several skirmishes as his regiment moves south. The Illinois 88th was stationed in several locations around Atlanta, becoming involved in...
Dates:
March 31, 1864
Letter, Realf, Richard to Laura B. Merritt, Loudon, TN (regiment library), April 9, 1864
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Twenty-two letters from Richard Realf to Laura B. Merritt and her sister Marian Merritt Cramer of Chicago, written while in active service in the Civil War as a soldier in the Illinois Eighty-eighth Volunteer Infantry, organized at Chicago in 1862. Some letters contain vivid, often poetical descriptions of Realf’s experiences as a soldier in the midst of several skirmishes as his regiment moves south. The Illinois 88th was stationed in several locations around Atlanta, becoming involved in...
Dates:
April 9, 1864
Letter, Realf, Richard to Laura B. Merritt, Loudon, TN (medical inspectors, poetry, Harper's weekly, politics), April 16, 1864
File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Twenty-two letters from Richard Realf to Laura B. Merritt and her sister Marian Merritt Cramer of Chicago, written while in active service in the Civil War as a soldier in the Illinois Eighty-eighth Volunteer Infantry, organized at Chicago in 1862. Some letters contain vivid, often poetical descriptions of Realf’s experiences as a soldier in the midst of several skirmishes as his regiment moves south. The Illinois 88th was stationed in several locations around Atlanta, becoming involved in...
Dates:
April 16, 1864
Letter, Realf, Richard to Laura B. Merritt, no location (religion), May 2, 1864
File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Twenty-two letters from Richard Realf to Laura B. Merritt and her sister Marian Merritt Cramer of Chicago, written while in active service in the Civil War as a soldier in the Illinois Eighty-eighth Volunteer Infantry, organized at Chicago in 1862. Some letters contain vivid, often poetical descriptions of Realf’s experiences as a soldier in the midst of several skirmishes as his regiment moves south. The Illinois 88th was stationed in several locations around Atlanta, becoming involved in...
Dates:
May 2, 1864
Letter, Realf, Richard to Laura B. Merritt, "The Front" (photography, soldier's philosophy), July 1, 1864
File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Twenty-two letters from Richard Realf to Laura B. Merritt and her sister Marian Merritt Cramer of Chicago, written while in active service in the Civil War as a soldier in the Illinois Eighty-eighth Volunteer Infantry, organized at Chicago in 1862. Some letters contain vivid, often poetical descriptions of Realf’s experiences as a soldier in the midst of several skirmishes as his regiment moves south. The Illinois 88th was stationed in several locations around Atlanta, becoming involved in...
Dates:
July 1, 1864
Letter, Realf, Richard to Laura B. Merritt and Marian M. Cramer, Marietta, GA (marching, pursuing the rebels), July 4, 1864
File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Twenty-two letters from Richard Realf to Laura B. Merritt and her sister Marian Merritt Cramer of Chicago, written while in active service in the Civil War as a soldier in the Illinois Eighty-eighth Volunteer Infantry, organized at Chicago in 1862. Some letters contain vivid, often poetical descriptions of Realf’s experiences as a soldier in the midst of several skirmishes as his regiment moves south. The Illinois 88th was stationed in several locations around Atlanta, becoming involved in...
Dates:
July 4, 1864
Letter, Realf, Richard to Laura B. Merritt and Marian M. Cramer, on the Chattahoochee River, GA (Atlanta, hanged soldier), July 6, 1864
File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Twenty-two letters from Richard Realf to Laura B. Merritt and her sister Marian Merritt Cramer of Chicago, written while in active service in the Civil War as a soldier in the Illinois Eighty-eighth Volunteer Infantry, organized at Chicago in 1862. Some letters contain vivid, often poetical descriptions of Realf’s experiences as a soldier in the midst of several skirmishes as his regiment moves south. The Illinois 88th was stationed in several locations around Atlanta, becoming involved in...
Dates:
July 6, 1864
Letter, Realf, Richard to Laura B. Merritt, South bank, Chattahoochee River, GA (guerrillas, weather, Atlanta), July 14, 1864
File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Twenty-two letters from Richard Realf to Laura B. Merritt and her sister Marian Merritt Cramer of Chicago, written while in active service in the Civil War as a soldier in the Illinois Eighty-eighth Volunteer Infantry, organized at Chicago in 1862. Some letters contain vivid, often poetical descriptions of Realf’s experiences as a soldier in the midst of several skirmishes as his regiment moves south. The Illinois 88th was stationed in several locations around Atlanta, becoming involved in...
