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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 16 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

Alexander Simms Buchanan Civil War collection

 Collection
Identifier: M209
Abstract

Contains documents and realia pertaining to the Civil War, including an album containing a signed photograph of Abraham Lincoln, original military documents, clippings, and ephemera.

Dates: 1861-1928
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

An extraordinary military career and life : Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

 Collection
Identifier: M194 .H859
Scope and Contents

Duplicated typescript senior thesis in history, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, centered mainly on Chamberlain's Civil War experiences

Dates: 1994
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 Henry Howard collection

 Collection
Identifier: M090
Abstract

Letters, articles, addresses, and diaries including material on the Civil War, on Charles Henry Howard's experiences at Kents Hill School and Bowdoin College, and on Howard and his family.

Dates: 1808-1957 (Bulk: 1852-1910); Majority of material found within 1852-1910
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

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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