Title: Henry Dillon Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1849, 1860-1891

Creator:

• Dillon, Henry, 1828-1882

Call Number: Wis Mss 233S; PH 6180

Quantity: 0.8 cubic feet (2 archives boxes) and 80 photographs (1 negative box and 1 folder)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of Henry Dillon of Lone Rock, Wisconsin, who served as captain of the 6th Wisconsin Light Artillery Battery, 1861-1864, consisting of biographical information; fragmentary family correspondence; collected photographs; speeches and writings including a reminiscent address delivered at the 1881 reunion of the battery and brief notes about his military experience in the Mexican War; and a file of handwritten orders, reports, muster rolls, descriptive lists, supply records, and other records from the battery's wartime field desk. Also included are two accounts of the Battle of Gettysburg thought to have been written by Frederick C. Winkler of the 26th Wisconsin and some papers of Thomas Hood, who succeeded Dillon as captain.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-wis0233s

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The provenance of the material in this collection is quite murky. Some of the official records in the collection are known to have been in the field desk presented to the Historical Society by Ernest H. Keene. Handwritten annotations on these records indicate that they had been reviewed by the Wisconsin Adjutant General in 1889 and perhaps, as duplicates, returned to private hands. However, this group of documents (originally catalogued as Series 2224) also included Henry Dillon's personal papers, as well as some estate papers of Thomas Hood, who succeeded Dillon as captain. Dillon may have had these papers since he was the executor of the Hood estate. Additional Dillon papers were presented to the Historical Society by members of his family.

In 1996 all of the Dillon papers were weeded and compared to the documentation of the 6th Battery in Series 1200. Although the Dillon materials were duplicated in Series 1200 they were retained as evidence of the kinds of official documents kept in regimental custody.

The collection also includes a manuscript about the Battle of Gettysburg that is of unknown provenance.

The photographs are carte-de-visite studio portraits, primarily of individuals serving in the military during the Civil War, including images of enlisted men and officers, circa 1860-1870, probably collected by Henry Dillon. Also includes one full-plate ambrotype of Henry Dillon.

Acquisition Information

Portions presented by Joe Seiders, Lone Rock, Wisconsin, 1959; and Colonel Donald Ketcham, Brownsville, Texas, 1978. Accession Number: M59-205, M78-126, former Series 2224

Wis Mss 233S Box   1 Folder   1	Biographical information
Box   1 Folder   2	Allotment rolls, 1861, undated
Box   1 Folder   3	Claims of ex-soldiers, 1865-1881
Box   1 Folder   4	Clothing accounts
Box   1 Folder   5	Commissions
Box   1 Folder   6	Correspondence, 1849, 1861-1878, undated
Box   1 Folder   7	Descriptive lists of individuals
Box   1 Folder   8	Effects inventories and final statements
Box   1 Folder   9	Thomas Hood estate, 1871-1872
Box   1 Folder   10	Insurance, 1866-1873
Box   1 Folder   11	Mail lists
Box   1 Folder   12	Miscellany
Box   1 Folder   13	Muster-in rolls of detachments
Box   1 Folder   14	Muster-out rolls
Box   1 Folder   15-17	Muster rolls, quarterly, 1861-1864
Box   2 Folder   1	Orders, 1862-1864
Box   2 Folder   2	Orders, Special, 1862-1865
Box   2 Folder   3	Ordnance invoices
Box   2 Folder   4	Ordnance quarterly returns, 1862-1865
Box   2 Folder   5	Payment notices
Box   2 Folder   6	Quartermasters monthly returns (#51)
Box   2 Folder   7	Quartermaster property lists and invoices (#27)
Box   2 Folder   8	Quartermasters supplies expended
Box   2 Folder   9	Receipts for property turned in, 1862-1864
Box   2 Folder   10	Reports
Box   2 Folder   11	Returns, 1863-1865
Box   2 Folder   12	Special requisitions
Box   2 Folder   13	Speeches, 1881, undated
Box   2 Folder   14	Supply (“Dillon's private papers”)
Box   2 Folder   15	State muster roll
Box   2 Folder   16	Transportation
Box   2 Folder   17	Gettysburg writings
PH 6180	Photographs
Box   1	Carte-de-visite studio portraits, mostly Civil war
Folder   1	Ambrotype of Henry Dillon