Peninsular Campaign, Va., 1862
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Hiram Berry Civil War Letters to Hannibal Hamlin
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4290
Abstract
This collection contains twenty-two letters from Union General Hiram G. Berry to US Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, both of Maine, along with copies of two letters of recommendation from generals who served with Berry. The letters detail Berry's activities in Virginia during the US Civil War.
Dates:
1862-1863
James Chamberlin letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0294
Abstract
Letters written to his mother and brother while serving with the 52nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Peninsular Campaign and the Charleston Expedition
Dates:
1861-1898; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1863
Letter from Thomas B. Baity to his Mother and Brother
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4723
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a two-page letter dated March 28, 1862, from Private Thomas B. Baity of the 13th North Carolina Infantry (formerly the 3rd) to his mother and brother in Greenville, North Carolina. The letter, sent from Camp Goldsboro, North Carolina. The envelope features an illustration of a firing cannon under the Confederate "Stars and Bars" flag and a stanza from the poem Bright Banner of Freedom, penned by Susan Blanchard Elder, a...
Dates:
1862 March 28