Summary Information

Title: Joseph H. Spencer Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1861-1881

Creator:

• Spencer, Joseph H., 1835-187-

Call Number: Mss 154

Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (1 archives box and 2 oversize folders)

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 Spencer, a soldier in Co. G of the 1st Minnesota Infantry Regiment and an officer in the U.S. Army Signal Corps, consisting of letters to his sister, 1861-1865, which relate daily experiences of military life, enthusiasm for the Union cause, treatment of the war in the northern press, and attitudes toward Indians on the Minnesota frontier; his commission as a major in the Signal Corps; Military General Order #26; miscellany concerning Spencer and his regiment; and ten 1872 letters written by Spencer while on business trips in Minnesota.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00154