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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military life

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

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

Richard Realf Letters and Poems

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Realf
Abstract

Twenty-two letters of Richard Realf to Laura B. Merritt and her sister Marian Merritt Cramer of Chicago, written while in active service in the Illinois Eighty-eighth Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War, 1864-1865. Also, two poems of Realf’s and a poem written by Marian Cramer.

Dates: 1864-1865