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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.

 Subject
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Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Francis W. Squires diaries

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1638
Scope and content

Diaries are concerned with family affairs, farm work, rural social life, politics, genealogy, the author's service in the Union Army during the Civil War, and his duties as a Justice of the Peace; include daily notations on temperature, humidity, rainfall and other changes in the weather.

Dates: 1840-1897.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Francis W. Squires diaries

Harvey A. Dowe papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064942943]
Identifier: 3194
Scope and content Correspondence, rosters, certificates, and notes relating to military organization in Ithaca, New York during the Civil War. Primarily addressed to Harvey Dowe, the letters pertain to the following matters: enrollment of volunteers in the 50th Regiment, court martials, Special Orders from the Office of the Adjutant General (in Albany, New York), uniforms, and arms. Other papers include lists of elected officials, a muster roll, Certificates of Appointments of Enrolling Officers, election and...
Dates: 1862-1866.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Harvey A. Dowe papers

Hatheway family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2281
Abstract

Papers relating to the family, personal affairs, and political career of Samuel Gilbert Hatheway (1780-1867).

Dates: 1788-[ca. 1900]
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Hatheway family papers

Howe family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 6373
Abstract

Correspondence from Almon A. Jaynes to Grace Howe. WWI letters to Grace Howe from a number of soldiers. Twenty-six daily diaries of Grace Howe, 1905-1935. Photographs of Grace Howe, her sister Josephine Howe, A. A. Jaynes, among others.

Dates: 1861-1935.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Howe family papers

John S. Howell collection

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064938651]
Identifier: 15
Scope and content Miscellaneous materials collected by John S. Howell: Eli Culver, U. S. bounty land grant, September 10, 1860; letter from Roswin Randall to hospital surgeon, Cortland, N.Y., August 17, 1834; letter from Gideon Blain, North Adrian, Michigan, March 13, 1844 to Nathaniel Bryant, Seneca County, Romulus, N.Y.; letter from S. Woodruff, New York City, January 21, 1845 to Leonard Hall; letter from F. Woodruff, Ithaca, N.Y., May 31, 1847, to brother, C. M. Pelton, Esq., Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; unsigned...
Dates: 1805-1889.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / John S. Howell collection

LaRue family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 642
Scope and content

Diplomas, certificate to teach school in Jefferson County, certificate to practice law in New York State, indentures, a discharge from the Union Army for Joseph H. Pearsall, and an agreement regarding the holding of land in Chenango County, New York.

Dates: 1795-1898
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / LaRue family papers

New York Volunteers, 108th Regiment records

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064924115]
Identifier: 493
Scope and content

Quarterly ordnance and ordnance stores returns, invoices, muster rolls, and miscellany of Company A, Volunteer Infantry, of which Dwight H. Ostrander was lieutenant and later captain; also, a muster roll and clothing receipt for Company B.

Dates: 1863-1864.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / New York Volunteers, 108th Regiment records

Pratt family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 223
Abstract Letters received by Horace L. Edgar Pratt, a Protestant Episcopal rector on Staten Island, New York; also, a Civil War draft exemption certificate issued to John A Kernochan, Sept. 10, 1863; Queens County documents including a four year indenture apprenticing Joseph Lawrence to Effingham Lawrence; a bill of sale selling Joseph, a Negro boy; a receipt for a twelve pound bounty for William Aitken for New York militia service during the Revolutionary War; and a proclamation of Governor George...
Dates: 1758-1903
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Pratt family papers

Samuel North papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 11 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065241394]
Identifier: 1852
Scope and content Letters (1864) to Thomas G. North from his father, Colonel Samuel North, from G.B. Scofield, an associate of Colonel North in The New York State Agency, and from another friend concerning Samuel North's imprisonment and trial in Washington for allegedly using his position in that agency to defraud soldiers of their votes; letter to the Colonel (1865) from a committee in Unadilla congratulating him on his acquittal, and the Colonel's reply; printed transcript of the case, U.S. vs. Samuel...
Dates: 1864-1894.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Samuel North papers

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