Army--Miscellany, 1861-1876 and undated

Extent:

2 boxes and 5 folders; 607 items

Scope and content:

This series includes maps, personal letters from officers and soldiers, and prison papers.

The maps subseries, dated 1861-1865 (9 items), includes maps of Fort Pulaski; Garlington, Mississippi; roads between Columbus and Tuscaloosa; and the Wilmington Fort Fisher area in December, 1864, signed by John O'Connell Barclay, U.S. Navy, showing the placement of the Union fleet.

Officers' and soldiers' letters, dated 1861-1866, 1876, and undated (499 items), consist of letters from Confederate personnel which are unrelated to other collections, largely commenting on camp life, food, health, weather, homesickness, military campaigns and battles, prisoners and prison life, and prices. One letter of 1876 by Lewis E. Harvie, former president of the Richmond, Danville, and Piedmont railroads, defends the railroad's role in supplying the defense of Richmond.

The prison papers, dated 1861-1865 (27 items and 1 vol.), includes letters, a diary, and oaths of allegiance from Confederate prisoners at Old Capitol Prison, Washington, D.C.; Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio; Palmyra, Missouri; Point Lookout, Maryland; Fort Delaware in Delaware Bay; Fort McHenry; Johnson's Island, Sandusky Bay, Ohio; and Rock Island in the Mississippi River between Rock Island, Illinois, and Davenport, Iowa. There are also receipts for property of Union prisoners in Andersonville, Georgia, and a guard report from Castle Pinckney, Charleston, South Carolina.

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