Summary Information
Harvey Reid Papers
1857-1910
Parkside Mss 53
1.2 c.f. (3 archives boxes)
UW-Parkside Library / Parkside Area Research Ctr. (Map)
Letters written by Reid from Union Grove, Wisconsin, to members of his family in 1857 and 1858; while attending the University of Wisconsin in 1861; and from the battle front, 1862-1865, while a member of Company A, 22nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. An additional letter gives a detailed description of the famous Champ Clark-Charles B. Landis debate at Clarinda, Iowa, August 21, 1900. Also included are five scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings, 1862-1907, concerning the 2nd and the 22nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and several small volumes containing diary entries, accounts, and notes.
English
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Scope and Content Note
The college letters describe daily undergraduate life, including debate societies, going to the legislature to hear bills debated, and war preparations, including drilling with the University Guards and militia arrivals at Camp Randall.
Civil War materials include three brief entry diaries for parts of 1862 and 1864-65; two account books from Reid's service as Brigade Commissary Clerk; and five scrapbooks, 1862-1907, one from wartime and four giving veterans' reminiscences and activities. Reid's diaries and letters describe daily activities, Reid's changing attitiudes toward politics, slavery, and Blacks; impressions of officers and their feuding in the 22nd; and descriptions of a Black school, the battles of Nashville, Resaca, and Peach Tree Creek, the burning of Atlanta, Sherman's March to the Sea, foraging, Reid's capture in 1863, and his treatment in a Southern hospital.
One letter describes the Champ Clark-Charles B. Landis debate at Clarinda, Iowa, August 21, 1900.
Note
Reid's 1861 University diary was published in the Wisconsin Magazine of History, 1:35-63 (September 1917). Civil War letters published as The View from Headquarters; Civil War Letters of Harvey Reid (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1965).
Administrative/Restriction Information
Originals were deposited by Mary A. Reid, Des Moines, Iowa, 1916, and transferred to a Gift, 1945.
Contents List
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Box
1
Folder
1-5
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Correspondence, 1857-1908
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Box
1
Folder
6-7
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Typewritten letters, 1858-1910
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Photostats
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Correspondence with his family
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Box
1
Folder
8-10
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1857-1863
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Box
2
Folder
1
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1864
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Box
2
Folder
2
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Miscellaneous Writings
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Scrapbooks
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Box
2
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Vols. 1-3
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Box
3
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Vols. 4-5
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Box
3
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Diaries and Account Books
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