Dates:
July 14, 1864
Letter, Realf, Richard to Laura B. Merritt and Marian M. Cramer, Atlanta, GA (battle, dead and wounded, Atlanta), July 21, 1864
File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Twenty-two letters from Richard Realf to Laura B. Merritt and her sister Marian Merritt Cramer of Chicago, written while in active service in the Civil War as a soldier in the Illinois Eighty-eighth Volunteer Infantry, organized at Chicago in 1862. Some letters contain vivid, often poetical descriptions of Realf’s experiences as a soldier in the midst of several skirmishes as his regiment moves south. The Illinois 88th was stationed in several locations around Atlanta, becoming involved in...
Dates:
July 21, 1864
Letter, Realf, Richard to Laura B. Merritt and Marian M. Cramer, Atlanta, GA (battle, Mcpherson, shelling, Atlanta, Mackay's literary career), July 23, 1864
File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Twenty-two letters from Richard Realf to Laura B. Merritt and her sister Marian Merritt Cramer of Chicago, written while in active service in the Civil War as a soldier in the Illinois Eighty-eighth Volunteer Infantry, organized at Chicago in 1862. Some letters contain vivid, often poetical descriptions of Realf’s experiences as a soldier in the midst of several skirmishes as his regiment moves south. The Illinois 88th was stationed in several locations around Atlanta, becoming involved in...
Dates:
July 23, 1864
Letter, Realf, Richard to Laura B. Merritt, "In front of Atlanta", GA (Atlanta, thoughts on death), July 29, 1864
File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Twenty-two letters from Richard Realf to Laura B. Merritt and her sister Marian Merritt Cramer of Chicago, written while in active service in the Civil War as a soldier in the Illinois Eighty-eighth Volunteer Infantry, organized at Chicago in 1862. Some letters contain vivid, often poetical descriptions of Realf’s experiences as a soldier in the midst of several skirmishes as his regiment moves south. The Illinois 88th was stationed in several locations around Atlanta, becoming involved in...
Dates:
July 29, 1864
Letter, Realf, Richard to Laura B. Merritt and Marian M. Cramer, Atlanta, GA (Atlanta, strategy, Sherman, stress of battle, McClellan's bid for the presidency), Sept. 5, 1864
File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Twenty-two letters from Richard Realf to Laura B. Merritt and her sister Marian Merritt Cramer of Chicago, written while in active service in the Civil War as a soldier in the Illinois Eighty-eighth Volunteer Infantry, organized at Chicago in 1862. Some letters contain vivid, often poetical descriptions of Realf’s experiences as a soldier in the midst of several skirmishes as his regiment moves south. The Illinois 88th was stationed in several locations around Atlanta, becoming involved in...
Dates:
Sept. 5, 1864
Letter, Realf, Richard to Laura B. Merritt, no location (women, early life, furlough, bravery and death of rebel soldier), Oct. 6, 1864
File — Box: 1, Folder: 17
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Twenty-two letters from Richard Realf to Laura B. Merritt and her sister Marian Merritt Cramer of Chicago, written while in active service in the Civil War as a soldier in the Illinois Eighty-eighth Volunteer Infantry, organized at Chicago in 1862. Some letters contain vivid, often poetical descriptions of Realf’s experiences as a soldier in the midst of several skirmishes as his regiment moves south. The Illinois 88th was stationed in several locations around Atlanta, becoming involved in...
Dates:
Oct. 6, 1864
Letter, Realf, Richard to Laura B. Merritt and Marian M. Cramer, Chattanooga, TN (injury, railroad accident, hospital), Oct. 12, 1864
File — Box: 1, Folder: 18
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Twenty-two letters from Richard Realf to Laura B. Merritt and her sister Marian Merritt Cramer of Chicago, written while in active service in the Civil War as a soldier in the Illinois Eighty-eighth Volunteer Infantry, organized at Chicago in 1862. Some letters contain vivid, often poetical descriptions of Realf’s experiences as a soldier in the midst of several skirmishes as his regiment moves south. The Illinois 88th was stationed in several locations around Atlanta, becoming involved in...
Dates:
Oct. 12, 1864
Letter, Realf, Richard to Laura B. Merritt, Pulaski, TN (illness, living quarters, rats, rebels, Lincoln), Nov. 20, 1864
File — Box: 1, Folder: 19
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Twenty-two letters from Richard Realf to Laura B. Merritt and her sister Marian Merritt Cramer of Chicago, written while in active service in the Civil War as a soldier in the Illinois Eighty-eighth Volunteer Infantry, organized at Chicago in 1862. Some letters contain vivid, often poetical descriptions of Realf’s experiences as a soldier in the midst of several skirmishes as his regiment moves south. The Illinois 88th was stationed in several locations around Atlanta, becoming involved in...
