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27th Iowa Volunteer Infantry, Company D. In German.

Scope and Contents "Fiske is better known to the larger public under his pseudonym, Dunn Browne. Using that name Samuel Fiske provided the Springfield Republican a series of ninety battlefront letters, unique in the literature of the Civil War." [From the appraisal document that accompanied the collection.] Samuel's brother Asa collected these letters and published them in 1866 as Mr. Dunn Browne's Experience in the ArmyIn 1998, noted historian Stephen W. Sears edited the letters and published them as Mr. Dunn Browne's Experiences in the Army: The Civil War Letters of Samuel W. FiskeThis is a series of 13 documents, private communications relating to the Fiske family, ranging in date from 1843-1876, with the majority of them coming during the war years of 1862-1863. There are letters from Samuel to his wife Elizabeth, and letters to Samuel from members of the Fiske family, including his brother Asa and his sisters...

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23rd Regiment, Company E.

Scope and Contents Charles Arad Gates was born in 1841, one of five children of Arad and Charlotte Gates, in the village of West Monroe, near Baldwinsville, New York. His parents were third generation New York farmers, but his family history dated back to the immigrant Stephen Gates and his wife Anne who traveled from England to settle in Hingham in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638. Charles' ancestors Deacon Samuel Gates II and Samuel Gates both served in the Revolutionary War. From September 1861 to June 1865 Gates served in the 1st New York Light Artillery, Battery B, which was known until the Gettysburg campaign in 1863 as Petit's Battery, after their first captain Rufus Pettit of Baldwinsville. The battery was organized at Baldwinsville and was composed chiefly of Onondaga county men. It was mustered into the state service at Baldwinsville on August 24, 1861 and into the service of the United States at Elmire on August August 31, 1866. Charles wrote letters home frequently to his parents,...

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These nine letters detail life in a camp near Vicksburg where she resided with her husband, a surgeon with the 15th Iowa Volunteer Regiment. The return addresses show the progress toward Vicksurg, with the first letter, dated June 20 having been sent from "camp 3 miles [rear?] of Vicksburg," and the next letter addressed "Magnolia Hall," ending with the last four letters, written from Vicksburg itself.

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Published in abbreviated form as "Escape from  Atlanta: The Huntington Memoir," edited by Ben Krenmenak in Civil War History June 1965, pp 160-177.

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Company E.

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Companies A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, and K

Scope and Contents John Myers was a married farmer who enlisted in Company F of the 28th Iowa Infantry as a corporal in late 1862. He started out at Camp Pope in Iowa City, then moved to Camp Helena in Arkansas, from which he moved to take part in the battle for Vicksburg. He was wounded in action at Port Gibson and died of disease at Helena Arkansas in August 1863. These are letters to his wife (Ceclia?). These letters describe camp life in Iowa City and how the bored men got drunk and ". . . tore 1 whiskey shop all to smash."  His words on the battle of Vicksburg: ".. .it has been nothing but a continual roar of muskets, cannons, mortars and the bursting of shells since the beginning f the battle the 16. . . we have got them surrounded so they cannot get away. . ."  His last letter, from Miliken's Bend, Louisiana begins "Dear and most loved wife; With pleasure I take the present opportunity to write you a few lines but I can't tell you that I am well this time for I have had the chillfever ever...

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Includes information on 1st Iowa Cavalry, 1861-1866

Includes two photographs: Rev. William Kimberly (1852) and Mrs. Phebe Kimberly (1852)

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7th Iowa Infantry, Company H. Including war letters. 54 items

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4th Iowa Infantry, Company B