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Includes mostly correspondence with the Adjutant General's Office.

Letter from Nan Ewing to Mack Ewing dated February 15, 1865. In this letter, she discusses family news.

Includes mostly correspondence with the Adjutant General's Office.

Includes mostly correspondence with the Adjutant General's Office.

Includes mostly correspondence with the Adjutant General's Office.

This collection consists of a letter from F.D. Curtis, dated July 31, 1898, concerning the Spanish-American War.

 This collection contains correspondences from Giles B. Allen and an receipt acknowledging Linen for Officers in the Sixth Michigan Infantry, Company F. There is also a newspaper photograph of Giles B. Allen.

 This collection consists of nine letters written during the American Civil War. In three letters to his sister, Van Norman describes his time in Nelson General Hospital at Camp Nelson, Kentucky. The five letters to his father were written from Strawberry Plains and describe the skirmishes he was in, interactions with prisoners, and catching fish and eels in the river. The last letter, written by Lieutenant Wallace W. Dickinson, informs the Van Norman family of Benjamin's bravery and death.

 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 letters to and from various members of the Bush family. The letters largely focus on the Civil War, or aspects of the conflict.

 This collection consists of two folders. The first contains original correspondence and typed transactions of that correspondence. The second folder contains a compact disc of digitally scanned images of the same correspondence. The letters date 1863, except for one, which dates 1898. C.L. Leach wrote the 1898 letter to George Bush, and in it Leach notes that he is now married and lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He mentions people that he and George both know and asks George to write with any news. Frederick wrote some of the 1863 letters, and Christian, Jr. wrote the others. They are all addressed to their father, Christian Sr., and their brother George. The brothers reflect on the war and describe their experiences. They reveal a disdain for both abolitionists and African Americans and seem to regard the abolitionists in particular as a main cause of the war. The brothers describe some of their combat experiences. Gettysburg is among the battles described by Frederick (Christian was apparently hospitalized at the time). The brothers provide opinions of other men and officers and on the progress of the war. They seemed to often feel that generals were too slow to attack. They sometimes commented on medical care, their health and the weather and expressed longings to return home.

 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 correspondence exchanged between various members of the Cook (Cooke) family in New York state with members who emigrated to Michigan. There is a collection of Civil War letters (1861-1864) from both Michigan and New York regiments.

 This collection consists of typescript letters written by Leonard G. Loomis to Elizabeth Abbott, from Oct. 28, 1860 to Oct. 2, 1864, from various places throughout the South during the Civil War.

 This collection consists of letters dating from Sept. 16, 1861-Sept. 24, 1862, written by Stephen B. DeLano, C.H. Goodrich (his cousin), and Capt. Theodore Reese, all of Company F, 3rd Regiment, Michigan Cavalry Volunteers. The letters were written to family members in Cooper, Mich. commenting on general topics such as farming, weather, the war, and life in military camps. Also in the collection is a diary dating Dec. 17, 1861(?)-June 3, 1862, which the donor assumes was kept by DeLano; DeLano's certificate of health; and a military pass.

 This collection consists of a letter from W.H. Woodcock to Mary Stroud, July 13, 1862, relating to the war.

 This collection consists of two Civil War letters, dating 1863 and 1864 from Erwin Welsh, 67th Ohio Infantry, Company I. One of the letters is to his wife, Jennie.

 Manuscript Collection 2008-46 contains materials of or relating to Henry and Nancy Ewing. Includes correspondence (1855-1965, mostly dated 1865-1865); scrapbooks and notebooks (1861-1865, 1893) kept by the Ewing family; and photographs (1864, 1888), four carte de visites and one tintype, of various members of the Ewing family. The four carte de visites are of Civil War soldiers D.C. Cherington, Andy Ewing, Alvin Hank, and T.C. Radabaugh. The tintype is of Mack Ewing, Alvin Hank, and Andy Ewing taken in 1888.

 This collection contains items of or relating to George Dallas Sidman, winner of the Medal of Honor. The collection contains nine illustrated pages containing biographical and service records of Private Sidman, Company C, 16th Michigan Infantry. There are also two photographs of Sidman, one as a soldier, and one as a later date. Their is a receipt for item #48 given by Sidman to the Michigan Military Museum, 1874 and newspaper clippings about Sidman. The last part of the collection is a letter from Thomas Davey, Sept. 19, 1915, to George D. Sidman relating to badges and dues (G.A.R.?), and a listing of comrades.

 This collection consists of letters written by Emery Crane, dating Jan. 20, 1862-Sept. 17, 1862; letters written by Alphonso Crane, dating May 14, 1861-July 3, 1863; letter to parents of Alphonso Crane on his death, dated July 11, 1863.

 This collection contains 17 letters from Daniel Halbert, Company H, Sixth Michigan Infantry, 1862-1866, to his cousin, Maria Halbert. Three of the letters were written upon his return to civilian life, and describe his attendance at Albion Commercial College.

 Contains correspondence of Soloman Kroll, of Company C, Eighth Michigan Infantry, to his family, Sept. 11, 1861 to June 6, 1862; Jerome Kroll, Company A, Twentieth Michigan Infantry, to his family, Jan. 12, 1862 to Aug. 23, 1872; Henry Bedlegram of Kipps Corners, Mich., to his uncle, Nov. 6, 1864 and Jan. 26, 1870; Francis Fuller, Company D, Fourteenth Michigan Infantry, July 29, 1864; and Monroe Loomis, of Victor, Mich., July 29, 1862.

 This is the second collection documenting the career of Henry Albert Potter. Both collections (see also MS 89-535) were donated by Mrs. Arthur H. (Elizabeth) Ruddy, a descendant of Potter. This collection is arranged according to the following series: Papers, 1862-1902. Consists of letters of Henry Albert Potter to his family in Ovid, Mich. Describes marches and camp life. Includes citations and correspondence with the United States War Dept. Also includes the diary of W.P. Simmons. Simmons is not a member of the Fourth Michigan Calvary, at the time of this writing, his regiment and company are unknown. The diary, written between Sept. 9, 1863 and Nov. 1, 1863, describes the Battle of Chickamauga and Wheeler's Raid.

 This collection contains a letter from Henry H. Crapo, Governor of Michigan, requesting safe passage for Michael N. Armstrong, to Nashville, Tenn., to retrieve body of soldier, S.D. Armstrong, Feb. 16, 1865.

Letters from the Civil War, both from the battlefront and home, from families in Coldwater, Mich. and Campbell, N.Y.

 This collection consists of a letter from Eugene Joseph Stocking, Camp Buford, Oct. 4, 1863, to his parents. The letter includes a list of battles in which Stocking participated.

 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.

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

Letter from Lucia Olds to Hubert Miller dated May 17, 1864. In this letter, Lucia Olds writes to Herbert Miller, describing life back at home in great detail. She expressed tremendous grief due to his absence.

Letter from Lucia Olds to Hubert Miller dated June 26, 1864. In this letter, Lucia Olds writes to Herbert Miller providing updated news on life at home and continues to express feelings of sadness due to his absence.