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Personal narratives

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

Interview with Everett P. Pope

 Collection
Identifier: M194.3 P674
Scope and Contents

Typescript transcription of a recorded interview conducted with Everett Pope at Amelia Island, Florida, March 2001. The interview centers on Pope's student life at Bowdoin College, his experiences as a U.S. Marine in the Pacific theater during World War II, including the battle of Peleliu, and his award of the Medal of Honor

Dates: 2001
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011