Dates:
Nov. 20, 1864
Letter, Realf, Richard to Laura B. Merritt, Chattanooga, TN (depression, books and magazines, definition of poet, depletion of regiment, beauty), Nov. 22, 1864
File — Box: 1, Folder: 20
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Twenty-two letters from Richard Realf to Laura B. Merritt and her sister Marian Merritt Cramer of Chicago, written while in active service in the Civil War as a soldier in the Illinois Eighty-eighth Volunteer Infantry, organized at Chicago in 1862. Some letters contain vivid, often poetical descriptions of Realf’s experiences as a soldier in the midst of several skirmishes as his regiment moves south. The Illinois 88th was stationed in several locations around Atlanta, becoming involved in...
Dates:
Nov. 22, 1864
Letter, Realf, Richard to Laura B. Merritt, Camp near Nashville, TN; Huntsville, AL (Franklin, blockade, troop sentiment, life after war, marching), Dec. 14, 1864; Jan. 7, 1865
File — Box: 1, Folder: 21
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Twenty-two letters from Richard Realf to Laura B. Merritt and her sister Marian Merritt Cramer of Chicago, written while in active service in the Civil War as a soldier in the Illinois Eighty-eighth Volunteer Infantry, organized at Chicago in 1862. Some letters contain vivid, often poetical descriptions of Realf’s experiences as a soldier in the midst of several skirmishes as his regiment moves south. The Illinois 88th was stationed in several locations around Atlanta, becoming involved in...
Dates:
Dec. 14, 1864; Jan. 7, 1865
Letter, Realf, Richard to Laura B. Merritt and Marian M. Cramer, Huntsville, AL (staff position), Jan. 20, 1865
File — Box: 1, Folder: 22
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Twenty-two letters from Richard Realf to Laura B. Merritt and her sister Marian Merritt Cramer of Chicago, written while in active service in the Civil War as a soldier in the Illinois Eighty-eighth Volunteer Infantry, organized at Chicago in 1862. Some letters contain vivid, often poetical descriptions of Realf’s experiences as a soldier in the midst of several skirmishes as his regiment moves south. The Illinois 88th was stationed in several locations around Atlanta, becoming involved in...
Dates:
Jan. 20, 1865
Letter, Realf, Richard to Laura B. Merritt and Marian M. Cramer, Nashville, TN (depression and anxiety, aide-de-camp, health, news of victory, hopes for peace), Feb. 28, 1865
File — Box: 1, Folder: 23
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Twenty-two letters from Richard Realf to Laura B. Merritt and her sister Marian Merritt Cramer of Chicago, written while in active service in the Civil War as a soldier in the Illinois Eighty-eighth Volunteer Infantry, organized at Chicago in 1862. Some letters contain vivid, often poetical descriptions of Realf’s experiences as a soldier in the midst of several skirmishes as his regiment moves south. The Illinois 88th was stationed in several locations around Atlanta, becoming involved in...
Dates:
Feb. 28, 1865
Poems (2) by Realf, Richard: "L.M." [crossed out in purple ink], n.d.; "My Questions", July 2, 1864
File — Box: 1, Folder: 24
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Twenty-two letters from Richard Realf to Laura B. Merritt and her sister Marian Merritt Cramer of Chicago, written while in active service in the Civil War as a soldier in the Illinois Eighty-eighth Volunteer Infantry, organized at Chicago in 1862. Some letters contain vivid, often poetical descriptions of Realf’s experiences as a soldier in the midst of several skirmishes as his regiment moves south. The Illinois 88th was stationed in several locations around Atlanta, becoming involved in...
Dates:
July 2, 1864
Poem, Marian M. Cramer: "Holding the Thought", n.d.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 25
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Twenty-two letters from Richard Realf to Laura B. Merritt and her sister Marian Merritt Cramer of Chicago, written while in active service in the Civil War as a soldier in the Illinois Eighty-eighth Volunteer Infantry, organized at Chicago in 1862. Some letters contain vivid, often poetical descriptions of Realf’s experiences as a soldier in the midst of several skirmishes as his regiment moves south. The Illinois 88th was stationed in several locations around Atlanta, becoming involved in...
Dates:
n.d.