Correspondence of American Civil War Union soldier Delos Van Deusen.

Delos Van Deusen, American Civil War Union soldier, was born in New York in December 1823. He grew up in Jamestown, New York, but in 1846 he moved to Dayton, Ohio, and started a boot, shoe, and leather business. He married Henrietta Snyder in 1852. The family moved to Illinois in 1857. In November 1861 he joined the 6th Missouri Volunteer Infantry as captain of Company H, and by the end of the war was promoted to lieutenant colonel commanding the regiment. He participated in the siege of Vicksburg and in the Chickamauga and Atlanta campaigns. After the war, he returned to Illinois where he worked at M.M. Martin & Co. as a cashier. He died in Litchfield, Illinois in November 1906.

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