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mssHM 37047-37114
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Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library
Title: Hiram Farrand papers
Creator:
Farrand, Hiram, 1826-
Identifier/Call Number: mssHM 37047-37114
Physical Description:
1.2 Linear Feet
(1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1861-1864
Abstract: Letters of American Civil War Union soldier Hiram Farrand.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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[Identification of item]. Hiram Farrand papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Transferred from the Farrand File, Huntington Library Institutional Archives, 1953.
Hiram Farrand, resident of Newark, New Jersey, enrolled in Company F of the 1st New York Volunteer Engineers Regiment in September
1861. In October he was commissioned the 2nd Lieutenant, and in February 1862 promoted to First Lieutenant of Company E. In
December 1863 he was appointed acting regimental adjutant. In March 1864, Farrand was commissioned Captain of Company D. During
his service, he took part in battles of Hilton Head, Secessionville, Coosawhatchie River, Carlton and Frampton Plantations,
Morris Island, the siege of Battery Wagner, Charleston, and Fort Sumter. Wounded during the action at Bermuda Hundred, Virginia,
he spent a month at the General Hospital in Chesapeake in 1864. He was mustered out on December 12, 1864, in Varina, Virginia.
Letters from Hiram Farrand to his brother Samuel Ashbel Farrand, member of the Newark Board of Education and Professor of
the Newark Academy, posted from various places in South Carolina, Florida, and Virginia. Some letters were written on board
the steamers the "Star of the South" and the "Burnside," including one written in a Miner's and Traveler's Letter Book, 1850.
Letters cover operations in Virginia and South Carolina, including naval battles and war politics; camp life, payments, procurement,
promotions, diseases, and recreations (including a course of Shakespeare lectures taught in camp by the Reverend Henry Norman
Hudson, then the Regiment's chaplain). Also included is a journal of a Newark delegate of the United States Christian Commission
to the Gettysburg battlefield.
Processed by Huntington Library staff, date unknown. In March 2024, Brooke M. Black created a finding aid.
Arranged chronologically.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Military engineers -- New York (State) -- Correspondence -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Gettysburg Campaign, 1863 -- Personal narratives
Morris Island, Battle of, S.C., 1863 -- Personal narratives
Port Royal (S.C.) Expedition, 1861 -- Personal narratives
Secessionville, Battle of, Secessionville, S.C., 1862 -- Personal narratives
South Carolina -- Description and travel
Florida -- Description and travel
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations -- Personal narratives
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Religious aspects
Letters (correspondence)
Memoirs
Farrand, Samuel Ashbel, active 1859-1880
Hudson, Henry Norman, 1814-1886
United States. Army. New York Engineer Regiment, 1st (1861-1865)
United States Christian Commission