Hiram Farrand papers, 1861-1864

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Summary

Creators:
Farrand, Hiram, 1826-
Abstract:
Letters of American Civil War Union soldier Hiram Farrand.
Extent:
1.2 Linear Feet (1 box)
Language:
Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. Hiram Farrand papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Background

Scope and content:

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.

Biographical / historical:

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.

Acquisition information:
Transferred from the Farrand File, Huntington Library Institutional Archives, 1953.
Processing information:

Processed by Huntington Library staff, date unknown. In March 2024, Brooke M. Black created a finding aid.

Arrangement:

Arranged chronologically.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

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Restrictions:

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. Hiram Farrand papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

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