Box SC1850-1899.007
Container
Contains 25 Collections and/or Records:
Henry Watkins Collier, 1853-03
File — Box: SC1850-1899.007, Folder: 45.04
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Letters and documents signed by various Alabama political figures, including William Brockman Bankhead, Ruben Chapman, Clement Comer Clay, and Henry Watkins Collier.
Dates:
1853-03
Letter to Oscar Wadsworth, 4 March 1860
Item — Box: SC1850-1899.007, Folder: 4237.01
Content Description
From the Collection:
The letters that constitute this collection detail former Michigan representative Hestor L. Stevens’s law business in Washington, DC, during the election of 1860 and the beginning of the Civil War. Stevens, a Democrat, was a partisan of Stephen Douglas, and Stevens wrote critically of his own party after the loss. There is a poignant letter describing the death of his wife, Charlotte White Sedgewick Stevens (1811-1860). Stevens’s letters describe life in Washington during the early days of both...
Dates:
4 March 1860
Letter to Oscar Wadsworth, 21 May 1860
Item — Box: SC1850-1899.007, Folder: 4237.01
Content Description
From the Collection:
The letters that constitute this collection detail former Michigan representative Hestor L. Stevens’s law business in Washington, DC, during the election of 1860 and the beginning of the Civil War. Stevens, a Democrat, was a partisan of Stephen Douglas, and Stevens wrote critically of his own party after the loss. There is a poignant letter describing the death of his wife, Charlotte White Sedgewick Stevens (1811-1860). Stevens’s letters describe life in Washington during the early days of both...
Dates:
21 May 1860
Letter to Oscar Wadsworth, 12 June 1860
Item — Box: SC1850-1899.007, Folder: 4237.01
Content Description
From the Collection:
The letters that constitute this collection detail former Michigan representative Hestor L. Stevens’s law business in Washington, DC, during the election of 1860 and the beginning of the Civil War. Stevens, a Democrat, was a partisan of Stephen Douglas, and Stevens wrote critically of his own party after the loss. There is a poignant letter describing the death of his wife, Charlotte White Sedgewick Stevens (1811-1860). Stevens’s letters describe life in Washington during the early days of both...
Dates:
12 June 1860
Letter to Oscar Wadsworth, 02 October 1860
Item — Box: SC1850-1899.007, Folder: 4237.01
Content Description
From the Collection:
The letters that constitute this collection detail former Michigan representative Hestor L. Stevens’s law business in Washington, DC, during the election of 1860 and the beginning of the Civil War. Stevens, a Democrat, was a partisan of Stephen Douglas, and Stevens wrote critically of his own party after the loss. There is a poignant letter describing the death of his wife, Charlotte White Sedgewick Stevens (1811-1860). Stevens’s letters describe life in Washington during the early days of both...
Dates:
02 October 1860
Letter to Oscar Wadsworth, 05 November 1860
Item — Box: SC1850-1899.007, Folder: 4237.01
Content Description
From the Collection:
The letters that constitute this collection detail former Michigan representative Hestor L. Stevens’s law business in Washington, DC, during the election of 1860 and the beginning of the Civil War. Stevens, a Democrat, was a partisan of Stephen Douglas, and Stevens wrote critically of his own party after the loss. There is a poignant letter describing the death of his wife, Charlotte White Sedgewick Stevens (1811-1860). Stevens’s letters describe life in Washington during the early days of both...
Dates:
05 November 1860
Letter to Oscar Wadsworth, 14 December 1860
Item — Box: SC1850-1899.007, Folder: 4237.01
Content Description
From the Collection:
The letters that constitute this collection detail former Michigan representative Hestor L. Stevens’s law business in Washington, DC, during the election of 1860 and the beginning of the Civil War. Stevens, a Democrat, was a partisan of Stephen Douglas, and Stevens wrote critically of his own party after the loss. There is a poignant letter describing the death of his wife, Charlotte White Sedgewick Stevens (1811-1860). Stevens’s letters describe life in Washington during the early days of both...
Dates:
14 December 1860
Letter to Oscar Wadsworth, 03 March 1861
Item — Box: SC1850-1899.007, Folder: 4237.01
Content Description
From the Collection:
The letters that constitute this collection detail former Michigan representative Hestor L. Stevens’s law business in Washington, DC, during the election of 1860 and the beginning of the Civil War. Stevens, a Democrat, was a partisan of Stephen Douglas, and Stevens wrote critically of his own party after the loss. There is a poignant letter describing the death of his wife, Charlotte White Sedgewick Stevens (1811-1860). Stevens’s letters describe life in Washington during the early days of both...
