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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

Aaron D. Riker Civil War journal

 Collection
Identifier: M341
Abstract

Civil War journal of Aaron Denton Riker (July 19, 1830-July 25, 1914) who served in the 66th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Riker's Civil War journal (circa 1861-1864) describes skirmishes, battles, and places including Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Harper's Ferry, Gettysburg, and Sherman's march on Atlanta.

Dates: 1861-2015; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1865
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

An account of the Civil War career of Oliver Otis Howard based on his private letters

 Collection
Identifier: M194 .C377
Scope and Contents

Preliminary typescript draft of a Ph.D. dissertation, completed under the same title for Columbia University in 1954

Dates: 1953
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

Augustus Bowman Farnham papers

 Collection
Identifier: M057
Abstract

Letters (1861-1916), Civil War journals (1862 and 1864), documents and clippings (1863-1905), and photographs, mostly relating to Farnham's military career.

Dates: 1861-1916 (bulk 1861-1891); Majority of material found within 1861 - 1891
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

Chandler-Cleaveland family papers

 Collection
Identifier: M029
Abstract The collection documents three generations of the personal and, to a lesser extent, professional lives of the Chandler-Cleaveland family. The collection includes extensive information about Peleg Whitman Chandler and Martha Ann Bush Cleaveland, who married in 1837, as well as their son, Horace P. Chandler, and his two daughters, Grace and Ellen. There is also materials related to Parker Cleaveland, the father of Martha; Theophilus Chandler, the brother of Peleg; and Charles Peleg Chandler,...
Dates: 1803-1949, undated
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

Charles O. Hunt letters and personal recollections

 Collection
Identifier: M241
Abstract

Holograph transcriptions of correspondence and memoirs of Charles O. Hunt documenting his service in the Civil War, including the second battle of Manasass, the Wilderness Campaign, and Gettysburg, as well his internment as a prisoner of war.

Dates: 1861 - 1898
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

Civil War miscellany

 Collection
Identifier: M131
Abstract

Miscellaneous Civil War material from various sources, including correspondence, diaries, photographs and printed material.

Dates: 1861-1927, undated
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

Diary of Owen W. Davis, Jr.

 Collection
Identifier: M194 .D38569
Scope and Contents

Typescript copy of the diary of Owen W. Davis, Jr., from June 17, 1862, to September 27, 1862, recording his experience as an enlisted soldier in the Union Army during the Civil War. Topics include minor skirmishes, court marial duties, capture and parole, and routine duties while stationed in northern Virginia, Washington, DC, and Maryland. Davis (Bowdoin College Class of 1864) left college to enlist with the 7th Squadron, Rhode Island Cavalry

Dates: 1862
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

Edwin Emery diaries and memoir

 Collection
Identifier: M288
Abstract

Five pocket diaries (1863-1865) kept by Edwin Emery during his military service in the Civil War, as well as a transcription of four pages from an 1864 diary that is lacking from the collection.

Dates: 1863-1865, undated
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

Fessenden collection

 Collection
Identifier: M059
Abstract

Correspondence, professional and personal records, publications, articles, addresses, reports, lectures, memoirs, a diary, documents, receipts, accounts, clippings, images, genealogies, and biographical material related to the Fessenden family.

Dates: 1786-1982, undated; Majority of material found within 1823 - 1869
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

Henry Hastings Hunt papers

 Collection
Identifier: M195
Abstract

Thirty letters (August 25, 1862 - April 11, 1865), from Hunt to his mother and sister, and three diaries (1863, 1864, 1865) relating to Hunt's military career.

Dates: 1862-1865
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

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