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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

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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  • Subject: Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives X
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Brothers and sisters -- Correspondence 2
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Soldiers -- Tennessee -- Correspondence 2
Alabama -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
Brimfield (Ill.) -- Genealogy 1
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Camp Benton (Mo.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
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Copperhead movement 1
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Families -- Massachusetts -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Fulton County (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Georgia -- 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
Operational rations (military supplies) -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Parent and adult child -- Correspondence 1
Peoria County (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Pictorial lettersheets -- 1851-1900 1
Plantations -- Tennessee -- History -- 19th century 1
Resaca, Battle of, Resaca Ga, 1864 -- Personal narratives 1
Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862 -- Personal narratives 1
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Stones River, Battle of, Murfreesboro, Tenn., 1862-1863 1
Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
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Curtis, Edward W. 1
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Gallentine, C. W. (Charles W.), -1864 1