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7. Jan. 1, Letter. To Capt. From S.? G.? Champlin. [Will]
File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
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Accession #: 1983.004. Donor: Cindy Pulnifer Phelps Charles D. Lyon entered the service in Company A, 3rd (Michigan Volunteers) Infantry as a Second Lieutenant. He was later commissioned as First Lieutenant. He eventually became Captain of Company K, and resigned from military duty because of medical reasons on October 25, 1862.Mainly composed of Lyon’s medical records, also included records such as leave of absence papers, financial records, personal...
Dates:
1862-1866
8. Envelop, to Capt. Charles S.? Lyon from Adjutant General’s Office.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
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Accession #: 1983.004. Donor: Cindy Pulnifer Phelps Charles D. Lyon entered the service in Company A, 3rd (Michigan Volunteers) Infantry as a Second Lieutenant. He was later commissioned as First Lieutenant. He eventually became Captain of Company K, and resigned from military duty because of medical reasons on October 25, 1862.Mainly composed of Lyon’s medical records, also included records such as leave of absence papers, financial records, personal...
Dates:
1862-1866
9. Photocopy. Data sheet.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
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Accession #: 1983.004. Donor: Cindy Pulnifer Phelps Charles D. Lyon entered the service in Company A, 3rd (Michigan Volunteers) Infantry as a Second Lieutenant. He was later commissioned as First Lieutenant. He eventually became Captain of Company K, and resigned from military duty because of medical reasons on October 25, 1862.Mainly composed of Lyon’s medical records, also included records such as leave of absence papers, financial records, personal...
Dates:
1862-1866
Letters, Wesley A. Clark
File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
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Accession #: 1993.017. Donor: Lois BallemaWesley A. Clark enlisted in Company K, 6th Cavalry on September 10, 1862 in Assyria, Michigan, at age 19. He was mustered October 13, 1862 and taken prisoner at Travillian Station Virginia on June 11, 1864. He was discharged for disability at Baltimore, Maryland on May 19, 1865. This series includes two photocopied letters, the first being one that he wrote to his first wife, Juliette Beebe while a POW at Andersonville, GA....
Dates:
1864-1865, 1893 ; Majority of material found within 1864 - 1865
Letters, Henry G. Cady
File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
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Accession #: 1985.12. Donor: Susan C. MesRobianCady enlisted and was mustered at Branch County, Mi., on August 24, 1861 in Company D, 11th Infantry. Cady was later transferred to Medical Department at Bardstown Kentucky, on April 1, 1862.Included in this series are four photocopied letters that Cady wrote in 1862, while stationed at the Medical Department. He wrote about the conditions of the hospitals that he visited, some in depth reports on the wounds...
Dates:
1862
Pension documents.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
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Accession #: 1986.483, 1990.031. Donor: Unknown & Irma G. Cornelius Littlefield enlisted in Company A, 3rd Infantry as Corporal on June 10, 1861 in Kent County. He was discharged at Detroit Michigan on October 30, 1862. He reentered service in Company I, 7th Cavalry as 2nd Lieutenant. He received several commissions during his later tour of duty. He died a 1st Lieutenant or Major, of disease (small pox) at Washington D.C., on January 4th or 6th, 1864. He is buried...
Dates:
1861-1864, 1891; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1864
Letters, Daniel Webster Littlefield.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
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Accession #: 1986.483, 1990.031. Donor: Unknown & Irma G. Cornelius Littlefield enlisted in Company A, 3rd Infantry as Corporal on June 10, 1861 in Kent County. He was discharged at Detroit Michigan on October 30, 1862. He reentered service in Company I, 7th Cavalry as 2nd Lieutenant. He received several commissions during his later tour of duty. He died a 1st Lieutenant or Major, of disease (small pox) at Washington D.C., on January 4th or 6th, 1864. He is buried...
Dates:
1861-1864, 1891; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1864
References.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
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Accession #: 1986.483, 1990.031. Donor: Unknown & Irma G. Cornelius Littlefield enlisted in Company A, 3rd Infantry as Corporal on June 10, 1861 in Kent County. He was discharged at Detroit Michigan on October 30, 1862. He reentered service in Company I, 7th Cavalry as 2nd Lieutenant. He received several commissions during his later tour of duty. He died a 1st Lieutenant or Major, of disease (small pox) at Washington D.C., on January 4th or 6th, 1864. He is buried...
Dates:
1861-1864, 1891; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1864
Thomas V.B. Mitchell “In Memoriam” (original and copy) and pension documents.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
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Accession #: 1986.483.Thomas V.(Vail) B. Mitchell enlisted in Company H, 4th Cavalry as First Sergeant on August 1st, 1862 in Grand Rapids. He was mustered on August 29, 1862. He died a 2nd. Lieutenant, on January 16, 1863, of wounds received Dec. 31, 1862, in action at the Battle of Murfreesboro, Tenn. or Battle of Stone River, Tennessee. Mitchell was born in Saulsburg, Connecticut, he followed his mothers family in Grand Rapids around 1856, to take a position in the Dr....
Dates:
1863
Andrew McDonald Autobiography/War Reminiscents.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 17
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Accession #: 1988.026. McDonald enlisted in Company F, 21st Infantry on August 9, 1862 in Lowell. (Other reports have him enlisted in Company B, 21st Michigan Volunteer Infantry.) He was mustered September 3, 1862 and mustered out at Washington D.C., June 8, 1865.This collection includes a transcribed and photocopied version of McDonald’s recollection of his contribution to the Civil War. He reports on the conditions in Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain, and...
Dates:
1862-1865