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Materials in the Civil War Museum Resource Center Wisconsin MATERIALS IN THE CIVIL WAR MUSEUM RESOURCE CENTER WISCONSIN Letters, Diaries, and Memoirs: Letter from 1861: Unknown Origin, Iron Brigade Memoirs of John Adams. Co I & D, 1st WI Cav; Massacre at Baxter Springs Letters from Gen. Thomas S. Allen Letters to/from James S. Anderson. Co A, 5th WI Inf Herrick Bailey. Company F, 16th Wisconsin Infantry, biographical sketch Letters from Barnes, Henry D., Co I, 28th WI Inf, biographical sketch Papers of Lt. Col. Boebel, Hans, 26th WI Inf Letters and recruitment papers of Thomas Brophey, Co. E, 13th WI Inf Letters from Amos Brown. Co A, 16th WI Inf Letters from Elon Brown. Co H, 2nd Wisconsin Infantry Letters from James E. Brown. Co A, 8th Wisconsin Infantry Letters from Ruth Brown to Mr. A. Stuart Blaisdell, Pardeeville, WI Letter from James M. Bull to Dept of WI G.A.R. requesting establishment of post in Waukesha Co Letters from Eugene Kincaid Burr,, 3rd Batt, WI Art Papers of Oscar Carlson, Co A, 28th WI Inf. Letters from Alfred J. Church. Co K, 18th WI Inf. Letters from Orson Clinton, 1st WI Cavalry, 1862-1866 2nd Lieut. Orson Clinton. Co B, 1st WI Cav Orson Clinton, Co B, 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, Biographical sketch Orson Clinton Papers, Co B, 1st Wisconsin Cavalry Papers of George Cook, Co A, 28th WI Inf Diary of James William Crosby, 29th WI Inf Letters from C. A. Danforth, 19th WI Inf Papers of Rufus Dawes, Co K, 6th WI Inf Memoirs of W.H. Day, Co D, 10th WI Inf, Fifteen Months in Dixie or My Personal Experience in Rebel Prisons Letters to/from Geo. B. Engle, Jr. Co A, 5th WI Inf Urial C. Eddy. Co B, 1st WI Cav Diary of Lucia Elizabeth (Bishop) Gray, Kenosha resident Papers of Howard Green, Co. B, 24th WI Inf Memoirs of George Fairfield, Co C, 6th WI Inf (to J.A. Watrous) Ira Ford. Company I, 18th Wisconsin Infantry, newspaper article Journal of Volney French, 1859-1866, Kenosha resident Letters from Sergt. Maj. Charles P. Goodrich, 1st WI Cav to wife Frances Bowen Goodrich Letters from Maj. John Hancock, 14th WI Inf Papers of Private Peter Heck, Co D, 26th Inf Col. Hans Christian Heg, 15th WI Inf Memoir of Orville H. Hepburn. Co C, 177th OH Inf, Thomas Eubanks Post 150, Hancock, WI Julius H. Hubbard, Camp Utley, Racine Papers of Reuben Huntley, Co K, 6th WI Inf Letters from the Iron Brigade and the Front: 1864, 1865 and Reunions Letters to/from Mathias Joseph Joerres, Co. D, 6th WI Inf & Hubert Joerres (alt. Joeries/Jorarris/Joerris), Provisional Permanent Battalion at Camp Randall, Madison, WI Letters from Erastus H. Johnson. Co I, 21st WI Inf Letters from John A. Kellogg, Co K & I, 6th WI Inf, to John B. and William C. Bachelder Adam Jungbluth/Youngblood. Co G, 17th WI Inf Diary of Louis J. Lamson. Co A, 30th WI Inf Letters from James Livingstone, Co F, 25th WI Inf Eli W. Lyons. 