Scope and Content Note From the Collection:

The material consists of a diary fragment, "Sketches of a journey from Camden [New York] to [Peoria County?] Illinois," written by an unknown woman, June 13 - November 6,1837. Also included in the collection are eleven Civil War letters (most of them written by M. E. Barnes, a member of the Army of the Cumberland, later called the Army of Georgia), an envelope, and an unsigned poem.

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Includes three copies of Parnell's speech, two with corrections and changes, the third a one-page copy (for release to newspapers?).

Scope and Content Note From the Collection:

20 items. Primarily proclamations and orders, in English, French, and German, published and posted in France and Germany by American Military Government units of the United States Army.

Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The material consists primarily of letters to and from members of the Badgett family in Caswell County, North Carolina, and in Jefferson, Texas. The letters pertain to human trafficking of enslaved persons, farming, impressions and observations of Thomas J. Badgett while he was a student at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and at the University of Pennsylvania (events include the execution of John Brown), the Civil War, and conditions and events in Texas following the Civil War. Other papers...