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L. S. Willard Letters
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Willard
Abstract
First Lieutenant in the 11th Illinois Cavalry, Company G, who later served as major and aide-de-camp to General James Birdseye McPherson. Includes letters home to family from Brimfield, Peoria County, Illinois, from Camp Benton Barracks, St. Louis, Tennessee, and Louisiana, 1862-1864.
Dates:
1862-1864
Letters between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee
Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Case-MS-F8340.905
Abstract
A series of nine communications exchanged between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee during April 7-9, 1865 negotiating Lee's surrender; transcribed in the hand of Ely Samuel Parker, Grant's military secretary, and accompanied by his notes.
Dates:
1865
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- Appomattox Campaign, 1865. 1
- Brimfield (Ill.) -- Genealogy 1
- Brimfield (Ill.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources 1
- Brothers and sisters -- Correspondence 1
- Camp Benton (Mo.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Capitulations, Military -- Virginia -- Appomattox 1
- Correspondence -- 1851-1900 1
- Correspondence -- Southern States -- 1851-1900 1
- Generals -- Confederate States of America -- Correspondence 1
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- Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
- Illinois -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
- Kennesaw Mountain, Battle of, Ga., 1864 -- Personal narratives 1
- Louisiana -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
- Manuscripts, American 1
- Mississippi -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
- Parent and adult child -- Correspondence 1
- Peoria County (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Pictorial lettersheets 1
- Resaca, Battle of, Resaca Ga, 1864 -- Personal narratives 1
- Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862 -- Personal narratives 1
- Soldiers -- Southern States 1
- Soldiers' writings, American 1
- Southern States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
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- Hathaway, Maria Sabin 1
- Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward) 1
- McPherson, James Birdseye 1
- Parker, Ely Samuel 1
- Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh) 1
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