Alexander Wilson Acheson Letter
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Alexander Wilson Acheson Letter, 1886
Collection number: Wyles SC 1
Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara- Department of Special Collections
- Davidson Library
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Santa Barbara, CA 93106
- Phone: (805) 893-3062
- Fax: (805) 893-5749
- Email: special@library.ucsb.edu
- URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/speccoll.html
- Processed by:
- D. Tambo
- Date Completed:
- 05 May 2003
- Encoded by:
- David C. Gartrell
© 2003 Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Title: Alexander Wilson Acheson Letter,
Date (inclusive): 1886
Collection Number: Wyles SC 1
Creator:
Acheson, Alexander Wilson
Extent:
.01 linear feet
(1 folder)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical Location: Vault
Language:
English.
None.
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Alexander Wilson Acheson Letter. Wyles SC 1. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Undetermined.
Scope and Content of Collection
One letter from Alexander Wilson Acheson (1842-1934), Civil War soldier, mayor of Denison, Texas, and physician, on letterhead
stationery of The Missouri Pacific Railway Co., to the editor of the Philadelphia Press, re the editor's desire to write a
history of Pennsylvania troops in the Civil War. Acheson had been a private in the Thirteenth Pennsylvania Regiment and later
was transferred to the 140th Pennsylvania Regiment. Talks about his experiences in the Civil War. Denison, Texas, 8 Jan. 1886.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Acheson, Alexander Wilson
Box
One letter from Alexander Wilson Acheson to the editor of the Philadelphia Press, 1886