Summary Information

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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