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United States. Army
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Civil War papers of Capt. John T. Burgess
Collection
Identifier: Mss-1088
Abstract
This collection contains documents related to Captain John T. Burgess, a Union officer serving with the 74th New York Infantry Regiment (5th Excelsior), and the formation and his command of Company D from May 1861 until May 1862.
Dates:
1860-1914; Majority of material found within (: 1860-1863)
Found in:
R. Stanton Avery Special Collections
Dorothea Barton Cogswell papers, 1647-1975 (bulk: 1710-1853).
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-405
Scope and Contents
The Dorothea Barton Cogswell Papers, 1647-1975 (bulk 1710-1853) is a collection divided into three groups. The first is a collection of applications to the Society of Stukely Wescott Descendants of America from 1937-1975, evidently copies she retained while secretary of that organization. The second is a gathering of ancestral charts and notes compiled by her mother, Theodora (Bates) Cogswell (1883-1955); her grandfather, Edward Russell Cogswell...
Dates:
1647-1975; Majority of material found within (: 1710-1853)
Found in:
R. Stanton Avery Special Collections
Howard family papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss-459
Scope and Contents
Most of the collection consists of letters written by four brothers, Stanley, Charles, Henry, and Edward Howard, to their sister Ella and/or their parents, Joseph F. and Nancy Minerva (Pelton) Howard, in Leeds, a section of Northampton, Mass., during their service in the Civil War. Corporal Joseph “Stanley” Howard served with Co. G 27th Regt Mass. Vol. from 1861-1865 and wrote from such locations as Camp Hampshire, Newbern and Washington NC; Annapolis and Baltimore MD; York PA;...
Dates:
1860-1910
Found in:
R. Stanton Avery Special Collections
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- Receipts (Acknowledgments) 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 2
- Bonds (legal records). 1
- Bonds -- Massachusetts. 1
- Bonds -- Ohio. 1
- Broadsides. 1
- Burnside's Expedition to North Carolina, 1862. 1
- Charters. 1
- Covenants -- Massachusetts -- Rowley. 1
- Covenants. 1
- Deeds 1
- Deeds -- Massachusetts -- Gloucester. 1
- Deeds -- Massachusetts -- Ipswich. 1
- Deeds -- Massachusetts -- Newbury. 1
- Deeds -- Massachusetts -- Rowley. 1
- Deeds -- Massachusetts -- Winchendon. 1
- England -- Charters, grants and privileges. 1
- Floods -- Massachusetts -- Goshen. 1
- Letters (correspondence). 1
- Massachusetts -- Charters. 1
- Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. 1
- Playing cards -- Massachusetts 1
- Playing cards. 1
- Receipts (Acknowledgements) -- Massachusetts. 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Louisiana 1
- Roanoke Island (N.C.) -- History -- Capture, 1862. 1
- Silhouettes -- Massachusetts. 1
- Silhouettes. 1
- Slave bills of sale -- Massachusetts. 1
- Soldiers -- Massachusetts -- Correspondence. 1
- Soldiers' bodies, Disposition of. 1
- Stocks -- Massachusetts -- Boston. 1
- Tax collection -- Massachusetts -- 19th century. 1
- Tax collection -- Massachusetts. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Destruction and pillage. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Hospitals. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Songs and music. 1
- Wills -- Maine -- Cumberland County. 1
- Wills -- Massachusetts -- Essex County. 1
- Wills. 1