14th Missouri Infantry, biographical sketch Autobiography of John McCall. Co A, 22nd WI Inf Letters from Milton McDonald, Fond du Lac Diary of Samuel C. McDowell. Co D, 8th WI Inf Letters from M. T. McMahon Diary of Robert S. Merrill. Co K, 1st WI Cav Memoir of Sergeant Albert Clark Morse, Co. F, 7th WI Inf. Memoirs of Nuzum Family. Ralph E. Nuzum, Viroqua, WI Materials of James R. O’Neill, 3rd WI Cav William Outhouse. Co D, 23rd WI Inf Barton H. Phelps. Co H, 22nd WI Inf Colwert K. Pier. Co I, 1st WI Inf (3 mos.) William A. Pors. Draft Commisioner of Ozaukee County, letter to Edward Saloman, Governor of Wisconsin, 11/20/1862 Diary of Edward Potter. Co D, 29th WI Inf Surg. James T. Reeve, 10th & 21st WI Inf Memoirs of William N. Remington, Co K, 6th WI Inf Diary of Pvt. Philip Roesch. Co. H, 25th WI Inf Letter & Company Roll by Hosea W. Rood, 12th WI Inf Letters of Richard Baxter Satterlee, Co. K, 16th WI Inf. Papers of Joseph Schnorenberg, Co E & K, 3rd WI Cavalry Memoirs of Gerhard Schutte, Co E, 3rd WI Inf, “The Blue Boys of Mayville:1861-1865” Letters of Frank W. Sevey, 1st WI Cav & 1st WI Hy. Art Diary (1865) of Eugene Sheldon, 49th WI Inf Letters from Corporal Michael Shortell, Co G, 7th WI Inf James Skeels Papers. Co B, 1st WI Cav Letters from 2d Lieut. Almon Smith, 5th Batt, Lt Art Letters from Colonel John Starkweather, 1st Wisconsin Ole Steensland. 15th Wisconsin Infantry, biographical sketch Letters from Stevens Family – Abelbert & Gustavus. Co K, 12th WI Inf & Charles Co D, 11th WI Infantry Letter with Unknown Origin, 1861, Iron Brigade William H. Upham. Co F, 2nd WI Inf Diary & Certificate of Service for George F. Wait. Co D, 32nd WI Inf Joseph M. Waite, Company E, 2nd Wisconsin Infantry, biographical sketch Diary of Charles Walker. Co B, 7th WI Letter from Levi Walker. Co D, 7th WI Inf John E. Warren. 7th Wisconsin Light Artillery, biographical sketch Letters from Daniel Webster, 1st WI Lt. Art Diary of Henry P. Whipple, 29th WI Inf, The Diary of a Private Soldier Sergt. Chas. Wickesberg. Co H, 26th WI Inf David Holton Wood. Co A, 13th WI Inf Letters of Quartermaster George Wylie, 28th WI Inf Letters from various soldiers, 11th WI Inf Letter from “Brother Charles,” Camp Utley, Racine Letter from Elon Brown, Company H, 2nd Wisconsin Letters from Frank R Walker, Company E, 5th Wisconsin Infantry Statement from 1st Lieutenant Francis A. Waller, Co I, 6th WI Inf Clark W. Seely Papers, Co. D, 1st Wisconsin Cavalry Military & Pension Records: John Bortels. Co B, 53rd WI Inf Lorenzo Browning. Co B, 25th WI Inf Alvah W. Burgess. Co D, 5th WI Inf James Canavan. Co D, 6th WI Inf Kearn Cantwell. Co G, 5th WI, death notice Friend D. Cowles, Co B, 10th WI Inf John Driscoll. Co D, 16th WI Inf William Euen, Hosp. Steward, 20th WI Inf Col. Hans Christian Heg, 15th WI Inf (widow's pension file) Peter Heinz, Co B, 45th WI Inf Conrad Herwig. Co B, 27th MI Inf (UP & WI) David Hunter, Co H, 35th WI Inf Benjamin Jackson, 21st WI Inf Jacob Nelson. Co C, 15th WI Inf Celestin Reible, Co B, 10th WI Inf Sergt. William A. Smith, 3rd WI Inf Abraham C. Snyder. Co G, 3rd WI Cav George Wren. Co B, 13th U.S. Inf