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15th Indiana Volunteers flag collection

Collection — Folder: S1536

Identifier: S1536

Scope and Contents This collection consists of six items, beginning with "The Dying Drummer Boy" narrative by Joshua Burrows, New Albany, Indiana, published in the Indianapolis Journal on December 5, 1862. The four-page typed story tells about Jerry, a drummer boy from the 101st Indiana Regiment, who died of fever in Lebanon, Kentucky. Mr. Burrows served as his nurse, and wrote the story on November 25, 1862.The 2nd item is a two-sided, printed order No. 20 from Headquarters of the Fourth Army Corps...

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27th Indiana regimental history collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: S2425

Scope and Contents This collection contains seven items pertaining to the history of the 27th Indiana Regiment and its members who served during the U.S. Civil War, ranging from 1864 to 1926.The roster lists the names of veterans with their address and remarks. There are columns headed with years from 1885 through 1898, and check marks to show attendance at reunions. Although the book is in poor condition, the entries are legible in ink and pencil. Pages 1 through 99 list the soldiers alphabetically...

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34th Indiana Regiment Civil War letter

Collection — Folder: S3135

Identifier: S3135

Scope and Contents The collection includes one undated, incomplete letter, whose contents fall into two parts. Pages 1 and 2 speak of “old buckners army”, the cold, and remark on the 93 members of the guard having to shoot their guns every morning. This first half of the letter closes with instructions to write to: “34th Regt. Ind. Vol. [,] Company A[,] in care of Capt. Wm. Twaim…Louisville, Ky.” The second half of the letter, pages 3 and 4, makes remarks on the character of the Rebels and reports that the author...

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50th, 83rd, 93rd, 97th and 100th Indiana Regiments Volunteer descriptive lists and accounts of pay and clothing

Collection — Folder: S2420

Identifier: S2420

Scope and Contents This collection includes Volunteer Descriptive Lists and Account of Pay and Clothing forms for volunteers enlisted in the 50th, 83rd, 93rd, 97th or 100th Indiana Regiment. The majority of forms are for the 97th regiment. The forms include information on the volunteers name, rank, unit, hometown, occupation, physical description, muster information, pay information and clothing allotment.

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66th Regiment, Company B, Civil War morning reports

Collection — Folder: S3033

Identifier: S3033

Scope and Contents The collection consists of photocopies of three log books or morning books for Company B of the 66th Regiment of Indiana Infantry, which collectively date from October 17, 1862 to June 31, 1865. The three-page layout for reach monthly segment of entries in the books provides columns for duty, special duty, extra duty, daily duty, sick roll, those under arrest or confined, horses (number serviceable, number not serviceable), total number of commissioned officers, total number of enlisted men,...

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82nd Indiana Regiment list of volunteers

Collection — Folder: S2518

Identifier: S2518

Scope and Contents This collection is a list of volunteers of the 82nd Indiana Volunteer Regiment organized first by company A-K and then alphabetically by name of the soldier.

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84th Indiana Volunteer Regiment monument collection

Collection — Folder: S2611

Identifier: S2611

Scope and Contents This collection consists of photocopies of letters and other documents relating to the transfer of the monument of the 84th Indiana located 1 ½ mile east of McAfee Church, in Catoosa County, Georgia, to the spot at the Chickamauga Park, which the Regiment occupied on September 19, 1863. Attached to the April 22, 1910 letter from the Engineer of the Park is a copy of the War Department rules about monuments in the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park. That one-page printed sheet is dated...

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Abram W. Hendricks papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: S0634

Scope and Contents The collection includes Abram Hendricks’ correspondence on Indiana politics (1859-1870); minutes of the Indianapolis Committee of Safety during the 1877 railroad strike; letters of Heinrich Schliemann to Hendricks & Hord regarding his property in Indianapolis (1870-1871); Hendricks’ receipts and invoices for personal expenses, particularly clothing, in Madison (1851-1866); a chart of the organization of the Union Army at Vicksburg (1863); papers of the Indianapolis Insurance Company...

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Absalom Elliott and Jesse Shields Elliott papers

Collection — Folder: S0418

Identifier: S0418

Scope and Contents This collection includes autographed, signed letters from Absalom Elliott and Jesse Shields Elliott in an undetermined location and Toledo, Washington ranging from 1860 to 1908 regarding the Civil War and genealogy.

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Adams Lee Ogg collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: S1028

Scope and Contents The collection is mainly contains the correspondence of the Ogg and Longnaker Families. The majority of the letters are between Ogg and his wife while he was serving in the Civil War, and those with her family in Greenfield and Iowa. Also included are diaries and an expenditure list of Mary E. Ogg and clippings from the Indianapolis Star column the “Hoosier Listening Post.”

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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15th Indiana Volunteers flag collection

27th Indiana regimental history collection

34th Indiana Regiment Civil War letter

50th, 83rd, 93rd, 97th and 100th Indiana Regiments Volunteer descriptive lists and accounts of pay and clothing

66th Regiment, Company B, Civil War morning reports

82nd Indiana Regiment list of volunteers

84th Indiana Volunteer Regiment monument collection

Abram W. Hendricks papers

Absalom Elliott and Jesse Shields Elliott papers

Adams Lee Ogg collection

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