Box 4
Container
Contains 47 Results:
Letter by William H. Mower from Bayfield, Wisconsin, with traced maps, 1869
File — Box: 4, Folder: 39
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Group:
Contains thirty-seven patriotic addresses, delivered at different times over the thirty years after the Civil War. They describe famous battles, and most are optimistic, patriotic pro-Union effusions which express the nineteenth century religion of patriotism, which identified America with the Promised Land. Some of these addresses may have been written as chapters for books. Certainly intended as part of a book is a notebook with rough retrospective notes on the second day of...
Dates:
1869
Letter by Thomas Jordan, AAG, Headquarters 1st Corps Army of the Potomac, Manassas, appointing Colonel Richard N. Snowdon as Military Railroad Agent, 1861 July 31
Item — Box: 4, Folder: 40
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Charles Carleton Coffin Papers have been divided into two parts. The first consists of manuscripts of Coffin’s own works, chiefly speeches delivered before various patriotic gatherings in the 1870s and 1880s. The second consists of souvenirs of his reporting days during the Civil War, most particularly papers which he found in the streets of Richmond when it fell on April 3, 1865.In the first part are thirty-seven patriotic addresses, delivered at different times over the...
Dates:
1861 July 31
Letter by Capt. John H. Burk, Confederate States of America, New Orleans, appointing Hugh Moore as Second Officer in the River Defense Expedition on steam gun boat "Genl M. Jeff Thompson", 1862 April 3
Item — Box: 4, Folder: 40
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Note on verso of letter says, "Taken from one of the Rebel gun boats captured at Memphis."
Dates:
1862 April 3
San Antonio, Texas, Headquarters, Sibley’s Brigade; Brig. Gen. Henry H. Sibley to Samuel Cooper (copy), 1861 November 8
File — Box: 4, Folder: 41
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Charles Carleton Coffin Papers have been divided into two parts. The first consists of manuscripts of Coffin’s own works, chiefly speeches delivered before various patriotic gatherings in the 1870s and 1880s. The second consists of souvenirs of his reporting days during the Civil War, most particularly papers which he found in the streets of Richmond when it fell on April 3, 1865.In the first part are thirty-seven patriotic addresses, delivered at different times over the...
Dates:
1861 November 8
Pensacola, Florida; Louisiana Batteries, Second Brigade; Lt. Col. John A. Jaquess to Brig. Gen. Richard H. Anderson (copy), 1861 November 26
File — Box: 4, Folder: 42
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Charles Carleton Coffin Papers have been divided into two parts. The first consists of manuscripts of Coffin’s own works, chiefly speeches delivered before various patriotic gatherings in the 1870s and 1880s. The second consists of souvenirs of his reporting days during the Civil War, most particularly papers which he found in the streets of Richmond when it fell on April 3, 1865.In the first part are thirty-seven patriotic addresses, delivered at different times over the...
Dates:
1861 November 26
Camp near Mount Jackson. (Battle of Kernstown, Virginia.). Lt. Col. Alexander G. Taliaferro to Col. Fulkerson (Copy)., 1862 March 26
File — Box: 4, Folder: 43
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Charles Carleton Coffin Papers have been divided into two parts. The first consists of manuscripts of Coffin’s own works, chiefly speeches delivered before various patriotic gatherings in the 1870s and 1880s. The second consists of souvenirs of his reporting days during the Civil War, most particularly papers which he found in the streets of Richmond when it fell on April 3, 1865.In the first part are thirty-seven patriotic addresses, delivered at different times over the...
Dates:
1862 March 26
Tupelo, Miss. Headquarters, West Department; Gen. G. T. Beauregard to Gen. Samuel Cooper, resignation on account of ill health (copy), 1862 June 15
File — Box: 4, Folder: 44
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Charles Carleton Coffin Papers have been divided into two parts. The first consists of manuscripts of Coffin’s own works, chiefly speeches delivered before various patriotic gatherings in the 1870s and 1880s. The second consists of souvenirs of his reporting days during the Civil War, most particularly papers which he found in the streets of Richmond when it fell on April 3, 1865.In the first part are thirty-seven patriotic addresses, delivered at different times over the...
Dates:
1862 June 15
James Island, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina; Reports on defense of Secessionville (copy), 1862 June 16-20
File — Box: 4, Folder: 45
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Charles Carleton Coffin Papers have been divided into two parts. The first consists of manuscripts of Coffin’s own works, chiefly speeches delivered before various patriotic gatherings in the 1870s and 1880s. The second consists of souvenirs of his reporting days during the Civil War, most particularly papers which he found in the streets of Richmond when it fell on April 3, 1865.In the first part are thirty-seven patriotic addresses, delivered at different times over the...
Dates:
1862 June 16-20
Cynthiana, Kentucky; Morgan’s Brigade, Major Richard M. Gano to Gen. John H. Morgan (copy), 1862 July 18
File — Box: 4, Folder: 46
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Charles Carleton Coffin Papers have been divided into two parts. The first consists of manuscripts of Coffin’s own works, chiefly speeches delivered before various patriotic gatherings in the 1870s and 1880s. The second consists of souvenirs of his reporting days during the Civil War, most particularly papers which he found in the streets of Richmond when it fell on April 3, 1865.In the first part are thirty-seven patriotic addresses, delivered at different times over the...
Dates:
1862 July 18
John S. Marmaduke’s expedition into Missouri from Arkansas; Report of killed, wounded, missing (copy), 1863 January
File — Box: 4, Folder: 47
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Charles Carleton Coffin Papers have been divided into two parts. The first consists of manuscripts of Coffin’s own works, chiefly speeches delivered before various patriotic gatherings in the 1870s and 1880s. The second consists of souvenirs of his reporting days during the Civil War, most particularly papers which he found in the streets of Richmond when it fell on April 3, 1865.In the first part are thirty-seven patriotic addresses, delivered at different times over the...
Dates:
1863 January