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Preliminary Guide to the Robert L. McConnell Collection
Wyles Mss 24
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Title: Robert L. McConnell Collection,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1861-1865, 1893
Collection Number: Wyles Mss 24
Extent:
.2 linear feet
(1 half-size document box)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical Location: Del Sur
Language:
English.
None.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Robert L. McConnell Collection. Wyles Mss 24. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Gift of Phil McConnell, 1982.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains Civil War and later items, of Robert L. McConnell, a Union lieutenant with the Ohio Infantry, 8th
Regiment. Includes two letters to friend Mary Williams of Medina, OH, 1861-1862, and one from Mary C. McConnell to her granddaughter,
1866, along with a daguerreotype (presumably of McConnell), a pin (with the inscription "Winchester, Antietam, Fredricksburg,
Chancelorville, Gettysburg"), four Masonic pins, and two 1893 Columbian Exposition coins.