Title: Loyd G. Harris Civil War Letters and Collection of Portrait Photographs
Inclusive Dates: 1861-1870

Creator:

• Harris, Loyd G.

Call Number: Mss 1061; PH 1938

Quantity: 0.6 cubic feet (2 archives boxes) and 75 photographs (2 negative boxes)

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 principally written by Loyd G. Harris, a lieutenant in the 6th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Company C, to his sister, Nettie, and his brother-in-law, Otis (1860-1868). The letters include information on troop movements and duties, weather, health, Harris’ reflections on the Battle of Gettysburg during which he was wounded, and his thoughts on Lincoln’s assassination. The later letters detail Harris’ life after the Civil War ended. Also included are a few letters written on Harris’ behalf or written to Harris by others. The photographs are primarily portraits in carte-de-visite format of Civil War officers and contemporary women associated with Harris, circa 1861-1870.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss01061

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Acquisition Information

Presented by Edith Harris Rennisck, Houston, Texas, 1959; and Juanita H. Chipman, 2008. Accession Number: M2008-044

Mss 1061	Series: Civil War Letters, 1860-1868
Box   1 Folder   1	Letters from others, 1862-1868
	Letters from Harris
Box   1 Folder   2-11	1860-1865 May
Box   2 Folder   1-6	1865 June-1868
PH 1938	Series: Photographs, 1861-1870	⇧
	Portraits
Box   1 Item 1938.1	Anderson, C.S., 1st New York Artillery
Box   1 Item 1938.2	Baldwin, Lieutenant
Box   1 Item 1938.3	Barchus, Tom
Box   1 Item 1938.4	Barchus, Ludie Note: Identified by comparison.
Box   2 Item 1938.74	Bushnell, A.R., 7th Wisconsin Volunteers, Company C
Box   1 Item 1938.5	Converse, Rollin P.
Box   1 Item 1938.6	Cutler, Lysander, General
Box   2 Item 1938.71	Cutler, Lysander, General
Box   1 Item 1938.7	Davis, George S., Union Navy paymaster
Box   1 Item 1938.8	Douglas, Stephen A., Mrs.
Box   1 Item 1938.9	Du Pont, Samuel F., U.S. Navy flag officer
Box   1 Item 1938.10	Ford, Charles H., Captain, 6th Wisconsin Infantry
Box   1 Item 1938.11	Greene, William A., Colonel Note: Posed with five others including an African-American youth, and a dwarf.
Box   2 Item 1938.72	Hall, John, Dr., 6th Wisconsin Volunteers
Box   1 Item 1938.12	Hancock, Winfield Scott, General
Box   1 Item 1938.13	Harrington and Young, Marine Corps officers
	Harris, Loyd G.
Box   1 Item 1938.14	In Marine Corps uniform
Box   1 Item 1938.15	With two men and three women, all holding billiard cues
Box   1 Item 1938.16	Wearing Army lieutenant’s uniform
Box   1 Item 1938.17	In uniform, wearing a bowtie
Box   1 Item 1938.18	Wedding party portrait; Harris is the groom
Box   1 Item 1938.19	Hauser, John F., 6th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
Box   1 Item 1938.20	Hays, Alexander, General
Box   1 Item 1938.21	Hinck [or Hinks], Edward Winslow, General
Box   1 Item 1938.22	Hiner, D., chief pilot, Mississippi squadron
Box   1 Item 1938.23	Hord, W.J., naval officer
Box   1 Item 1938.24	Hughes, Commander, U.S. Navy
Box   2 Item 1938.75	Kellogg, John A., 6th Wisconsin Volunteers
Box   1 Item 1938.25	Lawler, John
Box   1 Item 1938.26	Lovell, Charles S. Note: Identified by comparison.
	Mannix, D. Pratt, Lieutenant, Marine Corps
Box   1 Item 1938.27	Mannix, 1867
Box   1 Item 1938.28	Mannix
Box   1 Item 1938.29	Mannix and two other men, Reid and Zeilin
Box   1 Item 1938.30	McCall, P., General [possibly George McCall]
Box   1 Item 1938.31	McCellan, George B., General
Box   2 Item 1938.73	Meredith, Solomon, Major General
Box   1 Item 1938.32	Morrill, H.L., Major
Box   1 Item 1938.33	Morris, George U.
Box   1 Item 1938.34	Neil, Richard R., Lieutenant, Marine Corps
Box   1 Item 1938.35	Otis, George H, 2nd Wisconsin Infantry, Company I
Box   1 Item 1938.36	Parker, W.H., Captain
Box   1 Item 1938.37	Plummer, Philip W., 6th Wisconsin, Captain Note: Killed in the wilderness.
Box   1 Item 1938.38	Plummer, Philip W., Captain, 6th Wisconsin
Box   1 Item 1938.39	Plummer, Thomas W., real estate and loan agent, Yates Center, Kansas
Box   1 Item 1938.40	Poor, C.H., Commodore, U.S. Navy
Box   2 Item 1938.69	Randolph, Julius, Captain, 2nd Infantry Note: Killed at Bull Run.
Box   1 Item 1938.41	Robinson, John Cleveland, General
Box   1 Item 1938.42	Robinson, William W., Colonel
Box   1 Item 1938.43	Sanborn, Sherb
Box   1 Item 1938.44	Sandford, Anna Size
Box   1 Item 1938.45	Schorse, Otto, Captain
Box   1 Item 1938.46	Sedgwick, John, General
Box   2 Item 1938.70	Sparrie, Captain, 2nd Wisconsin Note: Killed in Bairle wilderness.
Box   1 Item 1938.47	Varz, Samuel, Captain
Box   1 Item 1938.48	Varz, E.S.
Box   1 Item 1938.49	Walke, H.A., Commodore, U.S. Navy
Box   1 Item 1938.50	Webb sisters
Box   1 Item 1938.51-52	Wiard, Norman
Box   2 Item 1938.53	Wood, James D., Captain, 2nd Wisconsin Infantry
	Unidentified portraits
Box   1 Item 1938.63	Marine Corps officer
Box   1 Item 1938.64-65, 68	Man
Box   1 Item 1938.54-57	Woman
Box   1 Item 1938.61-62	Woman
Box   1 Item 1938.66	Woman [first name: Julie]
Box   1 Item 1938.67	U.S. Navy officer
	Views
Box   1 Item 1938.58	Sawmill
Box   1 Item 1938.59	Stone Bridge, Bull Run, No. 312 of Brady’s Album Gallery
Box   1 Item 1938.60	U.S. Army fort, drawing