Correspondence, writings, and clippings by, to, and about James William Denver and his wife Louisa. Seven letters, dated 1855-1863, are written to Louisa by her cousins, August, Alfred, and Sophia Kautz. Each of these cousins describes their daily lif...
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Denver fought in the Mexican War and was elected to Congress from California in 1855, and was made Secretary of the Territory of Kansas in 1857 to keep peace there. He was made governor of the Territory the next year, at which time the city of Denver ...
Subject (Geographic):
California., United States., United States, Fort Orford (Or.), Fort Steilacoom (Wash.), and Sacramento (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Denver, James William, 1817-1892., Denver, Louisa C., Kautz, Alfred, b. 1839., Kautz, August V. 1826-1896. (August Valentine),, Kautz, Sophia., and United States Naval Academy.
Subject (Topic):
Politics, Practical, History, and Politics and government
Correspondence, documents, writings, printed material, photographs and financial papers relating to the Cowdery, Gillum, and Starling families. The correspondence, which consists primarily of family news, includes letters written during the Civil War,...
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The Cowdery family of Columbus, Mississippi and Lakeland, Florida included the siblings Mattie J., Sally, Dolly, Lewis, Lester, Walter, and Almarine Cowdery Slade. Lester and Lewis Cowdery worked in the business started by their father, the L.L. Cowde...
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United States, Columbus (Miss.), Hopkinsville (Ky.), Lakeland (Fla.), and Pensacola (Fla.)
Subject (Name):
Alexander, G., Captain., Barlow, Kate Light., Cowdery family., Cowdery, Lewis., Gillum family., Gillum, Henry, 1832-1907., Gillum, Virginia A. (Virginia Anne), Goodwin, Joseph B., Starling family., Starling, Lewis., Confederate States of America. Army, Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 16th., L.L. Cowdery & Co. (Columbus, Ga.), and Seth Thomas Clock Company.
Group of letters, photographs, and clippings chiefly related to Read's poem "Sheridan's Ride," and its composition on the morning of James E. Murdoch's recitation at Pike's Opera House in Cincinnati, October 31, 1864. It includes four letters written ...
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Thomas Buchanan Read, American poet.
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Name):
Literary Club of Cincinnati., Grafton, E. D., James, Davis L., Murdoch, James Edward, 1811-1893., Read, Harriet Denison Butler., Read, Thomas Buchanan, 1822-1872., Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888, and Vanloo, Leon.
United States, History, Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861, Transport of sick and wounded, Military hospitals, Hospitals, Soldiers, Ambulances, Churches, and Sick persons
Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861, United States, History, War wounds, Transport of sick and wounded, Soldiers, Ambulances, Battlefields, Dead persons, Explosions, and Horses
The papers describe the march of Lambert Martin's regiment from Iowa City to Fort Randall, Dakota in November and December 1861, garrison life, a scouting expedition and other details of military life. A photograph and genealogical chart of George Col...
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Lambert A. Martin, of Salem, New York, who had been working as a farm hand in Iowa, enlisted in the Union Army in the fall of 1861, serving first in the 14th and later the 41st Iowa infantry.
Subject (Geographic):
United States., Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.), Fort Donelson (Tenn.), Fort LaFromboise (S.D.), Fort Pierre (S.D.), Fort Randall (S.D.), Ponca Creek (S.D.), and United States
Subject (Name):
Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876., Buell, Carlos, 1818-1898., Burnside, Ambrose Everett, 1824-1881., Cherry, Amos R., Clapp, Leonides., Cleveland, David, active 1861-1863., Davis, Jefferson Columbus, 1828-1879., Douglas, Stephen A. 1813-1861. (Stephen Arnold),, Germain, George., Harney, William S. 1800-1889. (William Selby),, Hempstead, George Collier, 1839-, Kirkwood, Samuel Jordan, 1813-1894., LaFromboise, Frank., Lee, Robert E. 1807-1870. (Robert Edward),, Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865., McClellan, George B. 1826-1885. (George Brinton),, Mahanna, B., Martin, Lambert A., -1863., Martin, Mary, active 1861-1863., Martin, William, active 1861-1863., Mitchel, O. M. 1809-1862. (Ormsby MacKnight),, Pattee, Wallace P., Pollock, Samuel M., Pope, John, 1822-1892., Seymour, Horatio, 1810-1886., Sibley, Henry Hastings, 1811-1891., Sully, Alfred, 1821-1879., Trask, Eugene F., -1863., Belle Peoria (Ship), United States. Army. Iowa Cavalry Regiment, 6th (1863-1865), United States. Army. Iowa Cavalry Regiment, 7th (1863-1866), and United States. Army. Iowa Infantry Regiment, 14th (1862-1865)
Subject (Topic):
Brulé Indians, Corinth, Battle of, 1862, Indians of North America, Wars, Santee Indians, Siksika Indians, Slavery, Winnebago Indians, Yankton Indians, Description and travel, Views, and History
