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Henry L. and Solon R. Soper collection

Collection — Folder: S1219

Identifier: S1220

Scope and Contents There are two items in this collection. The oldest item is a land grant from President John Quincy Adams for Henry L. Soper, of Queensville, Jennings County, Indiana. The document is dated May 7, 1828. The second item is a small, leather-bound diary written mostly in pencil by Lieutenant Solen R. Soper, who was in the 9th Indiana Legion. This was a 30-days unit enlisted in 1862. Solen guarded prisoners at Camp Morton and then on a Mississippi River boat, during which time this diary was...

Dates: 1828, 1862

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Henry L. Waldrip collection

Collection — Folder: S1348

Identifier: S1348

Scope and Contents This letter is written in ink on both sides of the small piece of paper. Henry Lingle Waldrip wrote to his cousin Francis Marion Cowherd on March 23, 1862, giving "Tenn. River" as his location. Henry wrote: "My health is tolerable good but am afflicted with the same disease I was when we left home ... We are told that the whole rebels are fortifying within 40 miles of us. We understand they have 100,000 but I would advise them to evacuate and move back to island No. 10 for we are going to march...

Dates: 1862

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Hook family papers

Collection — Folder: S0680

Identifier: S0680

Scope and Contents This collection contains letters written by John M. Hook to his brother, Matthias, from 1861 to 1863 while serving in G Company, 6th Indiana Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. The collection also includes a letter written in 1863 to Matthias Hook from Banner Davis, a man serving in the same unit as John. Other items in the collection are a letter written by Margaret Hook from Des Moines, Iowa in 1851; Bartholomew County, Indiana tax receipts paid by Mathias Hook (1853,...

Dates: 1851-1937

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Hugh D. Gallagher papers

Collection — Folder: S0498

Identifier: S0498

Scope and Contents This collection contains typewritten copies of correspondence and military papers of Bernard F. Mullen and Hugh D. Gallagher from the U.S. Civil War. Ranging from November 20, 1863 to February 1, 1865, the copies include circulars, special orders, and a partial letter sent by Col. Mullen to Gallagher; a letter from Assistant Surgeon G. A. Kunker regarding Mullen's illness; 2 letters sent by Gallagher to his brother and sister; and military orders sent to Gallagher by Lt. Col. A. G. Tassin from...

Dates: 1863-1865

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

I.H.C. Royse diary

Collection — Folder: S1814

Identifier: S1814

Scope and Contents This collection includes one Civil War diary from I.H.C Royse in ranging from 1862-1863.

Dates: 1862-1863

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

J. B. Gilberts collection

Collection — Folder: S0513

Identifier: S0513

Scope and Contents This collection includes a diary from J. B. Gilberts in Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, and other places, ranging from August 8, 1862 to July 4, 1865 regarding military life and his experiences during the U.S. Civil War. There is also a map entitled “Battlefields of The Civil War” published by the National Geographic Magazine, April 1961 and an undated photograph of Gilbert as an old man, taken at Maxwell & Estell studio in Richmond, Indiana.

Dates: 1862-1865

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

J. C. Thompson collection

Collection — Folder: S1303

Identifier: S1303

Scope and Contents The first item is an original letter on letterhead with "Our Union Defenders" and a picture of a soldier beside a cannon and stacked rifles. The letter was written in ink on January 30, 1862, from Lebanon, Kentucky, to J. C. Thompson's son Wesley, in Gilead, Miami County, Indiana. J. C. tells about the Battle of Mill Springs, in which General Felix Kirk Zollicoffer was killed on January 19, 1862. He wrote that the Confederates "run like wild horses running over and crippling one another in...

Dates: 1862-1957

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Jack K. Carmichael collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: S0223

Scope and Contents Folder one is letters of Edmond Harrell and others, written from 1861 until 1893. Harrell was a soldier in the Civil War, assigned to Company B, 50th Indiana Volunteers. The collection includes a list of Eastin Family births, 1847 - 1884. Folder two is letters written from 1834 to 1892. One of the correspondents was Civil War soldier, Napoleon Bonaparte Newkirk, a corporal in Company G, 50th Indiana Volunteers. Included in the collection are recipes and an October 1887 wedding...

Dates: 1834-1893

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Jacob Harlan collection

Collection — Folder: S0590

Identifier: S0590

Scope and Contents This collection includes two typed transcripts of a diary by Jacob Harlan ranging from 1863 to 1865 regarding his military service during the U.S. Civil War.

Dates: 1863-1865, 1918

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Jacob K. Smith collection

Collection — Folder: S1207

Identifier: S1207

Scope and Contents This collection includes a photocopy of a diary from Jacob K. Smith in Iowa ranging from April 1864 to November 1864 regarding Iowa Infantry during the Civil War.

Dates: 1864

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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Henry L. and Solon R. Soper collection

Henry L. Waldrip collection

Hook family papers

Hugh D. Gallagher papers

I.H.C. Royse diary

J. B. Gilberts collection

J. C. Thompson collection

Jack K. Carmichael collection

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