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Adams family collection, 1798-1928, Date acquired: 01/06/1970, bulk 1798-1877 2.00 boxes
- Highlight
- On June 11, 1864, he died of wounds received on June 1 during the Battle of Cold Harbor. During the war, Adams regularly wrote letters to his parents and sisters.
- Creator
- Adams, Charles, 1805-1883
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The personal papers of the Adams Family, including Joseph Adams (1767-1856); his son, Charles Adams (1805-1883); children of Charles Adams, including Julia Adams How Wessells (1842-1904), Mary Adams Wheelock (1838-1895), and Charles Adams Jr. (1845-1864); other family members; and friends and business associates. The collection consists primarily of correspondence.
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Gilbert-Cheever family papers, 1836-1891 7 Linear Feet
- Highlight
- Of particular interest are his comments on conditions in Richmond in April 1865 and his reports of an expedition in May 1865 to recover bodies hastily buried at the Cold Harbor battlefield. Many of Gilbert's reports were copied in a letterpress book, dated February - July 1865.
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- Gilbert family
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The papers document the families formed by the marriages of two sisters, Mary and Fanny Goodridge, to William Hinman Gilbert and Henry A. Cheever, respectively. William H. Gilbert was a clergyman from Weston, Connecticut who, with his wife, taught in schools in Vermont and Massachusetts. Henry A. Cheever was a sea captain who settled in San Francisco ca. 1853 and brought his wife and children there from Massachusetts. The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, journals, record books, photographs, memorabilia, printed matter, and sermons relating to the lives of these two families and their children.The Cheever letters from San Francisco describe the political and social life of the city in addition to carrying news of the family and domestic activities. William E. Goodridge, brother of the two Goodridge sisters, wrote from the West where he described life in Nevada. After his death in 1864, his fiancee Sara A. Gonsalves continued to write to the family from Washington D.C. with descriptions of visits to soldiers' hospitals and other references to the Civil War. William H. Gilbert, who was an army agent of the American Bible Society (1864-1865), also reported on the Civil War and later, writing on his travels in Alabama in 1870, described the lynching of a black school teacher.
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Meserve-Kunhardt collection, 1845-1962 37.57 Linear Feet
- Highlight
- The elder Meserve drafted his narrative during the 1890s; it covers his military service from August 1862 to June 1865, and includes accounts of battles at Antietam (where he reportedly suffered two wounds), Fredericksburg, the Wilderness, and Cold Harbor, as well as engagements outside Petersburg, including the battles at the Crater and Weldon Railroad.
- Creator
- MKF Funding, LLC
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The Meserve-Kunhardt Collection chiefly consists of photographic material, as well as papers and realia that document the work of Frederick Hill Meserve. A collector and distributor of photographs from 1897 to his death in 1962, Meserve built an extensive collection of material related to Abraham Lincoln as well as other persons, sites, and events of the long nineteenth century. The collection also documents the stewardship and development of the collection from 1962 to 2015 by his descendants, especially his daughter, Dorothy Turner Meserve Kunhardt. The material in the collection provides rich visual documentation of United States history, especially persons, sites, and events during the American Civil War, and details the emergence of photography as a distinctive cultural practice into the early twentieth century.
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Homer S. Curtis papers, 1858-1875 1 Linear Feet
- Highlight
- The 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery, as they were later known, was not committed to battle until June, 1864 at Cold Harbor, Va., when it seized and held Confederate positions under withering fire for 36 hours.
He spent considerable time detached from his regiment, whether in hospital for illness or serving in other capacities, rejoining them shortly after their defeat at Cold Harbor. He largely remained with the 2nd until the end of the war, remaining in Washington D.C. through the summer of 1865 as the enlisted men were slowly discharged from the regiment and returned home. - Creator
- Curtis, Homer S. (Sackett ), 1841-1875.
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Correspondence between Lt. Homer Curtis of the 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery and his family from 1859 to 1875
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Homer S. Curtis papers, 1858-1875 1 Linear Feet
- Highlight
- The 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery, as they were later known, was not committed to battle until June, 1864 at Cold Harbor, Va., when it seized and held Confederate positions under withering fire for 36 hours.
He spent considerable time detached from his regiment, whether in hospital for illness or serving in other capacities, rejoining them shortly after their defeat at Cold Harbor. He largely remained with the 2nd until the end of the war, remaining in Washington D.C. through the summer of 1865 as the enlisted men were slowly discharged from the regiment and returned home. - Creator
- Curtis, Homer S. (Sackett ), 1841-1875.
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Correspondence between Lt. Homer Curtis of the 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery and his family from 1859 to 1875
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2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery, 1862-2003 Box 43, Folder 10
- Highlight
- Photographs related to the 19th Connecticut Volunteers, later 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery, including assembly, presentations, reunions, dedication of memorials, and the monument at the Cold Harbor Battlefield in Virginia (photographs presented by 2nd Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery reenacting organization).
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Photographs related to the 19th Connecticut Volunteers, later 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery, including assembly, presentations, reunions, dedication of memorials, and the monument at the Cold Harbor Battlefield in Virginia (photographs presented by 2nd Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery reenacting organization).
- Collection Context
2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery, 1862-2003 Box 43, Folder 10
- Highlight
- Photographs related to the 19th Connecticut Volunteers, later 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery, including assembly, presentations, reunions, dedication of memorials, and the monument at the Cold Harbor Battlefield in Virginia (photographs presented by 2nd Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery reenacting organization).
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Photographs related to the 19th Connecticut Volunteers, later 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery, including assembly, presentations, reunions, dedication of memorials, and the monument at the Cold Harbor Battlefield in Virginia (photographs presented by 2nd Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery reenacting organization).
- Collection Context
Kellogg, Lt. Col. Elisha S., 1863 Box 32, Folder 132
- Highlight
- Elisha Kellogg, (one a copy and one an enlargement), Commanding Officer of the 2nd CT Heavy Artillery. Killed at Cold Harbor, 1864. An 9½" x 8" print of glass slide, mustering of the 19th Regt.
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Photos of Col. Elisha Kellogg, (one a copy and one an enlargement), Commanding Officer of the 2nd CT Heavy Artillery. Killed at Cold Harbor, 1864. An 9½" x 8" print of glass slide, mustering of the 19th Regt. CT Infantry (on the Green in Litchfield), later became the 2nd CT Heavy Artillery.
- Collection Context
Kellogg, Lt. Col. Elisha S., 1863 Box 32, Folder 132
- Highlight
- Elisha Kellogg, (one a copy and one an enlargement), Commanding Officer of the 2nd CT Heavy Artillery. Killed at Cold Harbor, 1864. An 9½" x 8" print of glass slide, mustering of the 19th Regt.
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Photos of Col. Elisha Kellogg, (one a copy and one an enlargement), Commanding Officer of the 2nd CT Heavy Artillery. Killed at Cold Harbor, 1864. An 9½" x 8" print of glass slide, mustering of the 19th Regt. CT Infantry (on the Green in Litchfield), later became the 2nd CT Heavy Artillery.
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