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The papers consist of twenty-five letters and thirty-four family photographs. The letters date from 1857 — when Berry served aboard a whaling ship in the South Atlantic — through his service with the 5th Maine during the Civil War.

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The diary dates from January 1 to October 10, 1863, and includes references to guarding Confederate prisoners of war at Camp Douglas, Illinois; transporting prisoners from Camp Douglas to City Point, Virginia, to exchange them for Union soldiers who had been paroled; a soldier's oratory club in which Bisbee participated; an athletic contest with the 18th New York Infantry; and the author's hospitalization.

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Contains the transcribed correspondence of Launcelot M. Blackford to his father William M. Blackford and other family members in Virginia from June 1860 to December 1861. Includes letters from Manassas Junction, Charlottesville, Fairfax Station, Lynchburg, Winchester and Martinsburg, Virginia (currently West Virginia) during the first year of the American Civil War.

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Certificates and diplomas (1899-1917) from Auburn Female Institute and Alabama Polytechnic Institute; letters (1907-1908) of recommendation; and a letter (1891) from Mike Harvey, stationed at Portsmouth, Virginia during the Civil War.

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Includes correspondence from Anonymous to Mrs. Pierce, February 16, 1865 informing her that C. Carroll Brown was alive and correspondence from C. Carroll Brown to his sister Pasie Pierce, March 21, 1865.

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The 33-page diary runs from January to September 1864 and contains the following entry: “I was discovered to be a spy on the 2nd day of April, 1864, [and] sentenced to death.”

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The bulk of this collection consists of letters written by Alexander H. Burnett, his wife Catherine and other family members during the American Civil War.

Scope and Contents "Historical Sketches of the Forty-Seventh Alabama Infantry Regiment C.S.A." by Captain J.Q. Burton from Confederate Regimental Series vol. 2. Discusses the organization of the regiment, original officers,early duty, and actions at Cedar Run, Second Manassas, Maryland, Suffolk, Gettysburg, North Georgia, and East Tennessee. Includes good description of Chickamauga, return to the Virginia Campaign, reflections on despondency and hopelessness during the...

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One letter from Cameron to his daughter dated September 13, 1862.

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It contains the civil war papers of Captain Marshall A. Carpenter, including a diary from 1862, one photograph in uniform and one from after the war, his 1863 commission as a captain in Company C, 15th Infantry Regiment, Vermont Militia, his 1865 commission as 2nd Lieutenant in the 7th Regiment, Vermont Militia, a post-war pension claim from 1895, and several letters to support the pension claims from soldiers who had served in his unit.