![]() ![]() All are directed to Baldwin's parents, in Union, Branch County, Michigan. Fifty-two of the items in this group are wartime personal letters written by Albert Jehiel Baldwin (1839-1912), who rose to second lieutenant during three years' service in Battery D, 1st Michigan Light Artillery. Hence, the content of the letters written in his own hand (eight were written for him by others) is repetitious, and the meaning sometimes obscure. Aubin was a native French speaker but attempted to write in English, of which he had only a rudimentary knowledge. Twenty-five of the letters date from Aubin's service with the 146th, then attached to the Army of the Potomac (3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, V Corps). The letters date from 11 September 1862 to 26 December 1863, and were written to Aubin's daughter, Eliza Aubin Dudley, in Saratoga and Washington Counties, New York. In September 1863 Aubin was transferred into Company F of the 14th Veteran Reserve Corps. c1817) was a Canadian immigrant who served as a private in Company D of the 146th New York Infantry ("Garrard's Tigers," a Zouave regiment) in 1862-63. Acquisition funded by Robert and Beverly O'Grady, 2006. Anthony relates his experiences at the battle of Winchester, Virginia (), fought during Jackson's Valley Campaign. At the time the letter was written () the regiment was attached to Ewell's Division in Jackson's Valley District, Department of Northern Virginia. Anthony (1836-1910) was a native of Campbell County, Virginia. The group also includes an 1857 letter of Turner Reavis. Anderson speaks of the progress of the Confederate cause and of the management, in absentia, of his property in Alabama, including his slaves. The rest were written in 1862-63 from Aiken, South Carolina Anderson's health was delicate, and Aiken's climate was reputedly salubrious. Two of the letters were written from Richmond, where Anderson travelled early in the war to serve the Confederacy in a medical capacity. Mary Reavis was the second wife of Turner Reavis, a prominent local lawyer who served in the Alabama state senate during the war. Anderson (1814-1863) of Gainesville, Sumter County, Alabama, to his close friend and sometime patient, Mary S. A group consisting primarily of nine letters and three unrelated postscripts written from 1861 to 1863 by Dr. 13 letters and notes 2 drawings, 1 clipping, 1 printed obituary. MSN/CW 5016-1 to MSN/CW 5016-4.ĪNDERSON-REAVIS CORRESPONDENCE. The later three were written from the field in Georgia, the Carolinas, and Virginia, after Albright had returned to the regiment. The earliest of the letters was written from an army hospital in Atlanta, where Albright was recovering from a wound suffered the previous July. ![]() Blair's XVII Corps (1st Brigade, 3rd Division), of the Army of the Tennessee. The letters date from 23 October 1864 to, during which time the regiment was attached to Maj. Albright, a native of Pennsylvania, resided in Eagle Township, Waukesha County, Wisconsin when he enlisted. 1843/4) served in the Union army as a private in Company K, 16th Wisconsin Infantry. Users searching for war-related letter groups should also browse the manuscript series listed under Personal Papers, on this Web site. Letter groups included in the drop down menu to the left, or highlighted in the list below, are accessible online as images and textual transcriptions. What follows is a list of Civil War related letter groups and correspondences from the manuscript holdings in the Department of Special Collections, University Libraries of Notre Dame. ![]()
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