Dates:
03 March 1861
Letter to Oscar Wadsworth, 19 June 1861
Item — Box: SC1850-1899.007, Folder: 4237.01
Content Description
From the Collection:
The letters that constitute this collection detail former Michigan representative Hestor L. Stevens’s law business in Washington, DC, during the election of 1860 and the beginning of the Civil War. Stevens, a Democrat, was a partisan of Stephen Douglas, and Stevens wrote critically of his own party after the loss. There is a poignant letter describing the death of his wife, Charlotte White Sedgewick Stevens (1811-1860). Stevens’s letters describe life in Washington during the early days of both...
Dates:
19 June 1861
Letter to Oscar Wadsworth, 14 August 1861
Item — Box: SC1850-1899.007, Folder: 4237.01
Content Description
From the Collection:
The letters that constitute this collection detail former Michigan representative Hestor L. Stevens’s law business in Washington, DC, during the election of 1860 and the beginning of the Civil War. Stevens, a Democrat, was a partisan of Stephen Douglas, and Stevens wrote critically of his own party after the loss. There is a poignant letter describing the death of his wife, Charlotte White Sedgewick Stevens (1811-1860). Stevens’s letters describe life in Washington during the early days of both...
Dates:
14 August 1861
Letter to Oscar Wadsworth, 24 August 1861
Item — Box: SC1850-1899.007, Folder: 4237.01
Content Description
From the Collection:
The letters that constitute this collection detail former Michigan representative Hestor L. Stevens’s law business in Washington, DC, during the election of 1860 and the beginning of the Civil War. Stevens, a Democrat, was a partisan of Stephen Douglas, and Stevens wrote critically of his own party after the loss. There is a poignant letter describing the death of his wife, Charlotte White Sedgewick Stevens (1811-1860). Stevens’s letters describe life in Washington during the early days of both...
Dates:
24 August 1861
Letter to Oscar Wadsworth, 26 August 1861
Item — Box: SC1850-1899.007, Folder: 4237.01
Content Description
From the Collection:
The letters that constitute this collection detail former Michigan representative Hestor L. Stevens’s law business in Washington, DC, during the election of 1860 and the beginning of the Civil War. Stevens, a Democrat, was a partisan of Stephen Douglas, and Stevens wrote critically of his own party after the loss. There is a poignant letter describing the death of his wife, Charlotte White Sedgewick Stevens (1811-1860). Stevens’s letters describe life in Washington during the early days of both...
Dates:
26 August 1861
Letter to Oscar Wadsworth, 22 August 1861
Item — Box: SC1850-1899.007, Folder: 4237.01
Content Description
From the Collection:
The letters that constitute this collection detail former Michigan representative Hestor L. Stevens’s law business in Washington, DC, during the election of 1860 and the beginning of the Civil War. Stevens, a Democrat, was a partisan of Stephen Douglas, and Stevens wrote critically of his own party after the loss. There is a poignant letter describing the death of his wife, Charlotte White Sedgewick Stevens (1811-1860). Stevens’s letters describe life in Washington during the early days of both...
Dates:
22 August 1861
Samuel Bailey letters, 1865-1869
File — Box: SC1850-1899.007, Folder: 4297.001
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Bailey Family Papers include letters created and received by multiple generations of family members. The bulk of the letters contains Reconstruction-era content, but there are also other later letters of interest written from Texas and Japan. Samuel Bailey wrote ten letters to his son George from 1865-1869. Although Samuel wrote most of the letters while in Macon, Georgia, he was in South Charlestown, New Hampshire, when he wrote the earliest one on June 10, 1865. The letters were addressed...
Dates:
1865-1869
George Bailey letters to Mary Bailey, 1887
File — Box: SC1850-1899.007, Folder: 4297.002
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Bailey Family Papers include letters created and received by multiple generations of family members. The bulk of the letters contains Reconstruction-era content, but there are also other later letters of interest written from Texas and Japan. Samuel Bailey wrote ten letters to his son George from 1865-1869. Although Samuel wrote most of the letters while in Macon, Georgia, he was in South Charlestown, New Hampshire, when he wrote the earliest one on June 10, 1865. The letters were addressed...
