Title: DeBowers Family Civil War Letters and Photographs
Inclusive Dates: 1861-1865, 1898

Creator:

• DeBowers Family

Call Number: M2011-042

Quantity: 0.1 c.f. (1 folder) and 27 photographs

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:

Civil War letters of soldiers from several different Wisconsin regiments addressed to friends and relatives describing life at Camp Randall in Madison, Wisconsin, food, weather and surroundings, discussions of the draft, the Battle of Hatcher Run in early 1865, and miscellaneous family concerns. Also included is a poem, “The Slave's Appeal,” as well as 27 photographs of an unidentified Civil War-era house and monument and portraits.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-m2011042

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Acquisition Information

Presented by the Friends of the Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin. Accession Number: M2011-042

M2011-042	Letters
Folder   1	News clipping, 1898
Folder   1	“Slave's Appeal,” poem
Folder   1	J.C. Spaulding, private, K Company, 29th? Infantry Regiment (Wisconsin), 1861 September 8
Folder   1	Edward M. Baker, private, E Company, 32nd Infantry Regiment (Wisconsin), 186? July 21
Folder   1	Henry Benson, private, K Company, 6th Infantry Regiment (Wisconsin), 1864 December 18
Folder   1	Edwin Ward, private, D Company, 5th Infantry Regiment (reorganized) (Wisconsin), 1864 November 18
Folder   1	John Morton, C Company, 36th? Infantry Regiment (Wisconsin), 1865 January 30
Folder   1	Herbert Ward, private, D Company, 5th Infantry (reorganized) (Wisconsin), 1864 September 24
Folder   1	Reuben W. Spaulding, Corporal, D Company, 5th Regiment (reorganized) (Wisconsin), 1864 October 4
Folder   1	Orville A. Hall, private, G Company, 18th Infantry Regiment (Wisconsin), 1862 July 29
Folder   1	Henry Benson, private, K Company, 6th Infantry Regiment (Wisconsin), 1865 February
Folder   1	Reuben W. Spaulding, Corporal, D Company, 5th Regiment (reorganized) (Wisconsin), 1864 September 18
Folder   1	Herbert Ward, private, D Company, 5th Infantry (reorganized) (Wisconsin), 1865 March 9
Folder   1	Edwin Ward, private, D Company, 5th Infantry Regiment (reorganized) (Wisconsin), 1865 March 7
PH Box   28	Photographs