Box 1
Container
Contains 51 Results:
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
1859 Letter to Cousin
File — Box: 1, Folder: 18
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Accession #: 1993.019James Henry Keeny or Keeney was born in Canada Apr. 15, 1839. He enlisted in Company D, Engineers and Mechanics, September 22, 1862 at Grand Rapids. He was mustered October 6, 1862, and was discharged on a Surgeon’s certificate of disability at Nashville, Tennessee on May 30, 1863. Keeney was later a teacher in Kelloggsville and Kent County. He died in Oakland Co., Mich. Nov. 30, 1921. This collection is composed of all photocopied documents....
Dates:
1859-1863, 1888, and 1942; Majority of material found within 1859 - 1863
James H. Keeney War correspondence with future wife Jennie (Mary Jame Pelton), and Miss Willett
File — Box: 1, Folder: 19
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Accession #: 1993.019James Henry Keeny or Keeney was born in Canada Apr. 15, 1839. He enlisted in Company D, Engineers and Mechanics, September 22, 1862 at Grand Rapids. He was mustered October 6, 1862, and was discharged on a Surgeon’s certificate of disability at Nashville, Tennessee on May 30, 1863. Keeney was later a teacher in Kelloggsville and Kent County. He died in Oakland Co., Mich. Nov. 30, 1921. This collection is composed of all photocopied documents....
Dates:
1859-1863, 1888, and 1942; Majority of material found within 1859 - 1863
Enrollment and Discharge documents
File — Box: 1, Folder: 20
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Accession #: 1993.019James Henry Keeny or Keeney was born in Canada Apr. 15, 1839. He enlisted in Company D, Engineers and Mechanics, September 22, 1862 at Grand Rapids. He was mustered October 6, 1862, and was discharged on a Surgeon’s certificate of disability at Nashville, Tennessee on May 30, 1863. Keeney was later a teacher in Kelloggsville and Kent County. He died in Oakland Co., Mich. Nov. 30, 1921. This collection is composed of all photocopied documents....
Dates:
1859-1863, 1888, and 1942; Majority of material found within 1859 - 1863
Teaching Data and Death Certificate
File — Box: 1, Folder: 21
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Accession #: 1993.019James Henry Keeny or Keeney was born in Canada Apr. 15, 1839. He enlisted in Company D, Engineers and Mechanics, September 22, 1862 at Grand Rapids. He was mustered October 6, 1862, and was discharged on a Surgeon’s certificate of disability at Nashville, Tennessee on May 30, 1863. Keeney was later a teacher in Kelloggsville and Kent County. He died in Oakland Co., Mich. Nov. 30, 1921. This collection is composed of all photocopied documents....
Dates:
1859-1863, 1888, and 1942; Majority of material found within 1859 - 1863
Theodore W. Bement Discharge paper, 1865.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 22
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Donor: Old Collection, unknown
One original document, his discharge from Company H, Fourth Cavalry is available. Michigan Volunteers, 1861-1865 states that Bement enlisted as a Sergeant, but his discharge lists him as Private. He is said to have been a prisoner on picket, returned to his regiment May 1863 and mustered out July 1, 1865.
Dates:
1860 - 2013