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  • Barracks and soldiers at Ft. Totten

    Barracks and soldiers at Ft. Totten

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    Soldiers in formation, wearing uniforms and holding rifles. The soldier at front holds a sword.

    photCL 275 fld. 18 (9)

  • Fort Sumter I. & A.N. Stauffer respectfully announce that they have just received from Philadelphia, their new spring & summer goods

    Fort Sumter I. & A.N. Stauffer respectfully announce that they have just received from Philadelphia, their new spring & summer goods

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    Image of several soldiers in military uniforms standing at attention in ranks carrying packs and rifles with bayonets; one soldier holding a spyglass stands facing the group and points, directing the troops in front of him.

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  • Battle of Shiloh, "the hornet's nest."

    Battle of Shiloh, "the hornet's nest."

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    Image of Union soldiers engaging in combat in a forest during the Battle of Shiloh (or Battle of Pittsburg Landing) fought April 6–7, 1862, during the American Civil War; a soldier holding a saber gestures for a messenger to hurry from the field at bottom center.

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  • Soldiers of Many Nations Painting Book

    Soldiers of Many Nations Painting Book

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    One painting book entitled Soldiers of Many Nations Painting Book: with Verses by Carolyn S. Hodgman, No. 8, published by Stecher Litho. Co., of Rochester, New York, 1917. The front cover of the book features a young boy holding semaphore flags; the back cover shows a campsite at night. The inside cover, entitled "First-Aid in Color Painting", contains instructions, in verse, for use of the book. Of 13 pages of printed images, six are printed in color, the rest are in outline. All of the images are of troops from Allied or neutral countries involved in the First World War: Sweden, the United States, Great Britain, Russia, Romania, Italy, France, Belgium, Canada and Greece. Each colored image is described in verse written by Carolyn S. Hodgeman; the outlined image that follows contains painting instructions, also in verse. For example, the following two verses are used for the soldier from Sweden: "This sturdy scout sustains on skis/A hard, cold march thro drifts with ease. / Sweden, the land of ice and snow,/Claiming such sons, need fear no foe. / Proceed with care this page to fill / And paint the uniform at will,/For since you find no copy true/Please do the best that you can do." Only one of the outlined images has been filled in with wax crayon. In the upper right hand corner of the back cover, in pen, is written "Ernest Gowe from E.A.G.".

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    Modoc Indian War Lantern Slides

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    This collection contains lantern slides with both photographs and illustrations of the 1873-1873 Modoc War, a conflict fought in the lava beds at Tule Lake on the California-Oregon border by a small band of Modoc Indians and the United States Army. The lantern slides include images of Indian scouts for the U.S. Army; U.S. Army soldiers and camps, Modoc leaders and prisoners of war, and the lava beds that served as the Modocs' stronghold. Notable images include portraits of Modoc leaders Captain Jack and Winema (Toby) Riddle, shaman Curly-headed Doctor, and Indian scout Donald McKy. Within the collection, 26 photographs can be attributed to Eadweard Muybridge, 13 to Louis Heller, and 2 to Putnam & Valentine. Additional images include a Warm Spring Indian camp; San Francisco Bulletin correspondent William McKay; Captain Jack's family; Modocs Scar-Faced Charley, and Boston Charley; the grave sites of Boston Charley, Black Jim, Schonchin John; Modoc women; illustrations of what is possibly the Modoc attack on the 1873 Peace Commission; illustrations of Indians; ruins of buildings; and a wounded U.S. soldier. Item titles in square brackets devised by cataloger. Other titles are transcribed from slide labels and some are supplied from the titles of the original stereographs by Muybridge and Heller. Within the collection, there are also some unidentified images that may have been part of a lantern slide presentation but not related to the war, including a still-life image of California poppies (Item 51) and an unidentified scene of buildings on a rocky outpost (Item 52).

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    Joseph W. Collingwood papers

    Manuscripts

    Letters, chiefly dating from 1861 to 1862, from Joseph W. Collingwood to his wife Rebecca. Most letters were written over two or three days. The detailed and candid letters cover various aspects of the campaigns and battles Peninsular Campaign (March-July, 1862): the siege of Yorktown, battle of Hanover Court House, Seven Days Battles (June 25-July 1), operations around White House Landing (June 26-July 2); 2nd Battle of Bull Run, Antietam, Sheperdstown Ford, and the Fredericksburg Campaign. His letters provide detailed accounts of camp life of a Civil War soldier payments, uniforms, rations, foraging and procurement, diseases, firearms, drills and inspections, picket duty; roads, recreations, hospitals, and medical care. Collingwood also at length discussed lady nurses and surgeons; Confederate prisoners; socializing with Confederate soldiers; encounters with Confederates and Unionists of Virginia and Maryland, and recounted news from other regiments, especially 29th and 32nd Massachusetts.Collingwood, an avid admirer of George B. McClellan, filled his letters with discussion of commanders McClellan, Martindale, Barnes, Porter, Pope, and others, together with quite emotional reaction to the dismissal of McClellan and Porter, as well as news of the officers of Massachusetts regiments, including the scandalous, reputation of Ebenezer W. Peirce of 29th Mass. Of special importance is his take on political news and home front: abolitionism, congressional elections of 1862, charity works and recruitment in Massachusetts.The collection also includes records (general, brigade, division, regiment and company orders, rolls, and correspondence) of Company B, 3rd Regiment of Light Infantry of Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. Most letters and orders are addressed to Sylvanus H. Churchill.The collection contains letters from Rebecca Collingwood to Ann C. Wheeler, her Boston friend, and a few items documenting Mrs. Collingwood's teaching in the Boston Female Asylum, correspondence of Eleanor Wyman Collingwood with her friends and family, including her letters written from Cordoba, Argentina, and Hampton Institute.Ephemera consist of photographs of the Civil War era by Matthew Brady and R.W. Addis, including snapshots of various members of the 18th Massachusetts, family pictures, miscellaneous printed orders relating to Company B of 3rd Regiment of Massachusetts Militia, an issue of New England Washingtonian. Organ of Sons of Temperance (Boston, Mass.), copies of the Old Colony Memorial (Plymouth, Mass.), newspaper clippings, Masonic documents of Charles B. Collingwood, and miscellaneous post cards and envelopes of the Civil War era.

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