Box 1
Container
Contains 28 Results:
Letter, Unidentified, to Otis Mason and family, Fairbury, IL (torn letter, local news), Oct. 4, 1868
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 26
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Correspondence, mainly addressed to Francema Mason, including letters from Otis Mason during his Civil War service with the 129th Illinois Infantry in the South. Otis Mason's Civil War letters indicate that he marched to Bowling Green, Kentucky in November, 1862. The 129th Regiment reached Mitchellville, Tennessee as a garrison unit in December, 1862, and they reached Nashville, Tennessee by October, 1863. Otis Mason marched across Georgia in 1864 to join the army under the...
Dates:
Oct. 4, 1868
Letters, Unidentified, Adelia, to Francema Mason, Topeka, KS (suffragette Olympia Brown, local news), 1867-1868
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 27
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Correspondence, mainly addressed to Francema Mason, including letters from Otis Mason during his Civil War service with the 129th Illinois Infantry in the South. Otis Mason's Civil War letters indicate that he marched to Bowling Green, Kentucky in November, 1862. The 129th Regiment reached Mitchellville, Tennessee as a garrison unit in December, 1862, and they reached Nashville, Tennessee by October, 1863. Otis Mason marched across Georgia in 1864 to join the army under the...
Dates:
1867-1868
Letter, Unidentified brother to Otis and Francema Mason, Deadwood, SD (Native Americans, gold rush), July 23, 1876
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 28
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Correspondence, mainly addressed to Francema Mason, including letters from Otis Mason during his Civil War service with the 129th Illinois Infantry in the South. Otis Mason's Civil War letters indicate that he marched to Bowling Green, Kentucky in November, 1862. The 129th Regiment reached Mitchellville, Tennessee as a garrison unit in December, 1862, and they reached Nashville, Tennessee by October, 1863. Otis Mason marched across Georgia in 1864 to join the army under the...
Dates:
July 23, 1876