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Francema Mason - Otis Mason Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Mason
Abstract
Nineteen letters from Otis Mason, a sergeant in the Civil War to his Illinois wife, Francema Otis. Twelve letters from various friends and family, and a wedding invitation are also included.
Dates:
1863-1876; Majority of material found within 1863 - 1868
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
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
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- Soldiers' writings, American 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military life 2
- Alabama -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources 1
- Brimfield (Ill.) -- Genealogy 1
- Brimfield (Ill.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources 1
- Brothers and sisters -- Correspondence 1
- Business enterprises -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- California, Northern -- Description and travel 1
- Camp Benton (Mo.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Correspondence -- California, Northern -- 1801-1850 1
- Correspondence -- Kansas -- 1851-1900 1
- Correspondence -- South Dakota -- Deadwood -- 1851-1900 1
- Deadwood (S.D.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Georgia -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
- Gold miners -- California, Northern -- Correspondence 1
- Husband and wife -- Correspondence 1
- Illinois -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Illinois -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
- Kansas -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Kennesaw Mountain, Battle of, Ga., 1864 -- Personal narratives 1
- Kentucky -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Livingston County (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Louisiana -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
- Madison (Ind.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Michigan -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Mississippi -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Mississippi -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
- Overland journeys to the Pacific -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Parent and adult child -- Correspondence 1
- Parent and child -- Illinois -- 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 -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Correspondence 1
- Soldiers -- Illinois -- Fairbury -- Correspondence 1
- Soldiers -- Kansas -- Correspondence 1
- Soldiers -- Southern States 1
- Soldiers -- Southern States -- Correspondence 1
- Southern States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
- Stones River, Battle of, Murfreesboro, Tenn., 1862-1863 1
- Tennessee -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
- Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources 1
- Topeka (Kan.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories 1
- West (U.S.) -- Description and travel 1
- Women -- Suffrage -- Kansas -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1 ∧ less
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- Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh) 2
- Ballentine, Henry A. 1
- Brown, Olympia 1
- Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) 1
- Hathaway, Maria Sabin 1
- Mason family 1
- Mason, Francema A. 1
- Mason, Otis S. 1
- McPherson, James Birdseye 1
- Rosecrans, William S. (William Starke) 1
- Sherman family 1
- Sherman, Electa 1
- Sherman, Francis C. 1
- Sherman, Francis Trowbridge 1
- Sherman, Haley & Co 1
- Sherman, Martha E. 1
- United States. Army. Department of the Tennessee 1
- United States. Army. Illinois Cavalry Regiment, 11th (1861-1865?) 1
- United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment, 129th (1862-1865) 1
- United States. Army. Illinois Regiment, 88th (1862-1865) 1
- Willard family 1
- Willard, L. S. (Lot Sabine) 1 ∧ less
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