Accession 12-019: Initial Deposit, 1839 - 1892

This accession includes paper photocopies and electronic copies (on a CD-ROM) of family letters and other documents collected or copied by Robert A. Malseed of Albuquerque, New Mexico, great-great-grandson of Andrew Malseed. These documents include a contract for army boots given to John Malseed by the Republic of Texas in 1839; letters from Andrew Malseed to his wife Eliza Shubert Malseed while in the Union army in 1861; orders and letters to Andrew Malseed during his service as a Union officer in 1863-1864, together with a muster-out role for Malseed's battalion in 1864; Civil War letters from Garrett Shubert to his sisters Eliza Malseed and Georgianna Gillit; and several letters addressed to Georgiana Gillitt from before and after the Civil War, including an 1853 letter from the noted abolitionist Samuel D. Hastings.