Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Scope and Content of Collection
Descriptive Summary
Title: Daniel S. Whitney Papers,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1864-1977
Collection Number: Wyles SC 298
Creator:
Whitney (Daniel S.)
Extent:
.1 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.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
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.
Preferred Citation
Daniel S. Whitney Papers. Wyles SC 298. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Mrs. C. R. Pomeroy, 1978.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains papers of the Reverend Daniel Saunders Whitney, Massachusetts abolitionist (1810-1894), including
a Civil War era diary (1865-1866), correspondence to his wife Sophia and daughters (ca. 1864-1865), an engraved portrait of
Whitney, and a page of the
Banner of Freedom (printed by the 25th Ohio Vet. Vol. Infantry, Sumter, South Carolina, Apr. 10, 1865). Also included are carbons of a letter
from a granddaughter of Whitney, to Richard M. Nixon, 1962, describing Whitney's meeting with Gen. Grant and Pres. Lincoln,
and how "The Parson's Cane" came to be known as "The Lincoln Mascot," as well as a biographical sketch of Whitney by Mrs.
C. R. Pomeroy, 1977.
Several of the letters are written from the Colored Hospital, City Point, VA, then the Base Hospital Army of the James Point
of Rocks, VA, where the U.S. Sanitary Commission had stationed Whitney, and where he attended to the spiritual, as well as
dietary, needs of the patients. The diary also contains numerous entries describing medical conditions, patients, and surgeons
in the hospital wards.