Manuscript Collections

 This collection consists several documents pertaining to the Civil War. The collection includes discharge papers for Delos H. Ennis of Company C, Ninth Michigan Veteran Infantry (June 20, 1865) and for Peter F. Garrison, Company K, 14th Michigan Veteran Infantry (July 18, 1865). The collection also contains 2 receipts for ordnance stores returned to Company D, 24th Michigan Infantry (June 1863), an abstract of materials expended or consumed by the same company from time of muster to and during the first quarter of 1863, and a circular, Circular no. 10, series of 1863, issued by the War Dept., March 16, 1863, relative to the "return of ordnance and ordnance stores".

 This collection contains various Civil War documents of George Benton Arnold of Company D, 20th Michigan Infantry, including an ambrotype of Benton, his dairies (Jan. 1, 1863-Feb. 3, 1864, 1864, 1865), a letter to his sister (Nov. 7, 1862), his various commissioning papers, his discharge papers (May 30, 1865), his certificates of service, Michigan Adjutant General's Office (1904 and 1912), and an application of officer for correction of muster (Jan. 24, 1899).

This collection consists of photocopies of letters from Edson Conrad, Company G., 8th Regiment, Michigan Infantry Volunteers, to his family and dating 1862-1863. 

Discharge papers of Daniel S. Ingersoll, 15th Michigan Volunteers, Co. G, August 11, 1865. 

This collection consists of the diary of Darwin H. Babbitt, a private in the 5th Michigan Cavalry, Co. K. The diary discusses daily events through May 27, 1864, including reviews by Generals Meade, Custer, Grant and Sheridan, and movements through Richmond, Yorktown, Alexandria, and Fairfax, Virginia. 

 This collection consists of the Civil War diary of Major Cornelius Byington, 2nd Michigan Infantry, Co. C. He entered service in Co. C at age 39 at it's organization, as a captain, May 10, 1861, at Battle Creek, Mich. He was commissioned a Major on Apr. 25, 1861, mustered May 25, 1861, and died Dec. 11, 1863, from wounds received in action on Nov. 24, 1863, at Knoxville, Tenn. The diary also includes a written statement about his death and newspaper articles.

This collection consists of papers of Charles F. Smith. The collection includes 12 letters from Smith to his family, dating from Apr. 21, 1861(?) to July 23, 1865, and a diary of Smith's, dated Oct. 11, 1864, while he was a prisoner of war.

 This collection consists of a letter from Frederick A. Cutler, 6th Michigan Infantry, dated Aug. 6, 1862, describing the details of the battle at Baton Rouge.

 This collection contains general orders, newspaper clippings, publications, and other memorabilia from the Civil War.

 This collection contains personal papers and correspondence of Abner Wood. Also included are certificates from the Livingston County Board of Canvassers testifying to Wood's election to public office. There are also copies of his pension files from the National Archives, supplemented by an affidavit that was written when he was seeking disability payment. There is also a General Instructions document to deputies when Wood was a surveyor.

 This collection consists of papers relating to the Fifth Michigan Infantry and Hamilton Potter (ca. 1839-1919). Potter served in Company B of that regiment. He mustered into the regiment at Pontiac (January 19, 1864), was wounded in action (May 5, 1864), and discharged on a disability certificate (May 9, 1865). The collection includes Potter's pension certificate (1910) and that of his widow, Rosetta Potter (1919). The papers also include photographs of the Fifth Michigan reunions at Mount Clemens (1919) and Detroit (1920), and brochures documenting the 1907 reunion of the Fifth Michigan Infantry, the 1903 reunion of the Fifteenth Michigan Infantry, and the 1927 encampment of veterans from the Civil War, Spanish American War, and Veterans of Foreign Wars. The few newspaper clippings, gathered by Harold Reichtmyer, detail the number of Civil War veterans still living in the late 1930s. The collection also includes an undated obituary of Rosetta Potter, who married Hamilton Potter in 1867, and lived to the age of 80.

 Civil War diaries, 1863-1865. Consists of three small pocket diaries with daily entries of a paragraph or less discussing the daily life of Henry Albert Potter, when he served with the Fourth Michigan Calvary. The 1865 diary also has a calendar, a list of eclipses, a list of Sundays, distances and time by railroad from New York, rates of postage for both domestic and foreign mail, the population of the United States-slave and free for 1860, the Rebellion record from 1861 through 1864, and an almanac for 1865.

 This collection consists of letters from Samuel Matthews, Third Michigan Infantry, Company G, from various camps and battlegrounds, to his brother and sister, May 29, 1861-June 11, 1864.

 This collection consists of twenty-three discreet items (18 folders), which are arranged chronologically. Most of the documents date from the Civil War period.

 This collections consists of letters written to the Jackson family during the Civil War period. In addition, it also includes a verse that was presented at the laying of the cornerstone of the Soldiers' and Sailors Monument in Detroit. Most of the letters were written by a close friend of the family, Sergeant Sanford Douglass Payne of Company H, Eight Michigan Calvary. Payne's letters to Elizabeth Caroline Wilcox Jackson and her daughter, Elizabeth Prudence Jackson, describe life as a soldier serving in Kentucky and Tennessee. The letters often refer to Charles Jackson, son of Elizabeth Caroline and brother of Elizabeth Prudence. Charles served in the Second Michigan Volunteer Infantry, Company G. This collection includes letters that describe the leg injury (and amputation) suffered by Charles while on picket duty at Petersburg, Virginia in June of 1864. Charles never recovered from his wounds, dying on July 1, 1864.

Certification of military service for Private Alfred White from August 1864-October 1865 in the 102nd U.S. Colored Infantry, First Regiment, Company B. He enlisted at Kalamazoo, Mich. on August 24, 1864. 

This collection consists of seventeen interviews of members of the Lake Huron coastal community of Rogers City, Michigan, as well as fisheries professionals, who experienced the buildup of Chinook salmon fishing in Rogers City in the late twentieth century and the Lake Huron Chinook salmon fishery crash in the mid-2000s.

This accession contains records from State Representative Kyra Harris Bolden dated 2019 through 2022. The accession includes correspondences with constituents, photographs from events, legislative material related to bills and committees, office operations, and media interaction. Representative Bolden was elected to the 35th Representative District (Southfield) in 2019, so a significant amount of her work revolved around the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact the crisis had on her district.