Collection Contents

Original Materials

Confederate Currency, 4 items; all issued Richmond, Va

Correspondence

General - various officers, including: Col. W.W.H. Davis, Gen. Hunter and others, 1863-1865, 1868, n.d.

Garrison, William Lloyd - 1 note (ANS), with quotes by Wendell Phillips and William Lloyd Garrison, possibly signed by them, [May 1852]

Greeley, Horace - 1 letter (ALS), describing his plan to attend a convention, June 21, 1854

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1847, 1870-1910

Diary of Ann Baxter (later married C. J. Brown of Epson, N.H.) - 1864

Documents - includes: travel, discharge, and equipment-related documents., issued by

Photographs - cartes de visite and other, of officers including Higginson, Hunter, and Saxton

Miscellany - postcard, 1905

Reference Materials [mainly photocopies]

Correspondence - including several letters from Gen. Hunter to President Lincoln and Gen. Grant, 1861-1865

Documents - Mustering Out Rolls (originals in oversize), 1864-1866

Histories (of various regiments and relating to participation of Colored/Negro Troops in Civil War); all photocopies with reference to units organized, 1861-1864

Officers (biographies, histories, photos, writings)

Halpine, Charles G., 1862

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1854, 1863, 1923

Hunter, David, 1861, 1863

Trowbridge, Charles Tyler, n.d.

Photographs

Civil War Scenes (copies, some from New York Historical Society), ca. 1861-1864

Officers (copies), ca. 1860s

Troops (copies), ca. 1860s

Miscellany - includes photocopy of a handwritten speech or sermon, unsigned, n.d.; newspaper clipping on letters of former slaves, L.A. Times, May 1983

Oversize Documents - Mustering Out Rolls for 33rd U.S. Colored Troops, 1864-1866