Photos (most are photocopies): 1st WI Cavalry Marker John Adams. Co I & D, 3rd WI Cav Gen. Thomas S. Allen James S. Anderson. Co A, 5th WI Inf & in 1903 Capt. Joseph Bailey. Co D, 4th WI Cav Theodorus Bailey. Commander, USS Colorado Charles Baker, (2) Co I, 4th WI Cav Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks Henry Barnes, Musician. Co I, 28th WI Inf - Spring Prairie; G.A.R. of Walworth County, 16th State encampment, Kilbourn City (Wisconsin Dells), 1882. Rev. A. C. Barry, Abolitionist, Racine Sergt. George Bauman. Co F, 2nd WI Inf John Beahm Capt. Irving M. Bean. Co F, 5th WI Inf Col. Sidney A. Bean, 4th WI Cav Samuel Bell. Co I, 28th WI Inf - Lafayette; G.A.R. of Walworth County, 16th State encampment, Kilbourn City (Wisconsin Dells), 1882. 1st Lieut. Adjt. Andrew S. Bennett, 5th WI Inf Thomas Bigford swearing in Indians Birthplace of the Republican Party, Ripon, WI Clara Bishop Harriet Brown Bishop Minor Bishop Washington Blatchley Blunt's brigade band Col. Frederick A. Boardman (2), 4th WI Cav Sherman Booth, Abolitionist, Racine Corpl. James S. Botsford. Co F & C, 5th WI Inf Belle Boyd's grave, Kilbourn Cemetery, Kilbourn Brig. Gen. Mason Brayman. Commander, Department of Natchez Emma Brown Burial sites in Kenosha County Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler 2d Lieut. Thomas Morton Caliger, 1st WI Inf Catherine Canavan & sons William, Edward & Thomas Samuel H. Chambers Robert Cheney. Co I, 28th WI Inf - Elkhorn; G.A.R. of Walworth County, 16th State encampment, Kilbourn City (Wisconsin Dells), 1882. Corp. John T. Christy. Co F, 2nd WI Inf Capt. Temple Clark. Co A, 5th WI Inf Charles S. Clough Gen. Amasa Cobb, 5th WI Inf & in 1903 Rev. Ichabod Codding, Abolitionist, Baraboo 1st Lieut. Christopher C. Coffee. Co F, 4th WI Cav Corpl. Albert S. Cole. Co F, 2nd WI Inf Sergt. Eugene E. Comstock. Co B, 24th WI Inf Private Friend D. Cowles. headstone, Co B, 10th WI Inf Dr. Horace O. Crane Jeremiah Crowley, editor of “Manitowoc Pilot” Newton H. Culver. Co C, 4th WI Cav Col. Frederick W. Curtenius, 6th MI Inf Lieut. William B. Cushing, US Navy Brig. Gen. Edmund J. Davis Col. Nicholas W. Day, 131st NY Inf Dedication of CW Monument, Kenosha Louis N. DeDiemar. Co E, 1st WI Inf Rev. Reuben H. Deming, Underground Railroad conductor & home 1st Lieut. Anson O. Doolittle, 2nd WI Inf Senator James Doolittle A.P. Dutton, Abolitionist, Racine 1st Lieut. Isaac N. Earl. Co D, 4th WI Cav Charles H. Eggleston Col. Elmer Ellsworth, Zouaves 1st Sergt. Julius Enert. Co A, 5th WI Inf, 1903 Geo. B. Engle, Jr. Co A, 5th WI Inf William H. & Mary Jane Flanagan Evans; William H. Evans Family, ca. 1900 Gen. Lucius Fairchild, 2nd WI Inf, G.A.R. Senior Vice Commander-in-Chief Aaron Fanshaw John Fanshaw Charles W. Fenlason. Co G, 4th WI Cav Seneca Flint. Co F, 2nd WI Inf Col. John G. Fonda, 118th IL Cav Charles Frantz, 9th WI Inf – MISSING - 5/1/13 Sergt. Martin Freeland. Co G, 4th WI Cav Volney French & Addie French Corp. Moritz Ganser.
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