Dates:
1887
George Bailey letters to Eli Adams, April 1880
File — Box: SC1850-1899.007, Folder: 4297.003
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Bailey Family Papers include letters created and received by multiple generations of family members. The bulk of the letters contains Reconstruction-era content, but there are also other later letters of interest written from Texas and Japan. Samuel Bailey wrote ten letters to his son George from 1865-1869. Although Samuel wrote most of the letters while in Macon, Georgia, he was in South Charlestown, New Hampshire, when he wrote the earliest one on June 10, 1865. The letters were addressed...
Dates:
April 1880
Letter to Mary Bailey, circa 1885 May 6
File — Box: SC1850-1899.007, Folder: 4297.004
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Bailey Family Papers include letters created and received by multiple generations of family members. The bulk of the letters contains Reconstruction-era content, but there are also other later letters of interest written from Texas and Japan. Samuel Bailey wrote ten letters to his son George from 1865-1869. Although Samuel wrote most of the letters while in Macon, Georgia, he was in South Charlestown, New Hampshire, when he wrote the earliest one on June 10, 1865. The letters were addressed...
Dates:
circa 1885 May 6
Phelps family letters, 1890
File — Box: SC1850-1899.007, Folder: 4297.006
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Bailey Family Papers include letters created and received by multiple generations of family members. The bulk of the letters contains Reconstruction-era content, but there are also other later letters of interest written from Texas and Japan. Samuel Bailey wrote ten letters to his son George from 1865-1869. Although Samuel wrote most of the letters while in Macon, Georgia, he was in South Charlestown, New Hampshire, when he wrote the earliest one on June 10, 1865. The letters were addressed...
Dates:
1890
Bailey family materials, 1859-1905
File — Box: SC1850-1899.007, Folder: 4297.005
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Bailey Family Papers include letters created and received by multiple generations of family members. The bulk of the letters contains Reconstruction-era content, but there are also other later letters of interest written from Texas and Japan. Samuel Bailey wrote ten letters to his son George from 1865-1869. Although Samuel wrote most of the letters while in Macon, Georgia, he was in South Charlestown, New Hampshire, when he wrote the earliest one on June 10, 1865. The letters were addressed...
Dates:
1859-1905
Joseph Jermain Slocum letters, 1862
File — Box: SC1850-1899.007, Folder: 4295.01
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Joseph Jermain Slocum Letters comprise five letters that Slocum wrote between March 26 and June 1, 1862, while he was serving in the US Army in Nashville and Franklin, Tennessee, and Huntsville, Alabama. The letters describe his life as a captain in the US Volunteers Commissary Department Infantry Regiment. He signs his letters as J. J. Slocum.He wrote the first letter to his father-in-law, S. S. L’Hommedieu in Cincinatti, Ohio, where his wife and children seemed to be staying...
Dates:
1862
Casualty reports, 1864-11-14 - 1965-06-30
Series — Box: SC1850-1899.007, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
Ten casualty reports with the locations and dates of the listed events. The Isaac D. Landis collection includes military documentation concerning the 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry created between November 1864 and September 1865.
Dates:
1864-11-14 - 1965-06-30
Monthly Return of Clothing, Camp and Garrison Equipage forms, 1864-12-25 - 1865-07-18
Series — Box: SC1850-1899.007, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Four equipment return forms are included with their attached documentation. The Isaac D. Landis collection includes military documentation concerning the 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry created between November 1864 and September 1865.
Dates:
1864-12-25 - 1865-07-18
Documents, 1865-03 - 1865-11-25
Series — Box: SC1850-1899.007, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
Six items including some military forms, a farewell address, and two copies of a portrait of Isaac D. Landis taken in July 1865. The Isaac D. Landis collection includes military documentation concerning the 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry created between November 1864 and September 1865.
Dates:
1865-03 - 1865-11-25
Documents, undated
Series — Box: SC1850-1899.007, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Six undated items including papers and envelopes. The Isaac D. Landis collection includes military documentation concerning the 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry created between November 1864 and September 1865.
Dates:
undated
Samuel Walker journal, 1863
File — Box: SC1850-1899.007, Folder: 4296.01
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The USS Kineo was a single crew, schooner-rigged vessel launched in 1861. Her artillery included an eleven-inch Dahlgren smoothbore gun, two twenty-four pounder smoothbore guns, and a twenty-pounder Parrot rifle. Walker faithfully records their sailing up and down the Mississippi River and encounters with Confederates, other ships, and conflicts. His account begins near New Orleans on Wednesday, July 1, 1863, when they learn of an impending attack. They steam...
Dates:
1863