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William O. Munson Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MS M928 306 Munson

Scope and Content Note

MS. ALSs exchanged between Munson, a Putnam County, Ohio soldier on duty in Kentucky and Tennessee with Company E, 3rd Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and members of his family. Three of the ltters are from Munson, and 24 of them are addressed to him. Correspondents are: Munson's father, H.D. Munson; his mother; his sisters, Julia and Mary A. Munson; and his brothers, C.E., Frank, and A.F. Munson, all in Putnam County; and his brothers, Gib Munson and H.D. Munson, Jr., on duty in the field with other units of the U.S. Army

Correspondence exchanged between Private William O. Munson, Company E, Third Ohio Infantry, and members of his family from Zanesville, Ohio. Three members of the Munson family served in the Union army: William, his brother Sergeant G. D. "Gib" Munson, Company B, Fifteenth Ohio Infantry, and their father, Captain H. D. Munson of the Seventy-eighth Ohio Infantry. All but three of the letters in this collection are addressed to William from his father, his brother "Gib," and the rest of his family back home. William's three letters home are dated July 8, 1861, Upshaw County, Virginia; September 2, 1862, Bowling Green, Kentucky; January 20, 1863, Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The earliest letter describes a small skirmish and subsequent rescue of a scouting party, and the last, written from a hospital bed, describes William's wounding in the battle of Stone's River, Tennessee, on January 3, 1863. "Gib" Munson wrote three of the letters in the collection from his post at Camp Nevin, Hardin County, Kentucky. H. D. Munson entered the service after his sons. He wrote to William from Fort Donelson, Tennessee, on February 22, 1862, and described conditions there after the post's capitulation to Union forces.

Dates

  • 1861-1863

Creator

Language of Materials

Materials are in English.

Access Information

Please call (479) 575-8444 or email specoll@uark.edu at least two weeks in advance of your arrival to ensure availability of the materials.

Use Information

No Use Restrictions Apply.

No Interlibrary Loan.

Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).

Extent

0.5 Linear Feet (3 Folders, 27 Items)

Arrangement of the Papers

Materials are arranged in chronological order in one folder.

Acquisition Information

The William O. Munson Correspondence was donated to the Special Collections Division by Dwight Munson Moore of Fayetteville, Arkansas in May 1978

Processing Information

Processed by Samuel Sizer; completed 1978

Creator

Source

Title
William O. Munson Correspondence
Status
Completed
Author
Samuel Sizer
Date
1978
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Finding aid is written in English.

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections Department Repository

Contact:
University of Arkansas Libraries
365 N. McIlroy Avenue
Fayetteville AR 72701 United States
(479) 575-8444