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     MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Correspondence

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Robert Clark papers

 Collection — Box BW 26, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16497
Content Description This collection contains 14 fourteen letters written during the Civil War to Robert Clark (48th Infantry Illinois) by three Union soldiers: William B. Oliphant (6 letters) (a Sergeant in Company E, 51st Infantry Regiment Illinois), John R. Oliphant (4 letters) (Illinois E Company), Henry Willett (2 letters), and 2 unidentified letters/writings, including a leather pouch in which the letters were discovered. The letters were written primarily from Tennessee and Mississippi.The...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1863 - 1864