Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series include stray photographs of soldiers from the Civil War era, not received with other accessions here. However, the soldiers depicted may be included in the other accessions. It also includes miscellaneous later photos documenting the Civil War.

Accession numbers are included with the photos themselves, and the accession data is available in the Archivist’s various databases.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

The clippings in this series have been culled from the Local History Vertical File. Included are those from the Civil War era, 1861-1865, and those post Civil War, 1866-ca, 1964. Articles document officers and veterans of the Old 3rd, or the Michigan Engineers and Mechanics, for example. Some discuss in general the progress of the war. Postwar clippings document GAR activities and war memories.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Accession #: 1995.001. Donor: Old Collection, unknown, ca. 1925? According to Michigan Volunteers, 1861-1865, Daniel McNaughton originally enlisted in Co. A, Sixth Cavalry Aug 11, 1862, and promoted within the 7th Nov. 17, 1862. The papers in this series document some of his later career, as he was discharged & subsequently commissioned to accept promotion to First Lieutenant/Quartermaster May 18, 1864. In Jan. 1965 he was given a leave of absence. In Sept.-Oct....

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This collection contains items found where the original accession is unknown, or items transferred from the GRHSCC Local History book collections where the accession information is now longer known.