Search

Jacob, John, Sam, and William Patton were the sons of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Patton of Buncombe County, N.C. The brothers served in the Confederate Army in the Virginia and Mississippi Valley theaters.

Roswell D. Hitchcock was a theologian of New York.

William Henry Boyce of Bangor, Me., served in the United States army during the Civil War.

William Randolph McEntire (fl. 1861-1866), perhaps of Buncombe County, N.C., was a Confederate prisoner of war at Johnson's Island Prison, Ohio.

Netta L. Tutwiler (later Mrs. Thomas Chalmers McCorvey) was a resident of Alabama. The collection contains letters from two Confederate cavalry soldiers, Hal A. Tutwiler and Robert P. Tutwiler, serving in Virginia and Alabama, to Hal's sister and Robert's cousin, Netta L. Tutwiler in Alabama, and a few other family letters. The Civil War letters describe battles, social life, physical conditions, and morals of soldiers. One letter is from "Camp 15th Va. Cavalry."

William H. Stevens (fl. 1862-1863) was a federal cavalry officer with the Rhode Island 7th Squadron and later with the 2nd Rhode Island Cavalry. The collection includes Civil War letters from William H. Stevens while with the Rhode Island 7th Squadron and later with the 2nd Rhode Island Cavalry, stationed in northern Virginia, near New Orleans, at Annapolis, Md., and other places, to "Molly." The letters discuss Stevens's health, troop movements, camp life, and other matters.

Private William A. Collins of Statesville, N.C., served in Company C of the 48th North Carolina Infantry Regiment from March 1862 until his death in December 1862.

Richard Skinner (1842-1864) was a United States Army officer from Illinois. The collection includes Civil War letters from Skinner, written from various places in the South and Midwest, to his Yale University classmate William Woolsey Johnson (1841-1927), later a noted mathematician. Letters include frank personal reactions to his experiences and surroundings, especially in Davenport, Iowa, in late 1863.

Robert M. Jefferies (fl. 1863) was an officer in the 115th Pennsylvania Volunteers, United States Army, who served in Virginia during the Civil War. The collection includes letters, 26 August 1863 and 16 November 1863, from Lieutenant Jefferies, written from army camps in Virginia, mentioning participation in battles at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, 2nd Bull Run, and Kelly's Ford on the Rappahannock, and describing the condition of Confederate prisoners.

S. Millett Thompson was born in Barnstead, N.H., and lived in Durham, N.H. He enlisted on 13 August 1862 and joined Company E of the 13th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment on 19 September 1862 as a first sergeant. He was promoted to seconnd lieutenant on 10 June 1863 and fought mostly in Virginia during the Civil War. Wounded during the Siege of Petersburg on 15 June 1864, Thompson was discharged from an infirmary in Hampton, Va., on 4 October 1864. After the war, he moved to Providence, R.I., where he lived until his death on 26 May 1911.